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Which of course always bugged me. Not just because of what I know of biology, but the second sentence.

"Combined with a form of fusion". The thing we understand to eventually provide abundant clean unlimited electricity (okay, relatively speaking).

It's a bit like saying "The human trigger finger can exert 300 pounds per square inch of force, and perform over 500,000 foot-pounds of work. Combined with a standard-issue pistol-grip chainsaw, the Zombie-Hunting Academy had found all the weapon it would ever need."



In the original script the machines used fusion for power and human brains for extra processing power but that was cut because people thought audiences would find it too confusing.


This makes potentially way more sense... except when the machines by themselves are supposed to be super-smart. Well, fiction isn't perfect. But it's always better when it aims for more plausibility..


It's like having a neural net coprocessor.


From a physics point of view it is complete bull-shit.


The original script had machines using human brains for their computing power but the execs thought that would be too complicated for people to understand.


With that little tweak the movie could be almost the same, except it would make actual sense.


How would that script have ended? With humans required for computing power there's no way the machines give up their existence to release the humans.

At least I can imagine them using alternate power sources with collaboration for the humans. Cleaning the sky for example.


Humans could volunteer their brain power for some periods of time and both men and the machines could focus on rebuilding after the war and manufacturing enough processing power for the machines to live alongside mankind.


They could still cooperate. The movies even had a human character who, having been given freedom, chose the Matrix.

(there could also be reasons for trade; maybe the humans spend time in the Matrix in exchange for energy or whatever)


TIL. That one concept if carried through the movies changes a lot.




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