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This Chicago exists only as part
This is the Chicago you know. You have been living inside Baulliaurd's
13 14 of a neural-interactive simulation. 15 vision, inside the map, not the territory.
Then they show him that the whole world has been created by a simulation program. This includes all the details he
has seen. Cars, the noise of the city, traffic, skyscrapers, ocean, people, basically everything he sees and experiences are
just animated in his brain with a computer program.

This is the Chicago as it The desert of the real.
16 exists today. 17 18
The person that shows him the facts also tells him that he has been living in a virtual life and he imagined everything
to be real. And yet the real world at that time is totally different. There is just a collapsed, destroyed world. All the nice
modern buildings and cars are just imaginations in his brain.

You believe the year is 1997 it is much closer to 2197 I can't say for certain what year it is
19 when in fact... 21 because we honestly do not know.
20
He learns that even the history he thought was real was a dream and that he actually lives in a totally different time.

I know when I put it in my
I know that this steak doesn't exist. mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain
22 23 24 that it is juicy and delicious.
Another scene from the movie The Matrix. The person in this scene knows that his whole life is shown to his brain by a
computer program. He mentions that the beef he is eating doesn't exist in reality but he still enjoys the taste of it.