The Matrix: The Problem of the External World The film The Matrix addresses the philosophical problem of the external world in a manner that few have ever even remotely considered. Many people casually question what is real, and what are we actually seeing. However, few develop in depth theories...

The Big Question "It's the question, Neo. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did." "What is the Matrix?" What is reality? How do we know that what we are experiencing really is rea...

The Matrix In viewing the Matrix, a 1999 Warner Brothers/Village Roadshow Picture release, there are numerous references to philosophy portrayed in the movie. In analyzing the Matrix one will be able to see how Descartes' Meditations on Methodic doubt, his Evil Genius Hypothesis, and Plato&apos...

The scene displaying the choice of the red pill or the blue pill from The Matrix raises the question of what free will is and whether or not it exists. Is everything already pre-determined by "fate"? If there is such a thing as free will, is it something that we actually want? The most gen...