Matrix Essays

  • The Matrix

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    one? In the visually tantalizing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds them through grim looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, computer program called "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness

  • The Matrix

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    The Matrix The Matrix is a science fiction movie about artificial intelligence computers replacing mankind. I believe that this movie is a common type of display from the media is common paranoia so that they can get a reaction from people and sell their story. In the case of The Matrix, the movie dazzles people with awesome special effects using modern computer technology, which I find ironic. I find it self-conflicting and hypocritical for the media to use modern computer technology for their

  • The Matrix

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    everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996) You’ve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert – of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) From Plato’s "Charmides" to the Wachowski brothers’ "The Matrix" (1999), there is a tradition of writing in Western literature, which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia, or both. I believe that what such imagining allows us is to do is locate ourselves

  • The Matrix And The Matrix

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    The Matrix is a sci-fi action film created in 1999 by Andy and Lana Wachowski. The Matrix explores each branch of philosophy with great depth, giving the viewers a reason to question the world we live in today. The Matrix trilogy uses philosophical issues to present the question of reality modelled by the premise of the film. Plato, an ancient philosopher attempted to answer this question in the allegory of the cave. The Matrix and the analogy of the cave both share the major philosophical issue

  • The Matrix

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    The Matrix Interweaves much symbolism, mythology, philosophy, and psychology. On the surface, the movie challenges the dominance of technology in our culture and predicts an apocalyptic result from the use of artificial intelligence. Yet, behind the human struggle for survival is a mythical backdrop upon which are backlit some of C.G. Jung's basic ideas regarding the human psyche. These Jungian ideas include the ego-Self relationship and how it relates to the persona, the shadow, individuation, and

  • Matrix

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    what is deception. The movie “The Matrix” displays a social deception in which Neo, the main character, is caught between what he thought was once reality and a whole new world that controls everything he thought was real. If I were Neo, I would not truly be able to know that I was in the matrix. However, it is rational to believe that I am in the matrix and will eventually enter back into my reality later. The proof that that I can know that I am in the matrix and that I will return to reality comes

  • matrix

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    The Matrix Directed by the Wachowski Brothers “Buckle your seat belt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.” -Cypher (Hugo Weaving) “Through all the action we’re trying to tell a story and there is a lesson to be learned. The movie has a meaning and a positive message. It’s a story for the fight for individuality and compassion and coming to terms with the world. It has such heart and soul.” -Keanu Reeves “Expect the unexpected.” -The Wachowski Brothers Written and directed by the Wachowski

  • Matrix Essay Matrix

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    Mariano Hurtado de Mendoza April 22, 2014 Philosophy Alexandra Mealla The Matrix: Aspect on Reality and Truth The reality and truth are similar concepts used by philosophers in epistemology and metaphysics. These branches of philosophy follow the concepts of reality, which demonstrates how things really are without the perspective of someone, and truth, which demonstrates of something that is real. Metaphysics basically is the branch of philosophy that explains in a deeper perspective the concept

  • Matrix: A Philosophical Interpretation Of The Movie The Matrix

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    The Matrix: A Philosophical Interpretation The movie “The Matrix” contains a very diverse philosophical structure and has many philosophical points, first discussed by philosophers like Plato and Descartes, throughout the movie. Some of these points consist of skepticism of reality, which relates heavily to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. The movie also addresses the mind-body problem by showing that the “Matrix” is only taking place in the mind/computer program and the body is actually in a pod

  • A Comparison Of The Matrix: The Matrix

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    define realty ? The Matrix is a movie explaining how’s the technology is taking control over the human race by time. However technology is helping humans to have easier way of life, it’s taking a lot of things from humanity in return. Humans created a monster which is the artificial intelligence. The machines took control of everything and almost everyone. The movie explains that most of the humans are under the machines control and they don’t even know that they are living in the matrix not the real world

  • Epistemology In The Matrix

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    The Matrix, directed by the Wachowski sisters, is a film that discusses free will, artificial intelligence and poses a question: ‘How do we know that our world is real?’ This question is covered in the philosophical branch of epistemology. Epistemology is a component of philosophy that is concerned with the theory of knowledge. The exploration of reality is referenced in the film when Neo discovers he has been living in an artificial world called ‘The Matrix’. He is shocked to learn that the world

  • Philosophy of the Matrix

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    The movie The Matrix raises many philosophical questions and often parallels previous and sometimes ancient theories regarding reality, skepticism, and perceptions of the mind-body problem. In this essay I will be evaluating how the movie The Matrix embodies theories and ideas involving skepticism and the mind-body problem. I will be explaining in detail why the movie, Plato, and Descartes have different views other than the normal way of believing what is real and what is imagination. I will also

  • The Matrix

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    “The Matrix” (1999) is a Sci-Fi action film created by the “Wachowski Brothers” to present life in an absent minded dream world based on our solar system and a so-called real world which set on a planet known as ‘Zion’. Artificial Intelligence is the use of computer system(s) to imitate tasks which human beings undertake. “The Matrix” (1999) depicts Artificial Intelligence in a unique sort of way; representing it in a flexible manner, showing what it can do to society. Generally speaking; this

  • The Matrix

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    The movie titled The Matrix by the Wachowski Brothers was released in 1999 and was one of the highest grossing movies of it’s time. In this movie, we follow the life of a man named Thomas A. Anderson who is seen to live a double life. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night he is a top secret computer hacker known as Neo. Neo is curious throughout The Matrix because he constantly questions his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo is told that the reality of a

  • The Matrix

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    The Matrix is definitely a film that will keep you questioning your idea of reality and fantasy. Much like this course, it causes you to question yourself what is real and what is the truth. Although it is clear that The Matrix is a fictional film whose intention was to try to get inside the viewer's head, it is still engaging and makes quite of an impact on its audience. Throughout the movie, it was obvious in some scenes that the movie was fictional and depicting an alternate world of fantasy and

  • There is No Escaping the Matrix

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    There is No Escaping the Matrix In the video game world anything is possible, and if your player dies you can always play again. The videogame industry is exploding in the market place; it's far from child's play and far from the days of pong. In the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly (December 6, 2002) there is an article, Video Game Nation, discussing a new video game experience being touted as the wave of the future, The Real World meets The Matrix. In this virtual world called The

  • The Matrix

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    The Matrix, The “Western” Never Known As stated by the title, there is great reason why the Matrix should be treated in the same context, although not identified, as a western. This film genre is steeped in tradition and lore. There are many definitions abound as to what may constitute a “Western film.” The main goal is to see whether or not this paper can illustrate the genre be pushed towards the future. Whether it means the 20th century, the 21st century or the distant future. This genre can

  • Living In The Matrix

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    paper that living in a Matrix or as a brain-in-a-vat is not bad, and it can actually be very good in some cases. This is, however, taking into account two things James Pryor says at the end of his essay. The first is that the matrix is not a sort of enslavement like in the movie The Matrix. The other is that there is still interactions with other real people like in the movie. As long as these two conditions are followed, I concur that there is nothing bad about the matrix in my opinion. In fact

  • The Matrix Essay

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    If you’ve ever had deja vu or felt that something about the world was just off, then you might just be living in the Matrix, a digital reality. At least, that is the case in the movie The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers. This movie, released March 1st 1999, takes place in a very distant future after a war between humanity and machines with artificial intelligence. A young man named Thomas Anderson, who goes by Neo in his nightlife as a hacker, discovers that the world is not all he thought

  • Beauty & The Matrix

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    Beauty & The Matrix Do you remember the story of Sleeping Beauty? A beautiful girl who had a curse put upon her at her Christening. She was to die by the prick of a spinning needle on her 16th Birthday. Her fairy aunts hid her from the curse and she was raised not knowing her real fate. Then of course she fell under the curse and could only be awakened by her true love. Who could forget this enchanting story? Beauty, by Sheri S. Tepper is just like that Sleeping Beauty story but with a twist