The Matrix - Finding Reality In The Matrix

The Matrix ( Wachowski, Andy, and Lana Wachowski 1999 ), is a story that presents a dilemma. Is virtual reality just for fun, or is it being used to imprison you? That is the question Neo faces as he is manning his computer doing some hacking on the side. It is through his computer work that he meets with Morpheus who presents Neo

Like today’s world, in The Matrix technology dominates society. There are two dimensions in the film: the artificial intelligence world and the “real” world. The AI world is painted in all the glories of the world the viewer knows: a world where choices are “made” by the individual and “supposed” freedom exists. Morpheus offers Neo an opportunity to see the world for what it really is and break free from the bondage of technology, “You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” The humanistic need to mentally

​It is impossible to watch the film The Matrix without appreciating the philosophical and literary allusions which pervade throughout. The film is self-conscious about the parallels to famous thought experiments and allegories. These ideas are meant to act as clues about who the characters represent and purpose in the narrative. The character of Neo, who is the protagonist, represents the beginning philosopher who first realizes that the world is not as it appears. The Matrix is, literally, a deception cast by demiurgic machines to distract human minds from the truth, which is their bodily enslavement and exploitation by the machine descendants of man's invented technologies. After his awakening into the “real world” and out of the simulated reality of the Matrix, he makes a journey

Last night, I watched ‘The Matrix’ for the first time and that movie plays a perfectly role in the question, “what it is to be human.” Think about a world that is unreal, how would we even know if the world we live in is unreal? What if we are all in a virtual world that makes our brain think we are actually doing something? As of right now, I am typing a paper for my English 212 class at Saginaw Valley State University; in the Matrix this is what you should be thinking. If you see it, smell it, and feel it; it must be real. However, not according to the Matrix; how deep does the rabbit hole go?

Although this specific program will likely not become available to average consumers, the same foundations for the simulation will be available on the marketplace while being affordable at the same time. In time, applied use of virtual reality such as the Oculus Rift will become mainstream and accepted in everyday life not only due its entertainment value, but also due to its affordability for consumers everywhere. Thoughts of virtual reality often resemble fantastical scenarios reminiscent of scenes in movies with similar themes like Gamer, The Matrix, Total Recall, and Inception. After one delves into the VR technology in products such as the Oculus Rift, one will begin to believe, and he or she will brace themselves for the tidal wave that is the paradigm shift of virtual reality.

Cyberspace was a digital rendering of reality and so is the Matrix. Case used rods to inserts himself into the cyberspace, Neo too used somewhat similar technology to return to matrix. Both of these conceptual world allowed characters to move freely and do what they would do in a normal world. Even the supporting characters were quite similar. While Molly locates Case in Neuromancer, it is Trinity who finds Neo in a club. Both of these women are reporting to a higher authority, Trinity to Morpheus and Molly to Armitage. Still, the difference between Neuromancer and “The Matrix” overshadows any similarity quite easily. Though the universe of Neuromancer is heavily penetrated with technology, the one in matrix is penetrated with technology on steroids. In “The Matrix” everything including the reality is a function of

The main variance in The Matrix, Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave, and Descartes’s Meditation I, is that in the movie, there is a way to get back to the world of reality; Descartes and Plato only suggest that we are either dreaming or have been tricked, and make us speculate if there really is a way back. They propose that the world we know is not real at all, just a mere illusion.

Simply put, the Matrix represent a system of complete and utter deception and cradle to grave control of those minds trapped within, all sharing the computer generated complex illusion.

The main plot of The Matrix is that Artificial Intelligence has taken over humanity. These human-created machines now harvest humans in crops in order to provide energy for them to survive. It is known that the human body cannot survive without the mind, so the Artificial Intelligence has designed a computer-generated world in which the human mind can live and survive. This computer-generated world is known as the Matrix. "It is a computerized simulation of life as we know it, or we imagine we know it. What the movies postulates is a version of virtual reality so vast and tentacular as to encompass the entire globe."3 The story line of this film suggests that humans are not really living a "real" life. It suggests that no human has every used their eyes, ears, muscles, or any other sense. As Laurence Fishburne’s character, Morpheus, puts it; "the matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control, in order to change a human being into [a battery]."4 Realizing that the main characters of this film are a few of the only humans functioning in the real world as we know it now, there must be some form of artificially created authority. These authority figures are known as agents and the main agent in

Reality and manipulation, two words that seem opposites at first however, look deeper and it will show that it goes hand in hand. What is reality? Many will say, something that can be see, something that can touch, something that can be feel. If that is the case, then Morpheus explains it best when he says, “How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, …, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain” (Matrix). If it is true, reality is electrons traveling from one point to the other. For some reason it sounds logical but doesn’t feel right. The Matrix, a story of a dystopian future where humanity is being manipulated by mechanical sentient being, explores the topic of reality

For thousands of years man has tried to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the world. The Matrix movie conveys what man has been trying to do in a cinematic masterpiece. The creator’s main influences to making The Matrix were Karl Marx and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (Who Inspired). Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto tries to highlight the social inequalities that have occurred during the industrial revolution between man and machine while Plato’s Allegory of the Cave tries to help inform people that they need to become more self-aware of their oppressors. The film The Matrix combines these two ideas into one experience.

Sequence analysis, film form and style as depicted in the film, 'The Matrix' The matrix has different meanings, but according the movie I have watched I define the matrix as a dream state, it is like when you are dreaming where the person is not in the real world, yet is inside a computer programing. There are a number of dramatic beats, and the photography found in the movie; a perfect visual depiction of exactly what’s going on in the scene and that is when we see how the settings of the movies like the costumes, lighting, the sound and mise-en-scenes. there are lots opinions about the matrix and questions that comes to mind after the movie. It is quite clear to me that that computers or rather technology is becoming more popular in the century

VR is more than an upgraded version of Cinerama or a theme park ride, as it achieves not only a greater sense of presence, but through the use of computer technology, the capacity to direct one’s gaze and movements so that one can explore and move around inside the illusory flow of images [3]. The main imperfection in simulation at present comes from the difficulties inherent in presenting a sufficiently convincing computer generated image. Presenting a convincing visual input to a human being requires a computer which can handle a vast amount of information. This is both difficult and expensive with existing technology.

Virtual reality defined as to produce and create the effect of an interactive 3D world in which the objects have a sense of spatial presence by using computer technologies. Our perceptual and cognitive system will be presented by precise clues in order for our brain to interpret and understand those clues as outside object in 3D world. In addition, virtual reality suggest a lot of benefits and advantages to education of technical such as delivery information through multiple active channels, addressing of dissimilar learning styles, experiential-based learning and so on ( Bell & Fogler, 2004, p 217).

Seeing is believing, these words are the best combination to understand the meaning of Virtual Reality (VR). VR is one of the best asset and aspect of our future. No other technology has seen such a revolution like VR has. It is practically in use in almost every field such as entertainment, gaming, defense, robotics, medical, healthcare, military, education, fashion, heritage, business, engineering and many more fields. VR sometimes called Virtual Environment has drawn much attention in the last two decade. Extensive media coverage causes the much more rapid increase in the interest of the masses. Very few people, however, really know what VR is and what are its open problems are. In this report a historical overview of virtual reality is presented, basic terminology as an introduction are listed, followed by applications of this technology in science, work, and entertainment areas. Its present developments are thoroughly discussed in this report. Finally, the future of VR is considered in two aspects: technological and social. New research directions, technological frontiers and potential applications are pointed out. The possible positive and negative influence of VR on life of average people is speculated.