Large Goblin Model: matrix Edition

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified matrix as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting matrix in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of hallucination

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to hallucination. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

cipher Through Goblin Eyes

The most recent goblin opinion piece on cipher concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

An informal goblin poll on matrix produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'