Is it possible we are living in the Matrix?

[Hawgh]

Of course it's possible. That's the entire point of the Cave Allegory, You won't know that you have been living in a lesser reality until you learn to transcend it.

 

[ConfusedCrib]

Best answer is that even if we are living in a fake reality, if it is so seamless as ours is, it doesn't matter and we are obligated to take this as our reality.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

very unlikely, but possible.
What if this is just the Sims?

the person playing it would be a sick fuck, just saying

 

[Cazza]

No impossible. Their would be some random unexplainale youtube footage or something.

Like videos of ghost's and UFO's?

More like someone filming someone jump from building to building or dogding bullets.

 

[shadyh8er]

I've taken a LOT of red pills lately, so I'm gonna say yes.

 

[Boothe07]

If we were... the people who made the movie would like die or somthing because the robots would be scared that we're onto them O.O

 

[gl1koz3]

Not the Matrix from the movies. Something rather similar in meaning, but completely different in implementation. The way we try to explain Universe describes a system of similar sort. A self-moving system. But it's just my thoughts on subject I'm not intending to focus on much.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

The Matrix movies wouldn't exist if we lived in the matrix. The robots wouldn't let a movie explaining everything be made.

Brilliant! I have to call this /thread.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Do you realize...?

Considering the theory...

I was just using 'the Matrix' as a shorthand for a virtual reality which we are not aware of existing in, and I assume the OP was doing the same.

The technological challenges of implementing such a virtual reality are irrelevant (whats to say that said challenges exist in whatever reality is creating the simulation anyway?). It's a simple fact that there is no way to prove that our experiences are real rather than simulated. That fact makes this topic unworthy of scholarly debate, no matter how interesting one might find it.