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Date Posted: 03:00:27 05/30/03 Fri
Author: Jim F.
Subject: Relaoded ideas: I agree (somewhat) with Ender

Here is the body of a post I made the other day on:
http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/000909.html#000909

The 'human battery' thing is bullshit, I never bought it from the first movie. Humans destroyed most of the world and their advanced machines/programs bottled everyone up to protect Man from the devastation, and from himself. Machines cannot make big decisions regarding humanity, other than taking care of them, and the Matrix is stuck in a rut, the machines don't know what to do with Man. Exiles appear for the reason the Architect stated, because some reject the Matrix, whatever. The exiles can be destroyed, so long as the "protection" of humanity as a whole is more important (see Asimov and his robots.) The Architect may be the most advanced AI, but he is still just a machine, with all of the inherent limitations (Oracle- "machines do what they are intended to do".) What the machines need is to create a machine/program that CAN decide, that in effect is HUMAN. Hence Father Architect and Mother Oracle set out to create NEO, the one that will take control and break the stalemate of the Matrix. Along the way he is trained, manipulated, tested (the kiss from the French guy's girlfriend was a test of Neo's ability to Love - a precurser to the choice he makes about Trinity at the end.) Mother and Father have tried five previous times to create their 'human' son, but failed, because those five Neo's were still just machines and ultimately chose to save Humanity rather than risk it for a girl - because they did not know love. The sixth Neo chooses to save Trinity and risk it all...he can love! But he still has machine abilities, thus the ending where he attacks the sentinals in the real world (assuming of course that it is a real world.) Agent Smith is an abberation - one that was caused by a clash with Neo. Agent Smith seems to have some ability to choose as well, and may very well team up with Neo to straighten this all out, who knows. Thus, this is all about overprotective machines and their inability to free humanity to it's own destructive devises. They realize that humanity is stagnating inside the Matrix, but they do not know how to break the cycle.

They have no free will.

They simply do what they do.

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