Film By The Wachowski Brother: The Matrix

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What is reality? What is a person? Do we have free will? Many people tried to answer these questions throughout the ages. In the movie, The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers shows the world that have machines controlling humans. The movie The Matrix shows its own answer to these philosophical questions. The movie portrays reality is a war-torn place in the year 2199, where robots have taken control over the world. They also say reality is a fake place called the matrix. The movie depicts humans as machines used to create energy for the robots. When people enter the matrix their minds go to the matrix while their bodies stay in the real world. Individual’s in the movie have free will, but do not have a choice about some part in our lives. …show more content…

Idealism is a theory that everything is made up in your mind and that what is real is made up in the mind. In the movie, Neo is told that the reality he lives in is called the matrix and that his whole his is a computer simulated program. In the movie, Morpheus said “What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” This parallels to George Berkley’s theory on idealism, which shows, what is real is all made up in your mind. This is also farther proved when Cypher had said that “You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.” This proves that the matrix is only telling his mind that he is eating a steak and proves Berkley’s theory because the matrix is telling him that he is eating steak. The Idealist argument that Berkley created is about how everything exists mentally and that everything we know is found out by our senses. This relates to the movie by the act of the machines creating our senses for

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