THE MATRIX

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Is it really so hard to believe?

Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone

Your hair has changed

Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image'

It is the mental projection of your digital self

What is real?

How do you define real?

If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

This is the world that you know

The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century

It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the matrix