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[Marl64]

[BrianEnigma]

[yanka]

[Ehsan]

I assumed that after Beth asks "Are you okay" he goes on to perform the self diagnostics. The interesting part in the results is:

<diagnostic system="communications" subsystem="all">
<result optimal="1.0" current="0.5" status="concern">
<error subsystem="nat_lang_gen" message="not_present"/>

The natural language generator is not present, so while he understands English, he has no way of speaking.


<diagnostic system="memory" subsystem="all">
<result optimal="1.0" current="0.3" status="error">
<error subsystem="data_retrieval" message="corrupted"/>

And more importantly.. he has no memory. He cannot remember anything or say anything.. poor fellow..

[Omnie]

Ha. It would be cool if this were James Avery. He volunteered to host the AI that Metacortex was developing, to prove to the world that it is safe and can enhance your intellect or whatever was going to be the selling point... and then his own brain got overshadowed by the AI and it ran away...poor little AI. Maybe the operation/injection/whatever was done in Zurich. Heh.

That was wild and completely unsupported speculation, btw. For the record. It was fun, though.

[Edit] lol, never mind, Beth knows James Avery pretty well. She'd recognize him. Ignore me, brain stopped functioning for a minute there... must get more sleep.

[AcidTWister]

well, i doubt it's james. i havent ever actually seen anything about the man other than what we already know... but for some reason i doubt his thoughts translate into computer code and mysteriously find their way onto Beth's metadex.

if i were to guess... i'd say it's an Agent. though, for those who've only watched the movies, not the type of Agent you're thinking of. there are, apparently, many different types of agents. some with compassion and mercy, even.

for example: read the comic...er...short stories, on the official site "System Freeze", and "Goliath". both great examples about how Agents have other duties to fulfill aside from what we all know about.

[Kodos]

[Marl64]

[Wishi]

<generalization>
<objects count="974">
<condition type="foreach">
<method id="is_imagined_by" return_type="boolean">
<parameter value="querent"/>
</method>
<operator type="equals" value="true"/>
</condition>
<result true="0" false="974"/>
</objects>
</generalization>
<response type="boolean" value="false" confidence="0.3"/>

This bit looks to me like it's looping the 974 objects which are closest or most relevant and queries whether each could be/is being imagined by the mind. It finds that all 974 are not imagined and actually being seen but the confidence level is low.

What I want to know is who are the kids Beth mentions.

[Marl64]

[Kodos]

[quote="AnthraX101"]EDIT: File contents are now complete

[Kodos]

But does it refer to IT making the enquiry (in the code) or does it refer to Beth asking the questions out loud?



Seems more likely to be referring to Beth, because this time the parameter value is 'querent', where earlier it was 'self'.

[Marl64]

This is where we need a script monkey - this was the one part of Object coding that always messed me up (the "is aware of", "is modified by" type of methods)

So in (generic) object terms, what we're looking at is;

[mulder]

[SPEC/SPOILER] Just to refresh our memories, in the Movie, the Matrix is Braking apart:
1- Neo is doing some Superman stuff. Some stuff that was not predicted.
2- Smith is taking over the Matrix like a Virus. Causing some BIG TIME anomalies...

So... this "Man like" could not only be an Agent but as well some other corrupted program. Maybe some Error Correcting Software of some kind... as if it were there to Correct, BUT, some unexpected things were happening... MAYBE they were Unexpected because this program is errornous...

Reminding again what the Oracle said, there are thousands and even millions of other programs controling birds, the wind, leaves, the trees, and all other sorts of things... and as Smith gains control of the Low Level code (programer code) the High level (user) becomes Corrupted...

Was I clear? Gotta practice may English more often...

[Ahriman]

I don't think that the files are the Matrix programming, it is just an environment after all. Something doing a diagnostic sounds more like a program, not necessarily an agent (as we know there are more programs than just agents). Getting caught in a glitch might mess up a program in this way, corrupting its memory and language subroutines. The question would have to be, what was a program doing there? Was it keeping tabs on the anomaly? Don't forget also Beth's near miss in Alabama with the curious frozen horse and fog thing - there was another witness, an "unknown man" who "disappeared in the resulting
fog and hasn't been seen since." Sounds interesting - is it the same man? I'm not a betting man, but I'd certainly put a few pennies on it being so.