What is the possibility of a real-world 'Matrix'?

I recently had alot of time on my hands, caught in a world between sleep and hallucination, on account of a very high fever, and various viruses corsing through my bloodstream...

I was floating, hovering upon a sea of white nothingness, and I was for some reason reminded of a movie I had seen a few nights ago: The Matrix: Revolutions.

I began to wonder about all of the matrix movies, all the way back to the original matrix, which first turned me on to the Idea that I may be living in naught but a dream world...

Is It possible that we've all had the wool pulled over our eyes?

Yes.

Think of the technology that the government keeps behind closed doors....and what could have happened without our knowledge....that thought scares me...

If the world was in fact destroyed overnight...which with modern weapons is WELL more than possible, none of us would know, truthfully. Then, if we all were bred for the sole purpose of being energy for something, we couldn't really know, could we?

I crave knowledge. Always have. If there's something going on like this on a subconscious level in my mind...what is there preventing it from actually happening? As Descartes once said, it is the prerequisite of imagination that something be possible.

This means that in Descartes' understanding of the mind, For us to imagine something happening, IE in our dreams, that it had to first appear as plausible to our minds. which means that our minds are unbound by the physical parameters of this world, a la The Matrix.

This is one of the key points that I feel backs me up in believing that we are in a world that is somehow less than real. If we can imagine things in our subconscious that we regard otherwise as impossible or implausible, or unable to be enacted with current pysical limitations, then it has to be possible in one way or another.

I say this simply because I hold alot of faith in two things overall....the human brain, and it's depth beyond what we actually know, and the philosophies of one Renee Descartes.

Let me know what you think...Free your mind.

If so, I so want another program.....

Nah...I'm happy with my current program, though I'd tweak my pay scale variable a bit.....and add a lotto winning logorithm....

Well i am surprisingly good at the Agent Smith voice.

Nah, it was just your medicine kicking in

I think it's very real, and a very scary possibility.

I have to believe that I've been decieved, and I'm not going to stop until I've figured this out...

i dont think we are in the matirx...but then again i can dodge bullets so who knows...

Well hate to say but if their was a real world matrix i'd rather take gun to my head and pull the trigger.

highly likely that we are in a matrix. but i dont think we are otherwise the NWO or whoever u believe in would of clearly stopped the film from being made and produced and put into the general publics eye.

Haven't there been murder cases, that took the matrix defense for the means of rationalizing the killings?

Originally posted by Loki
I think it's very real, and a very scary possibility.

I have to believe that I've been decieved, and I'm not going to stop until I've figured this out...

looks like you're intent on going thru this with a fine toothed comb...
i've always wanted to bend a spoon
seriously tho...
your benchmark is area51....they're capable of withstanding nuclear strikes, who knows....could be


[Edited on 10-11-2003 by Cyrus]

Why is this in the Board Questions forum?

I've noticed alot of board related threads that keep popping up in here. What's going on?

And do take note, that the name "Board Questions", means questions about the board, not quesiton that you many have that you want the board to answer.

It got moved, fear not..

I wish I would have thought about that before I put it on the Board questions forum, though. I haven't mis-posted like that since my first week here....

well if we are in a matrix i want out because at this point everyting is going down the plug hole for me at the moment
(ideal world) bahh

[Edited on 11-11-2003 by SE7EN]

I'm convinced now that the matrix has me. What other explination for the reign of GWB and his apparent 'HIGH' approval rating then the fact that we don't really have a choice?

Everything is possible, and what you suggested is highly possible, IMO. Didn't the buddhist philosophy believe in somthing similar, not the whole machine parts, but the fact the our eyes don't show us the real reality?

I might be mistaken, but I think I remember reading something like that. And since this philosophy is believed by millions of adepts, hey!, it just might be the truth.