Mindwalk

             The ¡°Mindwalk¡± is a movie about a conversation between Jack, Sonia, and
             Thomas. It takes place in one of Mont-Saint Michel¡¯s church tower in France. Jack
             Edwards, played by Sam Waterson, is a politician who had just lost a presidential
             campaign in the United States and is facing a senate re-election. Sonia Hoffman, played
             by Liv Ullman, is a scientist and a former physicist. Thomas Harriman, who is played by
             John Heard, is a poet who is a friend of Jack. The three have long discussions about the
             One of the topics discussed is the ¡°crisis of perception.¡± The crisis of perception is
             the way people view something. People see many different problems occurring, but as a
             separate issue. Crisis of perception is seeing these problems as a different branch of one
             single crisis. The root causes of this crisis of perception lies in one¡¯s habit of seeing and
             experiencing oneself and the world as being established of separately existing fragments.
             Another topic discussed is of the ¡°politics of the impossible.¡± The issue with the
             politics of the impossible wasn¡¯t too clear. I think that the movie was showing us that
             politics don¡¯t work. Not many people do not vote because they don¡¯t really believe in
             politics. In their discussion, it was said that only 50 percent of the American people
             An important issue discussed in this film is between holistic vs. mechanistic
             thinking. Holistic thinking is recognizing the interconnectedness of the universe as
             opposed to mechanistic thinking, which is deconstructing the universe into pieces. The
             philosopher and the scientist responsible for mechanistic thinking was Rene Descartes and
             Issac Newton. This thinking is outdated because it gives a false impression of the current
             state of physics. The notion that the world is a machine w
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