![]() Neo challenges these ideas and his reality similar to how Descartes did.Ī few questions remain including if it is worth one’s effort to doubt existence based on perception in order to find reality. Their existence is real but the world around them is not. They spend their lives trapped in pods living through a computer simulation. People themselves are real, their bodies are physical and they have a mind that thinks. This is also displayed in The Matrix movie. Because we think and have these senses, we are real although we may not know exactly what we are. Although the world around us may not be what it seems, we must believe that our own existence is in fact real. ![]() There is an opponent of God’s that brings about the world around us in order to deceive us of God’s intentions. Descartes explains a theory of an evil demon. Both The Matrix and “Meditation One” elaborate on how perception, and the use of our senses” isn’t reliable when it comes to gaining knowledge about the world we live in. These are some of the ideas that Descartes presents in “Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called Into Doubt”. But who are we to believe our senses when they say that when we are awake, it is the real world? We don’t know in the moment that we are dreaming so it’s possible that we are still in a dream even though our body tells us that we are awake. ![]() ![]() Sometimes they seem so real we wake up thinking they are reality until we make some connection that proves otherwise. The main idea behind this movie is that the real world is an illusion, similar to the claims that Descartes was making. The Matrix computer program was created to hopefully gain control of the artificial intelligence by using the energy from their bodies. After regaining consciousness and control over his own body again, he learns that humans in the real world developed artificial intelligence that they eventually lost control of. Neo makes a decision and takes the red pill. The red pill allows him to dig deeper for the truth of the world he lives in. The blue pill leads him to forget his new found knowledge and continue to live life the way he has been, as a dream. Neo is presented two pills, a red one and a blue one. Reality only exists in their mind so everything they see and do is actually a dream. The world is actually an elaborate computer simulation, the Matrix. He was in contact with Morpheus who explained to him that his reality isn’t what he believes it to be. The Matrix is a movie about a hacker named Thomas Anderson or “Neo”. He also brought about the idea that we could be dreaming when we believe we are living a reality which would also have an effect on our senses causing them not to be a reliable source of knowledge. At any moment our senses could be influenced by God or some other good or evil entity such as a evil demon. Questions he challenged were why we automatically put complete reliance on our senses when there is no certainty behind them. He realized that the ideas he grew up believing were fact he could not be absolutely certain about. He challenges many theories such as the reliance we have on our senses to perceive the world and form our beliefs, whether or not it is worth challenging his beliefs and doubts, and the separation of the mind and body and how they are connected if they are connected. Rene Descartes is often referred to as the “Father of Modern Philosophy”.
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