The Matrix. Have you ever believed?

Question

Have you ever actually felt like you were just an illusion?

Have you ever seen "A Glitch in the Matrix"?

This is a serious question please don't take the mickey out of me.

I mean recently a girl in the UK killed herself because she got so wound up in the book "The Da Vinchi Code"; maybe there are some people that believe in the Matrix, i really want to know.

Tell me what you think

Answer 1

The matrix is science fiction, and not even good stuff, but I do think so. we live in a kind of Matrix, a bio-social Matrix. Every body's body and mind is controlled by chemicals and electric pulses. In fact, we react impulsive and instinctively most of the time because of that, our thoughts are made of that. Most of the time we think we make a decision, but we don't, we let the society do it for us. What shoes you buy, what education you take. Many times we're contemplating what others would think if you make a certain decision.
Fashions like clothing, music, religion, low-carb-diets, etc, etc. are very much indicators for this phenomenon.

Answer 2

What a terrible set of movies. There was a lot of pseudo-intellectual philosophy in the Matrix, some interesting ideas that they never really followed through on, and some writers who were way to impressed with themselves (would have been a better movie if they had kept it hard sci-fi instead of following flights of philosophy that never went anywhere).
But then some people will believe anything. (But personally I've never heard anyone who bought into the Matrix as reality)

Answer 3

It's a possibility, but the Matrix isn't the original one. Star Trek:The Next Generation had an episode on the same line called "Ship in a Bottle" where they get stuck in the Holodeck thinking it's reality. At the end (after their out) Bartley contemplates the same thing you are, he ends the episode saying, "Computer, end program." Nothing happens.

Answer 4

The Matrix was a movie.
The Da Vinci Code a fictional book.

Answer 5

We are all very much capable of creating a reality within our minds that is so believable that we will resort to extreme behavior as evidenced by that unfortunate girl.

It's a shame that people can be driven to believe in false realities. As a recovering addict, I realized that I was living a lie for 32 years. Not in the fantasy that occurred while high on drugs, but the fantasy that I could be happy while continuing to use drugs to deal with life.

Answer 6

Yes I believe in the Matrix.

Its called the System

And Im not making fun of you.

I did feel the sense of the illusion.

I felt like everything else is an illusion too.

This fits in perfectly with my understanding that we are all temporary and nothing but illusions. And the only thing that isnt temporary is God.

Answer 7

The "Computer Simulation Hypothesis" is a perfectly reasonable topic for philosophical thought.

Head for the site below, by Nick Bostrom of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, for as much discussion of this as you're likely to need...

Answer 8

No, I don't believe in it.

Anyways, did you know that the story was stolen? Although I don't know if it's true or not. This is what I just heard.

A Black woman named Sophia Stewart was the original creator of the Matrix and the Terminator.

Answer 9

No, it was an absurd work of fiction. Why did the matrix have to exist to keep people in line? If we're all lying comatose in a coffin full of KY jelly, what needs to be kept in line exactly?

Answer 10

Been (legally) studying philosophy for a couple of years. So met this hypothesis more than once. But it does not really lead anywhere, except for logical dead ends, so dropped it. If it's true, but I mean really true, not like in take-a-pill-and-goes-away- or take-another-pill-and-wake-up true (Matrix), then there's not really much you can do about it anyway.