Blog 2:Allegory of the Cave & The Matrix Discussion

What we believe is the reality or fiction is not always our decision. It sometimes has to do with how we are brought up or taught. As soon as we are born we are instantly introduced to a community and a way of life. As we grow older we usually stay with the same ideas that we were brought up to believe or find out the truth about life as in The Allegory of the Cave or in The Matrix. Everyone in the matrix live in a world that they believe is real but Neo thought that he was living in the real world all his life until he was introduced to The Matrix. After his first experience in it he couldn’t distinguish if his whole life he was living in the real world or if the matrix was. This was then same thing that happened to Socrates when he finally was sent free after living in a cave and looking at shadow images his entire life. That was all he saw and all he knew about including the prisoners that were there with him. He always believed that the shadows that he saw were real and that that’s the way all things looked, that was the way that life was suppose to look and be. Now they have to decide if what they have always lived is true or their new experiences of living. They both look for answer Neo from the Oracle and Socrates from the priestess from the Apollo to things that they don’t understand but no one has a real answer to give them. Neo also feels this way because Morpheus believes that neo is the chosen one or the one that would free the humans from the mind prison that everyone lives in. He tells Neo that he had to try and free his mind. That the worst thing that can ever happened I that someone takes control of your mind. According to Plato, all we actually experience at the level of reality available through our five senses. For me this mean that we live things from our point of view, things that may be one way for us may not be the same for another. Proving again that we all have the choice to see our own reality.