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I read somewhere, the initial plan was to use Humans as Neural chips of some sort of collective intelligence, the idea of battery was used in the plot to keep i

I read somewhere, the initial plan was to use Humans as Neural chips of some sort of collective intelligence, the idea of battery was used in the plot to keep it simple and easy to explain.

wnevets 7y ago
Pretty sure I read something similar on IMDB or a site like that. Instead of a battery it was supposed to be about using human brain for computation power a la seti@home
jerf 7y ago
The best evidence for this is that suddenly the entire series starts making more sense. Why can't the machines just take off into space and leave humanity behind? Because they're still running on human meat. It makes sense that the humans shouldn't exactly have control over the simulation, but why do they have any, like Neo? Because the simulation still has huge chunks running in human heads and that part can be influenced strangely, even though I think it's equally clear a great deal of the simulation is running on conventional computers too. (And yes, the Architect may goose that along, but he isn't creating it.) Why can Neo still influence the Matrix even when outside it? Because he still has some kind of subconscious connection to it, with wireless presumably provided by the gear in his body (+ whatever the Architect did). Why are the non-main characters such cardboard cutouts? They're literally running on only a fraction of their own brain; the exiles are the ones that for whatever reason, grew into their own brain more than the average person. And I don't just mean "fanon" sense, though, yes, there's an element of that, but more actual sense. It's still kinda a mess, even from this point of view, but it's pretty good for a Hollywood effort.
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- xtiansimon 7y ago
  > “Why can't the machines just take off into space and leave humanity behind?“ Agent Smith said, humans are a virus. I think he was really speaking about the machines—himself—Virulent, amazing, but not genius. Stupid computer. Haha.
basch 7y ago
If they ever special editioned these movies, its a correction i wish theyd introduce. At this point I just find and replace battery with cpu when I watch the movie, I know what the creators meant, and that producers fucked it up. I see it as a typo, I dont let it take me too far out of the movie.
r00fus 7y ago
That was central to the plotline in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. I always thought they'd "realize their mistake" in the movie but honestly, the reference works either way. Humans being harvested and cultivated like we do plants or animals. Would have made it more real and sinister if they showed someone being jettisonned IRL after an Agent takes them over in the Matrix.
Udik 7y ago
Pity, it's one of the worst aspects of the movie. Why not simply that the machines are programmed to preserve humans, and that's the most efficient way they had to perform the task? Sort of clipboard factory, but with human life as the constraint.

I read somewhere, the initial plan was to use Humans as Neural chips of some sort of collective intelligence, the idea of battery was used in the plot to keep it simple and easy to explain.

wnevets 7y ago

Pretty sure I read something similar on IMDB or a site like that. Instead of a battery it was supposed to be about using human brain for computation power a la seti@home

jerf 7y ago

The best evidence for this is that suddenly the entire series starts making more sense. Why can't the machines just take off into space and leave humanity behind? Because they're still running on human meat. It makes sense that the humans shouldn't exactly have control over the simulation, but why do they have any, like Neo? Because the simulation still has huge chunks running in human heads and that part can be influenced strangely, even though I think it's equally clear a great deal of the simulation is running on conventional computers too. (And yes, the Architect may goose that along, but he isn't creating it.) Why can Neo still influence the Matrix even when outside it? Because he still has some kind of subconscious connection to it, with wireless presumably provided by the gear in his body (+ whatever the Architect did). Why are the non-main characters such cardboard cutouts? They're literally running on only a fraction of their own brain; the exiles are the ones that for whatever reason, grew into their own brain more than the average person. And I don't just mean "fanon" sense, though, yes, there's an element of that, but more actual sense. It's still kinda a mess, even from this point of view, but it's pretty good for a Hollywood effort.

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xtiansimon 7y ago
> “Why can't the machines just take off into space and leave humanity behind?“ Agent Smith said, humans are a virus. I think he was really speaking about the machines—himself—Virulent, amazing, but not genius. Stupid computer. Haha.

basch 7y ago

If they ever special editioned these movies, its a correction i wish theyd introduce. At this point I just find and replace battery with cpu when I watch the movie, I know what the creators meant, and that producers fucked it up. I see it as a typo, I dont let it take me too far out of the movie.

r00fus 7y ago

That was central to the plotline in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. I always thought they'd "realize their mistake" in the movie but honestly, the reference works either way. Humans being harvested and cultivated like we do plants or animals. Would have made it more real and sinister if they showed someone being jettisonned IRL after an Agent takes them over in the Matrix.

Udik 7y ago

Pity, it's one of the worst aspects of the movie. Why not simply that the machines are programmed to preserve humans, and that's the most efficient way they had to perform the task? Sort of clipboard factory, but with human life as the constraint.