Blog 4

Gracia and Sanford us the terms "source" and "ontological status" to make distinctions that allow them to claim that the world in the Matrix is "unreal" and the world outside of the Matrix (outside of the program) is the "real world". What they heck do they mean by "source" and "ontological status"?

In the book The Matrix and Phillosphy it explains that the real and the unreal worlds have different causes. The second way to distinguish between the categories of real and unreal has to do with their respective ontological status put plainly, the way things exist. The meaning of Ontological is the argument of the existence of God holding that the existence of the concept of God entails the existance of God. The matrix is not something you have to believe in its created, on page 61 it states " The Matrix is a very complex computer program made by artifically intellegent machines".