David Hume's Inception

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Throughout the book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume wants the reader to know about the relationship between thoughts and sensations in the mind. Hume expresses these ideas through section like chapters in the book. The movie Inception connects to what Hume is saying in many ways. Inception is about a character named Mr. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is a thief with the ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a impossible task to plant an idea in someone's mind. If he succeeds, he will be able to to go back to his children and it will be the perfect crime as the enemy knows Cobb's every move. When comes to Hume it was said all …show more content…
In Inception, the idea of people sharing a dream space that gives you the ability to access somebody's unconscious mind is a great example of space and time. The most of the films plot takes place in these connected dream worlds. This creates a structure where the actions in the real or dream worlds come across others. The dream is always in a state of creating, and makes shifts across the levels of the dream as the characters navigate it. A connection is in section 8, Hume turns his considerations of a necessary connection toward the topic of Liberty and Necessity. Hume says, [“It is universally allowed that matter, in all its operations, is actuated by a necessary force, and that every natural effect is so precisely determined by the energy of its cause that no other effect, in such particular circumstances, could possibly have resulted from it.”] (Hume 121 8.4) Hume explains what we call necessity in physical processes. We are supposed to know that there are laws in nature that determine the necessary forces, causes and effects that determine the movements of all bodies without exception. He also says, “Would we, therefore, form a just and precise idea of necessity, we must consider whence that idea arises when we apply it to the operation of bodies.” (Hume 121 8.4) Hume makes you know that human nature and the laws make our behavior and that physics is in the question too. He also says that our behavior changes from person to
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