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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Matrix actually makes more sense if the machines use the brains as processors

[–] Orangenkuchen@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I heard somewhere that this was the original plan. They changed it because computers were new and they didn't think people would understand "using human brains as CPUs"

[–] birthday_attack@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

That's a common misconception that's been passed around the Internet so long that it's become common knowledge. There's a great (now deleted, but archived) writeup showing that the Wachowskis always intended humans to be batteries. The actual source of the "processors" idea came from a Neil Gaiman short story written to promote the movie at its release

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