shokwave comments on "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bigjeff5 31 January 2011 05:49:24AM 0 points [-]

The recent move "Inception" includes the 10% of the brain myth. I cringed, since it has been so soundly busted.

If you could ignore that particular flaw, it was a really good movie. Unfortunately it is the foundational premise of the movie, so if you couldn't ignore it chances are you'd hate the movie.

Comment author: shokwave 31 January 2011 06:01:32AM 4 points [-]

Unfortunately it is the foundational premise of the movie

Only foundational in the sense that it would be necessary if you were to recreate the movie in reality. For the actual plot of the movie, it was not foundational. The idea that subjective speed-ups in time perception can stack multiplicatively is a foundational premise of the movie.