Argumentative Essay: If We Are Living In The Matrix

The people who are living in the Matrix are essentially the same people who are living in the cave. Figuratively the people in the Matrix are bound only able to see the shadows of what is going on but in reality they can’t see the truth of what is happening. Neo can break free with the red pill, allowing himself to see the true meaning of what is beyond the shadows. In The Matrix when he is able to see beyond it is a world run by artificial intelligence but according the Plato being able to see is seeing a true perfect meaning of an eternal object. This red pill lets Neo open his mind to look at everything he once knew to an epistemologist outlook making him question everything that knew. I believe that an argument that Plato would make about

the movie in relevance to The Allegory of the Cave is that if Neo could now see the what was really happening, then that means he could see the perfect form but since that a perfect form cannot be known without having eternity or an unchanging world. In the case of the Matrix time is still relevant in the world beyond the Matrix.
I feel like it is impossible to prove that what we are experiencing is real or that we are not in some kind of matrix because there will always be doubt in whether we truly are existing since we cannot physically see it.

Morpheus says “What is real? How do you define real? Are you talking about what you can fell, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain?” Descartes has very similar ideas about doubting one’s senses, saying that for him to doubt the sense he would have to be insane or asleep. When Neo is first put into the system it all felt real to him as if nothing had changed, so there is nothing that exists to tell us the same thing isn’t happening to us while we are awake or asleep. When Morpheus was first showing Neo around I’m sure solipsism went through most of the viewers minds, making them question their own sense and wondering if anything is real outside of their own minds. Morpheus also talks about enabling the ability to free the mind you must not have any fear, doubt, or disbelieve. Whether anyone believes we live in our own Matrix or not, we will not be able to prove it because no one person on this earth does not have one doubt in their life, so according to Descartes first rule of accept nothing as true unless plainly know then no one has the power to live in a perfect

world.
In the Matrix, the one has the power to alter anything to what that person wants it to be, so why can’t we alter our own realties in our own Matrix. Yet we can while we are asleep and if no one can prove there is anything outside of my own mind who is not to say when we are asleep is reality and what we believe to be reality is sleeping. We are the chosen one in our own Matrix inside of our minds to alter our own worlds just like Neo. Descartes says that we can understand nature as we do machines with math, and if mankind in The Matrix created artificial intelligence does that mean humans in the movie were once masters of nature? Unlike Descartes the artificial intelligence ended up almost eliminating human kind and he believed that science should seek a common good for all of men. So could our reality create the same reality that happened within the movie The Matrix since we are moving along the same lines with artificial intelligence, then yes I think it could be possible to live in a real life matrix.