The Matrix

The movie the matrix is a different type of universe than the one we live in now, everything we know to be true in this world is a lie. The main character of the movie Neo is faced with a decision, take the red pill and see the world for what it really is, to know the truth, or take the blue pill, to remain in the world you know to be true not knowing any different. Which one would you choose? I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, I have gone back and forth on my decision multiple times. It’s a tough choice to have to make either decision you make affects your life greatly. After careful consideration and much thought I’ve come to the conclusion that I would choose to take the red pill. I admit that I do tend to live my life with

In Plato’s theory the cave there are a row of people shackled with their backs against a wall, with only a wall right in front of them. Behind them was a the world they didn’t know and couldn’t see, all they saw were the shadows that were casted onto the wall in front of them. This relates to the matrix, all these people are living in what they think is real life but is really the matrix and they don’t know any better because they’ve never seen anything else other than the matrix. One of the people that were shackled to the wall escape and see what is really casting the shadows, they see what real life is. When Neo takes the red pill in the matrix and sees what life really is, other than the matrix he’s been stuck in his whole life. The man from the cave returns to the other people that are still shackled to tell them what he has discovered, when he does they don’t believe him. Neo at the end of the movie he wants everyone to know the real truth but it’s hard for everyone to believe something like that so it will take time. Plato believed that the forms are true reality, they are not things, and it’s something you experience. Just like the computer program that was developed in the matrix. Plato really emphasizes what the matrix is trying to imply, that there is more out there, what we are living and seeing isn’t

Descartes believed that mind and body were two separate things. In the matrix they are able to leave their body in one space and take their mind into the matrix where their body is mimicked in the matrix. When Neo learns all his new fighting skills through a memory card. In the matrix the mind and the body are two separate things, just like Descartes and the dualism theory. Descartes was a skeptic, he doubted everything. “I think, therefore I am” he thought as long as you were thinking thoughts you were a begin thing. Descartes belief of dualism goes side by side with the matrix, when I think of the mind and the body being two separate things I think of neo in the chair with the plug in the back of his head, his body is in the ship but his mind is in the computer