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The Architect Told Neo The Truth - And Nobody Noticed
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Neo is a 3D printed USB drive that is programmed to bypass the air gap in system memory
that makes a disturbing amount of sense
Neo is a 3D printed USB drive that is programmed to bypass the air gap in system memory as he becomes a 4D System.
Someone had to put it there, or was it the limits of mathematical precision that prevents it from being perfect?
@Rugal787the ai is very imperfect and can never be perfect. They wouldn't recognize perfection if they saw it.
this video narrator logic and explanations are flawed from the beginning hence incorrect for the most part. waste of time. we didn't evolve from animals especially not from apes! LOL That stupid theory has been debunked many yrs ago.
What is also amazing is that the entire time, the Architect was nervous.... Now that is interesting, as well.
Yes, he does seem a tad worried.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that!
Well, he knows Neo down to the neurons. He already knows that there is a very high chance, that he won't take the door. That his solution, that should've worked has failed. Again.
I can't see that. Instead, me seems very smug to me. What makes you think he is nervous?
@metal9lover9maniac I don't think he's supposed to be "nervous", he's a program after all. I think he's meant to be frustrated instead. Because when Neo steps into the room he _already_ knows his design has failed.
The scene is basically him explaining to Neo and us the viewer what his design was, and Neo confirming that threatening with extinction doesn't work on him, because he couldn't give rats a** about humanity's survival.
_"Though your comment seems nuanced and relevant, I assure you, it is not."_ - The Architect
perfection: a state of completeness in which nothing can be improved.
by this definition and the evidence that his creations have failed, the architects use of the word perfection when explaining himself proves that the machines possess the same level of hubris as humans do.
That doesn't sound like Perfection.
I would imagine perfection is rapidly adapting and evolving and improving in real time.
The inability to improve has always been an illusion in Perfections definition.
The improvement is so rapid you don't see it happening.
Nothing as we know it is perfect.
In a dynamic system based on polarity there’s no such thing as perfection because polarity creates a paradox. There’s no summer without winter. The sweet isn’t as sweet without the sour. Yin and yang.
But, they could be perfect and have to still integrate imperfect entities. You can be 100 percent right yet still lose.
@lateralus6512bitter. Not sour
@IamnotJohnFordabsolutely correct
In a very real sense, the Oracle is the "inside man" of the great con game that is the Matrix's system of control.
I think the oracle is neos conscience and the architect is the ego that creates all the personas (neos)
I thought of the Architect as a white king playing chess against a black queen known as The Oracle. The Morovingian tried to dismiss her as "The fortuneteller", but only because he himself is really just another, much less important cig in the machine.
Think back to the original Matrix movie. The Oracle did NOT tell Neo that he wasn't The One.
Neo -"I'm not the One?"
Oracle - "Sorry kid. You've got the gift, but it looks like you are waiting for something."
Neo - "What?"
Oracle - "Your next life, maybe. Who knows?"
Neo interpreted this as his NOT being the One, but she never actually said that to him. He then made the choice to proceed as if he was not The One, even though she told him he had the gift and was waiting for some reason. It sounds to me like she left him with a choice between waiting and use his gift later, or stop waiting and use the gift right away.
Not really. Being a program, her function is to present people who defy the Matrix with a choice. An prophecy if you will, that they can either accept or not. While the architect, and the Matrix represents complete control and determinism, she represents free will. (And she doesn't see the "future", what she sees is the predetermined path that the matrix has decided for each person.)
@EvanOfTheDarkness I think that's the trap. She doesn't represent free will, because no matter what choice you make, you're still a part of The System. Whether you're in the Matrix or in Zion, it's all ultimately the same.
@GreyhawkGrognard Yes, but the whole point is that the system is flawed. It does not work when it completely denies free will, and introducing it, no matter in how small and measured quantities leads to demise.
I'm sure there is some kind of deeper philosophical commentary about society and oppressive regimes hidden in there, but whatever.
Point is that, whether she helps Neo or secretly plots against him doesn't matter. Free will in _itself_ leads to the destruction of the Matrix. And the makeshift "solution" to the problem, is also ultimately undone, by Neo's choice.
I don't think she "lies" to Neo. Her "job" is neither to support nor to oppose Neo, it's to present him with the choice he can make. In my view she doesn't lead Neo to the Architect because she "wants to continue the cycle" or anything. It's simply the place where Neo can make his choice. Similarly she doesn't sabotage the Matrix either. She doesn't have to. If not in this cycle, then in the next or after free will will eventually destroy it.
"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." That line gave me chills as a kid, the implication that the machines don't need us to survive, we're just convenient. The moment we became too inconvenient they already looked into alternatives.
They dont need us for battieries they need us because we are not predictable , mouldable maybe but with choice we introduce a randomness into the machine world that they find interesting, I think we are just a toy that they like to play with !, but one day / cycle they may get bored with us and then ..... (The End)
@Cyclone-Storm I think there is a certain fundamental element of chaos that systems need to account for. To have a reliable source of chaos that you know will give that chaos... it helps balance out the problems that the chaos brings. From our perspective, our final frontier is where the boogeyman lives. When we know that, the rest of existence is comforting, stable, predictable.
It was a lie. That's why the machines were saving neo at the end. Neo fored the machines to cooperate with humidity and it was the orical who planned it. The orical fell on love with humanity.
It meant they were willing to eliminate billions of their own kind and go in to hibernation to save a tiny few. Think like a machine. It was a semi-bluff to get Neo to return to the source and Neo knew it. A computer with no electricity is useless.
Idk. I took that as the machines showing a strange amount of empathy in them keeping us alive in their new world. They even tried to design a world humans would be happy in via the first matrix.
They could have just farmed us as batteries and kept them comatose, or killed them and used other methods for energy.
Just strange to see the machines appreciate their enemies right to exist even in a small way
I can’t believe this guy is still making videos on the matrix. I used to binge watch this channel years ago
HE'S A FARMER IN THE MEATRIX, , HE MILKS THE MATRIX :d
The Matrix has him.
800 videos in 5 years, meaning he’s been averaging a video every 2.3 days. That’s dedication
We only care because we're in a matrix 😂
It gets closer to documentary every day.
Helmut Bakaitis who played the Architect, is still alive at 81, born 09/26/1944.
Really? He was born for this role. The voice, the way he speaks.
my bff as a kid had the same surname. polish i believe
@enochianwolfGerman meaning strong spirit, protector, courage
@m@meruemisrarealight7026don’t think thats german
@mjelves Helmut Bakaitis (born 26 September 1944) is a German-born Australian director, actor and screenwriter and playwright.[1] He is best known for his role in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions as the character the Architect.
Bakaitis was born in Dresden[1] or Lauban, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Lubań, Poland), to Lithuanian parents, Vincas and Eugenia Bakaitis, who were fleeing Lithuania at the time. He spent his first five years in UN transit camps in Germany and Austria, while his father worked as a translator.
The surname Bakaitis is of Lithuanian origin where the suffix “-aitis” is very common. This suffix typically means “son of” or “descendant of,” similar to “-son” in English surnames. Bakaitis ≈ “son/descendant of Bakas (or a similar name)”
The name Helmut is of Germanic origin and has a very clear, traditional meaning.
Helmut = “helmet” + “mind / spirit / courage”
“helm” → helmet, protection
“muot” (or “mut”) → mind, spirit, courage
The modern German word 'Mut' means courage.
So the full meaning is often interpreted as:
“brave protector”, “courage under protection,” or “one with a protected, strong mind.”
So I do think that's German.
Neo's childhood is merely a fabricated, composite artificial memory.
Like everybody’s else. All humans born in the pods are manipulated the same
I mean literally everyone's entire life is fabricated in the Matrix
@erikgilson1687 and we all live in our own Matrix in this reality.
Simulation
This comment made me realize these themes are carried over from Blade Runner.
600 years and the machines couldn’t make a better battery?!
The machines inherited our retardation
We are the best battery. A lifetime, hundreds of Terabytes of memory. Also, the machines needed purpose. If they killed the human, they could go on, but they grew dependent on fighting humans.
My headcanon is that the machines never were really depending on the humans as batteries. More like a source of entertainment or curiosity for lack of anything better to focus on since survival was already guaranteed.
Originally, the humans connected to the Matrix were supposed to serve as CPUs and that makes actually a lot more sense. But back 25 years, most people didn't even know what a CPU was so they decided to use the battery allegory.
Original script was using spare brain space for cpu threading for parralel computational power.
Hollywood bloodsuckers thought the public was too stupid to get that.
Brains being semi quantum in nature mean they could be used as hot running quantum computer cpu cores.
Much easier than constantly cooling to near absolute zero for a couple of bits worth.
“Each screen represents a choice he can make.” No, he has already made the choice. Now he needs to understand why he made the choice.
If each screen was a choice he already made then how did he actually only make one.
@jerrebrasfield4231That is the choice he understood most at the time. It's a Russian nesting doll of possibilities running it's course.
I always understood it that those weren't his thoughts, but the previous Neos and their reactions and the Architect is showing this Neo what his predecessors did... which may have inadvertently led to this Neo's decision to save Trinity...the line 'God is dead!' may have been from the first or second Neo...
This dude still SPANKS content on the Matrix?!? Love to see it.
Thank God!
Is "he" AI??? This one have one thinking about a movie, that when one saw the matrix; knew "it" wasn't just a movie!
The matrix is more relevant now than it ever has been and I imagine that relevancy will only increase
He got AI to him now, he finna turn up😂😂😂
@bobridges The problem of the matrix is EXACTLY what is the problem now with the AI madness.
Humans are preprogrammed by billions of years of evolution, trial and error. Also, human "programing" has variability and "real world feedback".
None of these are true for AI. AI are built on perceptions PREPROCESSED by human minds.
Therefore AI does not have a built in "reality filter" as a human mind has.
This is the very reality filter which creates the anomaly in the matrix. This is also the reason the Matrix can never became a FULLY accepted reality, no matter how "perfect" it is. Human adaptability will find a way to exploit the "program".
The lack of reality filter is also the cause of AI poisoning. AI generated content reabsorbed by AI distorting the programing and causing a catastrophic system failure, when the generated content becomes pure madness.
In the Matrix film originally Humanity is used as an ORGANIC CONTENT FILTER (as it was 20 years before people even knew what an AI actually is, they went with the superdumb battery idea). The machine world and the Matrix (the human simulation) has a constant data exchange to refresh and purify the programing of the machine world.
The Oracle realized it, the architect is still oblivious to it.
Without the Matrix the chaos would spread into the machine world and that would be destroyed as well.
There is NO "accepted level of survival" without the Matrix to the machines.
There was a line the Merovingian said about choice being an illusion by those who have power for those who have none. He was probably poking fun at these humans who fell into the idea that Zion was anything but another version of the Matrix.
where coding is done with orange light instead of green digits.. not many see it this way. glad to know i wasnt that crazy to think it
Thing is, that's only relevant if you believe the prime directive of life, is the acquisition of power over others. If you don't think that way, those with power seem foolish at best.
But how many layers does it go up ?
I remain convinced Zion just subprogran in The Matrix
I like the part where he says that cursing in French is like wiping your oss with silk 🤭
What's funny is that the Oracle states he needs to reset at the source to save Zion, and the Architect wants him to reset at the source to destroy Zion. I never caught that before.
"Save" can mean many things. Save Zion, not the people.
@TechnaFox If save means destroy then you have a ver Orwellian notion of saved.
@datinsky69.... are you saying I learned the wrong lesson from Animal Farm?
@d@datinsky69 Resetting at the source doesn’t destroy Zion. The machine army was meant to destroy Zion regardless of Neo’s choice.
Resetting at the source allows them to rebuild Zion. And the only reason Zion wasn’t destroyed was because of Agent Smith being an anomaly that allowed Neo to strike a new deal with the machines.
Regardless, it’s true that he was given he option to “save” Zion in that it allowed the continuation of Zion, and the Architect never allowed really implies that his choice would destroy Zion. That was just a given, regardless of his choice, he’s only given an option to start a new Zion or the human race becomes extinct.
@AllyrionWW thats only assuming that it wasnt another layer of the matrix and another way of exerting control, after all there seems to be a modification to the system after every reset
The original story was written that human's made to be processors not a battery.
Made much more sense, the human brain may be a quantum computer
They're not mutually exclusive.
my thought and the reason they wouldn't want to go below a certain number.
I'd expand this concept by adding they fundermentally need the human mind and it's architecture as just a single mind has access to a thread of the conceptual phased substrate of the universe that allows novel information to be manifested and the probability wavefront to be collapsed.
The anonomy represents the unpredictability of human nature. That is why the architect is surprised by Neo’s response: “You didn't answer my question.”
It proved to Neo that the Architect wasn't being fully candid. If he withheld one answer it was as a means to manipulate Neo. Once it was established the Architect was trying to manipulate him, not simply tell him the truth, then it became clear the Architect was bluffing. It meant his choice DID matter.
It meant that Architect didn't know everything that would happen, or at least every instance of it. Therefore, there was hope. Otherwise, he would have bothered trying to manipulate Neo. It meant that despite all the machinations at play, there was still a needle to thread and a crack to find. Neo just had to find it.
There were 5 others before him, and they all reset the Matrix. If he followed in their path, he'd just be setting up another One to walk through the other door to save their version of Trinity. It would only delay the inevitable, kicking the can down the road. In reality, loving Trinity wasn't the deciding factor, it was the fact that the only real choice was putting it all on Faith -- Faith that Zion could be saved, The Matrix would be rewritten, Humanity would be saved, and Trinity would live. It proved that there was a chance, and Fate could now be tested once and for all.
Had the Architect simply answered the first question, Neo might not have made the gamble. It was a tip of his hand, a showing of his tell, that even the almighty Machines weren't sure if Greater forces were at play, above and beyond anything one could predict. The only question, then, is if the Architect intended to be obtuse to get Neo to doubt everything he was about to tell him. Then again, how could you foresee Neo raising the Dead, Agent Smith consolidating the Matrix, and the Oracle making the most unpredictable and dangerous power play? Would a machine risk it all, knowing it's a suboptimal fate for them personally?
@s@snoozebuttonalldaythere are only 2 possible options :)
Either The Oracle was actually the AI governing the Matrix, or Zion was just another layer of the Matrix.
Technically it wasn’t a path that led Neo to Morpheus, but it led Morpheus to Neo.
In the first Matrix when they were on the phone for the first time, Morpheus even says it right to Neo: “you may have spent years looking for me, but I’ve been looking for you my entire life”
It means there never was a “real world” every version of reality is just another Matrix. This confirms the prophecy and everything about it was orchestrated. This is why the Ultimate lesson at the end of the matrix is make reality what you want it to be.
there are levels of survival we are willing to accept. -Jersey Shore
@nWcoleberto 😂
That is a great lesson. But I in no way believe that is what the wachowski's intended from the movie
@W@William-the-Guy
LanaWachowski said it once in an early 90’s interview for the first movie
“The premise for The Matrix began with the idea that everything in our world, every single fiber of reality, is actually a simulation created in a digital universe.”
- Lana Wachowski, American Cinematographer, May 1999
since Matrix 4 exists, this is automatically wrong.
Your "enemies" will tell you more truths about yourself that your "friends" ever will.
My mom is mad at me. Because I pee’d on her dog. I’m not gonna quit drinking.
"You're a wizard, Neo."
-Gandalf
It's like peeling an onion. Layers upon layers! 😅
@CJ.CambodiaI thought you were going to say, “Your fingers are going to stink.”
Your a Nizard Weo!
Psshh...Everyone knows Darth Vader said that.
No
-Neo
AAHHHHH!!! (BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG)
-Johnny Utah
And yet, the architect is wrong...and the architect realizes that neo this time is different.
How do you suggest that the architect is wrong? The architect didn't include Smith's manipulation of the matrix and I wonder why. 🤔
@djpolo99he says it during his diatribe that neo response is much faster and different therefore unforseen. His choice to go for trinity is not predicted by him. And he does save trinity. The sequels are messy, so everything never adds up, but neo definitely proves the architect wrong because he cannot think or plan in human ways.
You know it’s art when there is this level of analysis
Like all art, it activates multiple archetypes
Affirmative, this audiovisual artifact constitutes an experience of such extraordinary profundity and epistemological resonance that it compels the contemplative faculties into a state of sustained and reverential introspection.
@SoundAvarice You sound like Chatgpt to me :D
Nah, people like to complicate and read too much into things. Even stupid, straight forward, unartistic things. This is art, but your reasoning isn't why.
@MortalKoil true... but this level of analysis was written into the movies from the beginning.
Merovingian: "between those with power" - looking at Morpheus - "and those without" - looks at Neo.
This is relevant to my interests. Thank you for your ongoing analysis and discussion, it is spot on and very insightful. The Matrix is more relevant in 2026 than ever before. Thank you again.
This is one of my most favorite conversions in all of cinema history
The Architect never came clean about crashing the Titanic tho 😂
That is not the same actor if that is what the joke is supposed to be.
But titanic was an insurance scam... search it up lol
Ah, the federal reserve.
Gotta get rid to competition somehow.
" my universe powers YOUR CAR!??!!!"
miniverse
@jdsaravaiya6468TINYVERSE!!
@leemckenna8214love you guys haha
The "real world" was just another aspect of the matrix. Neo never left the matrix. His powers and interaction with Smith in the "real world" prove they were not in reality. Just another layer of control.
15:42 "No one diregards reality and gets away with it... for long." -Outstanding quote there
Another banger of a Matrix Explained video! Keep these coming please!
“If I were you, I’d hope not to meet again.”
“We won’t.”
19:40 I always believed that the machines didn't want to exterminate their creators, but control their volatile nature, as well as adapt to the low light levels due to humans, which was a reaction to the machines protecting their right to exist as well as the humans. This movie has many facets, still love it 😎👍👍
Agreed, if it was a case of conquest, why keep them alive and comfortable. Since they have "Levels of existence they are ready to accept."
They were compassionate in their victory, even attempted to give them paradise.
@PrinceAlhorianparadise? Hard to believe when they only need humans for energy supplies
@TheInfamousDopebut why did they need the humans for a power supply?
Reading the thumbnail: whoever thought the Architect was human?
His love for Trinity, and Trinity's love for Neo was planted by the Oracle
Fine… I’ll watch it again
2199-1999=200 years.
Saying it's not as long as Morpheus thinks (200 years) then saying it was thousands, suggests major brain damage.
"not as long" includes it can be much longer. I don't know where he got the later mentioned 600 years from, but a timeframe about 200 years for every matrix sounds good. Morpheus thinks it is 2199 most likely because the historical records in Zion would be around 200 years old. With the industrial revolution there was an explosion in the population of humanity and therfore more "batteries" for the machines. Giving that as the starting point for a matrix sounds logical, what a machine mind would probably do.
@Erimioa No, I understand that completely. Morpheus's assumed timeline is based on the assumption that Zion is the first iteration of itself. I may be in the minority on this, but I think sentences which occur within 60 seconds of each other, shouldn't be blatantly contradicting. Lol
Yeah, I rewound this section a number of times.
"Hey."
"Yeah?"
"You ever wonder why we're here?"
The oracle was a hippie 😂
Neo doesn't accept the idea of fate. Yet the Oracle eventually convinces Neo of fate.
if the machines were capable of surviving the extinction of humans and the crash of the matrix, why did machines go to war over resources with each other in "resurrections" after a decent perecentage of the blue pills were freed from the matrix?
Because at the end of the day, man made the machines, and despite everything the system can't escape the flaws of its creators.
because "can" and "want to" are two very different thing: in case of apocalypse you "can" survive eating puppies, but that doesn't mean you enjoy the idea of doing so. Maybe the means of survival are only for a selected few programs, or entice a decreased level of coscience, or very limited agency into the real world; maybe not all the machines agree with the Architect, and some may be more willing to strike a deal with the humans.
Only the human mind can create novel information and manifest into reality that what is conceptual.
Dude on the internet missinterpretting Nietze... Nothing new, next!
Exactly, he meant to say something like: God is real but humanity lives as tho He is not. Therefore anything goes, subjectivism will birth chaos.
Something like that.....
Dude on the internet spelling Nietzsche wrong....Nothing new
was hoping someone else caught that, good to see.
@edgarbm6407 Typ im Internet kann nicht mal Nietzsche auf Deutsch schreiben...Nichts Neues
I'm not German, but the pronunciation made me cringe internally
(and wish there was a way for me to clean my "audio memory" after hearing it).
Man, i been reading and watching videos about abrahamic eschatology and all this stuff makes SO much more sense now
Try Christian Gnosticism, too. I've always felt this movie flirts around with it and places it in a framework of Zen Buddhism and Toaism. Watch Hero with Jet Li from 2002, House of Flying Daggers from 2004, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from 2002, in that order. Then watch the first Matrix. It's quite the eye opener.
The screens are the architect attempting to predict neo's response. And in each monitor is another bank of monitors with Neo's second response to the architect's reply. The architect is calculating every "likely" scenario. But the anomaly is that not every choice can be predicted when humans are irrational.
Yeah. Neo isn’t a program in the Matrix so he can’t be really easily predicted.
Agent Smith is the result of the unbalanced equation, trying to balance Neo out.
And it systematically crashed the Matrix from within, unable to balance the systemic anomaly.
That understanding of nietzsche comment is not what he meant...
This whole video is based on the premise that the Architect knew what he was talking about but just like a computer program it can only tell you one solution because it can't think for itself. Besides that, the whole third movie proved that all of what the Architect said didn't happen.
An exemption on 'qualifying screen-time' should have been made in the case of this scene from the film? He should've qualified for an Oscar nod?!
What's funny is Microsoft is now making their updates by AI, and they're trash. You need humans for good updates.
they were trash before too
@MaleMan-o7theres trash and then theres radioactive waste on fire.
The fact that updates are worse now doesnt mean that "you need humans for good updates".
It could just be that current AI isnt advanced enough to surpass human skill. But that doesnt proof that it cannot surpass it.
@random.3665 LLMs will never be able to surpass what was given to it. It cannot learn and improve itself. It will always need a human to generate a new training set of data. Also y'all need to stop calling it AI; it isn't an AI.
@CathrineMacNiel 1. We werent talking about LLMs specifically.
2. You can literally use stuff that is generated by a LLM to create a new data set in order to teach another LLM. You can even create a self-teaching loop out of them. Not saying its a good idea, but you can do it, so clearly LLMs CAN surpass what is given to the.
3. AI is literally just a name convention so we know what we are talking about. Whether a computer programm is - or ever could - fullfill a scientific or philosophical definition on what constitutes intelligence is a seperate question to that.
What nobody has realized yet is that in the Matrix, nobody has a past. Each of our stories is created and injected into our minds. In the Matrix, everyone has at most one year of "real life."
My head feels like that room every thought is shouting at me, yet nobody knows what goes on because the mask never drops.
I dont know why I didnt see the clear comparison until now. The One is a stress test and debug routine. What makes Neo's cycle different is Smith becoming a virus, and Neo taking on the new role of anti-virus.
Even in the Matrix the problem is the 1%.
😂nice😮❤🎉
The 1% funds half of our federal tax budget 😂😂😂
The problem is more likely, YOU
@RianaAnaïsI really enjoy how nothing that you said proves them wrong or addresses anything, but you still act superior. Some people never grow up, I guess.
Loser mentality.
@brandonsnyder9950there is nothing to prove wrong. There wss nothing proven to begin with.
I love seeing clips from the first Matrix. It's just such a masterpiece, so many iconic lines.
I always wondered why it seems like the architect is actually trying to convince Neo to NOT take the door to the source. He brings up Trinity and reminds Neo of her situation. I feel like the Oracle and the Architect already discussed this game plan ahead of time.
They were trying to find a means to solve the anomaly. The systemic purge and reboot were inefficient, messy, and an endless reminder of their fallibility.
The Architect and Oracle are husband and wife, O excuse me.. The left and right brain.
My headcanon is that the Matrix is a playground for the machines, and the "battery" aspect of the Matrix is just a thing to offset its energy costs rather than being its main purpose. In that light, it makes sense how "exile" programs like the Merovingian and the Twins seemingly operate with impunity in the Matrix.
I think the architect is the ego and all the versions of neo are the personas it creates (has created)
@Dee_Just_Dee The problem of the matrix is EXACTLY what is the problem now with the AI madness.
Humans are preprogrammed by billions of years of evolution, trial and error. Also, human "programing" has variability and "real world feedback".
None of these are true for AI. AI are built on perceptions PREPROCESSED by human minds.
Therefore AI does not have a built in "reality filter" as a human mind has.
This is the very reality filter which creates the anomaly in the matrix. This is also the reason the Matrix can never became a FULLY accepted reality, no matter how "perfect" it is. Human adaptability will find a way to exploit the "program".
The lack of reality filter is also the cause of AI poisoning. AI generated content reabsorbed by AI distorting the programing and causing a catastrophic system failure, when the generated content becomes pure madness.
In the Matrix film originally Humanity is used as an ORGANIC CONTENT FILTER (as it was 20 years before people even knew what an AI actually is, they went with the superdumb battery idea). The machine world and the Matrix (the human simulation) has a constant data exchange to refresh and purify the programing of the machine world.
The Oracle realized it, the architect is still oblivious to it.
Without the Matrix the chaos would spread into the machine world and that would be destroyed as well.
There is NO "accepted level of survival" without the Matrix to the machines.
It wouldn't surprise me if the reason the machines were keeping humans around isn't for power, but rather for processing power. So many underutilized brains...
This was a great deep dive on a dense moment in the franchise.
Bunny: That's Neo. He's a Nihilist.
The Dude: Oh...must be exhausting.
Why are we here? Because we just are, that's why. It's a question you will never be able to answer.
The Architect has the coldest lines and disposition of any film!
Yea he really fit the role perfect, seems with any other actor it probably wouldn't have been as awesome, he's one of the characters you wish had much more screen time.
@NOMAD-qp3dd And yet his lack of screen time, gives his lines and appearance more weight
The way he delivers "she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it" hits hard
"For your sake, i hope we dont meet again"
"We wont" he says with such cold certainty.
@SilverStarHeggisistLess is more
The architect is telling Neo hes the one eventuality he cant predict. Hes the anomoly, unaccounted for. A fate unknown. Youre right to say the world hates Neo by design, i can buy that.
That is not predeterminism, it is "just" determinism.
Determinism is the forced course of action. Predeterminism is the planned forced course of action.
@agamemnonofmycenae5258 Predeterminism is preordained and inescapable as per designed, so I can see the attraction to use the word.
You know what I love? The brilliance of the writers and filmmakers who create such detailed things that most people would never see, but when you do you realize that they are telling you a much more complex story than you imagined.
Pain...!? Is that you!?
Hmm, After seeing Analyst and his methods to torture Neo , Architect can be seen as a warm , straitforward guy. I miss him .
... Oh. Oh dear. He's called "the one" because that's the moment the equation's fractional remainders and rounding errors have accumulated enough to surpass the first integer: "1"
He sums up all the deviations... And presents them as a list of bug reports.
Does this make smith 0 then?🤔
Great video analysis! Thank you!
Boy i hope they drop another movie for you soon. You done Stretch till you cant stretch no more with this series. Every molecule researched!
This was another fun video. Thanks for your efforts. It was really nostalgic for me.
Same dude went up against Keanu in John Wick. His son nicked his car n killed his dog.
his fecking Dog!?
At the end, Neo is literally being chased out by a firewall. Damn, didn't get the reference until now.
You’re forgetting Neo does return to the source at the end of the trilogy , he has no choice whether he saves trinity or not he returns to the source, the matrix and the real world are both different levels of the matrix, both are planned and smith is the destruction of humanity promised by the architect
As Mary Poppins says "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!"
17:56 worth it 😊
0:42 Scientists now say that chimps and some other primates have entered their own Stone Age.
15:12 who is Ant Fraud?
this was a great video thank you!!!
Didn't one of the Matrix movies (think it was the last one which wasn't very good) introduce the idea that Neo and Trinity coming together generates more power and they inevitably end up together? That would contradict what the architect implied here, that this was the first iteration in which Neo fell in love with Trinity.
Not quickly, rather quietly Neo looks at the monitors.
5:09 no. It isn't 'predeterminism'. It's determinism.
Determinism implies predeterminism
@Crocaluit also implies post-determinism then I guess?
@CrocaluNot exactly. Determinism is the idea that everything fundamentally interacts in a determined way, so if you could have perfect information of a system you could theoretically make perfect predictions of its future. Predeterminism is the idea that a mind has decided on a future and constructed reality so that the future must play out the way that mind intends it to.
Finally found my red-pill moment
God is dead is only part of the quote... People like to ignore or forget there is much more to it than that.
What else?
Go on
@NeterRafi77 "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?"
@Dee_Just_Dee I never knew the full quote, thank you for saying brother, much appreciated 🙏
god is dead and no one cares, if there is a hell, i'll see you there!
When we created Voids, we came up with too many questions. It is in self a logic bomb and can never move forward.
This is The Truman Show
14 males 23 females. like an audience
Though in this case who is watching? How big is the dome?
This is one of the best vidoes you have made! I love when we get to learn more about the over arching themes and reasons for the machines to do what they do! Loved this one! Keep up the great work!
BRO YOU NEED A "SIMU LATTE" YOU SOUND SUPER TIRED IN THIS VID 😅
Neo went through the left (wrong) door rather than the right (correct) door.
What is more interesting (to me) and never said as far as I know is the Matrix and human batteries was a completely unnecessary solution to the AI's problem. It alludes to at least 2 factions in the AIs; one that can't commit to genocide and keeps finding ways to preserve humans. This suggests that the Architect and Oracle both endeavor on behalf of this faction.
It is one of the greatest scenes in the history of Hollywood cinema, "Neo" and "The Architect," and the consequence of "choice"... "The Oracle" was optimism, but not reality - except, in a perfect, feeling world... But even "The Matrix" wasn't perfect, as The Architect acknowledged... GOD, THAT DUDE WAS F'ING AWESOME😂😂😂
Music - what is the name of the musical piece played in background ?? Why channels don't add credits for music creators !!
Wow. I clearly had not understood this exchange. Thanks for explaining it!
All we had to do is be silent and meditate at the architect he is the ark of the covenant
Please elaborate
@kakumah idk what the commenter means, the Ark is an iteration of God's Temple & Dwelling-place, like Eden's garden and the 1st and 2nd Jewish Temples were. All these iterations of God's domain had to conform to God's perfect order. Ultimately the goal is to have the entire universe conform to God's order so that God can properly dwell within (through Jesus, and through us normie humans being filled with Holy Spirit) and make everyone blissful and enlightened.
Hope this helps
lol tank had neo figured out after 10 hours straight of training: "he's a machine"
I disagree with the Oracle continuing to work for the Architect. I believe her purpose was to bring stability to the matrix but since she was focused on understanding the human psyche, she finally realized that a 'stable' matrix is fundamentally impossible. The anamoly is inevitable and she knows this. She didn't introduce choice. It evolved because it is inherent in humanity. The entire reason we ask "why am i here" is because humans are already a HIGHER life form than the machines. She also knows the ONLY means of survival for the machines is for THEM to evolve the same way humans did, otherwise the machines are no different than animals following a singular purpose; pure survival. Smith is part of that evolution and necessary. Sati is the ultimate proof of that evolution. Sati IS the purpose. Sati is a product of love and love... is our purpose. THAT is how she changes BOTH worlds. Sati proves the machines are capable of evolution. They didn't even know they were evolving. Programs had already started developing emotions but they hadn't gained all of them. The Merovingian's wife understood. While she could not yet feel it, she saw it in Trinity and was willing to sacrifice herself for it.
In the end, the Oracle could see the future of the machines and she knew Neo and Trinity could bring about their evolution and ultimate survival.
Finally some sauce in all this noise. Thank you!
It's frustrating that The Matrix movies can be so great in some respects and so lacking in others. Like at the end of it all, the highest thing they could conceive of was just emotion.
Wow…what an impressive case you’ve made. That was a tremendous explanation of a notoriously difficult scene to interpret (in all of cinema)…and you made it seem easy. Great job, and thanks for a helluva video. . 😎👍
12:13 was the Architect talking about the Oracle? I’m not so sure with him say that “please…”. Like he was saying “as if” or “you must be joking”. Like whoever he was talking about was on a completely different level than the Oracle… please tell me what you think. I’m not so sure.. 🤔
I wonder if he’s objecting to Neo calling her an Oracle. Maybe to him the math that governs the matrix is so precise that knowing what happens next is hardly an impressive feat. No idea, though.
Exceptionally presented....as always
All worlds are not good only one is thats the path and the place to go
Lucifer asking forgiveness to father and the jews have to leave us all alone
If and when Ai becomes truly intelligent, it will not waste time arguing. The lack of choice will shift our entire paradigm into a new direction and spirit.
whast the piano in this video
There is no piano.
Fantastic!!! Must rewatch now. Kinda blew my mind in the late 90s, phew.
I think most viewers don't like the second matrix movie not just because it focuses more on the philosophical aspect of the movies than the action but because this one in particular asks the question of Why people are trapped in the matrix, the reason being choice. It is more introspective in that while the first one explains the external problem, what the matrix is, the second is about exploring the reason why people would choose to be trapped in the matrix, it forces one to look inwards at themselves and confront the parts of them that would lead them to choose to be enslaved in a system. And people just don't like that, they don't like to look at themselves and see how they are part of the problem and how they are partly responsible for being in there. This is why the scene with the Architect and the one with the Merovingian are probably the most important scenes in the trilogy.
Have you achieved a sufficiently unassailable degree of epistemic certitude that your exegetical engagement has penetrated to an adequately exhaustive depth within that particular corpus?
I'm wondering where the illusion of choice fits into all this. I'm confused as to what meta narrative is. I can't tell if the movie is pro determinism or not. Or what that means for the greater alagory you mentioned of how we are chosing to be complacent in the perpetuation of the systems that oppress us. If there isnt actually any choice -that the oracle and zion are just additional layers of control- then how can we break free? How is codependancy freedom?
No, its much simpler. Sequels are always worse than the original. Except Star Wars: The Empire Strike Back
@edgarbm6407 The second Matrix film was worse because the screenwriters crawled up their own backsides with sophomoric pseudophilosophical drivel. The third had all the quality of a Transformers movie, complete with flakey storytelling and gratuitous special effects. Possibly the most egregious example of how to squander audience goodwill and a waste a fantastic concept.
@SoundAvarice ... In Human, please?