Presents a collection of essays about some of the powerful and ancient questions broached by "The Matrix" and its sequels. This book is suitable for fans of the films who want to delve deeper into their themes, as well as any student of philosophy who desires an accessible entry into this challenging and profoundly vital world of ideas.

Bad dreams, evil demons, and the experience machine: philosophy and The matrix / Christopher Grau --
Morpheus and Berkeley on reality / Tim Mawson --
What's so bad about living in The matrix? / James Pryor --
The matrix of dreams / Colin McDinn --
Existential phenomenology and the brave new world of The matrix / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stephen D. Dreyfus --
Reality, what matters, and The matrix / Iakovos Vasiliou --
Never the twain shall meet: reflections on the very first matrix / Richard Hanley --
The matrix as metaphysics / David J. Chalmers --
The twisted matrix: dream, simulation, or hybrid? / Andy Clark --
The matrix: our future? / Kevin Warwick --
Artificial ethics / Julia Driver --
Neo's freedom, whoa! / Michael McKenna --
Plato's Cave and The matrix / John Partridge --
Wake up! worlds of illusion in gnosticism, Buddhism, and The matrix project / Rachel Wagner, Frances Flannery-Dailey --
App. Selections from classic texts. The republic / Plato --
Meditations on first philosophy / Descartes --
Of the principles of human knowledge / Berkeley --
Anarchy, state, and utopia / Nozick --
Reason, truth, and history / Putnam.