Rene Descartes In The Film, The Matrix

In Meditations, Descartes gives us a very solid statement about his theory on what we might call the “Matrix.” This is an epistemological argument that dares to question nature, and the truth behind everything we know as humans. Descartes began to live by this epistemological theory that much of what we know about this world is adequate, but there is no such thing as the certain truth. In the movie titled, The Matrix, we see Descartes cogito ergo sum, or “I think, therefore I am” theory come straight to life on the big screen. But there are also some huge differences where as Descartes was a strong believer in and existing God, and the Matrix movie ignores the entire existence of one completely.
In the movie Matrix, Neo is just a normal computer programmer by day, and a hacker by night. Neo, like …show more content…
In the movie there is a strong relation between Neo the computer hacker that has always doubted his reality, and Descartes who had these very same deceptions almost four hundred years before the movie was even brought to theatres. Descartes theory from Mediations pretty much could have written the script for this movie. In summary, Descartes talks about how he believes there is an omnipotent God that has made him who he is. He does not know if he should believe that this God has given him a deception that the sky, earth, and shapes or sizes are real to comfort him; or if he is just being tricked by an evil demon that is trying to deceive him and ensnare his judgment for their own purposes. This theory is brought to life when Morpheus wakes Neo up. He learns that every thing he has always thought to be true was really just an alternate reality that was being fed to him by the demons that Descartes believed to be true. Neo soon accepts this alternate reality, and learns to decipher the coding, which allows him to see what is real and what is just the