I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.