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Originally Posted by Elfminster
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Before you saw the Matrix though you wouldn't have asked yourself if you were living in the Matrix. Somebody very recently came along and implanted that new idea in your head which you're now repeating. But there was a time when you would not have thought about such things.
Is god existing a new idea like the Matrix is?
Let's imagine there are no atheists/christians/hollywood in the world.
You look up at the moon. What do you say?
"God doesn't exist"?
"Am I living in the Matrix?"
"Who created that?"
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No, probably not, if I had no knowledge of the intellectual discourse the came before me. But that is not the case.
It's not like this is a new conversation. People have been talking about this sort of thing for millennia. That laid a groundwork of rigor around "thinking" that modern-day people can build upon.
While the "Matrix" is new, the idea it expresses is not. Epistemologists have just been using different examples. The Matrix is just the latest incarnation.