Blog 3: Are we leaving in the matrix?

Can we really possibly be leaving in the matrix? Is what we see outside, smell, hear, touch, and what we eat real? How do you know if we are or arent leaving in the matrix? Is it because we can touch something thing and explain its texture make it real? We live our lives as if everything infront of us is real...what if we all found out that we live in the matrix that all the years we have live is all fake? that 18 years of our lives were nothing but computer simulations to make us think that we are really living in actual reality. Page 50 of the book The Matrix and Philosophy it quotes words said by Morpheus in the movie. " What is real? How do we define real? If your talking about what you can feel, What you can smell, What you can taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain". In the movie The Matrix Morpheus says that body can not live with out the mind. The mind is what is telling you that what you are holding, smelling, tasting, hearing, seeing is real. The matrix is only a prison for your mind you can have your mind run freely but your mind can never tell the diffrence between reality and " The Matrix".