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In a film rife with philosophical conundrums it seemed an almost throwaway line, yet the phrase 'there is no spoon' from the film The Matrix has struck a chord with countless viewers. It skirts the edge of the age old question, 'What is reality' in a way that is more accessible to the computer age generation. The philosophical question of whether
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who is to say that is the correct reality, once again he is only going by what he is told by others, ie fishburn and the oracle. just because he can be plugged into a simulation where he can bend spoons does not mean that on the outside of that he is in reality. it is just as we today play with our tendos and play games of conquring, sure we can take over the world and do wonderful things there and we know that is not reality, but how do we know what we are doing after we hit the power button is real.
the hardest part of all this to wrap you head around is if there is no reality or truth in this manner, the person who is reading this comment comment and post has than made both buddhadave and myself up and are actually having these thoughts themself but placing the ideas in forms of other persons to relay these thoughts back onto themself. either that or someone is feeding you this info while you are in a a big bowl of goo waiting for them to wake you up to what they may tell you is reality, which after this post you should not believe since the spoon was never there in the first place.
ps. sry if none of that made sense, i just worked a nine hour day and worked on latin for a further two hours, so my brain is mush
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