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In the movie The Matrix, the person in the leading role realizes that he has been living in an imaginary world in a glass
cover formed by the electrical signals given to his brain. While he believes that he is a computer programmer, he is
sleeping in the place shown above. What he believed to be his life consisted only of perceptions.
This is the Construct
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In the movie, computer cables are connected to the brain of the person in the leading role, and some programs are
loaded to his brain through the electric cables.
We can load anything from clothes, Right now, we're inside a
to weapons, to training simulations.
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After the computer program is loaded to his brain, this person who is actually sitting in a very different place on an old
chair in shabby clothes sees himself in a totally different place in totally different clothes. His unkempt clothes are
changed, his hair is longer. He has a totally different outlook from his image sitting in the simulator chair.
then all you're talking about are
This isn't real? If you're talking about your senses, electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
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This person does not want to admit the truth under the impression that what he sees is too close to reality to be a
dream, and touches the armchair and asks "This isn't real?" The answer he receives is "What is real? How do you define
real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical
signals interpreted by your brain."