This was solved in the sequels. The real world in the first movie turns out to be just another layer of the matrix. You can try to peel back these layers but yo

This was solved in the sequels. The real world in the first movie turns out to be just another layer of the matrix. You can try to peel back these layers but you can never know when you’ve reached the centre of the onion. Thus the real and the representation have been blurred together completely.