The movie Matrix is a must-see classic in many people's minds, but this huge loophole in the plot always makes me uncomfortable.
Soon after the movie opened, when Morpheus explained to Neo what the matrix is and the real world, he repeatedly compared human beings to AI batteries, which were played between the hands of machines to generate the energy they needed:
The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. More than 25,000 BTU of biothermal energy. After a special form of fusion, the machines can get all the energy they need.
As a science student, there is only one inner monologue when I see this period. Isn't this nonsense?
Relying on the limited knowledge of high school physics and biology-the human body does produce and dissipate heat energy, but it is important to know that the food and water supplied to the human body are mostly consumed in the production of body cells, brain activity, and protein production. The heat that is really emitted is probably only a small part of it, right? It takes so much time to create a virtual world, but in the end it can only obtain such a low energy conversion rate. What does AI think?
Earlier, I heard rumors that in the early scripts of movies and earlier science fiction novels with similar concepts, AI actually used the extra computing power of the human brain as a CPU to provide the computing power they needed. This premise seemed more reasonable, but the screenwriter was worried that it was too difficult for the audience to understand at the time, so he changed it to the current version.
So the classics in this classic will always be charged with serious loopholes in the plot? I thought so, until I read this dialogue written by someone else:
MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living-Morpheus: In a long time, I I can't believe it. But when I witnessed it with my own eyes, watching them liquefy the corpse, and then provide nutrition to the living people...
NEO (politely): Excuse me, please. Neo: Sorry, please allow me to interrupt
MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo? Morpheus: please say
NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics? Neo: I am listening to you as much as possible, but I feel that now I need to say what I think. The human body is probably the least efficient energy source you can imagine. When the turbine is operating at low temperatures, the efficiency of converting heat energy to electrical energy will be greatly reduced. If you have any food that can feed the human body, burning it directly in a boiler to generate electricity is much more efficient than feeding it to humans. Now you tell me that people's food is the corpses of dead humans? Have you heard of the laws of thermodynamics?
MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo? Morpheus: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?
NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics! Neo: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics! Neo: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!
MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo? Morpheus: So, where did you go to high school, Neo?
(Pause.)
NEO: ...in the Matrix. Neo: In The Matrix
MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies. Morpheus: The machines tell elegant lies.
(Pause.)
NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook? Neo: Can I please have a real physics textbook?
MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn't run on math. Morpheus: There is no such thing. The universe is not like a Matrix and is not built on numbers.
Source: http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/64
Regardless of whether this is an idea recognized by the original, I am satisfied.
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