The book explores the movie’s key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we’re dreaming or awake, how to make sense of a paradox, and whether or not inception is possible. It also gives new insights into the nature of free will, time, dreams, and the unconscious mind. In addition, it discusses different interpretations of the film, and whether or not philosophy can help shed light on which is the “right one,’ and deepens your understanding of the movie’s multi-layered plot and dream-infiltrating characters, including Dom Cobb, Arthur, Mal, Ariadne, Eames, Saito, and Yusuf. You can find the complete “And Philosophy” series at andphilosophy.com Kyle writes a blog for Psychology Today, called “Plato on Pop,” with William Irwin. You can find their blog here: www.psychologytoday.com Kyle also hosts a podcast on Philosophy and Pop Culture with Jay Kelly. You can find the podcast here: philosophyandpopculture.com
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Kirk Sorensen discuss “Thorium” at TEDxYYC 2011. Kirk Sorensen is founder of Flibe Energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquid-fluoride fuels. For five years he has authored the blog “Energy from Thorium” and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. He is a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech in aerospace engineering and is also a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has spoken publicly on thorium at the Manchester International Forum in 2009, at NASA’s Green Energy Forum in 2008, and in several TechTalks at Google. He has been featured in Wired magazine, Machine Design magazine, the Economist, the UK Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, and on Russia Today. He also taught nuclear engineering at Tennessee Technological University as a guest lecturer. He is active in nonprofit advocacy organizations such as the Thorium Energy Alliance and the International Thorium Energy Organization. He is married and has four small children. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED …
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WTF i just googled my idea and it turns out hundreds of people already had the same theory
Why can’t i come up with something new for once dammit!!! Ok, how about this… *brains freezes*… 
And by turning his back on the top, it proves that in his mind, his totem, whatever it was, had already proved itself. And what’s the one thing that is different, it’s his ability to see his children’s faces clearly. As for going only one layer up upon waking from a dream, Cobb had already gone up to near surface, otherwise the other players in the movie would never have been able to even interract with him.
I thought that Cobb’s totem was his childrens’ faces being vague in dreams, and vivid in reality. Which is why he turns his back on the spinning top at the end, because that’s just his decoy totem. He loves his children and his wife, but the true versions of them, not ilusory copies, he would never turn his back on his real wife or children, which further encourages the notion that the children at the end were in fact his actual kids.
you missed the one in that it’s Mals totem in the first place and not his anyway!
People seem to be missing the most obvious here. That the whole movie is… a movie. The concept of dream sharing is exactly what a movie is. It doesn’t matter if the top falls, or if it was all a dream. When it cuts to black the movie/dream is over for the audience. It’s that simple folks.
Allow me to sum up how the video proves you wrong, seeing as you clearly didn’t watch it.
Possibilies and reasons of the ending being-:
Cobb’s Dream: He knows how his totem works.
Ariadne’s Dream: Cobb tells her how his totem works.
Anyone’s Dream: Cobbs totem is inverted, in such a way that it acts uniquely within a dream and normally in reality. Therefore, anyone who is the dreamer would guess how Cobb’s totem would act (it would fall) because that’s the normal outcome.
This video was really cool
lol. at 34:45 when he says that there is an elephant behind him, that in the red looks
lol, he can’t even slow down enough to drink his water.
You clearly didn’t watch the video.
Fuck he just did inception on me, i want to buy that book!
really…. “excelerated”?
I really love how people becomes obsessed about stuff like this. It makes the world cooler
listen to this video again.. carefully, he explains that.
ehehe he said “ariadne touched his totem”
What was really a miss in this lecture are the endless possibilities of exploring the creativity and actual practical use of lucid dreaming. ex:I could dream of a prototype car using combine technology (with the hindsight of 3D graphics to visualize, data, movies and doco of different elements, factors and etch to enhance vision…an hour from a the 5 min w/ defying physics and then multi-layers of 5 mins (or one can dream for 8 hrs with the equal of 96 hrs in dream state) can help R&D time….
I wonder if he chose the location of the lecture on purpose….lol
stop saying “um”
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!
He mentions some interesting bits of trivia in this talk, but I wished he talked more about the philosophy behind the story and less about movie trivia. Surprised that he haven’t heard about Jung..?
Screw Carl Jung. Anyway, what I find most significant about the ending is that Cobb doesn’t care whether or not the top falls. He doesn’t care whether he’s in a dream.
I can spell haha, i ment whetherP
depends on the weather.
what about the radioactive waste?
It is realistic and true, it is being built in China, guess they don’t care too much about the implications on the big oil and energy companies, also they have a lot of thorium acumulated due to the extraction of rare earth I think
The only way any of the ideas in this video will become a reality is if we go to the moon. Which is really awesome because that might happen sometime soon assuming SpaceX or one of their competitors don’t fuck it up by accidentally blowing up their own spaceships
The ratio of plutonium needed to seed and convert thorium into fissionable uranium-233 is very high (8:10)
Not really. They have a sweet deal designing and manufacturing fuel rods and components. LFTR does not use fuel rods. The only way GE will make money is building the plants but since they are not yet commercialised they would have to spend big to make it happen. Unless Uncle Sam leads the way like they did with the current plants. On the other hand, Japan has now shutdown ALL reactors so perhaps GE will… see the light
Check out watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI for an explanation of why it didn’t happen.
Conspiracy theory much? GE stands to profit from LFTR as much as anything else.
Big government won’t allow it, but they will do so because of enviromental pressures. The nuclear label is a death sentence, and the regulations demanded by liberals to prevent abuse by the nuclear industry dooms any better nuclear process before it can be developed.
Regulations mostly, and politics. We haven’t built a new plant in this country in 45 years. We don’t have nuclear expertise anymore.
the 1%, and Big Government would never allow this. Think of how much money Big Energy Corporations would lose when people begin designing independent forms of sustainable energy without any of their help!
The reason this hasn’t been utilised is because the rich fuckers want to get richer, even though they already have plenty of money. If they’re making millions on coal and oil, why would they ever change? They don’t care about the environment.
Back in cold war times Thorium based reactors were shut down because they did no produce enough material for proliferation. Also LFTR reactors work with fluoride salts which are pretty much the most corrosive thing you can think of and there needs to be research for material that can even contain them long term. Also, due to low demand, Thorium is expensive right now. All these issues are manageable but there are significant forces against that (Oil, Coal lobbies etc.).
People who are afraid of advanced nuclear technology should consider that driving multi ton projectiles can also cause one to die and convert hydrocarbons to XSCO2 exactly as was spewed by hyper volcanism millions of years ago which caused excess acidity of the oceans that grew cynobacteria that fowled the very air we breath, causing dieoffs similar to what will happen AGAIN because we are afraid of a nuclear reaction that can power planetary civilizations…LFTR!
It’s far cheaper to use a proven solution over experimental models. The US is doing exactly what a business would do: it’s minimizing its risk.
The current industry runs on fast breeder technology, it is a byproduct of the cold war. The only business model that nuclear companies have these days is to provide solid fuel rods for these reactors. The molten salt reactor is a completely different design and using that technology would mean a complete lost of business for current nuclear companies.
Look for:
The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn’t This Happen (and why is now the right time?)
what’s even sadder is that a lot of countries routinely use research done by the US (in many different fields, like: education, health, agriculture, transportation) to make their country better, because they realize that simply throwing money at a problem won’t solve it. If only we could put to use all the research we do … sigh
Short answer is expense of research, government red tape and the populations complete and rampant ignorance about what nuclear power really is, and how safe it can be.
Yep, and they will be using the original American research to do it, and that makes me sad. But I hope which ever country comes up with it first, they do it quickly to prove it can be done on a large scale so others will pick up on it.
What he didn’t tell you is that thorium doesn’t occur in large scale deposits like coal or iron or salt or uranium, or almost anything that people specifically mine for that isn’t a side product of mining for something else. It’s pretty much evenly distributed across the surface of the planet, making large scale harvesting pretty much a pipe dream.
i actually agree with all of that! i think this is a first for youtube, people agreeing
Well, I thought taxpayers provided most of the money even now. The GEs of the industry would need to be peeled away from the fossil fuel bunch perhaps with an exclusive manufacturing deal or something. If China makes progress it could be a
Sputnik moment again in the U.S. and GE may sense the inevitable and get with the program. If congress could be emabarrassed with the fact China is plundering our ONL jewels to use against us too that would help move things along too.
glad he said it, as i’d imagine a lot of people are just using this yet another crutch for more boring, droning anti-business/anti-government rhetoric
so honestly, and i imagine pro-market randroids will hackle, but this is a case for the clunking, wheezing fist of the state to get some fucking innovation going. think strongly of ARPANET, minus the military subtext, and how our lives have been bettered from those initial concepts.