Welcome to Our Real Matrix
One With No Escape
by Tom Arant
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Pub Date May 31 2021 | Archive Date Jul 03 2021
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Description
Did you know that we (and all life) are unknowingly enslaved? Welcome to Our Real Matrix proves it by using accepted science taken to its logical conclusion.
The Real Matrix is both the biological processes for all organisms and the biomass resulting from those processes. It includes each living organism’s (including each human’s) individual, unique, and interrelated perception of, and response to, Reality, which resides internally in the organism. The result is a false appearance of Reality that is only an interpretation of the signals received by each organism’s sensory receptors. Furthermore, the Real Matrix emerged and continues to emerge in a non-directional way through the processes of abiogenesis (emergence of life) and evolution.
There are many similarities between the Real Matrix we exist within and the Matrix from the movie, including its ubiquity in our world coupled with our lack of awareness from within it. The differences are more overwhelming, including that the Real Matrix emerged in a non-directional/intentional way (i.e., no sentient machines) and that there is no escape (i.e., no red pill).
After establishing this premise, the book explores its implications and what humans could potentially do with this revised view of our reality.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781953910738 |
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Featured Reviews
Pablo R, Reviewer
Hm. this is a tough one. Not the book, the review. Turns out the author is self-taught, with all the outsider consequences that come with that. The book made me think of the Mentaculus, sans equations. There is a large quantity of inner dialogue (author to self or author to reader, whichever you prefer), with the bottom line being what Buddhists, Taoists, Nominalists, General Semanticists, et al have realized before - the map is not the territory, the menu is not the meal, things are not what we call them, the tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao, etc. He doesn't rely on these sources but rather The Matrix films to argue that what we think is real is just what our brains have pieced together based on sensory input (which is only part of what's out there) and on millennia of evolution which selected the inputs that increase the likelihood of survival. Yes, OK, that's a good lesson if you haven't seen it before but it has been done in more succinct fashion. This seemed a bit of a chore to get to an old point, valid as it is. Let's say A for effort and C for execution.
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