"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)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Philosophy of the Matrix Day 3

Today's part of the Matrix spoke more towards the ethics part of the assignment but metaphysics got some time too.
The spoon isn't real. Taking that to a broader sense, while in the Matrix once you give up the illusion, only you are real.
Deja vu is actually a glitch in the system. Which is a smart way to explain it in the context of the universe and situations in the movie.
The agent mentioned how smell may not even be real in the Matrix which ties into my first point of defining what real in the Matrix is. But that brings it all full circle as that is the essential questions of my topic.

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  2. With the spoon not being real I wonder what causes other people to see the spoon bending. Are the minds somehow linked? On smell, another interesting thing is that the AI agent is capable of smelling and also of being unhappy in the matrix.

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