In this article Thomas E. Wartenberg discusses various themes that relate to The Matrix. He talks about Rene Descartes’ “Meditation” – where it talks about the differences between the mind and the body, and how they can be detached and work without corresponding to one another.(He makes references to the movie/story of Casper: The mind exists without the body, Casper the ghost doesn’t have a body.) He referenced Plato, saying that he believed that our souls could separate from our bodies. He states the existences of our god to be an Evil good, or evil genius. Contributing to the idea that our existence is just a set of games that god has put for us to fail. He argues how Philosophy can be transcribed and shown in movies, in this case the Matrix. There is a correlation between Neo’s body and his mind. When he takes the red pill, he goes into some sort of trance. Then he is awakened in a womb-like place, which Wartenberg argues is his mental realism of this new place called the Matrix. In order to go back and forth from the Matrix, he must sit down in a machine that is attached to the back of his head. This reinforces Descartes theory of the existence of the mind without the body. The Matrix is in the mind. Yet there is a relationship between the mind and the body in the Matrix. Physical damages caused in the Matrix are only reflected in the real world.
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