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Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 194 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

The answer is in the movie. When explaining the Matrix to Neo, Morpheus says: "There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown."

https://youtu.be/IojqOMWTgv8

Doesn't specify the exact how, but it's strongly implied that it is through either cloning or artificial gestation.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They use robo arms to just rub people's limp bodies together.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Upvote for the hillarious image in my head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

For me, that, but with “Now Procreate!”

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's cloning. That how Neo has been born over and over again.

The machines stores the generic code of all the first humans they put in pods and then they just crank out copies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot about that part of the movie. Thanks for the reminder!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think you are due for a re-watch! It's great when it's been a few years and you can enjoy some of the bits you forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately we can never experience the big reveal for the first time again. It was absolutely mind-blowing watching him wake up in the pod on the big theater screen for the first time. That was the coolest movie experience I've ever had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. So many firsts to revisit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying to watch ESotSM, or to utilize its one weird trick?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Listen, this is getting creepy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your appearance now is what we call “username”. It is the mustache template projection of your digital self.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Just mustache no beard?? But my beard is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I cannot forget even a second of The Matrix.

Fortunately, I don’t need to. It’s like listening to this yet again. It’s beautiful even though I know every note and can listen to the whole thing in my head any time I want: https://youtu.be/LZ48G9UziRs?si=WdHnkS5bvDNdF1wv

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They actually touch on it in the animated movie that spanned a series of vignettes from that universe.

Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Animatrix movie?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

artificial gestation

The word "matrix" literally means "womb" in its older sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It also refers to a 2D array of numbers in linear algebra. This data structure is used to store the synaptic weights of an artificial neural network.

We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.

It really is a deeply-thought-out movie.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why even grow them with arms and legs if they are just going to be batteries? Wouldn't it be easier to just grow cows instead?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Because shut up. /s

But really though, the entire concept of using humans as batteries is absurd. Don't think too hard about it, just enjoy the movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They mate sprem and egg in lab then grown in vat, which is better. Or clone, could be worst.