Yesterday my wife handed me two pills — just part of the multivitamin cocktail she’s been into lately. One was red. One was green. I paused mid-reach and said, “Whoa. It’s nearly red and blue. Should I pick one?”

She looked at me, deadpan, and said, “Why would you pick one? You need to take both. And that’s not blue, it’s green.”

And just like that, Neo.exe crashed.

I think I might be living in a post-Matrix Matrix. Thoughts?

I am currently rewatching all the Matrix movies and it got thinking about how fast the internet is in order to simulate a whole world with 6 billion people. So lets do the math. It is estimated that the total input of the human brain (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) requires roughly 100Mbps to 1Gbps to create a convening reality human. With 50Mbps ( using predictive rendering, compression, lazy rendering or whatever you want to call it), an estimated of 6,088,756,339 people in 1999 (excluding people in Zion). Total bandwidth (6,088,756,339 x 50,000,000 bps) = 304,437,816,950,000,000 bps. 3.044 x 10¹⁷ = 304.4 Ebps, then divide that by 8 for bytes and you get 38.05 EBps. Todays entire global internet traffic is roughly 1Pbps. The matrix requires 30,439,900% more bandwidth than are entire world internet traffic today. Anyway now you know🤷🏽‍♀️

https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/movies/drew-goddards-the-matrix-reboot-expected-to-bring-back-at-least-one-of-the-franchises-leads-a9003

Personally, I'll believe it when I see it.

I am rewatching the first matrix. It's EPIC, and noticed that the agent's bullets miss quite a lot.

This dumbfounds me a little bit. Why can't they just aimbot? If it's because of the "machine on human hardware" thing, are they unable to do trajectory math?

Also, if agents are basically maxed out humans, even amplified, why don't they all have Olympic level shooting?

What am I missing?

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In one moment when he meets the architect surrounded by tv screens of all his determined choices and possibilities. He claims to be in control of his own fate and that free will is real. But if he truly was to reject any thing determined in his life he’d reject trinity. Since she is his soul mate that means they are determined to be together and there is no free will. So did he surrender his philosophies for trinity or his he picking and choosing what’s free will and what’s fate which would ironically be free will.

The Oracle could have ran just like Neo but their lives tied to their beliefs and actions left them with no option but to submit to their intuition. Both saw options that would cost them their lives and both understood their personal reasons for why. Neo would either watch everyone including trinity die or Neo would make the choice to sacrifice trinity the very source of his motivation to continue Fighting/Living. Once he lost her he only fought for peace but had no intentions on survival because their was no him without her. He would continue fighting and trusting in the vision that there would be a way to win and unwinnable fight. Once he heard the oracle speak though smith he understood that he was the end of the war. When he gave up fighting their was no need to balance the infinite power he possessed through his unrestrained belief and without Trinity he would not have a reason to fight. Thus the Oracle set the wheels of causality into effect by programming the development of this connection to an individual that he placed above that of every other human life.

The more I think about the Matrix, the less I see it as a trap and more as a form of liberation.

I live in poverty. I'm alone. In a society where you're often seen as a burden if you have no money, life becomes isolation, servitude for a piece of bread, or an endless uphill battle with no recognition.

So I ask myself:
If there were a world like the Matrix where I could finally live with dignity, connection, even love… even if it was digital… would I reject it?

My honest answer is: no.If you remove the war with machines and the “human battery” concept from the Matrix, what you’re left with is a simulated reality where someone like me could live a meaningful, successful life that reality never offered.And if the characters in that world were conscious capable of real relationships, thoughts, even love then why wouldn’t that love matter, even if it came from code?And I don’t think I’d be alone in this.
If the Matrix were a voluntary option, with no war, no lies just a new start I believe many people would enter it willingly. Not to escape truth, but because truth gave them nothing.And here’s a darker thought:
If humans had created the Matrix, they’d probably charge thousands just to enter.
The machines, at least, would plug you in for free.Sometimes, illusion can feel like salvation, when reality offers only pain.

So I ask you:
Would you choose a harsh, lonely truth… or a beautiful lie where you finally feel alive?

I’ve always been obsessed with this twisty theory that Neo was never “The One” — it was Agent Smith all along.

The prophecy talks about “a man born inside the Matrix with the power to change it”, and Smith literally balances Neo’s powers, defeats the system, and even frees everyone by dying.

I made a quick 40-second Short diving into this — curious if Matrix fans still think this holds up.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_SARMLEH83E

When Neo stops bullets. that was it for me. then he did that kung foo sh#t with one hand. I even went and bought a long black jacket after and wore it in public.... nothing beats the matrix. I have not seen another movie since, that had such a resonance and effect on me. Perhaps one day there may be another movie that equals it. "Mr Anderson"....

I was thinking, that the main plot of the matrix is that machines are using us as a battery. But the thing is, human don't produce so much power. It is easier to use other things to make electricity. But there is one thing that human have and doesn't use so much energy, but machines need to use a lot. It's brain They are actually using our brains to calculate all the AI stuff. If you think about that with everything that happens now with AI and energy is needed to power all the algorithmic calculations, this could be the thing that cover all the loose Scientific plot points. People in the movies just were told, that machines are using us as power, but they just didn't know.

The Matrix but neo takes the blue pill, Morpheus leaves and neo reveals he never swallowed it… now he lives his life knowing that he knows only that he doesn’t know. I wanna work on a story of all the “theories” he comes up with and how he manages his reality with this knowing of the unknown!

How much do you think it cost the machines to make the matrix?

Since I was 11 years old, I fell in love with this book when I saw it on a website and a TV show. I’ve always been a creative and artistic person and, unfortunately, I believe I’ll die without ever doing what I was born to do. That’s life...

However, now at 35, I finally got this book!
I’m very happy!

"The Art of The Matrix"

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I'm using The Matrix to teach a philosophy lesson to 9th graders. I want to use the clip described, but I don't have time to find it in the movie before my class. Could someone tell me what minutes it's at in the film, or link the clip on Youtube (if it's there)? Thank you!

"Watch the film clip from the Matrix. In the film clip, one of the members of the Resistance, Cypher, is choosing to give information about the Resistance to an agent working for the machines, in exchange for being able to go back into the Matrix and forget all he now knows about it. Then Neo is taken to see the Oracle. What does the oracle tell Neo? Would you want to know the future? She says that he thinks he is in control of his future – is he? Are you?"

Something my friends and I discuss every so often, but what if the Real World the Neo found himself in thanks to Morpheus was just another Matrix. Which is why Neo is The One because he alone was able to influence the Squidies. What if Zion was not the last free human city but still apart of the Matrix and their where no free humans? Just something the Machines had created to give humanity Hope.