are we in the matrix?

Answer 1

My daughter thinks we are. I say take the blue pill!

Answer 2

Yes. We are in the matrix on the physical level. On the real, this is all an illusion. The make up of a person has so many levels to it and at the core is the Soul/Spirit/Self. The physical level is a data collector of experiences that seem to be layered side by side or on top of each other. However, imagine if what you are living now has already happened and deja vu gives you a glimpse of it so to be on the physical level must be slower.

It depends on how free you can free your mind. Than you can surpass the falsehoods society feeds you to be trapped and controlled, and let the universe from within lead you in the universe outside. And by the way, who knows, if you concentrate hard enough, one probably could bend the spoon. My take on that is - if it was shown, it has already been done.

Call me weird or whatever, but the mind can do amazing things that we don't even know how to tap in too. I take it very serious to try to understand what government and religion don't really want you to know. If you want to do something that someone says you can't, why is it that if you persist then you find out that you can. Whoever is controlling society does not want you to go against the norm or else they will label you, but if you don't care about that means you are a little freer than they would want because it doesn't lock you in from finding out the truth that Society does not want you to know about.

...and with that - I call the Matrix - walking through life with blinders on.

Answer 3

I don't think so. If we were in the matrix, would the agents let us produce a movie open to the public revealing the truth? Of course not. So, by simple deductive logic, we are not.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yes, this is the Architect speaking ... go Neo go !!

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Don't unplug me if we are. Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss. LOL
P.S. There is no spoon.

Answer 8

Are we in the Matrix? Yes - as described in "Simulations and Similacrae" (see book Neo keeps his hacked data in while in the Matrix). If we define 'the Matrix' as the society based on or influenced primarily by the media and it's messages.

To dig further - what is the Matrix? The Matrix is a movie that is based on some of the philosophical points of a Frenchman named Descartes. Descartes was largely focused on what truth was and the process whereby we arrive at it.

The Matrix is a literal interpretation of some of his points. In the Matrix, humans all live out their lives in a computer generated dreamworld that the machines we created created for us to trick us - "I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." (Med. 2, AT 7:25)

Descartes builds on this idea through questioning the nature of reality, "[E]very sensory experience I have ever thought I was having while awake I can also think of myself as sometimes having while asleep; and since I do not believe that what I seem to perceive in sleep comes from things located outside me, I did not see why I should be any more inclined to believe this of what I think I perceive while awake." (Med. 6, AT 7:77)

Delving further into the movie, the question as I see it is not about many things people believe they see in the film (or reality). Their writings prove only that they have missed the point, and are still ensnared in "the Matrix" - "so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it"(Morpheus, of course). So what is everyone missing (well, most anyway)? The red pill. The story boils down to one cold hard fact. We follow Neo through his growth process and witness his "rebirth" at the end of the movie. Neo comes to a realization. What was it? It was a realization set before us at every point of the film, yet just out of reach (mentally). Why can he suddenly stop bullets and destroy agents? Because he realized, just as Morpheus did, that there is "a difference between knowing the path and walking the path". Meaning? Make your own path. You don't believe in this fate crap anyway, remember?

Morpheus spends the entire movie trying to "free" Neo's mind. He explains how Neo is trapped in a prison for his mind that he "cannot taste or touch or feel". Yet it is all around us. You can "feel it when you go to Church, when you pay your taxes. You can see it when you look out your window". We have all built a world around us in this "society" of ours. The movie hit home with all of us because we CAN relate on some level that many of us can't put our "finger" on it. "It's there, like a splinter in your mind." So what is this thing we can't put a finger on?

One way to point it out is to examine those we deem troubled or 'disturbed'. What is it that makes one person in a padded room extremely unhappy and another in the next room sit in a blissfull stupor, utterly alone in their euphoria? THEIR PERCEPTIONS. Their beleifs. Our thoughts stem from our perception of things. They rule our outlook and our actions on a day to day basis. One man's conviction that the aliens are coming to destroy us is no less valid than the other's that they have come to save us. To these people they are very real situations. These are the worlds they live in. When you and I look at them we can see in their eyes that they don't live in the same world we do. And what world do we live in? Those we paint for ourselves? Yes, but always according to a "social blueprint" of our mass culture. Can we or could we exist as individuals without each other? Descartes claims that he thinks, therefore he exists. But would he have come to that conclusion on his own without other people to interact with? How do you define thinking? When we think, typically we think in one language or another. Language is a socially imposed tool. We REQUIRE a means of measuring ourselves against something at all points in our lives (and in everything we do). We cannot define ourselves without a socialized tool, and therefore cannot define an individual without society. It becomes impossible to seperate ourselves from our socialization.

Thinking could also be looked at as a result of programming from all the stimulus of a lifetime of experiences. You could think of them as a "DNA strand" of experiences. So, as a human body is composed of cells that we currently believe may DICTATE our fate in certain areas (modern science leads us to believe that), is it impossible that all our experiences leave us no options other than to think what we do, given our "programming"? We see it in ourselves in sociology, history, and our own lifetimes. We are creatures of HABIT, of PATTERNS, much like the proverbial pavlovian dog. How much of our life do we attribute to pattern? Taking the red pill is an awakening of the mind to the fact that we are trapped by our OWN PERCEPTIONS. Realizing that we can change these perceptions is the elusive key to "ZION". ZION stands as the last bastion of hope for humanity in the film. "Live long enough and you might even see it", Tank says to Neo. Taking the red pill is the start of a process which can help you find your "path" and "remake the Matrix as you see fit". You have the power to change things. Freeing your mind is the goal. "Fear, doubt, and disbelief....you've got to let it all go, Neo". This is, perhaps, the most simplified message in the film. It can be as simple as that. Letting go of our fears, our hatreds, and our self doubt. It is not about drugs, or alternate dimensions other than those we create ourselves. The Matrix is what our woven fabric of society and interaction tells us is possible or impossible. It's the blue pill.

Answer 9

Yea...... Ever day is like a dream.

Answer 10

yup