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Architect: Hello Neo
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I have been waiting for you. You have many questions and although the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human, ergo some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question maybe the most pertinent you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
NOTE 1: See NOTE 9 BELOW.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you inexcerably here.
Neo: You haven’t answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting, that was quicker then the others.
Neo: Others? (What others? How many? Answer me)
Architect: The Matrix is older then you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next. In which case this is the sixth version.
Neo: Then there are only two possible explanations, either no one told me, or no one knows.
Architect: Precisely, as you are undoubtedly gathering the anomaly is systemic. Creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
NOTE 2: The Matrix is very old, perhaps as old as 600 years or more, depending on how long it takes between one anomaly to rebuild Zion and die and another anomaly to arise and be found and Zion to be destroyed.
Neo: Choice, the problem is choice.
Architect: The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect; it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it, Based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, and intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle
NOTE 3: Based upon the Architect’s response (SEE BELOW), the Oracle may not be the “Mother” of the Matrix. Perhaps it is Persephone. Monica Belucci states in an interview that her character is like an emotional vampire. She’s not human but she likes to consume human emotional experiences. This is evidenced in the movie when she asks to kiss Neo. And someone online stated that her character is supposed to have a larger role in the next film. This might jibe with the Architect’s description of the “Mother” as “initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche.” However, it seems from the Architect’s tone that what he might have objected to was not the suggestion that the Oracle is the “Mother” he is speaking of, but rather his objection is to Neo’s human naïve and mystical beholding of her as an “Oracle.” In this case, the Architect was just objecting to the title “Oracle.” This scenario would also seem to jibe for 2 reasons. First, her function as the Oracle is one of “intuition” about humankind and their choices, and the Architect refers to the “Mother” as an intuitive program. Second, the Oracle used much of the same language as the Architect including the idea that Neo’s choices had already been made.
Architect: Please, as I was saying she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at an near unconscious level. While this answered function it was obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refuse the program while a minority if unchecked would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
NOTE 4: The anomaly in the system is created by giving those in the system choice, even very minor choice. Those that refused the system even when given a choice will cause disaster if they are not contained or “kept in check” by the machines. Notice also that the Architect says "those that refuse the program." This is based upon his previous assertion that, "nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice." This seems to indicate that according to the Architect, the 1% who don't accept the program, reject the program EVEN when they are given a choice. Are we to believe that this 1% don't accept one program even when given a choice but then turn around and accept another programmed reality with no problem? The problem with this group seems to be that they reject programmed reality EVEN when it includes a choice. This seems to indicate quite clearly that the Zion world cannot be another Matrix, for if it were this 1% would not accept it. To suggest that they reject one programmed reality while accepting a second seems to contradict the dialog.
Neo: This is about Zion
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo: Bullsh--
Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it. And we have become exceedingly efficient at it. The function of the One is now to return to the source allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry reinserting the prime program after which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix. Which, coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
NOTE 5: The Architect speaks of Zion as if it is outside the Matrix.
NOTE 6: The function of the One is to take the code he has gathered from his life experience and return it to the source in order to improve the next version of the Matrix. It is possible that part of this code that is unique to the life experiences of Neo as the sixth “One” has been gathered from his interaction with Agent Smith. Furthermore, in the same way that this interaction has allowed Agent Smith to override humans in the Real World, in his first interaction with Squidy Sentinels since BEFORE he had this interaction at the end of Part 1, Neo is able to override the Squidy Sentinels. “Something’s different. I can feel them this time” may refer to the difference between this encounter with the Squidy Sentinels AFTER his interaction with Agent Smith and his previous encounter with them BEFORE his interaction with Agent Smith.
NOTE 7: The One will also then select 23 individuals who live inside the Matrix to free and insert as the founders of Zion. This is why in Part 1 Morpheus told Neo that the “man born inside who could change the Matrix” “freed the first of them.” This repetition wherein the previous “One” from the previous matrix loop frees 23 people from the Matrix explains why there is the prophecy that the “One” will return.
NOTE 8: The Architect speaks clearly of the extermination of Zion’s residents as separate from the cataclysmic system crash of the Matrix that will occur if Neo stays in the Matrix and refuses to select the 23 to build the next Zion. Zion’s destruction is, therefore, not related to the system crash of the Matrix, implying both that Zion is outside the Matrix and that the machines, not Neo, will destroy Zion.
Neo: You won’t let it happen, you can’t. You need human beings to survive.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. It is interesting reading your reactions. Your 5 predecessors were by design based on a similar predication a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way your experience is far more specific, Vis a vie love.
NOTE 9: The phrase “to the rest of your species” indicates clearly that Neo is human since his upbringing was intended to instill in him a “profound attachment” that compelled him at the end to go through the door that will preserve the species both in the Matrix and in the 23 recruits who rebuild Zion. Neo’s humanity is also established securely by the early statement of the Architect in his second line to Neo where he states, “you remain irrevocably human.”
Neo: Trinity
Architect: Apropo, she entered the matrix to save your life at the cost of her own.
NOTE 10: By stating that Trinity “entered the Matrix,” the Architect clearly places “where she was before” in the so-called real world on board the Nebuchadnezzar as outside the Matrix.
Neo: No
Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors, the door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion, the door to your left leads back to the matrix to her and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do don’t we? Already I can see the chain reaction the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth, she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
NOTE 11: This reference to “design” (as well as ABOVE) does not imply that Neo is a program. The Architect is talking about the element of human nature by which love overrides logic and reason. The “design” spoken of here is a function of natural processes that cause humans to fall in love and desire to preserve their species.
NOTE 12: The phrase “back to the matrix” indicates that the system crash is caused by Neo’s continued tampering with those who live in the Matrix, causing more and more of them to reject the programming and so, “whole crops will be lost,” most likely as the machines are given no alternative use for them and, therefore, kill them. This phrase “back to the matrix” also indicates that Zion is not a part of the Matrix given that Zion is mentioned distinctly as a part of the alternate choice whereby Neo does not “go back to the Matrix.” This demonstrates that going back to the Matrix does not include going back to Zion and so Zion is not a part of the Matrix. Zion is real.
Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don’t meet again.
Architect: We won’t.
NOTE 13: There is a balance between Neo’s hope and the certain compromise offered by the Architect. If Neo exits through the door his predecessors chose, then he guarantees humankind’s survival, albeit under the Machine’s continued control. If Neo exits through the other door, then He might be able to possibly save Zion, save Trinity, and free the rest of mankind from the Matrix and the Machines (despite the Architects discouraging words to the contrary.) This is Neo’s “hope” and his ultimate declaration of freewill, that humans are not bound to endless cycles of prediction and obligatory responses to programmed stimuli. The information exchange that has taken place between Neo and Agent Smith and has been played up by Smith’s dialog and obsession with Neo in Reloaded may give Neo the unanticipated upper hand, giving him the power to control machines in the real world in much the same way that Agent Smith is able to override human beings in the real world. This may also be why Neo is able to shut down the Squidy Sentinels at the end of the film, as described above.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Description: Important plot points are highlighted in varying colors in the text of the dialogue and the corresponding notes to those points are highlighted with the same color below.
Architect: Hello Neo
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I have been waiting for you. You have many questions and although the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human, ergo some of my answers you will understand and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question maybe the most pertinent you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
NOTE 1: See NOTE 9 BELOW.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you inexcerably here.
Neo: You haven’t answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting, that was quicker then the others.
Neo: Others? (What others? How many? Answer me)
Architect: The Matrix is older then you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next. In which case this is the sixth version.
Neo: Then there are only two possible explanations, either no one told me, or no one knows.
Architect: Precisely, as you are undoubtedly gathering the anomaly is systemic. Creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
NOTE 2: The Matrix is very old, perhaps as old as 600 years or more, depending on how long it takes between one anomaly to rebuild Zion and die and another anomaly to arise and be found and Zion to be destroyed.
Neo: Choice, the problem is choice.
Architect: The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect; it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it, Based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another, and intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo: The Oracle
NOTE 3: Based upon the Architect’s response (SEE BELOW), the Oracle may not be the “Mother” of the Matrix. Perhaps it is Persephone. Monica Belucci states in an interview that her character is like an emotional vampire. She’s not human but she likes to consume human emotional experiences. This is evidenced in the movie when she asks to kiss Neo. And someone online stated that her character is supposed to have a larger role in the next film. This might jibe with the Architect’s description of the “Mother” as “initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche.” However, it seems from the Architect’s tone that what he might have objected to was not the suggestion that the Oracle is the “Mother” he is speaking of, but rather his objection is to Neo’s human naïve and mystical beholding of her as an “Oracle.” In this case, the Architect was just objecting to the title “Oracle.” This scenario would also seem to jibe for 2 reasons. First, her function as the Oracle is one of “intuition” about humankind and their choices, and the Architect refers to the “Mother” as an intuitive program. Second, the Oracle used much of the same language as the Architect including the idea that Neo’s choices had already been made.
Architect: Please, as I was saying she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at an near unconscious level. While this answered function it was obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refuse the program while a minority if unchecked would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
NOTE 4: The anomaly in the system is created by giving those in the system choice, even very minor choice. Those that refused the system even when given a choice will cause disaster if they are not contained or “kept in check” by the machines. Notice also that the Architect says "those that refuse the program." This is based upon his previous assertion that, "nearly 99 percent of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice." This seems to indicate that according to the Architect, the 1% who don't accept the program, reject the program EVEN when they are given a choice. Are we to believe that this 1% don't accept one program even when given a choice but then turn around and accept another programmed reality with no problem? The problem with this group seems to be that they reject programmed reality EVEN when it includes a choice. This seems to indicate quite clearly that the Zion world cannot be another Matrix, for if it were this 1% would not accept it. To suggest that they reject one programmed reality while accepting a second seems to contradict the dialog.
Neo: This is about Zion
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo: Bullsh--
Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it. And we have become exceedingly efficient at it. The function of the One is now to return to the source allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry reinserting the prime program after which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix. Which, coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
NOTE 5: The Architect speaks of Zion as if it is outside the Matrix.
NOTE 6: The function of the One is to take the code he has gathered from his life experience and return it to the source in order to improve the next version of the Matrix. It is possible that part of this code that is unique to the life experiences of Neo as the sixth “One” has been gathered from his interaction with Agent Smith. Furthermore, in the same way that this interaction has allowed Agent Smith to override humans in the Real World, in his first interaction with Squidy Sentinels since BEFORE he had this interaction at the end of Part 1, Neo is able to override the Squidy Sentinels. “Something’s different. I can feel them this time” may refer to the difference between this encounter with the Squidy Sentinels AFTER his interaction with Agent Smith and his previous encounter with them BEFORE his interaction with Agent Smith.
NOTE 7: The One will also then select 23 individuals who live inside the Matrix to free and insert as the founders of Zion. This is why in Part 1 Morpheus told Neo that the “man born inside who could change the Matrix” “freed the first of them.” This repetition wherein the previous “One” from the previous matrix loop frees 23 people from the Matrix explains why there is the prophecy that the “One” will return.
NOTE 8: The Architect speaks clearly of the extermination of Zion’s residents as separate from the cataclysmic system crash of the Matrix that will occur if Neo stays in the Matrix and refuses to select the 23 to build the next Zion. Zion’s destruction is, therefore, not related to the system crash of the Matrix, implying both that Zion is outside the Matrix and that the machines, not Neo, will destroy Zion.
Neo: You won’t let it happen, you can’t. You need human beings to survive.
Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. It is interesting reading your reactions. Your 5 predecessors were by design based on a similar predication a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way your experience is far more specific, Vis a vie love.
NOTE 9: The phrase “to the rest of your species” indicates clearly that Neo is human since his upbringing was intended to instill in him a “profound attachment” that compelled him at the end to go through the door that will preserve the species both in the Matrix and in the 23 recruits who rebuild Zion. Neo’s humanity is also established securely by the early statement of the Architect in his second line to Neo where he states, “you remain irrevocably human.”
Neo: Trinity
Architect: Apropo, she entered the matrix to save your life at the cost of her own.
NOTE 10: By stating that Trinity “entered the Matrix,” the Architect clearly places “where she was before” in the so-called real world on board the Nebuchadnezzar as outside the Matrix.
Neo: No
Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors, the door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion, the door to your left leads back to the matrix to her and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do don’t we? Already I can see the chain reaction the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth, she is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
NOTE 11: This reference to “design” (as well as ABOVE) does not imply that Neo is a program. The Architect is talking about the element of human nature by which love overrides logic and reason. The “design” spoken of here is a function of natural processes that cause humans to fall in love and desire to preserve their species.
NOTE 12: The phrase “back to the matrix” indicates that the system crash is caused by Neo’s continued tampering with those who live in the Matrix, causing more and more of them to reject the programming and so, “whole crops will be lost,” most likely as the machines are given no alternative use for them and, therefore, kill them. This phrase “back to the matrix” also indicates that Zion is not a part of the Matrix given that Zion is mentioned distinctly as a part of the alternate choice whereby Neo does not “go back to the Matrix.” This demonstrates that going back to the Matrix does not include going back to Zion and so Zion is not a part of the Matrix. Zion is real.
Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don’t meet again.
Architect: We won’t.
NOTE 13: There is a balance between Neo’s hope and the certain compromise offered by the Architect. If Neo exits through the door his predecessors chose, then he guarantees humankind’s survival, albeit under the Machine’s continued control. If Neo exits through the other door, then He might be able to possibly save Zion, save Trinity, and free the rest of mankind from the Matrix and the Machines (despite the Architects discouraging words to the contrary.) This is Neo’s “hope” and his ultimate declaration of freewill, that humans are not bound to endless cycles of prediction and obligatory responses to programmed stimuli. The information exchange that has taken place between Neo and Agent Smith and has been played up by Smith’s dialog and obsession with Neo in Reloaded may give Neo the unanticipated upper hand, giving him the power to control machines in the real world in much the same way that Agent Smith is able to override human beings in the real world. This may also be why Neo is able to shut down the Squidy Sentinels at the end of the film, as described above.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net