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A man goes about his daily business on a pretty ordinary day. The sights and sounds are familiar. Everything smells, tastes, and feels just as it normally does. But he is in for a rude awakening. As it turns out, none of these experiences are real. In fact his body is attached to a machine and is being farmed for use as an energy source by hostile beings of great intelligence. Knowing that the human ‘batteries’ work best if they are kept psychologically comfortable, these malevolent entities feed a constant stream of sensory stimuli direct to the mind. A small resistance force has broken free of this unconscious captivity. They break the hero out of his happy delusion and offer him two pills. One will take him back into this purely mental experience, detached from physical reality. The other will bring him out of it into a world of real lived experience. This is the basic plot of the popular film series, The Matrix . It is also a helpful illustration of what has been called the ‘brai...