Or is it all abstractions that our mind perceives as reality? Take words. We speak them, we write them. Then we hear them, and we read them. Four different permutations of the same abstraction, yet is it the same to us all? When you define a word, you use other words. x=y because y=z and z=x. x=z because z=y and y=x. Eh? Where does it all begin? What is reality? Is it really what we see and touch and hear, or is that just a perception created by our minds, interpreting what is really out there? If that's true, then what is really out there?
I've never seen The Matrix, though I've been meaning to...