Morpheus : This is the construct. It is our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need (SYM. Antithesis: A: Reality).
Neo is having a hard time getting a grasp of this.
Neo : Right now....we're inside a computer program? Morpheus : Is it really so hard to belive? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed (SYM. Antithesis: A: Appearance).
Neo puts a hand to his head and touches his hair
Morpheus (SEM. Fashioner) : Your appearance now is what we call residual self image (REF. Psychological theories: RSI). It is the mental projection...of your digital self. (SYM. Antithesis: B: Reality)
Two chairs appear in front of them, and Neo reaches out to touch one. He runs his hand along it's back. (SYM. Antithesis: B: appearance)
Neo (SEM. New/one) : This....this isn't real?
Morpheus looks at him
Morpheus : What _is_ real? How do you _define_ real? If you're
talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what
you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical
signals interpreted by your brain. (REF. Cognitive science; Skepticism)
A television (SEM: the Matrix) appears in front of the two chairs, as Neo sits down in the chair beside Morpheus. Morpheus picks up the television control (SEM. Entrance to the Matrix) and turns it on.
Morpheus : _This_ is the world that you know. The world as it was at
the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as
part of a neural-interactive simulation, that _we_ call
the Matrix (SEM. Simulacrum).
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