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We've gotten a lot of great email from readers, with a lot of fun explanations for what's happened in Reloaded,
and what may happen in Revolutions. Two of the most talked-about scenes in Reloaded are when Smith is downloaded into
Bane, and when Neo stops the Sentinels by waving his hand. We know a lot of the ideas on this site are from our point o
f view, so some people agree with them, and some people don't. We figure it's a good idea to let our readers have a
say so we can show other points of view. If the author's name is linked, they'd be interested in hearing what you
think of their theory.
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Smith existing in the 'real world'
Submitted by Mohammed Kapadia
I have a possible explanation for Smith's existing in the Real World. As we all know Bane, Neo, Morpheus and many
more were once a part of the Matrix, hence the holes in their arms and legs. They can still get Plugged or Unplugged
from the Matrix. This is possible because of the holes. Therefore, all these people are not 100% human. They have circuits
in their bodies which make them part Machine. When Smith copies himself onto Bane, and Bane returns to the Real World,
he carries the Smith program with him. The program can survive in the Real world as Bane also has the circuits inside his
body which makes part of his body machine. The Smith program has overwritten Bane's program of being a human.
I support my theory with the following information from the first Matrix, where Tank tells Neo that he is 100% pure
human and hence has no holes in his arms and legs. People who are plugged in the Matrix are not 100% human. Even Morpheus
tells Neo that Humans are no longer born they are grown.
Neo stopping the Sentinels & Smith in the 'real world'
Submitted by Frank Huber
I have my own theory about the two scenes in Reloaded that defy analysis, based on my suspicion that the Wachowski
brothers don't understand The Matrix any better than you or I do.
I think one of them said to the other, "Wouldn't it be cool if Smith could somehow exist in the real world?"
And the second brother might've said, "How can we justify that?" To which the first would've replied,
"Don't be silly. We can leave the explanation for later... or maybe we won't even try to explain it."
Same thing for Nero's real-world powers. One says, "We need Neo to
stop the Sentinels somehow. How about if he starts to use his Matrix
powers in the real world? And, since we don't have any more time for
exposition, we'll just let him suddenly understand, or intuit, that he
has those powers." And the inevitable reply comes back, "Sure! Great
idea! Write it in now, and explain it later, or not at all. Our fans
are good at coming up with justifications for all of our off-the-cuff
decisions. They haven't guessed yet that we put in the dance scene
just because we love rock music." The first one exclaims, "And sex,
too! Don't forget, we needed more sex!"
In support of my theory I offer the confusing title, "The Matrix
Reloaded", which can't possibly mean what it says. The Architect
tells us that Zion has been reloaded five times, and he assumes it
will be again. The Matrix hasn't been, and won't be. Furthermore, no
reloading of any kind occurs during the time spanned by the first two
films. The title's just an(other) example of fuzzy thinking.
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Neo stopping the Sentinels
Submitted by Arc (Australia)
I believe it may be the result of his merging with Agent Smith at the end of The Matrix. The merging has changed
them both and this is reinforced by Reloaded. Smith has incorporated some of Neo's 'humanity' and is now able to control
humans directly in the real world. And Neo may have incorporated some of Smith's 'command programming' (for want of a
better computer equivalent to humanity) and is now able to control computers in the real world, especially considering
that The Ones are given special treatment, software, (and most likely hardware) by the computers in the first place.
Another obvious point I thought of, in regards to Neo stopping the squiddies, was the scene where a message is
delivered to Neo from Smith. Neo takes possession of Smiths earpiece that the agents use to communicate, command and
control. If we consider that Neo himself and the earpiece, when in the Matrix, are no more than highly complex programs,
then it is not a big stretch to acknowledge that while Neo is in possession of the earpiece that the two pieces of software
are in some way attached. And further if he exits the Matrix while still in possession of the earpiece could the piece
of programming be stored in his brain like say, the instructions for flying a chopper? So considering "The Ones" are give
special treatment i.e. software and possibly hardware, Neo may be able to use the earpiece programming to communicate
directly to the Matrix. Though he would have to emit a signal. And this is the heart of the question, if the Matrix is not
nested and Neo is indeed in the real world, to talk to the Matrix, his body still has to emit some form of signal. I wonder
if answer lies in the body's bioelectrical field.
Submitted by Teract
I'm just going to suggest something along with
what Arc said about Neo carrying a part of Smith and
Smith a part of Neo. Could it be that when they
"melded" that they did exchange abilities to some
extent and Neo carried the ability to command machines
and programs with him outside the matrix, like he
would carry knowledge of Kung fu or helocopter
piloting? How would he be able to command the machines
if not verbally? The machines are able to see humans?
or do they sense the heat human bodies give off? Or do
they sense and read brainwaves? How did the robots
originally communicate with humans before the war? I
wonder if the sentinals have sensors that take input
from human brain activity and interpret those signals.
Neo's newfound ability to command machines combined
with a line of 'wireless' communication to the
sentinels allowed him to stop the sentinals. As far as
proof that robots can read and understand human
thought, refer to the animatrix episode where the
humans retrain robots in their own psycadelic matrix.
Submitted by Joseph Mazur
I believe the Matrix trilogy are movies about perception concerning the theory of phenomenalism.
One of the "possibles" in the first Matrix, more specifically the bald kid who bends the spoons with his mind, quotes
"There is no spoon." What he is saying here is there is only your perceptions and that you can do what you believe
you can do. While this definitly holds true for Neo in the Matrix, it could possibly and, by all rights, should be
true for Neo in the "real" world, hence he figured out he can stop the Sentinels dead in their tracks just by believing
he is the "one", which actually pertains to the theory of solopcism, a more extreme form of phenomenalism.
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The Logic Explanation
Submitted by Mario Pitalua There are a lot of amazing ideas and opinions on this website. Some of them are more based on what we can get directly
from the movies and from theory derivation. The part about Smith overwriting Bane's memory (brain) can be explained with
plain logic facts that we are shown in the movies instead of speculation. Consider the following and draw your own conclusion!
In the first movie, The Matrix
In the second movie, The Matrix Reloaded
In the third movie, The Matrix Revolutions
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Submitted by Greg Harper In the first Matrix, when Neo is pumped full of useful things such as various martial arts manouvres, he wakes,
sees Morpheus, and says "I know kung fu". He's not in The Matrix at this point in time, but he is one of the "new"
types of human, with computer holes which enable their brains to be programmed. Whether in The Matrix or out of it,
Neo knows now how to fight. Also, people who are killed in The Matrix are killed in real life. What this tells us is
that computer programmes, and Matrix-related events are not isolated incidents, but stay with humans throughout.
Thus when Smith possesses Bane, it is not really surprising that Bane takes on the thoughts, actions, and even
the speech of Smith. It is conceivable that were he to be jacked back into The Matrix, he would once again be one of
the many duplicated forms of Smith. Smith's goal was to possess and take control of a human so he could manifest himself
both in The Matrix and in the real world. Smith wants to kill Neo, so Bane wants to kill Neo. There doesn't have to be
a Matrix within a Matrix. Just as people can die in The Matrix, because their real world body believes it has been killed,
so Bane can become a real world part of Smith's army because his brain believes he is in fact a manifestation of Smith.
Submitted by Greg Harper Everything Morpheus teaches Neo about The Matrix (i.e. what he can accomplish within it), he and the rest of the characters
fail to learn about themselves in the real world.
Morpheus wants to open Neo's mind in the first film, but in fact it is Neo's mind that ultimately becomes the most open.
The abilities that the likes of Neo, Morpheus and Trinity have whilst inside The Matrix, they develop thanks to a safety
net. As The Kid says - there is no spoon. They all believe that The Matrix is a mere programme and that is why they are able
to fight and move at unrealistic capacities. They do not attempt any of this in the real world because that is the real world,
and not The Matrix, and humans don't REALLY have the capacities to do that sort of thing.
Maybe not the likes of Tank and Dozer, but Neo et al represent a new type of human. If, thanks to a computer, they can
be programmed to be able to fight, hotwire motorcycles and fly helicopters, what else can they do? Neo is the only one who
takes Morpheus' words to have a double meaning - he realises that if his mind can give him the power to do the unthinkable
inside The Matrix, then why can't that same mind give him power outside of The Matrix? He is outside the safety net, the
concept that he can do anything because "none of this [The Matrix] is real", but he is the only person who transfers the mindset
he has from within The Matrix back outside it. That is why he can stop the sentinels and why he is the first 'One' to end the
war between the machines and humans. Neo represents the potential that every human mind has if they truly believe in themselves.
Submitted by Mike McGee I was thinking about your explanation for how Neo is able to stop the Sentinels at the
end of "Reloaded." I've struggled with this question a lot and I think you're
explanation of him being changed by meeting the Architect is correct. Here's why:
1) Let's assume that the Sentinels are actually physically real as well as Zion and
everyone in it. Hence, it's not a "Matrix within a Matrix" situation.
2) Just before Neo confronts them, he pauses and says, "Something's different.....I can
feel them." Note that he says he can feel them....not that he can see them. What I
think is being implied is that he's becoming aware that his mind is still tapped into the
Matrix on some level.....most likely as a result of returning to the source and then
re-entering the physical world. This idea is further confirmed at the start of
"Revolutions" when the Oracle says he's separated his mind from his body and is in Limbo.
3) Therefore, he's able to stop the Sentinels because his mind is still in the
Matrix....or rather, it's in the computer network and he's making the choice to exercise
control over the software which in turn controls the hardware (the sentinels). This is
very significant moment because Neo is realizing that his mind is much bigger and more
powerful than he imagined. It's one thing to be able to control the Matrix when your
body is physically linked to it by a physical interface (being "jacked in"). But he's
just taken the huge step of realizing that his mind can go there at will regardless of
his body's state.
This whole idea is rather Buddhist in thought. It could be thought of as a metaphor for
the meditative state where the goal is to free the mind from the concepts of being
connected to the body, and allowing it to return the "Universal Mind" or "Source." Upon
our return to normal consciousness, we're drastically changed because our mind has
experienced something that's totally beyond our conventional understanding.
Submitted by Mark Brunke I've got an idea I've been kicking around: WiFi.
Neo is the anomaly, the One. His brain is so able to interact with the digital information of the matrix once he is able to see it for what it is, that he can actually manipulate the digital code of it. In the real world he still has that same brain. The human brain is made up of electrical signals and it is vastly agreed that we hardly use more than a small percentage of our brains. Pigeons have the ability to sense the earth's invisible magnetic field through the way it interacts with their brain. What if Neo's brain can actually pick up WiFi, radio transmissions, and such from the machines? What if when he stops the sentinels, he is somehow hacking into the machine network wirelessly and ordering a shutdown? This would also explain his later sight. How can he see without his eyes? He could very
well still be linked up via brain WiFi to the machine network. This would allow him
access to the blueprints of the machine city as well as any current movement or motion or
machine activities as long as we assume said movement/activity was also linked to this
same network (and I think that is a safe assumption).
I've read other theories and the only others I have seen are the
Matrix within the Matrix and the idea that he is somehow changed after meeting the
architect. As for the question why he can suddenly do this now, I'd say he is growing in
his understanding of his own capabilities and necessity breeds creativity (and sentinels
rushing straight at you seems to have done the trick!)
Submitted by Nabil Koubaa I read the explanations written above about Neo stopping the sentinels, and
all of them were interesting yet most entries tried to explain and see the
act from a spiritual point of view. I do strongly agree that the Matrix
Trilogy has a lot of spiritual roots yet some events are far from being
related to any spiritual meaning there for they can simply be explained in a
computer meaning.
That being said what I think best explains Neo stopping Sentinels in the
real world is simply what we call nowadays remote connection. Neo can tap
into the matrix without him physically being jacked in.
Mike McGee already mentioned that what Neo was able to do
is he tapped into the Matrix wirelessly something
that the Machine world already have setup we all see throughout the trilogy
that sentinels are connected and send and receive data to and from the
machine main frame. How do they do it (radio waves, wifi,…) is not important
but what important is if the Machines can do it Neo can too.
This brings us to the question why can Neo do it? Well we all know that Neo
was born inside the Matrix this by itself gives him accesses to everything,
he is part of the system. Let me elaborate, Neo being from that same system
he can move in and out of any hardware and software without triggering any
alarms he is not considered an outsider. To a computer program he is
compatible. (if we have a wireless connection, before u can connect and be
able to send and receive the device needs to authenticate without a key or a
password the authentication will fail) Neo does not need that since he is
already part of the Matrix and he is granted that accesses. This matter can
also be explained as follows. If we introduce a foreign object to the human
body it’ll be rejected and attacked by our immunity system if the object is
born within our body even if it’s defective it won’t be attacked and will not
be recognized as a defective organ “cancer”).
I have more thoughts about this but I didn’t want my first post to be very
long but I will add more based on peoples' responses.
Submitted by J Doe I believe Mike McGee is right in his assessment of Neo being changed after seeing The Architect but the 'why' seems to still
be a bit elusive. I think it's because of the reloading of the Matrix that Neo is left with a part of the Source code inside him.
As soon as he enters the room of The Architect, the machines have already scanned him and are making ready the re-insertion of his
code. It's like a program download or install; by going into the room, Neo has started the process of information being read and
space being tagged for code to be copied onto. Now, I think it's important to take into account what the machines believe will happen.
They 'know' that The One will always choose to restart the Matrix because it's simply logical. They engineer a scenario where there
can only be one logical choice. Knowing this, they already start preparations for the next cycle because as soon as the One enters
the room, they've won. Except, they need to give him a choice. Knowing that humans need a choice or they'll reject the program,
they need to give the One the ability to choose the continuation of the cycle. Still, so confident in the perfection of the scenario
that's been created, The Architect doesn't conceive of any One choosing the end. In this context, giving a human access to the Source
code of the Matrix is a huge risk. Why take that risk? Well, it goes into the mechanics of how the One is created.
On the screens in the Architect's room, Neo's possible reactions/choices are shown. I don't think they are window-dressing, I believe
they are actual scenarios the program is running. If the program was not ready for Neo to, say, give the old man the finger then Neo would
think of the action but there would be a delay as the program writes and loads the code to show him the action being performed. This lag
would create a problem in many humans who sense that something is not right if they should be able to think and do simultaneously. So, many
scenarios are written but only once choice is made. This can be seen by Neo's realization when he says "Choice. The problem is choice." He
can react a number of different ways to the same thought; anger, denial, rebellion but he chooses to remain calm and voice his realization.
So, what of the other scenarios? They are dumped into the machine's "recycle bin". Trashed, erased but not gone. Eventually, these random
pieces of code create a glitch in the system that is The One. After they're little rebellion, the One is led to the Source and is inserted
into the system again. This time, the bending of the Matrix is done within programming parameters because the One's unique code has been
installed and the system has restarted, absorbing that change. He is not a true 'One' anymore because he is being allowed to manipulate things,
whereas the prophesied One is out of the control of the machines because he is a glitch. It is part of the Architect's role of balancing the equation.
Now, the last piece of the puzzle. Thinking of it in terms of computers and programs being written/rewritten and rebooted I think it's
pretty easy to see how Neo is able to hold onto part of the Source code that was downloaded into him when he went into the room. It's not a
real room, it's not a real person sitting in front of him. It's all still Matrix code streaming down in front of Neo's eyes. The room, person
and doors are all there for Neo's (and the audience's) benefit. It's a port, connecting Matrix and Source. The connection is made, the exchange
of information already taking place, it just needs the One or the user to click "OK" to complete it. Which, of course, he doesn't. Which breaks
the connection and leaves Neo with partially downloaded code and a 'backdoor' in his mind into the Matrix which strengthens as he remains jacked
in and trapped at the in-between.
Submitted by Allen Bartlett Neo and Smith are opposite sides of the equation. The purpose of the Architect is to the
balance the equation. The Architect is not an intuitive program like the Oracle and as
the Oracle said he (the Architect) can't see past any choices. So the Architect is blind
to the consequences of his balancing actions. The Architect perceives an imbalance and
acts to balance the equation, sees another imbalance and acts again; he is reactionary.
Smith is a program within the Matrix and has power, like Neo, to bend and break the rules
of the Matrix. The Architect sees to it that the abilities of Neo and Smith remain
relatively equal, that is his job to balance the equation ("we are all here to do what we
are all here to do").
Smith takes over Bane; he overwrites Bane's consciousness with Smith code just before
Bane jacks out of the Matrix. Now Smith, a program, has power to act as Smith in the
real world as well as in the Matrix. The Architect sees this and works to balance the
equation. In order to balance the equation now Neo must have power to act as Neo in the
real world as well as in the Matrix.
Like all actions to balance the equation the process does not happen immediately. The
recipients of newly granted equation balancing abilities (Neo and Smith) tend to learn
about and grow into the abilities in a given amount of time rather than suddenly
exercising a new talent. Does balancing the equation take time? So at the end of Reload
Neo feels that something is different. Neo begins to feel the existence of power to act
in relation to the machines in the real world as Neo acts in the Matrix. Neo acts to
stop the Sentinels in the real world in exactly the same manner as Neo acts to stop
bullets in the Matrix (extended arm with hand open toward the threat).
This delay or time lag in the balancing process may also explain why Neo still has
abilities in the real world after Neo kills Bane, effectively deleting Smith from the
real world. With Bane's death Smith has now lost his power in the real world and the
equation needs to be re-balanced. The Architect just hasn't had the time to complete the
process before Neo goes to the machine city. So Neo still retains his power to act as
Neo in the real world long enough to get to his meeting with Deus Ex Machina.
Neo Stopping the Sentinels [NEW!]
Submitted by Joseph We're not sure exactly what the machines have done to the human body. There
are plugs and cables that connect into the body's nerves and the mind can be
convinced into believing a perceptual reality. Perhaps there is more to this
than what meets the eye. The Architect tells Neo that part of the Matrix's
source code is written on him... on him where? Perhaps each person is
more mechanized than we actually know. Perhaps every person's digital self
exists on a hard-drive implanted on the body, or even in the brain. So, if
Neo is part machine (not made of metal, still flesh and blood of course) and
has the ability to jack into the Matrix "wirelessly" and to turn off the
Sentinels... is that really so much different than a wi-fi connection or
even a bluetooth connection on a laptop? I don't think there's any magic to
it. Nuts and bolts and nerve endings. Who knows what we'll be capable of
installing on the human mind hundreds of years from now?
Submitted by Steven Shelton I pose several theories in this composition, but the big one is explaining how Neo stopped the sentinels, and the defense of that theory.
The end bit is just a whole bunch of loop-holes that Neo could have exploited to beat the system and have survived the entire ordeal many times over.
In the first movie, it is kind of underplayed that Neo is different in the real world. First, there is no physical deformity that would give
him away, nor a personality flaw that would spell out his difference from anyone else. The machines wouldn't have made any obvious changes to his
outward personality or physical state, because they would fear --if they can-- that someone might catch on.
However, there is evidence of his being different, although it is delivered to us while he is in the matrix. When fighting Morpheus, Mouse is the
only one (and, to be sure, there is no real reason for anyone to do this) to look at Neo's neural readings, and stares, confusedly at the readout, while
everyone else's eyes are locked on the fight, as the Wachowski bros. wrote in the script 'like a game of Mortal Kombat' and once Neo and Morpheus start
fighting again, he tells everyone (and is promptly ignored by everyone) that Neo's 'neuro-kinetics are way above normal' No one had looked at a scan of
Neo's brain at all up to this point, that we know of, and it is not likely to be one of the tests they regularly conduct, as the machines would discard
brains that were not functioning, or, even if Neo's brain was odd, it functioned just fine for them, so it wasn't a problem. An explanation of this
could be that one of the machine's steps in the 'process' mentioned by the Architect in the third movie is that Neo's brain is rewritten or rewired in
some way to improve his 'processing speed' in essence, they upgraded his processor.
That's a lot of conjecture, one might say, but notice what Neo's job was. Neo was a software designer/excellent hacker. And by 'excellent' I mean
$2000 a program excellent. That's not chump change. That's the price you'd pay for a hacking system that was untraceable and unbeatable for the program
it was written for, until it was finally countered by some ingenious programmer. But to be a great hacker or to be a great programmer, you must be able
to think like a machine. You must be able to use logic to go piece-by-piece to get the exact result you want. Neo was obviously very connected to
machines subliminally and intelligently.
Neo had code written into him by the machines, namely, at least the code to be the key to the program of rebooting the matrix. This made at least
part of Neo's mind a program. In the third movie, we learn that while Neo is in the 'real' world (Not going in to WMAM atm. I used to be a fan, now I
don't really believe it. Why would the machines compromise with Neo on Smith if they could just recall or reboot the Zion matrix and rebalance the
entire equation?) but I digress, as I was saying in the 'real' world, Neo's brainwaves seem to show that he is jacked in. All that that means is that
Neo is operating on the same frequency as the matrix. That's similar to having an RC car and having two controls for it. One is 'jacked in', the other
is 'jacked out' most people would have one remote on one frequency, and one on another, but Neo has two that are the same. Basically, his mind is always
writing itself in code. Neo is constantly rewiring his brain and operating on the same fundamental 'radio station' that the matrix itself is. He's
constantly using the same operating system, instead of most people who need to be converted, in essence, from Windows 1992 to Windows 7. Neo is a
native program to Windows 7 --the matrix-- and thus, no part of his programming is misunderstood or corrupted in transfer, as most people who have
tried to change the format of a file will have undoubtedly encountered. My thought is that Neo was like this from the beginning, and no one noticed
it. (except Mouse, who died... Poor chap) To be sure, the only time one would even see Neo's neuro-kinetics is when he was jacked in. I believe that
Neo, when jacked in, is capable of doing what he does because he already has all the tools of Windows 7, while everyone else is trying to word process
with notepad. Neo has all the handy formats and functions already available, such as an affinity for understanding code and computers, and the
ability to 're-make' the matrix. He's not 're-making' it, he's re-writing it. He is, in function, opening up the file and changing the code, which is
what he made a living doing before his mind was freed. Neo could do anything any program in the matrix could do, because he wrote his own code as he
saw fit. This would mean that his mind would fundamentally be doing what Bane's did after Smith copied himself into Bane's mind; that is, assimilating
code and making it a brain. Bane's brain was human, unlike --assumedly-- Neo's, though, so Bane-smith was unable to operate at the vicious velocity of
the matrix's frequency, correcting that hole in my theory. Unlike Bane's brain, though, Neo would be able to process his mental code at the speed the Matrix does, and at the same pattern, allowing him to basically be the One mentally in the 'real' world. Sure, he couldn't fly in the real world, (unless it was another matrix), but he would be a part of the system
while outside it. Humans need to be encoded to enter the matrix. Neo doesn't have to go through that step, he's just automatically compatible.
When Neo stopped the sentinels, the sentinels were broadcasting on the matrix' frequencies. Neo's frequency. His bio-electric field would be charged with his transmitted 'code.' Notice that when he stops the sentinels, the first stops first, and the others stop soon after. This could be explained with the potential method Neo stopped them with; my theory is that Neo broadcast into the first sentinel, who was already on a network with the others, a virus, ultimately causing catastrophic failure. Once Neo had done this, he basically copied that code onto the network, and the others all stopped, too as they were infected. Neo hacked the sentinels using their wi-fi connection to make a direct link to one hub of the network, and mass e-mailed it to his friends. Neo fell into the coma because he neglected to pull out of the sentinel before he activated the virus. Neo had not retained consciousness in his own body, because he could not manufacture the virus in
his own system before sending it, and could not activate it remotely because he had not the intuition. When Neo flipped the switch, he fried the calamari, but his own mind was picked up by the matrix broadcast, and he went to Mobil station because he would not be permitted access to the link-up the squiddies were using to talk to Daddy. Neo was basically broadcasting from the matrix to his body, as opposed to from a ship to the matrix. Because Neo did not have to be adapted to the matrix code, he suffered no corruption from this transfer, but because of the rules of the system, he could not leave until he had been taken to one of the exit points. Of course, had Neo the foresight to do so, he could have attempted to rewrite the code to permit him to return to his body, although it is unknown whether he was enough machine to handle such a large manipulation, basically whether or not he would be able to alter a system file as opposed to an independent
program, such as gravity.
Further defense for this is seen when Neo loses his sight. Once his
sight is gone, Neo is capable of 'seeing' the code. What he is seeing
is what the machine's broadcast sees. He was seeing the world as the
machines saw it, and because they are written with the same programming
as the matrix, the code was the same. Neo saw machine city because the
entire city would resonate with code. The ship was illuminated because
it was electrical, and Neo could extrapolate data to encode based on
the familiarity he had with the objects emitting electricity, or
conducting it. Neo could not have seen the entire 'world' like this,
though. Only where the machines used the same code as the matrix. For
example, Zion would be invisible to him.
Neo is never taken out of broadcast range during his coma. This is very important, because if he had been, the connection would have severed,
and there would be little chance of Neo returning to his body, as his digital code would change, and his body's mind would be the same, rendering
them two separate programs, and potentially incompatible. He would basically have been 'unplugged,' and we saw the deadly efficiency of that in the
first movie. Using this theory though, it is equally likely that Neo's avatar and Neo's body would have both retained (or regained, as it were)
consciousness once the severance was complete, with the two functioning as now-separate entities, being two separate programs. The difference would
be that the digital Neo would have no ability to be 'jacked out' unless he copied onto a suitable host, and the real Neo would have no recollection
of the doings of the digital Neo. With this split accomplished, Neo could in effect perform
the same viral take-over as Smith had, the power which he always retained, but refused to use (or just didn't realize, because of his morals.) It
is conceivable that the real Neo could be jacked in again and the two digital Neos could operate side-by-side, both identical in function, but differential in code, and should the real Neo ever repeat this entire process, he could then replicate a third time, and so on, without ever reaching a limit, as, necessarily, the One Code cannot be deleted, it can only be absorbed once given willingly or deceasedly to the source. In this way, Neo could have replicated to double his side of the equation against Smith (who only ever matched Neo 1:1) and could have both survived and died, or have completely subverted the necessity of the One's path to end entirely. This said, Neo could always have copied himself even without a host, being entirely capable of creating programs if he wanted to. Every crew could have a One.
Hell, they could pass them out like candy.
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Did You Know?
In 'Revolutions', the words 'Double Destiny' appear on The Oracle's pack of cigarettes. This could be a reference to
Neo and Smith and their intertwined fate - without one, the other could not exist.
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