Cartesian Skepticism - Neo, Meet Rene: Crash Course Philosophy #5
This week Hank introduces skepticism, exploring everything from the nature of reality through the eyes of a 17th century philosopher and, of course, The Matrix. -- PBS Digital Studios wants...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace.Squarespace: Share your passion with the world.A film for your philosophical consideration: The Matrix.You gotta remember the, uh, the humans floating in vats of KY jelly?Tubes and wires keeping them alive, stimulating their brains, to make them believe that theywere experiencing the real world – the world we all think we know?Well, almost-20-year-old spoiler alert here: some of them come to find out that the real world was adesolate wasteland, and the lives everyone thought they were living were just fabrications fed into their brains.A select few were ‘rescued’ from the illusion, but some of them were so unhappy in the realworld that they chose to return to illusion.But Neo -- and the others who chose to s...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace.Squarespace: Share your passion with the world.A film for your philosophical consideration: The Matrix.You gotta remember the, uh, the humans floating in vats of KY jelly?Tubes and wires keeping them alive, stimulating their brains, to make them believe that theywere experiencing the real world – the world we all think we know?Well, almost-20-year-old spoiler alert here: some of them come to find out that the real world was adesolate wasteland, and the lives everyone thought they were living were just fabrications fed into their brains.A select few were ‘rescued’ from the illusion, but some of them were so unhappy in the realworld that they chose to return to illusion.But Neo -- and the others who chose to s...
