Blog 3:"The Matrix and Philosophy"

In the book "The Matrix and Philosophy" by William Irwin, it states various perspectives about life. It talks about whether life is an illusion, Reality or not? In the first scene "Computers, Caves and Oracles: Neo and Socrates" talk about a world where people are slaves. They don't even know they are slaves due to the fact that, that is the only world they know. Like in the Matrix that's the only world that Neo know. Morpheus tells Neo he was "born into a prison of his mind" this means that it's up to Neo to realize that he’s the one who can control what is real or not. Neo took the road less traveled by and lead him to a world where no one was aware. He himself couldn't believe in it until he made the choice to, Neo was given the choice to walk away from it all in the beginning but he chose not to, he was the one who decided to take the red pill and see what the Matrix actually was. Most people choose to believe in things they don't even know, because people enforce them to believe in them, Morpheus says, "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 is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain", so through out this we see struggles between characters trying to define what is real or if its worth living, the only one with the "real" answer is you.