Absolutely, except the physicality of the pods is not needed. We are 'plugged in' regardless.

I started considering the question ‘how do we know what’s real’ when I was in my teens. Then the Matrix came out years later which got me thinking again. In eastern traditions they have the idea of ‘maya’ or illusion. The earthly existence is thought to be essentially illusory. Shakespeare wrote ‘all the worlds a stage’. I think we humans intuitively understand the illusory nature of reality. And striving for higher consciousness to break through the veil so to speak.

"The Matrix" is a brilliant allegory about all things concerning the perception of reality. It's a great tool we can always use to distill and abstract more precisely that specific subject. Other than that, to think we actually live in a simulation shouldn't be a concern in itself, for that simulation has then to be built upon something else. People have the tendency to think that if they only frame the simulation, then that's all existence can be about, and the mental distance they establish from the "servers" that simulation would be running on is far enough to be ignored for all purposes. Those servers have to be there so we go back to the same laws, for any law diverging from the fundamental preservation laws would cause infinite loops that would crash the server immediately. The paradox of the simulation is then that we can't escape reality, even if we are in a simulation. So that can't be a concern. The one fear left is about emotions: how do I know that her love is true? And from the above conclusion we arrive to: regardless of the layer of reality you're in, you can't know, not even assuming the simulation is the only layer.

I don’t think we live in a simulation but I do think we live in a world where most people don’t realize the world around them they have been trained to see isn’t real.

Are you Mr Anderson? Or is your name Neo?

The movie is a documentary, its a metaphor if you like, and has been produced that way to make the concept easily understandable by the masses. It was a success, wasn't it?

What is important to understand is that all this stuff works on different levels, different dimensions if you like. Is not about physically living in a simulation or not, it's more about the belief system that has been made in place, mostly affecting your conscious and unconscious mind.

Just assume somehow you have been indoctrinated to believe and think in certain way. This plan has been going on for ages, not decades, but centuries if not millennia...

I highly suggest you to watch my latest post #613162 about a documentary of a survivor from the disgraces of a system of mind control and human trafficking. Just a little taste of what's going on behind the curtains.

DYOR

We sure are! U.S. citizen v American Nationals that @Lux and @DarthCoin talk about all the time! One has rights and the other does not, yet we think we're the one and the same. Here's a post of sovereignty pills by lux #586916

Made famous by Plato in Allegory of the cave.. 380 BCE.. the movie is just recycling an idea

We do live in a Matrix. I recommend Val Valerian books where The Wachowskis took a lot of the ideas. The movie is just another Allegory just like Platos book.

Funny thing you can extrapolate from the movie. When Neo wakes up and have all those tubes on him that suck energy to the machine, they are representing the invisible chains we have with the FIAT system. Neo feeds his energy to the machine. We, by debt, feed the machine (banks) with invisible tubes. But they are very much real, as we give our energy (work) to pay a perpetual debt that does not more than feed the machine.

In a way, the bitcoiners who see this, are freeing themselves from the FIAT enslavement just like Neo did with the machines..

Food fot thought

You are born in this world and you are getting lied to. If you are young the lies are small, like the easter bunny bringing eggs or other crap we tell our children. We are buliding a fantasy world for them to make them happy. When we get older we are being lied to by government and media. They are parenting us to protect us from the truth but also to make us follow their orders. Only when you realise that you were lied to your whole life and that probably everything you know is manipulated, only then you will be able to wake up.

I think we're living in a 'sorrowland' now. When you look around the world, there's not much happiness! There's a good race among us for money. The reality has vanished and the falsehood of materialism has taken over this world

We are not living in the Matrix, but the moment your eyes are set on any computing device, you're automatically transmitted into the matrix. It feels that way.

Check out Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, a philosophical treatise that was a source of inspiration for the movie. The book appears as an Easter egg at the beginning.

Yes, totally! but not in the way the film presents it. I think that the "Matrix" in which we live, that is, the "Illusion" in which we find ourselves, has nothing to do with other dimensions or an alternate dimension like the one in the movie, I think that everything develops right here in our reality and the The Matrix is ​​nothing more than the imposed social system, including religion in some places. The Fiat system, or the education system, are all an illusion for the common people, for the commoner, and what the common people think and know is almost always an illusion of true reality. The true "Matrix" is that some people think that the world and life work in a certain imposed way. and even if you wake up from it, getting out of there is very difficult.