An almost entirely B.S. free explanation of the matrix

*The guesswork at the ends a little shaky

2. The machines are in all actuality a superior race than humans (it seems obvious, they won the war). They are therefore are able to realize that humans do have a few special qualities that they do not. The foremost being the ability to choose. Machines must adhere to programming; and no matter how fast or how perfect they?re programming it can never beat good old fashion human ingenuity. That?s why some humans can manipulate the Matrix. This is why the original Matrix failed. The first Matrix tried to dictate humans as though they were machines with no choice, but choice is an inherent part of the human make-up. So the paradisiacal matrix was rejected, because humans can?t fit in a world with no choice, and in a perfect world choice could not exist, because humans will always make mistakes and do bad things when given choices. Than they added the oracle to the programming. The oracle added the element of choice and most humans chose to accept the new program. The Merovingian was part of an older Matrix program designed to ensure humans accepted the Matrix program by introducing the correct stimuli to cause humans make choices according to the desire of the machines and later the Merovingian (as with the cake he gave the ?women in white? stimulating her to orgasm and in effect pleasure him). Even with these programs the machines still had a problem with one percent of the human population who were especially aware of the choice they made (whether to accept or reject the Matrix). These individuals couldn?t be controlled by mere causality (The Merovingian therefore becomes obsolete). These people had to know that there are other options, in order to make the choice to accept the programming. These are the ones that reject the Matrix; they do it in order to fulfill a requirement needed to make a choice. They need to know another option. It?s impossible to make a choice if there is only one option. It is because of this that they reject the Matrix, not even necessarily because they want to, (as demonstrated by those who wish to return to the Matrix after being released) or even make a conscious choice to. But because to become aware of another option they have to ?wake-up? and become aware of the other option, namely the real world, which in turn makes them unfit to live in the matrix where they can cause trouble.

3. So the Machines allow the humans to build Zion to satisfy the demand of some humans: To know the choice that they make when they accept the Matrix. For while some humans live haphazardly, doing things just because of this and that reason (cause and effect), some humans need a concise understanding of the choice they make. Zion, which I believe, really does exist on earth and is not some other digital world (because that?s confusing and it doesn?t have to be like that), is still a construct of the machines to exercise control.

4. The machines allowed Zion to start. Then the machines destroy it. This Cycle begins with the emergence of each new ?One?. Every ?One? before Neo chose the ?right door? which led to the destruction of Zion, but the survival of the human race. Followed by the ?One? and his select few followers rebuilding Zion for the next cycle.

5. In the first movie Neo comes to accept his humanity represented by the taking of the ?red pill?. This launched him into a carnal very human state. In Matrix #1 He also starts to get an inkling of his greater mission through the Oracle. The Oracle is a computer program and yet assists Neo in breaking through barriers of death within the Matrix to realize his full potential of choice. This is what the machines want, for him to exercise choice. But Neo overcoming death was only the first step in his realization of his true mission.

6. The Architect tells us the machines have other means of energy (maybe fusion reactors, or windmills; I mean what?s Zion running on?) it?s pretty obvious they don?t need humans for batteries. Why then did they not wipe out humans from the beginning if they?re such a pain? It?s because they need humans for the special abilities that allowed machines to be made in the first place. Machines can?t make the choices necessary to function. Machines need humans to make choices for them. That is how they were designed that is the order of things. They need human choice to function at all. Without humans they are nothing. While machines are able to reproduce and are therefore alive, in a way. Machines still lack the individual progression that individual, separate, living organisms should possess. This individuality of action is especially evident in humans. The Machines are striving to reach this higher level of life and realize the only way to do it is through humans. Humans are also their creators and it?s possible they depend on them bring them to their next level of progression

7. But while machines need humans. Humans became very dangerous to machines in their natural state. So rather than face extinction at the hands of humans they fought for their survival. The machines then began creating a program to control the humans so they would be safe. Yet In this program they fashioned a path to the redemption of humankind, in hope that someday they might rejoin humans in their natural roles as rightful heirs to the planet

8. Enter Neo as his role as the Savior of mankind. All his predecessors prophesied of his coming. He is the one who will free humans from bondage, only not quite how you might expect. He?s conquered death (a very human vice) and has defeated the Merovingian (causality) freeing himself to true choice with the kiss of Persephone; he has the consent of the machines (the Oracle represents the true wishes of the machines). Then the time becomes ripe to face his test The Architect

9. Neo passed this test with flying colors, with the help of the Oracles subtle direction of course. The machines have set in order a series of events for Neo to toil in so he can take his very human gift of choice and meld it into the world of machines. He represents the fusion of both worlds. Smith represents a corruption of this same process with his virus-like spread of his very machine self through many humans. Both Neo and Smith show the relationship between humans and machines becoming very close. Smith even imprints himself into a human in the real world while Neo continues to dominate the machines Matrix world. When Neo picked the ?left door? instead of the right as all his predecessors he seemed to have doomed all human life, but really he opened the door to better existence for human and machine alike. Now we will begin to see Neo with an enmeshment of machine programmed empathy given to him by his visit to the source begin to make choices for all machines even those outside the matrix (that?s how he stopped those sentinels coming at him, with some sort of bioelectrical signal making a choice which they can?t make to stop). This obviously takes a lot out of him and probably results in an overload, because of the complex nature of machines programming.

10. In Revolutions I hope to see the old system cave in, giving birth to a new level of understanding between man and machine focusing on the dynamic relationship of Neo and Smith. With Neo acknowledging his role as the savior of mankind through the mercy of the machines.

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Created by:	Zach Myers
On:	November 1st 2003
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