Therefore, the tortoise always has a lead and Achilles is unable to catch up. .
3. The Arrow- Zeno purposes that time is a series of instances in the "now". A flying arrow is seen to be at rest since it cannot occupy two places in time at once. Though perceived as in motion, the arrow is actually not moving in Zeno's analyses. He holds that if we are happy to treat a line as made up of extensionless points, and time as made up of instants that occupy no time, then motion is a seccion of states at rest. .
4. Moving Blocks- a mathematical problem with three blocks equal in width in stadium passing each other. One takes, t, amount of time to cross one and t/2 time to pass the other. .
The first scene illustrates Zeno's assertion that motion is a series of states of rest. When the police officers try and apprehend Trinity, one of the films most memorable scenes, she suddenly lunges into the air, suspended in time, as she sets up a series of impressive martial arts maneuvers. Agents chase Trinity across roof tops and they have incredible jump scenes again illuding to Zeno's arguments of motion. Scene two introduces the audience to the Protagonist of the film. .
Neo appears in his room sleeping in front of his computer. He has the look of a person who is in desperate need of something. Suddenly his computer types "wake up Neo" which startles him and wakes him up. This concept of "waking" which is the opposite of "sleeping", alludes to another one of the philosophers we've been studying, Heraclitis. He maintains that there is a single logos (law or principle) that governs all things, and is capable being heard and harnessed by all people, but most people "do not exercise their ability to come to understand it, acting instead as if though asleep" and in a "private world". Heraclitus also uses an appeal to the Oracle at Delphi, but I will cover that as the movie touches on it. This message from an unknown source telling Neo to awaken, seems to imply that he is "asleep" or not in tune with reality.
