History Headscratchers / Inception

* Maybe it's not too different from the effect of some RealLife drugs which are unable to make brain work faster but mess with one's perception of [[IncrediblyLamePun time big time]].

** I guess that the extraction is somewhat akin to the inception. As in, extractor incepts in their own mind a piece of information which stays there. Only this is probably not a shapeless idea which could then be further developed in your mind but a chunk of eidetic memory which could then be reproduced with extreme precision by the extractor even if they actually don't understand a single bit of what they're reproducing. To be sure, there can be no ultimate proof that the information is genuine, but this is actually not so different from any other kinds of espionage - with double agents, radioplays, etc. Oftentimes, the content of the information itself might be a means of verification - it either checks out or not. etc. And if the extractor has no actual knowledge of the topic at hand, it is actually ''less'' likely that he or she would be able to somehow forge the data.

** I guess that the extraction is somewhat akin to the extraction. As in, extractor incepts in their own mind a piece of information which stays there. Only this is probably not a shapeless idea but a piece of eidetic memory which could be then reproduced with extreme precision even by the extractor even if they actually don't understand a single bit of what they're reproducing. To be sure, there can be no proof that the information is genuine, but ultimately this is not so different from any other kinds of espionage - with double agents, radioplays, etc. Oftentimes, the content of the information itself might be a means of verification - it either checks out or not. etc. And if the extractor has no actual knowledge of the topic at hand, it is actually ''less'' likely that he or she would be able to somehow forge the data.

** While she could have fooled a therapist the same way she did the lawyer, I have to argue the point that "the mental disorder Mal suffered from was not one that could be readily detected by psychiatric evaluation or CAT scan". If, hypothetically, she bared her soul to the doctor(s), she would likely be declared delusional, suicidal, and a potential danger to others (i.e. her children). These things would be obvious to a psychiatric professional after an evaluation (they wouldn't need to do a CAT scan, they only pick up physical abnormalities, and aren't used a great deal in evaluating mental disorders), which Mal would have considered, lending credence to the idea that she faked it and made up a sob story about an abusive husband. What I'm wondering is why she thought the lawyer, in the event of her death, wouldn't think anything of a woman who is mortally afraid of her husband going to a private anniversary dinner with him.[[/folder]]

** Plus even now in the US you can see just how much power corporations have already, with them having several legal rights as citizens (the decision to allow them to donate unlimited funds to political campaings was justified as such). Most likely that trend continued and corporations are even more powerful.

* Time dilation [[http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/time-passes-dreams/ doesn't happen]] in RealLife. A five-minute dream, for example, takes five minutes of REM sleep to play out. This bugged me so much that I stopped wanting to see the film and even looked for reliable references about the lack of time dilation to add to the article about dreams on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

** Ariadne is clearly the sort of person who would work with Cobb, because as we see, Ariadne goes to work with Cobb. What, exactly, would lead you to believe that she wouldn't? Other than maybe [[PositiveDiscrimination her gender]]?