In The Matrix, humans are put into tubes, used by machines as energy generators (somehow). Human minds are fooled into a “virtual” world while machines enjoy their life in the “real” world.
My concern is why a “virtual” world would be worse than the “physical” world where machines live in? Let’s discuss this somewhere else.
What I want to demonstrate is the fact that most people nowadays are just like these humans in the tubes, but not physically.
The physical world is an outcome of the information collection of our senses, and the processing of it by our brain and mind.
Computers and algorithms, since The Internet, shape our exposure to information, when Bob goes to Netflix, an algorithm will recommend him movies, even if it’s supposed to be related to his “tastes”, he will still watch a movie chosen by a machine, he does not think for himself.
Overtime these small information changes driven by the machines will wash your brain. You are in a mental tube, just like in The Matrix.
Thanks for the information, I still don’t understand what machines used humans for in this movie?
In reality, I think machines might have another interest in using our bodies:
The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or “neurons” which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe. ~ Ramachandran
Digested from https://brain.louis030195.com/Philosophy/Mind/Wandering+Thoughts/The+Matrix+is+reality
The Matrix is reality
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The Matrix is reality
As the inverse model teaches us, more information is less knowledge, in our era of massive information, we have turned a large part of the population into zombies.
In The Matrix, humans are put into tubes, used by machines as energy generators (somehow). Human minds are fooled into a “virtual” world while machines enjoy their life in the “real” world.
My concern is why a “virtual” world would be worse than the “physical” world where machines live in? Let’s discuss this somewhere else.
What I want to demonstrate is the fact that most people nowadays are just like these humans in the tubes, but not physically.
The physical world is an outcome of the information collection of our senses, and the processing of it by our brain and mind.
Computers and algorithms, since The Internet, shape our exposure to information, when Bob goes to Netflix, an algorithm will recommend him movies, even if it’s supposed to be related to his “tastes”, he will still watch a movie chosen by a machine, he does not think for himself.
Overtime these small information changes driven by the machines will wash your brain. You are in a mental tube, just like in The Matrix.
In earlier versions of the script, humans were used for neural computing, not energy, which makes somewhat more sense. You can consider that Morpheus was simply mistaken about the purpose here, or perhaps something else was happening...
Thanks for the information, I still don’t understand what machines used humans for in this movie?
In reality, I think machines might have another interest in using our bodies: