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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ... He lacks real talents - he know how to play only six jazz tunes, can't make up his musical mind between his faithful sax and a newly alluring drum ... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...ntors. The source of the dilemma (which led to his act of choosing) is that the two groups overlap. Truman found himself in the impossible positio... ...gh grim looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electric... ... endowed with a brain). Equally undoubtedly, this self-identity is not Dan's (but a new, unfamiliar, one). Such is the stuff of our nightmares - bo... ..., then young girls and female infants would have been preferred over all the other groups of passengers. Old women would have been left with the me... ...A book, a painting, an invention are the documentation and representation of brain waves. They are mere shadows, symbols of the real presence - our... ...he PRODUCTS of our brain activity, to the recording and documentation of our brain waves. But we hold only partial rights to the brain itself, thei...

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