Blog 16 ( Possiable, not Probable)

Do I agree with Nixon’s claim or position about us possible living in the Matrix. In the since of the movie? No. Now in the since of the definition the true definition of the Matrix which is “Something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.” Yes I agree. I feel that we are controlled by are machines even though we made them. To wake up I would say that a vast majority of people in the world uses some form of an alarm, whether it be an actually alarm clock, or phone, or ipod. As we are driving are cars, we stop because the stop light is red, we slow down because it turns yellow, and we go because it turns green. A few things I have to agree and disagree with are on page 33 to 34. He gives a small list of rules of thumb about interpreting one’s own experience that would have to be thrown out if neo accepts the Matrix story: He wrote: The noise that people’s shoes make as they walk is not a part of the sounds they use to communicate with you, so there is no point in trying to interpret those shoe sounds” I feel that’s not nessacierly true. The sounds your shoes would make are inadvertently communicating with you. For example; when neo, Trinity, and Morpheus are hiding from the agents in the bathroom the footsteps of the agents are inadvertently telling them when it is ok to move, and to be quite. The other quote he says is “When an object seems to be getting bigger it often means that it is actually coming closer to you and similarly with seeming to get smaller and going away from you” I feel that is common knowledge in a computer program or not. That’s like say up is down and down is up. I think it would have made more sense if he said North is South, and east is West. Now I did agree when he said “Thing exist even when you are not looking at them” That is true in so many ways. The one most famous of a example is “if a tree falls and no one is around to see it, does it still make a sound?”
The answer would be yes, because if you’re blind folded or your back is turned you would hear it, its heavy wood hitting the ground.