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¶ … Matrix" Neo-is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill will free him with what he thought to be the truth and offer him a new reality. The blue pill will have him forget that the world is not as he thought and have him awake in his bed, accepting his reality.
As we see the red pill is the hard way, it does not mean an easy solution, it means struggling to understand the truth. The blue pill is the easy way, it means living in a world that is created to keep people satisfied. The world of the blue pill is not as satisfying as the world of the red pill, but it is real. In that situation, I would chose the red pill.
The issue can be looked at from a philosophical viewpoint and the main question that needs answering is 'what is reality?' I argue that reality is not what is real, but only what is real in our minds.
We can start by looking at the views of the ancient philosophers and of the Renaissance humanists. The one thing that underlined the ideas of both was that the importance of humans lay in their ability to interact as individuals with the world around them and extract meaning from it.
Man himself became the measure of all things. If man is the measure of all things, does it matter if the world around him is not one of reality? A man lives within his own mind, responding to the outside world. In my view, it is better to live a life within your own mind that satisfies you, than to live in the world where you...
As Morpheus says in the movie, "all I am offering is the truth, nothing more." This refers to the fact that he does not offer him happiness, satisfaction or stimulation. All he can offer is the truth, and the truth brings with it no other benefit.
It could be argued that it is better to know the truth and suffer, than to believe a lie and be happy. This could be seen as false happiness. But again, we are asked what happiness and suffering really are. The answer is that they are products of the human mind.
Hume's philosophies also expand on this idea. Hume believes that meaning only comes from repeated experience which gives us 'habit,' so that if we see one thing, we automatically associate it with another, and in this way we come to understand things without experiencing them. We come to see something as a fact because we have come to associate it with something in our mind. This reinforces that reality is what is in our minds, not what is in the outside environment.
It could also be argued that by recognizing reality we could communicate it with others and the human race as a whole could develop. The first point against this is that a person's reality can never really be communicated. They can express their reality and in response another person can listen to them, associate it with their own knowledge and create their own understanding of what they have been told. But there is no way to know if what one person…
Plato, Descartes, And the Matrix The Matrix can be compared with Plato and Descartes. While that might seem like a very odd comparison, there are many similarities. In each scenario, there is the concept of reality and how to determine what is real and what is not. While it may seem as though it is easy to tell if something is real or not real, the truth is more complicated. People
Objects had primary qualities of an independent of the observer, like mass, motion, texture, etcetera, as opposed to subjective qualities like color, taste, and smell. As the Matrix world was wholly subjective, it was therefore a false world and one should seek to escape it, as it shut a person out from full participation in a world of external substances, including God, and also the primary qualities of other
The same can also be said of corporate organisation that has in their possession accumulated research capacity which enables it to deliver unique products and services from its competitors. 1.2.7 To increase market share. Advertising can also be used to increase the market share of an organisation resulting from the acceptance of the products but the consumer and subsequent recognition of the brand. 1.3 FUNCTIONS OF ADVERTISEMENT Advertising as a promotional mix element
Genetics Option 3: Darwin's Perspective According to Darwin, the survival of a species is determined by the degree of strength of its members. Thus, the "fittest" in terms of physical prowess as well as to a degree mental capacity survives. Human beings have long used their mental capacity to overcome the challenges of the physical environment. The very first discoveries of tools, fire and the wheel have set the species apart from
Politics of Violence in Pinter's Late Plays When Harold Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he spoke quite directly about the subject of political theatre: Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition
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