“What do you mean they use them as batteries do you know how inefficient that is?”
“Wait they’re growing the WHOLE BODY, MUSCLE AN ALL? How? And… For what? To jack a single neuron signal? That’s like 150 milivolts.”
“Where the fuck are they even getting the goop? I’m sure if they’re advanced enough to harvest any energy from humans they could get WAY MORE from that goo on its own.”
Apparently the original plan was for the machines to use the brains of humans for computing power, like a giant neural network. But movie execs thought that was too complicated for the average movie goer and they made them change it to the battery thing.
Using them for processing power made more sense but they could probably done it better by just maintaining the brains and not the entire body, or even just made neural networks and ditch the humans. Also I assumed the goop is just made from the dead humans. They also never explain how they make new humans, they clone them? Artificial insemination?
Morpheus says the goop is made of dead humans. But they never mention reproduction.
This also means total biomass of humans i.e. pooulation must be decreasing but whatever. The brain network kind of makes energy source makes no sense, just go with it.
But like… we eat a LOT of calories a day to stay alive as a whole body I can’t imagine dead bodies being enough to feed us unless the population is going down a LOT. (Like a human body has maybe 2 years worth of calories)
I would say maybe less in a coma but those humans have fully developed bodies and muscles and all, so should be consuming about the same.
And yeah, extra processing power makes more sense than battery.
Like a human body has maybe 2 years worth of calories
I thought it was closer to 1 year. In any case it’s something of that magnitude. That’s been a trope in Hollywood for a long time. Soylent Green (1973) has the same “eat people” thing. It would mean every 1 of 2 years, one half of the population would have to eat the other half.
Where did you learn how much electricity the human body generates? And about the laws of thermodynamics? That’s right, inside the matrix. The machines are fucking liars, man
The dichotomy is more “how do we get some utility out of these humans without having to just kill all of them because we think genocide is probably wrong.”
This has always been my theory. Some kind of inbuilt mechanism whereby they must trick themselves into thinking that what they are doing is somehow to our benefit, as in the first law of robotics by Isaac Asimov.
I like the alternative better, where human brains were used for processing power. The battery stuff makes no sense, except it’s an easy visual thing when Morpheus explains it.
Yeah I could see like the machines having to keep humans alive so this is the way to keep them from killing themselves and also proving useful for some background processing power.
Boy should I not rewatch those movies…
“What do you mean they use them as batteries do you know how inefficient that is?” “Wait they’re growing the WHOLE BODY, MUSCLE AN ALL? How? And… For what? To jack a single neuron signal? That’s like 150 milivolts.” “Where the fuck are they even getting the goop? I’m sure if they’re advanced enough to harvest any energy from humans they could get WAY MORE from that goo on its own.”
Apparently the original plan was for the machines to use the brains of humans for computing power, like a giant neural network. But movie execs thought that was too complicated for the average movie goer and they made them change it to the battery thing.
Using them for processing power made more sense but they could probably done it better by just maintaining the brains and not the entire body, or even just made neural networks and ditch the humans. Also I assumed the goop is just made from the dead humans. They also never explain how they make new humans, they clone them? Artificial insemination?
Where do they get new humans? Why do they keep the whole body?
Have you ever had a wet dream?
If you cum in the Matrix you cum in real life.
Warm vat of liquid goo doesn’t sound so nice when it’s recirculation community jizz (I mean, not to mention. I ain’t judging.)
Morpheus says the goop is made of dead humans. But they never mention reproduction.
This also means total biomass of humans i.e. pooulation must be decreasing but whatever. The brain network kind of makes energy source makes no sense, just go with it.
But like… we eat a LOT of calories a day to stay alive as a whole body I can’t imagine dead bodies being enough to feed us unless the population is going down a LOT. (Like a human body has maybe 2 years worth of calories)
I would say maybe less in a coma but those humans have fully developed bodies and muscles and all, so should be consuming about the same.
And yeah, extra processing power makes more sense than battery.
I thought it was closer to 1 year. In any case it’s something of that magnitude. That’s been a trope in Hollywood for a long time. Soylent Green (1973) has the same “eat people” thing. It would mean every 1 of 2 years, one half of the population would have to eat the other half.
Where did you learn how much electricity the human body generates? And about the laws of thermodynamics? That’s right, inside the matrix. The machines are fucking liars, man
The idiot is a machine!
The dichotomy is more “how do we get some utility out of these humans without having to just kill all of them because we think genocide is probably wrong.”
This has always been my theory. Some kind of inbuilt mechanism whereby they must trick themselves into thinking that what they are doing is somehow to our benefit, as in the first law of robotics by Isaac Asimov.
I like the alternative better, where human brains were used for processing power. The battery stuff makes no sense, except it’s an easy visual thing when Morpheus explains it.
Yeah I could see like the machines having to keep humans alive so this is the way to keep them from killing themselves and also proving useful for some background processing power.
The body typically produces between 100-500w of heat. That’s like three to five people to run a toaster.