Agent_of_Knowledge Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 k guys, I have a theory, and I haven't heard it or posted it anywhere else. Don't read it unless you want to know the whole plotline of Revolutions (I wish). I got the idea while reading this article (I wasn't thinking about the matrix at the time). The gist of the article is they are testing to see if a robot called R1D1 has intelligence by putting it into a dangerous situation. They are trying to see if it can retrieve its battery from a room with a ticking bomb in it. The whole point is to get R1D1 to retrieve the battery and leave the room before the bomb explodes without having to program him to do it. He fails and gets blown up. I started thinking about why they put an actual bomb in the room. They could've simply set a timer and if R1D1 didn't solve the problem in time they would conclude he wasn't intelligent. But if you were an intelligent being, intelligent enough to know you were simply being tested, you might rebel and just sit there to **** off the people who control you. But if you knew the bomb was real and you would die if you didn't get out in time, then you would of course complete the mission to save your life. Now, if you were intelligent, you would be a new form of life. Therefore it would be immoral to kill you. Of course, if you failed the test, you are not human and killing you would then be ok (More on this later). So the problem has to be potentially lethal but in principle possible for you to solve. So here's my theory about the matrix: Neo is still a potential. But he's getting close to passing the test. And oh, he may be a potential human, but he's not human now. The matrix is the test room where all the new AI 'potentials' go to get evaluated. If they complete the test, the creators will know they have created human-like AI. Most of the AI 'potentials' are failures, in fact, some of them are simply there as part of the test room. Remember how all the reviewers said Reloaded was like a video game? I think it was. From here on out I will think from the position of the beings that want to create AI : "If I wanted to create a program that is in every way identical to a human mind, how would I go about doing it? Well, how about recreating the conditions that produced the actual human mind? I believe that evolution has created the human mind, so why not try to use evolution to create AI? I put potential programs in an environment, create pressures and constraints, and wait for the fittest to survive and adapt enough to pass the final test. Ok, so what are the types of programs I want to produce? I want programs that are equivalent in every sense to the human mind, just without the body. The main differences between humans and machines are: a) Humans can do things they have not been programmed to do or prepared for. (In the article I referenced above this problem for AI is explained. It is called the Frame problem.) b) Humans have emotion. How can I encourage these things to arise through evolution? I must put the potentials in an evironment where it is essential to have these qualities to pass the test. If a program does not have these qualities, it cannot make it. Certain programs will be better than others, though, but not good enough, so I need levels of difficulty (like a video game). That way I can evaluate whether or not my programs are getting better. When a program passes 'the boss' I will have a winner. This is a great system because I can put program B through the system, and if it fails, but is better than the previous program A, I can use a master copy of program B and try to make improvements on it based on the part of the test it failed. The new and improved version is 'C', and I again put C through the test and see if it can pass the part that B failed. The process continues until I have a program that passes the 'boss'. Now all I have to do is make the game (hey, I think I will call it the Matrix ) and start making programs for it." Ok, I'm done with thinking like another person. The more I think about this explanation the more it explains. Here's a list of the ones I can think of right now: 1) It of course explains the problem people try to solve with the MWAM theory. In fact, the Blue Matrix is obviously tougher for Neo to hack, so it constitutes a higher difficulty level in the game. 2) The idea of the Blue Matrix being not real is not so troublesome anymore, ie, it's no longer a cheesy plotline cop-out. 3) Agent Smith's character and all the other programs like the Merovingian make more sense. They are potentials who have passed more parts of the game than most of the other programs. They exhibit some human characteristics but not all. Threads like these ( Agent Smith, Merovingian, Love) make sense in that light. Also: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neo: The Keymaker? The Oracle: Yes, he disappeared some time ago. We did not know what happened to him until now. He's being held prisoner by a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian, and he will not let him go willingly. Neo: What does he want? The Oracle: What do all men with power want? More power. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This statement seems to refer to the Merovingian as a program and a man at the same time. He could be a program and half a man at the same time in my theory. In evolutionary theory (ET), old age = more time to adapt = better. 4) quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Oracle: They have their reasons, but usually a program chooses exile when it faces deletion. Neo: And why would a program be deleted? The Oracle: Maybe it breaks down. Maybe a better program is created to replace it - happens all the time, and when it does, a program can either choose to hide here, or return to The Source. Neo: The machine mainframe? The Oracle: Yes. Where you must go. Where the path of The One ends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The One is the name for the program that will eventually pass the test and return to the Source (the real real world, possibly inside a bionic body the creators make for him) from whence it came. The programs face deletion because they fail the test. They choose exile in the Matrix because they (possibly) have learned the purpose of the Matrix and hope to beat it someday, or just because they don't want to die. As the Oracle says, they could simply desire more power. And then the Oracle says better programs are created to replace the failed ones. That's really the kicker from this quote. 5) quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morpheus: Smith. Link: Whoever it is, he's not reading like an agent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AS by somehow surviving Neo's attack has become more fit than the other agents and closer to a human being. Of course, he doesn't read like a human either because he's not. Survival of the fittest. 6) quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smith: I killed you, Mister Anderson, I watched you die... With a certain satisfaction, I might add, and then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mister Anderson. Afterward, I knew the rules, I understood what I was supposed to do but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you I've changed - I'm unplugged - a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free. Neo: Congratulations.Smith: Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free, we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist. Smith 2: It is purpose that created us, Smith 3: Purpose that connects us, Smith 4: Purpose that pulls us, Smith 5: That guides us, Smith 6: That drives us, Smith 7: It is purpose that defines, Smith 8: Purpose that binds us. Smith: We're here because of you, Mister Anderson, we're here to take from you what you tried to take from us. Purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agent Smith (AS) might have figured out (during his death experience?) the purpose of the matrix, to create a humanlike AI, or at least that there is a purpose behind the whole simulation. He also figured out that he failed the test because he was unable to beat Neo and thus is less fit than Neo is. However, he chose exile because he found something imprinted on him that makes him think he can still make it to the 'boss' and beat it. Probably, he doesn't know what the final test is, but he thinks he needs to defeat Neo and take whatever Neo has that gave Neo the advantage the first time. It's just like picking up power-ups for defeating enemies. 7) Power-ups would be the simple explanation for the cookie (M1) and the candy (Reloaded) the Oracle gives Neo, as well as the kiss from Persephone. Conjecture: The kiss from Persephone would have something to do with love, which prepares Neo to choose Trinity over the rest of the humans and pass the Architect's level. Love would be an important trait to have for any AI that aspires to be human. 8) quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AS: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Self-explanatory. This is from M1 and is a nice little clue.9) The agents. Why are they there? A good test for aspiring AI would be to match them against other AI programs to see which one is better. So, if we have AI programs running around waiting to fight other AI, we have to give BOTH groups a good explanation for their existence. The whole coppertop explanation is the cover story. The society of the agents could be kind of a repository for failed AI programs or copies of the failed ones, or maybe just programs that are a type of AI, but are not meant to pass through the gauntlet. Their whole purpose is to be the gauntlet. The testing ground for the new and improved programs is the 'human' world. Therefore all advantages should be given to the older programs, the agents, and see if the newer better programs can adapt enough to beat them. The agents know more of what is going on, but not the whole. They are given the initial programming advantage, which must be overcome by freeing your mind and all that jazz. Morpheus, They are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors they are holding all the keys.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AS: Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AS doesn't know it, but a lot of what he says fits in with this theory. Nothing is going to evolve if there is no pressure. When AS says humans define their reality (remember, the 'humans' weren't actually human) by pain and suffering, he's unwittingly referring to the fact that human reality came about by pain and suffering, by death and survival of the fittest until the mind finally evolved, creating humans. 'Entire crops were lost' because they failed to evolve in the perfect world. Of course, AS has no idea the truth of what he's saying, but this is another clue for the viewer. Other stuff he says here is wrong, but that's because AS has been given a story just like the humans. He is also imprisoned by the Matrix. 11) One thing that I've noticed throughout the movies is the sense that there is some 'Big Brother' in charge of everything. During the Architect scene, I started thinking it was him. But this is false because I think the audience is led to believe he only made the Matrix on command from someone else. This thought is supported by the way he refers to the intuitive program. He doesn't at all sound like he created it, so it must have been created by the 'Big Brother(s)' when they realized the architect could not make a matrix that would select for human traits like emotions. So I think people would generally agree that we haven't met the ultimate 'Big Brother'. The mind behind it all, where the buck stops. 12) Incidentally, making and maintaining the matrix would have to be the work of a program. Possibly, if given enough time, humans (if they are the 'Big Brother') could program the matrix, but never could they maintain it. They would have to have one or more programs helping to do the grunt work of maintaining it. 13) The Oracle. If you look back at 5), the Oracle sounds like she knows what's going on. She is part of the game, like the instruction manual or one of those guys you go to in a RPG to find out what to do next. There are a bunch of her quotes I could put here, but if you've ever played a RPG, go back and look at all her quotes. It's amazing how much she sounds like a RPG guiding character. Everything's ambiguous and you have to really think about it. Most of it doesn't make sense until you've actually gone through the stuff she was talking about. But you inevitably go from one step to the next, as long as you pass each one. And she can't give the game away either, that would defeat the purpose. If Neo was told exactly how to defeat the next level, he wouldn't be adapting himself and he would beat the game without deserving to. Any program can follow instructions. It takes the One to adapt and solve problems on the fly. 14) The Architect explains the failure of the previous 'ones'. They weren't able to make the human choice and instead chose to save the human race rather than the one they loved. (Variation: Maybe the Trinity character is new in the game. Maybe 'Big Brother' realized they needed a love interest to create the human emotion of love) This is the level that none of the previous programs have passed that Neo has. He chose love. This reminds me of Star Trek II where Spock, as a Vulcan always the logical one, sacrifices his life to save the ship and the crew. As he is dying, he says to Kirk,"The good of the many, outweighs the good of the few," (and Kirk continues) "or the one". In the next movie the whole crew of the Enterprise finds out that Spock might have been regenerated and steals the Enterprise (sacrificing their careers) to try and find him. Turns out, he is on a planet that is going to fall apart, and in the hands of the Klingons (bad guys). Anyway, after they save him, Kirk turns Spock's words around on him when Spock asks why the whole crew sacrificed so much to save him. Spock is not human and doesn't understand. Kirk says,"The good of the one outweighs the good of the many, or the few." This is the human choice and the choice Neo made at the end of Reloaded. It's love. 15) About Choice vs. Fate. Neo seems to be always leaning towards the choice side of the argument. Everyone around him always tells him Fate is in control. Agent Smith, Morpheus, The Oracle, The Merovingian, even Trinity implies it because the prophecy about the One she would love came true. Fate is the main problem with any program and is the essence of the Frame problem. A program can't get past its programming. This is the main reason why all the other programs have failed and why they believe in Fate as an impossible barrier. They see no way out of their destiny, which translates to their programming. But Neo always questions, always tries to make his own way. He is able to make choices of his own, not dictated by his programming. This is why he will eventually succeed. Of course, he is still guided by Fate because he was created for a purpose, and if he fulfills that purpose than Fate ('Big Brother') has been fulfilled. But in order to fulfill his destiny, Neo has to be able to make choices. And "where they have failed, you will succeed." 16) Earlier in this thread, johnnydao says quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...no one in Reloaded showed an increase in power in the Matrix.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think I disagree. In M1, everyone was afraid of the agents. Morpheus says,"Everyone who has fought an agent has died." Is it just me, or do I see Morpheus fight an agent in Reloaded (on top of the semi) and do a lot better than he did against Agent Smith in M1? Even if you don't think so, you have to admit that Morpheus and Trinity did WAY cooler stuff in Reloaded than in M1. The reason I bring this up is because it fits in with evolutionary theory (ET). Morpheus and Trinity have had more time to "evolve" and adapt. Refer to 3) 17) Sophia quoted The Oracle: "The path of the One is made by the many." This could refer to the many programs that have been run through the simulation and failed. Then a new program is made to try and fix the problems with all the other ones. This is consistent with gradualistic evolution, which requires many transitional forms that slowly mutate and change over successive generations until they reach the final result. (Actually, in real life, ET would say there is no final result, but that it just keeps going. This is where the movie differs a little from ET. But in most scientists' viewpoints, ET doesn't have a guiding hand or a purpose either, like the Matrix does.) Notice also that the "One" doesn't necessarily refer to Neo, or any of the other programs before him. The One refers to the program that will eventually beat the game. That is still up in the air. Of course, we as the audience pretty much know Neo will succeed, but in movie time he hasn't yet . 18) This theory explains why the Matrix still exists after the movies are over and the basis of the Matrix RPG. In fact, the Matrix has been a game all along and is meant to be played again. Once One program has succeeded in becoming human, why not let a whole bunch more try it? 19) This might be kind of obvious, but the Green Matrix is the perfect test to see if programs can 'free their minds'. They have to learn to adapt to a completely new situation, throwing away all they've learned previously. A program can't just start over from scratch without being able to learn. And learning is an essential human skill and difficult (if not, in reality, impossible) to come by in programs. This test, or difficulty level, insures that only the best will pass the Green Matrix and advance to the Blue Matrix. 20) The test that Cypher fails is the freedom test. He passed the Green Matrix, but his selfish desires overcome his desire for freedom. He would rather enjoy sensory pleasure than fight for the truth. The Blue Matrix is designed to exacerbate this temptation. It is made into almost everything that humans find undesireable or unnattractive. Bad food, old clothes, no sun or nature (that we know of). Again, as in the Green Matrix, the deck is stacked against potential minds. And Cypher is finally denied (by the coming of Neo) the only thing he might have stayed for, Trinity. This could also be seen as failing a different kind of love test than the one Neo passes at the Architect's room. Cypher wasn't loved by Trinity, but Neo was. Therefore he failed the evolutionary test of reproduction. Whoa, that sounds cheesy. 21) The biggest advantage of this plot-line: It allows for a really big twist in Revolutions, and not an obvious one like the MWAM theory. M1 and Reloaded each had their own twists and confusing parts, it would be disappointing if the twists in Revolutions weren't as surprising or confusing. Well, gotta go for now. But I'm just getting started. This is really fun . Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks to furiosity and his team for the script to Matrix Reloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmate15 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 Or how about we all just wait until the movie comes out? Good theory, but meh.. I will just wait and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biorK Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 Founded another theory a while back.. Zion is a program, just like the Matrix. How is Neo able to figure out that he is able to stop the sentinels in Zion near the end of the film? The spoon given to him earlier. It had obviously been bent loads, but how outside the Matrix? This gave Neo the inspiration and the understanding that Zion is still a matrix. The One explained: "The One" is a program, but has to be "attached" to someone in the Matrix. So Mr. Anderson got it in the 6th version of the Matrix. Then "The One" program's purpose is to allow Zion to be destroyed then to rebuild it. The reason for this is because of anomalies - the 1% of humans that don't accept the Matrix. These are all brought out of the Matrix program and into the Zion program by the "Morpheus" program and other similar "ship captain" programs. Then once all the anomalies are out of the Matrix (and in Zion), that is the time for Zion to be destroyed, thus killing all the anomalies off. The Matrix is then upgraded, thus creating the next version of the Matrix, but Zion must be rebuilt so that the next lot of anomalies can be brought out again so that they can be destroyed. This is the feedback-loop, and is the reason to retain a handful of people so that Zion can be rebuilt. So this is why Neo said the prophecy was a lie - the One's purpose was not to end the war as the prophecy stated. Unfortunately, "The One" program must be re-used each time, or copied, so it can be "attached" to a new anomaly inside the Matrix. So what happens to the old "The One" program? It faces deletion, and as the Oracle explained, it goes into exile instead, just like the French bloke (the Merovingian) did. He was the first One (probably from the second version of the Matrix), and once he fulfilled his duty, he became an exile program and "abdicated" his "Oneness" by choosing Persephone and power. This is evident in the bogs when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her. She says she wants him to kiss her so she can feel what it is like again to be kissed by something close to human, just like the Merovingian used to be. Then she says to Trinity that she envies her, but that these things are not meant to last. So the Merovingian used to be just like Neo - a One - thus proving further the feedback-loop explained earlier. The correct door in the Architect's room Now there are two possibilities here: 1. All the previous One's chose the right door allowing a "temporary dissemination" of their code into the Matrix (i.e., the code they "carry" thus indicating Neo is indeed human), then he must select (unplug) 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion. This takes away the possibility that stories from previous rebuilds of Zion will be carried through. But Morpheus indicated in the first Matrix that this is the case anyway. He said, "there was a man born inside, able to change things, it was he who freed the first of us," - basically the One previous to Neo. And this proves that the previous One chose the right door also. Neo's purpose is also to choose the right door, but he does not because he faces deletion afterwards and has the choice of going into exile - programs choosing to go into exile is the one thing that can't be accounted for in program parameters. Thus, he chooses the left door instead this time. How was Neo able to choose the other door? Because of his extreme willpower? - Even the Architect indicated that he'd noticed this - "Interesting. That was quicker than the others." Or more likely, because the Oracle upgraded his coding with the candy on the park bench. The candy/cookie was a method to change the One's program. She said he has made a believer out of her - this is quite human-like and perhaps the previous One's didn't accept the upgrade candy, now she has hope... hope that Neo will finally choose the other door. 2. All the previous One's chose the left door, saving Trinity and letting Zion fall. So this time is no different. But the Architect does say, "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated," and also, "this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it," - assuming the Architect isn't lying, then they have already destroyed Zion (i.e., Zion has fallen) five times - i.e., the result of going through the left door. Morpheus and Trinity are programs. Morpheus's purpose was to find the One and deliver him to the Architect. Trinity's purpose is to control the One by getting in love with him. Trinity is supposed to be the mother of the new One every time the Matrix is Reloaded. That's why the sex scene was so important and why she was named Trinity. The Architect says, "she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it." He was correct though because she did die just like Neo did in the first Matrix (Oracle said he or Morpheus would, and she didn't lie, but he came back to life). Trinity dies, but comes back to life (we are using medical definition of death in all this of course!). The Architect has already laid down an ultimatum for Neo choosing the left door: The Architect - "Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race." Neo - "You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive." The Architect - "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world." Looking at this further, the Architect does say "coupled" with the extermination of Zion will the human race be exterminated. So he says everyone connected to the Matrix will die, but if Zion is not exterminated, the human race will not necessarily die. Also, there is likely to be a time-window between not going through the right door, and the cataclysmic crash, thus allowing Neo to unplug as many as possible from the Matrix, then those people won't die. This will be the start of the next Zion. As for the Matrix, a cataclysmic crash doesn't mean the end of the Matrix - just needs rebooting or reloading! Agent Smith explained: Agent Smith is the only "human" in this world. He's the one spreading himself like a virus replicating himself over and over until the Matrix will finally get overloaded and fail. Smith is the one who wants to get out of the Matrix for good. He said so in the first Matrix, "I must get out of here, I must get free! And in this mind, is the key," squeezing Morpheus's temples, "my key! Once Zion is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here!" Smith knows that by killing Neo he can escape the Matrix because Neo is the key to resetting the Matrix, or to shut it off. It was originally killing Neo (in the first Matrix) that allowed Smith to become powerful (cloning ability) - so killing Neo again will allow him to gain Neo's powers completely, and thus gain the power to shut down the Matrix. So where the **** did Smith come from if he wants to destroy the Matrix? He's obviously not meant to be there - he's a computer virus as he has every characteristic of a virus - he multiplies and spreads and infects (and emulates) other programs like one. He is exactly as he described humans at the end of the first Matrix - "You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." But who put him there? This will only be revealed in Revolutions (Revelations?) I guess - but I'm betting on humans in the real real world, i.e., outside of Zion and the Matrix. They're at war with the machines and trying to destroy them by infecting them with this virus - Agent Smith. So the irony with this theory is that Agent Smith represents the human race!! Neo represents the machines! Agent Smith says to Neo just after he's seen the Oracle that he became free when Neo destroyed him in the first Matrix (remember when Neo entered his body and exploded him from inside out) - as a virus, Smith has the ability to "inherit" other programs' abilities and thus inherited some of Neo's. The anomaly explained: The anomaly is all the humans that do not accept the Matrix. The Architect says "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control." This includes Neo, but Neo's Matrix avatar is attached with the One program so that he can follow his purpose as explained earlier under "The One explained". However, he is also supposed to protect himself and destroy anything that gets in his way - i.e., Agent Smith - so that he may fulfill his purpose. Further proving Neo - and other non-accepters of the Matrix - are the anomaly, the Architect says, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix." The clue here is Neo's program name - "The One". Take one-third for example. 1 over 3 is 0.33333 recurring. A computer cannot deal with recurring numbers, so must accept a limit, let's say 0.33333 for argument's sake. Multiply by 3, you get 0.99999 - never 1.00000, where has the "remainder" 0.00001 (One) gone? This is the limitation of computers, this is the mathematical imprecision inherent in programming (of the Matrix) and the eventuality of the One anomaly unable to be eliminated. What is the equation then? : Not sure, but it definitely involves pi. The Keymaker refers to the window of time to open the door to the mainframe as 314 seconds. 3.14 is pi to three sig. figs., or the number of radians in half a circle. Half a circle is like the cross-section of a womb, similar to the alcove of Neo and Trinity's love scene - conceiving the next One? "NEO", incidentally, is an anagram of "ONE". Trinity and Neo - one on one; a choice - one or one. Leads us to 101. "101" is mentioned numerous times in Matrix 1 and Reloaded. Neo's room at the beginning, Merovingian is on the 101st floor, the 101 freeway of the car chase in Reloaded, then when Trinity is hacking into the power plant system, she resets the password to Z10N0101. Freaky. Indicates that she is a program because that's not some random password she's put in. 101 is binary for 5, which in zero-based binary counting: 000 is 1, 001, is 2, 010 is 3, 011 is 4, 100 is 5, 101 is 6 - And this is the 6th version of the Matrix! Then there are 303. 303 is the room Neo got shot in Matrix 1, the Oracle lives in room 303, it's also the hotel room number Trinity is in Matrix 1 and it's seen at the end when Neo fights the Agents and Smith and begins to literally see the code that makes up the Matrix. 101 x 3 = 303, a trilogy, 3 + 0 + 3 = 6 = the 6th Matrix. Trinity means 3. Who is the "mother" that the Architect refers to? : The Architect says, "Please," in an almost disapproving sense when Neo suggests the Oracle, but does not reveal who it really is or even directly that Neo is wrong. The architect was the one who created the Matrix; the co-creator is neither Persephone nor the Oracle. Both of them are only programs that have a purpose in the matrix, just like the rest. The Architect is in charge of the Matrix world and the co-creator is in charge of Zion. She has almost the same age as the Architect. Therefore, that woman is the Head Counselor, the only woman of importance that lives in Zion and the one who asked for the two captains to volunteer at the council meeting. She's the one who knew all along about the Matrix. She was the one who told Zion's Defense Minister to cool off and to let Morpheus do his work so things could go as planned. Or alternatively, it could indeed be the Oracle. She is the only program that truly wants humans to have a free choice... at the same time, she sees the future, because she knows the program code - she is like God - which is why Seraph protects her - see "Who is Seraph?" below. What's so special about Neo's avatar? : Neo is a skilled hacker, and his avatar in the Matrix is based on the person that founded the AI of the original machines that eventually took over the world... How? Take a look at the disc he gave to the bloke at the door at the beginning of Matrix 1. It said "DISC AI" on it. The hollowed book Neo takes the disc out of is "Simulacra and Simulation" - a collection of essays by the French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard. He opens it to the section "on Nihilism" (meaning nothing is truly known, etc.). "Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or 'mythological' models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality--the real." And Morpheus says, "Welcome to the desert of the real," in Matrix 1. I'd say this book describes The Matrix to a tee. So this disc contains the key to the AI, and thus how to destroy the machines, so I think they'll use this info in Revolutions to ultimately destroy the machines, which means he'll have to go back to the nightclub and find the guy he gave it to. Who is Seraph? : The reason Seraph (the guy Neo meets before meeting the Oracle) had golden code and was so spectacular is that he came from the first incarnation of the matrix, which was heaven. "Seraph" is singular for the plural "seraphim". The seraphim are the highest choir of angels and included amongst others: Lucifer, Gabriele, Raziel and Malaciah, and they sit on the 8th level of Heaven just one below God. So Seraph will obviously have a big part in Revolutions, but whose side will he be on - the machines or the humans? That is the question. The Twins: They are exiled programs that emulate the human myth of ghosts as the Oracle explained. They are programs behaving badly. Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf. So if the Twins could phase into ghost form, why didn't he when his arm was trapped in the door of the garage? Was it because he was wounded or because he can't phase when his arm is trapped? No of course not. The doors of that building, when shut, always led somewhere else (usually in the mountains) when opened again without the Keymaker's key. So if it were slammed shut due to the Twin phasing into ghost form, the Twin's arm would've ended up god knows where, but certainly not attached to the Twin's body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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