Matrix System: Natural Redpills

As previously supported in the Matrix System: The One page, under the Oracle's choice-based Matrix model, machines do not kill humans or send them to their death unless the purpose for that death involves the protection and/or preservation of life. There is no crime in rejecting the reality of the Matrix since it is as natural a phenomenon for humans as barking is for dogs. In fact, a dog barks very consciously in spite of its master's disapproval, while rejection of the Matrix is presumably a less conscious process that actually involves discovering truth behind the Matrix (an honorable thing), so machines would have to see human rejection of the Matrix as an even more innocent action than we see the barking of a dog.

Therefore, it would go completely against the moral framework of machines to kill humans just because they reject the Matrix, whether by having an Agent shoot them inside the Matrix or by waking them up and flushing them to their drowning death outside the Matrix.

Here are some additional clues and reasoning:

When the Architect speaks of the 1% rejection rate in M2, most people just assume that these 1% are killed in the Matrix or drown in sewage after being flushed from their pod. As you can see, this is not the case! This brings more meaning to Morpheus's phrase "splinter in the mind." Those who reject the Matrix simply have to live with that "splinter" in their minds for their entire natural lives inside of the Matrix.

The next question is, why are the 1% who reject the Matrix such a problem to machines if these natural redpills are able to be suppressed? In a nutshell, natural redpills cause errors in the Matrix every time they reject a part of its reality, and an increasingly large number of them are being freed into Zion because of Zion's exploding population (the greater the population of Zion is, the more redpill hackers there are trying to free bluepills). I will discuss this in much greater detail later, in Conversations: Neo & Architect and Architect: Equation.

The Analyst's Matrix

At the end of M3, the Oracle asks the Architect, "What about the others?", referring to those who want out. The Architect says that they will be freed. This is part of the peace that Neo negotiates for Matrix version 7.0. This policy most likely continues into the Analyst's Matrix (version 8.0), but the Analyst makes it much more difficult to escape the Matrix than it was in version 7.0, thanks to all of his bots running around manipulating people, not to mention all of the false realities he constructs to gaslight people and make them doubt their own selves. Machines still aren't technically lying to humans, but at this point, the choice to escape the Matrix is only barely authentic, unlike in versions 1.0 through 7.0, in which choice was fully genuine and robust.

Whispered Truth

Very few people in the Matrix are lucky enough to demonstrate such extraordinary rejection of the Matrix that they attract the attention of a redpill hacker. These lucky people are offered explicit choices to accept or reject the Matrix. But what about everyone else? The Architect says that 99% of test subjects for the choice-based Matrix accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. Clearly, everyone in the Matrix is offered the choice at some level.

A Matrix fan with a message board handle of Mobil_Ave_Neo had the following idea about how the process of being offered a "choice" to accept the Matrix might actually occur for someone within the Matrix when they don't have the extraordinary good luck of being among the most anomalous that attracts the attention of a redpill hacker and therefore results in :

Architect: ."..even when they are only aware of the choice on a near unconscious level”

People are given a “choice” to accept the Matrix. Knowing how honest the Architect is by his very design, that means that people are probably told the truth about the real world on a subconscious level, perhaps through whispering mental suggestions, dreams, etc. Knowing people would have to leave behind their family and friends inside the Matrix and that Earth’s nature (and therefore good food) is gone, 99% of people in the Matrix choose to continue living in the Matrix and “forget” about the real world.

Similarly (but on a much higher level of consciousness), the vast majority of us do not send donations to Africa despite the fact that we all know starving Ethiopian children can use a dollar much more than we can. We go on our busy lives and “forget” about the children in Africa. The Matrix scenario would be carried out on a much more subconscious level, which is why it isn’t discussed within the Matrix among Bluepills.

Speaking of Africans, there are a lot of them in Zion. This is certainly understandable as it would be more motivating to leave a life of thirst and starvation in favor of almost anything else.

I especially like the last point. It certainly sheds a lot of light on why Zionists seem to dance to African-sounding (highly percussive and rhythmically complex) music.

This is also exactly analogous with a classic dilemma that the Christian apologetic faces when speaking with skeptics: if accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the only way to avoid going to Hell, how does God ensure that every person on Earth is offered legitimate choice? For example, literally 99.9% of the population in Afghanistan and Somalia are Muslim. If I remember correctly, Lee Strobel's The Case for Faith makes this exact argument: the Christian God still finds a way to reach everyone, whether through "underground" faith groups, dreams, or even real-world signs.

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