The Matrix Themes

Neo is presented with plenty of choices, and we're not talking about simple choices like deciding between honey-walnut cream cheese (blegh) and salmon-dill cream cheese (yes please). Neo's choices...

In the construct, Morpheus sums up The Matrix in one word: control. The Matrix's purpose is to stimulate the minds of people so that they continue to live and produce energy. To do this, the Matrix...

There's a famous thought experiment where we can imagine ourselves as a brain in a vat being fed information by an alien species running experiments on us. The question is: how would we know if we...

Fate versus free will is as much a battle in The Matrix as the redpills fighting the agents. On the one side we have the Oracle, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of the Nebuchadnezzar crew aside fro...