evil demons

Descartes proposes that all of our experiences are merely an ongoing dream. Meaning, everything we know and understand to be “real� is a sham. In this paper I am going to argue, first that through this thought-experiment Descartes tries to deny the concept of knowledge. Second, I will show how he responds to his own questions posed through his hypothesis. Lastly, I will demonstrate how the film “Matrix� helps one to realize the relevance of Descartes’ thought-experiment.
Descartes realizes in order for him to take this thought seriously, he must demolish all doubt he may carry with him into his experiment. For if he has doubt about what he is thinking then how could he take his own thoughts seriously let alone anyone else. He does this by locking himself away to complete his thoughts. After he accomplishes, this he begins his meditations. He begins his argument with a curious thought; dreaming, what is it? He first looks at the things around him. Descartes analyzes them over and over again trying to figure out if they are really there or if he is dreaming that they are there. He observes that when you dream you usually assume that if you pinch yourself during a dream you will wa

Descartes does not demand that you make his theory of an evil-demon the norm or take it as natural context; he merely asks that you consider such a theory as only a thought. As a possibly of what could be. Although there is the movie “Matrix” to help explain Descartes’ theory, centuries after the original theory was brought about, some still don’t fully understand the thought-experiment. But because of such modern help Descartes’ thoughts still live on in modern philosophy and society.

The box office smash hit “Matrix” came around in 1998. With its all-star cast, amazing story line, and stunning visual graphics, “Matrix” was a huge hit with the public. But very few, if any, of the millions who saw the movie realized where the idea for the movie came from. Good old Descartes gave them their idea. The idea of what you know isn’t really what you know plays the main theme in the movie. For instance the main character Mr. Anderson, or also know as Neo, is caught in the “fake” world and he wants to escape, so these other people help him get his “real” body back and rescue him from the “evil-demon”. The evil-demon in this case is a giant machine that grows the babies in pods filled with “life energy” from other humans. They are connected by hundreds of little wires to the machine so it can control the muscles and thoughts of that person. After being rescued Neo realizes the real world is quite different from the one that he has been programmed to know. For instance one of the characters that knows the truth of that we are all connected to some be programming machine realizes that the world we are programmed to believe is actually a much better world then the real one. Although the movie depicts Descartes’ thought-experiment fairly well, there are some discrepancies. For instance, Descartes proposed the existence of an evil-demon, not some large machine or computer that controlled us. But this discrepancy could be the working of the technology boom since Descartes’ day. Another thing Descartes probably never even tried to think of was that there was a way for someone to escape the fake world and get their real body back and enter into the real world. Or even go from one world to the other with very little tro