I remember reading on Stack Overflow that the writers originally wanted for the human minds to be critical to a neural network, not actually used as a power sou

I remember reading on Stack Overflow that the writers originally wanted for the human minds to be critical to a neural network, not actually used as a power source, but Hollywood executive producers didn’t think cinema audience could understand this concept: “The original story had the brains of the humans being used as part of a neural network for additional computing power. But the suits thought that was too hard for people to understand.” [0] [0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix/19819#19819 https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...