Mouse figured that out but Switch was a wet blanket.
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wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
So, as Cypher made clear, the main draw of the matrix was that he didn’t have to spend his entire life being miserable, with shit to eat, and nothing interesting to do. Soo… What about the constructs? If they could simulate people and sensory input with fidelity, couldn’t they simulate the experience of a juicy steak? Why, when they weren’t actually spending their time outside the matrix doing much other than sitting in a spaceship, wouldn’t they just spend 6 hours a day in the construct? Wouldn’t that have given them all much more practice with breaking the construct of the matrix, and also let them have the nice stuff that the matrix offered, and also knowing that they were the masters of their own destinies? It seems like Morpheus was just a shitty manager, and Cypher was unfulfilled in his job.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s an excellent point, but that would only work for those awoken. The “genuine children of zion” have no ports.
BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Cypher explicitly states he doesn’t want to remember ANYTHING.
Going into a construct doesn’t remove your memories, so he KNOWS it’s all fake, which means it doesn’t carry any weight or meaning to it all.
Having his memory wiped is the only way.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Personally, I wouldn’t give AF if it was “fake”. Fake is perspective.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
Yeah, I’m an anarcho-antirealist. I believe reality is a perceptual construct, and I practice mental techniques to change My beliefs and perceptions in order to reconstruct My perceptual unreality into something more fair and just.
I still like a nice yummy meal. No steaks though, I’m vegan.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Here’s a question: if you know the steak isn’t real, having copied only your memory of it from the matrix, but you know that the original had to have been based on the experience of killing a real animal, is the nonexistent steak vegan? What if all cows are already extinct, like in the world of the Matrix?
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
reading the news God, I wish it were fake. It would be so much more comforting.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A great point, but I wonder if it would have reached that point if cypher had been given relaxation time and good experiences in the construct.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Work life balance 🤣