This is a philosophy class

Cassidy 2022-03-21 09:02:17

Movie Notes

Waking Life

--anime

--like a dream

--a music concert

--the view is always in motion

--is always discussing philosophical topics

--existentialism

--what is the responsibility

--creation comes out from the frustration

--use the same language system to communicate with each other about tangible and intangible objects

--words are inert. they are dead. some of what we see cannot express

--spiritually communicate

--evolution is becoming individually centrally crosses

--new human evolution-->no longer restricted

--liberty, truth, love, honesty

--discusses politics

--governmental topics

--"free will"

--how can we be certain if god did not control our minds?

--quantum physics knowledge

--who we are?

--"We make actually a fiction to connect the baby in that picture and yourself in the reality to be identical"

--a car accident-->dream or not?

--Two sufferisms: one suffers from lack of life; one suffers from the great burden of the life

--the relationship between dream and body

--neurons inhibit dreams

--there is no difference between the reception, action, and feeling in the dream with what did in the reality

--fly-->symbol of the dream

--move circles that holy moment to let the audience feel

--Description gives the dream purpose and meaning.

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Extended Reading
  • Dawn 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    We won't discuss the many deep topics discussed in the movie here, we just need to remember the name of one musician, Glover Gill, and listen to his entire work.

  • Edison 2022-01-01 08:02:07

    A hodgepodge of various ideas. Free consciousness, existentialism, spiritual communication, individual evolution, out of control suicide, past and present, revenge psychology, social structure, physical laws, quantum theory, radicals, nothingness, moments, butterfly effect, mental models, time-space crossing, dreams...

Waking Life quotes

  • John Christensen: ...and, of course, everyone knows fun rules.

  • Old Man: As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.

    Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like... parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out the door? Well, he comes up to the counter, you know, and I say "What's the word, turd?" And he lays down this burrito and he kind of looks at me, kind of stares at me and says, "I have but recently returned from the valley of the shadow of death. I'm rapturously breathing in all the odors and essences of life. I've been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and ferment the desire to remember everything."

    Wiley: So, what did you say to that?

    Boat Car Guy: Well, I mean, what could I say? I said, "If you're going to microwave that burrito, I want you to poke holes in the plastic wrapping because they explode. And I'm tired of cleaning up your little burrito doings. You dig me?"