The Matrix movie toys with the idea of sentient machines reigning the world in a post-apocalyptic scene. These superior mechanisms monitor human beings by transporting their minds to a computer-originated world. With numerous influences of philosophy in this film, it is not surprising to notice that this movie’s plot heavily relates back to a few skeptical theories like Descartes and his Evil Demon Hypothesis, Putnam’s Brain in a Vat scenario, or Plato’s allegory of the cave. However, in all of these theories, the current situation is not truly comparable to the Matrix since it excludes one key detail and it deals with a different time period. On the other hand, the Matrix hypothesis closely relates to Metaphysical hypothesis in which both …show more content…
This theory entails that the physics we know is not the true fundamental level of reality because just as chemical processes lie beneath biological processes, and microphysical processes lie beneath chemical processes, something must be below microphysical processes. We refer to this ‘something’ as bits. On this miniscule level, David Chalmers in “Matrix as Metaphysics” describes that “These bits are governed by a computational algorithm, which at a higher level produces the processes that we think of as fundamental particles, forces, and so on” (Chalmers 6). This hypothesis is not a skeptical hypothesis because if it is true, there are still electrons, protons, whatever else the heart desires. One significant difference is that electrons and protons would then be similar to molecules, since they would be produced of something more basic, but they still exist (Chalmers 7). In addition, if the computational hypothesis is true, there are still objects and items since our reality still exists. However, their fundamental reality is a ‘bit’ different from what was previously