What is the implication of the film: THE MATRIX?

Question

a film like tHE MATRIX has explored the idea that we might be living in virtual reality. But what evidence is there for or against this hyphotesis? And what it's implications?

Answer 1

My philosophy professor used to love to bring that movie up. The point he drew from it has to do with the fact that we don't know anything other than the fact that we exist (I think therefore I exist).

There is no real way to know that this world is real, that we really look like this, that we know what it's like to breathe, that we will wake up tomorrow, even if we are in virtual reality there is no way to know that the world the robots captured us in was the real world anyway.

The implication of that is basically that it doesn't matter. Who is to say that the world Neo was exposed to was the most real world there was? Who is to say that what we live in now is more real than our dreams? We think them. They affect us. We seem to be most concerned where we spend most of our time and where we expirience the most outcomes of our actions (it usually doesn't matter what happens in one dream in relation to the next).

I doubt that we are living in virtual reality- there are shortcommings of that. It cannot compensate for everything if it is developed entirely by the thoughts of another species (or... robots, whatever they were).

So overall it just doesn't matter, you exist here and, if this is VR, you exist in the real world, but as a program, and in your dreams you exist as your dream self. You can think in all of those, and wonder if you exist, and that's how you know you exist. If you cannot think in one of those realities, you don't exist there, and it doesn't matter... kind of like parallel universes, we're defined by our own so even if they exist we could never expirience them.

Answer 2

Well, I think the REAL implications of this film is, that it inspired a lot of teenagers into thinking it was really cool to wear leather trenchcoats and shoot people.
That was a lot more of an inspiration, that what the story was about. The imagery had a larger impact than the plotline, with young stupid teenage boys.

Answer 3

that we may all be zombies, and it makes you think about how we see ourselves, because supposedly on the matrix, you can make anything happen or you look or have certain things just because thats what you 'think' you have, thats a strange thought but if it was really like that, imagine the possibilities . . .

and sorry for not answering this question right, I dont know if theres evidence of this or not