• Pretty Sure Not a Bot
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    10 months ago

    The absurdity that the machines in The Matrix were harvesting human bodies for power. An interesting theory is that the machines were using human brains as a cluster of computing power. Cool article.

    • @echoplex21@lemmy.worldOP
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      5310 months ago

      Actually I don’t think this was even a theory. This was the original intent but the studio thought it was too complex for the GA to understand.

        • @nik282000@lemmy.ml
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          310 months ago

          It was spelled out more clearly in the comics. They even trained human minds to do tasks that the machines could not/did not want to do.

          • Tippon
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            310 months ago

            'Human mind nik282000, identify the cross walks in this series of images…

    • @novibe@lemmy.ml
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      3310 months ago

      The Animatrix shows that the robots keep humans alive likely because they like us, and feel bad about what happened. They want us to keep living, as their creators and “parents”, but understand that if we were free to be all awake and understand reality we’d try to destroy the world again.

    • @Donebrach@lemmy.world
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      2110 months ago

      I thought that was the original draft plot but studio execs thought the audience wouldn’t be able to understand what that meant.

    • @knotthatone
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      1610 months ago

      Humans are terrible batteries/fuel cells. And Orpheus said the machines had fusion power. It makes far more sense that the machines were using humans for computing, not basic metabolism. It’s been mentioned that this was the Wachowskis’ original intention but the suits made them dumb it down for audiences to understand but I haven’t found any direct quotes about that.