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• Introduction: Taking the Red Pill
  David Gerrold
• What is the Matrix?
  Read Mercer Schuchardt
• Was Cypher Right? (Part I)
  Robin Hanson
• Was Cypher Right? (Part II)
  Lyle Zynda
• Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, and The Matrix
  Robert J. Sawyer
• The Reality Paradox in the The Matrix
  James Gunn
• The Matrix: Paradigm of Post-Modernism or Intellectual Poseur? (Part I)
  Dino Felluga
• The Matrix: Paradigm of Post-Modernism or Intellectual Poseur? (Part II)
  Andrew Gordon
• Glitches in The Matrix...And How to Fix Them
  Peter B. Lloyd
• Buddhism, Mythology, and The Matrix
  James L. Ford
• Human Freedom and the Red Pill
  Peter J. Boettke
• Finding God in The Matrix
  Paul Fontana
• The Human Machine Merger
  Ray Kurzweil
• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
  Bill Joy
• Are We Living in The Matrix?
  Nick Bostrom