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There's conflicting stories about it so it's hard to verify, but apparently the battery thing was a rewrite.
Apparently originally the people plugged into the matrix were meant to be the very hardware the matrix was run on. As in all their brains together formed a literal neural network that provided the processing power to run the matrix. This is then why knowing it's not real and believing you can do "the impossible" within the matrix can cause you to be able to bend reality. The story goes that executives thought it was too high of a concept for audiences to grasp and demanded the change to the battery explanation to make it simpler to follow.
The fun part is that the inhabitants of Zion are, canonically, shown to have very incomplete information about the actual state of the world, their own history, how the machine civilization works.
Neo is told basically 'we think it is the year 2XXX, but really, we have no idea', in the first movie.
Without spoiling much... Morpheus is wrong about some things, some pretty important things.
Hell, so is the Architect and even the Oracle says that some things are beyond her ability to predict.
But anyway... its entirely possible that the battery explanation is just another thing that Morpheus, the broad understanding of Zion itself, is wrong about.
So this doesn't actually 'break' the canon at all.
In fact, I'd argue that it makes the idea of 'free your mind' even more interesting and complex.
Even the truthseekers and truthtellers... can be wrong.
I’ve heard this too, but even this has an issue. It’s circular. Why imprison humans so their brains can be used to run the matrix which is designed to imprison them?
Presumably the brain network was performing more than the task of simulation. I.E performing processing tasks for the machines. More humans = more brains = more processing headroom (ha, clever) for more machines.
Johnny Mnemonic got a headache after reading that joke.
i mean they kind of go into that in the movies don't they? The machines didn't want to completely destroy humanity. So they tried to create the matrix as "The Perfect Prison" for them. Using their own minds to create the very prison to hold them in would fit right into that wouldn't it?
Yeah, it was changed because someone thought that the explanation scene wouldn't work if they were holding up a CPU. They forced them to use a battery instead, forever ruining the backstory.
Apparently Neil Gaiman invented that theory but it was never confirmed by the w. brothers
https://screenrant.com/matrix-resurrections-human-batteries-plot-hole-not-fix/
I'd never heard Neil Gaiman as the origin of that theory. I'd always heard it came from commentary on the DVDs myself. I just don't own the films. But I guess that'd be the conflicting stories bit right?
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