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Matrix received very favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 31 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. [5] The novel debuted at number eleven on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending September 11, 2021. [ 6 ]
Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
Plato's Dream" (original French title "Songe de Platon") is a 1756 short story written in the 18th century by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. Along with his 1752 novella Micromégas , "Plato's Dream" is among the first modern works in the genre of science fiction .
José Saramago concludes his novel The Cave (2001) with a version of Plato's allegory of the cave which is recognized as such by the characters within the novel. Chuck Palahniuk describes and refers back to Plato's allegory of the cave several times in the closing chapters of his novel Diary (2003).
In the Western philosophical tradition, Plato's allegory of the cave, presented in the 4th century BCE, stands out as an influential example. René Descartes ' evil demon philosophically formalized these epistemic doubts, to be followed by a large literature with subsequent variations like brain in a vat .
The Matrix franchise was further expanded through the production of comic books, video games and an animated anthology film, The Animatrix, with which the Wachowskis were heavily involved. The franchise has also inspired books and theories expanding on some of the religious and philosophical ideas alluded to in the films.
The song, from the band's 1991 album Achtung Baby, is dedicated to the poet and in its final verse is quoted the title of his book In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In 1968, Schwartz's friend and peer, fellow poet John Berryman , dedicated his book His Toy, His Dream, His Rest "to the sacred memory of Delmore Schwartz ...
In Matrix's setting, the ship was built in 2069, [1] prior to the Machine War that led to the creation of the Matrix. The Nebuchadnezzar, along with other similar craft, was repurposed by the human rebels to covertly broadcast the minds of up to seven people at a time into the Matrix, where the crew would locate the minds of other humans and free them from the Matrix.