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The Five Senses In The Film The Matrix

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Our memories, experiences and senses could all be generated by Artificial Intelligence. We could be living in a simulated world where machines are controlling our thoughts and actions. Everything we know, the truth, could be a lie.
The film 'The Matrix ' suggests our reliability on our five senses could all just be an illusion as Morpheus told Neo“...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 'real ' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain...". The machines did this to keep people from thinking and questioning the world that they are living in. This makes the human being narrow minded in the Matrix.
If we compare a machines …show more content…

More than the 5 Senses
The human has five senses; however there is a possibility that the human could have many more senses. We could either not realize throughout our lives or something (e.g. machines, AI) could stop us from gaining this new knowledge.
In the Matrix, when Neo’s heart stops on the cardiac monitor Trinity goes and kisses Neo in the real world and Neo heart starts beating. This shows that the power of love (feelings/emotions) could be a sense. Love can go beyond the brain and all the senses, powerful enough to bring back a dead person to life. In the Buddhism religion they believe that there is a sixth sense, that is, the mind, thought or emotion called ‘Ṣaḍāyatana’. This belief would support the emotion of love that Trinity gave to Neo as a sixth sense, to bring him back to life.
The very first 'One ' that discovered the 'real world ' had a sixth sense (different from the 'love sense ') when it was brought into the Matrix. By using that sixth sense he was able to realise that the Matrix is simply an illusion. With that in mind, he was then able to outsmart the program and escape into the real world. The sixth sense could be the ability to see computer coding in everyday objects, as the Matrix is based on artificial …show more content…

One way is with our senses, which is ought to be inaccurate. Plato’s theory tells us that when the prisoners were observing the shadows their senses made them believe that the shadows were ‘real’. However, they were simply shadow of the actual object behind them. The other way is the truth, the bigger picture of what we saw in the shadows, the real objects. This theory shows us how our senses only play a small role when uncovering the truth and in some cases it could just be a complete lie like

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