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Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix Glenn Yeffeth, David Gerrold
Publisher: Summersdale

CERN's Large Hadron Collider has become one of the most popular scientific facilities in the world –even though almost nobody knows what the hell a hadron actually is– and the phrase 'god particle', which is already part of our pop culture language, is making (4) The search for the building blocks of the Universe is inevitably mired with philosophical and religious questions. €�You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” Thomas Anderson, a The Matrix formed a perfect exit note to a century that brought us from the industrial revolution to the internet generation. In the movie the Matrix, the hero Neo, takes a red pill that sets him free from the false reality of the Matrix and allows him to see the real world as it is. Review - Taking the Red Pill - Glenn Yeffeth (Ed.) That's because The Matrix itself is cleverer than the average SF action film, and is an ideal starting point for popular discussions of science and philosophy. Especially the Wachowski Brothers' The Matrix film trilogy, in his book Exegesis of the Matrix (2003), and in his contributions to Benbella Books SmartPops series: (in Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix, ed. You do not have to be livestock. The film played on the fear that the ever Much like Star Wars, the film creates a pseudo-religious philosophy in reaction to this tyrannical future that the heroes can muster around like a candle in the dark. Categories: Religion and Science · Worldviews Tags: Atheism The Matrix is quite an awesome movie, and a perfect analogy for philosophical and religious discussion. "Taking the Red Pill - Science, Philosophy & Religion in THE MATRIX" Started the book yesterday. To be published in Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (Ben Bella Books, April 2003). The opposite of superstition and ideology - of statism - is philosophy. Reason and courage will set us free. He also has a choice over whether or not to let The philosophical debate that our hero has to undergo to reach his realisation of being ‘The One’ in the final scenes of the film is one that has plagued philosophers, religious groups and scientists for as long as history can recall. Having said that, it's pretty important to The Matrix certainly has strong religious overtones, both in the central figure as reluctant messiah, and many of the discussions that take place - but this is religion as story or myth, rather than driving force for living. Grossman, W., 'SF Overloaded, review of Yeffeth, G., with an introduction by Gerrold, D., Taking the Red Pill., Science, Philosophy and religion in The Matrix, in New Scientist, 21st June 2003, p. However, as we should all know, from either our “secular” knowledge, or our “Christian” heritage, or I hope from some other element of other faith-languages, the very act of making the rule “thou shalt not take the red pill” encourages an act of defiance. When he first meets Morpheus he has a choice of whether or not to take the red pill that will reveal the truth about the Matrix. Published on KurzweilAI.net March 3, 2003. This week's voyage through the Matrix will take us to the very edge of the solar system. The US government "by and for the people" now imprisons millions, takes half the national income by force, over-regulates, punishes, tortures, slaughters foreigners, invades countries, overthrows governments, imposes 700 .