»Official... how neo stopped the machines.«

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I made the mistake of telling Susan some of what I believed one night - about how none of this was real. About how we were really just hanging there, plugged and wired, central processing units or just cheap memory chips for some computer the size of the world, being fed a consensual hallucination to keep us happy, to allow us to communicate and dream using the tiny fraction of our brains that they weren't using to crunch numbers and store information.

This is a quote from the comic section of the official warner bros site. Basically my interpretation of this story is: human brains were significally restricted within the matrix... thus the 15% usage of the brain at any one time, and the 40% overall usage (not sure on exact figures) in the matrix only. This means the One is basically the person who has the capability of using 100% of his brain in the "Real World". This would also explain theoretically, not scientifically, how neo was able to remotely "jack in".

I believe this to be how he did it, officially, as its printed and endorsed by whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com.

Any comments?

Full story can be found here:

...You guys probably know about these, but heres the link for all the comics/stories:

The average human is lucky if they can actively employ more than 15 percent of their minds now (in fact I think the number is closer to 10).

It completely stands to reason that Neo's power is derived from an awakened ability to use a growing percentage of his mind. This would be true both inside the Matrix and in the real world.

I have read theories regarding the human brain and what a person would be capable of doing if they were able to fully access the power of the mind.

Unfortunately, I am a proponent of the MwM theory. I think that with minimal changes to the cosmetic look of the films this story line would have allowed better story telling and would have been the huge "cliff hanger" we were promised.

I found the "taa daa" we were promised at the end of Reloaded was never realized.

Lorcoft wrote:

The average human is lucky if they can actively employ more than 15 percent of their minds now (in fact I think the number is closer to 10).

That's a straightdope.com....

It's probably correct enough to say that when Neo sees yellow-code and stops squids, he is using "more of his brain" than normal people. And that the reason he can do this is because he's "The One" or something related to that.

I don't know what the Neil Gaiman short story has to do with anything though. As far as I can tell, that's probably one of several stories which are "inspired by" the Matrix, or something similar. It doesn't even seem to take place in the same universe as the trilogy. Or, it *could*, but there's no indication of that, and so no reason to treat it as "canon". And even if it *is* "canon", the only lesson you've taken away from it (apparently) is that "The One" is using more of his brain... which was already obvious (right?). so I dunno...

I guess your right. but It never occured to me that the matrix may restrict the human brain to only work on a certain "primitive" level, and once free'd certain "special people" could develop their brains to "Real" standards.

But yeah, your probably right, im a bit slow , been reading these comics all night though, they are truely excellent, and do give small bits of further insight into the world of the matrix.

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It never occured to me that the matrix may restrict the human brain to only work on a certain "primitive" level, and once free'd certain "special people" could develop their brains to "Real" standards.

On one level, I see what you're saying, of course. But in a way, the above idea was the entire premise of the films.

1. Obviously the matrix restricts the human brain to work on a "primitive" level. None of these people know they are in pods, after all. Clearly The Matrix is, by nature, hiding *something* from their brains and preventing them from functioning completely as they otherwise would.

2. The idea that once freed, "special people" could develop their brains to "real" standards (or, at least better standards) was precisely what made the first film so cool to everyone. "special people" = Morpheus and his gang. "real standards" = ability to do bullet-time kung fu. Etc.

Probably I'm being too nit-picky and really, I'm not trying to be argumentative. In fact partially what I'm saying is that you've hit upon a big theme of the films, without seeming to know it: "special people can awaken to the truth and realize their potential". All I'm trying to say is that this isn't some secret within the films, it's a *biggie* theme, right there out in the open. Best,

The machines don't seem to waste anything, even compared to A.I. the human mind processes information far more efficiently than by what we were "shown" in the films, it's likely the use the jacked in peoples unused minds to store and process data (Mnemonically i think the term is?) it would allow their own minds to sustain the Matrix in which they are trapped. It just seems more logical that a machine race wouldn't waste any perceived resource.