However, Descartes points out that we often make mistakes about precisely these kinds of things when we dream. ... We are unable to distinguish waking exp-erience from experiences of the sort we appear to have in dreams until after we wake up, a notion Morpheus affirms as he asks: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?... Of course he framed his question in a way that made it impossible to give the only reasonable answer, which we in the scie...

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