By Glenn Yeffeth
Containing many solutions to the questions posed via the 1st 'Matrix' movie, this booklet explores the frontiers of philosophy, know-how and non secular symbolism. It explores the large dilemmas the Wachowski brothers offered after they gave the motion picture its many layers of which means - fusing myriad philosophical and spiritual topics with futuristic technology and know-how.
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Is there a world external to our subjective experience, our consciousness? If so, how can we know what it is like, since we cannot step outside our experience to tell if reality matches it? Finally, is it important to answer such questions? Isn’t it enough to know what our experience is like, without worrying whether there’s a reality beyond it? In The Matrix, most of humankind is used as a source of power by highly intelligent machines, centuries in the future. Humans are placed from birth in a dreamlike state, in which a world like ours is simulated for their sleeping minds.
There isn’t even a Morpheus looking for him. ” For each of us, our own consciousness is indubitably real, whatever is the case about the external reality that our consciousness seems to represent to us. Descartes proceeded to develop a complete epistemology (theory of knowledge) on this basis, 2 This famous phrase was in Descartes’s Discourse on Method. In the Meditations, he phrased the point somewhat differently. WAS CYPHER RIGHT? THE NATURE OF REALITY AND WHY IT MATTERS 47 which ended by endorsing the reality of a world external to our consciousness.
This is puzzling. Did he bite his tongue? ) Surprised, he says 8 I know of no philosophers who have defended solipsism. If anyone has ever seriously believed this view, he has kept it to himself. ) 11 Cypher sarcastically mocks Morpheus’s words just before he pulls the plug on Apoc. 12 The makers of The Matrix obviously want us to consider if people who seem alienated from reality, or who regard the world of experience as an illusion (such as in the Hindu concept of maya) might be on to something.