Matrix day 1-31-10

[QuiDormit]

It just occurred to me that Neo's consciousness in terms of "who he is" is not human but a program.

Hear me out.

If Smith was able to overwrite Bane's consciousness, then why not? In fact, I think that a huge part of the reason that Smith overwrote Bane was because the WBros wanted to show us that it was possible for a human to be controlled by a program.

Humans were already heavily modified (plugs / head jack) and to think that there wasn't some kind of "firmware" between the headjack and the actual spike that connects them to the Matrix... There has to be something in there that is programmable to keep up with technology as it were. No machine would be foolish enough to not realize the need for an inferior product (humans) to be able to upgrade, so I am certain some firmware/software of some sort existed within humans.

So, why is Neo a program?

Well, not only did he die in Matrix 1 and magically resurrect (body can't live without the mind, but the mind was never actually gone! Just the consciousness) but he also existed in the world between the Real World and the Matrix. Somewhere that programs go when they need to be ferried in and out of the Matrix. He didn't have a wireless connection to the Source, because then there would be no need for him to ever actually GO to the source. The function of the One could have been performed wirelessly. So I say Neo's consciousness wasn't human. Neo is an outsider in BOTH worlds, which only makes his final sacrifice even sweeter in terms of what he accomplished.

As for how he killed the sentinels, as a program, that suddenly becomes more and more plausible.

"Neo" as we know him is a program that is uploaded into a body chosen by the machines.

Let me put it to you in another way. Do you honestly think the Architect would leave the fate of his masterpiece to a human? I sure as hell don't.

/opinion over