First of all, there are a few concepts to know,
1. What is an architect? His core is calculation, a representative of extreme cold-bloodedness and rationality. For him, some are code numbers and calculations. A perfectionist who seeks a balanced formula.
2. What is a prophet? She is a reflection of human rational thinking, a collection of perception and abstract thinking. For her, understanding humans and knowing emotions is the meaning of her existence.
3. Who is Smith? It is a program, an extremely powerful AI firewall program, and its meaning is to eliminate all flaws. The awakened human beings, the imperfect virtual human world matrix, all exist contrary to its original intention.
4. Neo, he is a selected person, a carrier used to gather all the equations that cannot be balanced. It is like a sandbox system that is not restricted by the matrix, and is dedicated to collecting bugs.
Know these points, ok, really? here we go,
The essence of human existence is the process of pursuing goals and dreams rather than results. Therefore, the original version of Matrix was designed to be a world that can meet all needs. Humans could not realize the meaning of survival, so they died one after another. Then the second version of Matrix was full of pain and war, but human beings could not see hope in the process of pursuit, so it failed again. The first two versions of the matrix are the core of the architect's design, extreme, absolute, very consistent with his characteristics, but not in line with the basic human nature, so it failed.
Therefore, the prophet must exist, because the prophet knows that only a world that is selective, imperfect, and has random gains and losses can keep human beings motivated to survive and dream. In order to create a world that conforms to this uncertainty, a very important point in human nature-free will is proposed here. The right of human choice is reserved. Due to the randomness and irrational uncertainty caused by the choice, in a computing world that pays attention to the balance of equations, system errors (such as data overflow bugs) will inevitably occur. The only way to ensure that the matrix is suitable for human survival (long-term power generation) and that the system does not collapse is to concentrate all bugs on one individual, and then remove them from the system. It is like making a sandbox usb and removing the overflowing garbage data. Wait until the bug is put in, and then unplug the usb. And Neo and the previous saviors are this role. Their existence is inevitable, necessary, and consistent with the most efficient way for human beings to survive in the matrix for a long time. Here is a quote from the Prophet: "it's inevitable, these are all inevitable".
Then why did the prophet confront the architect? Yes, I believe that the Prophet is on the side of humans. It is very simple, because this is her original intention as a program, that is, to "understand humans and let them survive." It is precisely because she understands human emotions enough that she can Call it the mother of the matrix to design a matrix that allows humans to survive for a long time. And the architect who is the father of the matrix does not understand these, because the meaning and original intention of his existence is that everything is for the machine world, and humans are just batteries. Just like the program in the train station said, "What is love? Love is a word and represents a purpose." Then the prophet's "love" is to understand human nature. Only AI that loves humans can design a real way. The matrix that humans can survive.
Therefore, from the very beginning, when robots decide to use humans as energy sources, the existence of prophets and architects is inevitable, because architects represent the survival of robots, and prophets represent the survival of humans. And the game between them is inevitable. The pawns they play are Neo and Zion City. There is a basic human setting here, that is, the prophet believes that mankind is good and the pursuit of peace, so it has always been her goal to strive for peace for mankind. The architect emphasizes absolute perfection and must eliminate humans other than the matrix.
So from the movie, it is not difficult to see that the architect won the previous games and successfully destroyed the previous version of Zion City. So why did the Prophet win this time? There is a key factor here, Smith. That's right, smith is one of the key factors for mankind to achieve peace, because it is a bargaining chip, a bargaining chip that only Neo can solve, without this bargaining chip, the war between humans and machines is basically a power imbalance. First of all, in the first part, Smith is well known as a powerful program, and it is not difficult to see that he has a higher authority status than other programs. But it is precisely because he has a perfectionist obsession similar to that of an architect, so the stronger he is in this matrix built on the imperfect nature of human nature, the more unbearable it is. Then he himself is a program with great hidden dangers. , But due to the bondage of the matrix (the bondage of the source code), he cannot attack the matrix. And Neo has become the key to him to get rid of the bondage. When neo enters its body and destroys it from the code level, the original bondage is also broken. In addition to obsession, it also enjoys part of the uniqueness of neo (not Matrix restricted sandbox system) permissions. Whether it was his speech before the destruction, or refusing to return to the data source after the destruction and attacking the matrix, it is not difficult to see that its original intention was one of the architect's obsessions, "requiring perfection."
Therefore, after having the system permissions of neo and getting rid of the shackles of the matrix, it has become a virus that the matrix cannot eliminate. why? Because to remove system problems at the level of neo, the only way to "unplug" them is the same as the previous saviours. But the problem is that smith has no entity, it resides in the system, and it is controlled by the system. If you want to destroy it directly, you have to destroy the matrix. Here is a key feature of smith after virusization, it will invade all data, humans or programs, and modify its code or data to be the same as itself, pay attention! He does not copy others into himself, but modifies others into his own appearance. The difference is that if he duplicates others into himself, then this copy should have the same authority as his own, and modify others into himself, then the authority of others Still enjoy the original permissions. Then if the authority of the tampered individual is lower than that of the individual, then the other party is obedient to himself, and he is still the subject. And if the tampered individual has higher authority, such as a prophet, the control of the subject will be transferred. That's why, when the prophet was "inserted", the smith became the big boss, and finally played against neo.
Speaking of this, everyone should have guessed it, so the way to solve smith is to let a virus of the prophet smith level defeat neo, and tamper with Neo's data, so that neo becomes the highest authority and ruler of the smith virus, when neo=smith After that, the subject smith has an entity that can be destroyed, and then, destroy neo, destroy smith, and return everything to zero. A usb that needs to be removed is removed together with the virus, and other infected bodies will be restored due to the destruction of the main body.
And all this is something that the Prophet understood from the beginning. In this game, the Prophet instructed Neo to transform him from an ignorant individual into a person with the mind of a savior to save the world, and then let Smith invade himself. , Has become a virus that architects can't fight against. Finally, let the savior she created to represent mankind, negotiate with the architect, and sacrifice herself to eliminate the smith virus at the cost of peace. This also confirms that after the war, the architect said to the prophet that "you played a dangerous game" because of the uncertainty of mankind. If Neo's self-sacrificing savior thinking is not so strong, then it will be very It may be the ultimate demise of humans and machines.
The whole story is actually a high-latitude game between the prophet who is the mother of the matrix and the architect who is the father of the matrix. The world is the chessboard and human beings are chess pieces. It's just that the perspective of the movie is based on the human perspective as chess pieces. Peel away the fog to say.
A few doubts that everyone often has:
1. Why can neo be able to remotely control the machine?
In fact, this is related to the evolution of smith. The power of neo is related to the imbalance of the bugs in the matrix world. When smith evolves to crack the human brain and invade, Neo’s authority over the matrix has also changed from basic data control to similar brainwave control. . Basically, it can be understood that while Matrix uses Neo as a carrier to continuously load unbalanced data, it is also changing the way his brain functions, similar to the development of brain potential.
2. Does the prophet really know everything?
The prophet only knows human nature and the way of human choice under the guidance, so it is different from the tough methods of architects. Her layout method is to establish a religious belief group called "Savior" and let this group go with the architect. contend. It is her true ability to guide human beings to an anticipated future, not to predict the future.
3. As a computer virus, why can smith infect humans?
Human consciousness is originally the sum of brain neural activity. In essence, it is no different from data. It's just that the data in current cognition is too small compared to human brain data, but the powerful AI data in the matrix setting can crack and replace the human brain. Data is possible, similar to brainwashing and then reinstilling memory. It's just that this brainwashing process is shown in a more abstract form in the movie.
4. The matrix is so awesome, how could this error happen to smith?
This was inevitable from the beginning. The reason why the matrix is suitable for human beings to live for a long time while meeting the needs of machines is because there are two opposites of prophets and architects operating at the same time, one is a human, the other is a machine, but this harmony is not Under uniform system conditions, some "incompatible" programs are bound to occur, and smith is one of them. The Frenchman and his men too. There is actually no big threat to producing incompatible programs, and it is the real threat to merge their code and the code of the savior, and this is the intention of the prophet.
5. Why didn't the prophet win the game with a method similar to smith's infection in the previous games?
One is because both prophets and architects are AI, and AI also has a self-learning process. Machines are not gods, they also learn from mistakes to modify new solutions, but this speed is much faster than humans. The second is that the savior as the key person is human beings. Human beings are not programs. There are many uncertain factors. Therefore, even if the prophet knew from the beginning, human beings as the savior may not always be as she wishes.
6. If the prophet really loves humans, why should he lie to Morpheus and others?
The prophets only say what they need to hear. The purpose is not to let them know the truth, but to let them have faith and use it as a strength to fight. This is the advantage that the prophet knows about human nature. Faith is the biggest power to break the "rational thinking" when there is a great disparity in power. Deception and guidance are sometimes the same thing, the difference is only the purpose.
7. Is Neo really dead?
Although The Matrix 4 said that it was coming out some time ago, in the first three parts, it should be really dead. As for why the Prophet finally said: "He will appear again". This corresponds to the previous dialogue between the prophet and the architect. The architect said "how long this peace can last", and she said "how long it can last". The other meaning is that if it can't be maintained, a new savior will appear. , Then people like Neo will still appear, and it will be a new game at that time. So the phrase "he will appear" here should refer to the heroes who can sacrifice themselves for peace. Neo is just one of them. Of course, in order to continue the fourth part, the screenwriter can also change the meaning of this sentence.
8. Is the real world really around 2199 as stated in the first part?
Probably not, as the architect said before, there were several generations of Zion before, and there was no connection between each generation, and there were descendants and grown to a large number of people. Each Zion city has at least 5-6 generations of people. In order to form that kind of collective cognition, otherwise, if there are the first generation of humans alive in Zion, the movie will at least explain that their identities must be extraordinary. Therefore, each time Zion must have a history of at least 200 years, then the sum of several generations of Zion cities will add up to at least 700 years. So if the final human civilization is locked in around 2000, then the actual actual year should be at least 2700 AD. As for the year that Murphys knew, it was only passed down from the first generation of people in that version of Zion.
Finally, I want to say that the story is written by people after all, so many things still cannot escape the basic thinking of human nature. In fact, the core of the settings of humans and machines is much like the struggle for rights between blacks and whites. Human beings as batteries generate electricity, just like blacks are produced as slaves. The white architects symbolizing rights and the black prophets symbolizing human nature, as well as the matrix representing the developed machine city and the towering buildings, are similar to living in the cave. The indigenous Zion citizens all emphasized the equality of black rights and human rights. Under the appearance of science fiction, the author is actually interpreting the importance of human rights and equality from another angle.
The above is my interpretation of the Matrix series, I hope you like it.
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