The Theme Of Reality Vs. Illusion In The Matrix
‘How do we know what is real?’
The human race has come to know what reality is through our empirical belief regarding the information gathered by our senses, skepticism by doubting out beliefs in order to sift through to the truth and epistemology regarding knowledge to enlighten ourselves with the truth. All of these are philosophical because they are all philosophical branches. The Matrix illustrates the philosophical question of reality versus illusion.
Empirical belief is a method that has helped define what reality is through the use of our senses including, sight, hearing, tough, smell and taste. These senses are all crucial in helping humans understand and perceive the external world. This branch of philosophy helps us establish that what we can experience is knowledge and equates to something being real. In the Matrix there are people bound to a supercomputer that harness their energies to charge itself. However there have been a few who have been able to be freed from the system. In one scene, one of the freed people brings up the notion ‘how does the matrix know what tasty wheat tastes like, maybe …show more content…
Neo starts to become skeptical of his newfound reality when Morpheus frees him. Neo starts examining his own life, questioning and doubting what he knows and does not know. Neo says ‘have you ever had this feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming, that your dream is so real.’ Neo is skeptical about his reality, which he confuses with his dream state. In the brain in a vat scenario, the brain is stimulated with the same sort of inputs that a normal embodied brain receives. The envatted brain is massively deluded as from its perspective things seem very much as they seem to the embodied brain. It has false beliefs about the world. It believes it has a body because it senses ‘touches in its hand’ but it has no
The human race has come to know what reality is through our empirical belief regarding the information gathered by our senses, skepticism by doubting out beliefs in order to sift through to the truth and epistemology regarding knowledge to enlighten ourselves with the truth. All of these are philosophical because they are all philosophical branches. The Matrix illustrates the philosophical question of reality versus illusion.
Empirical belief is a method that has helped define what reality is through the use of our senses including, sight, hearing, tough, smell and taste. These senses are all crucial in helping humans understand and perceive the external world. This branch of philosophy helps us establish that what we can experience is knowledge and equates to something being real. In the Matrix there are people bound to a supercomputer that harness their energies to charge itself. However there have been a few who have been able to be freed from the system. In one scene, one of the freed people brings up the notion ‘how does the matrix know what tasty wheat tastes like, maybe …show more content…
Neo starts to become skeptical of his newfound reality when Morpheus frees him. Neo starts examining his own life, questioning and doubting what he knows and does not know. Neo says ‘have you ever had this feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming, that your dream is so real.’ Neo is skeptical about his reality, which he confuses with his dream state. In the brain in a vat scenario, the brain is stimulated with the same sort of inputs that a normal embodied brain receives. The envatted brain is massively deluded as from its perspective things seem very much as they seem to the embodied brain. It has false beliefs about the world. It believes it has a body because it senses ‘touches in its hand’ but it has no