[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:42:26 +0100

Saturday, October 23, 2004, 8:57:14 PM, Robert Paul wrote:

RP> Mike writes:

>>"The meanings of life" (in D. Schmidtz, ed., Robert Nozick, Cambridge
RP> 2002), David Schmidtz argues that virtually all of us would refuse to
RP> plug in. I'm not sure he's right, and I'm not sure the reasons he gives
RP> are the most pertinent ones.<
        
>>I *am* sure, however, that this question is a *philosophical* =one. It's also
RP> the plot of The Matrix.<

RP> I hadn't realized that this was _the_plot of The Matrix, although I may well
RP> have missed it. I thought that (the strongest line of) the plot was that 
most of
RP> the 'things' in the updated vats did not know their experiences were 
ersatz--not
RP> that that they were having ersatz experiences, but that _what_ they were
RP> experiencing was not actually taking place (however this is glossed). No one
RP> seems to have opted for living in the Matrix machine that I recall, nor was
RP> anyone given a choice in the matter.

There's just one group of people who have that choice (in The Matrix):
the choice is between the blue pill and the red pill.



-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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