Purpose — Part 1
I’m sure many of you have seen and been confused by the plot of The Matrix Reloaded. The movie features a series of events based on beliefs such as the purpose of an individual. It seems kind of dumb to answer all questions with “because it’s my/its purpose.” But logically it makes sense to think about events and static objects in terms of their purposes. Here is part 1 of the philosphical explanations The Matrix didn’t offer.
Free Will
This post seemed inevitable due to recent discussion on predestination and cause and effect. So do human beings have free will? Can we actually decide what it is we want for ourselves, or are we bound by the incomprehensible environment factors that eventually lead us to an inevitable path?
I’d like to start by refreshing your memories of The Matrix (Reloaded & Revolutions). If you recall, one of the central themes of the trilogy was fate and inevitability. One conversation stuck in my mind is with the Oracle (if you don’t know, she is a know-it-all) and Neo (the main character played by the dull and boring actor Keanu Reeves).
Predestination
Is everything in this world predestined? Does it matter what you do, or is everything that was supposed to happen ultimately going to happen no matter what?
As helpless and useless thinking this may be, it makes sense that the world is on a timeline of continuing predestination. Everything in the world will happen only one way, no matter how we try to change it, because what we change is ultimately the future.
Cause and Effect
I’d like to think of every unity in this world as a function (much like a function in programming), as it requires input and gives output. The output of one thing will probably be received as input of another, which in turn gives output for others. The generalization that every action, whatever the function decides to do, is due to previous actions is cause and effect.
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