What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
— Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)
15 seconds sound clip from the The Matrix movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:40:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Is it really so hard to believe?
- Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone.
- Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image.
- It is the mental projection of your digital self.
- This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th century.
- It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix.
- You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
- This is the world as it exists today.
- Welcome to the desert of the real.
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