Reinsertion

[Skyscream]

Just wanted to toss my 2 cents into the mix.

Yes. Machines can lie. The entire Matrix is a giant deception. lol. It's a lie on the cosmic scale. Even the Prophecy of the One was a lie or at the very least a half-truth which would be a half-lie. Half a lie is still a lie. The One program wasn't meant to save Zion. It was meant to save the Machines. Fortunately not all machines agreed (the Oracle for example) with this genocidal plan anymore even if they had in the past.

While I do recall rarebit either saying in-game as a character or with a post on the forums about how reinsertion wasn't possible I tended to not view the later story bits that the Wachowski Bros were not involved in as pure canon. Agent Smith ... before he went completely loopy .. seemed pretty convinced it was a simple matter when talking to Cypher in the restaurant. On the other hand.. maybe he was lying and they were all going to die, including Cypher, which would be a much simpler solution from a logistics standpoint. Bang bang! Problem solved. Next!
However; if the mind could accept the Matrix as reality again I don't see why reinsertion couldn't be possible. The problem is ... once freed could the mind accept that version of reality again? *shrug* Hell if I know. hehe