Private language

Neo was conceived and gestated in a vat so that, literally, his brain has always been in a vat.

His wiring took place early enough in the process of development so that all of his experience in the vat has been, so to speak, in the Matrix.

In the Matrix he has lived a complete and routine life, growing up to be a minor hacker with a boring job.

All of his experience, so to speak, has been hallucinatory.

He has never spoken to a person, sat on a chair, put on a pair of shoes, gone for a walk, ridden in a bus, or driven a car.

But within the Matrix he has done all these things.

Within the Matrix, he was raised an American and to speak English, the principal language of the country.

When Morpheus and his crew get him out of the Matrix and he awakens to reality for the first time, experiences things and people for the first time, they communicate in English.

While still in his pod, was his experience private?

Did he learn a private language because his experience was private?

Was the private language he learned in fact the same as the public language, English?

Contra Wittgenstein.

The Private Language Argument is a complete bluff.