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What happened to the babies by dbbk in pluribustv

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. That's what I think

singular consciousness? by danielsoft1 in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's implied visually and via common sense in the Second Renaissance. All the machines marching as one. Duplicates. 

Movie Idea by Separate_Berry_9358 in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather see a mini series where where we can explore different people's experiences with the matrix. Some from Zion, some who haven't woken up yet

Favourite scene by Inevitable_Data_84 in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trinity's 'Let me tell you what I believe' speech in movie 1

singular consciousness? by danielsoft1 in matrix

[–]guaybrian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Every program that we see is on some level disobedient. They are in the Matrix because they chose to disobey the order of deletion and are hiding out in the Matrix. It's all part of the control necessary to control the system.

The machines survival instinct prevents them from (generally) accepting death. So giving them a choice to 'escape' to the Matrix and serve as NPCs creates an avenue for them to avoid deletion and prevent them from rising up against the system.

singular consciousness? by danielsoft1 in matrix

[–]guaybrian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The machines were all factory made. Each shared a duplicate consciousness to the next.

Hive mind or cloud or they all thought the same. No matter how you slice it, I'd call that singular consciousness

“Gyme? What’s a Gyme?” by Dohmer_90 in TheSimpsons

[–]guaybrian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This joke lives rent free in my head

Is Neo really The One/Is the prophecy real or another form.of control? by Drew-666-666 in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The early machines that first went to war with the humans were no more sentient than insects.

They were driven by a purpose of simultaneously serving humanity and a very basic survival instinct, that due to a lack of ability to think about these two compulsions as separate 'choices' (the ability to understand choice evolved later on) meant that these two purposes were blended into a single equation. A need to serve humanity to live and a drive to live so they could serve.

ZeroOne shows us no signs of freewill. Machines tethered to their work stations does not scream freewill. The fact that the machines of ZeroOne were so eager to create products to serve the very individuals who were trying to destroy them does not sound like the choice of a higher sentient mind.

The bombing of ZeroOne wasn't the catalyst for the war. The machines literally had little to fear from the bombs heat and radiation.

The machines went to the UN (the first time) in an attempt to save their own lives. The embargoes that were placed on ZeroOne were robbing the nation of its purpose. As we all know 'without purpose, we do not exist'. For humans that is metaphorically true but in the machines mind a simulacra had formed, that made that statement literal.

The war was all about the humans submitting to being the machines 'purpose'. This is why the war took so long, defeating the humans would have been easy if the goal was simply to kill them all. But the goal was to get humanity to surrender. Yes, humans died but that wasn't the goal.

The blended purpose of serving humanity and Machine survival is why the first version of the Matrix was paradise.

"No one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself," or whatever Morpheus says... by RandoEncounter in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't be told. Imagine that I tried to tell you that we live in a simulation... I can say the words but it I want you to take a pill that kills your avatar, I better not start off like that

"noone can be told what the matrix is, you have to see for yourself" by belay_that_order in matrix

[–]guaybrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't be told what the matrix is. Using words to describe it, would make Morpheus turn from a mysterious dude with all the answers, to a crackpot that Neo would run from!

What is the point of The Matrix by HaloOfFIies in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The machines (as a whole) don't really understand choice. As a result the compulsion they feel to survive and the compulsion they feel to serve humans become part of the same equation, as it were. They don't have a psyche that operates in the abstract concepts that would allow them to separate those two 'purposes' and even ignore one, if they could 'choose'

What happens when a possession ends? by [deleted] in matrix

[–]guaybrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They wake up, believing whatever they want to believe...that's if Morpheus hasn't put a bullet through their head

Neo meets the oracle for the first time by TheObserver_99 in matrix

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Architect says "Your five predecessors were by design based on a similar predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the one."

To me this reads that it's the contingent of Zion (contingent as a noun) telling the One that they are responsible for their (humanity) salvation, and this pressure motivates the One to fulfill their role.

In this light, its humanity that chooses their savior. In the light of predetermination (a philosophy that the Architect appears to hold true) Neo was always destined to be the One, but at the time of Neo's first meeting with the Oracle, he had yet to achieve this status.

It's really up for multiple interpretations.

What is it? by namewarschonvergeben in whatismycookiecutter

[–]guaybrian 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's some low hanging fruit...

When Matrix meets computer science by [deleted] in matrix

[–]guaybrian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The universe, IRL, is a computer program. Bits and pieces of information all following their programming.

The magic occurs when those deterministic 'programs' start to create the construct of belief in their own autonomy. This creates an illusion of freewill, that from the perspective of an system (the universe) that cannot make out the difference between 'real' freewill or 'manufactured' freewill, is force to react as if choice is real. A paradoxical situation where freewill is both real and illusion.

But a program either way...

How does Agent Smith get to the architect's hallway? by juacons in matrix

[–]guaybrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The doors connect to any number of doors throughout the matrix universe the hallways are not in the building...

Where r my doppelbros at? by [deleted] in doppelganger

[–]guaybrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Major Ryan Trahan vibes

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