¶ … 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…