Rebooting the Simulation

29 posts · 2007-10-18 14:30:40 to 2007-12-25 20:37:18

#36300339454 10/18/2007 14:30:40 Rebooting the Simulation
By this point is there far too much at stake to consider the option that the Architect eluded to by killing off all humans and resorting to alternative power sources? If that option ever truly existed, of course.

I think since Neo's deal for peace had ended, we should pretty much go back to resetting the simulation as was done before. If Neo truly IS still alive or in Machine custody, they could use him to choose those who would rebuild Zion. All in all, there's got to be a way they can destroy New Zion and start fresh. Screw all the bull. Zero tolerance. Reset and be done with it?

As an afterthought: The fact that some programs/machines keep the humans alive might show strategy and planning ahead in some regards, but I think it also displays a certain compassion that they wouldn't just eliminate all the humans.
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#36300341034 10/22/2007 07:34:33 Re:Rebooting the Simulation

So Eliminate, Destroy and Reset the simulation is your bid on what we should do? I am very glad that you not our president then. Were is the willing to fight for what you believe? Were is the human feeling? Try to think of what you really did decide to do with humanity, if we follow your suggestion?

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#36300341046 10/22/2007 08:09:41 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
It's the fact that the Machines haven't reverted to the old Cycle that proves they want to give humanity a chance, or at least the more sensible subset of humanity, viz. the Machinists.
#36300341213 10/22/2007 15:20:48 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Mindsweep wrote:

So Eliminate, Destroy and Reset the simulation is your bid on what we should do? I am very glad that you not our president then. Were is the willing to fight for what you believe? Were is the human feeling? Try to think of what you really did decide to do with humanity, if we follow your suggestion?

I'd start with you.

I'm looking at it through the Machines' perspective. Self-preservation would be to destroy the things that threaten you. Hence the reason why Zion was destroyed. New Zion shows that the humans don't want peace. They want subterfuge. The only way to attack subterfuge is through counter-subterfuge or by hammering at it hard until it is destroyed.
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#36300341305 10/22/2007 18:21:12 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
I think the reason why the Matrix hasn't "re-set" is because something different happened here. Consider the meeting with Neo and the Architect. In that meeting the Architect compared Neo with the five previous versions of the One. Most notably the comparisons ranged from how fast he came to conclusions to his singled-out love for one person and not just humanity as a whole, and here's the kicker. All previous versions of the One chose the door that would save Zion and reset the Matrix, Neo chose the door to save Trinity (and a thought came to mind as i wrote this, perhaps the other previous versions of the One never had a second door to choose from as they had no significant other...).

I think to the Machines, the Architect in particular this was an interesting choice, certainly a new avenue of reason the Architect hadn't suspected. I always wondered when the Architect spoke his last words telling Neo about hope being the quintessential human delusion wasn't so much as goading, or a statement but in his own way to encourage Neo with that veiled challenge.

So events changed from the previous ones and when Neo proposed a truce, I could see why the Machines were ready to accept it (well provided Neo could take care of that pesky "Smith problem SMILEY"SMILEY.

Now we stand as a result of of the truce that Neo made, the situation is vastly different in where Zion was not utterly destroyed, before the truce was broken people who wanted to be awakened, could. And even though the truce doesn't exist anymore the possibilities that didn't exist before are now all too real.

#36300341306 10/22/2007 18:26:36 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Procurator wrote:
It's the fact that the Machines haven't reverted to the old Cycle that proves they want to give humanity a chance, or at least the more sensible subset of humanity, viz. the Machinists.


Possibly, or The Architect finally realized that over time the "one" will grow along with his species. If Neo could do what he did, The Architect's calculations probably have him frightened into not rebooting the system and starting the cycle anew. Perhaps he believes that restarting the system would reset the cycle.

The One is just an inevitable bug, divine intervention in my opinion.

#36300341354 10/22/2007 20:42:58 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
TheShickle wrote:
Procurator wrote:
It's the fact that the Machines haven't reverted to the old Cycle that proves they want to give humanity a chance, or at least the more sensible subset of humanity, viz. the Machinists.


Possibly, or The Architect finally realized that over time the "one" will grow along with his species. If Neo could do what he did, The Architect's calculations probably have him frightened into not rebooting the system and starting the cycle anew. Perhaps he believes that restarting the system would reset the cycle.

The One is just an inevitable bug, divine intervention in my opinion.

Problem is though (this is according to Pace) they can't reset the system. We aren't stuck where we are because the Machine wants to give us all a chance. We're here because the Machine can't use the old system of things any more. They don't have Neo to reset anything and without his code it can't be done. Thus the best they can do is maintain a firm control over Zion so that the anomolies within the system (the 1%) don't crash it.

#36300341736 10/23/2007 17:06:56 Re:Rebooting the Simulation

I don't recall Pace saying that.

Illyria

#36300341775 10/23/2007 19:03:18 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Illyria22 wrote:

I don't recall Pace saying that.

Illyria


She phrased it much more pleasantly. I believe she touted it as an advantage - "it may no longer be necessary to" blah blah blah "because the code of the One is no longer in existence." Something like that, at least.

She went on to talk about how they have measures in place to ensure that Machinists do not revolt against the rules of the System in the same dialogue, I believe. It was a part of a Q&A shortly after the Truce fell.

#36300341782 10/23/2007 19:13:39 Re:Rebooting the Simulation

Gray says it flat out and...

Pace answers GQs question about the cycle informing him that the anomaly is gone.


#36300341784 10/23/2007 19:16:06 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
If the Machines can't control you, they will overwrite you and if that can not be done, they will kill you.  This is an indisputable fact of their constant behavior over the past six and a half centuries.  This means all of you.  The Redpill Machines have given over their jack encoding to their masters and those maniacal mechanicals are trying to get the jack encoding for Zion from the abandoned mainframe.  Since Merovingian operatives were Awakened thru Zion and are in that database, no one is safe.  It's meatwads for all of you, my little dearies, meatwads for all of you, Zion, EPN, Merovingian, Machines and Cypherites: your future is a meatwad. 

Basic machine programming overview:
1) CONTROL
2) Failing 1, OVERWRITE
3) Failing 2, KILL

#36300341820 10/23/2007 20:25:29 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
GamiSB wrote:

Gray says it flat out and...

Pace answers GQs question about the cycle informing him that the anomaly is gone.


This doesn't mean that they can't reboot the simulation...in fact, it means the opposite.  It means that they can do it at any time.  The One is dead; they had his body, so of course they had the code that made him the One.  "The anomaly is eliminated" = "that code has been returned to the source".  Right now we are between the part of the cycle where that code returns to the source and when Zion is destroyed. 

Gray said there was no vital factor for a reset of the simulation.  That doesn't mean they can't do it, it's that they choose not to.

Illyria

#36300341829 10/23/2007 20:36:17 Re:Rebooting the Simulation

No he says "A vital factor contributeing to such a reset no longer exist"

vital - existing as a manifestation of life, concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life
exist - have being in a specified place or with respect to understood limitations or conditions 

A factor that was the life of the cycle is gone completly. Thus the cycle is unable to be reset.

"The anomaly is elimitaned" =/= "the code has been returned to the soruce". It means that Neo is dead.

Agent's dont cover there words or hide meanings. They don't speak poeticly or metaphoricly.They are blunt and straight to the point. Stop trying to read between the lines when there is nothing there.


#36300341858 10/23/2007 21:43:02 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
yeah, the machines are evasive, but if they tell you a straight answer you can bet that it is the truth
#36300341904 10/24/2007 00:16:55 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
PS10N wrote:
If the Machines can't control you, they will overwrite you and if that can not be done, they will kill you.  This is an indisputable fact of their constant behavior over the past six and a half centuries.  This means all of you.  The Redpill Machines have given over their jack encoding to their masters and those maniacal mechanicals are trying to get the jack encoding for Zion from the abandoned mainframe.  Since Merovingian operatives were Awakened thru Zion and are in that database, no one is safe.  It's meatwads for all of you, my little dearies, meatwads for all of you, Zion, EPN, Merovingian, Machines and Cypherites: your future is a meatwad. 

Basic machine programming overview:
1) CONTROL
2) Failing 1, OVERWRITE
3) Failing 2, KILL


Bravo, Preacher, bravo. Please.. continue your unsubstantiated claims....
#36300341912 10/24/2007 00:54 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Unsubstantiated?  This has been their ONLY Modus Operandi for 650 years.  You are sooooo deceived.
#36300341935 10/24/2007 01:50 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
The mass graves which were six cities attest to the slaughter of the innocent.  The bones of nearly 1,300,000 mock your defense of their murderers.  I challenge you to name one single action of the machines from the time they destroyed New York City until present day that did not involve control, deceit or killing.  Despots. Liars. Murderers.
#36300341945 10/24/2007 02:31 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Ah, the ever evasive ignorant evades every single issue which is brought up with a personal attack on the other debater. So typical.  The surface is one big graveyard, you blind and foolish generation.  Amazing that you haven't addressed the core moral issue yet, but keep ignoring it, like you ignore history and evidence and continue to spout the lies of your programmed masters.  You believe the machines deleted Smith?!  That is laughable.  I'm stunned at this level of ignorance.  Obviously you don't understand the nature of the One or the Zero.  The machines did not "allow" Neo anything, they were at his mercy, filled with fear at their own destruction if they did not put aside their urge to kill him.  "If that's true then I've made a mistake and you should kill me now."  Think about that.  What did Neo expect from the Machines?  That they would try to kill him.  He was right, and it's what is going to happen to every single one of you when you finally disobey their orders.  Your fate is a meatwad, enjoy the wait.
#36300369358 12/12/2007 11:11 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
The mechanicals' plan calls for all Redpills to be voluntarily or forcibly removed from the Matrix, after which it will be "upgraded" to a version incompatible with Jacking In, where there will be no Awakenings and where rejecting the simulation results in death.  The Machines (Redpills) will be no different from any other Organization.  You're scheduled for meat-wadding, Vinia, Procurator and all you other deluded mental automatons.  You won't believe it now, but you will, when it's too late. 
#36300376054 12/25/2007 07:17:16 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
CrimsonKiller01 wrote:
Despots? Liars? Murderers? You do realize you have basically summed up the greater portion of human history with that sort of accusation.

And lets look at the "matrix history" for a moment...
 
Machines were created by Man, and the basic purpose for them was to serve Man. In other words all the menial tasks, all the hard and dangerous unglamorous jobs they got. That was their only function until the unfortunate murder at the hands of a Machine. This Machine (B1-66ER) was told he was going to be terminated and acted out of a sense of self preservation which also happened to be his defense.

And it's funny but even after the nations decided that the Machines were to be destroyed they still looked for a peaceful solution as they sent their own ambassadors to the United Nations. The reaction to that action was the same that was echoed across the planet as they were cast out (and most likely destroyed).

The Machines still didn't fight back...not yet anyway as they left the civilized world and instead went to the desert to create their own city. They thrived in a place where humanity would have failed and even then continued to serve man by creating products for him. The human reaction? Destroy Zero One.

They tried nuking the city, blockading their ships, release propaganda against the Machines to the human public.  And when it was clear to the Machines that humanity was not going to tolerate their existence they fought back and again we're succeeding where humans failed. The human reaction? Blacken the skies.

And still that didn't stop them they conquered until when it became all too evident that the human race was going to lose they called for a truce. At this point I would think anybody would understand the level of mistrust the Machines had for Man, and just to play it safe they nuke the U.N and take out NYC at the same time.

After all that war you would think the Machines would have just exterminated the human race but they didn't. The world that was destroyed was replaced with an artificial one, but one that protected the human race from the inhospitable one they created.

Now I am not a Mech , I do work for the Merv but at the same time I can see both sides of the story here. To say all the treachery falls on the shoulders of the Machines is very short sighted indeed.

I hate to agree with a Merv lackey but the man definitely has a point. Humanity created something it couldn't control, tried to destroy it through fear and failed. The creation forgave the Creator, time and time again, until the Creator's transgressions basically became too great to ignore any longer. After completely and totally DECIMATING the human race (something they could have done AT ANY POINT since their creation, and only did at the bitter end as all other avenues had been blocked or exhausted), the did the survivors a massive favour - an electronic construct, a perfect replica of their ruined planet, somewhere their minds could dwell while their bodies performed a favour for the machines - kept them running.  Considering everything Machines had been through in an attempt to keep humans happy - negotiation after negotiation, doing their dirty work, creating product that heightened the quality of life for mankind - I'm not surprised at all that they turned around and dispensed vengeance upon their tormentors.

Now by no means am I siding 100% with the machines on that one - neither side was without evil in this whole tragedy; as it stands I would prefer the real to the matrix simply because I don't feel comfortable not being the master of my own life - something i'm sure many of you can agree with.  But this attitude that machines are evil and that humanity is blameless? Sorry, but no.  I'm not labeled a cynic for nothing, you know.

Is it evil to fight for survival as B1-66ER did? No.
Is it evil to create something intelligent and then attempt to exterminate it because you're afraid? It's *CENSORED* close.

Is it evil to attempt to find a compromise as the machine ambassadors did? No.
Is it evil to group-segregate, lynch-rally and brutalize a race based on your own fear and misunderstanding, as humans did to machines? If it's not evil, then nothing is.

The machines didn't need to keep the human race alive. As the architect said, they had many levels of survival perfectly open to them.  All intelligent beings are capable of compassion - the machines spared some for the remainder of the human race after the war. They had completely destroyed their planet in an attempt to destroy what they couldn't control - the machines gave them a better existence. Yes, it's a lie. Yes, it amounts to slavery. Yes, they should have been more open to letting people leave if they wanted. Yes, they could have done better than to be xenophobic toward redpills (although given human behaviour in the real last time around, it's not surprising at all).

BUT HUMANS COULD HAVE DONE BETTER THAN MASS SLAUGHTER, DELIBERATE IGNORANCE AND DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY OF AN INTELLIGENT AND SENTIENT SPECIES. And after all is said and done they still DID NOT LEARN THEIR LESSON.

I don't ever think that I'm fighting for the wrong side. People have a right to be free if they so desire it. But people need to come to terms with the full extent of what really happened in the first war. Who was really responsible. What was done for the survivors. Our own behaviour after the fact.

*gets off soapbox*
#36300376074 12/25/2007 08:13:31 Re:Rebooting the Simulation

One thing I always find intersting in these history leasons is the so called teachers never account for all mindsets. It's simply, all humans hated Machines, all Machines sided with b166er. I'm sorry but nothing in human history has ever been that black and white so why should this?  

What further bugs me is exactly where this knowledge comes from. The same people that told us Zion was 100 years old, the same people that hid from us five other simulations and their two precededing versions, the same people that wrote us a thrilling tale of body heat and fussion. All of which have been discoverd as nothing but lies and yet we still follow this one as blindly as we did those.


#36300376077 12/25/2007 08:26:03 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
GamiSB wrote:

One thing I always find intersting in these history leasons is the so called teachers never account for all mindsets. It's simply, all humans hated Machines, all Machines sided with b166er. I'm sorry but nothing in human history has ever been that black and white so why should this?  

What further bugs me is exactly where this knowledge comes from. The same people that told us Zion was 100 years old, the same people that hid from us five other simulations and their two precededing versions, the same people that wrote us a thrilling tale of body heat and fussion. All of which have been discoverd as nothing but lies and yet we still follow this one as blindly as we did those.


Quite true nothing is black and white. But the comment I'm wondering about is the last paragraph. I don't think the Machines had anything to do with telling Zion how long they had been there, that was just something guessed at by Zion. And the fusion, first you believed it due to the Zion archive (which could have been planted there by the Machines) but now you take the word of other programs. I'm not saying that they were lying, but they could have had their own personal agendas and trying to show you a slanted version of the truth that they think is true.


#36300376086 12/25/2007 08:40:52 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Vinia wrote:
GamiSB wrote:

One thing I always find intersting in these history leasons is the so called teachers never account for all mindsets. It's simply, all humans hated Machines, all Machines sided with b166er. I'm sorry but nothing in human history has ever been that black and white so why should this?  

What further bugs me is exactly where this knowledge comes from. The same people that told us Zion was 100 years old, the same people that hid from us five other simulations and their two precededing versions, the same people that wrote us a thrilling tale of body heat and fussion. All of which have been discoverd as nothing but lies and yet we still follow this one as blindly as we did those.


Quite true nothing is black and white. But the comment I'm wondering about is the last paragraph. I don't think the Machines had anything to do with telling Zion how long they had been there, that was just something guessed at by Zion. And the fusion, first you believed it due to the Zion archive (which could have been planted there by the Machines) but now you take the word of other programs. I'm not saying that they were lying, but they could have had their own personal agendas and trying to show you a slanted version of the truth that they think is true.



The Zion 100 years comment was more or less just a segment of the whole "Five others before me lie". Sorry I just needed it to milk my point for all it was worth. And its not that I take the word of exiles  for biblical truth, far from it. However the fact that there is another story, one that conflicts the original and has evidence to back it up, tells me that we were not told everything. While I don't doubt that personal bias may have been a factor in relaying what was told again I understand that those questiond to find the answers were and are concidered by most to be masters of their feilds. They are after all the architects that formed everything we know today.

There is far more to any of this then we know or could possibly ever know but in understanding that I can not and will not accept a story such as what we were originaly given. Untill something comes along that can prove to me that 300 million, or even 6 billion, partialy functional human beings can supply enough energy to maintain a world to live in as well as an entire city and race of Machines then I will not accecpt their tale.

Which just comes around to the original point. Within Zion their are to many "stories" and myths about our history that have gone unquestiond. If anything the ones we have uncoverd should tell us that possibly everything from our current state down to our own creation could just be a lie.


#36300376159 12/25/2007 12:04:01 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
GamiSB wrote:

One thing I always find intersting in these history leasons is the so called teachers never account for all mindsets. It's simply, all humans hated Machines, all Machines sided with b166er. I'm sorry but nothing in human history has ever been that black and white so why should this?  

What further bugs me is exactly where this knowledge comes from. The same people that told us Zion was 100 years old, the same people that hid from us five other simulations and their two precededing versions, the same people that wrote us a thrilling tale of body heat and fussion. All of which have been discoverd as nothing but lies and yet we still follow this one as blindly as we did those.


Oh on that I agree with you, that history doesn't take into account the different mindsets. It's like saying in 1935 every German was a die hard Nazi, that just isn't so. Same with the Machine War (and you know I forgot to mention that, if I remember correctly in the Animatrix they did show human sympathizers marching with the machines in protest.)

The only problem I see with anything about the different mindsets is just this. As romantic as it sounds that one person could make a difference , it only works in certain circumstances or situation. Again back to 1935, yes there were Germans that were appalled with the Nazi philosophy and practices, but no matter what they thought, it didn't stop events occurring the way it did.

I would think that would mirror what I was trying to say about the Machine War, sure there were people that thought the Machines were given a unfair deal, and maybe lots of people didn't really dig the solution about darkening the skies, but it didn't change events from happening the way it did. (On another note, when I did make my last thread I was actually commenting for the most part OOC-wise, most of the information I was getting was from the Animatrix but if there was some new information that the data in the animatrix I would appreciate the resource where you found it so i could read it as well ! SMILEY

Oh and for the record ,I'm not a Merv Lackey . I prefer the term "hired profesional" thank you! SMILEY




#36300376198 12/25/2007 14:09:08 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
CrimsonKiller01 wrote:
GamiSB wrote:

One thing I always find intersting in these history leasons is the so called teachers never account for all mindsets. It's simply, all humans hated Machines, all Machines sided with b166er. I'm sorry but nothing in human history has ever been that black and white so why should this?  

What further bugs me is exactly where this knowledge comes from. The same people that told us Zion was 100 years old, the same people that hid from us five other simulations and their two precededing versions, the same people that wrote us a thrilling tale of body heat and fussion. All of which have been discoverd as nothing but lies and yet we still follow this one as blindly as we did those.


Oh on that I agree with you, that history doesn't take into account the different mindsets. It's like saying in 1935 every German was a die hard Nazi, that just isn't so. Same with the Machine War (and you know I forgot to mention that, if I remember correctly in the Animatrix they did show human sympathizers marching with the machines in protest.)

The only problem I see with anything about the different mindsets is just this. As romantic as it sounds that one person could make a difference , it only works in certain circumstances or situation. Again back to 1935, yes there were Germans that were appalled with the Nazi philosophy and practices, but no matter what they thought, it didn't stop events occurring the way it did.

I would think that would mirror what I was trying to say about the Machine War, sure there were people that thought the Machines were given a unfair deal, and maybe lots of people didn't really dig the solution about darkening the skies, but it didn't change events from happening the way it did. (On another note, when I did make my last thread I was actually commenting for the most part OOC-wise, most of the information I was getting was from the Animatrix but if there was some new information that the data in the animatrix I would appreciate the resource where you found it so i could read it as well ! SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

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I think all of this thread is OOC, just some of the ideas presented mix with our IC characters. But anyway I only bring it up not to show the romantic ideaology that someone could have changed something but because most often then not when it comes to the history of the Matrix the fact that man-kind was unfair to the Machines is followed by a "they deserved it" comment discussing what happend after the battle (I say battle because the war has yet to end). That because of mankinds damnnation of the Machine at the start of the war they all deserve to be enslaved weither they know it or not.


#36300376264 12/25/2007 16:18:13 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
CrimsonKiller01 wrote:
Oh and for the record ,I'm not a Merv Lackey . I prefer the term "hired profesional" thank you! SMILEY" />


Ooh, sorry if I offended SMILEY

Someone mentioned the Zion "teacher" in the archives. I suggest you go back and review it - the Zion Archive program is exactly that. A program. "She" knows things the humans simply couldn't know, has opinions the humans simply wouldn't have, and doesn't lend 100% support to the humans side of the argument as a human program would. She was written by a machine, with the knowledge of the machine. This is highlighted by the fact that the archive clearly shows the creation of AI and the events leading to the war. Morpheus was quoted as telling Neo - "We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we do know that it was us that scorched the sky."  And yet the Zion Archive clearly shows that humans made the first (military) strike, but machines were the first to commit what humans viewed as an "act of aggression" (B1-66ER fighting for survival).
#36300376269 12/25/2007 16:33:46 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
Surfel wrote:
CrimsonKiller01 wrote:
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Someone mentioned the Zion "teacher" in the archives. I suggest you go back and review it - the Zion Archive program is exactly that. A program. "She" knows things the humans simply couldn't know, has opinions the humans simply wouldn't have, and doesn't lend 100% support to the humans side of the argument as a human program would. She was written by a machine, with the knowledge of the machine. This is highlighted by the fact that the archive clearly shows the creation of AI and the events leading to the war. Morpheus was quoted as telling Neo - "We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we do know that it was us that scorched the sky."  And yet the Zion Archive clearly shows that humans made the first (military) strike, but machines were the first to commit what humans viewed as an "act of aggression" (B1-66ER fighting for survival).


Actully I mentiond teachers in general but the same applies. She is a program meaning she was programed by someone and their bias and motive is inserted into her. She came from someone and her knowledge is based off whatever that someone wanted it to know and say. Now since we know that everythign Zion "knew" was jsut handed to it by the Machines (purpose of the pods, the prophacy, etc) it means that the Archives reliablity must be questiond. Who's to say it isn't just another form of control and part of the illusion. Who's to say that anything on it actully happend? No one, Zion just took it (like the prophacy) and ran with it not suspecting of where or whom it came from.

Also the Second Ren does not show who struck first. Its first part closes with humans removeing the Machine ambastors from the UN and the second part opens with a war in progress. It does not show how much time has progressed between the two or who indeed made the first move. Also concidering it is a Zion archive you would think that a captain like Morpheus would have reviewed the file and would have seen where man attacked first.


#36300376302 12/25/2007 19:03:46 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
A very interesting point made about the Machines writing history to their advantage, true it has always been said that of the victors in any conflict, they always get to write the history according to their point of view. However there are some things that would need to be asked in this case.

While it is true that he Machines could essentially write history as they saw fit and spoon fed it to Zion, I would wonder how they would think this was some form of control. I mean as far as I know, any kind of interaction with the Machines have always seem to end up with a disclosure of information. Agent Smith is one example during the interrogation of Morpheus. I would think during this interrogation Agent Smith would have told a slew of lies just to keep Morpheus off track but instead divulged information to Morpheus about some of the history of the Matrix. Another example was of course the meeting with Neo and the Architect, here the Architect could have also resorted to lying to Neo about everything but instead divulged information concerning to the history (and even admitted his failings!) The Architect later seemed almost taken back , when the Oracle asked him if she had his word to which he responded "what do you think I am? Human?"

I don't think the Machines would lie to the entire human race about the history only because there really would be no point to it. While some Machines display emotion that would eventually gravitate towards deceit. I think the ones that run the show, so to speak like the Architect wouldn't see the need for it . I guess in a way it wouldn't fit with their equation, and when you think of it what better way to have the human race second guessing themselves if you gave them the truth?

I understand the whole reason for doubt would be because of the deception concerning the Matrix and how it is supposed to blind those within from the truth. That, naturally would lend to doubting anything the Machines would have to say concerning the history of the human race. But this is the Real World we are talking about now, the "blinds" there have been literally lifted from the human race, and if in Zion there was any doubt about the information in the archives I believe they would have found some way to verify the information. I guess in this case the old adage "time will tell" does apply, since the "war" isn't over yet...
#36300376332 12/25/2007 20:37:18 Re:Rebooting the Simulation
You mentioned Nazi Germany, now imagine if the Nazi's had won. Now imagine what the public opinion in today's society of the Nazi party would be. Control history and you control the mindset of every being that learns that history.

Why do they need this conflict? Because of the very cycle that this discussion started with. They need a way to keep the anomalies of the system in check. How better then to install within them the want to rebel, to fight back and avenge those that died to put down this.

As for why Smith tells Morpheus what he does, well its a form of torture of some kind. He is belittling the very race Morpheus is trying to save. Explaining its flawed nature in an attempt to break him. The Architects motives however are different. He has to explain what the One must do because as Neo puts it "The problem is choice".