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... Morpheus continues, “We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical… As children we do not separate the possible from the impossible… do you want to know what [the Matrix] is, Neo? The Matrix is everywhere; it’s all around us… It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth… You are a slave, Neo… kept inside a prison… for your mind… Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. ... In The Matrix, the protagonist, Neo, must see for himself the true world around him. ... Descartes said it best when he described his what as simply being “a thinking thing.”
Born in 1596AD, René Descartes later hailed the “father of modern Western philosophy. ...
Through his method of systematic doubt, he had an enormous impact on the subsequent development of Western philosophy. ... Much like Neo, in the Matrix, Descartes proposed that the world around him was fictitious. ... René Descartes’ division of mind and body has left ripples still felt in the field of philosophy today. ... Like Descartes, I believe in a dualism of mind and body. ...
Secondly, my attempt to grasp what the who and what is of the self takes me to a level above that of Descartes’. ... The “father of modern Western philosophy” went deeper theorizing that the who of a what is (or at least could be) completely fictitious. ... Descartes would argue that there is in fact no way to prove that anything beyond a “thinking thing” is real.
Descartes’ argument is very persuasive, and it is difficult to argue that his interpretation of selfhood is not possible. ... Let Descartes be a paranoid little man, and let him ponder all of his ‘what ifs.
Approximate Word count = 1698
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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