http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/phi.html
Official Matrix website has section on the philosophy of the Matrix, with papers written by real philosophers! James Pryor (Princeton) asks “What’s So Bad about Living in the Matrix?” and gives three reasons for why life in the Matrix would suck (search for “three possibilities”); I’m not convinced! (I remember arguing a similar point with my high-school English teacher over Nineteen Eighty-Four.)