QUESTION:

Dear Prof. Glasersfeld,

 

Thank you for your answer, it helped us a lot!

 

I’m sorry, but I forgot to mention in my first

request that "Neo" in the Movie "The Matrix",

the person who saw these numbers and letters

scrolling down (I sent you the scene it is all

about with this email), for the other human

beings is a "god-like" person (in the movie he a

few times is called "the chosen" or "the saver").

I read in chapter 2 of "Einführung in den

radikalen Konstruktivismus" a hint, where it is

mentiont that Vico said, that just god knows the

objective truth, because he constructed it.

 

I know wanted to know if at this point of view

our comparison with "The Matrix" is "more right" than you first thought?

 

Thanks for your answers!

Andrew Schwarzinger

 

 

 

ANSWER:

 

Dear Mr, Schwarzinger,

Yes, If Neo is a supernatural entity, he may know what the world is like.

But if he talks to people and they to him, we are in fairyland, There is

no shred of evidence that a supernatural entity has an interest in

humans and, although many of them pray, there is no indication whatever,

that someone is listening. That part of "Matrix" would have to be taken

as an irreducible metaphor - like Plato's story of the cave.

 

Best wishes

Ernst von Glasersfeld

 

 

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