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Ok, well maybe this is going to be stating the obvious for some of you but I'm new :p
There are some strange issues that can be considered with the AI first off. In M1 Morpheus says "..a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. This sounds very much to me as though the entire machine population is one mind. All the sentinels gathering together to make the big face at the end also support this idea as they have a collective mind. With this we can consider that the Matrix source is basically the AI. Now, if we are to consider this, then why is there individuality among the programs? I'm thinking because they are completely independant of the AI. With this, the AI still exercises a certain amount of control over the governing of the Matrix, such as which programs get deleted, which are used etc. but not total control as it has created an entire new world and it isnt fully omnipotent as it isn't in the real world. When Smith corrupts the Matrix he is in fact corrupting the entire AI which leads me to believe that the Matrix is in fact within the AI's mind so to speak. If this is true then where does Neo get his powers from? Well basically its that his mind works completely outside of the code of the Matrix. The power that Neo has sounds like it is a quantitive thing, like something he has because he has something the others don't. In fact this is the opposite. He has this power because the coding of the Matrix doesn't work for him and is in deficit...an unguided and incompensated variable (an anomaly!). What does this mean? Well this means that Neo has no true purpose and is a free radical. Although he dies every cycle, this is an artificial purpose constructed through events but not something he is literally bound to. I also think this relates to Smith. As an Agent, Smith has a specific purpose, (although he seems rather renegade to me, anyone else think that?) but once Neo "overrides" him so to speak, there is a corruption in the code (like it says at the end of M1). This is basically because Neo has done something baaaad. In a computer program the only thing that can 'lawfully' change the coding is the programmer. The programmer is basically the AI. The problem is that Neo effectively hacks into the code, thus 'unlawfully' changing the code, at the end of M1 and deletes a program (Smith) and jumbles everything. Anyone who is reasonably knowledgable about programming will know that when things go wrong, computer programmes can do seriously weird stuff. Any time your game has spawned 5 of you on the screen at once or you've walked through a wall is an "assimilation of something that's not supposed to be happening" so to speak. Smith is one of these assimilations, where the coding tries to balance up in order for the program to not crash entirely. With this, the coding Smith receives is like Neo's and the duplicating ability comes from the fact he's a corruption, a virus.
What does this mean? Well in my personal opinion it means something like this ain't happened before and weren't supposedta! It's basically a glitch in the Matrix that wasn't overseen. Do you ever see another Agent blown up? Nope. How does this relate later in the movie? Well basically the Architect is bluffing at the end of M2. Normally if the One didn't go into the Source then there would be a system crash but because Smith is lurking they can't do that. The reason why is that if the system crashes it's quite possible it won't ever come back on again. It also means that Smith might spread to the machine city. Neo goes and grabs Trin etc. you then get Smith spreading. The Oracle is a strange one but I have a theory entirely devoted to her:
The Oracle's purpose is to unbalance the equation. This is strange because her intervention in the final battle between Neo and Smith is what makes the equation in fact balance. If Smith had killed Neo then it would've theoretically remained imbalanced. Problem was it wouldn't have remained at all, imbalanced or balanced, if Smith had fully won so she had to just go for the next best thing and that was a cancel out. She was pushed into something she may not have wanted, she was "amazed"...or was she? It seemed to me that the programs wanted an end to the war so that they could have their own world. The way Smith talks about the Matrix is though he wants out in M1 "I hate this place". Where would he go? The real world? No way! He hates the real world too! He hates the physicality of the real world "suffocating cloud you cannot escape". So where? The Source in my opinion. I think perhaps that the rebooted Matrix at the end of M3 is nothing but the Source. It makes sense philosophically too. In many religions it is considered that once a person fulfills their purpose and role in life, when they die, they will go to "heaven". It may not be the same world universal throughout religions but the idea is roughly the same, and this is what happens to programs in the Matrix. They fulfill their purpose, they go to the Source. With the war gone, there is no reason for ANY of the programs to exist and therefore they get their own peace in a world where they have no set purpose.
When the Architect comes up to the Oracle it is rather alike a Father talking to his Daughter or maybe even Wife. You are playing a very dangerous game is usually thought of that the game she is playing to make peace between humans and machines is dangerous but perhaps this dangerous game is nothing more than pissing off the boss (the AI). She's gotten the AI into a position it didn't want, she's disobeyed orders, helped the humans etc. or at least the Architect thinks so. The Oracle is different from the other programs. No other program truly has the ability to see. The Merovingian seems to but he is simply a runaway program (I think he isn't fulfilling the AI's agenda but his own) but he is simply knowledgable...he's always getting put into unexpected situations such as Neo almost cornering him in M2 and Trinity putting a gun to his head in M. The Oracle however is a different story. She SEES. Wit this I think perhaps she is in TRUE collaboration with the AI, whereas the others are just programs for specific purposes. She is meant to unbalance the equation, true but guess what she does in the Matrix Trilogy. That's right, she outsteps her purpose. Smith oputsteps his purpose. The architect doesn't guide Neo to the right door. Everything has been falling apart ever since Smith was corrupted. To make a long story short?
The Matrix fucked up.
Neo was no longer the mold of the One after he destroyed Smith...he in essence was a hacker. Smith was a virus. When the virus met Neo the two were destroyed because it was a paradox. Smith had something copied over from Neo and then he tried to copy himself over Neo which wasn't going to work because Smith's power came from Neo. If he destroyed Neo, he destroyed himself as the only reason Smith exists and was free was because of Neo.
About the Neo-being-able-to-destroy-sentinels. There was no Matrix within a Matrix in my opinion, it was simple. The Source exists both within the Matrix world and the real world. Once Neo gets to the Source his mind opens up to teh wave connection they have. Once he goes into the real world, the connection is there and he exploits it. If the source is the AI then he can manipulate the AI in certain ways to destroy the sentinels. In fact he can destroy everything apart from the prime program (the nexus of the AI) because of the same reason Smith can't destroy Neo properly...his power comes from the AI. Why can Neo see even though he is blind and why in this firey way? He's within a virtual world while in the real world. He exists in the real world physically but his mind is elsewhere. His mind is amongst the AI...it has melded with it just like how Smith's brainwaves override people's brainwaves. I think the sentinel passing through him is expressionism and supposed to show the way Neo and the machines have melded together. With this, he sees through the AI's consciousness. This also supports the idea that Neo is jacked into the Matrix while out of it. His mind is existing within both "dimensions". He is in the Matrix in the real world because of the bond he shares with the AI. It is the same way the AI is within both worlds and the reason why both Neo and the AI exercise a control over the submachines.
At the end Neo is supposed to die but this scene has been compared to the relationship between God and Jesus. Suppiosedly within the Bible, God and Jesus weren't all lovey dovey Daddy and Son but Jesus was sent to help with God's plans in a way. When Jesus grwew up however he took it upon himself to try and purify the people and in the end he died for their sins. This happens at the end of Revolutions too. Neo dies as sacrifice for the sins of the humans (attacking the machines and causing a war) and therefore brings them peace. He is then taken in by the AI and goes back "home". If you consider this then we can conceive that Neo isn't entirely human and this aids in his melding with the AI. Where does he go when he dis? Possibly to the AI Heaven : The Source. This also explains why the Oracle says tshe expects they'll see him again someday.
Interesting is to consider the names too. Neo means new, like Neo-Midgar in FF7 *laughs*. Smith is like a trade. Blacksmith, Locksmith etc. so Agent Smith is literally an 'Agentsmith'. He is a program which makes/governs the Agents. Once he's corrupted he is simply "Smith", something which just makes things. What does he make? Well...that's obvious in my opinion. He makes himself *grins*.
Phrew. Well there's my tuppence. Hopefully it's not total bullshit xD.
Thank ye
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