I never understood this thoroughly... was it something else entirely?
edit: first film only at this point I haven't watched the second recently
I never understood this thoroughly... was it something else entirely?
edit: first film only at this point I haven't watched the second recently
The Matrix came out 20 years ago. And you are just now watching it?
You've got some catching up to do. Try not to think too hard or over complicate it. The world might depend on you one day!
It will eventually become our future. Anything posthumanist, transhumanist, etc
I'm sure a more knowledge member will chime in.
I thought of it as a person who was able to go outside the code. The machines are all running on code. They all have their restrictions based on their own code. Neo was able to rewrite the code.
The rest of this thought would be drawing from 2 and 3 though. They basically show it as an expected anomaly that would show up. So they built the Matrix around that expected anomaly. Allowing for it to happen, then reset the system and start again.
Machines are unable to fully understand human emotions. They consider it irrational. I think that lack of understanding made it impossible for them to make the Matrix truly bug free. Neo is a bug in the code. But one they accounted for. So they simply applied a system reset whenever the bug presented itself. Then the Matrix would run fine for a while again.
Agent Smith mentions that Neo had passed his abilities to edit the code onto him (when Neo combines his code with Agent Smith and then obliterates him). So the bug can be passed to other programs. Kind of confirming Agent Smith's theory that humans are a virus.