Fresh from The Matrix: Reloaded. Much talk of people not understanding it, not absorbing it all.
It. Made. Perfect. Complete. Logical. Sense.
I want to give my interpretations of it, but I don't want to spoil it for people. So if you haven't seen it, stop reading. Now. Ok, I really mean that. Stop reading. NOW. Ok. No, I mean it. Really. Stop reading.
*looks around* Ok, all clear.
Want to know why the movie makes sense? It’s simple, really, if you understand two points. First, the Matrix is a self perpetuating system with an almost perfect form of error handling - it monitors the one outlier in its system cannot handle already to determine how best to recreate its self in the next version. Every time this outlier occurs, i.e. there is a new "One" in the system, the impulse has been implanted both within the system, through the Oracle, and within the support system, Zion and the Prophecy, for "the One" to return to the source and be analyzed, and recreate the system and the support system in the new version. Secondly, Machines, in any form possible, are finite in terms of their understanding. There are, for machines, no matter how complicated, only numbers. Human beings are, in terms of behavior, nearly infinite in terms of statistical relations. Given enough time in such a system, a nearly infinite outlier will be observed in the data, a data point so outside the mean it is beyond the third or even fourth or fifth standard deviation of a data set. Theoretically, this is very easy for humans to understand - for a machine, this is impossible to understand, as it cannot be described by numbers, except perhaps by a probability so small it would be beyond the computing power of any system imaginable to process it to a precise enough point to be predicted as anything but a zero probability.
That outlier is Neo.
He is the system anomaly, yes, but a system anomaly severe that he was completely unpredicted. The Architect and the Oracle both function to upgrade and maintain the Matrix. The machines allow Zion to exist as the support system for "the One" when he occurs, a society founded by the previous "One" with the soul purpose of perpetuating the process of the error checking function that is the Prophecy. Then why destroy Zion again and again? Simple - free humans are dangerous, especially in large numbers. Thus, a continual cycle of purges occurs, with Zion purged every 60 to 70 years (just longer than the average human life span once freed from the Matrix), repopulated by the new "One" and his chosen.
Now, to the "problem of choice" which is so talked about in the movie. As I said before, humans have a fear of falsehood, that they are being manipulated in some way so that what they perceive is false. We are conditioned to never accept things when they seem too good, to doubt, to fear that which seems too perfect. Perhaps it is because we are terrified of disappointment. That is, quite possibly, the reason humans failed to accept the first Matrix, as Agent Smith describes in the first movie, and the Architect discusses in this. "The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from," according to Agent Smith. Humans could not accept perfection, thus, imperfections have to be continually added to the system to make it "real" to the human mind.
What the hell does this have to do with choice? Simple. Humans _HAVE_ to be free to fuck up their own lives, else we aren't truly free, and, thus, we are not happy. We have to have the illusion of free will, even if it means making a choice which will destroy us. And thus, the true flaw in what the Machines designed as their error mechanism becomes apparent - eventually, an outlier would arise that was _SO_ abhorrent to the forced choice of "save humanity, destroy humanity" that they would chose to destroy the whole of mankind rather than perpetuate the slavery of the human race in the illusion of freedom.
That outlier, as I said, is Neo.
There is, however, a truly terrifying implication that should not be overlooked. What if, in fact, Neo is not so totally outside of the system design at all? What if, instead, he is the ultimate purge system? Just as Zion is purged every 60 to 70 years, what if the Matrix is purged every, say, 600 or 1000 years? A total system shutdown, the purge of all elements within the system (humans), and a sort of full reset initialized, allowing the system to reestablish it’s self in fresh soil, as it were. If there have been six versions of the Matrix, then it must be nearly due for the first purge. Fresh human stock could be started from scratch, more than likely from whatever stock new humans are inserted into the existing system already, and the world reset back to the starting point of its timeline. The Architect claims he designed the Matrix. But this may be the ultimate result of the Oracle’s error correction system, and nothing he designed. Outliers, are, after all, nearly impossible to predict in a system.
Ok, with all of this, and the creepy feeling of the plug back in my skull coming on again, I have one last thing to say. It was pointed out to me the reason we have the fear of the falseness of reality. If our perceptions are false, then what we do does not have any impact. Including reproduction. No reproduction, no passing of on genes, no self perpetuation. That is the source of the fear. Strangely logical.
So what will happen? Neo has, obviously, thrown himself back into the Matrix somehow in his coma. So has Bane, the “host” of Agent Smith (now obviously gone viral), who was the source of the aberrant emp which cost humanity the battle for Zion. The battle in the city will happen. The storm will range, and darkness will cover everything within the Matrix, as it does Earth. What will become of this?
All I know is that the storm rages. And all things which have a beginning, also have an end. The end is coming.
It. Made. Perfect. Complete. Logical. Sense.
I want to give my interpretations of it, but I don't want to spoil it for people. So if you haven't seen it, stop reading. Now. Ok, I really mean that. Stop reading. NOW. Ok. No, I mean it. Really. Stop reading.
*looks around* Ok, all clear.
Want to know why the movie makes sense? It’s simple, really, if you understand two points. First, the Matrix is a self perpetuating system with an almost perfect form of error handling - it monitors the one outlier in its system cannot handle already to determine how best to recreate its self in the next version. Every time this outlier occurs, i.e. there is a new "One" in the system, the impulse has been implanted both within the system, through the Oracle, and within the support system, Zion and the Prophecy, for "the One" to return to the source and be analyzed, and recreate the system and the support system in the new version. Secondly, Machines, in any form possible, are finite in terms of their understanding. There are, for machines, no matter how complicated, only numbers. Human beings are, in terms of behavior, nearly infinite in terms of statistical relations. Given enough time in such a system, a nearly infinite outlier will be observed in the data, a data point so outside the mean it is beyond the third or even fourth or fifth standard deviation of a data set. Theoretically, this is very easy for humans to understand - for a machine, this is impossible to understand, as it cannot be described by numbers, except perhaps by a probability so small it would be beyond the computing power of any system imaginable to process it to a precise enough point to be predicted as anything but a zero probability.
That outlier is Neo.
He is the system anomaly, yes, but a system anomaly severe that he was completely unpredicted. The Architect and the Oracle both function to upgrade and maintain the Matrix. The machines allow Zion to exist as the support system for "the One" when he occurs, a society founded by the previous "One" with the soul purpose of perpetuating the process of the error checking function that is the Prophecy. Then why destroy Zion again and again? Simple - free humans are dangerous, especially in large numbers. Thus, a continual cycle of purges occurs, with Zion purged every 60 to 70 years (just longer than the average human life span once freed from the Matrix), repopulated by the new "One" and his chosen.
Now, to the "problem of choice" which is so talked about in the movie. As I said before, humans have a fear of falsehood, that they are being manipulated in some way so that what they perceive is false. We are conditioned to never accept things when they seem too good, to doubt, to fear that which seems too perfect. Perhaps it is because we are terrified of disappointment. That is, quite possibly, the reason humans failed to accept the first Matrix, as Agent Smith describes in the first movie, and the Architect discusses in this. "The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from," according to Agent Smith. Humans could not accept perfection, thus, imperfections have to be continually added to the system to make it "real" to the human mind.
What the hell does this have to do with choice? Simple. Humans _HAVE_ to be free to fuck up their own lives, else we aren't truly free, and, thus, we are not happy. We have to have the illusion of free will, even if it means making a choice which will destroy us. And thus, the true flaw in what the Machines designed as their error mechanism becomes apparent - eventually, an outlier would arise that was _SO_ abhorrent to the forced choice of "save humanity, destroy humanity" that they would chose to destroy the whole of mankind rather than perpetuate the slavery of the human race in the illusion of freedom.
That outlier, as I said, is Neo.
There is, however, a truly terrifying implication that should not be overlooked. What if, in fact, Neo is not so totally outside of the system design at all? What if, instead, he is the ultimate purge system? Just as Zion is purged every 60 to 70 years, what if the Matrix is purged every, say, 600 or 1000 years? A total system shutdown, the purge of all elements within the system (humans), and a sort of full reset initialized, allowing the system to reestablish it’s self in fresh soil, as it were. If there have been six versions of the Matrix, then it must be nearly due for the first purge. Fresh human stock could be started from scratch, more than likely from whatever stock new humans are inserted into the existing system already, and the world reset back to the starting point of its timeline. The Architect claims he designed the Matrix. But this may be the ultimate result of the Oracle’s error correction system, and nothing he designed. Outliers, are, after all, nearly impossible to predict in a system.
Ok, with all of this, and the creepy feeling of the plug back in my skull coming on again, I have one last thing to say. It was pointed out to me the reason we have the fear of the falseness of reality. If our perceptions are false, then what we do does not have any impact. Including reproduction. No reproduction, no passing of on genes, no self perpetuation. That is the source of the fear. Strangely logical.
So what will happen? Neo has, obviously, thrown himself back into the Matrix somehow in his coma. So has Bane, the “host” of Agent Smith (now obviously gone viral), who was the source of the aberrant emp which cost humanity the battle for Zion. The battle in the city will happen. The storm will range, and darkness will cover everything within the Matrix, as it does Earth. What will become of this?
All I know is that the storm rages. And all things which have a beginning, also have an end. The end is coming.
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