William T Goodall wrote: > > On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 01:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/7/2003 2:36:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> In addition, how does this all work? where does the energy to power > >> the > >> humans come from? We get out energy from food, which inevitably get's > >> it's > >> energy from Sol. So in the story, where does the energy for > >> the food come > >> from? > > > > Using humans or any other animal as an energy source is of course > > foolish since the energy needed to create a human is far greater than > > the energy that the human can generate. You could run machines on > > plants thus converting sunlight into complex carbohydrates that can be > > used as fuel. But why bother with this - just use mechanical devices > > to collect solar energy. > > SPOILER WARNING if you haven't seen :Reloaded. > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > S > P > O > I > L > E > R > > Since the ending of :Reloaded casts doubt over everything that was > presented as 'true' in the original _The Matrix_ this, and every other > question about the trilogy, will have to wait for part III for a > resolution. Since the whole 'being used as an energy source' is part of > the mythology of the 'free' humans, and that mythology turns out not to > be the whole story.
Exactly. Even if it were possible to somehow extract more energy from human bodies than the amount spent maintaining it, you still don't get past the arguments for the Mootrix. Using the human brain's raw processing power, however, might be a possible solution for the continued existence of software entities... > The ending of :Reloaded suggests that Zion, along with the Matrix, is > inside a larger meta-Matrix. But since that is so obvious, it is > probably a red herring and the real answer is something else. Or maybe > not... > Not to mention cliché. It's been done so many times in VR-themed movies. -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
