Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Blog 4
When the possibility of a matrix is raised, a question immediately follows. How do I know that I am not in a matrix? After all, there could be a brain in a vat structured exactly like my brain, hooked up to a matrix, with experiences indistinguishable from those I am having now. From the inside, there is no way to tell for sure that I am not in the situation of the brain in a vat. So it seems that there is no way to know for sure that I am not in a matrix.
I think this view is not quite right. I think that even if I am in a matrix, my world is perfectly real. A brain in a vat is not massively deluded (at least if it has always been in the vat). Neo does not have massively false beliefs about the external world. Instead, envatted beings have largely correct beliefs about their world.
What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.") If this is right, then the world perceived by envatted beings is perfectly real: they have all the right appearances, and appearance is reality. So on this view; even envatted beings have true beliefs about the world.
Where physics is concerned with the microscopic processes that underlie macroscopic reality, metaphysics is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality. A metaphysical hypothesis might make a claim about the reality that underlies physics itself.
The Metaphysical Hypothesis here tells us about the processes underlying our ordinary reality, but it does not entail that this reality does not exist. We still have bodies, and there are still chairs and tables: it's just that their fundamental nature is a bit different from what we may have thought. Metaphysical Hypothesis tells us about the processes underlying chairs. They do not entail that there are no chairs. Rather, they tell us what chairs are really like.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
BLOG 3: The Matrix and Philosophy
What is reality? What is real? I think of reality the state of things as they actually exist. In the film Matrix it describes a future in which reality taken by humans is actually the Matrix. A simulated reality created by conscious machines in order to calm and express the feelings the human population while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an source. In the movie the matrix was dominating the real world but actually only real is the context of the perspective picture that was used. We often mistakenly suppose that the reality in which we live is the truest and highest reality there is. Or may be we are matrix living as a human with the help of the future technology.
The matrix possibility, remember, is the idea that “it’s possible that I am (or you are) in the matrix right now “. That issue that I want to consider now is to what extent something like the matrix possibility event makes sense. Right if the bat I want to make it clear that in worrying about whether the story of the matrix really present us with a coherent possibility, that which is real and valuable is that which is free from the interfering illusions of the matrix. What is real is that which provides the most vivid and pleasurable experience. When introducing Neo to the matrix, Morpheus asks Neo, “What is real? How do you defind real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is clear statement.
We know many things are real in this world. Human born is real any time, any day, any year, anywhere, any place human or any other who have life they going to die no one don’t know where who going to doe that’s real and reality we have to believe that’s we born, live and then one day die.
I' am not a cyborg.
by
murad hossain
