Metaphysics And Epistemology Of The Matrix
Submitted by ianiii on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Metaphysics And Epistemology Of The Matrix
Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Matrix
Someone who has just seen The Matrix is given a spoonful dose of what the Matrix really is. They know for example that the real world is one in which Man has been over thrown by machines, but not just over thrown, made to serve the machines (just has the machines once served man) by becoming a source of energy for this A.I. The Matrix itself is a projected world taking place late 20th. Century/ early 21st century of what is commonly referred to as Earth. The Matrix Reloaded delves deeper into this world of reality vs. perceived reality.
The idea of the Matrix proposes many interesting philosophical and ethical questions. For instance, if reality is what your senses tell you, then seeing is believing. If my eyes see I am eating a steak, my taste buds say this steak is juicy, and succulent, then am I in fact eating steak? Or is reality in fact a sleeping body, connected to wires and plugs that in turn are powering these monumental machines and programs that give these sensations to that sleeping body in return for energy? Yet the Matrix continues to prove that the perceived rules and laws that govern reality are bendable, even breakable. Neo for instance, is able to fly through this computer given world, fight with super human strength and reflexes, stop bullets. This is how the humans know they are in a computer-generated world, that the fact that the physics of their world could be bent and broken meant they were not in a real world. The machines reality is that they must have humans to power themselves. Unfortunately, they need mind control otherwise "whole crops are lost", as when the Architect, the maker of the Matrix, first discovered when he created a Utopian society that was for lack of a better word, perfect. This according to the Architect was a marvel of ingenuity and perfection only equaled by its monumental failure, because humans cannot live in a world without choice. To...
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