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[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 110 points 2 months ago (20 children)

I could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn't understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what's really going on.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They've probably all heard the speech at some point. Except those born at Zion.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also there's plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong about something big, like everything revolving around Earth.

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