"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Philosophy of the Matrix Day 2

After two days of this movie, I now understand it more but at the same time, I'm more confused. I've decided to focus on the nature of reality in the Matrix. Thus, many of my questions were actually answered .
The real world is actually 200 years ahead of the Matrix. What we know to be the real world is actually a computer program designed to trick humans into a false sense of security. The real world had been taken over by the machines that the humans invented. "The One" refers to the person in the real world that brought others from the Matrix. The key to mastering the boundaries, or lack thereof, of the real world is to free your mind.
How do the machines know the actual taste of the food they program into the Matrix?
Can you dream in the real world if the Matrix is a dream?

2 comments:

  1. you got the first question straight from the movie, didn't you? it seems to me that the food in the matrix was created by the robots and never existed, so the food tastes however they want it to taste
    I'd imagine in the real world that you can dream, but on the other hand, you can download abilities onto people, so mabye dreaming in the real world is triggered by sleeping on a machine that creates a wrld based off the matrix, but not quite the matrix(just as all of our dreams are based off things we see while awake)

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  2. Dreams are an important thing for the brain, so I assume that people who are tied into the martix still have dreams, since the brain prolly wouldn't work right without them, and that the dreams continue whether or not you are plugged into the martix

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