-Caveat Lector-
The thing that really got me thinking about the "Real World" was the
statement that Mr. Smith and the Agents were trying to torture Morpheus into
revealing the control codes for "the Zion mainframe."
Plus which, you never see Zion. Any Golden Age sci-fi flick (compare "Star
Wars") would have closed with the heroes landing triumphantly in their
citadel...but "The Matrix" ends with the same version of reality it began
with, slightly amended...or is it?
And the whole notion of the subterranean hovercraft navigating a
vaguely-explained worldwide sewer complex feels sort of odd, as if the
Author hasn't quite thought that part out fully...
The battle scene between the heroes and the Matrix's robots is reminiscent
of the scene in *Fantastic Voyage* where the hyper-miniaturized submarine is
under attack by the patient's white blood cells...and the "sewers" feel
remarkably like blood vessels...
I'll have to watch the movie again to see what else I can pick up. These are
some points that occur to me right off the top of my head. BTW, anent your
comment on Mr. Smith's "humanization"--consider the implications of the
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: *observer interacts with observed and
thereby affects the outcome of the phenomenon under observation"...
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 10:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] What Happens When Robots Smarter than Humans are
> Roami ng the Net?
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 11/29/99 1:40:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > What intrigued me about "The Matrix" (aside from the effects, which were
> > spectacular and quite mindblowing) was the suggestion that there were
> still
> > deeper levels of reality to penetrate before reaching the "*real* Real
> > World." There were hints that Zion, the hidden city of rebels at the
> core
> of
> > the Earth, was itself a computer construct like the Matrix, and that
> whoever
> > controlled Zion's mainframe controlled the "Real World." "Indeed do
> many
> > things come to pass." Fnord.
>
> Yes. The movie was all that and more. Please share with me those hints
> you
> noticed which might lend one the belief that Zion was also a computer
> construct. What do you suppose the "reality" of Zion was like? One thing
> that really made me think was the Agent Mr. Smith. It was obvious that
> after
> being among humans so long he started to adopt some of our baser habits
> and
> aquire human nature, at least in parts. It certainly implies that humans
> were influencing the machine at least as much as the machine manipulated
> the
> humans.
>
>
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