Classifying this comparison and contrast of The Matrix as it relates to readings of Plato and Descartes would be a challenge. From this point of view, the comparison would be that all three are asking themselves, what is reality? What is real?, Am I dreaming? or Am I standing? I considered reading and rereading all three texts only to find that a direct eye to eye comparison was difficult. Deliberation over any cognitive capacity to question what is real seems to be a matter centuries old. However, the contrast would be to have the opportunity to free our minds from all worries. In The Matrix, the contrast was about freeing our minds from supercomputers. Furthermore, Descartes' challenges were the perception of the mind, the possession of meaning, and the imagination of conciseness. Descartes quotes: “Nevertheless, the belief that there exists a God who is all-powerful and who created me as I am, has long since taken possession of my mind. How can I know that he did not make it so that there was neither earth, nor sky, nor any extended thing, nor figure, nor magnitude, nor place, as it were? ?...