From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:13:15 MDT
Spoiler space for those who have not seen Reloaded or Kid's Story (animatrix)
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I have been musing over the whole matrix issue, both the possibility of our
world being a Simulation and the Matrix films. I will concentrate this thread
on the fictional world.
Here is some questions and insights that have been thrown up in my mind and I
would like to throw them out there to see if someone can add to them.
In Kids story (Animatrix), it is shown that a persons avatar can die in the
matrix and their real body can survive, through will power, belief or faith
(depending on your interpretation). This is shown when Kid throws himself from
the top of his high school building and plunges to a certain high speed
concrete poisoning death. He is then shown to be alive and presumably on the
Nebucanesser with Neo. I believe he is the young lad that runs up to Neo to carry the
bags when they dock at Zion in Matrix Reloaded. ( I consider this a nice touch
as his character was not explained with enough depth in the film. After
seeing the Animatrix, several things that were said about him in Reloaded now make
sense. )
Neo is also killed at the end of the Matrix and yet survives in the real
world, albeit after a brief moment of death for the sake of audience suspense.
This would suggest that anyone who is mentally equipped enough to
except their avatars virtual death, could survive the event in the real world. Not
just 'The One'
If so, this creates an interesting logic question. What happens to people in
the matrix who's avatar is killed without their knowledge? By this we could
imagine a person that dies unexpectedly while asleep by a method that is
instantaneous, such as a nuclear bomb or any bomb for that matter. Surely if anyone
can survive the death of their avatar (as inferred), then these people would
instantly awake within their pod in the real world?
If the cause of death is the fact that 'the body cannot live without the
mind' and 'your mind makes it real' as Morpeous explained loosely in the first
film. Then surely a complete lack of knowledge regarding your avatars demise
would prevent your mind from 'making it real.'
Perhaps this could explain how so many people have come to be freed from the
matrix and the large populus of Zion. Maybe it could explain how the first
escapees arose from 'the world that was pulled over their eyes'.
Alex
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