Blog 3

After watching the movie Matrix I am asking myself the question what pill I will choose. Neo decide to take the red pill and face the desert of the real. Like the most people I think that will be my choice too, to learn the truth about the reality. Neo is confused and has a lot of questions. What is the Matrix? I have the same questions like how do we know the truth? Do we also live in the Matrix? Are we controlled by the machines? We can never know if there is someone who controls our mind. From the book Ignorance, Peter Unger suggests the possibility that all of us are controlled by an evil scientist. That our bodies and brains are separated, and the scientist is stimulating our brains. Deceives us into thinking all of the things around us are real. That actually our bodies are in a pod of pink goo like all the millions of pods in the matrix. And we are all born in prison for our mind. Morpheus tells that to Neo. But worse than that is to be in prison where you cannot escape.
Education means to “lead out” as the prisoner is lead out of the cave and Neo is lead out of the Matrix. When Neo decides to take the red pill he doesn’t get an answer for his question, what is the Matrix? Morpheus just tells him to believe in himself. Neo believes Morpheus and for him that’s true. And he is justified in believing in it. From all the experiences he had, Neo believes all his life was a dream until he wakes up in the reality. We also have to believe and to be saved. Neo would endure anything rather than return to false reality.