This document discusses how the concepts of truth and belief would be viewed if we lived in a simulated reality like in the movie The Matrix. It argues that in such a simulation, our beliefs could be false without us realizing it, as the characters in the Matrix were living in a virtual world without their knowledge. However, truth would remain objective and universal, even if we were unaware of it. The document uses the plot of The Matrix to illustrate how gaining higher levels of perception and knowledge, like Neo does, allows one to learn the objective truth about their reality.
This document discusses how the concepts of truth and belief would be viewed if we lived in a simulated reality like in the movie The Matrix. It argues that in such a simulation, our beliefs could be false without us realizing it, as the characters in the Matrix were living in a virtual world without their knowledge. However, truth would remain objective and universal, even if we were unaware of it. The document uses the plot of The Matrix to illustrate how gaining higher levels of perception and knowledge, like Neo does, allows one to learn the objective truth about their reality.
This document discusses how the concepts of truth and belief would be viewed if we lived in a simulated reality like in the movie The Matrix. It argues that in such a simulation, our beliefs could be false without us realizing it, as the characters in the Matrix were living in a virtual world without their knowledge. However, truth would remain objective and universal, even if we were unaware of it. The document uses the plot of The Matrix to illustrate how gaining higher levels of perception and knowledge, like Neo does, allows one to learn the objective truth about their reality.
This document discusses how the concepts of truth and belief would be viewed if we lived in a simulated reality like in the movie The Matrix. It argues that in such a simulation, our beliefs could be false without us realizing it, as the characters in the Matrix were living in a virtual world without their knowledge. However, truth would remain objective and universal, even if we were unaware of it. The document uses the plot of The Matrix to illustrate how gaining higher levels of perception and knowledge, like Neo does, allows one to learn the objective truth about their reality.
and belief taking into account The Matrix. What would the nature/essence of these concepts be if we consider matrixes as a possibility? Answer: Epistemology, as we know theorizes on the platform when Truth and Belief harbor in the same house, i.e., Knowledge. The Matrix, a movie starring Keanu Reeves who portrayed the protagonist named Neo is take on the world every Human being is used as a power-cell and is imprisoned into a virtual reality where he/she are not aware the they are in a simulation. Let’s for a second assume that the human brain functions similarly in the matrix as it does in real life, would the definitions of Truth and Belief change? We can choose to believe either way because a belief can be opinionated and is not bound by any constraints like objectiveness. What we don’t know here is the truth. The truth is a term that defines itself and is completely universal. When Neo took the red pill and escaped the matrix, He learned the Truth about the Matrix and how every Human being was being deceived into living a Virtual reality without them ever knowing about it. Before Neo escaped the matrix, Morpheus did not tell him the complete truth or gave a justification of his beliefs. But, due to Neo’s urge on seeking more knowledge about the way he felt when he was in the Matrix lead him to the Truth eventually. If we were to ever gain this so called “Knowledge” while living in a matrix would that ever be actual “knowledge” (or objective knowledge per say) or it would just be a false belief. Many a times we believe in something that might not be true or is not justified at all, this is rather a simple definition of a false belief. A belief is also something we can be forced upon and eventually bend someone’s subjective truth in thinking its objective. This deception is exactly what happened to the subjects on the Matrix. Lets say, Imagine a World where you are programmed to be obey only one party of people that you never see and just hear to. They program you to just look at North and nowhere else. You just see 1 bright star at the night, i.e., The North Star and it makes you believe that it is the brightest star in the entire sky even if that’s not true because you only watch in one direction. Let’s say one of the people manage to escape this program and start to learn about the stars in different directions and find out more truth and eventually discover even more Brighter stars like Sirius A. The person who managed to escape learned that a Change in Perception can always alter one’s inner truth which turns out to be rather a False Belief because the actual truth turns out to be something else. The more we seek knowledge, the better the perceptions we start to experience which is something that’s completely objective. The same thing happened with Neo when he got out of the matrix, he had a rather drastic change in perception. Truth, as said earlier is completely eternal, objective and Universal and the higher the level of our perception is, the closer we are to the Universal truth. The Matrix shows us a world where achieving a higher level of perception while you are kept in a deceptive prison is something that is achieved by the Protagonist. Realistic? We leave that to our beliefs for now. A lot of times we have this alleged “gut-feeling” on what’s right and what’s wrong. If what is happening all around us is for the boons or the bane but we hold no justifications to it. Similarly, before meeting Morpheus, Neo would get these same feelings inside his Virtual Reality over and over. His curiosity is what led him to choose the path of knowledge and achieve a higher truth. If we were to ever live in such simulations our perceptions would be lowered but our sense of thinking on these concepts would remain rather the same it’s just that they would be complete false beliefs and we won’t be aware about them. The Epistemological definitions of truth and beliefs would remain rather different since our vision on life is lowered and constantly questioned if we think differently inside of it. As said before, Truth is Universal, Objective and completely just, belief is not constrained by the truth and neither constrains it. Both are completely different aspects when they both come together under the same roof, it becomes knowledge and its path always showcases a higher and an altered viewpoint. The Evolution of Technology is always progressive and there might be time that humans get to experience similar simulations for fun activities, in which everything seems realistic (to the brain, everything we experience taste and sense). In our current state of world, we are making better AI’s day by day and there might come a day that we may create a super intelligent AI which we might not be able to control ourselves. And it may encapsulate and use humans for its own purpose to progress itself forward. This is similar to the world of “The Matrix” and we can say it ourselves that its consequences are not good. If given a condition similar to “The Matrix”, in which a brain is heavily deluded despite not knowing about it. The truth will never change but the beliefs would always be false since they are beliefs that took birth in a simulation and not outside of it in which the brain was being completely deceived. In these conditions, it is almost impossible for the human brain to know about the “Truth” and hence it loses its essence in a subjective matter but not objective, the opposite goes for the part about Human Beliefs since beliefs can remain false and still feel subjectively correct. The only way for a regular human to actually attain the correct knowledge of “Truth” is to walk the path of seeking more knowledge and slowly but surely change his/her perception of their “realities”.