Blog 3

"The Matrix and Philosophy" has many readings on the thoughts of various authors and how they felt and what they percieved the Matrix to be. "The Matrix Possibility" written by David Mitsuo Nixson states that it is infact POSSIBLE that we are all in the Matrix. But are we REALLY in the Matrix? No one knows. David does not believe that everything we do and believe in is true but at the same time he does not think it is possible for everything to be false. That was the general point that he was trying to protrait. In "seeing, believing,Truth," by Carolyn Korsmeyer has similar points as that of David Mitsuo's writting. Although Korsmeyer focused more on life outside the Matrix they still shared points. The "truth" is the section that I found most interesting. The few romance scenes in the movie are what I liked and the "Truth" spoke of that.

Blog 2

"The Matrix" is a fictious film that describes a future where what humans believe to be is reality is really the Matrix. Sounds confusing huh? That is the same thing that I thought. Over the years I have always heard people speak of the movie "The Matrix". And I always thought of it to be just a regular action movie, but in fact it is much more than that. "The Matrix" has more to it than just special effects and fighting scenes. It has a lot of historical, philosophic, and religious meaning to it. During the course of the movie Morpheus tries to teach and convince Thomas A. Anderson or "Neo" about the Matrix and that he is indeed "the one". While watch the film for the very first time I was confused to a point on no return. After watching the movie I read a few articles pertaining to the film and now I have a better understanding of the it, but I believe I have to watch it a couple more times to understand it in it's entirety.

"The Allegory of the Cave" was a good way to interpret The Matrix. Both videos can be compared and have a connection. In The Matrix Neo is prisioner that was lifted into seeing the light or the "truth". And in the Allegory of the Cave Socrates is Neo because he does not believe in himself or he does not believe all that people think of him to be. Both Socrates and Neo are the same in sense that they are always asking questions, they are always trying to find more out.

One common theme that I seen while watching the film was humans and machines and how much they tried to portrait that humans were just like the machines. If the humans aren't dependent on the machines then they go hand in hand. Machines rely on humans for life and humans rely on machines to live theirs, which easily makes the two interdependent. The entire movie in one way or another constantly revolves around this theme.

Another theme seen in the movie is "truth". As I said earlier throughout the entire movie Morepheus is trying to convince "Neo" about the truth and reality of the real world. But in my opinion I would really like to know what is the REAL truth? Why did all of this occur? And is what Morpheus claims to be the "truth" actually true?

Blog 1: The Allegory of The Cave

"The Allegory of The Cave" is a fictional dialogue written by Socrates and Glaucon. The Allegory explains how a group of people were held captive their entire lives not knowing anything about the real world. In the allegory of prisoner is freed, and is able to see the "real world". When the prisoner returns and tries to share all that he has seen and experienced with his fellow prisoners they think that he is insane and foolish. They believe there is no such thing and if there is, it is not worth being seen.

If I were in Socrates' cave I think I would be in the stage of walking out into the light. I'm seeing a bunch of new things that I've never seen before in my life.

I know that I am in the stage of walking out into the light because as a child my home and family is all that I knew. Growing up I lived in a house with my brother and sister and both my mother and father. I believed all my parents taught me and that was just how things worked. I never questioned anything or anyone. That was until i got old enough to think for myself. Simple stories such as babies come from the stork, the tooth fairy, and Santa Clause I believed, because it was all I knew. In time I found out about pregnancy and conception as well as many other things. My mind wandered, I wanted to learn more, I wanted to know what else I wasn't told or I was led to believe as a child. With age I began questioning things and not just believing everything. I grew older and wiser and I know see the world much different than when I was in the "cave". My mentality is now much more mature and able to handle all obstacles in the future.