the ramble dump

Headplugs!

So my biggest issue with the rather vague explanations provided in The Matrix trilogy for all the stopping-the-Sentinels business at the end of the second film was that they didn't seem to stand (or, at least, stood shakily) on the logic of the world(s) presented. It was the whole Matrix/real world link: even supposing the Machines could reconfigure a human 'consciousness' -- so that Smith could take over Bane, or so that Neo could establish a connection with the Source -- how, in the case of the latter, could a human brain transmit (wirelessly or otherwise) to be able to shut the Sentinels down?

I completely forgot about the headplugs.

It's not a certain answer, and still an improbable feat for a human brain (and sort of stretches the functionality of the headplug), but it works a lot better than the idea of straightforward telepathy. I got it from here. Headplugs might also help to explain the reason for the strange yellow blindcode.

All scientifics provided, I still maintain that all the things the Wachowski Brothers were trying to allude to at times got a bit too heavy at the expense of the narrative and characters -- and in some of the events of the third film especially, there's still the feeling that some characters have been reduced to fulfilling some symbolic function. But I'm going to have to retract, at least in part, the comments I levelled at the films in this post. Potentially, at least (because the films, in all their vaguery, still don't explicitly answer it, and it's not like the Brothers have any good reason for being so vague on a technical aspect), the issue can be addressed.

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Labels: cyberpunk, i am the ramblemaster, rabbit-hole theory, the matrix

# posted by Chris @ 10:19 PM