Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.
What if reincarnation? When someone dies in the Matrix, their body gets reconnected to another baby in the Matrix. As for how the human population is maintained outside of the Matrix… either the machines keep catching more humans, or something like artificial insemination. Or cloning
How long until we blot out the skies to reduce global warming.
“Are you saying I can dodge taxes?”
“No, neocapitalism, I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to.”
When someone dies in the Matrix, their body gets reconnected to another baby in the Matrix
But why would the bother with this? How would that help with anything?
That would actually be a good idea. With people growing up and learning on their own, you don’t have a fully controlled system. The world inside the Matrix will be evolving and from time to time there will be some glitch somewhere. If you have a base of defined childhoods, then only physical differences between bodies and random occurences inside are uncontrolled
If I were to construct the Matrix, I would go after cloning (fewer biological lottery) and predefined lifepaths to keep everything nice and stable
Imagine a power plant based on millions of hampsters running on wheels. And some kind of video game that gets them to run.
The answer is in the movie. When explaining the Matrix to Neo, Morpheus says: “There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown.”
Doesn’t specify the exact how, but it’s strongly implied that it is through either cloning or artificial gestation.
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artificial gestation
The word “matrix” literally means “womb” in its older sense.
It also refers to a 2D array of numbers in linear algebra. This data structure is used to store the synaptic weights of an artificial neural network.
We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
It really is a deeply-thought-out movie.
They actually touch on it in the animated movie that spanned a series of vignettes from that universe.
Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.
I completely forgot about that part of the movie. Thanks for the reminder!
I think you are due for a re-watch! It’s great when it’s been a few years and you can enjoy some of the bits you forgot about.
Unfortunately I cannot forget even a second of The Matrix.
Fortunately, I don’t need to. It’s like listening to this yet again. It’s beautiful even though I know every note and can listen to the whole thing in my head any time I want: https://youtu.be/LZ48G9UziRs?si=WdHnkS5bvDNdF1wv
Unfortunately we can never experience the big reveal for the first time again. It was absolutely mind-blowing watching him wake up in the pod on the big theater screen for the first time. That was the coolest movie experience I’ve ever had.
Why even grow them with arms and legs if they are just going to be batteries? Wouldn’t it be easier to just grow cows instead?
“combined with a form of fusion”
it’s right there in the script
They probably extract sperm and eggs and gestate them right in the pods
Robot spiders steal cum and inject it in another female.
I don’t know about y’all but I can’t even get aroused anymore without having a robot spider jacking me off.
