The Matrix and Philosophy Welcome to the Desert of the Real Edited by WILLIAM IRWIN For Peter H. Hare‚ Morpheus to many Contents Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix 1 Scene 1 How Do You Know? 3 1. 2. 3. 4. Computers‚ Caves‚ and Oracles: Neo and Socrates WILLIAM IRWIN Skepticism‚ Morality‚ and The Matrix GERALD J. ERION and BARRY SMITH 16 The Matrix Possibility DAVID MITSUO NIXON 28 Seeing‚ Believing‚ Touching‚ Truth CAROLYN KORSMEYER
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Matrix Compared and Contrasted and Other Various Contemplations Regarding Reality Liza Cheek Liberty University Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Compared and Contrasted and Other Various Contemplations Regarding Reality The Matrix movie had many similarities with the readings from Plato and Descartes. All three discussed the scenario in which reality was discovered to be a non-reality. Specifically‚ in The Matrix‚ reality that was experienced by multitudes of people is actually a computer simulation
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character whose world is based on a futuristic reality. This fact plays the role to why this movie demonstrates social imagination. The basis is that the individuals in the movie have to be aware of their enemies‚ the machines and artificial intelligence. Social imagination is also expressed through the virtual reality the humans go into where they have certain advantages that they wouldn’t have in the real world. The environment determines the reality of the characters in many ways. In The Matrix
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was wrong. Later on Neo learns the truth from a man named Morpheus; he found out that what he thought was real was actually not real at all‚ it was all a computer program. The life he lived was all a lie because of his perception blocking out reality. “The Matrix” can be compared to ontology‚ the study of being or what is‚ “The
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society has substituted reality with symbols and signs‚ and that life is but a simulation of reality. He argues that true reality is no more and is replaced with hyperreality‚ or a grey area between reality and representations of reality. Baudrillard uses the term simulacrum‚ or a fake representation‚ to denote his way of viewing signs. In The Process of Simulacra‚ Baudrlliard uses three distinct examples‚ a map‚ God‚ and Disneyland to explain how society views signs and reality. Baudrillard’s first
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In his article “The Experience Machine”‚ Nozick (p.42) offers a thought experiment which with floating in a tank‚ people can get any experience which they desire in an experience machine. Nozick uses the experiment that “the highest aggregate level of individual well being”(Hussain‚ 2018) should be achieved by accomplish certain things instead of simply plugging into the experience machine. The reason is that people lose their ability to do something‚ having their own personalities and living in
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Most prevalent is the idea of perception versus reality which is illustrated in both works. In The Matrix the perception is that humans are living real lives. Every day they get up‚ go to work‚ and come home. They are just normal people living. The reality however is that humans are unconscious‚ in machines that keep their bodies alive while their brains are all connected to the matrix which is simulating
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When people aren’t living life the way they expect‚ they tend to find a way of coping with their issues. Every reality poses problems‚ some people find ways of hiding from their problems or in other words escaping from reality. Each of the unique main characters‚ Amanda‚ Laura‚ and Tom‚ in Tennessee Williams play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ have a difficulty accepting reality and have several ways of escaping from the problems. Laura is painfully shy which affects how she interacts with others in the
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Across history‚ several authors have expressed the idea of reality based on what the mind says is real or not; from George Berkley to Rene Descartes‚ the way perceptions affect reality has been discussed. Christopher Nolan through the film Inception uses Descartes and Berkeley’s theories as a method to catch viewers’ attention by belying dogmas than have been imposed on humanity. For Rene Descartes‚ the thinking‚ and thus the existence‚ is undeniable‚ absolutely true and from which one new certainties
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of person or hold some kind of self-expression. Thirdly‚ Nozick believes that the experience machine restricts us to a “manmade reality‚ a life no deeper than or more important than that which people can construct.” Therefore‚ I believe Taylor’s theory can avoid the problems Nozick raises because it is solely the individual who decides to fulfill their desires in reality versus a fantasy in the experience machine.
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