Re-recognize the "Matrix" trilogy + the fourth prophecy

The Matrix

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Re-recognize the "Matrix" trilogy + the fourth prophecy

The Matrix, a landmark work in the history of human science fiction, in China at the turn of the century in 1999, as long as the streets and alleys sell TV sets, there is The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers (the two co-directors and screenwriters, are now sisters) It has built a rich sci-fi background with a grand world view. The apocalyptic world, robots enslaving human beings, the matrix space with intubation behind the head, and various anti-physics settings that shoot Newton, bring the audience an imaginative and A philosophical story.

When the first movie was released, everyone basically felt like: Wow! For kids, it's just incomprehensible, but cool! It was not until I grew up looking back on this former classic that I realized that "it was like this", but there were a ton of questions: "Who won in the end? Is the war over? The protagonist just died like this? Why did the protagonist make this choice? What are some scenes and characters talking about?…”

That's because, we have never understood, this series of masterpieces in the history of science fiction...

【What exactly is the Matrix story about? 】

Let's briefly review the plot of the entire series (if you are familiar with it, you can skip it)

The protagonist Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) is an ordinary programmer. He has always felt that the world in which he lives is not quite right, but he can't tell it. Until one day, an old black told him that the world is fake and asked me to pay Get the truth out! ... The protagonist wakes up from a petri dish with tubes all over his body, and it turns out that this is the real world - the doomsday ruled by AI robots. The virtual world that the protagonist was in was originally an operating system used to make people fall asleep and control their minds - Matrix. Human beings who have been liberated continuously have established a holy city - Zion is fighting against machines. They are about to face the most severe attack in history, and the protagonist is actually the "Savior", who undertakes the mission of saving mankind. Afterwards, a group of people shuttled between the real and virtual worlds, tearing at various enemies in search of the "Salvation Dafa". Who knew that when the demise of mankind was imminent, the robot's operating system, Matrix, was actually infected with a virus! The protagonist volunteered and went to the machine fortress alone to negotiate with the machine king, the condition is - to help the robot kill virus! In the end, the protagonist entered the Matrix system again, and re-installed the system by sacrificing himself... The robot was comfortable and announced to retire. The two sides temporarily lived a happy and harmonious life, and the whole play ended.

There are generally several understandings of the plot, from shallow to deep:

• 1. Human VS Robot : It was a tie, and in the end, the sacrifice of the protagonist was exchanged for peace between the two sides, and no one was killed.
• 2. The real world vs the virtual world : Matrix, the operating system used by robots to enslave human minds, was infected with a virus (Smith virus), and the robot could not handle it. Humanity.
• 3. Only in the virtual world, the robot wins : It turns out that the robot is a scheming bitch, and everything is its layout. In order to upgrade its own operating system matrix, it has done everything to wake up the protagonist Neo, and then cause a virus, and then Let the protagonists fall in love with each other, and use the seeds of love and faith to help the robot complete the underlying revolution - operating system upgrade.
• 4. Philosophical worldview : There are a lot of philosophical dialogues in the movie. There is a documentary on the B station that analyzes the philosophical viewpoints in the movie.
• 5. Theological worldview : Wachowski once revealed that the plot revolves around "body, spirit, and soul". At first glance, isn't this a theological prophecy! Interpretation at this level is basically nonsense, using the logic of "Yi, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and even Hinduism" to impose on the storyline and become extremely illusory. Of course Wachowski does borrow a lot of Eastern mysticism to express the film's extra-empirical content, but that's just embellishment.

In 2019, Warner announced the restart of The Matrix, and the fourth film will be released in 2021. It exploded in an instant. Everyone is guessing the plot of the fourth film. According to the above logic, it is nothing more than that people will defeat and control the machine again... so It is a big mistake to understand that! Things are not that simple, the fourth part, it will not end like this (I will predict the fourth ending in the easter egg)...The first part of The Matrix was released in 1999, and a lot of foreshadowing was laid, and the second and third were released at the same time in 2003. , the trilogy is coherent, that is to say, the director has planned the entire series from the beginning, and what is the entire series talking about? Is it really a simple "human-machine war" movie? So why do you need so many unintelligible foreshadowings?

There are many excellent science fiction films for human beings, but the reason why The Matrix is ​​a masterpiece is because it directly reveals the essence of science fiction - "the whole process of human cognitive revolution", this is the whole plot . To understand the Matrix is ​​to understand the paradigm of the evolution of human thinking over the past 3,700 years. In fact, the answer lies in the title of the film:

• Part 1: Matrix, all human relationships and cognitive structures, collectively referred to as the matrix
• Part 2: Matrix Reloaded, the matrix is ​​reloaded, cognition begins to reshape
• Part 3: Matrix Revolution, Matrix Revolution, Subversion of World View

In fact, there is no so-called real world (machine doomsday), virtual world (Matrix), and holy city (Zion) in the whole article. All scenes are a part of "people", and the sum of the three is a complete " man" (or human being).

• The real world (the end of the machine): It represents the human body perception and the external objective world. Perception is the first mechanical process of receiving external stimuli, such as the five senses of eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, and body.
• Virtual world (Matrix): Represents spirit, that is, people's thinking and understanding, which is the logical processing of perceived things, such as knowledge, category, logic, judgment, rationality
• Zion: Representing the soul, it is called the last holy place of human beings in the movie, that is, people's love, faith, family affection, morality, art, passion

So the core of the film is:

In the process of continuous development of human civilization, with the emergence of new understanding of the world, unexplainable contradictions (such as heliocentric theory) began to appear between people's mind, soul and perception, and conflicts began to arise in both individuals and society. And people have reconciled the contradictions between perception, thought and soul through ideological and cognitive revolutions again and again, so that human beings stand on a new and stable stage... So far, there have been 5 times (Gaitian theory, geocentric theory, heliocentric theory, Newton's classical physics, Einstein's theory of relativity), and our protagonist is facing the sixth human, cognitive revolution...

【I. Preface to the plot】

Next, I will take you to re-understand the Matrix—the whole process of human cognitive revolution...

The basis of the plot starts from the book "Simulation and Simulation" (Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007) drawn by the protagonist Neo. The author Baudrillard is a French philosopher who proposed a The theory of simulacra, simply put, is that the modern world we live in operates in a state of "simulation" . We simulate objects in the real world as an imagination and treat them as real, such as computer code, Internet Digital Twins... This book was published in 1981, the same year that American philosopher Hilary Putnam put forward a famous hypothesis in his book "Reason, Truth and History" - the brain in a vat "If a person's brain is cut off and placed in a nutrient tank that maintains survival, the peripheral nerves of the brain are connected through a computer, and then all hallucinatory stimuli are given, the brain can still perceive objects, the sky, candy, itself...even feel yourself. Reading an interesting and absurd text". The thinking of these two philosophers is the source of the basis of the plot.

So how did this idea come about? Here I have to mention a person named Descartes (1596-1650), this strange person has a famous saying: I think, therefore I am. Since then, human beings will discuss and study thinking as an independent unit . You must know that, before this, all human beings' exploration of the world did not realize the "matrix" itself. For example, the ancient Greek Thales proposed that "water is the source of all things", and Pythagoras believed that "number is the source." ”, Heraclitus believes that the essence is “transformed order and language”, Laozi believes that “the universe is nothing, and there is nothing out of nothing”, these simple natural philosophies all point the research perspective to the understanding of external things. Until Plato put forward the "ideology theory", for example, the reason why a hammer is a hammer is not because of its appearance, but because people have an idea of ​​using a hammer. When there is no hammer at hand, Nokia mobile phones can also nail nails. Beginning with the theory of ideas, people gradually realized the particularity of thought itself, and then formally proposed in Descartes that thought is an independent unit, and finally this discussion completed the final roof here in Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the highest peak of German classicism . Kant believes that:

• 1. There is a bottom-level rule in human perception, which distorts objectively existing things into subjective perceptions that a person can accept. It exists before experience, which is called transcendental metric.
• 2. There may be an objective world, but we can never perceive it, because we have no objective perception channel
• 3. All the changes in the world view of mankind are just changes in the paradigm of thinking and cognition, thus forming a generalized logical connection (perception, spirit, soul coordination), rectifying contradictory information, and making it coexist harmoniously

Well, understanding the above is the basis for understanding movies.

The most important clip of the whole series explaining the background of the story. At the end of the second part, Neo enters the backstage of the Matrix world and meets the white-bearded programmer in a suit. He is the creator of the Matrix world, that is, the bottom builder of human thought. , claiming to be the creator . Here Neo learns that he still has 5 predecessors, that is, the previous 5 iterations of the worldview, and he is the 6th savior. Neo is here because the entire human system has unstable defects. Every once in a while, someone tries to break away from the Matrix to establish new ideas. Neo has a special code that, through his own awakening, integrates When you come to the Matrix world, you can update the entire human cognitive system and achieve a new balance. Now Neo faces two options

• A = Integrate into the Matrix , stop the robot, save the Zion soul world, and rebuild the human race
• B = Trinity, the goddess of salvation , all human beings are eliminated from the physical world because they cannot achieve a new balance in cognition

The previous five saviors have all made extremely rational choices (A to save mankind), so mankind has survived in a new balance. Guess what Neo will choose? Bullshit, of course this idiot chose B, this son of a bitch gave up all mankind and chose what no one has ever chosen before - love, why did he make this choice? What will this result in? Let's start from scratch...

[Second, we will understand with the plot]

Neo (meaning New, in reverse one, is The one savior) is a programmer of a computer company. At this time, he was still living completely blindly in the world of thoughts controlled by Matrix, and he was unaware of it. But Neo always feels that something is not right in this world, for example, he can hear the noise of cleaning windows outdoors (meaning the logic is starting to get out of sync).

Neo is also a hacker who specializes in finding the truth about the world on the dark web. One day, the dark web master Morpheus (the god of dreams in Greek mythology, meaning to guide the passers-by) and the goddess Trinity (the Christian Virgin, Son, and Father Trinity) found Neo. After a classic dialogue, Neo knew about it. Matrix is ​​a virtual operating system. In fact, the Matrix is ​​everything that the human mind can recognize, but the problem is that the person in it can never understand the whole picture, and you have to get out of it to truly understand the truth. So Morpheus gave Neo two pills:

• Red Pill: Reawaken into the real world
• Blue Pill: Forget everything and go back to the virtual world

Neo, who swallowed the red pill, recognized the "real world" (the physical world perceived by the body) - the doomsday world ruled by AI robots. After knowing the truth, Neo, who returned to the Matrix thought world again, finally felt the liberation of his mind, because here There is no immutable "objective", everything is just one's own subjective thinking paradigm. For example, in this scene, in the Matrix world, a child bends the spoon with his mind, because here the spoon does not exist in a physical way, but only an idea. However, Neo has not yet fully awakened. In other words, although he has broadened his horizons and knows that boundaries can be broken, he has not yet established his own logical base.

Until Morpheus was caught trying to save Neo, Neo finally understood Morpheus' belief, insisted on rescuing Morpheus, and embarked on the road of awakening. At this time, Morpheus was tortured by the Matrix's special agent program Smith. Smith is a low-level program used to maintain the stability of the Matrix and eliminate abnormalities, so he can transform into any individual of the Matrix at any time. In the dialogue between Smith and Morpheus, the first foreshadowing of the plot was laid. It turns out that the Matrix world has gone through many versions. In the first version, robots built this virtual world in a heavenly way, but very Failure, mass human death, and finally escalating into this flawed version of the current one—full of misery, and only in misery does man seek to exist and create. In fact, Smith is the stipulation of the thought mentioned above - the transcendental metric, in order to achieve the revolution of the whole thinking (Matrix), we must defeat him. Feeling his potential, Neo decides to face off against the invincible Smith...

The result can be imagined, the protagonist Neo died in battle... The end of the play, err, there is a problem with this opening method, don't worry, the real awakening is coming...

Trinity's "love" kiss instantly activated Neo. After resurrecting, Neo was completely liberated from the shackles of the Matrix. His eyes were no longer specific "objects", but the laws behind all things. Has the ability to reorganize the Matrix (thinking), such as picking up bullets with bare hands, pretending to be a superman in the air... instantly smashes Smith into pieces. It was at this time that the seed of "love" was buried in Neo's first awakening...

In fact, the first part is relatively simple:

The plot only describes Neo's liberation from the Matrix world, recognizing "truth" and "falsehood", and reshaping his abilities in the Matrix. The implication of the first part is: people live in a bunch of vague, changing, and false appearances. Beneath these appearances is the truth of the world, which regulates the changes of appearances. To realize this truth, one must. Breaking out of the current ideological environment, switching to another perspective of rebirth, to interrogate the understanding that we are accustomed to, what we call the world is just a subjective thinking mode, and reshaping our own thoughts is the premise of reshaping the world...

But can Neo truly know what he is and why he exists? let's continue……

[3. Reload cognition begins to reshape]

At the beginning of the second part, Neo and his party left the Matrix virtual world and came to Zion, the last holy city of mankind, in the real world (machine world). In fact, Zion here is the "soul" state of human beings, a "life-emotional power" that cannot be thoroughly recognized and structured by the mind. The director took us to sink our horizons. At first we saw the technological civilization of human beings, and below is the network of human survival. As the elevator opened, a group of people who believed in the savior came forward to seek the blessing of Neo, followed by family affection. When everyone knew that the robot was about to fully attack Zion, everyone bloomed with their limbs in the center of the earth, and used dance and music to evoke a primitive force - the spirit of the community! This spirit turns goals into meanings and ideas into wills, and the will can guide the mind. Finally, the sex of the hero and heroine makes the soul and body become one.

So! In the cognitive revolution, why is there Zion?

Let's continue with "Plato", when Plato proposed the theory of ideas, that the essence of all things is an idea, such as science, mathematics, politics, law, economy...Those ideas hidden behind the appearance of all things are the origin of the world, and the perceptual Erotic love and paintings that imitate appearances were completely expelled from the Utopia. At the same time, Descartes and Kant proved that our so-called world is just a model constructed based on subjective cognition. "Absolute Spirit" diamond, so the West has developed the concept to the extreme - rationality first! Europeans believe that reason is the essence of human beings, and from then on, a gap has been drawn between the natural world and the perceptual nature, and they believe that reason is the destination of all development and the destination of history. Its advantage is that the awakening of human reason allows Europeans to discover the value of each individual thought, thus successfully resisting the oppression of medieval Christianity, and people begin to redefine God. The downside is that, in the age of science, with the revolutions of Britain and France, Europeans have experienced a century of turmoil, especially after the First and Second World Wars, Europe has completely entered nihility and confusion. Europeans found that they could no longer rely on the "God of religion" killed by reason, nor could they expect the "God of reason" to bring happiness to life. Nietzsche called out "God is dead", and human beings began to re-understand: this unique What cannot be understood, structured, bound by reason - the value of love and soul .

This is why the Zion soul world is separated from the Matrix thought world and is the last holy place for human beings. And people who enter the Matrix world of thought are always dressed in black suits and sunglasses - cold rationality.

After understanding this background, we enter the turning point of the whole series, and it is also the climactic dialogue that I think really understands the film - the dialogue between the Senate and Neo in the Zion underground:

General meaning: "Humans only pay attention to the underlying laws that drive the world when they encounter difficulties and problems. These laws make us live and make us die. You can never know how all the laws work, but you need to understand. The reason that drives it, beforeit's too late..." At this point, Neo doesn't know what he's doing, maybe it's just to fight against robots and liberate humans, and having the ability in the Matrix doesn't make any sense to him. At the same time, the audience does not know what they are watching, it may just be a man-machine battle. The senator was the first to reveal the reason why the protagonist appeared here, the "reason" mentioned here, as follows:

• 1. Neo, as the light of thought in the Matrix, needs to know what the will that drives him to fight is (spoiler is love)
• 2. The audience needs to know that in the whole film, Neo exists because of the contradictions, dilemmas and problems generated by human perception and thought and the human social system. A new harmony needs to be achieved through the awakening of Neo as a unit of thought. There is no opposition of robot (perception), Matrix (thought), Zion (soul), they are the three parts of human beings, which ultimately need to be harmonious and unified.
• 3. Neo needs to know why he exists. The choice he made at the end of the series was exactly what he understood in point 2 above.

Next, let's see how Neo looks for it, Reason...

So, Neo entered the Matrix world, looking for the black old woman prophet oracle (ancient Greek oracle, meaning priestess), seeking answers. The Prophet has appeared since the first part and has been guiding Neo. She is protected by a master-Seraph (the highest-ranking Seraphim in Christianity). Seraph passed the administrator key and took Neo to enter for the first time. In the background of the Matrix system, the Prophet was found, resulting in a series of incomprehensible dialogues, and it was also the place where everyone had a disagreement in the interpretation of the Matrix: "The Prophet has the ability to see the future and guide Neo in the direction of salvation, but! She is also a part of the Matrix system. Programs are part of robots controlling humans, so the question is, why does she help Neo? Does she really help humans? Can you trust her?" Seeing this, audiences who didn't understand what the movie was about began to appear. The robot conspiracy theory believes that everything is arranged by robots, and the awakening of Neo is only for the upgrade of the Matrix system, and in the end, it is thought that the machine will win.

Let me tell you that a prophet is our emotional life modality, and the creator mentioned above is a rational thinking paradigm. Both are the underlying programmers of the Matrix system, that is, the underlying laws of human understanding of the world, co-creating and Drive the world! The Prophet told Neo that what matters is not choice, but understanding choice, which is the same as what the Senator said, understanding what drives Neo (love). At the same time, the Prophet gave Neo a guide, telling him to find a Frenchman at a "specific time" - Merovingian (the first Frankish dynasty), the specific time here is very important, many viewers miss this detail, I will be late can speak. But soon, the Prophet was in a hurry to leave, because, she clearly knew that a threat she had prepared was approaching - the first Smith who was killed by Neo...

Agent Smith in the first episode was actually resurrected, and copied himself aggressively, infecting the entire Matrix system and becoming a "virus". When Smith appeared, he repeatedly said, "Everything has a cause and there must be an effect, and there is an effect without a cause." Smith couldn't understand the meaning of his still existence, but he believed that there must be a reason. The metaphor here is, in fact, in the process of human cognitive revolution, the Smith virus is the transcendental stipulation of human thinking. Every time a new idea (Neo) appears, this stipulation must be recognized and challenged. boundary. However, this means that the entire system is no longer stable, and this prescriptiveness will try to destroy new ideas in order to return to equilibrium. Then why is it said that this was arranged by the prophet? Because Neo, who represents new ideas, must be in harmony with the knowledge of Metric Smith! In order to form a new system stability! This creates the choice of the ending, which will not be expanded here, we will continue to say...

Speaking of Neo, following the guidance given by the prophet, Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity went to find the ancient program - the French plum and chicken gizzards.

The plum meat pot chicken gizzard mastered an important role - the key maker Keymaker, he has the only key that can enter the bottom layer of the Matrix, leading to the creator's room. There is a lot of information revealed in the dialogue here. From the words of Mei Rou potted chicken gizzard and his wife, we learned that Mei Rou was actually the same as Neo when he was young. At the same time, Neo was not the first savior to challenge him. There were several others before. a senior. This is actually very simple. Let me explain that the plum meat pot and chicken gizzard is an ancient program of the Matrix system, which is the ancient and primitive thinking model of human beings. Every cognitive revolution will eliminate or marginalize the old thinking model. Meat is one of them. Of course, Meirou was also a savior. He represented the pre-theological era (to be precise, before medieval Christianity) people's speculation about the mysterious power of nature, so his men consisted of vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. At the same time, he is the mental model that is most closely bound to the underlying perceptual elements of human beings, so he is the most stubborn and stable, so he retains the key to the bottom.

After a fight, Neo and the others got the key and entered the system background, but at this time Trinity was dying in order to help Neo fight against the agents alone...

What followed was the conversation at the beginning of the full text, and the choices Neo faced

• A = Integrate into Matrix , rebuild the balance of robot (world of body perception), Matrix (world of spiritual thought), and Zion (world of soul), thereby building a new order
• B = Trinity, the goddess of salvation , all human beings are eliminated from the physical world because they cannot achieve a new balance in cognition

Neo chooses B, because it is the "love" of Trinity, the "love" of Zion, the "love" of the Prophet that keeps Neo constantly awakened, this is his Reason here! reason! —Love is both his cause, his drive, and his purpose.

Neo tried his best to find Trinity. He completely distorted the Matrix world and brought the dead Trinity back to the world. With a kiss, Neo was completely awakened! And this time, it means that he will use the awakening of his mind to completely transform the physical world and the external machine world.

Here comes a bridge that everyone can't understand - Neo destroys robots with his bare hands in the real world (robot world), just like his ability in the Matrix world. Therefore, some people will say that, in fact, the robot world is also virtual, and it is a part of the Matrix. This is of course not. After reading this, everyone should understand that the machine world is actually the world of physical practice that human beings perceive through their bodies before they enter the mind. A truly awakened person can use his new mental model to straighten reality! The plot of the second part started to be a bit esoteric, full of foreshadowing and philosophical dialogue, and most people could not understand it except for the action scenes.

I will briefly explain the meaning of the second part: once the human mind realizes the mind itself, that is, the mind begins to reshape itself, it will inevitably encounter several major problems:

1. As the bottom-level stipulation of human beings, it pulls and binds the trend of thought

2. The important question is not the form of the new idea, but what is the reason (purpose, motivation, destination) for it to really move forward in this specification? Is it pure reason? or something else? Knowing the reason is the essence of knowing "people"

3. The old thoughts must be against you, try to kill the new thoughts, in order to return to the previous stability

4. When you truly awaken and gain the power of new ideas, you will transform reality!

At this time, the army of machines is preparing to attack the holy land of human souls - Zion, let's see what Neo will do...

[IV. Revolution Cognitive Revolution]

Remember when the Prophet told Neo to go to the Frenchman at a "specified time" for chicken gizzards? Let's see why

At the beginning of the third part, Neo was tired from tearing the robot and fainted in the machine world. After waking up, he crossed to an unfamiliar station - Mobile AVE (Welcome Avenue), which is the passage connecting the machine world and the Matrix world. That is, the channel connecting external perception and thought, the " perception channel " of human beings. Let me briefly explain: the elements of the external world, such as material properties such as light waves and vibrations, are perceived by the human body and transformed into colors, sounds, and smells. Likes, happiness, sadness, morality, value... Therefore, this channel is most closely connected with our basic sensibility, so it is governed by the ancient perceptual thinking model - plum meat pot chicken gizzard. The little girl Sati (the sacrificer) in the film is a program of "love" and an "accident" in the Matrix world. Her parents (also the program) sacrificed themselves to plead with the plum meat. Save daughter Sati. When the Prophet directed Neo to find Meirou, he met them at a "specific time". Let's go back to philosophy, Kant has proved that we have no objective channel to know the external object world, all our "perceptual channels" have subjective stipulations! The meaning, purpose, and driving force of "channel" determine how we view the world from the bottom up! The protagonists Neo and Sati appear here, and they are changing the "perceptual stipulation" of the Matrix. Since then, the world of thought has an additional goal - "love"

The real orgasm starts below!

After Neo was rescued from the channel by his teammates, he found the Prophet for guidance. Here are a few foreshadowings that are very important!

• 1. The Prophet has revealed a whole series of themes here : everything has a start has an end. Since the birth of human beings, there has been a continuous cognitive revolution. Although we are constantly awakening, our underlying stipulations as human beings (the limitations of our understanding of the world) , leading to rapid destruction of ourselves and the world. The "source" of the world creates all things, and Neo's power as a savior also comes from it. To save the world, he must return to the source to realize the true direction (death is rebirth).
• 2. Before Neo was rescued, in the "perception channel", he closed his eyes and sensed that the machine world pipeline was leading into the distance. After leaving the station and talking to the prophet, Neo had gradually discovered that the so-called "real world" and "virtual world" were. A whole, together constitute the destiny of mankind.
• 3. Smith's identity is explained here (I have explained Smith before), it is when human beings have new ideas and cause old cognitive imbalances, they will attack new ideas with all their strength and seek stable thinking rules. The greater the power of thought, the greater the power of smith penetration. He and Neo are a pair of yin and yang
• 4. We learned in the dialogue that the plum meat killed the prophet, hoping to get the eyes of the prophet, but failed, because it must be offered voluntarily by the prophet. This is easy to understand. Meirou, as a marginalized mental model, hopes to see the future direction through the eyes of the prophet and regain the power to control the world.
• 5. Smith found the Prophet and successfully assimilated the Prophet through copying. Of course, all of this was intentional by the Prophet, so Smith accidentally obtained the "Eye of the Prophet" . He took off his sunglasses and laughed because he thought he saw the future!

Neo began to understand the whole meaning - a new balance of body, spirit, soul, he thought for a long time, decided to go to the machine world

At this time, the army of machines attacked the holy city Zion with all their strength. Neo and Trinity drove a spaceship to the city of machines that no one had ever reached. There is a scene here, Smith actually penetrated from the Matrix and entered the body of a crew member in the "real world". Seeing this, it is difficult for many viewers to understand. In fact, what is being expressed here is that Smith’s thinking stipulation is infecting body perception. In the fight between Neo and him, he accidentally burned his eyes, which was a great scene! The implication here is that when people really wake up and realize the origin of the world, they no longer know the world through perception and appearance, but through spiritual thoughts and souls. For example, the theory of relativity and Buddhism cannot be understood in the world of representation.

On the other side of the camera, Zion is defending human civilization to the death... Although this scene does not affect the plot, I still put it in. In the face of great disasters, the greatness of the human soul makes us immortal.

Next, we welcome! final result

Neo and Trinity have arrived in the city of machines. At this time, Neo has awakened and has the ability to transform the "real world" (machine world). In Neo's eyes, this is no longer a cold machine, but a "life" integrated with mind and soul. energy", he resists attacks from the machine world (basic perception stipulation) with his bare hands.

Trinity started to get nervous as the attack was too violent...

Neo told her, go up, fly to the sky! The best scene in the entire series! They penetrated the dark clouds, and what shone down from their backs was the majestic sunlight. It was the first time Trinity saw such a scene, How beautiful! After only 2 seconds, the spaceship fell inertialy, and Trinity no longer had anxiety in her eyes. No matter what she was going to face, she already had a firmness in her heart! This scene is called - truth! Beyond the clouds here, is the world that people pray to approach but never perceive! Through the awakening of the mind, the power of the soul, and the breakthrough of the rhythm of the body, Neo and Trinity have truly touched the "origin" in the prophet's mouth. Although they don't know what it is, they are absolutely beautiful. At this point, they are completely awakened! Trinity's death during the forced landing makes Neo have no turning back, and there is only one thing left, waiting for Neo to complete - return to the "Original Source"! Integrate the three worlds (perceptual world + thought world + soul world) with love and beauty to achieve a new harmony and unity of man (human beings)...

[V. Living to Death: Returning to the Origin, a New Balance]

Standing in front of the King of Machines, a giant sensory cell, Neo promises to defeat Smith, who has infected the entire Matrix world, thus bringing the world into a new balance. Facing the mighty Smith Machine King questioningly asking him "What if you fail?", "I will not fail" Neo has a firmness in his heart, because he understands that the way to truly defeat Smith cannot fail...

Smith's determination to kill

This is an incredible fight! Smtih, as a prescribed character law of human cognition, can only realize the most basic law of the meaning of life - death , and he will never be able to understand the meaning of life in Neo's heart at this time - love.

Neo finally fell down!

Through the mouth of the winner Smith, the director shouted out the theme of the whole article:

"Human! Why, why are you so stubborn!

suffering and suffering,

You still choose to stand up again.

Apart from surviving,

Can you find other meanings?

freedom, truth, peace, love

Do you really understand?

How do you know!

Are they not the phantoms in your mind? A trick to deceive yourself? cover up meaningless

exist! "

I don't know, but I choose, love! - Neo

At this time, a turning point appeared. Since Smith assimilated the prophet, he obtained the ability of the "eye of the prophet". In fact, Smith didn't know that everything was the prophet (perceptual life emotion) that led him to this step. Smith didn't believe all of this and forcibly assimilated Neo. At this time, Neo was ready for everything that followed. The only way to defeat Smith was sacrifice.

Let me explain: Neo as the awakened will, he needs to do two things, the first is to understand the nature and purpose of the driving world, so that he can know the direction of the awakened will, of course, for human beings, it is "love". The second thing, with this understanding, can we return to the "source of the world" and return to the common essence of everyone, so that everyone can be affected from the bottom. And Smith, as everyone's bottom-level cognitive rhythm, has "infected" everyone, so Neo must assimilate with it and enter Smith, which is to bring the essence into everyone.

After being assimilated by Smith, it can be said that after assimilating Smith, Neo disappeared, but he was everywhere! It became a super body, opened up all three worlds from the bottom "source", and completed the sixth "cognitive revolution"!

Then the Matrix (human thought) restarted and entered a new era of worldview. After mortal suffering, conflict and struggle, whether it is the individual's own perception, thought, soul, or the cognition, network, and system of the entire human being, enter a new era. Temporarily stable state . Just like the last dialogue between the "creator" and the "prophet", change is always dangerous, and I hope this "peace" can be maintained as long as we can...

After waking up, Sati (love) came to the Prophet and asked, "Can we see Neo again?" "Yes, I don't know, but I believe, believe that one day..."

Of course, human beings will continue to experience suffering and face even greater challenges. We will still fall into contradictions, conflicts and confusion. But on the day of our turbulence, we believe that the driving force (love) derived from the essence of human beings will awaken again, leading us to the "source" of the world, and we will see it again - Neo!

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[6. What is thought? 】

Matrix (thought) is the core of the Matrix. All human behaviors are nothing more than recognizing the world and transforming the world. How to recognize the world (worldview) in which they live determines their behavioral trends and understand the nature, purpose, motivation, method, and result of the world. These are all done by our minds.

We continue with the philosophers mentioned above. Since Kant (1724-1804), human beings have been clear: people only have the way of perceiving the world as a human being, so it is impossible to be like "God", omniscient, omnipotent, and objective existence. The so-called knowledge of the world is determined by three innate modes: pure intuition (innate determination of the way of perception), logic+category (innate determination by thinking to process perceived objects into units), pure rationality (logical investigation) ultimate a priori provision).

For nearly 2,500 years, Western civilization has adhered to the concept of the supremacy of reason, separated man and nature, and developed everything in modern civilization, including the strife since modern times, until Marx wrote in his "Das Kapital" (Critique of Political Economy). , which proves that the superstructure of human rationality (economy, politics, law, science) is not a purely isolated idea, and the basis for their occurrence is sensibility! From then on, rationality is no longer a unique ability that separates humans from the natural world. It was once regarded as an animal-like ability—sensibility, and has stepped onto the stage of the origin of the world.

Then Husserl in his "phenomenology", put forward "back to the thing itself!". Human rationality once believed that the world is a collection of concepts, and objects are just presentations. For example, a goblet is the presentation of the concept of a wine glass in a specific scene. Therefore, the important thing is the idea, not the phenomenon, but this ignores the premise of shaping the idea of ​​the wine glass-the most basic perceptual life experience of people is the stimulation of the taste buds of drinking, the sound of the collision of the utensils, and the joy of drinking with friends. It's the uncontrollable passion to raise a glass and sing... They're all in the matter itself, not in cold logic.

Husserl's student Heidegger, the last great philosopher so far, proposed in his "Being and Time" that all people have not made any choices in advance, and are thrown into this world, which may be fortunate or unfortunate, People have different wills, choices, and situations. The only thing that we are free and equal is that we all "exist". Everyone's existence is not at a certain node in the past or future, but at the moment, the happiness of the moment, Sadness, contentment, jealousy, self-confidence, and fear are you, and you are this "survival field"... It is human sensibility that enlightens the mind in the anxiety of "loss of existence" and the satisfaction of "survival".

What is the essence of thought? Is it the idea of ​​man independent of nature? Is the construction of abstract concepts? Is it the logic of reorganizing knowledge? Is it the judgment of summarizing information? Is it maverick resentment? Or a different perception from others?

neither

The essence of thought, its starting point and all its destination, is "thank you for being"!

May you exist with love, gratitude, and not be afraid of nothingness. This is the plot trend of The Matrix trilogy - the entire discussion of human philosophical civilization up to now.

Do you think science fiction is about the imagination of the future? In fact, it is a reflection of historical thought.

[7. Easter eggs + prophecy]

Easter egg 1: The prophet loves to eat candy, which indicates the emotional elements of the prophet

Easter egg 2: The war is imminent. When the Zion Council proposed 2 spaceships to help Neo, the commander (Locke) vigorously stopped it, but Naobi, the captain of Logos, insisted on going. Locke is a British empiricist philosopher, he It is believed that human perception is nothing but a "whiteboard" that directly receives external information, and there is no special, so it does not believe in the so-called unique beliefs of human beings. Logos is the ancient Greek word for logic, the predecessor of reason, and here is a contrast.

Easter egg 3: Neo’s third part appears in a white station with infinite space and time. The administrator wears a lot of watches in ragged clothes. This means that the so-called time and space are only human subjective perception. Our most primitive perception channel has been stipulated. We perceive the combination of foreign objects.

Easter egg 4: Who else is the savior? The film revealed that there were five saviors before, and there were actually two more who appeared in the film. The first is, of course, the stewed chicken gizzard with plum meat, which represents the concept of Gaitian cosmology and the worship of natural mysticism. The second one is actually Seraf (angel), he also expressed in the third part that he had defeated Smith, and he represented the theological age concept of geocentric theory

Easter Egg 5: The opening screen of the series trilogy is different. The first one just uses numbers to express ideological logic, the second title is converted from numbers to brain nerve units, and the third one extends body perception and society.

Easter egg 6: In the machine world, the Chinese version of the translation of the robot soldier is squid, but the original text is sentinel, which means "sentry". Sentinel (sentinel) and sentiment (feeling, emotion) are the same root word, which means the perceiver, that is, the basic perception ability of human beings.

Easter egg 7: At the same time, robots in the machine world are all insects and low-level animals, because only vertebrates have intelligence (cognition, learning, judgment, memory), people have reason (reflection), and low-level animals and insects only have basic The perceptual perception ability, which means the basic perception part of people.

The fourth prophecy: based on the above logic, and reflection on contemporary Western thought

Logically speaking, in the fourth part, neo and trinity should appear as the old version of the matrix program, just like Seraf and Plum Pot Chicken Gizzard, the protagonist should be replaced by a new savior.

But neo is still the protagonist, there must be a huge problem in the overall system (machine world + matrix world + zion world), which makes it impossible to produce a savior to create a new balance.

Therefore, in order to ensure the development of the overall human cognitive system (perception + thought + soul), it is necessary to give priority to the complete transformation of the matrix thought system.

Consequences that will not occur: Humans eliminate robots and are no longer attacked by machines.

The results that will appear: The Matrix world disappears, the original machine control system is integrated with Zion, that is, the Matrix system becomes a part of Zion, and the human soul is directly connected to the machine. People's love, emotion, will, and belief are combined with the matrix to form a brand-new cognitive system. Through machines, they can reach a brand-new world outside the first trilogy of The Matrix.

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