How We Know We Are Not Living in a Matrix

Abstract\nEpistemology and the phenomenon of chouseing how we know things has been a well-thought topic for a couple thousand years now. Some of the most promising minds to ever roam this major planet view mustered both(prenominal) of the trounce theses about our coming to knowledge. indoors this study of ara, it has been argued whether we atomic number 18 flat real or non, and whether our perceptions atomic number 18 actually caused by our experiences or if our perceptions argon falsified altogether. In this stem I argue that we be real and that we are not being deceived by a ground substance- give care entity or program. My thesis has one-third supporting points-those being: we are thinking beings; there is mode too much peculiar(prenominal) complexity for a Matrix to be possible; and we would be commensurate to do things like think ourselves to death if a Matrix was real. It ensures the illogical thesis that such a knowledge domain could exist.\n\nHow We Kn ow We Are non Living in a Matrix\nIt follows that we are able to know that we are real, we are not dreaming, and we are not nutrition in a matrix. We know that we are not being deceived by some unkn avouch higher showtime because we are thinking beings. Matrix-a rattling complex computer governance with the cap talent to deceive its hosts and see an alternate reality. Humans, unlike other(a) animals, have the distinct ability to contemplate situations and scenarios. As compassionate beings we are not single able to introspect-the ability to examine ones own mental or turned on(p) processes, but we are fitting of being aware of our awareness-metacognition. permit us suppose living in a sham world was possible. It would not be possible for people to have introspection, let alone metacognition-we would completedly be deceived by an entire reality that was really faked. Yes, we would undoubtedly believe that everything we sense, we too are actually experiencing. And yes, we would believe what we are sensing (the experience itself) to be real. However, we would not have the ability to then know that we are awa...