MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:32:31 +0800

xiao_p — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:32:31 +0800

ok the full topic title is here:

MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and the Architect

MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:30:21 +0800

xiao_p — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:30:21 +0800

&rt; A: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a
&rt; solution whereby nearly
&rt; ninety-nine percent of all test subjects accepted the
&rt; program as long as they
&rt; were given a choice -- even if they were only aware of
&rt; the choice at a yet
&rt; unconscious level. While this answer functioned it was
&rt; obviously fundamentally
&rt; flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory
&rt; systemic anamoly that if left
&rt; unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo,
&rt; those that refused the
&rt; program, while a minority, if unchecked, would
&rt; constitute an escalating
&rt; probability of disaster.
&rt;
&rt; N: This is about Zion.
&rt;
&rt; A: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed,
&rt; its every living
&rt; inhabitant terminated, its entire existence
&rt; eradicated.
&rt;
&rt; N: Bullshit.
&rt;
&rt; [The Neos on the wall monitors all echo with
&rt; "bullshit!"]
&rt;
&rt; A: Denial is the most predictable of all human
&rt; responses, but rest assured:
&rt; This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and
&rt; we have become
&rt; exceedingly efficient at it.
&rt;
&rt; [Cut to Trinity fighting against the agent.]
&rt;
&rt; A: The function of The One is now to return to the
&rt; Source allowing a temporary
&rt; dissemination of the code you carry, re-inserting the
&rt; prime program. After
&rt; which you will be required to select from the Matrix
&rt; twenty-three individuals,
&rt; sixteen females, seven male, to rebuild Zion. Failure
&rt; to comply with this
&rt; process will result in a cataclysmic system crash
&rt; killing everyone connected to
&rt; the Matrix, which coupled with the extermination of
&rt; Zion will ultimately result
&rt; in the extinction of the entire human race.
&rt;
&rt; N: You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human
&rt; beings to survive.
&rt;
&rt; A: There are levels of survival we are prepared to
&rt; accept. However, the
&rt; relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to
&rt; accept responsibility for the
&rt; death of every human being in this world. [pauses] It
&rt; is interesting reading
&rt; your reactions. Your five predecessors were, by
&rt; design, based on a similar
&rt; predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant
&rt; to create a profound
&rt; attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating
&rt; the function of The One.
&rt; While the others experienced this in a very general
&rt; way, your experience is far
&rt; more specific, vis-a-vis love.
&rt;
&rt; N: Trinity!
&rt;
&rt; A: Apropos. She entered the Matrix to save your life
&rt; at the cost of her own.
&rt;
&rt; N: No.
&rt;
&rt; A: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth
&rt; wherein the fundamental flaw
&rt; is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as
&rt; both beginning and end.
&rt; There are two doors. The door to your right leads to
&rt; the Source and the
&rt; salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to
&rt; the Matrix, to her, and
&rt; to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the
&rt; problem is choice. But
&rt; we already know what you are going to do, don't we?
&rt; Already I can see the
&rt; chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal
&rt; the onset of an emotion
&rt; designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason,
&rt; an emotion that is already
&rt; blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: She is
&rt; going to die and there
&rt; is nothing you can do to stop it.
&rt;
&rt; [Neo looks down at the floor, turns, and then walks
&rt; towards the door on his
&rt; left.]
&rt;
&rt; A: [hmmpf] Hope. It is the quintessential human
&rt; delusion, simultaneously the
&rt; source of your greatest strength and your greatest
&rt; weakness.
&rt;
&rt; N: If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet
&rt; again.
&rt;
&rt; A: We won't.

MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:26:21 +0800

xiao_p — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:26:21 +0800

"A" is for the Architect; "N" is for Neo. Enjoy.

&rt; ====================
&rt;
&rt; A: Hello, Neo.
&rt;
&rt; N: Who are you?
&rt;
&rt; A: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been
&rt; waiting for you. You
&rt; have many questions, and though the process has
&rt; altered your consciousness, you
&rt; remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you
&rt; will understand and
&rt; some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your
&rt; first question may be the
&rt; most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also
&rt; the most irrelevant.
&rt;
&rt; N: Why am I here?
&rt;
&rt; A: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an
&rt; unbalanced equation inherent to
&rt; the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality
&rt; of an anamoly which,
&rt; despite my sincerest efforts, I've been unable to
&rt; eliminate from what is
&rt; otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While
&rt; it remains a burden
&rt; assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected and thus not
&rt; beyond a measure of
&rt; control -- which has led you inexorably here.
&rt;
&rt; N: You haven't answered my question.
&rt;
&rt; A: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the
&rt; others.
&rt;
&rt; [The Neos on the wall monitors immediately respond:
&rt; "Others?" "What others?"
&rt; "How many?" "Answer my fuckin' question."]
&rt;
&rt; A: The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer
&rt; counting from the emergence of
&rt; one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in
&rt; which case this is the
&rt; sixth version.
&rt;
&rt; [The Neos on the wall monitors immediately respond:
&rt; "Five others?" "Bullshit!"
&rt; "You're lying!" Laughter. "There were five Ones before
&rt; me?"]
&rt;
&rt; N: There are only two possible explanations: Either no
&rt; one told me ... or no
&rt; one knows.
&rt;
&rt; A: Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering the
&rt; anomaly is systemic,
&rt; creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic
&rt; equations.
&rt;
&rt; [The Neos on the wall monitors immediately respond:
&rt; "You cannot control me!"
&rt; Shouting. Flipping the bird. Scorning laughter.]
&rt;
&rt; N: Choice ... the problem is choice.
&rt;
&rt; [Cut to Trinity meeting the agent at the elevator.]
&rt;
&rt; A: The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally
&rt; perfect. It was a work of
&rt; art. Flawless. Sublime. A triumph equalled only by its
&rt; monumental failure.
&rt; The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as
&rt; a consequence of the
&rt; imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus I
&rt; redesigned it, based on
&rt; your history, to more accurately reflect the varying
&rt; grotesqueries of your
&rt; nature. However I was, again, frustrated by failure. I
&rt; have since come to
&rt; understand that the answer eluded me because it
&rt; required a lesser mind or
&rt; perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of
&rt; perfection. Thus the answer was
&rt; stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program
&rt; initially created to investigate
&rt; certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the
&rt; father of the Matrix, she
&rt; would undoubtedly be its mother.
&rt;
&rt; N: The Oracle.

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MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:32:31 +0800

MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:30:21 +0800

MATRIX 2 -- transcript of the conversation between neo and t replied by xiao_p @ Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:26:21 +0800