»Is the Architect controlled by Machines or is he autonomous?«

Hi people,

There's one thing I don't quite understand about Matrix. Is the Architect an autonomous program or is it being controlled remotely by the Machines?

Do the machines remotely control the programs that live in Matrix?

Did the machines create Matrix? If so, why does then the Architect get all the honours?

And what kind of programs did Thomas Anderson make in his job at the software company? Could it be possible that Thomas Anderson created an AI program?
Ultimately, could Anderson create another "Matrix" inside the current Matrix?

PS: Have you ever had a dream in which you are dreaming another dream? Is this possible in real life? Is our brain capable of this level of abstraction? (In this last question I mean our true life, outside the cinema)

Thanks a million.
Best regards.

I am pretty sure that all programs in the matrix are controlled by machine that we have not seen in the movies. Somewhere in the realworld machine were created to govern the programs. Out of all the programs in the matrix represented by actual people, the architect was different. As I understand it, the architect is simply a machine that created the matrix or basically, the main machine. The guy in charge. And when that machine wishes to communicate with anyone (be it people or other programs) he can insert himself with a human appearance. And I don't really think Neo being a programmer really had any purpose except for the fact that he was knowledgable in the computer world.

I see it this way...there's a machine somewhere in the real world that designed the matrix. He created an avatar for himself inside of the Matrix, which is the Architect. This machine is probably aware of the machine and vice versa. This machine might even be "plugged in" to the Matrix, so the Architect is not so much an avatar, but actually the machine itself, just in human (but digital) form.

And the machine Neo talks to at the end may or not be this machine, I'm not sure. I kind of got the impression that was the head machine, since all the other machines did what it instructed them to.

Rockstar wrote:

Somewhere in the realworld machine were created to govern the programs.

That's interesting, in my 'real world' programs are created to govern machines. Not vise-versa.

I believe the Architect is a program, nothing more. A program created by a machine. It is a sentient program, but it has certain functions just like other programs. (ie.. creating and balancing the matrix). Why does it have to be part of or linked to a physical (realword) machine to be an AI ?