Do we really exist or are we in the matrix? Well, there’s really
no way to find out ( at least that is what i think) But if we are
really in the matrix, will we choose to continue living in the
matrix or will we choose to live in the real world, which is
actually a really filthy and uncivilised place, unlike in the
matrix?
Allow me to attempt an objective view on the Matrix.
How do we know we are alive? My answer is
simply through our 5 sensory perceptions-see,smell, hear,
touch and taste. If we can sense all these in our daily
interaction, then indeed we are alive. If you cant, then you
are likely dead already.
(The question is about being alive and what's real or
virtual, and NOT about being intelligent or stupid, or
the different states of matter, organic or inorganic
developements, unquantifiably 'emotional
feeling' responses, etc)
To recreate such senses in the virtual world, in the past, the
closest was dreams. How do we know it had been a dream? Put your
sense analysis to the test, and somehow, if most
senses are not present, then it is not real, unless of course,
you are impaired without one of the senses - such as being
deaf, or blind, etc.
For the absolutely impaired, without all 5 senses, they are
still real in the physical world, but only to us, for our senses
will tell us they are real. But to the physically impaired, we may
not be real to them. Note the difference.
Under current tech, the closest to creating a replicate
world are the advance helmut systems which you put on. The sense of
sight, hearing, and to some extent-smell, can be created
within a lab environment. Touch and tasting is still virtually
impossible. For something such as the matrix, the computing power
to run it would be vast.
But probably in the future, it may be possible as chip
making has gone into biological experimentation currently, created
using cellular size properties nanotechnically and with their own
bio coolant systems.
So, today, are we perhaps living in a re-created advanced
sensory world called the matrix we know nothing about? Our senses
and current comprehension of science tells us - NO.
But I would presume a nagging suspicion persists - what about
known unknowns that the matrix may exist beyond our
comprehension?
All I know is that if i dont work, there will be no money to pay
bills, and i would starved to death. This is a reality, nothing
virtual, whereby no one had ever returned to tell us what
happens to us after we die.
So, my point is - dont crack your head. Death and taxes are a
reality today. Do something about it than to worry about
'unknowns'.
( I will not dwell on the 6th sense, as it is still not
scientifically proven that it exists.)
