Yeah, his post count is like, what, three? Pshaw.
Theve been naming me on the podcast for a long time, i feel special:D
Your talking you only have like 1500:p
I know, I’m a total slacker.
You should be beaten with the GWC whip…IYKWIM
As long as it gets cleaned after Bunktime returns it to the community chest…
So with the whole mind body connection, when eating a huge meal in the matrix, your brain would tell your body that you’re full, but when you unplug, your body would still feel full, would you then have to remember to force yourself to eat afterwards, or do you think your body would start growling at you to eat since it knows that it hasnt really been fed anything?
Would your body really ask for more of that white paste?
That’s actually a good question but I don’t have an answer.
No problem. Would you like the blindfold and leather jumpsuit too?
Did I just say that outloud? :eek:
Just make sure you return all the items you took with you. I’m specifically talking about the “light saber”…
My take on it is that the only thing still connected to the body while plugged in are the vital, subconscious processes that maintain life. I think the connection splices directly into the spinal cord where all the electrical impulses are scent to the body. I would say that the body stays in a constant state of equilibrium, constantly supplying a steady source of power. Once they are unplugged the brain takes over and the bodies natural metabolism takes over. I think you would be hungry soon after because you body will need the extra energy to grow new muscle and supply energy to them that they have never needed before. Your mind may remember that you had felt hungry but any feeling would be gone instantly, just like waking up from a dream.
I don’t need to borrow those.
So after Neo got his (sorry Barb) kicked in that training session with Morpheus in the first movie, he wouldn’t feel sore? Because I think he said something about that afterwards.
wow… so much gutter in a podcast thread.
you’ll scare people away!
whips and leather are totally relevant within the Matrix arc 
Very interesting stuff from Audra about the Christian allegory. I thought it didn’t work in Revolutions, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. When you consider that Narnia is the ideal and “reality” is an illusion (or at least not a complete picture) compared to the matrix as an illusion and reality as the ideal, it misses the transcendental quality of the C.S. Lewis books.
Aren’t there drugs being worked on right now that trick the brain into thinking that it’s not hungry, and people eat less? I was also thinking about someone abusing that aspect of the matrix, like an anorexic that would only eat in the matrix and think they were full.
a-HA! That’s what I’ve been trying to think to say for the past few weeks.
See, the first movie portrayed The Matrix as pure Plato’s Cave–the unreality that we have to wake up from. But the allegorical function of what the Matrix was seemed to have morphed completely by the end of the last movie. Now Neo’s making a deal with the machines and we have to keep the Matrix going for their sake because we’re interdependent with them and we all need each other? And it’s okay if some of us still live there as long as we make it a nice, sunshiny place?
No thanks. Ignorance is not good enough, and I think we should find a way to live together where I’m not plugged into a vat.
This is probably the major reason why the sequels left me dissatisfied. [/hatin’ off]
In Narnia, as Tom pointed out, the original Narnia was just a shadow of a deeper land. Moving further into the real(er) world meant leaving behind the old one. In the last book, our heroes left behind a group of dwarves who seemed to be willingly blind to the new world around them, believing they were in a dank, dark barn instead of a grassy meadow. For those who dared, the moving “further up and further in” to new levels of reality and beauty was a continuing process that only got better and more surprising the deeper you went.
I’ll take that over being a happy battery any day.
Thanks for the insight, Tom.
That’s a great dichotomy: happy battery/ stubborn dwarf.
In the matrix ignorance is bliss, in Narnia ignorance is ignorance.
but the Dick Sargent/Dick York actor switch was on Bewitched, not I Dream of Jeannie.
Back to our original discussions.