Essay Rewrite

On pages 61-61 Garcia and Sanford use the terms “Source” and “Ontological Status” to distinguish between what is real and what is unreal or imaginary. Garcia and Sanford use Metaphysics to find out what is real and unreal. Metaphysics being the study of what is real and what is knowable, a study beyond time and space.
The term Source is defined in the book (The Matrix and Philosophy) as where everything began from. “We know the sources or causes, for many of the thing in the real world”. Like we know that the Matrix program is being controlled or was made by the machines outside of the program”(p.61). “We know the humans beings born in the city of Zion come from their parents”(p.61). This states that we know the Source for the humans beings, being born, is their parents. Where it all began or started.
Garcia and Sanford also use the term Ontological Status it is also used to distinguish between what is real and unreal. Ontological Status is (p.61) “ the way things exists”, the way something lives or the way something is taking into a person mind to make that something seem real. Another way to define it is Dependence. When something depends on something else. In the book page 61 it states that “ the real world in the movie The Matrix, does not depend on something else for its existence”. Meaning if it doesn’t depend on anything then it is real. As for the program it is dependent on the machines to keep it running and to keep on feeding it different programs and electrical signals for it to run. Pages 61-62 “even if the real world was dependent od something, the Ontological status of the unreal world can seem to be weaker”. Meaning that a world that depends on something else, like another world, then that makes it weaker because it is dependent on a world outside of its own. If the real world in The Matrix was dependent on a world outside of its own then that makes the program the machines built more weaker, making it less real.
I think that with Garcia’s and Sanford’s assessment is like a 50/50 thing it can go both ways. Reasons being because I am real, a real human being because I come from my parents as Garcia and Sanford said babies are born from their parents, making them a source and making me real. But if I am Dependent on my parents to support me, nurture me, and to protect me until I am old enough to do it on my own, does that make me unreal? Garcia and Sanford did say that if something is dependent on something else then it is unreal or less real.
I personally don’t agree with their assessment because like I said before I am dependent or was dependent of my parents, I know I am a human being and I am real because I was born from m parents so their assessment is confusing. Another thing is the earth it is dependent on the sun to keep it warm and to keep it from drifting away out in space, but the earth is real, there is nothing beyond the sun but space dirt and darkness. Confusing right well that is why I don’t agree with their assessment.

Blog8

A physical boundary for me would be my skin for a start. Going passed it would be invading my personal space for say. A boundary I extended outward, like when your in your own home your skin is extends to the walls the walls are a similarity to your skin no one can get in unless you let them in. Like in the book Me++ by William J. Mitchell states that people biuld houses and buildings without realizing that it the outward extent of our skin. A major connection that people use mostly are the computers in their apartments, the computer can be considered a major part like the brain. The brain holds alot of information like a computer. There are other things like the radio and iPods and many other things .Like television is like our visual aspect of the world while sitting at he doing nothing. All these things penetrate our boundries. I myself use these networks often computers iPods and t.v like 85% of everything I do.

Blog 7

The essay and the power point for the media mid-term was not easy...i needed to do alot of research to get all the information i needed. i would have to spend hours looking for info...mostly new info because the topic i had to do had limited information. i would check many diffrent sites. if i had to rate my efforts to making this essay the past i could i would give myself an 8 from a 1-10. But on a scale from 1-10 raiting my final product i think i got a 5 or a 6 not to good......

Blog 6 Truman Show

There are many similarities between the real shows like Survivor, The Real World, and The Bachelor some similarities like the filming of a persons life and how they live it. Same as for the Truman show there filming his life each and everyday placing it on t.v like a t.v show for the world to see. The Diffrence is that Truman is living a false reality since birth. They built an entire world to film his life and put it on t.v. Living with false parents and friends. Each person is acting like there living there lives but there not. Trumans life is similar to The Matrix. His and Neos life was both computerized, feeding in diffrent codes and formulas into the machine for it to change the wheather, or make it from day to night and back. With out realizing nothing.

Blog 5

Fate or Free Will? what would you choose, do you think you are choosing how you want to live your life? or is it just fate that your are where you are now? I believe in Fate. Manyt people believe in Free Will because people have there own decision on to choose between two things. If they either want to go, well lets say the path on the left or the path on the right. A Person has the ability to choose between the two paths. But Schick has good reason to say that, even though we have a choice it was our destiny or it was our fate to choose that path either the left or the right. We arent really free if our life has already been written we are just following the "story". A person can not escape thier destiny or fate. I believe in fate for the fact that when i was younger i would high grades to go into a good university a four year college to takr up Archetectury. Since i started my freshmen year in high school, I would work my butt off, study, do homeworks, etc, but graduated with a 75.98 avg. and wasn't accepted to any of the four year colleges. That is why i believe that my life will take its own course evenm if i choose between one thing or the other.

Blog 4

I've read the pages 55-65 in The Matrix and Philosophy and Garcia and Sanford used words such as "Source" and "Ontological". I bet youe like What the heck is that or what does it mean? Well I read over it a few times like 2 or 3 times and i understood that Ontological Status and Source are used to ditinguish the Metaphysical between the "real" and the "unreal" categories. Source is where everything began. We know that the matrix is a computerized program made by AI(Artificial Intellgent) Machines. More we Know that we see a human and we know that he/she was born from his/her parents. The source is where everything comes from, the beginning of everything. Ontological Status is the way things exist. To understand it more the real word in The Matrix doesnt depend on anything to exist. Its stands alone by itself. The real world doesnt depend on anything. While the world of the matrix the computer generated "real world" does depend on something. It Depends on the machines and the Artificial intelegent machines. Thats how u can distinguish betwenn the "real" and the
"unreal".

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".