Descartes Plato Matrix Rev

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[Plato and Descartes in the Matrix]
Finding the truth has always been a fundamental part of the human thought. However, to have a degree of certainty in our lives, we have to believe that what we see and experience is real. Hence, humans build theoretical notions to adapt otherwise unknown sets of experiences in an intuitive way (Dew & Foreman 57). The primary goal of the philosophical skepticism is offering arguments that conclude in the fact that we do not have as much knowledge of the world as we believe. Hence, to understand and address those concerns regarding the things we cannot be sure about, skepticism proves to be an excellent tool to show how biased and incomplete our vision of the world can be; opening the door for myriads of interpretations of the reality, adding to our comprehension of world’s phenomena. Therefore, the question about whether our senses fail us or not has been a cornerstone of Western philosophical thought and shows the passage from the correspondence theory of truth to a pragmatic view popularized by arguments such as Putnam’s brain in a vat. For that reason, if it is possible for our senses to deceive us, it would be possible that humans exist in a controlled reality, much like The Matrix. Consequently, in this discussion, we shall refer to two particular philosophers, Plato, and Rene Descartes, who have a direct influence in the early discussion on whether our senses deceive us or not and i…