Blog 3

Reality in the matrix is the most important thing to know and feel in the matrix. reality is the key to all unanswer questions. The two readings I am going to compare are relief form the matrix: Arguing against skepticism and judging reality. In the first reading where philospher where discussing the question of knowlegde and reality from the matrix , descartes, unger, putnam and descartes. Descartes describe knowledge of absolute certainty and we ca not use sensation to justify our claims to knowledge. In other words, most of things we know are base on everyday experience. In order to know things and understand them we would have to have experience it to know what exactly it is and Descartes argue that experiencing reality in life does not justified that it is indeed true. we just know because of facts. I am not sure what he was geeting at but... I don't know it just confusing. An example that gave was that we can only distinguish dreaming form non dreaming because we are aware of both types and we can tell the differences. In the martrix Neo was not able to distinguish the difference in reality he was confused because he had never experience the matrix and that was something that he had learned.
In the reading on judging reality Neo was unaware of the matrix and weather to think of it as real or not. what is real is what you believe in and what give you a vivid and pleasurable experience. our senses taste, touch, hear, smell, see are very important in distinguishing the reality off life in the matrix. All of their sense were very important because if you did not use them or know to use them in the matrix you deny our human characteristics or something like that. So, understand what is real is understand through our senses and you are basically you have to experince to know what is real and what is not. The articles was a little hard to understand and kind of scary especially when they ask how do really know anything? which I am still trying to understand that because that is a good question. I define us knowing thing base on other peoples experince until Iexperience it myself. to know what exactly what is real or not real is know what is not real.