¶ … Cypher's desire in The Matrix, to be plugged back into the program. It is maintained that this desire is wrong or misleading from the viewpoints of both Plato and Socrates, who say that knowledge is virtue and thus, nothingness -- the result of the Matrix -- is essentially nothing.
Ignorance is bliss"
The first important philosophical question raised by The Matrix is whether reality is better than illusion, or the other way around. Cypher was wrong to make a deal with Agent Smith to be plugged back into the Matrix. The Matrix at best could have been a ride in an amusement park rather than a way to live. However, through the movie we learn that those involved deeply with the Matrix consider it somewhat to be larger than life. Cypher and others do question their own minds about what is real, what is not, they are aware of the answers. Nevertheless, ignorance is bliss for Cypher to wish being plugged back into the Matrix ("Theory of Knowledge").
Cypher believes that it would be extraordinarily pleasurable for him to be in the Matrix program. When he makes a deal with Agent Smith, he agrees to wanting to know nothing, and to fulfill his desires, all of them, by way of fantasy in the Matrix ("Theory of Knowledge"). Obviously this is an unnatural way of living -- knowing nothing when one can know much is a mistake that is humanly impossible to be made unless one destroys himself by some means. The Matrix puts ones brain cells to rest: this is close to euthanasia, suicide, homicide, or coma (to put it in a gentler tone than the sound of the other alternatives). Is this the price for happiness? It should not be. It is not the way we were born, nor the...
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