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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
If you think our brain as just a CPU, and memory storage, you'd think of yourself as your memories + your thinking capacity. When you hack into the Matrix, you connect a jack to your head, and you ...
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Why did the humans never use EMP bombs to kill the machines in The Matrix?
Kind of threefold:
The EMPs were only large enough to be used defensively, to use last ditch to protect the crew of a ship, and after using it the ship would be useless.
Getting an EMP of any size ...
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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
There are multiple possible explanations for this.
If you're prepared to accept Zion as the "real world", then I think you have to assume that the hardware that all the matrix born humans have ...
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Why were The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3 released in the same year?
The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3 were filmed together (or "back to back").
Prior to the filming of The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3, this was a pretty uncommon practice but did occur. In recent ...
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Why did the humans never use EMP bombs to kill the machines in The Matrix?
Realistically EMP is not an absolute, meaning it doesn't always do what you think it does. It is true that electronics can be knocked out rather easily but only if they are 'naked' and do not have any ...
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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
Smith would not have been able to do that in the first part.
Neo was the One, who is living in the real world
and begins to have much more control than anyone possible
which also gives him ...
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Will I miss anything by not watching The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions?
Yes. You will miss a whole lot of things:
You will miss the whole purpose and rationale behind Resurrection.
You will miss history about recurring characters and what happened to other characters.
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How does Animatrix fit into the Matrix movies world?
The Animatrix has both prequel stories, as well as concurrent stories to the Matrix. One of the stories even becomes explicitly canon when the protagonist of it becomes a minor but important character ...
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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
Agent Smith is the one. This is confirmed in the second movie when the architect tells Neo that Neo isn't special at all. I believe the oracle also mentions Neo not being the one at some point, but I ...
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How did they kill Agent Smith?
There were multiple Smiths that had assimilated on the other entities inside the matrix, both software and human.
The primary difference in the end was that Neo was hardwired to the source and not ...
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Whose body is in the rain puddle in The Matrix Revolutions?
It's the Oracle's (source: Matrix Wiki):
After Smith and all of his clones were destroyed, the Oracle's body
returned to the Matrix and reloaded into the puddle on the bottom of
the crater ...
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From where did Zion get air?
Machines. While seemingly an inconsequential detail we get a direct quote on this from Councillor Harmann when he discusses the machines keeping Zion alive with Neo:
[Of] course. That's it. You ...
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Why the greenish tint in the Matrix trilogy?
I have an additional reason to add (though I agree that the primary one is due to the greenish tint of computer screens like VT100s). The physical city where they shot The Matrix, Sydney, is also ...
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How did they kill Agent Smith?
File creation date. That would tell who was the copy and who was the original.
DELETE Top 1 Agent
from tblAgents
Order by FileCreationDate ASC
The above is pseudocode, but logically it's SQL that ...
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Why don't the Machines stick with the Architect's plan?
The core of the answer here is that (to quote Jurassic Park) life always finds a way.
Even if the machines destroy every single unplugged human, what stopping similar rebellions from happening in the ...
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Why did Neo have powers in the real world?
Neo and the rest of the free humans weren't actually free. They were just in another layer of the matrix.
The first layer of the matrix keeps you imprisoned because you believe there is no prison. ...
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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
The set up suggests that humans can download their minds into the matrix i.e. there is some technology that can convert brain impulses into electrical impulses that then become bits in a computer ...
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Why did the humans never use EMP bombs to kill the machines in The Matrix?
One of attack:
EMP's knock out other ships, that means you can only ever send 1 EMP to knock out a target. 1 Ship on the other hand can easily be destroyed. Especially by the long range guided ...
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How does Animatrix fit into the Matrix movies world?
Ref - Matrix Explanation
Let’s take a step back into what really happened in the world in the
early 21st century. This information is from the series called The
Animatrix which takes a deep ...
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How does Animatrix fit into the Matrix movies world?
The Animatrix serves as a canon source of information about the Matrix World. It contains history of the Matrix - the rise of machines, the war, and why the Matrix came to be created, and humanity ...
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How does Animatrix fit into the Matrix movies world?
The Animatrix provides a deeper background in the world of the Matrix. It shows how other people experience the Matrix.
I don't think there are any (major) spoilers. There are definitely references ...
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How did they kill Agent Smith?
Hmm... my answer is that, much like Johnny Bones' answer, there is a table of Agents. Agents can refer back to themselves, so you could have something like:
ID Agent Refers to
1 Smith ...
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Were any of the The Matrix movies released with extended editions?
There definitely are alternate versions. Right now, I'm watching Australian YouTubers 'Nics&Nacs' react to The Matrix and I'm watching a bathroom fight scene where Morpheus knocks Smith's ...
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How were the machines in Matrix Revolutions modeled?
I don't know for sure, but when I was a 3D game developer our 3D artists would position "textures" or "bump maps" on the surfaces of relatively smooth models. The textures are simply flat drawing that ...
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From where did Zion get air?
I agree with Sean Condon that the machines produce oxygen. Passing electricity through water splits it into oxygen and hydrogen. Pretty simple stuff. The process is called electrolysis.
So one simple ...
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Why were The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3 released in the same year?
Well, the second answer on a similar question on Quora says this:
Originally, the Wachowskis wanted to release The Matrix Reloaded in May and The Matrix Revolutions in June. This release schedule ...
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What is the current status of Neo in the matrix?
Since there is going to be Matrix 4, it means Neo is not dead, at least not in any final way.
There is even a leaked image of Neo in his new life/form:
(source)
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Does the Oracle in the Matrix have anything to do with an oracle machine in computer science?
As a matter of fact, oracles would allow Turing machines to go beyond logic, since they're able to solve problems in constant time; that relates them to imagination or freedom of will and thus to the ...
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