This is indeed a bold imagination, and it also stems from the question that we humans have been asking and unsolved since ancient times: who are we, where are we from, and where are we going? So many wise men in ancient and modern times have exhausted their minds and made different answers, but this question will always exist. As long as the human mind exists and the space for life exists, this question will inevitably be placed sharply in front of mankind. Faced with the space in which one is located, human imagination is bound to be bound to a certain extent. Only by surpassing this boundary and observing the world from the outside can we feel the truth of this world. From the perspective of space geometry, although entities in low-dimensional space can never understand the actual concept of high-dimensional space—because it cannot be “sense”, it is “knowable” at an abstract level.
Looking back, how can people in the virtual world know these truths in the movies? If there is no external force, it is of course impossible in theory. For example, a person can imagine that the world he lives in is a real world, or he can think that it is just a dream world, but in this world these two views cannot be falsified, just like Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he had become a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed of Zhuang Zhou in his dream. In the end, he couldn't be sure which situation was true. Since it is meaningless to discuss the authenticity of the world itself in a specific world, people cannot judge the absolute authenticity of the world they are currently in. Only when people wake up from the dream world can they discover that what they think of as reality in that world is actually an illusion, and thus know a higher level of "reality."
The protagonist in the film, Neo, is also on this occasion. With the help of Morpheus's red pill, he wakes up from a dream in the virtual world and finds himself naked in a huge robotic workshop. In the life embryo incubator in, the whole body is filled with cannulas connected to the virtual world-it is these that have made him live in the fictional world for more than 20 years without knowing it, and looking around, In the magnificent life base, he turned out to be just one of thousands of unawakened souls. The terrifying manipulator kept looking around. The death of the soul had already been signed while the life was being created.
This reminds me of the concept of liberating the mind often mentioned by Western philosophers. In our ancient Chinese philosophy, we also lament the view that "the heart is at the mercy of the shape and spirit". In the eyes of subjective idealists, it is believed that the human mind The position should be supreme. I think and therefore I am. Without the existence of the soul, the existence of the body has no meaning. The greatness of the human soul lies in its freedom from shackles and the pursuit of independence and freedom when it awakens. In this regard, although people have adopted various methods since the beginning, the ultimate goal is not fundamentally different-you can defeat it. My body, but you cannot possess my soul.
At this moment of choice between life and death for human beings, whether to choose to fight soberly or let it go faintly, one can distinguish the nobility of the individual's soul. In Morpheus’s combat team, although everyone clearly knows the truth of the world, there are also traitors who are unwilling to continue fighting for it, but willing to return to the enslavement of the maternal body. The allure of the virtual world to people is Forever, what the traitor said to the computer man can be said to be very profound, "When I eat this steak, my mother will tell my taste nerves how delicious it is. I can enjoy the wonderful music around here. I can live happily in the virtual world..." Later, when he was completely betrayed, he said, "Choose between the real world given to me by Morpheus and the world given to me by my mother. I would rather choose the latter, because I I think the mother body is more real than this world..."
What is real? Morpheus asked when he brought Neo into the first lesson in the simulation training world, if you think that everything perceived by touch, sight, taste, and smell is real, then, wrong! These are probably just hallucinations produced by electronic signals acting on a certain area of your brain. These hallucinations can be so realistic that you can't distinguish the difference between the two through comparison. Then, how can you tell the truth? --impossible. Since it is impossible, the important thing is not to find the truth, but to know the truth. The truth is different for different worlds. When Neo returned to the maternal world to worship the prophetic wizard, the child waiting outside the door told him when he was teaching him the supernatural power of bending a spoon with his mind," Don’t try to bend the spoon with your hands. Learn to know the truth. The truth is that the spoon itself doesn’t exist."
Once Neo finally realized this and knew the truth, the computer man who had previously been invincible was in the eyes of Neo. It became a pile of program codes that were clear to the chest, and the bullets they fired together lost their power all at once. In the virtual world, everything does not exist. As long as you know the nature of the opponent, that is, the weakness, you don't need to be afraid of it. Victory, through the fight of the soul, finally came simple and straightforward. The system no longer makes all kinds of hard and fast rules, and the future world is full of all kinds of possibilities.
In a sense, this film is not only commercially successful, but also full of profound philosophical ideas. In addition to my above-mentioned thinking about the essence of human consciousness and the authenticity of the world, the virtual world depicted in the film also consciously or unconsciously reflects the real world we live in today. In order to establish a connection between the two, the film assumes that the real world has reached the 22nd century, while the virtual world reproduces the scene of human beings at the end of the 20th century. This also reflects the future of human science and technology, especially those related to artificial intelligence, Concerns about the development direction of scientific research, such as life cloning and asexual reproduction, are closely related to human beings. In addition, the essence of the maternal virtual world in the film is basically derived from the process of God’s creation of human beings described in the Western Bible. The first generation of maternal design is, above all, a world of joy without pain ( Corresponding to the Garden of Eden), but human beings cannot adapt and die in large numbers (corresponding to Paradise Lost), so the second-generation matrix is designed to represent human civilization at the end of the 20th century (in contrast to reality). The disk that Neo gave to others read "Hallelujah", and the starting point for his meeting with Morpheus was on Adam Street, all implying his identity as the savior. At the climax of the film, Neo was reawakened by love at the moment when his dying soul was wandering, and gained extraordinary power, which is also very similar to the legend of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion in the Bible. The church harmony effect used in the key background music of the whole film includes the fact that when Neo wakes up from the virtual world, he finds himself in the huge engineering of the mechanical workshop, and easily raises his hand to stop the flying in the final battle. The bullets make people feel sacred. The philosophical thought behind the film cannot be ignored.
In this sense, the title of the film "Matrix" can be said to be meaningful, the literal translation of "Matrix" in Chinese fits the original meaning, and the title of "The Matrix" is obviously to please the public. Factors have almost nothing to do with the content and ideological connotation of the film.
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