Interesting topic

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Tefnutt wrote:

This is a question I have had for quite a while, and which I need to be answered so that everyone agrees, as I am using it in an upcomming story. What happens to the code of your RSI, or that of an unknown bluepill still in his or her little pods, when their bodies in the real have died and they are permanantly disconnected from the Matrix.

 

There is code involved. The code that is your appearance, and which governs your every action and reaction. Emotion. Memory. What happens to this code when you die. Does it get returned to the source, and if so, what triggers it to do so? Does it merge with the Floating Feast and wind up in the preverbial bellies of the exiles? Does it just hang around?

 

And for that matter, is the code of a bluepill who is deceased treated diffrently than that of a redpill? The machines can control the blue pills. They are physically linked to them. They know when one dies. That is not necessarily the case with a red pill, whose jack-in devices are out of the hands of the machines, and quite possible are of a diffrent design, with diffrent protocols. Where when a blue pill dies inside his pod, at the moment of death, a trigger is enabled that would take care of the remaining code, purging it from the system, the death of a redpill, who has code that also exists inside the matrix may not. That code may just... linger.

 

So that is the end-all be-all of my question. What happens when we die? I have never seen or read anything that could reasonibly explain it, and I am looking for an answer that can be used as canon, if possible.

 

 

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IMO the code of a person's RSI in the Matrix doesn't carry emotions and memory ... it's merely an interface to them.

Think of it like a ..er ... airline booking system!

The RSI is the front page, the emotions & memories are the backend database.

If the database (person) is disconnected (killed) then there is no way
of getting to the information. Likewise the front page (RSI) on its own
is useless, as it has no real data.



However there is probably a 'cache' of sorts between interfaces, so
that in some situations some memories may be retained for a time.



Neo was the exception to the rule of course, he had 802.11g



As for the code of the RSI itself, I read long ago the 'official'
description of Reconstructing. Basically the code of the RSI is
rebooted, pulled out of the Matrix and remade in the loading construct.

If an RSI death is forced - given the redpill and removed from the
Matrix - the system itself deals with this code by returning it to the
Source (or other form of Recycle Bin) - theoretically the Matrix is
made up of the same code throughout so it should be able to be reused)

It must know a person has died and where their respective RSI is. There
is no knowledge on exactly how the Matrix monitors its charges, so we
can't know how they tag them.



In actual bluepill deaths, they can't really do anything. It has to be
buried or cremated, and in case of burial, the body needs to remain in
its grave.



The actual death of a redpill though ... I don't know. I would assume
the operator of a ship has some sort of override code that can destroy
an empty RSI shell (Apoc, Switch, etc.) - the case of Morpheus is
interesting as he apparently had no operator.

Assuming that WAS him - maybe the RSI deconstructs itself eventually, much like a human body decomposes.

Assuming it WASN'T ... well, that's outside the scope of this

 

 

   It most likely decays like every other body.  The police would do an autopsy, probably find no cause of death if it was someone pulling the plug out of the redpill's head (unless pulling the plug results in brain damage that corresponds with a normal cause of death).  Then I guess it's up to the police to bury the body, cremate it, donate it to science, etc.