05-19-2003, 09:14 AM
> The batteries concept is silly.
Sure it can be silly, especially taken literally. I prefer to see it as a high tech symbol of slavery. Humans as nothing more than a potential for labor and confined to a prison. I tells ya, I will never look at any AAA cells in my tv remote the same way again. ;)
>So is "die in the Matrix - die in real life" idea.
I keep remembering back to Morpheus speech about the matrix being a dreamworld. I had dreams where I was falling or about to fall, and it really did feel like I was physically falling. Nearly identical to that moment where you are in a roller coaster, a split second before it descends down the first big peak. When I woke up, I knew that was just clutching my bed, and I didn't really fall. Yet my physical response was identical if I would to experience falling in real life. Fear, increased heart rate, clutching something to hold, cold sweats.
I also had dreams where I was eating a fine meal, and at that moment I swear I could taste the food I was consuming. Down to the tiniest detail of the crispy fried chicken skin, the perfect combination of sauce and crunchy noodles... Only to wake up to the realities of stale bread and Mac'n cheese. ;)
So I have no problems of making a leap that if the matrix as an electronic dream world\prison can induce such physical reactions in humans like fear, texture and taste of food, sexual desire. It just might be able to induce death.
Sure it can be silly, especially taken literally. I prefer to see it as a high tech symbol of slavery. Humans as nothing more than a potential for labor and confined to a prison. I tells ya, I will never look at any AAA cells in my tv remote the same way again. ;)
>So is "die in the Matrix - die in real life" idea.
I keep remembering back to Morpheus speech about the matrix being a dreamworld. I had dreams where I was falling or about to fall, and it really did feel like I was physically falling. Nearly identical to that moment where you are in a roller coaster, a split second before it descends down the first big peak. When I woke up, I knew that was just clutching my bed, and I didn't really fall. Yet my physical response was identical if I would to experience falling in real life. Fear, increased heart rate, clutching something to hold, cold sweats.
I also had dreams where I was eating a fine meal, and at that moment I swear I could taste the food I was consuming. Down to the tiniest detail of the crispy fried chicken skin, the perfect combination of sauce and crunchy noodles... Only to wake up to the realities of stale bread and Mac'n cheese. ;)
So I have no problems of making a leap that if the matrix as an electronic dream world\prison can induce such physical reactions in humans like fear, texture and taste of food, sexual desire. It just might be able to induce death.