• @[email protected]
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    1092 months ago

    I could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn’t understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.

    • @[email protected]
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      582 months ago

      Studio executives made the decision, you know… because there hasn’t be a long list of projects they’ve fucked over the years with their notes. 🙄

    • @GraniteM
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      342 months ago

      Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what’s really going on.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        My headcanon is that he tried the more technical and correct explanation, but most people he told it to started to go a bit glassy-eyed during that part, so he simplified his pitch.

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          92 months ago

          The showing of the battery is a good visual to sell the explanation too, regardless of it not making sense “realistically”

      • JackbyDev
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        72 months ago

        I believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.

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            2 months ago

            Also there’s plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong about something big, like everything revolving around Earth.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      The real reason is the machines are using all the human brains to fake generative AI responses to keep share prices going up in line with their original programming.

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      32 months ago

      The humans blocked out the sun, and probably dashed all other power sources available to the Machines. What you have left are self-replicating humans. Makes sense to keep them alive and farm them just enough to tide you over before their next breeding cycle

        • @sandbox
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          32 months ago

          They just eat the other humans remains, duh!

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              22 months ago

              Well they scorched the sky which created lots of wind and lightning storms. Maybe they harnessed those sources, or this being the future, used the scant antimatter generated from each strike?