The Matrix
The Matrix – to be or not be
The Matrix consists of a great variety of questions that have tortured the world for centuries. How can we know that what we see around us is real? How can we be certain that the items and living beings around us exists? If the world as we know it turns out to be an illusion, what do we do? Numerous philosophers and other thinkers have pondered these questions since the beginning of time.
How can we know that what we see around us is real? How to be certain that specific items exist? Throughout this film these dilemmas and discussions are portrayed brilliantly. One example for that are the machines which have created the Matrix and also control and look after it so that nothing goes wrong. They make a reality for the humans to live their lives in without actually having lived the same or a similar life themselves. How can they know for example how chicken tastes like? They give the humans a version of the world, of a reality, which they have never experienced or seen. It’s all based on facts which they picked up from the humans, computers and other written information. The machines are constantly telling them what to believe is real. If they can persuade the people living in the Matrix that what they see with their eyes is what there is to see, they’ve got them. If then someone else from the outside, like Neo and the Zion, try to explain to them that what they see is not real, they’ll just laugh in their face of that explanation which portrays the big picture of what is happening.
The persuading of a reality that’s not there can be turned back to first and secondhand sources in, for example, history. Firsthand sources are telling a person’s thoughts and what they saw exactly that day, exactly as they saw it while a secondhand source is more of a commentary from an historian based on this person’s experience. A secondhand source is then another person’s opinion and bias experience of this first person’s experience. This idea can
The Matrix consists of a great variety of questions that have tortured the world for centuries. How can we know that what we see around us is real? How can we be certain that the items and living beings around us exists? If the world as we know it turns out to be an illusion, what do we do? Numerous philosophers and other thinkers have pondered these questions since the beginning of time.
How can we know that what we see around us is real? How to be certain that specific items exist? Throughout this film these dilemmas and discussions are portrayed brilliantly. One example for that are the machines which have created the Matrix and also control and look after it so that nothing goes wrong. They make a reality for the humans to live their lives in without actually having lived the same or a similar life themselves. How can they know for example how chicken tastes like? They give the humans a version of the world, of a reality, which they have never experienced or seen. It’s all based on facts which they picked up from the humans, computers and other written information. The machines are constantly telling them what to believe is real. If they can persuade the people living in the Matrix that what they see with their eyes is what there is to see, they’ve got them. If then someone else from the outside, like Neo and the Zion, try to explain to them that what they see is not real, they’ll just laugh in their face of that explanation which portrays the big picture of what is happening.
The persuading of a reality that’s not there can be turned back to first and secondhand sources in, for example, history. Firsthand sources are telling a person’s thoughts and what they saw exactly that day, exactly as they saw it while a secondhand source is more of a commentary from an historian based on this person’s experience. A secondhand source is then another person’s opinion and bias experience of this first person’s experience. This idea can