Introduction

There's a classic scene in the movie The Matrix where Morpheus is offering Nio a red pill and a blue pill, and the red pill is supposed to offer a painful truth about reality. This turns out to be very true in Nio's case as he wakes up in a vat surrounded by untold numbers of other scrawny, atrophied humans filled with plugs. He finds out that he's been a brain in a jar his whole life, living in a simulation. It raises the question though of why the red pill he took caused him to be awoken in that vat and injected while still alive.

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