Recently, I rewatched the Matrix trilogy, and realised that this second viewing makes more sense than the previous one. There's something about the vagueness of the Matrix trilogy and the vagueness of life that makes me draw various parallels between the two circumstances.
"You've already made the choice; you are now here to understand it." Isn't that a sufficiently vague statement that means nothing more than the words that comprise it? Yet at the same time, the concept of this statement is prevalent in the Matrix mythos. The underlying assumption here is that life, at the end of it all, does not truly contain "free will", if "free will" means having the ability to decide what action one wants to perform. Perhaps this is true in the real world, and that all of us are just playing out the parts that fate/destiny has given us. But like all abstractions, perhaps "free will" is our answer to justifying actions using Occam's razor.
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