Reality In Keanu Reeves's Meditations On First Philosophy

The Matrix did constitute an argument that our ordinary knowledge claims are not really knowledge. In The Matrix, Keanu Reeves plays a computer programmer who leads a double life as a hacker called “Neo”. He thought himself living a normal life until one day he received a phone call from Morpheus, and is then told that reality is actually very different from what he, and most other people, perceives it to be. In the following sequence, Morpheus, the leader of the rebels, offered Neo a choice between two pills, with the assurance that the blue one would make him forget everything had happened and let him return to his former life, while the red one would let him understand who the reality truly is. After Neo swallowed the red one, he came to another world, where Morpheus tells him that human existence is merely a facade. In reality, humans are being ‘farmed’ as a source of energy by a race of sentient, malevolent machines. …show more content…
We have to answer the question of whether the world we live on is true or not. How can tell the difference between dream and reality? How can we make sure that what we believe now is true? The movie leave the viewers with huge unanswered questions. Descartes reveals in his masterpiece Meditations on First Philosophy that everything around him maybe deceiving him. There is an unseen powerful and malicious god who is trying every effort to deceive him. He then comes to the conclusion that perhaps all of his experiences are being conjured up by this evil demon. What The Matrix has exposed is based on Descartes’s deception hypothesis. We always think that we can control our life, and we take everything happened around us as reasonable, but in fact, we are being fooled by our