Diemtay
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I love the trilogy, but these two questions have always puzzled me. IMDB forums are slow as hell, so I figured I'd post them here because I'm sure there's some fans here.
Anyway...
Anyway...
From Wiki: This time, the power of choice was added to the programming, where humans would be allowed the power to choose, even if the person was only aware of the choice on a vague, unconscious level.
The Architect explained that in order for the Matrix's to work after the failure of the first two, they had to be designed in a way that allowed people to choose their reality, for them to have a choice. This goes against what we know about The Matrix.
It doesn't make sense, because in the films, the people who are in the Matrix aren't given a choice to choose between the Matrix and the real world, they are 'convinced' that the world they live in is reality, and they are forced from birth to be in the Matrix. Choice isn't involved at all there. The average person who lives in the Matrix, spends their who life convinced there is no other choice of reality, they simply have to exist and there's nothing they can do to change it... it's not about choice at all, it's about just accepting your life or just killing yourself.
The only people who "do" have a choice are the people who are contacted by the ones from Zion, like Neo was with Morpehous. He was a part of the select few who was given a choice because someone told him, but for the majority of people in the Matrix, they have no idea there is another choice available.
Why did humans reject the first Matrix that was designed? (the utopia)
Smith and the Architect stated that the first Matrix that was ever created was designed as a utopia, a perfect place, but as Smith said, the humans rejected this utopia, as they define their existence by pain.
I'm not sure I understand the meaning behind this. Hypothetically speaking, if a human lived in a perfect world, why would they reject this? Wouldn't they want to live in a world without pain and suffering? I don't see why any person would logically reject living in a paradise.
Regarding the problem of choice... Look at it like this, if you were born into a perfect world, and you were conditioned to think it was reality, you wouldn't worry about choosing it or not, because you accept that you simply exist, you can't chose to exist or not exist, it's not a matter of choice. Those people in the perfect world wouldn't know it's simply a program, so why and how would they reject a world that they are convinced is real?
And how exactly did the people go about "rejecting" the first matrix? Were they all just angry and pissed off because they lived in a perfect world? Did they riot or something? I mean, what exactly happened that forced The Architect to redesign the matrix? I mean, I'd think as long as people were in the matrix it would be fine for the machines, they don't care what the people do in the matrix, as long as their in it creating body heat for their energy supply, it would only be if everyone started killing themselves would the machines need to redesign the matrix so they dont end up killing all their batteries.