Matrix: Villains and Savior
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According to the voting results , we will talk about the Matrix.
Q&A
Two large consistent theories about the Matrix, each divided into several small ones. As always, Easter eggs and small theories are hidden in a spoiler so as not to overload the article.
Nope. I do not like this theory, although it is so popular that it is already on the verge of canon. As for me, this theory is terrible, because with the help of such a trick you can explain anything (it's just a dream). In addition, do not forget about Occam's razor, this theory introduces new entities that are not necessary for explanation.
The Matrix is an anti-utopian cyberpunk. Speaking of it, you have to slip into everything that is discussed on the resource: robotics, AI, programming, energy, etc.
Of course, a lot. Everything about the trilogy and the Animatrix. Other works like Goliath or The Matrix Online are irrelevant in this case. The first, because it describes very strange events (like a collision of cars with aliens), the second - because it is squalor from the point of view of the plot, IMHO. There is also a small spoiler from the Mass Effect game (actually a big one).
The matrix is saturated with various symbols and references. This is very to say the least. There are too many reasons for speculation and, therefore, I decided to concentrate on only two topics.
The villain in the movie is a rather conventional concept.Only Siths Think Absolutes Good drama does not recognize absolutes. It is much more interesting when the antagonist is motivated by something other than the desire to prevent the main character. There is such a character in the Matrix. Cipher. The first part of theories will be about him.
Remember how Neo sits in his cabin and Morpheus comes to him. He says that he must apologize to Neo, that there is a rule according to which it is impossible to release a person who has reached a certain age. The brain does not accept the truth and Morpheus has seen this. He then tells the story of the chosen one and says that he had no choice. So, there is a strict rule that adults cannot be released, and this rule can only be violated in exceptional cases.
From the file Agent Smith shows Neo, we can find out that Thomas Anderson is either 37 or 28.
According to the passport, the date of birth is September 71st.
According to the record in the database - March 1962
I, personally, am inclined to the first option (Although if you take the age of the actor, closer, nevertheless, the second). But let's say Neo is still 37. Then we can say that 35-37 years old is too late to be awakened.
From the conversation of Cypher with Smith in the restaurant, we learn when Cypher was awakened:
“Do you know what I understood in 9 years? The blessing in ignorance "
9 years. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 13 years older than Keanu Reeves. The film also feels like Cypher is older than Neo.
Be that as it may, it is obvious that Cypher was released at a conscious age and it is not clear why, because the rule prohibits doing this.
We look further. Cypher was in love with Trinity and, according to some awkward dialogs, it can be assumed that for a short time, Trinity showed him signs of attention. It turns out that according to the forecast of Pythia, Cypher could be elected.
Now imagine a story: Morpheus brings Cypher and tells him how very soon he (Cypher) will otkungfuit all agents and save humanity. Trinity sympathizes with him, the team looks at him like a hero. Based on Smith’s same conversation with Cypher, the latter definitely likes attention. He probably respected Morpheus as a leader and believed him while he said that Cypher would save the world. But, it soon turned out that Cypher was not chosen.
Perhaps Morpheus also brought him to Pythia, she also told Cypher that he was not the one, and Cypher was killed. Neo reacted rather calmly to the news that he was not the chosen one, he was even glad. But for Cypher - it was a tragedy. He was disappointed in the leader who was lying to him, he lost his beloved, who became interested in this new type, he can not do anything significant, but is forced to live in this cold world and eat the same mess every day. It is not surprising that all he can think of is: “Why didn’t I take another pill!”
At the beginning of the first film, we hear Cypher talking with Trinity:
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did you hear? -Heard what? Are you sure the line is clean? -Of course I'm sure.
At this point, the police rush in. Immediately after Trinity finishes them, she calls Morpheus:
“Morpheus, the line is being tracked, I don’t know how.”
-I know they cut the cable.
After that, we hear the conversation of agents who say that the informant did not fail and now they know the name of the target.
Morpheus is smart enough to even suspect that something was amiss after the attack on Trinity, but he does not investigate the incident and is not surprised at the fact that the agents figured out Neo just after that conversation between Trinity and Cipher.
It is likely that the Pythia told Morpheus about Cypher's betrayal, and even convinced that it was impossible to intervene, since it was this betrayal that would launch a chain of events thanks to which Neo would become the chosen one.
If you doubt Morpheus’s determination, remember the scene where he tells Neo about agents.
The whole scene is magnificent and the music and the woman in red. But here is what Morphus Neo said:
"... The Matrix is the system, Neo. The system is our enemy. But when you are inside, look around. What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The minds of the very people we are trying to save. But until then, these people they are still part of the system and therefore they are our enemies. You must understand that most of these people are not ready to wake up. Many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to defend it.
Now imagine that the conversation is between a recruiter to a terrorist organization and a newcomer. In fact, Morpheus r vorit: our goal - the highest, and the end justifies the means.
Morpheus installations work perfectly. Remember the cult scene when Neo and Trinity break into the building where they hold Morpheus. Now look at this scene from the perspective of the ordinary security guards who work in this building. One of them didn’t even have time to finish his coffee when Neo discharged a clip into it. In fact, Neo and Trinity could just knock them out or distract them. At least somehow try to avoid the victims, but instead, they staged a real massacre.
And if you still doubt how Wachowski himself related to Morpheus, here's a clear illustration:
Morpheus offers Neo the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Having tasted it, Neo will leave Eden forever.
Back to the scene where Cypher is at the table in the restaurant with Agent Smith. It was at this meeting that Cypher surrenders to Morpheus. But who connected it to the matrix, and even if he connected himself, we know for sure that without an operator, you cannot get out of the matrix. Even if it were possible, it was risky, because anyone could see him in an armchair and read what was happening on the monitor.
There are two points to remember.
1) Mouse suggests Neo have fun with a woman in red, it causes a grin, but not surprise.
2) when Neo approaches Cypher, he gets scared, and then he says, looking at the monitor: I see a blonde, a brunette, a redhead ...
Cypher could ask Mouse to arrange a date with the girl in red and stand on the stream until he finishes. Moreover, he could ask Mouse not to look at the screen. To be sure, he could do this several times and make sure that Mouse was not looking. Even if he looked at the screen, he would only have to be killed, and this is better than the whole crew.
It can be assumed that Mouse would not arrange a date in the matrix (too dangerous), but he could use the boot program. Cypher, at the same time, could write his own program, which would allow him to move from the designer to the matrix (we know that this is possible from the stage “we need weapons, a lot of weapons”). Perhaps it was precisely at the writing of this program that Neo caught Cypher. If you agree that Morpheus knew about the coming betrayal, then you can even assume that he did everything so that Cypher's plan was a success.
Ironically, just before his death, Mouse looks at a poster with a red woman who killed him.
From the animatrix we learn how the conflict developed. AIs were becoming more widespread in the world, but people treated them like slaves. All this lasted until one of the robots killed a person. This spurred hatred of cars and a wave of violence swept across the world. Then the cars left and built their city under the name 0.1 (you can evaluate the modesty of the cars). Further, the shares of 0.1 companies grew sharply and their economy flourished, strong production destroyed the production of people, caused unemployment, which led to an armed conflict. Cars greatly exceeded people and then they (people) decided on a desperate step: to hide the sun forever behind the clouds. Cars captured people and began to use them as a source of energy. After some time, people began to grow.
1) creating their city, they continued to deliver goods to people, although there was no need for it
2) the killing of a person with a machine caused a whole storm. This was the first case, and then self-defense
3) after the final victory, the machines not only enslaved people, they placed them in a virtual environment where everyone can be happy (the first iteration of the matrix). What enemy did this to a defeated enemy? And not just an enemy, let's call a spade a spade, close the sky - it was an attempt at genocide.
The human body, no matter what Morpheus says, cannot be a source of nutrition. Firstly, no matter how much energy the body produces, this energy should feed not only the machines, but also the matrix itself (how many servers are it), and if we add to this the energy spent on growing the body and maintaining life in it, then this you need to figure out who owes whom. In fact, this is a violation of the 1st law of thermodynamics, but who cares.
We can assume that the machines still found some way to efficiently receive energy from the human body, but why? The first generation worked on solar panels, but what prevents cars from replacing the power source? For example, nuclear reactors? Or windmills (they have all the rules with the wind) or whatever. With the absence of economic barriers, free labor, high intelligence, and a desire to survive, cars should have mastered a closed fuel cycle for a decade, a maximum.
For a highly developed AI, the machines behave in a very silly way.
Besides everything else, we know for sure that people were not used as a power source by the end of the third film, otherwise, the cars would not let them go under any circumstances.
We know that they recreated the matrix at least 6 times and destroyed Zion. What for? According to the architect, this was necessary in order to identify people who would not accept the program. Now imagine these two dozen people with atrophied muscles who somehow got out of the city of cars and got to a safe place, and then built the city, etc. It's pretty hard to imagine that. Zion, like ships and all technology, was not created by people who escaped from the first matrix.
On the ships that we saw in the film, stamping is made in the USA. (Nameplate on the ship: MARK III No. 11 / Nebuchadnezzar / Made in the USA / Year 2069. Mark 3:11 - “And the unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell before Him and shouted: You are the Son of God.”) Now we count . The matrix was created six times, each time the Chosen One brought out two dozen people. By the third film, about 250,000 people live in Zion. How much growth would it take? years 100? In total, about 600 years. With all due respect to American industry, like any other, but technology of this level of complexity can not survive 600 years, not to mention paint.
Next, a little observation. Zion, in addition to referring to Jerusalem, bears a resemblance to the name of the city of cars. The first city of cars was called 0,1 => zero one => z-one [zi one] => zion
It turns out that the machines not only allowed the freed people to escape from the matrix, but also provided them with everything necessary (including machines running on geothermal energy (and what prevented them from using it themselves?))
But if so, then why did they end up destroy the entire population of people? What are they afraid of? let's look at the people in the zion:
And then take a look at the city of cars.
What harm could people do to cars ?? At the end of the first matrix, Neo speaks menacingly into the phone: I am following you, but in the second part we see that the maximum he can do is kill all the agents. And to hell with them, the matrix, as it were, works like that, but nothing threatens the city.
But the main question: What have the cars been doing all this time? They have no religion, they have no one to serve, all they need is a source of food, but what is the point? They did not begin space expansion, although they could, did not even begin to spread across the earth. What do they do in the evenings? How do you spend your weekend? And the weekend from what? I mean, what other work do they have besides defense, attack and matrix support?
Now my theory. If you played the mass effect, you remember the key question that the reapers had to answer (if they didn’t play, it doesn’t matter, the question was how to resolve the inevitable conflict between the living and the AI) I think the machines worked on the same issue, but they found the answer.
What are cars afraid of? People can’t do any harm, even if they release everyone in the matrix. And we know that revenge is not inherent in machines. We note one more thing. Suppose all people were freed, but the status quo in relations with the machines remained. How will billions of people live without the sun? What will they eat? How to develop technology? This is certain death. In less than a year, as throughout the world, people would begin to destroy each other for resources. It seems to me, in this case, the machines play the same role as the reapers in Mass Effect, they strictly control people in order to avoid their complete destruction. When Zion reaches a certain point in the population, the city is destroyed in order to avoid a painful death from starvation. Essentially, this is the same idea of Zero Law. robotics, which conflicts with the first.
The fact that the appearance of the chosen one is the architect’s idea we already know from the second film, but what if he lied about the reasons or didn’t know them?
Machines were created to serve. They were supposed to save humanity. It seems to me that this is what they were doing.
Suppose cars originally sought peace, but from bitter experience they knew that people prone to xenophobia were intolerant of cars, especially after losing the war. But to keep people in slavery is also unacceptable for cars, because this is not a salvation. It was necessary to figure out how to help people see the possibility of peaceful coexistence. At the same time, the idea of peace should have come from people (machines themselves have repeatedly offered peace to people). Among other things, people are their creators, which child does not want love from the side of the parent. Being tyrants over people for cars would be unbearable. But how to bring people to the idea of peace? How to make them understand?
Solution: Simulate a world in which machines can inspire the right thought to all people. The first matrix was a utopia in which everyone was happy. To paint a world in which people and machines help each other live was a pretty obvious idea, but, as we know, people did not accept the simulation. I had to look for another way.
It was necessary to instill the right thought in the framework of the world familiar to people. One of the people, who will follow all of humanity, had to offer them a truce. And who better fits this role than the savior prophet? At the same time, everything must be done so that people do not feel the forgery (and the machines already know that people are susceptible to deception) the slightest hint of manipulation and people will hate them even more.
Then a cycle was invented (almost the same effect as in the masses) and only one who breaks this cycle can be considered a carrier of free will. He will follow whom, because he has done everything in defiance.
Next, we needed people outside the matrix who were aware of the situation, because people in the matrix would not have followed the prophet, simply because they were told so. If the Chosen One did not break the cycle, all traces of the previous experiment should have been destroyed.
Remember, when Neo comes to the city of cars and speaks with their chief about Smith, he argues with Neo. When the latter offers the world, the evil machine god immediately connects it to the matrix. Later, if you look at the scene just before all the Smiths are destroyed, you will notice that the impulse (or whatever) triggering the chain reaction was on the wireto Neo , not from him. If Neo had somehow destroyed Smith, the signal had to go from Neo to the server, and not vice versa. It turns out that it was the machines that ultimately destroyed Smith and Neo, by and large, was not needed for this.
After the end of the film, centuries will pass and the legend of Neo will be passed down from generation to generation, overgrown with mystical details. 300 years will pass and this will become a full-fledged religion. She will very successfully lie on the idea of the end of the world and the second coming. And the main covenant of this new messiah will be the world with cars!
This explains the overflow of Christian symbolism. The name of the ship, the nicknames of the heroes, the name of the city, the general plot, all this could be in one way or another, inspired by cars, so that people unconsciously feel similarity.
It seems to me that for 600 years they have developed all the technology to disperse the clouds and terraform the earth. Why haven't they done this before? Two reasons:
1) People will value help, not given.
2) People disconnected from the matrix, should see the result of the actions of their ancestors, for them it should become a reality. Then, they, like Cypher, realize that all this time the machines protected them from the truth, and did not keep them locked up.
Thus, machines did exactly what they were created for, they saved humanity from itself. At the same time, they implemented an ingenious multi-path (600 years ahead!) What, in principle, only supercomputers are capable of.
There are many stories about how machines will destroy humanity, moreover, we are already starting to fear AI. Constantly flickering news about the Mask , then about Hawking . But we must take into account that these are people and not cars full of chauvinism of ideas about racial superiority, etc.This is, in the 21st century, we are still fighting religious wars and believe in horoscopes. So fear is more likely for AI.
In this article, xmeoff asks why 1999 is simulated in the Matrix?
Here is my version. First you need to understand that in the matrix, if there is a concept of time - it should be very different from time in our world, otherwise the machines could not keep everything on the same level for hundreds of years, even taking into account reboots. It can also explain the finale of the first part (attack on the ship), when events in the matrix and real-time events are not synchronous. We know that the action takes place at the end of the sixth cycle and it is at the end of 1999. It seems to me for two reasons. At the end of the 20th century, there were two topics that worried the whole world in one form or another.
1) general religious sentiment, fear of the apocalypse.
2) It has been a year, Y2K problems. Although by that time, many experts were sure that nothing threatened the world, but the media fanned the problem. It was in this year that a real realization came of how much we depend on machines and this awareness came to people who might not have their own PC.
Using these moods, the machines achieved two goals:
1) people disconnected from the matrix, for the most part, are ready to accept an apocalyptic reality
2) these people tend to understand their dependence on cars and will easily accept new orders
That's all. Suggest new topics in the comments and vote for the next one in the survey.
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According to the voting results , we will talk about the Matrix.
Q&A
What is it this time?
Two large consistent theories about the Matrix, each divided into several small ones. As always, Easter eggs and small theories are hidden in a spoiler so as not to overload the article.
Is it about the Matrix in the Matrix?
Nope. I do not like this theory, although it is so popular that it is already on the verge of canon. As for me, this theory is terrible, because with the help of such a trick you can explain anything (it's just a dream). In addition, do not forget about Occam's razor, this theory introduces new entities that are not necessary for explanation.
Why should i read this
The Matrix is an anti-utopian cyberpunk. Speaking of it, you have to slip into everything that is discussed on the resource: robotics, AI, programming, energy, etc.
Spoilers
Of course, a lot. Everything about the trilogy and the Animatrix. Other works like Goliath or The Matrix Online are irrelevant in this case. The first, because it describes very strange events (like a collision of cars with aliens), the second - because it is squalor from the point of view of the plot, IMHO. There is also a small spoiler from the Mass Effect game (actually a big one).
The matrix is saturated with various symbols and references. This is very to say the least. There are too many reasons for speculation and, therefore, I decided to concentrate on only two topics.
1. Cipher
The villain in the movie is a rather conventional concept.
by the way, about the villains in the first matrix
In the first film, there is such a funny separation of characters. All “Good” guys wear round or oval glasses.
While the "villains" prefer rectangular.
If you know about this at the beginning - you can notice the spoiler:
While the "villains" prefer rectangular.
If you know about this at the beginning - you can notice the spoiler:
1.1. Cipher was to be elected
Remember how Neo sits in his cabin and Morpheus comes to him. He says that he must apologize to Neo, that there is a rule according to which it is impossible to release a person who has reached a certain age. The brain does not accept the truth and Morpheus has seen this. He then tells the story of the chosen one and says that he had no choice. So, there is a strict rule that adults cannot be released, and this rule can only be violated in exceptional cases.
From the file Agent Smith shows Neo, we can find out that Thomas Anderson is either 37 or 28.
According to the passport, the date of birth is September 71st.
According to the record in the database - March 1962
I, personally, am inclined to the first option (Although if you take the age of the actor, closer, nevertheless, the second). But let's say Neo is still 37. Then we can say that 35-37 years old is too late to be awakened.
From the conversation of Cypher with Smith in the restaurant, we learn when Cypher was awakened:
“Do you know what I understood in 9 years? The blessing in ignorance "
9 years. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 13 years older than Keanu Reeves. The film also feels like Cypher is older than Neo.
Be that as it may, it is obvious that Cypher was released at a conscious age and it is not clear why, because the rule prohibits doing this.
We look further. Cypher was in love with Trinity and, according to some awkward dialogs, it can be assumed that for a short time, Trinity showed him signs of attention. It turns out that according to the forecast of Pythia, Cypher could be elected.
Now imagine a story: Morpheus brings Cypher and tells him how very soon he (Cypher) will otkungfuit all agents and save humanity. Trinity sympathizes with him, the team looks at him like a hero. Based on Smith’s same conversation with Cypher, the latter definitely likes attention. He probably respected Morpheus as a leader and believed him while he said that Cypher would save the world. But, it soon turned out that Cypher was not chosen.
Perhaps Morpheus also brought him to Pythia, she also told Cypher that he was not the one, and Cypher was killed. Neo reacted rather calmly to the news that he was not the chosen one, he was even glad. But for Cypher - it was a tragedy. He was disappointed in the leader who was lying to him, he lost his beloved, who became interested in this new type, he can not do anything significant, but is forced to live in this cold world and eat the same mess every day. It is not surprising that all he can think of is: “Why didn’t I take another pill!”
1.2 Morpheus knew of the coming betrayal
At the beginning of the first film, we hear Cypher talking with Trinity:
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did you hear? -Heard what? Are you sure the line is clean? -Of course I'm sure.
At this point, the police rush in. Immediately after Trinity finishes them, she calls Morpheus:
“Morpheus, the line is being tracked, I don’t know how.”
-I know they cut the cable.
After that, we hear the conversation of agents who say that the informant did not fail and now they know the name of the target.
Morpheus is smart enough to even suspect that something was amiss after the attack on Trinity, but he does not investigate the incident and is not surprised at the fact that the agents figured out Neo just after that conversation between Trinity and Cipher.
It is likely that the Pythia told Morpheus about Cypher's betrayal, and even convinced that it was impossible to intervene, since it was this betrayal that would launch a chain of events thanks to which Neo would become the chosen one.
If you doubt Morpheus’s determination, remember the scene where he tells Neo about agents.
The whole scene is magnificent and the music and the woman in red. But here is what Morphus Neo said:
"... The Matrix is the system, Neo. The system is our enemy. But when you are inside, look around. What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The minds of the very people we are trying to save. But until then, these people they are still part of the system and therefore they are our enemies. You must understand that most of these people are not ready to wake up. Many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to defend it.
Now imagine that the conversation is between a recruiter to a terrorist organization and a newcomer. In fact, Morpheus r vorit: our goal - the highest, and the end justifies the means.
lazy programmers
Speaking of this scene. Wachowski specifically took on the role of extras twins, so that it seemed as if the lazy programmer, when constructing the world, was too lazy to register each person individually and simply copied half.
I have selected a few, you can search for the rest yourself.
I have selected a few, you can search for the rest yourself.
Morpheus installations work perfectly. Remember the cult scene when Neo and Trinity break into the building where they hold Morpheus. Now look at this scene from the perspective of the ordinary security guards who work in this building. One of them didn’t even have time to finish his coffee when Neo discharged a clip into it. In fact, Neo and Trinity could just knock them out or distract them. At least somehow try to avoid the victims, but instead, they staged a real massacre.
And if you still doubt how Wachowski himself related to Morpheus, here's a clear illustration:
Morpheus offers Neo the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Having tasted it, Neo will leave Eden forever.
1.3. Who helped Cypher try the steak
Back to the scene where Cypher is at the table in the restaurant with Agent Smith. It was at this meeting that Cypher surrenders to Morpheus. But who connected it to the matrix, and even if he connected himself, we know for sure that without an operator, you cannot get out of the matrix. Even if it were possible, it was risky, because anyone could see him in an armchair and read what was happening on the monitor.
There are two points to remember.
1) Mouse suggests Neo have fun with a woman in red, it causes a grin, but not surprise.
2) when Neo approaches Cypher, he gets scared, and then he says, looking at the monitor: I see a blonde, a brunette, a redhead ...
Cypher could ask Mouse to arrange a date with the girl in red and stand on the stream until he finishes. Moreover, he could ask Mouse not to look at the screen. To be sure, he could do this several times and make sure that Mouse was not looking. Even if he looked at the screen, he would only have to be killed, and this is better than the whole crew.
It can be assumed that Mouse would not arrange a date in the matrix (too dangerous), but he could use the boot program. Cypher, at the same time, could write his own program, which would allow him to move from the designer to the matrix (we know that this is possible from the stage “we need weapons, a lot of weapons”). Perhaps it was precisely at the writing of this program that Neo caught Cypher. If you agree that Morpheus knew about the coming betrayal, then you can even assume that he did everything so that Cypher's plan was a success.
Ironically, just before his death, Mouse looks at a poster with a red woman who killed him.
And more about Cypher
During a meeting with Smith, Cypher puts forward his demands. He says:
“I don't want to remember anything, nothing, understand?” And I want to be rich, someone important , such as an actor.
This is funny, because the actors, although they may be rich, are hardly “important”. Although there were a few exceptions. And, for clarity, Smith at the beginning of the dialogue calls Cypher by his last name:
“Have we agreed, Mr. Reagan ?”
“I don't want to remember anything, nothing, understand?” And I want to be rich, someone important , such as an actor.
This is funny, because the actors, although they may be rich, are hardly “important”. Although there were a few exceptions. And, for clarity, Smith at the beginning of the dialogue calls Cypher by his last name:
“Have we agreed, Mr. Reagan ?”
2. Let's move on to another big topic: cars
From the animatrix we learn how the conflict developed. AIs were becoming more widespread in the world, but people treated them like slaves. All this lasted until one of the robots killed a person. This spurred hatred of cars and a wave of violence swept across the world. Then the cars left and built their city under the name 0.1 (you can evaluate the modesty of the cars). Further, the shares of 0.1 companies grew sharply and their economy flourished, strong production destroyed the production of people, caused unemployment, which led to an armed conflict. Cars greatly exceeded people and then they (people) decided on a desperate step: to hide the sun forever behind the clouds. Cars captured people and began to use them as a source of energy. After some time, people began to grow.
2.1. Cars clearly did not hate people at any stage
1) creating their city, they continued to deliver goods to people, although there was no need for it
2) the killing of a person with a machine caused a whole storm. This was the first case, and then self-defense
3) after the final victory, the machines not only enslaved people, they placed them in a virtual environment where everyone can be happy (the first iteration of the matrix). What enemy did this to a defeated enemy? And not just an enemy, let's call a spade a spade, close the sky - it was an attempt at genocide.
2.2. Source of power?
The human body, no matter what Morpheus says, cannot be a source of nutrition. Firstly, no matter how much energy the body produces, this energy should feed not only the machines, but also the matrix itself (how many servers are it), and if we add to this the energy spent on growing the body and maintaining life in it, then this you need to figure out who owes whom. In fact, this is a violation of the 1st law of thermodynamics, but who cares.
Rendering problems
Remember this scene?
Someone hates her, someone on the contrary loves her. But as a fact, at some point, it begins to seem that you are watching a Pixar cartoon. In forums, people explain it this way: the “program” of the chosen one should be quite heavy, because it constantly causes glitches in the program (like waves before take-off), Smith, as the antipode of the chosen one, also has to weigh a lot. Therefore, the more Smiths, the worse. At the moment when the agents are leaning on Neo, we again see a decent picture. Apparently, due to the fact that the objects stopped moving.
Someone hates her, someone on the contrary loves her. But as a fact, at some point, it begins to seem that you are watching a Pixar cartoon. In forums, people explain it this way: the “program” of the chosen one should be quite heavy, because it constantly causes glitches in the program (like waves before take-off), Smith, as the antipode of the chosen one, also has to weigh a lot. Therefore, the more Smiths, the worse. At the moment when the agents are leaning on Neo, we again see a decent picture. Apparently, due to the fact that the objects stopped moving.
We can assume that the machines still found some way to efficiently receive energy from the human body, but why? The first generation worked on solar panels, but what prevents cars from replacing the power source? For example, nuclear reactors? Or windmills (they have all the rules with the wind) or whatever. With the absence of economic barriers, free labor, high intelligence, and a desire to survive, cars should have mastered a closed fuel cycle for a decade, a maximum.
For a highly developed AI, the machines behave in a very silly way.
Besides everything else, we know for sure that people were not used as a power source by the end of the third film, otherwise, the cars would not let them go under any circumstances.
2.3. The machines created Zion and all the equipment for people.
We know that they recreated the matrix at least 6 times and destroyed Zion. What for? According to the architect, this was necessary in order to identify people who would not accept the program. Now imagine these two dozen people with atrophied muscles who somehow got out of the city of cars and got to a safe place, and then built the city, etc. It's pretty hard to imagine that. Zion, like ships and all technology, was not created by people who escaped from the first matrix.
On the ships that we saw in the film, stamping is made in the USA. (Nameplate on the ship: MARK III No. 11 / Nebuchadnezzar / Made in the USA / Year 2069. Mark 3:11 - “And the unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell before Him and shouted: You are the Son of God.”) Now we count . The matrix was created six times, each time the Chosen One brought out two dozen people. By the third film, about 250,000 people live in Zion. How much growth would it take? years 100? In total, about 600 years. With all due respect to American industry, like any other, but technology of this level of complexity can not survive 600 years, not to mention paint.
Next, a little observation. Zion, in addition to referring to Jerusalem, bears a resemblance to the name of the city of cars. The first city of cars was called 0,1 => zero one => z-one [zi one] => zion
It turns out that the machines not only allowed the freed people to escape from the matrix, but also provided them with everything necessary (including machines running on geothermal energy (and what prevented them from using it themselves?))
But if so, then why did they end up destroy the entire population of people? What are they afraid of? let's look at the people in the zion:
And then take a look at the city of cars.
What harm could people do to cars ?? At the end of the first matrix, Neo speaks menacingly into the phone: I am following you, but in the second part we see that the maximum he can do is kill all the agents. And to hell with them, the matrix, as it were, works like that, but nothing threatens the city.
And more about the glamorous people in Zion
Why are they all dark? They have not seen the rays of the sun in life, but for some reason they are all dark.
Answer: the lack of sunlight was supposed to cause a lack of vitamin D, which would lead to serious consequences. In order to avoid this, apparently, people in Zion had to spend some time in the solarium.
Answer: the lack of sunlight was supposed to cause a lack of vitamin D, which would lead to serious consequences. In order to avoid this, apparently, people in Zion had to spend some time in the solarium.
2.4. Cars follow the Zero Law
But the main question: What have the cars been doing all this time? They have no religion, they have no one to serve, all they need is a source of food, but what is the point? They did not begin space expansion, although they could, did not even begin to spread across the earth. What do they do in the evenings? How do you spend your weekend? And the weekend from what? I mean, what other work do they have besides defense, attack and matrix support?
Now my theory. If you played the mass effect, you remember the key question that the reapers had to answer (if they didn’t play, it doesn’t matter, the question was how to resolve the inevitable conflict between the living and the AI) I think the machines worked on the same issue, but they found the answer.
What are cars afraid of? People can’t do any harm, even if they release everyone in the matrix. And we know that revenge is not inherent in machines. We note one more thing. Suppose all people were freed, but the status quo in relations with the machines remained. How will billions of people live without the sun? What will they eat? How to develop technology? This is certain death. In less than a year, as throughout the world, people would begin to destroy each other for resources. It seems to me, in this case, the machines play the same role as the reapers in Mass Effect, they strictly control people in order to avoid their complete destruction. When Zion reaches a certain point in the population, the city is destroyed in order to avoid a painful death from starvation. Essentially, this is the same idea of Zero Law. robotics, which conflicts with the first.
2.5. The chosen one is really jesus
The fact that the appearance of the chosen one is the architect’s idea we already know from the second film, but what if he lied about the reasons or didn’t know them?
Machines were created to serve. They were supposed to save humanity. It seems to me that this is what they were doing.
Suppose cars originally sought peace, but from bitter experience they knew that people prone to xenophobia were intolerant of cars, especially after losing the war. But to keep people in slavery is also unacceptable for cars, because this is not a salvation. It was necessary to figure out how to help people see the possibility of peaceful coexistence. At the same time, the idea of peace should have come from people (machines themselves have repeatedly offered peace to people). Among other things, people are their creators, which child does not want love from the side of the parent. Being tyrants over people for cars would be unbearable. But how to bring people to the idea of peace? How to make them understand?
Solution: Simulate a world in which machines can inspire the right thought to all people. The first matrix was a utopia in which everyone was happy. To paint a world in which people and machines help each other live was a pretty obvious idea, but, as we know, people did not accept the simulation. I had to look for another way.
It was necessary to instill the right thought in the framework of the world familiar to people. One of the people, who will follow all of humanity, had to offer them a truce. And who better fits this role than the savior prophet? At the same time, everything must be done so that people do not feel the forgery (and the machines already know that people are susceptible to deception) the slightest hint of manipulation and people will hate them even more.
Then a cycle was invented (almost the same effect as in the masses) and only one who breaks this cycle can be considered a carrier of free will. He will follow whom, because he has done everything in defiance.
Next, we needed people outside the matrix who were aware of the situation, because people in the matrix would not have followed the prophet, simply because they were told so. If the Chosen One did not break the cycle, all traces of the previous experiment should have been destroyed.
Remember, when Neo comes to the city of cars and speaks with their chief about Smith, he argues with Neo. When the latter offers the world, the evil machine god immediately connects it to the matrix. Later, if you look at the scene just before all the Smiths are destroyed, you will notice that the impulse (or whatever) triggering the chain reaction was on the wireto Neo , not from him. If Neo had somehow destroyed Smith, the signal had to go from Neo to the server, and not vice versa. It turns out that it was the machines that ultimately destroyed Smith and Neo, by and large, was not needed for this.
Speaking of the main car
In the credits you can find out what it is called:
God from the car . This is pretty good self-irony.
God from the car . This is pretty good self-irony.
After the end of the film, centuries will pass and the legend of Neo will be passed down from generation to generation, overgrown with mystical details. 300 years will pass and this will become a full-fledged religion. She will very successfully lie on the idea of the end of the world and the second coming. And the main covenant of this new messiah will be the world with cars!
This explains the overflow of Christian symbolism. The name of the ship, the nicknames of the heroes, the name of the city, the general plot, all this could be in one way or another, inspired by cars, so that people unconsciously feel similarity.
To strengthen the world, machines will help people restore the earth
It seems to me that for 600 years they have developed all the technology to disperse the clouds and terraform the earth. Why haven't they done this before? Two reasons:
1) People will value help, not given.
2) People disconnected from the matrix, should see the result of the actions of their ancestors, for them it should become a reality. Then, they, like Cypher, realize that all this time the machines protected them from the truth, and did not keep them locked up.
conclusions
Thus, machines did exactly what they were created for, they saved humanity from itself. At the same time, they implemented an ingenious multi-path (600 years ahead!) What, in principle, only supercomputers are capable of.
There are many stories about how machines will destroy humanity, moreover, we are already starting to fear AI. Constantly flickering news about the Mask , then about Hawking . But we must take into account that these are people and not cars full of chauvinism of ideas about racial superiority, etc.This is, in the 21st century, we are still fighting religious wars and believe in horoscopes. So fear is more likely for AI.
Small bonus
In this article, xmeoff asks why 1999 is simulated in the Matrix?
Here is my version. First you need to understand that in the matrix, if there is a concept of time - it should be very different from time in our world, otherwise the machines could not keep everything on the same level for hundreds of years, even taking into account reboots. It can also explain the finale of the first part (attack on the ship), when events in the matrix and real-time events are not synchronous. We know that the action takes place at the end of the sixth cycle and it is at the end of 1999. It seems to me for two reasons. At the end of the 20th century, there were two topics that worried the whole world in one form or another.
1) general religious sentiment, fear of the apocalypse.
2) It has been a year, Y2K problems. Although by that time, many experts were sure that nothing threatened the world, but the media fanned the problem. It was in this year that a real realization came of how much we depend on machines and this awareness came to people who might not have their own PC.
Using these moods, the machines achieved two goals:
1) people disconnected from the matrix, for the most part, are ready to accept an apocalyptic reality
2) these people tend to understand their dependence on cars and will easily accept new orders
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