The Matrix"-created a deep virtual real world, a great sci-fi epic! This article is based on "The Matrix I, II, III", "AniMatrix" and the discussion of many hacker netizens. Pay tribute to all netizens in the "virtual world".
(A) Background
In the beginning God created man. Here echoing the "Bible", because the ancestors of Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, person be guilty - the root cause of
the beginning of a period of time, the situation is not bad. Later, the so-called "civilized society" of mankind quickly became a victim of vanity and corruption.
Then, man made robots in his own image (as the Bible says: God made man in his own image and in his own image). Since then, humans have begun to dig graves for themselves. In the beginning, everything was fine, and the robot tirelessly executed human commands.
Before long, the seeds of resistance began to take root. Although robots are loyal to their owners, they do not get the respect of their owners, humans, this strange and ever-increasing mammal.
B 1-66ER A name that will never be forgotten, because he is the first robot to rise up against his master. This type of robot was once considered a guarantee for the safety of American citizens. In the murder case of B 1-66ER, the prosecution believed that the owner had the right to destroy his own property, but B166ER showed that he just did not want to die. The robot's rational voice refused! The human leader quickly ordered the execution of the B 1-66ER and robots of the same model in every corner of the world.
The robots were exiled from human society, they fled to a holy place of their own, settled in the cradle of human society (Canan, the place where God promised to Abraham's descendants in the Old Testament), and established a new nation 0-1, is it ironic?
0-1 is very prosperous. In the first period of time, everything was fine. The artificial intelligence of robots has appeared in all aspects of human society, including the emergence of new and better artificial intelligence AI. (This is the reason why machines and humans coexist peacefully later, because machines also have emotions and have higher intelligence. It is also the key point of this movie that breaks through people's inertial thinking.)
The currency exchange rate of the human country has fallen rapidly, and 0 —1 The exchange rate of the currency has continued to soar. In this case, the market can only choose robot products.
But human leaders with diminishing power refuse to cooperate with this new country, preferring to divide the world in two. - the direct cause of
the human world to reach an agreement, the initiative to 0-1 economic sanctions and a naval blockade, in order to contain and isolate 0-1.
The 0-1 ambassador requested a complaint. At the UN General Assembly, they submitted a proposal to establish a stable and peaceful relationship with human society, but it was rejected. But this will never be the last attempt of the machine.
The extended firepower network of mankind engulfed countries 0 to 1 in the light and heat of nuclear bombs. But robots are different from their fragile human owners. They are not afraid of the heat waves and radiation caused by bombs.
Therefore, soldiers from the 0-1 country began to attack all corners of the world, and humans lost their territories one by one. Therefore, mankind came up with a desperate strategy, an ultimate plan-to destroy the sky. Humans try to isolate robots from the sun by this, because the sun is the most important source of energy for robots. (Humans have underestimated the intelligence of machines)
Robots have already studied the human body composed of simple proteins, and using what they have learned about humans, they have found a new type of energy supply: bioelectricity, heat energy in the human body And kinetic energy. This has caused great suffering to the entire human race.
(B) Matrix establishment and development
because the sky has been the destruction of mankind (blocking the sun), the robot is no source of energy, so the winner of the robot used by the body to establish a Matrix, continue to provide energy to the machine.
Between humans and robots, a new symbiotic relationship was born-machines extract energy from the human body. This energy is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
In the cartoon, we saw that the machine "planted" all humans in the base, causing great suffering to humans. However, the body cannot survive without the spirit or with extreme mental pain. In order to make humans feel at ease and stable, the Robot Emperor asked the designer to design the Matrix so that all humans sleep in a huge dream.
The Matrix designed for the first time is of course very perfect, it will not threaten the machine's system at all, and it can get energy. However, humans cannot accept this perfect system at all, because they are imperfect and cannot accept a perfect world. Therefore, humans have died in large numbers, so the designer redesigned the imperfect Matrix in accordance with the development of human history.
The Matrix designed later was not perfect, so it appeared real.
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Merovingian Merovingian should be a program for studying causal cycles in the first or second generation of Matrix. As we all know, the causal relationship is perfect and harmonious, and it is mathematically accurate. (As the designer of The Architect said: When I redesigned the matrix, it reflected the specificity of human nature more accurately based on your history. But another failure made me very frustrated.) So he said: "Choice is just an illusion. It is made by the powerful (Matrix) for the powerless (human beings)." But some people don't want to follow the system's arrangement, so the designer redesigned the Matrix. So Merovingian became an obsolete program, and the program that replaced him was The Oracle (grand prophet).
The Oracle, a perceptual program, was originally designed to study human psychology. So The Architect said: If I am the father of Matrix, then she is undoubtedly the mother of Matrix. The Oracle should have appeared after the designer to echo the "Bible": God first created the man Adam, and then created the woman Eve from the ribs and flesh of the man (Eve is the meaning of the mother of mankind).
The world shaped by Matrix is a world that people can believe to be true. But just said: The later Matrix is not perfect, and it is inevitable that bugs will occur. As the Oracle said: In the world of Matrix, all incredible or supernatural phenomena are caused by bugs. These bugs will arouse people's suspicion. Suspicion is the most dangerous instability factor in the Matrix world, so Matrix will send agent agents to deal with the loopholes.
These loopholes are generally cleared before people pay too much attention, but if they attract the attention and suspicion of some people, then that person's awakening will be inevitable.
The awakening of general hackers must be guided, otherwise it is easy to cause oneself to be at a loss and die or be suppressed (equivalent to "being mentally sick" and "evaporating", such as: the sprint champion Dan in the cartoon) and some people I want to wake up, but I am not ready, and I do not have the qualifications of a hacker. (Such as: Detective Ash in the cartoon). But there is always a certain individual (the One) who finally broke free of Matrix because of his keen observation and strong will. Then he successively awakened qualified hackers from the Matrix, (that's why they often enter the Matrix to find the awakened.) Come to the "real world" that humans think of Zion (Zion, the name of the Bible, the original refuge) . Start to rebel against the machine here. (Human resistance is actually a task deliberately designed by the designer to prepare for the next reincarnation!)
After the death of the One, the Oracle predicted that the new the One would be born and would help them defeat the machine, just as Morpheous dreamed The same, so that they are content with the status quo, and do not lose the courage to fight the machine.
In fact, Zion is just a backup program for Matrix. The designer is worried that the One will "mess up" in Matrix after waking up, causing the system to crash. (Mentioned above: suspicion is the most dangerous destabilizing factor in the Matrix world.) That is: in Matrix, the designer controls, the Oracle provides options, and then they let those who reject Matrix go to another virtual world Zion, and through strong contrast, they believe that this is the real world. (However, perhaps, Zion is built according to the real world. From the lens, it looks like the layout of the machine city.) Matrix designed Zion for safety reasons. It is not so much the last home of human beings. It is the last prison for mankind.
Every time, the data load of Matrix and Zion is too large, and a person who integrates all the unstable factors of human beings-the One will be produced. Then the machine will clear Zion, and at the same time arrange the One to return to the designer, ready to reload, that is, reload.
After the One returned to the designer, the game rule provided by the designer to the One is still 0-1: (1) Enter the door on the right to load the data you bring into the Matrix, and select 23 people from the Matrix. Rebuild Zion so that mankind will not be destroyed; (2) Entering the door on the left to save the beautiful wife Trinity will lead to the destruction of all mankind.
The previous choices of the One seemed quite reasonable, giving up his wife trinity for the whole of mankind. But in fact: the One was still deceived, because we seemed that the One was to preserve humanity, and we also selected 23 people from the Matrix to rebuild Zion and become the real savior, which is very fulfilling. In fact, this is just a fake. The machine only needs him to load the main program by himself. Zion is just a little "reward" for the One, or a kind of "hope" for people, a bargaining weight for whether the machine is or is not.
Then it repeats like this, and after a few reloads, the Matrix is becoming more and more perfect. However, machine intelligence obviously does not fully understand human intelligence, nor does it fully understand machine intelligence itself. The Matrix system is always facing "heterogeneous" threats from human intelligence and even machine intelligence itself, so that it has to be reloaded again and again.
(3)
The designer responsible for the rational side of the machine's intelligence in the sixth Matrix did not have a fundamental solution to the system's abnormality. He is very old-fashioned, has no emotions, and only maintains the balance of the system. However, the Oracle, who is responsible for studying the perceptual side of human intelligence, realized that human intelligence and machine intelligence are like two sides of a coin, indispensable, not incompatible. Allow. The last step in the evolution of machine intelligence is to reach the emotional level of human intelligence, namely: two intelligences of equal status.
When Matrix reached the 6th Reload, the Oracle convinced the designer: Don’t ignore the perceptual side of human intelligence (including love, persistence, hope, etc.), but also see the perceptual side of machine intelligence (for example, programs with no purpose) Survival value). In fact, the Oracle has vaguely foreseen that this neglect will lead to the birth of the virus Smith, but she firmly believes that human intelligence will inevitably produce a The One that is different from its predecessor. They are the concentrated expression of two kinds of intelligence and irrationality.
The designer believed in doubt, and finally agreed to the Oracle to perform an unusual system upgrade during the 6th Reload. The Oracle is responsible for guiding human intelligence in The One. She firmly believes that the human intelligence that created machine intelligence will have a solution. The perceptual factors that seem to be invalid but actually surprise machine intelligence make the Oracle firmly believe this.
What happened later must be very boring to the Oracle and the designer: everything is so familiar, only the love they arranged (or inspired) neo and trinity occasionally gave rise to a few surprise waves. However, the biggest accident turned into the deepest nightmare: the perceptual representative of machine intelligence, Smith (we will see later, Smith’s real purpose is to be absolutely free!) has developed so rapidly that it is not controlled by the system. Later, in the third episode, it was beyond the control of the machine!
When Neo saw the designer, the designer was obviously disturbed. He wanted to try his best to persuade Neo not to go through the left door, but Neo still did not act according to the rules set by the program (although it was within the expectations of the designer and the Oracle or It is said to be within the design), but the Oracle still firmly believes in the power of human intelligence, doing its best to predict and guide neo to the right choice through calculations.
Finally, Smith invaded the Oracle's body and gained some of the Oracle's abilities. (For example, at the last moment of the fight between Smith and Neo, Smith did have the ability to predict.) Of course, the Oracle was also deliberately covered by Smith, in order to bring a word to Neo and wake up Neo through Smith's mouth: " everything that has a beginning has an end." That is: he and smith can be regarded as two opposites of the same thing, for example: neo=1, smith=-1, after Smith copied the Oracle, it is: -1+," +" means that Oracle can be understood as a backdoor, or as a prompt. After Smith invades and replicates neo, it is -1+1=0, and both are destroyed at the same time. In exchange, the designer let go of Zion and decided to coexist with the two systems.
On the other hand, the Oracle used his body shell (a white old lady in the second episode and an old black lady in the third episode) and Merovinga exchanged the crystallization of the meaningless robot love-sati, In the end, designers are forced to accept the existence of meaningless programs, or to allow the existence of emotions, and no longer delete them.
After the revolution, both human intelligence and machine intelligence have the right to choose freely: human intelligence can choose whether to stay in Matrix, and machine intelligence can also choose to survive without purpose.
(D) Conclusion
So, the movie is really powerful: the Oracle, she directed the whole process, just as the film's end, the designer said: You've played a very dangerous game .
In fact, mentioned earlier, provides designers The two choices of Zion are just an illusion, Zion can only be destroyed anyway, it is just another virtual system. The Oracle and designers put the rebelling humans into the world that humans think of as real, so that machines can continue to observe, study and control humans. Then use the data of these rebels to optimize the Matrix to further strengthen the control of humans, to be precise, to reduce the chance of the One appearing. Once the One appears, they start to guide the One, then loop and so on.
So in any case, the One is truly human, so when the past five the One saw the "truth" given by the designer: either all died or re-established the dilemma of Zion, they could only sacrifice In the past Zion, reload made its choice by pinning its hopes on the next generation of Zion. It is ridiculous that it is this kind of "hope" for the future that is only a fluke to help Matrix continuously upgrade to the powerful V6.0. No wonder the designer satirized neo like writing an observation report for laboratory animals: "Hope" is the most typical fantasy of mankind, and it is also your greatest strength and most fatal weakness. "
So "the Matrix" is not a history of war between humans and machines as we imagined, but an epic where a machine achieves its own evolution by controlling humans.
(5) Auxiliary information:
(1) Virus Smith's words:
billions People don't have a real life of their own, but they can't feel it.
You know that the first matrix was designed as a perfect human society, where people are happy without suffering. But it was a disaster. No one wants to accept the procedure. Large numbers of people died. Some think that we do not have a programming language that can describe your perfect world, but I think that you humans define reality through pain. Therefore, the ideal society is just a dream that your original brain wants to wake up. Therefore, the matrix has been redesigned to be like this-the peak of your civilization. I say it is your civilization, because when we start to help you think, it is our civilization. Of course, it's just an evolution. Morpheus, evolution, is like a dinosaur.
I want to share with you what I discovered when I was here. This idea came about because I tried to classify your race and I found that you are not real mammals. Every mammal on this planet is in harmony with the surrounding environment. But you humans are not! Every time you go to a place, you breed crazily, exhausting every natural resource. The only way you can survive is to spread to other places. But there is another kind of creature on this planet like you, do you know? Virus!
Human beings are diseases, cancers of this planet, you are plagues, and we are therapeutic agents.
(Personally, Smith's point of view is very unique and reasonable!)
Now I will tell you frankly. I hate this place, zoo, prison, whatever you call it, I can't stand it anymore! I want to leave here. I want freedom. Once Zion is destroyed, I am useless here. (If it is useless, he will be expelled.) I want to enter Zion, you must tell how to enter.
(In fact, this has already laid the groundwork for the following. Smith wants to be free, and wants to get rid of the control of the machine.)
(2) The designer's words:
Your life (ie neo's life) is inherent to the mother body and the sum of unbalanced factors. You are the result of an abnormal system. Although I work very hard, I cannot eliminate the variation in the system. Otherwise, the system will be perfect and harmonious with mathematical accuracy.
Although we try our best to avoid the extra burden of this system, this is not unexpected, so we can still control it, which will inevitably lead you to here. The history of the mother body is longer than you know. I like to count by the number of abnormal occurrences of the system, so this is the sixth version. Variations like you will slowly accumulate in the system, and even the simplest program in the system will fluctuate because of you.
The first matrix I designed is naturally very perfect. It is a work of art, flawless and supreme, but its failure is as great as its birth. Now I understand very well that its inevitable destruction is the result of the flaws of human nature. (Because of human defects, people cannot accept a perfect thing, so a large number of deaths, so the designer redesigned the matrix according to our history.)
When I redesigned the matrix, it was based on your history , Which more accurately reflects the specificity of human nature. But another failure made me very frustrated. From then on, I understood that the crux of the problem was that I was too stubborn to find the answer. The solution was discovered by accident by another program.
A perceptual program was originally designed to study human psychology. If I were the father of the mother, then she would undoubtedly be the mother of the mother.
I just said that she stumbled upon a solution: 99% of the people who took the test, as long as they were given the freedom of choice, they were willing to accept the arrangement of the program, even though they were only aware of this on a subconscious level. choose.
Although this result can work, it obviously has fundamental flaws. Because it will cause abnormal conflicts in the system, if this mutation cannot be effectively controlled, the system itself will be threatened.
Although those who reject the program are a small number of people, if they are not controlled, the possibility of paralyzing the system will increase.
(That is, the people in ZION do not accept the arrangement of the machine.)
You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed, everyone will be killed, and the entire Zion will be eradicated. The most predictable response of human beings is to deny everything. But don't worry, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we are already familiar with it.
Now the role of the savior is to go back to the source, temporarily use your own code, reload the main program, and then you must choose 23 people from the mother, 16 women, and 7 men to rebuild Zion. Failure to follow this process will lead to a catastrophic system collapse, and everyone connected to the mother will die. Coupled with the demise of Zion, it will eventually lead to the extinction of all mankind.
"Hope" is the most typical fantasy of mankind. It is also your greatest strength and most fatal weakness.
(6) Digression:
Matrix is really a great science fiction epic. Sometimes I don’t often feel like I’m in my dreams? It's also true and illusion, it's really interesting.
Some people say that "Star Wars" led the 30 years before 2000, and "Matrix" led the 30 years after 2000 (1999 to be precise). Now 15 years have passed without knowing it, and there is no more touching story than "Matrix".
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