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Role of ethics in film making
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Nozick’s theory of humans not wanting to enter the Experience Machine shows us
that humans value things more than just good experiences. One of the reasons that
hooking up to the Experience Machine comes across as an unethical approach to
living is that a part of our free will is lost. The idea of freedom and free will are
concepts that things we don’t normally think of, but have a lot of meaning for us. I am
careful to realize that Nozick’s machine allows humans living in the machine certain
control over their fate in which ends up in pleasurable experience. There is a degree of
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freedom within the Experience Machine, which is actually pretty flexible considering
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Once we allow ourselves to be absorbed by the machine we have
lost a part of our freedom that exists within the physical dimensions of our world. We
are never then truly free no matter how much freedom we can have within the
Experience Machine
The idea of Nozick’s Experience Machine is a popular idea within the media and film
industry, in particular the Matrix (1999) that touches on these ideas. The synopsis of
the film s very similar to Nozick’s idea of the Experience Machine and exercises
evidence of supporting the notion of not wanting to plug in. The Matrix surrounds
itself around the idea that human kind has been taken over by a machine race that
feeds of human energy. The character of Neo discovers that he is living in the Matrix
(the Experience Machine) and wants to unplug himself to be apart of the real world.
When Neo awakens into reality, the earth has become a ravaged wasteland overrun by
the machines that harvest the human bodies to survive. This is Neo’s reality when he
is not plugged into his Experience Machine and he chooses his fate to be aware and a
part of reality. But why does he do this? Why does he think it is more valuable to
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Cyphers character wants
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to re-enter the Matrix because he wants to feel all the pleasures he can and not be
aware of the disarray that has consumed earth.
What reasons do we then for having to stay plugged into the Experience Machine, or
in the case of Cypher, re-plugging? Within the contexts of the film, the life that is
reality outside the Matrix is not the most pleasant life style. The members of the
rebellion are aware of their reality in the sense that it is almost unbearable for Cyphers
character to deal with. Cypher is an example of a Hedonist, He wants to be back in the
Matrix because he knows for a certainty that he will be a lot more happier in there
rather than being in the real world. He is also willing to be an uncompromising person
to get his needs. If the world we lived in currently was in the same state that is seen
within the film, Cyphers choice to want to live a blissful virtual life seems like a
rational idea. He see’s human nature as a doomed race and that we have no
connection left to the natural world so why would one bother living in it. Even
Let me briefly explain a simplified plot of The Matrix. The story centers around a computer-generated world that has been created to hide the truth from humans. In this world people are kept in slavery without their knowledge. This world is designed to simulate the peak of human civilization which had been destroyed by nuclear war. The majority of the world's population is oblivious to the fact that their world is digital rather than real, and they continue living out their daily lives without questioning their reality. The main character, Neo, is a matrix-bound human who knows that something is not right with the world he lives in, and is eager to learn the truth. He is offered the truth from a character named Morpheus, who proclaims that Neo is “the One” (chosen one) who will eventually destroy the Matrix, thereby setting the humans “free.” For this to happen, Neo must first overcome the Sentient Program agents who can jump into anyone's digital body. They are the Gate Keepers and hold the keys to The Matrix.
Since the beginning of humanity, a large part of humankind’s focus was directed towards survival. A person’s primary function is to survive and reproduce. As society progresses the the more contemporary of what is expected today, success has become jointed with how an individual works with others and less on how much they achieve by themselves. Mencken wrote that “the average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” In comparison to modern beliefs this notion is quite true. The average American may say they love freedom, but just what kind of freedom are they talking about? For the majority, what they mean is that they want a safe environment where people can do what they want within reason and not bring about harm or discomfort
In the following essay, I will be discussing the similarities and differences that exist between the ethical philosophies of Hedonism and Utilitarianism, and how these moral theories relate to Nozick’s Experience Machine thought experiment. Both of these theories hold a fundamental value that is to find that which is “good” in their own ways, but slightly differ in the meaning of what the “good” is. Hedonism defines this value to be pleasure of the self, whereas Utilitarianism values the happiness of the greatest number of people, even if the self happens to be unhappy or ill-fated. Nozick’s thought experiment gives the reader the task
The Matrix follows along similar lines to Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” which paints the story that as human beings there is the possibility of being tricked by shadows and programs. Descartes’ “Meditation I” tells what he experienced while immersing himself in skepticism. Descartes is more in line with Neo or the men in the cave as they are exploring the possibilities of our reality being false. Neo goes one step further in taking the pill in order to see his world had been faked.
Every human character in the novel remains psychologically static, wired into a predetermined behavior pattern, a seemingly inescapable identity. Human characters seem unaware or incapable of forming or reforming an individual, provisional, less than absolute notion of self. Wintermute, an Artificial Intelligence, a computer, however, acknowledges and attempts to transcend itself. The boundaries between humanity and the machines it produces are blurred. Old paradigms of self, of identity seem obsolete. The character who possesses the greatest capacity for change in the novel is a machine. This is neither an indictment of humanity nor an endorsement of technology. Instead, the novel remains steadfastly ambivalent toward what Gibson himself calls "the very mixed blessings of technology" (Interview 274).
Within the dream world of the movie,”‘The Matrix”, only Neo (symbolic of the term ‘neophyte) is able to awaken and to see that it is not the reality; nor, does the machine run and operated world created by it actually allow for real human existence. Awakening from the Matrix; Neo seeks a new way for himself. First, he meets, Morpheus, a character named after the Greek God of Dreams, who comes to Neo and gives him a choice between the world of the Matrix or reality (the red pill vs the blue pill); Neo accepts reality and emulating Plato’s man in the cave, he is able to see the light. Once Neo discovers that he, and all of humanity is trapped within the Matrix, he tries to bring ‘the light’ and to show other people the way…He tries to come
In the film The Matrix Keanu Reeves plays Thomas A. Anderson, who is a man living a double life. One part of his life consists of working for a highly respectable software company. The second part of his life he is a hacker under the alias "Neo." One day Neo is approached by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and is taught that everything he thought was real was actually The Matrix, a computer program developed by machines in order to use human beings as batteries. Morpheus has been searching his whole life for “the one” to end the war between the humans and machines. Morpheus feels Neo is the chosen one, the one who will set everyone free from the Matrix. Neo is reluctant to accept this responsibility, but through various mission and encounters he realizes that he is capable of this feat and allows himself to embody what is to be considered “the one.”
desire. Finally they define it as sensual gratification. Now if we put these all together
Freedom. Such a perplexing word. Freedom means to be exempt from all external control and have the power to determine action without restraint. To be free you need to be able to control whatever you do and be able to do it when you want. To have what you want and be who you want to be with. Can we obtain our own freedom without taking someone else's? Personally to be feel free everyone needs to be free. To feel free no one can be trapped behind some wall by dictators. No one can rule us. In reality the only thing that is holding us back is ourselves. We think that freedom can be given to us but that can not be more wrong. We have to fight for our freedom to earn it.
The Matrix is a sci-fi action film created in 1999 by Andy and Lana Wachowski. The Matrix explores each branch of philosophy with great depth, giving the viewers a reason to question the world we live in today. The Matrix trilogy uses philosophical issues to present the question of reality modelled by the premise of the film. Plato, an ancient philosopher attempted to answer this question in the allegory of the cave. The Matrix and the analogy of the cave both share the major philosophical issue of metaphysics, with the ongoing questions: “Are we really living in the real world or just an delusion of the real world?” and “What is reality?”
The Matrix, a film released in the year 1999 an action sci-fi film that stars the people off Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) all part of a film that has changed the perspective of how people see the world, a better understanding of the philological side going into a deeper meaning exploring what is reality? What is real? And what is not real? , a revolutionary film with the most mind blowing special effects (CGI) you’d ever seen for a film made in the 90’s such as slow motion, with a mix of Kung-Fu that’s never happened in a western film before it links with Socrates and Plato’s believe because is saying who’s the wise and how do you know.
The Matrix is a technological system that does not allow for individuality. Morpheus tells Neo that the agents are “sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to the system. That means that anyone we haven’t unplugged is potentially an Agent. Inside the Matrix, they are everyone and they are no one”. As such, the Matrix is one big whole, a “single consciousness”, incapable of feeling or existing independently. The Matrix needs humans to survive. This results in the machines begin bound by rules, rules that humans, specifically Neo, are able to transcend once they have self-knowledge. In order to transcend these rules, they must as the spoon boy makes evident, not just think the Matrix is a dream world, they must know it. In that, the power dynamic in the “othering” relationship changes because humans become infinite beings while machines are bound by their own technology. The Oracle tells Neo a secret, “being the one is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you, you are in love, you just know it. Through and through”. The machines do not share this innate sense of knowing, these inexplicable feelings. The fact that machines cannot love becomes further proof of their “otherness” and their constructiveness. Feelings and an
"The Matrix" generates the belief that our environment is a virtual one - controlled by one mega-computer, and no matter how hard we try, one day we will have to awaken to the "real reality.
It is the ability to act because they have the desire to, not because they have to, and not because they are told to, but because they want to. Interestingly enough, there exists humans that ignore this ability, they only do what they are told and only live for the sake of survival. The movie is about a police sector hunt down a master hacker in a cyberpunk future. This plot however takes a second to the deep philosophy and contemplation that makes the movie so fascinating to me.
view; the one that probably every person will want is that they would not change the matrix, because they are