Timeline for Why don’t humans back up their minds when they enter the Matrix?
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| Dec 17, 2021 at 12:02 | answer | added | Sparrow | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 9:50 | vote | accept | arc_lupus | ||
| Aug 3, 2014 at 5:25 | answer | added | Robert Munn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 13:48 | comment | added | Kasper van den Berg | @arc_lupus : it's your question, so it is your call to make. Probably a new question linked to this one is best, it allows answers to remain focused. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 12:59 | comment | added | arc_lupus | @KaspervandenBerg: Should I add this, or should I rather write a new question? | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | Kasper van den Berg | Considering the answers given, an extension to this question comes to mind. Why do the matrix hackers not use some sort of firewall to filter the sensory input from the matrix? E.g. when an agent fires bullets towards the hacker, the firewall (perhaps with help of the operator) feeds the hacker's brain with being bombarded with fluffy plushy animals; or when the hacker, inside the matrix, falls from a building he/she transfers to the staging area (jump program/loading dock), sees a sign "DON'T PANIC", and lands on the staging area's bouncy floor. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 7:15 | answer | added | user31125 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 2:59 | comment | added | Izkata | @MooingDuck It falls juuuust short of being completely confirmed | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 2:03 | answer | added | trlkly | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | Phoshi | @Michael: Consciously, yes, they'll know it isn't real. However, their brain is being sent all the same pain and injury signals as it would be in 'reality', and your higher thought bits cannot overrule the bits of the brain that's responsible for stuff like last-ditch survival instincts. | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 13:00 | comment | added | Egon | @Joshua: "the hearts keep beating w/o the brain at all" is not entirely correct. Since the brain stem controls the beating, you at least need that part. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 23:55 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Michael: it’s not super-realistic. I don’t know about plot-hole though, given we’re already through the looking glass with the whole incredibly-convincing-virtual-reality-world thing. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 17:08 | comment | added | user11521 | @PaulD.Waite Sure, that's definitely true for someone who hasn't been unplugged, but it always seemed to me to be a gaping plot hole to assume that anyone hacking into the Matrix for the sole purpose of temporarily running around a construct would somehow magically believe they had really died even though they know for certain their physical body is still (e.g.) on the Nebuchadnezzar. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 16:28 | comment | added | Mooing Duck | @BinaryWorrier: I've heard that in the original script, the humans weren't for generating heat (which makes little sense if you think about it), it was that their brains were linked and the linked minds were a supercomputer. And part of that supercomputer ran the matrix. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Joshua: “the heart keeps beating w/o the brain at all” — sure, but I don’t think the death of the body in the Matrix was meant to be due to the brain/mind suddenly becoming absent. I think the idea was more that if they believed their body was injured, their body would, to a certain extent, react as if it was. I believe there’s some real-world evidence for that too. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 15:33 | comment | added | Joshua | Because the authors didn't know any better. But we do. We now know the heart keeps beating w/o the brain at all (look it up). It is no longer reasonable to believe in death due to dumpshock. The body is resilient. The brain will bring itself back up shortly. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 15:28 | answer | added | randomblink | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 12:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/494828885448867841 | ||
| Jul 31, 2014 at 12:33 | history | edited | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2014 at 11:52 | answer | added | Theik | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 11:50 | answer | added | Damon | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 10:37 | answer | added | Elm Ky | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:41 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | Who says the AI computers rely on bits and bytes? They could be organic comptuers for all we know. When talking about fantastical Sci-Fi, you can't use the word impossible :p | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:31 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | “the backup will be reimported” — yeah, just re-import it using the “re-import” button on the back of Keanu Reeves’ skull. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:30 | history | edited | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:23 | answer | added | Stark07 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:21 | answer | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 8:44 | answer | added | SJuan76 | timeline score: 46 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 8:43 | answer | added | Suman Roy | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 8:07 | history | asked | arc_lupus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |