Are we in the Matrix?
Jed's Philosophy Corner
English - November 08, 2021 08:08 - 11 minutes - 13.3 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are we in the Matrix? Is this reality? The argument here is not so much the computer simulation of the Matrix, but a simulation of reality, the hyperreality, based off the work of Baudrillard, the inspiration for the Matrix movie. How we know, value, and act now is ever more dependent on technology, and now distinguishing between our reality and a simulated version of such is becoming impossible. Do we take the red pill or blue pill? Is there even a choice anymore? If there was, is the blue pill so bad?