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Despite this rather confusing comment, Morpheus actually relies on a pretty straightforward understanding of what it is that makes something real as opposed to unreal. He relies on this understanding when he refers to his hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar and the city of Zion as real. And he relies on it when he classifies the world of the Matrix and the virtual arena in which they first appear as unreal. He relies on it to make sense of his general mission as being to wake people up from unreality and into reality. And he relies on it to make sense of his particular mission as being to do this for Neo, the person who he believes will be able to destroy the unreality of the Matrix for good. In relying on it, Morpheus actually assumes that there's an important difference between those electrical signals that are fed into our brains by computers when we're floating in our tanks and those that he has when, for example, he's sitting with his crew in the cockpit of the Nebuchadnezzar. If......

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