# Inception. Could it happen?

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**Created:** [January 7, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inception-could-it-happen/566717 "2011-01-07T05:44:42Z")\
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> [@NineToTheSky](#):
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> This is interesting. I’ve always believed all the words in a title should be capitalized. ‘_The Life Of An Elephant_’. Am I wrong?

Well, according to accepted style, yes. [Conjunctions and prepositions](http://www.writersblock.ca/tips/monthtip/tipmar98.htm) are lower case in titles. _The Life of an Elephant_ would be more widely accepted, unless of course the author titled it in all uppercase, in which case you would follow the author’s convention.

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Mmm. The concept that a bunch of minds can occupy a shared mental space?  
**Fictional and unlikely to happen soon.**

The idea that human interactions and perceptions can happen dozens or thousands of times faster by constructing a _dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream?_  
**Pretty neat for a midnight dorm room conversation, but baseless and almost certainly physiologically impossible.**

The idea that a bunch of people would kidnap an extremely rich-powerful person in order to hop into his mind to try some nebulous pop psychology manipulations?  
**The big reason I hated the movie.**

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