From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 13:22:53 MDT
What if the machines have to go through this conflict/destruction/rebirth
cycle as the price for using humans as their power source? (assuming a real
world Zion).
Perhaps knowing they can't fully control the humans (even in the matrix),
they have an "acceptable loss" limit, that they reset every time the
escaped population gets to a certain level (250K, perhaps?). Kind of how a
cable provider might know and accept that some of its field techs are
hooking up their father/mother/ex/buddy/siblings, but hammering down when
they try to hook up the whole neighbourhood?
Or, assuming Zion is VR, perhaps the cycle is a pressure valve that they
allow to blow off steam every few generations or so. Just to keep the
humans from going nuts and dying en mass, or some such.
It's possible the ending to this might just be very, very whacked.
Good movie all the same. People are actually thinking about it, something
they don't seem to have had reason to do since '99.
James...
>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:02:18 -0700
>From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org>
>Subject: RE: my analysis of the Matrix Reloaded
>[SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
>Samantha wrote:
> > One of the choices given by the Architect was to restart the
> > Matrix/human interplay. This to me implies that Zion and the Matrix
> > are within a VR/sim. Much that the Architect said implies this.
> >
>### But choosing 16 women and 7 men (is there some Gnostic hint in these
>numbers?) from the Matrix to leave and build a new Zion is compatible with
>physical existence of Zion.
>Rafal
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