The Matrix: What's the Deal with That?

[Mentat]

Originally posted by jb
my mistake, it's been a while.



yes, but wouldn't the nebucadnezzar run the risk of running into sentries there? you'd think there would be some kind of security system to protect against that. especially since the agents knew they wanted neo, the machines should have bumped up security around his pod.

They had to be in and out quick, as their only defense against the machines is the EMP device on the ship.

 

[KillaMarcilla]

oh God.. thread.. out of control.. too long to read... ABORT

ABORT

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Originally posted by KillaMarcilla
So what's the deal with that? How can people act as efficient batteries?

even if they are efficient bateries (or heaters, whatever...) there's still a problem with that system. The food for the people in the "battery status" was liquified dead peple (as I remember ). So it uses humans to feed humans so that they can reproduce.. doesn't that sound a bit like perpetuum mobile ?

 

[FZ+]

Ok, I'll begin a vain attempt to patch up the shoddy science behind the power generator idea.

Morpheus et al were lied to. Perhaps by the oracle, I dunno. The humans were not trapped for power at all - instead, the machines use highly efficient fusion power generators. However, the humans are required because the Matrix represents the ultimate computer. By the networking of so many minds, the machines achieve a level of complexity and intuition that would have taken thousands of years to evolve. That's why the humans are kept conscious, and that explains the state of the Matrix. The matrix is not in fact created by the machines, but is in fact a collective dream of mankind. Hence as different people dream differently, Neo can effect the matrix. Morpheus et al wanted to believe in a reason to leave the matrix. They wanted to think of themselves as slaves to the machines, when they control the machines themselves. Hence they dream up the idea, and the matrix feeds it back to them.