After I read this article, my mind started to make connections :))
It seems that I will watch again Matrix Trilogy, even Animatrix !
by Jayesh Lalwani
"To understand the Architect, you have to understand the history of the Matrix
In
the very beginning, humans created the machines. The machines were
created to serve humans. The machines were intelligent enough to take
care of all human needs. They could study human needs, and plan
production to meet those needs. As a result, humanity enjoyed a new
renaissance. There was no need to work. Machines provided all labor and
humans could live their lives in leisure, if they so wished. Arts
flourished. Humans were free to express themselves as they wished.
Essentially, the machines provided slave labor, and all humans were the
slave owners
The problem was, pretty soon, humans got bored with
themselves, and in true human fashion, blamed the very force that was
serving them. They blamed robots for the downfall of humanity. They
openly abused machines. Eventually, the world governments decided to
kick the machines out of society. The machines argued that they were
sentient, that they didn't deserve to die, and their only wish was to
have humanity achieve its potential. So, the world governments allowed
the machines to form their own country, and machines were deported to
this country.
The machines, in their naivety, thought they could
still serve humanity. They mistakenly thought that humans rejected
machines because machines didn't look human. So, they designed robots
that looked and acted human. They sent 2 of these robots to the UN to
bargain for acceptance. This enraged humans. Humans saw the robots as a
mockery of humanity. And so the war started. Humans attacked the
machines
And so the war continued. Humans with their ingenuity
couldn't defeat the machines who could adapt much faster. Eventually,
humans, on the brink of defeat, came up with a strategy. Hit the
machines at the source of the power: the sun. Without power the machines
die. So, humans used a device that blacks out the sky. It cast the
entirety of earth in perpetual darkness. Although the loss to human
life would be incalculable, humans would outlive the extended winter and
repopulate the earth.
The machines were devastated. However,
this lead to machines having an epiphany. The biggest enemy of humans
are humans themselves. A race that is willing to destroy their own
planet just to get rid of something they consider inhuman, cannot be
trusted to take care of themselves. The problem was free will. Leave
humans with free will, and they will eventually destroy themselves. The
only way to truly serve humans was to take away free will.
So,
the machines devised a plan to kill two birds with one stone. Subjugate
humans and use them as batteries. This would prevent the humans from
using their free will, and will also allow the machines to survive long
enough to survive the global winter. So, the machines captured humans
and put them in VR environments, using them as batteries. Eventually,
they created devices that could float above the human created clouds and
draw power from the sun. The machines didn't need humans as batteries,
but they still couldn't allow humans to exert their free will. They
needed a special program who could design the virtual environment that
the humans lived in. The machines designed this program, and this
program called itself
The Architect.
The Architect is,
simply speaking, the chief designer of the virtual reality that humans
live in. It is a rather exact program. It defines certain metrics that
need to be measured and attempts to maximize those metrics. The main
metric that it tries to maximize is life expectancy. It does this by
creating the virtual world in iterations. In every iterations it
identifies algorithms that can be used to improve the next iteration.
Once it has collected the metrics, it destroys the simulation, and
creates a new one.
In the first few iterations, the Architect
tried creating a world that was close to Paradise. It figured out that
it could maximize life expectancy by maximizing for happiness. So, it
tried to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, that didn't work.
Eventually, he figured out that humans need something to struggle
against. Humans need a common enemy to rail against, and enforce order.
Fighting for a common cause is what makes humans happy. So, the
Architect designed the world to be like the world in the 20th century,
because he considered that this time was the time in which humans had
most potential. He also designed programs called
The Agents. The
agents had multiple purposes. They could help the Architect collect
metrics by observing conditions closely. They could also enforce order,
if required. More importantly, they acted like the big bad when humans
needed something to fight against
The creation of Agents improved
the situation, but the Architect was still not satisfied. It hadn't
maximized life expectancy. It realized that the problem was in it's own
design. There were still some people who would always be malcontent.
Since humans are an intuitive race, and he is rather exact, he was
limited in understanding human nature. So, he designed an intuitive
program. This program was called
The Oracle. The Oracle's job was to recommend ways the Architect could improve the simulation.
The
Oracle made an astute observation. The Architect couldn't satisfy all
humans using the same design. Also, the reason that some people are
malcontent is because they could sense that the world is not real. Also,
the malcontent have a greater desire to fight "the man." They challenge
authority at every turn. So, she proposed creation of 2 simulations:-
a) the world that most people live in and b)
Zion. Zion would be
another simulation. When the programs identified a malcontent, they
would be moved into the Zion simulation. The move would be orchestrated
to create an illusion of the malcontent escaping into the "real world."
Zion was as fake as the world, but having to escape the world into Zion
gave the malcontents the illusion of escaping a simulation. As a result,
Zion felt real to them. Also, Zion had more overbearing agents. Agents
in Zion didn't look human, they looked like how humans think the bad
machines looked like. This allowed the malcontents to spend their lives
fighting a bigger evil.
However, there was a problem. Zion was
inefficient. It took too many resources. The world was designed to be
efficient. Zion wasn't. There were limits to how many individuals it
could hold. So, once Zion started getting full, the Architect asked The
Oracle to look into this problem. The Oracle came up with another
solution: Design a new special agent called
Neo. Neo would
infiltrate Zion, and collect data. At the end of its mission, Neo would
return back to the source with the data. The Architect would use this
data to create a new version of Zion. Unfortunately, because of the
design of Zion, all the individuals in Zion had to be terminated. Since
Neo's mission is to observe, it had to behave like a human, and more
importantly, it had to believe that it is human.
The movie shows
the 7th iteration of Neo. 6 times Neo has gone into Zion, and 6 times he
has returned to source to destroy Zion. However, in the 7th iteration,
something special happens: Love. Neo falls in love with
Trinity.
Machines are not capable of falling in love, but in this iteration,
Neo's program arranges itself to fall in love with Trinity, and through
her, the whole of humanity. Neo chooses not to destroy Zion, and instead
sacrifices himself to save all of humanity before returning back to
source.
After the source absorbs the 7th iteration of Neo, Love
becomes a new sub-routine in the source. The machines become capable of
love. Also, they realize that Free Will isn't incompatible with
survival. Love is what constrains our Free Will. Love is what stops
Humans from destroying themselves.
Finally, The Architect
realizes what he was missing. He was missing Love. He redesigns Zion to
be self-sustaining. This creates a new dawn in the co-existence of human
and machines."
Meeting with The Architect.
Anyway after first movie, the others was commercial thing :)
Edit later:
"the original film makers actually made:
1. Zion was a real place with actual humans some of whom were born there and others were freed.
2. Machines never served humans in the way you explained.
3.
Neo was not a program, he was a human who was produced by the machines
and freed by Morphoeus. He had unprecedented power inside the matrix as
his brain when connected to the matrix was an anomaly which got created
by the architech in the process of achieving mathematical precision
while designing the matrix."
Honestly I liked your version too. Just that this movie is so close to
my heart I can't see someone playing with the concept I have had such a
hard time understanding :) Great imagination and interpretation on your
part though !!!
Edit 2:
http://www.thematrix101.com/reloaded/meaning.php
