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... to a posteriori reasoning, a distinction among judgements, propostions, concepts, ideas, arguments or kinds of knowledge. A posteriori presupposes sensory experience while a priori is independent of it. An a posteriori propostion argument relies on specific information which is derived from our sense perceptions while an a priori proposition is determined by reasoning alone. For example 1 + 1 = 2 is known as an a priori deduction while a statement such as the Menai Bridge links Caernarfon and Anglesey is posteriori propostion. I will also discuss Descartes' question of our existence and how important it still is to philosophers and scientists who study Artificial and Computer Intelligence, looking, for instance, at the Turing Test as an example of the way in which his ideas have relevance to the foundations of academic debates about AI. I will also discuss the recent trilogy of films the Matrix, which is an example of ...