The Matrix As Metaphysics Analysis

Have you ever considered the possibility that the fundamental makeup of our universe is something completely different from what science has led us to believe? Perhaps our world isn’t made up of protons, electrons, atoms, and molecules, and that all of our theories of quantum mechanics and macro/microphysics turn out to be incorrect. Perhaps we were created for a greater (or smaller) purpose than we are aware of. How would you react if you were to learn that our universe is nothing as we thought it to be? For David Chalmers, he believes that we should not be alarmed or afraid of a drastic change in what we think of as reality; granted, this altered reality presents itself plausible in theory. In his paper, The Matrix as Metaphysics, Chalmers explores the possibility of our world being similar to that of the one in the movie The Matrix (details of what type of world this is will be explained later), and asserts that it
If they think they have hands, then they really do have hands, if they think they have hair then they really do have hair, and so on. If this is the case, then the Matrix Hypothesis is therefore not a skeptical hypothesis but rather a metaphysical one. To explain this complex line of reasoning, Chalmers breaks down the Metaphysical Hypothesis into three different hypotheses: the Creation Hypothesis, the Computational Hypothesis, and the Mind-Body Hypothesis. He suggests that if he can prove all three of them coherent, show that their possibility cannot be ruled out, and show that none of them are skeptical in nature, then we can still be confident that all of our prior beliefs are still correct even with the possibility all of these hypotheses being true. After proving the coherence of the Metaphysical Hypothesis, Chalmers will then show its equivalence to the Matrix