I read the leaked Matrix Reloaded draft last week (couldn’t resist — looks like while there are similarities, that a lot has changed), which led to me doing some digging to see if a Revolutions draft had also been leaked (as far as I can tell, no). They weren’t kidding when they said it’d be a cliffhanger.
While looking around, I stumbled Philosophy Section of the official site. While some weren’t that great, there were actually a number that were very interesting:
- Never The Twain Shall Meet: Reflections on the First Matrix – Richard Hanley writes a great analysis on the nature of paradise. I was impressed by its clarity and insight
- Reality, What Matters, and the Matrix – while it seems to stray and wander a bit, but this piece does mostly address the issues revolving around why the Matrix might not be such a bad thing. My personal feeling is there really isn’t anything wrong with living in ‘the Matrix’, because well, that’s what we live in now (well, ‘a matrix’ anyway).
- Wake Up! Gnosticism & Buddhism in the Matrix – I’ve seen better writeups on the eastern influence in the Matrix, but the gnosticism stuff was new to me. (I suppose this is technically philosophy, but in general I much prefer the more abstract and braintwisty reasoning revolving around metaphysical issues (epistemology, ontology, identity, blah blah)