Timeline for Why don’t humans back up their minds when they enter the Matrix?
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| Aug 3, 2014 at 14:36 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | @ash_k29: Actually, no. I'm referring to all the information needed to convince Neo for the first 30-odd years of his life that he inhabits the real world. Sight, sound, smell, touch, attacks of indigestion, you name it. Of course, as Mouser observed, the humans in the Matrix don't really know what chicken tastes like, which gives the machines some room for imperfection. | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 2:46 | comment | added | user13267 | we can't say it should be possible just because it's 2099. Some inherent limitations might be discovered later which are't apparent right now | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 2:40 | comment | added | trysis | @user13267 - That could very well be why. In 1999, that was believable. In 2014, not so much. Much less 2099 or whenever The Matrix took place. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | Stark07 | Yes. Ofcourse. Still what Royal Canadian Bandit is trying to refer is the basic 5 senses. Or so I think. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 3:04 | comment | added | Izkata | @ash_k29 Humans have a lot more than 5 senses | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 4:46 | comment | added | Stark07 | Learning kung fu is not a sensory process. It means learning moves, reflexes, which I am pretty sure does not count as "sensory information". Last I heard the hands & legs were not sensory organs. The "quick kung fu" itself is proof that a lot more than mere sensory information be up/downloaded. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | Luiz Felipe | Perhaps they don't do that every time because it takes too much space to store the backup and much energy restore it. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | vsz | Right about the Matrix working via an interface, and not scanning and uploading the whole brain. By the way, if the technology to back up minds existed, the Machines would use it as the mechanism of resetting the Matrix (they could loop the same year or month or whatever in everyone's brain) and they wouldn't need that complicated and error-prone scheme about the prophecy and the One to reset the Matrix when too many people start getting aware of its existence. | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 10:53 | comment | added | user13267 | May be the memory requirement for a full brain backup is too high? | |
| Jul 31, 2014 at 9:21 | history | answered | Royal Canadian Bandit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |