Simulated reality

however, the storyline is far from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Where “The Matrix” has a much more intricate story thats more adapted to the modern sci-fi fan base. Neo, played by Keanu Reeves as the main character, was trapped within the falsified reality of the Matrix program that was structured just like Plato’s Cave. Neo can easily be compared to the prisoners with in the cave within Plato’s Allegory. Like the detainees in Plato’s cave, Neo is tied to monstrous dividing wall where machines…

world run by a computer algorithm. In the movie, people live in a simulated world run by machines, and the machines in turn, trick people into believing that their world is real. Is it possible that we actually might be living in a similar simulated reality created by someone from actual reality? Can we be tricked by a Descartesian “evil” God into believing that the universe is real while it might just be an illusion? Are our realities just a projection of the imagination of someone? These…

we can know onto that certainty. In these meditations he brings to light some problems with knowing things that we perceive, the problems include his sanity, an evil-genius, and the possibility that anything beyond ourselves is just a dream, a simulated world within our minds. This last one, the dream world problem is the one we will concern ourselves with here. Through these…

Whilst comparing The Matrix, The Allegory of the Cave by Plato and Meditations I by Descartes there are several things to note. The most prevalent similarity between these three is the idea of reality versus illusion. The same metaphysical question continues to arise whilst reading the three works: “What is real?” There is a fine line between what is actually occurring versus what is actually deception of the mind. In The Matrix, Neo, the main character, accidently stumbles upon finding out that…

1.5. Methodological Framework The key concepts through which technology and culture are understood will be established and defined as part of a contextual foundation. This will be accomplished by examining both concepts through the idea of conceptual narratives (progress, convenience, determinism and control), and to take a closer look at the ways in which technology is integrated and embedded in our culture. Technology as a concept will be evaluated through applying the four phases of the…

to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light… he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former before was an illusion (Plato 31-36) Since the prisoners were aware of the outside world, they had a difficult time believing in the true reality. The prisoner thought that the shadows were clear to him, and was denying the truth about the real world. The escapee was able to move freely, and turn his…

virtual reality depicting life. In the film, after Morpheus awakens Neo, he tries to decipher the difference between reality and what he thought he knew about reality before. He finds it difficult to differentiate between the Matrix and reality, which leads into the philosophical issues pertaining to metaphysics…

Something that I felt was very insightful was Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, which analysees how we experience reality through signs and symbols and that because we use signs and symbols so heavily, our experience in life can be viewed as a simulation of reality. [Baudrillard, 1981]. In the Oxford English Dictionary, simulation is defined as "the action or practice of simulating, with an intent to deceive." In comparison simulacrum is defined as "a material image, made as a…

behind the false realities they believe in. Turkle argues that individual’s personal networks on the internet are where they go to escape their actual lives. Technology consumes individuals like business men and women causing them to “mill(ing) around me were looking past me to virtual others. They were on their laptops and their phones, connecting to colleagues at the conference going on around them and others around the globe. There but not there,”(Turkle 275). The false reality of connection…

For instance, if humans were controlled by the matrix, there would be a moment in their lives where they would doubt their truth existence. When they question their reality versus their dreams, they might encounter the question, “what if my reality is indeed the reality of somebody else, like a higher power or computer?” In this thought, they are challenging the matrix. The moment of awakening by humans is similar to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The prisoners in…