Blog # 3

What is real? How do we know what is real and what is fake. We know if we touch,smell,see,feel or hear something then it must be real. In the movie The Matrix (and on page 50 of the reading) Morphues disagrees, he states "What is real? How do we define real? If your 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". But this strikes the question if real is in fact electrical signals interpreted by your brain then does it matter where these signals are coming from , does it matter if it is coming from inside the matrix or not. If the five senses truly indicate what is real and what is fake then no matter where you are it must be real.

Its three a.m in the morning, after a long night out you arrive home and head straight to your bed where you immediately fall asleep. You enter a new world, not the matrix not "reality" but you enter the world of dreams. (In the reading on page 41) it states that " From 1981 to 1990 120 mysterious deaths occurred in Atlanta where healthy adult men were dieing in there sleep." This sparked up the question, can dreams kill people? A dream is illusions caused by brain stimuli. (on page 42 of the reading) The matrix has the same definition. While you are sleeping you do not have your five senses to your disposal, the only thing that is triggering your thoughts is your brain,so in reality the only thing controlling your brain is your brain itself, just like when you are in the matrix your brain is what controles you, but is your brain powerful enough to controle your five senses while you are fast asleep.(In the movie) Neo sees himself in the matrix as he wants to see himself, his hair is different and all the plugs in his arms magically disappear, so his new appearance is a illusion to his reality, but what is actually the illusion? Have you ever had a dream you were falling off a cliff or down a flight of stairs and when you wake up you are on the floor because you fell off your bed? Did you ever realize you always wake up before you fall to the bottom of the cliff? You wake up and you are on the floor, your brain realizes that you have awoken from a dream and instead of falling to the bottom of the cliff you have in fact only fell three feet off of your bed. When you wake up you feel the effects, your heart rate has risen intensely and the arm you fell on is battered and bruised. What if you didn't wake up from that dream? Do you think you would in fact feel the effects of actually falling off a cliff, would you fall to your death? Your five senses are working because you feel the affects of falling off the bed, if your five senses equal reality then you falling off the cliff is in fact 100% real.

In conclusion no matter where you are, it is all reality. Whether you are in the matrix, in reality or dreaming the fact of the matter is your brain is what controles all three of these realms. What you believe is real in that moment and time is in fact reality. Even if you wake up on the floor, two seconds earlier your brain had your body convinced that your were in fact falling off a enormous cliff and your hart rate is what proves this theory. Your brain is what controles your body, your body is just following the commands it has been programed to follow from your brain since birth. What is real? Real is whatever your brain allows you to believe is real.