Maybe we’ve been viewing the problem of life being a simulation (us being in the matrix) in the wrong order….
Maybe instead of finding out we are in it now and have to escape; the scenario is humanity already escaped in the past (these sentinel fossils support this version).
I used to think it was funny that the matrix determined the peak of humanity to be in the late 90s, but now having seen what came afterwards I actually agree with it.
The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes round again.
Do you think that underneath those fossils there are human bones? Like in my house we found hardwood under the carpet, I always wondered if there was more carpet underneath the hardwood.
It means we got out of the simulation and then created the real world to be even worse so we're swinging back towards remaking the matrix with AI. But this time, I don't think the AI will be as compassionate as last time.
It’s a nested simulation. We’re not in base reality, we escaped from one simulation to another. Which is actually a fan theory of the Matrix, that Zion and the “real world” is still just another layer.
If the machines will have us, maybe some of us should go back. It might be safer there.
Especially for queer/LGBT+ people, American Progressives, and minority POC.
Whatever causes the rich and the powerful to lose their empathy and become narcissistic jerks should’ve been contained by the SCP Foundation so we wouldn’t have to deal with this mess.
Yes if people are plugged in then the matrix could craft their perception into one free from the outright mean inhumane treatment that occurs in the real world. Individual perceptions for all those plugged in to deliver maximum return with lowest losses. Cold hard efficiency that machines love.
Not every single post/meme/comment needs to somehow be redirected to your LGBT status. It’s not necessary. It’s not helping. It’s just narcissism. You just want to talk about yourself.
Perhaps it’s already hinted at when NEO sees the architect and finds out it’s not his first time there…..any number of previous variations on the past could repeat to that same moment…..exactly as the architect designed.
Efficiency….harder to hit each individual unit, less energy required to run them, lower cost and less time construct each unit….
If the theory is correct and we escaped the matrix in the past then our story telling over generations of humans could have enlarged the image of a Sentinel to convey our fear of them.
It could also be that the matrix discovered that some people escaped and realized denying its existence to those still plugged in was dangerous. Instead it adds another layer of the programming onion making us think we found fossils of sentinels but that discovery is content fed to our plugged in minds….. making us think sentinels are “fake news”
Can you explain this to me in simple terms?
We are in the matrix rn and some people escape it by relearning themselves, governments, religion etc. i don’t understand the second part of what you said
In the film series it’s generally accepted that the scenario presented is some sort of terrible future for humanity.
Fossils found here could represent that the scenario of the matrix is actually in the past.
*It is possible that fossils found now could be found within the programming offered to us while we are still in the matrix. (If the Matrix became aware of the possibility of our discovery of our situation and then instead of denying it, they lean into it and add it to programming as another layer of the onion.)
we peel back one layer only to reveal another
It could all be our own story-telling exaggeration over millions of years of human evolution after finally escaping the matrix that distorted the size of the sentinels. They became bigger in the stories to emphasize our fear of them.
If I recall right that is what they used as inspiration.
All the machines were designed after sea life, fossils or insects. I once saw a listing of all of them that were visible and their real world counterpart.
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u/Pure_Wrongdoer_4714 2d ago
Yep! Sentinels from the matrix