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[Ahriman]

Re: Minotaur

[Marauder]

Re: Minotaur

[thewindupbird]

Well, the Kid woke up on his own. If you watch the animatrix closely you'll realize that he woke himself up, independant of an outside interruption in his connection to the matrix. In fact, one might go further to speculate that his mind was strong enough so that, at the point of death, it refused to realize the "false" reality of the matrix in favor of a "real" reality in the real world. I'm just rambling so pay me no mind.

[edmnc]

More about the AI able to get out ...

It also seems very unlikely that people in our times would be able pro program a machine, that is compatible with machines in far far far future (if we stick to the Matrix scenario). The AI created in Metacortex would have to be way too far advanced for our times in order to get out of the matrix (or whatever virual reality) and later back in.

thewindupbird: hmm, good point. Still for a machine it would seem more unlikely, because it "follows a set of rules" created by people who don't realise that there is any other reality.

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I think that the guy at the tent has nothing to do with the metacortex AI.

[Ahriman]

[bakntime]

Re: Minotaur

[XtRaVa]

Well if you think about it...this is an Alternate Reality Game, so therefore, maybe because of that reason, it means that metacortex are good idea to program a piece of AI

But seriously though, I know what you mean...but technically the timeline where it is set, isnt that far off of when humans invented AI for real, before the machines took over...the matrix is set back to before AI is invented..metacortechs (or a similar company) could have been the first to create AI back in the real world all these hundreds of years ago, and maybe its doing it again (except this time its the matrix). I think its okay to accept that maybe metacortex have, and are creating the first forms of good AI.

[Marauder]

Is there any reason to believe that the game takes place in the Matrix? I'm actually asking, I haven't been here too long... Could it just be that Metacortechs is on its way to developing what will eventually become the Matrix, and all the events that are being attributed to glitches in the Matrix are from tests of their software?

[XtRaVa]

oh well yeah...it doesnt have to be set necessarily inside the matrix...and if it isnt, labyrinth and the minotaur could actually be the making of the first AI, which led to the things we have seen in animatrix, and the matrix being created. Altho this sounds cool, I doubt it...I think the matrix is already up and running...I mean what are the chances of thomas anderson working at metacortex both times...I mean if it is before the matrix is set, why 500+ years later, when they are in the 5th version, would once again a Mr.Thomas Anderson be working for the same company, and this time be the "one"? Also, we have seen how much dina is beginning to wonder what is going on, and dreaming all the time, and not knowing if when she is awake whether it is a dream or not (something talked about by morpheus to neo in the first movie), and seeing a train sign all jumbled saying "wake up" when she was awake, as well as all the glitches going on, just seems to me as they are all actually inside the matrix...

[taniwha]

If Metacortechs developed the first AI and Matrix-type environment, then perhaps Thomas Anderson was a real employee of the real Metacortechs. When the machines designed the Matrix we all know and love, they made the recurring anomaly, Neo, play the role of "Thomas Anderson" at the company that gave birth to the machine culture.

[ryan]

[spec]
the more i think about it, the more i wonder if this isn't a prequel to the matrix trilogy and the animatrix. [/spec]

[bakntime]

[XtRaVa]

it could be a prequel...but im still not sure how it could be with thomas anderson working there, (i mean they used that bit on their site for a cool lil thing for us to see, and so we knew it was matrix related) seems like it must be close to the timeline of the matrix films. If the matrix hadnt yet been made, why would thomas anderson be "transferred" with no further information, its obviously there to show hes been removed from the matrix. Theres too many things IMO showing us that this takes place in the matrix, and therefore I think the AI metacortex is making, is just like history repeating itself, we are getting close to the time when AI was made the first time round, this time it might just be happeneing a century or so quicker...after all, the machines have great problems with choice, and also predicting when we will advance technologically i suspect...the matrix each time i guess is kinda like a parallel universe...a lot of things are the same, sometimes almost exactly the same as before, and some things are slightly different. Therefore I think this game is inside the matrix, metacortex is developing AI, but they dont know they are inside a complicated version of labyrinth themselves, therefore the AI is somehow (after a thunderstorm maybe) to transfer out of labyrinth into what they think is the "real" world and so on and so fourth.

[Sunny du Pree]

[XtRaVa]

jhx just started a thread saying about how we havnt picked up on the files in beths metadex...why do these people not search the forums first? theres 8 pages on that very subject lol.