LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MATRIX: PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY

By George Panetas

Are the Matrix and the cave the same thing? How do you know if you are awake or dreaming? What is real? How do you define real? Do we interpret the world through our senses? What is death? If you are not alive, can you die? What does happiness mean? How can you be happy? What do you know about pleasures? Are you moral or immoral? Is knowledge power? What is religion? What do you think about Maslow's pyramid? Is aging just a disease? Let’s talk about the matrix.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9781447591115

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LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MATRIX

PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY

George Panetas

Copyright ® 2023. Panetas Giorgos

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ISBN: 9-781447-591115

Dedicated to those who have the ability to think

but also

to those who want to acquire this ability.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Happiness

Pleasure hunters

Beauty standards can cause a distorted self-image that can cause eating disorders and can lead to serious health effects, often leading to death.

How long does happiness last?

Happiness and fallacy—happiness in the digital world

My definition of happiness

Self-awareness

Knowledge

What is religion?

Ethics

Death

The reasons we fear death

Death or immortality- eternity?

Evolution of humans and the path to their Creator, to God.

The Matrix

The weight of a soul

The cycle

Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs

People believe what they want to believe

Live your life to the fullest

Ancient Greeks about Death

Apollonius of Tyana – letters

Epicurus letter to Menoeceus

Epicurus says:

Plato

Phaedo

Apology of Socrates

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Introduction

Are the Matrix and the cave the same thing? How do you know if you are awake or dreaming? What is real? How do you define real? Do we interpret the world through our senses? What is death? If you are not alive, can you die? What does happiness mean? How can you be happy? What do you know about pleasures? Are you moral or immoral? Is knowledge power? What is religion? What do you think about Maslow's pyramid? Is aging just a disease? Let’s talk about the matrix.

Happiness

What is Happiness?

When referring to an idea, a concept like this, one should try to approach it as much as possible, reach the depths of its essence, discover its definition, or at least the definition one gives to it. So, we will determine what we are talking about. 

The key questions to achieve this are:

What is happiness?

How can we obtain happiness?

How long does happiness last?

Before reading below, I want you to take some time and ask yourself to think about what happiness is, and even better, what happiness is for you, how you define it, how you perceive it, how you experience it, think: What makes me happy?

Pleasure hunters

Pleasures bring us happiness. Sometimes happiness is identified with pleasure; it’s the same thing. We seek to feel happiness and pleasure. We pursue pleasure as much as we can, as many times as possible, with the greatest intensity, with all our senses. All of our senses are satisfied and ecstatic. But what pleasures? The pleasures of the body, the physical, we will talk about them below. 

Have you ever wondered how we perceive reality? How do we understand what is happening around us, the phenomena and events? Based on the tools and capabilities, we create our reality to create this reality. 

We perceive what is happening around us with our senses, and our brain processes what our senses send to it. Thus, creating an image of what is happening around us. With our senses, we perceive and interpret the world, but that doesn’t mean that what we perceive is the only thing that exists because we cannot perceive everything around us. Maybe we live in some matrix, a matrix that our senses create. 

What are our aesthetic systems? The human visual system is an example of an aesthetic system. The path of information in the system is as follows: The visual stimulus from the outside world is captured in the sensory organ (eye), and then through the optic nerve, is transmitted to the brain, ending in the optic cortex where the information is processed, and the sensation of vision is realized. Other aesthetic systems are those of taste, smell, hearing, touch. Essentially, the aesthetic system is a converter and carrier of information, from the physical world to the mind, where information is interpreted, creating an image and perception of the world. 

Let us look at a typical example: The human eye perceives three colors—red, green, blue—and light intensity, in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. Some organisms can see frequencies other than visible light, such as dogs, that see part of the infrared light. Still, others do not perceive the frequencies that man can see, as some fish in the depths of the oceans cannot see the red color. Some organisms see the world in more or fewer colors than humans. For example, the chameleon’s eyes distinguish fifteen colors.

So, with our senses, we perceive and interpret the world. There is only what we see without this meaning around us since we cannot see everything. How many are our senses? Taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch (of course, many argue there is a sixth sense). With these senses, however, we approach all kinds of pleasures. 

Pleasure, the satisfaction of all the senses and appetites, and the pleasures that come from each one of these senses, is happiness or at least a form of happiness; it is bliss.

The mouth is the first source of nourishment for every human being and thus sensuality. Just take a moment and think, when we make love with our partner, we taste her by kissing her, and she tastes us, with all kinds of kisses that we give her and that she gives us. Kisses full of passion in every part of the body. Pleasure for both of us, two bodies that are struggling passionately to become one. We taste her mouth, lips, neck, breasts, thighs, and fingers, the pleasure of taste.

The smell, the natural smell of the woman, the sex pheromones, the attraction caused by the female smell, and the pleasure of the smell are much more attractive. There is no better smell than the smell of a female body. Pheromones are chemicals secreted from the skin and from where there are hairs. At the same time, they are found in high concentrations in urine and sweat, but mainly where they are secreted are the face, armpits, and genitals. Many types of perfumes on the market promise to increase sexual attraction after use.

Sight is the most important of all the senses. The first thing we look at is appearance, not that this is the only thing that matters, but it is the first thing we look at, and if we like a person, we go to the next step. The pupils dilate whenever we see something we like; we often fantasize. We look with persistence and admiration at what pleases us, and we cannot take our gaze away. Surely you will all feel the desire to look at your partner for hours. Many want to look at their partner when they climax, so the pleasure multiplies and becomes infinitely greater and more intense.

We can enhance the image of a beautiful woman by admiring her face, eyes, lips, and whole body. What a pleasure... The best work of art is a beautiful woman. It is as if the beauty, the magic, and the charm of the whole world are concentrated there. If someone asked me the definition of beauty, I would say that it is the image of a beautiful woman.

Concentrate and bring this image to your mind: You are alone with your partner, on your bed, in your hot red sheets, the silence around you, only you two exist and nothing else. One enjoys the other, you have passionate sex, and you hear your partner’s groans, sounds of pleasure, which come out so naturally; you hear your partner expressing her pleasure with her sounds, with her groans, how pleasant that is? How much pleasure do you feel when you listen to that? It is the best song; it is the best music.

The sense of touch. I once met a girl who had such soft skin, it was like silk and butter.