Blog 3

Pick any TWO of our readings this week and compare what they are saying about reality and The Matrix. You may choose to focus on a single issue that interests you (for example, could we be living in the Matrix?) or something you found particularly new or confusing (such as a philosophers use of particular words).


In the reading I found something that have strike my interest, "The Matrix Possiblity" Basically, are we living in the Matrix right this minute? This section is saying that if we lived in the Matrix, everything we believe that is real may not appear as they seem. In the section someone talks about if (Not in these exact words.)"he was in the Matrix right now the Honda Civic he has right now would not be a car at all. Actually we live in a pod of pink goo." From page 29. If we lived in the Matrix world we wouldn't be born the natural way. We wouldn't have any parents, siblings or any other kinds of relatives. We would be adults and the computers feeds us information on what we do as work wise, where we live, what we eat, what we like and so on. Basically we make no decisions of our own, the computers makes it for us. Its just weird, we maybe living in the Matrix and we don't even know.

What also striked my interest was the section about "Does Neo Knows that He Was In the Matrix?" I believe that Neo didn't know that he was in the Matrix until he started questioning and looking for an answer to his questioning. I think people will not know that they live in the Matrix until they found out for theirselves. Even Morpheus tells Neo, "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." If I was shown the Matrix, I may find it hard to believe that this is really how the world looks like. I mean it would be hard to adjust to this actually place. I know it took Neo a while to believe everything he see about the Matrix. But if we actually lived in the Matrix I don't think anyone could handle the truth of it.