1. Rent and watch the movie The Matrix.
2. Read John Partridge’s “Plato’s Cave and the Matrix” attached to this unit.
3. Read Christopher Grau’s “Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and The Experience Machine” attached to this unit.
4. Discussion 8: Using both your own knowledge and the Grau and Partridge articles, discuss in detail how the film “The Matrix” illustrates Plato’s allegory of the cave. What does the film suggest about how we know things? Does Plato agree? Do you?
