Essay 3

We need to distinguish between the real and the unreal world so we know the truth.I agree with Gracia and Sanford‘s assessment, need to have knowledge and beliefs. Gracia and Sanford in the book use “source” and “ontological status” to determine the difference between the real and unreal world. But what is the real world? What is virtual world? With the help of the sources actually the causes we can answer those questions.
In the movie “Matrix”, Neo says: “If you are killed in the Matrix you die there?” Then Morpheus responds: “The body cannot live without the mind.” Which means the mind makes it real, everything is real or unreal. Whatever is real is not unreal, and whatever is unreal is not real. Neo doesn’t know the difference; if it wasn’t for Morpheus he wouldn’t know that the Matrix is actually a virtual world. If Morpheus did not lead him out of the dream world and free him, he wouldn’t know the truth. But he had knowledge and from his experience knew something was wrong with his world.
Neo has a lot of questions: “What is the Matrix?”, “What is reality?”, “What is a person?”, and “What is a relation between mind and body?” (Irwin 56). To answer these questions we need the metaphysics. From the dictionary, metaphysics means branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality and the relationship between mind and matter. The metaphysics in the movie “Matrix” refers to the film itself and refers to the virtual world that is presented in the movie. With the causes we can distinguish between the real world and the virtual world. The causes for the real world are not the same with the causes responsible for creating the virtual world. The real world is the humans, and the virtual world is the machines. Actually the Matrix is a computer program that is made by intelligent machines. Aristotle states: “All human beings by nature desire to know.” (Irwin 55). The mind need to realize what is real and what is unreal. In the movie they use a lot the word “mind.” Includes Neo’s mind, Morpheus‘s mind and the other humans minds. For a difference, in the virtual world are the machines that don’t have minds. The word ontology is mentioned in the book too, means branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. The virtual world depends from the machines, and the machines depend from the humans. This is why they are using the human energy and body heat. The virtual world depends from the real world; as a result unreal world is weaker. On the other side is the real world that doesn’t depend from somebody or something.
Ontological status is the senses, things and language. With our senses, how we feel and perceive the world, with the things around us, how they came, and with the language we can distinguish the difference between the real and unreal. But like Pedro Calderon states: “Life is a dream.” (Irwin 55) maybe we can’t tell the difference between our life and our dreams that we have. When sometimes, the dreams appear so real to us.

Blog 8

The physical boundaries that define me a person is my natural skin, cream that i use for my face every day. My layers of clothes define my body, in winter time i wear more layers of clothes. Also what defines my body and me as a person is my apartment, and all the things inside my apartment. I think my home country defines me as a person because i can still relate to that place. As well what defines me as a person is the bus i use every day, and the college. I think every person depends on the network,one of them that we use the most is the Internet, the phone, also we use the TV to break the boundaries. We do depend a lot on the technology in 21th Century. Our whole life depends on the network, we have network of transportation, energy, information and communication. Charles Moore states "We have, as we all know, instant anywhere, as we enjoy our capacity to make immediate electronic contact with people anywhere on the face of the globe..."(Mitchell 16). Now the communication between two persons doesn't have to be face to face, but they can talk with each other from a different places. We can have a conversation with electronic contacts through phones and video calls, makes it much easier and saves time. With Internet our message or email can be delivered much faster to anyone in the world. Also with our peronal computer, with the technology we can do multiply tasks and get the wanted results faster. In our digital world we can get the needed information faster and we can get connected with anyone and save more time. All of my boundaries define my body, as well define my life.

Blog 7

For Essay 4:Media mid-term, i wrote about Bill Gates and his influence on the Media. I did a lot of research on plenty web sites. I used the web site like Microsoft.com where there are lot of information about his life and his company Microrosft. I did research on Gates Microsoft products: Windows, Windows 3.0. and the latest Windows 7 and i wrote how Microsoft products impacted the media. With everyone using personal computer and Microsoft, Interenet became one of the most influential source of media. For the PowerPoint i did research too, i used some of Bill Gates pictires and i placed it on my presentation, i also placed the images of Microsoft Windows which is one of the most well known image in the world. If a had a "do-over" i think i will do the same maybe just change some small details. On a scale 1-10 i will rate my effort 10 and rate my final product 9.

Blog 6

We find out that the movie “Matrix” has similarity with Socrates cave, now we saw that the movie “Truman show” has similarities with both of them, with the “Matrix” and with the “Allegory of the cave”. In both of these movies the main characters don’t have a real life. They are prisoners in their own reality. Neo’s life is controlled by machines and Truman’s life is controlled by Christof who considers himself as God. In both of them, Neo and Truman have the free will, Neo makes the choice in the beginning, and Truman makes his choice at the end of the movie. Neo makes his choice with his experience and knowledge while Truman makes his choice on the fact that he wants to see and experience the world outside of Seahaven. I would have made the same choice like Truman, because I really wouldn’t want everyone to watch me as I try to live my normal life, making mistakes, learning from my own mistakes and trying to fix them. Also I will want to see what is on the other side of the door, the new and inexperienced world. I think everyone has a personal life and have the right to live their life as they want and make choices that they think are best for them and not having someone to make those choices for them.
At the end of the movie after Truman survives the lighting and the storm, Christof talks to him and tells him about his life and that he is been on a show all of his life. Christof tries to convince Truman to stay because he created this perfect place only for Truman. Truman makes the choice and leaves the show, the place and his life that he only knew. I think that on the other side of the door he expects to find the love of his life Sylvia. The real world will be very strange place for him because it is not perfect like Seahaven and it will be very difficult for him. Probably with the help of Sylvia he will adjust to the new world. The other thing is that he will be able to go and see other different places. Became an explorer like he always wanted to be and experience new things.

Blog 5

In the “Matrix and Philosophy” Theodore Schick Jr. discusses the conflict between omniscience and free will. Omniscience means all knowing and free will is the choice that we make. I believe that the human being has free will, a choice to make and I believe in fate. We have our own choice, nobody is telling us what to do, how to do it, or which path to choose. I do think we make our own decisions but even those choices are fate. Everybody has a path in their life, and that path is determined by God. We always make choices, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but with making these choices we walk the path and our fate is to do that. God has a plan for every one of us, but we are the one that has the choice how it will occur. From the experience we had and knowledge each individual makes different choices and has a different effect from those choices.
Philosopher Immanuel Kant states: “Life is not the kind of experience you’ve had, but the kind of choices you’ve made. If you’ve always tried to do the right thing, then you are a good person even if things did not turn out the way you planned.”(Irwin pg.89). I agree we have to make good choices and walk on the right path. Philosopher Richard Taylor states:”Fatalism is the belief that whatever happens is unavoidable.” (Irwin pg. 91). The events will happen, and we cannot escape our fate, our destiny.
The Oracle doesn’t actually tell the future, she only tells Neo what he wants to hear. He doesn’t think he is the one, so she tells him that. She encourages him to believe and to make a choice, and to walk the path. But after that he realizes he is the one and has the free will to choose the red pill. Neo chooses to become the One, which was his fate and Morpheus, and the other humans believed in him.

Blog 4

In the movie Matrix, Neo says: If you are killed in the Matrix you die here? Then Morpheus responds: The body cannot live without the mind. That means the mind makes it real. And whatever is real is not unreal. Everything is real or unreal. But how do we know the difference, how do we know what is real and what is unreal? Even Neo does not know that. If it wasn’t for Morpheus he wouldn’t know the difference. If Morpheus did not lead him out of the dream world and free him he wouldn’t know the truth. But he had knowledge and from his experience knew something was wrong with his world.
In the book “Matrix and Philosophy” is mentioned the word metaphysics. From the dictionary this means branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality and the relationship between mind and matter. The metaphysics of The Matrix refers to the film itself and refers to the world presented in the film. Like Gracia and Stanford in the book use the words “source” and “ontological status” to determine the difference between the real and unreal or how in the film they say the virtual world. With the help of the sources actually the causes in our world we can answer the questions what is real and what is unreal? The causes for the real world are not the same with the causes responsible for creating the virtual world of Matrix. The Matrix is a computer program that is made by intelligent machines. And the real world comes from the humans. The word ontology is mentioned too in the book, means branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. We know that the virtual world depends from the machines and they depend from the humans. That is way they are using the humans, their energy and body heat. This means the virtual world is weaker because depends from things in the real world. For a difference the real world doesn’t depend from somebody or something. What they use the most in the film is “mind”. Includes Neo’s, Morpheus’s and the other human’s minds. And in the other world are the machines that don’t have minds. I think the mind needs to realize what is real and what is unreal and then can be free.

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.