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The World Wide Web

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We’re able to get informations thanks to the internet, the wild network connecting millions of computers and other devices across the world. The English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, after 20 years the first connection was established over what is today as we known as the Internet. Although the internet has been around since the 1970, but it was the invention of the World Wide Web that really changed people’s life.

There is a early film which the scenario designed based on web, many previous case exist for the idea that the real world is an illusion, and the Matrixtrilogy is connected with specific references to philosophers who have interpreted this idea.

For example, The Greek philosopher …show more content…

In this film, it is suggested that people should be free before they reach a certain age because there are also some people who will never be able to accept the reality of the world.

The Matrix is another kind of reality that exists in itself. Despite its existence as a simulation, the actions people perform within the Matrix are perceived by the mind as real. Thus, if you are removed by the Matrix, you will die in the real world as well because the mind perceives what occurs within the Matrix as real.

The mind views that all things within the Matrix as real, and despite the fact that the characters have the ability to bend the laws of physics to perform superhuman feats because they know that the Matrix is a simulation, they cannot defy the mind’s perception of personal injury or death.

The Matrix also has connection with a philosophical question posed by French philosopher Rene Descartes. One of Descartes’s important idea was intellectual autonomy, or the ability to think for ourselves. He also indicates that we should not just having a “good mind”, but also “applying it well”.

Descartes realized that his sensory experiences did not always equal to the reality, he used the example of Wax to demonstrate how unreliable the senses are: our perceptiveness allow us to know that a piece of wax has a specific smell,shape and texture. But these informations we received will all change when the wax is got close to a flame.

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