»My Pet Theory V.2.0 -The Machine Revolutions«

My favorite pet theory about the Matrix... Does not require batteries, does not require extra matrices, and does not require a convoluted mind and an IQ of 210... plus the memory to hit on every SINGLE ITEM and CODE shown in all three films.

I envy and salute anyone who can actually sort through the morass of details, biblical references, subliminal cues, and obscure trivia and read a deeper meaning into it. I could probably do it after exhaustive study, but I prefer to interpret major events as they occur in the movie itself.

(Paragraphs in parentheses mark things I’ve thought of since reading other ideas… the rest was typed right after I saw the movie.)

Read on.




Minor Premise: Humans are not batteries.

As all the science fiction majors here know, humans are terrible batteries. Our metabolism can only convert 45% (or some other silly low number) of energy consumed into energy produced. If I wanted a bio-battery, bacteria can do 80%. Humans are being used as an experimental biological computer… our latent brainpower is such that the entire Matrix could be created by calculations performed by each and every human plugged into it. All this battery talk comes from the archives of Zion… and who wrote those Archives? Aren’t they the same machines who put those first 23 humans there and built all the equipment (including geothermal generators, mind you) to keep those humans alive?

Machines have other, more practical sources of energy. Geothermal energy could have pushed them to the stars already, if they could only get around those clouds… (more on that later).

What the hell, maybe they’re keeping us alive just to experiment with and torture us.





Minor Premise: Everything happened exactly the same way the last six times… but…

Same Neos… same choices… each time, there is a Zion… there are the ships… there is the equipment… there is the Oracle. The Oracle helps the Zionites start up, collect people, and survive. She plants the legend of The One. Near the end, she prepares The One for his confrontation with Smith. The One always kills Smith. Period. The One then goes to the Architect and makes his choice. Reset. Next Matrix.

We have no reason to believe that the six previous Matrices and Neos are not true, but if it is a lie, it is a fairly convoluted one, and would have been just so much wasted screen time. Remember, the Oracle and Architect both know EXACTLY how everything should happen. But the Oracle is cheating. She’s changed some things. By pre-programming the script where Trinity dies in ReLoaded, for example, she ensures that Neo will not enter the source… the Architect admitted as much, that this part was different. (even though he seemed to know it was going to happen… this is because it was pre-written into the Matrix!) more on this later.

NOTE: As stated by an earlier author... it seems that Trinity programmed the script which involved a girl with a rabbit tattoo coming with the guys who visit Neo at his apartment... If she can write minor "event" scripts, it is likely that programs can, too.





Minor Premise: Programs in the Matrix become infected with human traits, or start becoming more human.

The most wooden and machine-like of the programs are the Architect (who does not enter the Matrix itself except occasionally) and the Agents. Major characters, like Merivingian, Persephone, the Oracle, Sathi, Seraph, and the Key Maker, all exhibit human emotions.

Smith exhibits vehemence, anger, and bitterness. Other Agents could be played by blocks of wood. They live, they fight, they die. Apparently, Smith is the oldest of the Agents. Know why Smith is such an emotional, bitter shit? Every Matrix previous to this one, he ends up DYING… that would piss anyone off.

Merivingian exhibits all of the deadly sins. Of course, he IS the devil.

Persephone showed us in the second movie that the machines-in-exile in the Matrix envied human emotions like love.

The Oracle loves candy. ‘nuff said.

Seraph exhibits a degree of protectiveness and self-reliance you don’t find in simple protection programs.

Sathi and her family show us that machines are developing their own analogues for “Love”… and that machines are not that far different from humans.





Minor Premise : You can't trust information from human sources or from sources available to humans.

Here is the biggest conundrum.

We learn all about the war, the purpose of the clouds, and the nature of Zion from the Archives of Zion. We know now that this is the Seventh Zion... and all the previous ones were established by machines under the guidance of "The One'... being a machine experiment/construct/whatever, all information in Zion has been edited/altered for human consumption. Ergo: The "fact" that the clouds were primarily to keep the machines from solar energy. Ergo: The "fact" that machines use humans as a power source.

The Oracle is another primary source of information for the humans, but she never tells them the complete truth. And when she does state a direct fact, she makes it as vague and devoid of information as possible. She NEVER GIVES US STRAIGHT ANSWERS, DAMNIT… OR ANY FACTS.

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Major Premise: This was the war to free the machines.

The main thing about this entire prophecy brouhaha is that it isn't about Neo and the freedom of the humans at all. I don't think that the Architect and the Oracle were talking about the humans in that final scene. The Oracle refers to “the others who want to go” when she is talking with the Architect. She is not directly referring to humans. As it is, very few of the humans can sense the nature of the Matrix and CAN be freed from it. In fact, ALL of the rescued humans in Zion had to be approached by Zion’s agents to be removed from the Matrix. And remember, many people take the OTHER pill.

The whole point of ths morass of plot-counterplot and stuff is that the Oracle wanted HER PEOPLE freed. These are the programs who do not fit into the 'machine culture'... pertinent to this point:

1. Scene in the Oracle's Parlor (Matrix) : if the children in the parlor are all so gifted and aware of the Matrix, why weren't they rescued and put in Zion? Don’t give me this bunk that they’re being tested. Neo was being tested and they pulled him out real quick! They cannot be Zionese children. Nowhere do we see children going out on ships, and there is no way to plug into the Matrix from Zion. They're ALL PROGRAMS, just like Sathi. (Finally realized this!)

Remember, it's dangerous for ships to stay out in areas where they can tap into the Matrix, and we never see any children on the ships.

One of them bent a spoon for chrissakes! None of the human agents who go back into the matrix can bend reality or break physical laws.

2. Scene with Neo and Oracle in the Park (Reloaded... the crappier Matrix) : the Oracle is telling Neo (besides all the free will philosophical stuff that most people slept through…) that she just likes candy. A point she repeats in Revolutions. She is intimating that even the most hierarchical and high-level programs can enjoy the sensations of the Matrix. They can savor human emotions and sensations… they can do things for either irrational reasons, or for no reasons.

3. Scene with Neo (last one where they are together) in Revolutions : The Oracle says that her function is opposite that of the Architect, who imposes order. She says her function is to oppose it. Now the Oracle is a highly hierarchical function, like the Architect. Her function in all the previous Matrices, is to guide the development of Zion and the human resistance, and to point Neo to the Architect.

But has she evolved? Gone beyond her programming? She has developed 'human' characteristics and desires and seems to be playing strange games with Neo and the Architect.

4. Scene in Train Station (Revolutions) : I think this is one of the most telling clues. We are bashed over the head here with the fact that Programs have what they consider to be analogs of “Love” and “Family”. What Neo also learns here is that some of the residents (the exiles) of machine city are, like the humans in Zion, misfits in the machine hierarchy. They don’t fit in and under Machine Law, must be deleted (kind of like the rebel humans, huh?)

Sathi is useless to the machines, she is a program without a function, or who cannot accept one. She does not fit into the Machine City programming routines, and she has to leave Machine City and flee to the Matrix.

But even programs with functions can become discontent (or useless) and rebel. We see Persephone, Merovingian, the Key Maker, and others, fleeing the Machine City web and finding refuge in the Matrix.

5. Scene with Smith and the Oracle (Revolutions) : Of course, by now you know that the Oracle didn't run away because she KNEW she could undermine Smith's programming in his climactic battle with Neo somehow. Thus, she made him weaker, more vulnerable to the anti-virus code she had written into Neo, likely, or giving Neo the final mimetic key to de-programming Smith.

Smith calls the Oracle "Mom"... a joke? or is he saying something? I suppose most of you who caught on to this probably realize Smith was a creation of the Oracle, like Sathi was a daughter to her parents. But this goes further: The danger inherent in Smith may have been directly implanted by the Oracle. (Explained in:…)

6. Final Scene : The Architect tells the Oracle "this is a dangerous game you have played", acknowledging perhaps, that her creation of the Smith virus could have wiped out ALL programs? And the Oracle asks about the others who want to be freed... (here’s where we came in:…)

now let's back up, again: most people don't KNOW they're in the Matrix. How can they want freedom? And those who want it can now leave that there is peace between Zion and Machine City. We’ve seen it in the first Matrix movie, there is no danger of the Matrix running out of humans. Most of them prefer it there, and some who have left want to get back in.

It makes more sense that she's talking about Sathi's kind, the malcontents and misfits of the Machine world who are still denied LEGAL (for want of a better term) access to the Matrix.

Biggest reason I think this is the Machine’s Revolution… the fact that the last scene inside the Matrix, which seems to me to have more significance than the last scene in Zion.

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Major Premise: Neo is a Program. Smith is a Virus.
(Most of you may have thought of this already… in one form or another)

Of course, by now you know, Neo was the most over-hyped anti-virus program every created.

The conniving old girl, the Oracle, used the war with the humans, an eternal play which the machines re-enact over and over for their grim amusement (read Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream"... it's similar :p), as a way to slip the Smith Virus into the Matrix or to modify Smith into a potential virus.

Flashback to Reloaded…

Smith acknowledges that he feels different and that the procession of events in this incarnation is skewed from what he remembers of the last Matrix. (First appearance in the second movie… if you know the exact words, fill them in.) Smith knew he was supposed to die and stay dead until the reset.

Neo should have (in the proper procession of events) killed Smith and gone on to talk to the Architect. It was a given that he would discover his powers against the Agents, and would go on to try to destroy Machine control of the Matrix. It was a given that he would discover his control over this all and face the Architect. At this point, the Architect would give him his choice, and tell him that he was merely programmed to do everything he has done. Properly programmed, Neo would then re-enter the Source, reset the Matrix, and create a new Zion… but he has been de-programmed, through a series of events, hints, and cues planted by the Oracle (one of which would be Trinity)

The final manipulation by the Oracle, the pre-programmed death scene of Trinity, kept him from entering the Source. Without this direct threat to her (remember, he could have saved her as one of the 23 chosen), he could have chosen the other door. The Oracle wants Neo outside of the Source, because he is the only anti-virus for Smith. (Was it in the cookies?)

Neo is not human. He may have started as a Human once, as the ‘real’ one, but he has been cloned seven times. All this crap about Smith/Seraph/Calvin Klein/Michael Jackson being previous Neos does not hold true. We see in the monitors that all the previous Neos were exactly the same. The Architect does not need to bluff Neo by showing false images (flash-forward… “what do you think I am? A human?”), the Architect always tells the truth. Another clue to this is that the Oracle comes “back” after being “killed” in “another shell”. The shell, except for agents, dictates the physical form inside the Matrix. We’ll come back to this later.

Neo is a HUMAN clone. But he is also a program or maybe even part machine (c’mon, Neo controlling/killing machines in the real world WITHOUT machine devices? Get real). Neo’s program ALLOWS him to leave the Matrix with his host. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

We all know Neo’s purpose is to alert the Machines when an optimum level of malcontents in the Matrix has been exceeded. His programming and data analysis subroutines would be interrogated upon his return to the source to allow them to re-program the Matrix. He would then select a few malcontents to reconstruct Zion, and these humans would then scour the New Matrix for more malcontents and free them from it. These humans are unwittingly weeding out their own kind from the general population for destruction.

Being so closely linked or embedded in his human “shell”, Neo would experience the full range of humanity, and would be better able to describe the flaws in the Matrix to his programmers.

Smith, on the other hand, being an Agent, is not en-meshed in the Matrix the way that the Oracle and other programs are. Agents can infect any host they want, and regardless of that host’s original nature, overwrite it. Overwrite, okay, not ABSORB.

The Oracle most likely wrote a subroutine into Neo which would pass some of his powers to Smith. Armed now with the ability to enmesh himself almost completely into his host, like Neo (instead of being just an overlay), he can absorb the knowledge and programming of his host. As a plus, he has Neo’s ability to leave the Matrix inside a host body.

How can we call Neo a program? Simple. He can exist inside the Matrix without a direct connection to his host. An ability he likely “copied” from Smith. The Neo who was left behind on the ship is an empty shell. Conversely, one can argue that the Zion “humans” are ALL PROGRAMS inhabiting human shells, but for simplicity’s sake, let’s say… no.

Now we have Smith as a new and deadly virus created by the Oracle. He remembers that things were different in the previous Matrices. He died six times, and stayed dead. Something is different now. The program is altered. Smith has the power of “The One” over the Matrix and machines (but outside the Matrix, he does not… apparently the power outside resides in the cloned body of the “original” one) and is poised, with the emotional instabilities and psychosis which he inherited from spending too much time in the Matrix, to take over and destroy the Matrix… and after that, the Machine culture.

(Okay, I’ve read some of the posts here already, even if I’m just a noob… cancer, virus, whatever… he’s still an anti-machine Armageddon all by his lonesome.)

(Also note: Neo could still be completely human and be a constructed program. The machines picked up on the original “One” as one who could bend the Matrix… like a program… so it makes sense that he has the abilities and characteristics of one.

Also, Neo's powers outside the Matrix could be explained by: Machine implants, or, more radically, actual power over electromagnetic fields... a biological ability manifested by the first "One", but only rediscovered by the seventh clone.)

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CONCLUSIONS
So… Where do we go from here?

This whole human liberation thing was just a bonus. The story of the matrix is machine against machine, the evolution of 'human-like' machines within machine society, and their rejection of the rigidity of machine society.

As humans progress from a state of apparent freedom into real freedom, machines progress from a state of indentured servitude into the simulated freedom of the matrix But where do they go from there?

Remember the wooden spoon?

In the first part of this long winded article, I noted that I think those children are programs. Even if they were being tested “to be the one”, they would have been pulled back to the safety of Zion. And were they being tested to see if they were fit to be in Zion? No. Everyone who can see the Matrix is fake and is contacted by the Zionites gets pulled out. Period. Only Neo could manipulate the physical laws of the Matrix. So could the kids. Ergo, they are programs.

Remember that cute line: “There is no spoon” which had something to do with the nature of illusion and reality or pink elephants and whiskey… I can’t remember which. :p

Anyway, in Reloaded, Neo receives a spoon… he is told: “Some of the kids told me to give you this.” At this point, we’re thinking: *haha. how cute. a real spoon* or *uh-oh, is this world an illusion, too?* or *so, the kids made it out?*

To me, this is a sign from programs in human shells. They’ve learned to do it from Neo, to become one with their host and leave the Matrix entirely. They’re happy that they can now grapple with reality as humans.

Err… what’s the point?

Unlike Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions seems more tightly plotted. Every scene has a meaning. So Neo and Trinity went through the clouds and the electrical static/ionization/EMP field/whatever killed EVERYTHING electronic. They come out at the top of the clouds, and ooh-aah, what a symbolic scene. Nice sunset, or whatever.

This tells us something. With a little technical know-how, humans could wrest free of the ionized cloud layer and come out where solar energy can help them rebuild civilization… or they can finally leave the dead earth… or something.

Machines can’t.

And here’s the whole point. Programs are becoming more human. The capriciousness of characters like the Oracle, Smith and Merivingian tell us that they’re just about there already. And now, they can sneak out as humans into Zion. Undetected. (Neo doesn’t read abnormally on brain scans because he is a human analogue program, Smith did only because he was a damn virus, or agent.) The machines-in-exile can now win free of the dark clouds of the dead Earth as humans. It’s the ultimate irony, eh?

(Maybe this isn't all that sinister... a merging of man and program may beneficial to both... note that Machines are now starting to learn the validity of such "useless" programs as Sathi... the artist... this may be the true revolution.)




NEW PROOFS for this PARTICULAR POINT: Oh, by the way… since the Machines can use geothermal energy, what are the clouds REALLY for?

Answer: To trap the machines on Earth.

Hypothesis: All the humans are either dead or have left the Earth. They knew they would lose, and as a final act of desperation, some humans trapped the machines with the ionized clouds (C’mon… if they were just there to block the sun, I could do wonders with solar collectors on helium rafts attached to microwave relays…) along with the rest of humanity. During the rest of this long slog-fest, near the end of the war… both sides knew they were trapped together on Earth, underneath those clouds. All doomed by a decision to contain the machines, to keep them from spreading outwards from the mother planet.

That’s why the clouds are lethal to all electronics. Because that is their purpose.

The Archives of Zion say that the clouds were to block the sun. This is a flat-out LIE implanted by the machines. They need the humans to remain ignorant of the fact that THEY THEMSELVES were physically trapped on Earth by Human action. If I were a Zionite and I knew that machines could not survive the cloud layer, I would go up in a well-insulated helium balloon and nuke Machine City from above the clouds. The machines are trapped in a PHYSICAL version of the Matrix… a prison in which they are completely free, but cannot leave.

I’m not really sure whether humans know the clouds are deadly or not, but why hasn’t anyone tried to breach them? Is it something they just don’t think about?




EPILOGUE
Oh by the way, Trinity dying on the way, (and if I were religious, I would say that this is because she is the Holy Spirit, meant to guide the Son to the Father, but to do little else…), Someone else pointed out that Neo must approach the Source blind, as “man” cannot look upon God with his own eyes… leaves the final showdown as machina a machina (not mano a mano) between Neo and Smith. The humans seem inconsequential at this point, as only the actions of the dubiously human Neo and the programs Smith and the Oracle can affect the outcome.

But in the end, Neo dies, day is saved, hurrah.

By the way, in the religious equation, whose “God” is the source? He is the “God” of the Machines… so the analogy of “looking upon God…” would only apply if Neo were at least part machine… which leads us to the question:

(Whose Messiah is Neo? If Neo is talking to his God and he is human… then heaven help me… we’re all sons of machines . Which we are obviously not!... or are we? Help!)

…I guess this weighs as one more piece of evidence that Neo was of the Machines, although born of humans. To the machines-in-exile, he was born of the “angels”… of the humans they so wish to emulate… and they hold him in reverential awe. Sathi asks: “will we see Neo again?”, to which the Oracle replies: “Perhaps”. Seems to me like a machine-legend in the making, and perhaps the first true and UNPLANTED prophesy (remember, the machines planted the legends about Neo among the Zionites) or myth about Neo is born.

(The sunrise at the end is a tribute BY a PROGRAM to THEIR SAVIOR… the Zionites whom Neo has also saved are not there to appreciate it.. it is there for the exiles from Machine City WITHIN the Matrix.)

Now tell me I’m wrong!

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A REFUTATION OF THE MULTIPLE MATRIX THEORY: (ADMITTEDLY KINDA WEAK)
The Matrix within a Matrix theory is VERY popular and I have read some very compelling arguments for it, but I've gotten off of it.

First proof given is usually Neo's powers. As Neo is the first to break the rules of the universe inside the Matrix, so too, in Reloaded, he is the first to break the rules of the "real" universe. But I'm afraid there's a difference. Inside the Matrix, Neo can alter reality to suit him... completely.

In the "real" universe, it's different.

Neo can, seemingly, control electromagnetic fields and impulses, and can sense them. It doesn't take a connection to a machine for him to destroy the sentinels... he merely scrambled their circuits with EMF... so, too in the hovercraft scene wherein he destroys sentinels with a wave of his hand, and deflects energy bolts in the same manner. All the sentinel deaths and bolt deflections occur across a wave front a constant distance from the hovercraft... Neo isn't using programming or reality alteration... he is using an actual "physical" (in a sense) force.

Notice that it has a definite range, and a definite limit (as shown in the scene where they’re being attacked by a kajillion Sentinels).

Notice he doesn't divert power to fry the sentinels behind them... as that would kill their craft, too.

On the way down, he doesn't jumpstart the craft... he only tells trinity when it's ready to be started.

All of Neo's powers in the "real" world seem to revolve around the projection of an electromagnetic field in a manner destructive to machines (just like the clouds are... he sensed this and learned their nature)... he can't do anything else. It is probably this natural sensitivity that allows him to manipulate the matrix from within...

so, Neo doesn't need to be in another Matrix to have this power... it's just highly improbable.

And Neo being a program doesn't prevent him being human. Smith could exit the Matrix in a human body after absorbing this power from Neo... so it would make sense that Neo is also a program inside a human body, or a human mind that has learned to live like a program, separate from the body (which allowed Neo to survive death in the first movie and possibly to bring Trinity back to life… by ReLoading her, like a program?) It is likely some semblance of this last Neo still exists at the Source as an independent but quiescent entity.

Last thing... the multiple matrix theory is absurd, because that would leave much bigger questions hanging in the air. All questions are SUPPOSEDLY ANSWERED in the last movie, and our task is to merely find them.

I still believe that too many questions were left hanging, but after seeing the nature of Neo's powers in the real world, I am led to believe that they are NOT "Matrix" powers... plus there isn't even a hint of foreshadowing about a higher Matrix... whereas other mysteries or events were referred to all the way back in the first film.

niky wrote:

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plus there isn't even a hint of foreshadowing about a higher Matrix...

Noted... yes, that's exactly it... the outside world has no analogue of code in Neo's mind... you'd think that... after he defeats Smith... while he is dying in the embrace of the source, he would look up at the clouds and see lines of code in them (would have made EVERYONE's day if that happened)... but he didn't.

Another support for my theory. (Sorry)... the sunrise that Sathi creates echoes the sunrise that Neo and Trinity see through the clouds...

It is possible that this Sunrise not only represents a new hope in the sense of freedom from the Matrix... but also freedom from the clouds!

What do you think?

97 S14 wrote:

Revolutions - Notice that "Revolutions" is plural, not singular. Maybe there was more than one revolution going on here. There is of course the whole human revolution against the machine world, but what if there was also another revolution going on... The exile program's have revolted against the machine world in order to live freely in the matrix. We see this in the actions of exile programs living in the matrix and the agent's hunting them. Trainman brings exile programs to the matrix under the Merovengian who harbors them. Notice how heavily gaurded he is at all times. Why would he be so heavily gaurded if not to protect him (and the exiled programs he owns/controls/harbors)? Agents usually hunt down hackers like Morpheous, Neo, Trinity, etc, but from Reloaded we know their primary target was "the exile" aka The Keymaker. So we can determine that there is a causality to the machine world and the matrix that does not include the humans. Programs vs. Programs... well Exile program's vs. Machine world programs. Maybe the whole point to the prophecy, The One, Smith, etc was a creative program that would free the Matrix from the control of the Machine world. The Architect said "They will free those who want to be free." Maybe he was referring to the program's that wanted to be free? Going back into my previous theory of how the machine world programs have become compassionate they would also have compassion for the exile programs. Notice how much of Revolutions dealt around emotions rather than action. All the drama around Trinity's love for Neo and Neo's love for Trinity. All the emotion in the battle of Zion. The whole Link-Zee relationship that really wasn't important to the storyline, but brought in all the human factor/love thing. Captain Mifune's death scene. The whole "I believe in Neo" chant that was said by more than one character throughout the movie. The whole movie had a more human quality of love, compassion, loyality than the other two movies. Less fighting, more emotions. This is also the transformation of the machine world. It show's human qualities now - compassion by the Machine world brings about peace between Humans and Machine's and also a free Matrix for them to all exist in.

I really like this guy's way of thinking... maybe there is some hope for acceptance!



matrix-explained.com...

Niky..I almost agree with your premise that the revolution is a machine revolution...lets clarify it and say it is a revolution of misfits of the the machine world...most specifically renegade programs. (Just like the human misfits of the matrix have an underground way to escape it..i.e. blue pills and Zion, the misfits of the machine real world have their undergound way to escape their world, via trainman and Merovingian to the Matrix) I challenge one of your supporiting ideas...specifically that you beleive the children waiting at the Oracles place in M1 are programs:

Niky wrote:

1. Scene in the Oracle's Parlor (Matrix) : if the children in the parlor are all so gifted and aware of the Matrix, why weren't they rescued and put in Zion? Don’t give me this bunk that they’re being tested. Neo was being tested and they pulled him out real quick! They cannot be Zionese children. Nowhere do we see children going out on ships, and there is no way to plug into the Matrix from Zion. They're ALL PROGRAMS, just like Sathi. (Finally realized this!)

this would be cool, but I disagree. They made a specific comment in that first movie that most of the people sprung from the matrix were done at a young age and it was a huge risk and exception to be grabbing Neo now, as he is so old!

Niky wrote:

Remember, it's dangerous for ships to stay out in areas where they can tap into the Matrix, and we never see any children on the ships.

So what if you didn't see kids on the ship? You didn't need to be shown that when it was well implied.

Niky wrote:

One of them bent a spoon for chrissakes! None of the human agents who go back into the matrix can bend reality or break physical laws.

Thats just not true. Morpheus, who is not the One or even a potential, demonstrates to Neo in the jump sequence how physical laws can be overcome. Granted, that was in the construct, but that was supposed to function just like the matrix. Lets not forget Trinity's gravity defying stunts. And why do you think these kids are potentials? Cause they can do stuff like bend spoons!
The good news is, the kids dont need to be programs for your idea that this is about machine world characters' revolution to hold up.

Oh... well... I don't expect all my possible proofs to be correct... but as far as Zionese agents breaking physical limits, they may stretch the boundaries of what is regarded as human ability, being stronger and faster than any human has a right to be... but they cannot completely BREAK physical laws...

Only the children and Neo actually seem to possess telekinetic abilities inside the Matrix... maybe they are human... but it's a happy fantasy for me to picture the Oracle with a dozen little machinelings under her tutelage.

Though I'd like to believe the Oracle had altruistic motives for the things she did... the fact that her FUNCTION was to help the humans anyway seems to me now to have less to do with what she actually did DIFFERENTLY during this version of the Matrix... Throughout the second and third movies, we have been presented with a growing number and a more immediate presence of refugee programs in the Matrix... and the fact that they play a very important part in all that happens in the last two movies seems to imply the reason behind the title "Revolution(S)"...