Being there is a state of mind

From Heideggar's article on Dasein, he says that "...the mode of Being-There-that is, in the mode of a state of mind." I feel like this point can be applied to the Matrix scenes that we watched on Thursday. Neo was living in the Matrix which was a computer program designed to control people. This system of mental control allowed machines to use people as batteries essentially. Neo learns through the simulations after he is ejected from the Matrix and ends up with Morpheus and his crew that he must distinguish what is real and what is not. It was a matter of a state of mind from the virtual reality of the Matrix and the stark real world that the freed people lived in.

Another thing that Heideggar says is that "Fear is anxiety, fallen into the 'world', inauthentic, and, as such, hidden from itself." From this again it can be related to the Matrix. I see this from when Neo is afraid of finding out the truth about the real world an the Matrix. When Morpheus was explaining in the first scenes about the truth about the Matrix, Neo was in disbelief. Neo said that it was impossible that machines could control humans as energy and batteries. He was also in disbelief about the Matrix as a method of control. When Neo wakes up in the real world he goes crazy and vomits on the floor of Morpheus' ship. I would be afraid too if suddenly what I depended upon as real was suddenly a dream world meant for a hidden agenda for the entire human race.