Reality

I watched the famous movie “The Matrix” for the first time this Friday, which was filmed in 1999. However, I was obsessed by the idea that the “real world” that individuals used to was stimulated by the machine in order to grow human beings as biodynamic bacteria to collect power. It was really ridiculous at very first but reasonable and frightening in the end. What if human beings are all grown in purpose just as we raise the livestock. What is the death that each individuals will have to suffer is not the natural end of our live but is conducted by the machine who grow us when our energy reach a certain level.  Actually, I have grown this idea for years that how can we tell the difference between true reality and stimulation in mind. Because just as the movie said, our sense of sight, smell, taste and touch are recognized by our brain via nerve system and impulse. Thus it is really desperate and hard to tell whether the world we live right now is true or not. Maybe we are just the extras in the world like matrix and wait for a Morpheus to wake us up. Unfortunately, if we are not the one that have the ability to spot the difference, maybe the destination is just being lost forever. However, the movie indeed gave us a lesson back in 1999 that we need to keep calm when facing the artificial intelligence and maintain keen insight. Being ignorant is not terrible, what really suffering is recognizing the reality and never lose hope.

 

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  1. Your suggestion that the world that we live in right now is merely a figment of our imagination is definitely an interesting one that I, too, have pondered for some time! The Matrix plagued me with many philosophical questions about human life and existence for a long while after I watched it. I believe that the film is trying to warn us about the dangers of getting carried away by technology. In today’s day and age—when artificial intelligence is getting more powerful every day, and people are beginning to rely more on their electronic devices instead of human interaction—I think this message is especially important for us to keep in mind.

    An unrelated side note: I love Keanu Reeves.