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25 Years Later, We're All Trapped in 'The Matrix'
• https://www.wsj.com, By Meir SoloveichikIt is a cinematic scene familiar to millions: A man named Morpheus sits across from another man named Neo and informs him that his entire notion of reality is a lie. If Neo wishes to know the truth of human existence, Morpheus says, all he has to do is choose one of two pills. "You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill…and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
This scene is the turning point in "The Matrix," the sci-fi classic that was released 25 years ago this month. Of course, Neo chooses the red pill and learns the terrible truth that the advent of artificial intelligence allowed machines to take over the Earth. He believes it is 1999, but in fact it is 2199, and all human beings are perpetually asleep in vats, exploited by their AI masters as a source of energy. The world they think they experience is actually a virtual reality known as "The Matrix."
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1 Comments in Response to 25 Years Later, We're All Trapped in 'The Matrix'
This 25-year thing is way too shallow. When Satan was tempting the starving Jesus in the wilderness, he suggested that Jesus turn some stones into bread. Jesus's answer was, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” So, what is "... every word that comes from the mouth of God?" Genesis chapter 1 tells us that God spoke the universe into existence. So, people live on the physics of the universe. And the only way out of the universe that we know of is death. Besides, if we knew how to get out alive, where out-of-the-world would that take us? The universe is a much more complex matrix.