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<description>&lt;cite&gt;CrimsonKiller01 wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I see alot of recon missions at about 3am to the local grocery for ice cream and pickles (chuckles)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:: Laughs:: Or raisins and chunky&amp;nbsp;peanut butter. I had another co-worker who had cravings for raisins mixed in chunky peanut butter when she was expecting.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:49:36 GMT</pubDate>
<author>MatrixRefugee</author>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#39;m sorry, it&amp;#39;s late and I&amp;#39;ve skipped a couple of pages, so if I&amp;#39;ve repeated a point that&amp;#39;s already been made, feel free to slap me, this is just too interesting not to comment on.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#39;t help but wonder how effective an EJP would be while pregnant, after all, it&amp;#39;s designed to activate the moment a person would die within the simulation. Would it have to be altered to help protect the child as well? I think that it would be a major issue for any mother to be as a child&amp;#39;s development in a very delicate process, and so any damage could be critical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also,&amp;nbsp;as a point of interest,&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;#39;t believe that it&amp;#39;s possible to become pregnant in the real after intercourse within the simulation, I used to believe it was possible, but now that&amp;nbsp;I think about it, wasn&amp;#39;t Persephone&amp;#39;s original purpose to stimulate the human reproductive organs? It was a while ago, but I believe something was said about needing to take the two.. we&amp;#39;ll say &amp;quot;componants,&amp;quot; required, and mix them in a seperate location. This would imply that when the event takes place in the situation the placibo effect is not strong enough to &lt;i&gt;actually &lt;/i&gt;make someone pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mind may very well try to &amp;quot;make it real,&amp;quot; but if it&amp;#39;s too much effort for a human with complete faith in the reality of the simulation to actually become pregnant on her own, then no ammount of mental dicipline would be able to help someone who has had the truth revealed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:42:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>The real child wouldn&amp;#39;t be jacked in so wouldn&amp;#39;t need the benefit of an EJP, however... the issue of the woman&amp;#39;s body reacting under the physical stresses that happen under an EJP situation, may very well be damaging to the real child. Hence the reason why any reasonable Captain, Faction, Organisation would have, or would make, rules for the situation probably restricting missions and activities to non-potentially hostile situations or just prohibiting access completely.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:55:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;Ben1991 wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#39;m sorry, it&amp;#39;s late and I&amp;#39;ve skipped a couple of pages, so if I&amp;#39;ve repeated a point that&amp;#39;s already been made, feel free to slap me, this is just too interesting not to comment on.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#39;t help but wonder how effective an EJP would be while pregnant, after all, it&amp;#39;s designed to activate the moment a person would die within the simulation. Would it have to be altered to help protect the child as well? I think that it would be a major issue for any mother to be as a child&amp;#39;s development in a very delicate process, and so any damage could be critical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339900;&quot;&gt;I doubt it would affect the baby much, since the wee one&amp;#39;s nervous system is independant of the mother&amp;#39;s and thus, it wouldn&amp;#39;t have to be tinkered with to protect the child. If the mom&amp;#39;s okay, the baby will be as well, most likely.&amp;nbsp;However, since the baby shares the mother&amp;#39;s bloodstream, increased adrenalin levels due to stress, etc. will probably affect the baby somehow. I&amp;#39;m still researching this and pursuing every angle possible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also,&amp;nbsp;as a point of interest,&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;#39;t believe that it&amp;#39;s possible to become pregnant in the real after intercourse within the simulation, I used to believe it was possible, but now that&amp;nbsp;I think about it, wasn&amp;#39;t Persephone&amp;#39;s original purpose to stimulate the human reproductive organs? It was a while ago, but I believe something was said about needing to take the two.. we&amp;#39;ll say &amp;quot;componants,&amp;quot; required, and mix them in a seperate location. This would imply that when the event takes place in the situation the placibo effect is not strong enough to &lt;i&gt;actually &lt;/i&gt;make someone pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339900;&quot;&gt;Mm, this was discussed a little bit a couple pages back, and the matter of&amp;nbsp;how the Machines keep their crops going&amp;nbsp;was a major component of the Merv missions for... 8.2, if I remember correctly, but it&amp;#39;s worth bringing up and I welcome your take on it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mind may very well try to &amp;quot;make it real,&amp;quot; but if it&amp;#39;s too much effort for a human with complete faith in the reality of the simulation to actually become pregnant on her own, then no ammount of mental dicipline would be able to help someone who has had the truth revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339900;&quot;&gt;Oh, I don&amp;#39;t doubt the Machines wouldn&amp;#39;t allow for this sort of thing to happen in a Bluepill, since it just wouldn&amp;#39;t be efficient.&amp;nbsp;There again, there *is* a rare&amp;nbsp;real-world condition known as false pregnancy, where a woman&amp;#39;s body -- usually due to a hormone imbalance or the woman is so dead set on having a baby that her brain tricks her body into thinking its pregnant -- will mimic some of the &amp;quot;symptoms&amp;quot; of pregnancy: menstrual cycle goes on &amp;quot;pause&amp;quot;, mood swings, morning sickness, wonky hormones; there&amp;#39;s a few rare cases where they&amp;#39;ve even gained weight, especially around the middle. Of course, there isn&amp;#39;t a baby growing inside her, but this is close to what I think you have in mind, and it could be construed as a real-world example of your mind making something real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:13:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Below are random thoughts I had about &amp;quot;Where do pod babies come from.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have always randomly thought, dunno if its the case, but intercourse in the simulation could call certain programs, maybe one that reads a random amount of DNA from the male, and sends it for injection to the female in form of a virus. (After a random generator calculates &amp;quot;the odds&amp;quot;&lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt;&quot; /&gt;. The body can produce odd cancer cells, so why can&amp;#39;t a subliminal program be downloaded (containing the DNA) to the female to make a real bio virus that modifies the egg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also another thought, is that I doubt a person defecates in their own pod, and there are &amp;quot;collectors&amp;quot; on them. Its possible a program could monitor when a woman is menstruating or a guy is ejaculating, and the collector saves the various organic matter. The organic matter could be sent to the fields to grow multiple newborns, or combined for conception between the two adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are born with all the eggs they&amp;#39;ll ever have if I recall.&amp;nbsp; The eggs could also be stored and fertilized later by the *CENSORED* collected from the male, making it random.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus ends my crazy random ideas. </description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Just looking at Neo&amp;#39;s state when freed from his pod, I doubt that bluepills still in their pods would be able to successfully carry babies, as it would be far less efficient than harvesting eggs and sperm and growing the child in their own pod (which would act like an artificial womb). It doesn&amp;#39;t make sense for the machines to possess the technology to hack human brains directly, yet be unable to surgically remove their reproductive materials.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Intercourse in the Matrix would NOT make someone pregnant in the Real - there&amp;#39;s simply a lack of needed genetic information being exchanged. Just because you have access to a digital form of the data does not mean that your body can replicate something it could never naturally produce in the first place - two &amp;quot;Real&amp;quot; people are needed to have a &amp;quot;Real&amp;quot; child.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My guess is that normally, when a couple conceives a child in the Matrix, the machines harvest their genetic material from their pods and create a child, which is then &amp;quot;born&amp;quot; to them in the Matrix. This would account for the facts that people&amp;#39;s RSIs look like themselves, and children look like their parents - the child&amp;#39;s genetic information MUST come from the two parents (barring extraordinary cases where the Machines get the process mixed up and the &amp;#39;wrong&amp;#39; child is born with a different identity - which I believe happened in one of the comics).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the case of redpill parents, if one has an absolute belief in being pregnant, without the ability to &amp;#39;donate&amp;#39; genetic material to the Machines, it is possible that the System might do what it does best, and adapt to account for the inconsistency - in this case, a child would be digitally created from the material of the parents, yet would not have a corresponding form in the Real - in essence, the child would be a Machine program created with the purpose of keeping the System running smoothly. This is, however, a bit of a stretch, as it would be far more efficient simply to simulate a failed pregnancy even in the most extreme cases - and usually simply to convince the &amp;#39;mother&amp;#39; that they are not pregnant at all - not all intercourse results in pregnancy, after all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The best way for redpills to become pregnant would be to have real sex with your real partner, in the Real.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... And now I&amp;#39;m stuck picturing Keanu Reeves&amp;#39; naked backside during that &amp;#39;Rave&amp;#39; scene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... And now you all are, too. };-&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Void&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;EndlessVoid wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;It doesn&amp;#39;t make sense for the machines to possess the technology to hack human brains directly, yet be unable to surgically remove their reproductive materials. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I remember correctly, this was Persophone&amp;#39;s purpose when she was a machine program, no? She stimulated sexual desires in humans, and then sent their sperm/egg samples from their pods to be &amp;quot;grown&amp;quot; in the feilds and eventually placed in a pod of their own... I think.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:03:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;Tosuno wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;EndlessVoid wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;It doesn&amp;#39;t make sense for the machines to possess the technology to hack human brains directly, yet be unable to surgically remove their reproductive materials. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I remember correctly, this was Persophone&amp;#39;s purpose when she was a machine program, no? She stimulated sexual desires in humans, and then sent their sperm/egg samples from their pods to be &amp;quot;grown&amp;quot; in the feilds and eventually placed in a pod of their own... I think.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mmm, medically, we&amp;#39;ve pretty much figured out everything we could most likely know about how reproduction works (sperm cells were discovered by Anton von Leywenhoeuck, the inventor of the first microscope in the 1600s; the ovum wasn&amp;#39;t properly identified until the late 1800s but, well, those *are* a lot harder to obtain a sample of, we&amp;#39;ll say...), but our own brains and how those work still mystify us, though by all accounts, we&amp;#39;re coming a long way with that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If my embryo fission theory and the&amp;nbsp;possibility that the Machines collect zygotes from the coppertops from the time they sexually mature&amp;nbsp;are correct, it&amp;#39;s very possible that some Redpills who were awakened post-puberty might have offspring out there in the fields somewhere. No, don&amp;#39;t worry, I won&amp;#39;t be tagging anyone for child support. It&amp;#39;s probably next to impossible to figure out who came from where at this point, though the Machines might keep a log on the best genetic lines they&amp;#39;ve run across. Who knows? That one guy or gal who drives you up the wall the most might just be the other parent to your offspring...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This might also explain miscarriage and/or sudden infant death syndrome among coppertops (since the world inside the Matrix mirrors the world of 1999, with all its flaws and good qualities, these problems would probably happen); could be something went wrong when the Machine was inserting a child into a pod/some desperate Redpill woman swiped a child off a fetal stalk/the kid just didn&amp;#39;t meet&amp;nbsp;Machine standards,&amp;nbsp;etc. Or for that matter, maybe a Bluepill who chooses to have an abortion isn&amp;#39;t fully choosing to do so, but the Machines detected something wrong with the fetus they selected and they&amp;#39;re convincing her this is the right thing to do because they&amp;#39;re terminating a weak fetus that isn&amp;#39;t likely to produce the most energy for them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow, this wound up being a deeper question than I initially thought! One year later, we&amp;#39;re still discussing it, and the more we talk about it, the more ideas present themselves.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:31:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>I wonder though why the machines would allow the creation of a handicapped person being born since they wouldn&amp;#39;t fulfill their&amp;nbsp; concept of what is &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know i think i just answered my own question, i could see the Machines allowing the birth of a handicapped person even though it wouldn&amp;#39;t be optimal because it would just add to the illusion of reality. If everyone was walking around in perfect health, no deficiencies people would start to notice that. probably one of the things that happened with the first Matrix. &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;CrimsonKiller01 wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I wonder though why the machines would allow the creation of a handicapped person being born since they wouldn&amp;#39;t fulfill their&amp;nbsp; concept of what is &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know i think i just answered my own question, i could see the Machines allowing the birth of a handicapped person even though it wouldn&amp;#39;t be optimal because it would just add to the illusion of reality. If everyone was walking around in perfect health, no deficiencies people would start to notice that. probably one of the things that happened with the first Matrix. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;True... but would a person whose mind or RSI are handicapped in some way have the same handicap in their physical body? I guess that&amp;#39;s a topic for a whole other discussion (and one that&amp;#39;s close to my mind and heart since I&amp;#39;m disabled myself), but I imagine that the Machines would use only the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; humans &amp;nbsp;or at least the ones with the fewest flaw as batteries, then edit some disability or quirk&amp;nbsp;into their RSI to keep things from being too perfect for them.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:17:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;MatrixRefugee wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;CrimsonKiller01 wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I wonder though why the machines would allow the creation of a handicapped person being born since they wouldn&amp;#39;t fulfill their&amp;nbsp; concept of what is &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know i think i just answered my own question, i could see the Machines allowing the birth of a handicapped person even though it wouldn&amp;#39;t be optimal because it would just add to the illusion of reality. If everyone was walking around in perfect health, no deficiencies people would start to notice that. probably one of the things that happened with the first Matrix. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;True... but would a person whose mind or RSI are handicapped in some way have the same handicap in their physical body? I guess that&amp;#39;s a topic for a whole other discussion (and one that&amp;#39;s close to my mind and heart since I&amp;#39;m disabled myself), but I imagine that the Machines would use only the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; humans &amp;nbsp;or at least the ones with the fewest flaw as batteries, then edit some disability or quirk&amp;nbsp;into their RSI to keep things from being too perfect for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I thought of this a while back and you answered in along the same lines as I did.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:25:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;Vinia wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;MatrixRefugee wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;CrimsonKiller01 wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I wonder though why the machines would allow the creation of a handicapped person being born since they wouldn&amp;#39;t fulfill their&amp;nbsp; concept of what is &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know i think i just answered my own question, i could see the Machines allowing the birth of a handicapped person even though it wouldn&amp;#39;t be optimal because it would just add to the illusion of reality. If everyone was walking around in perfect health, no deficiencies people would start to notice that. probably one of the things that happened with the first Matrix. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;True... but would a person whose mind or RSI are handicapped in some way have the same handicap in their physical body? I guess that&amp;#39;s a topic for a whole other discussion (and one that&amp;#39;s close to my mind and heart since I&amp;#39;m disabled myself), but I imagine that the Machines would use only the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; humans &amp;nbsp;or at least the ones with the fewest flaw as batteries, then edit some disability or quirk&amp;nbsp;into their RSI to keep things from being too perfect for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I thought of this a while back and you answered in along the same lines as I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Whoops, I guess the discussion is getting a bit dragged out when one of us starts to repeat themself.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:00:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Honestly I think the pod version of the human would be handicapped as well. Only reasoning I could give is that the human race by design is imperfect. Sure the Machines could detect the genetic flaw but I believe the Machines would weigh the facts. After all, The Machine&amp;#39;s main purpose for the humans is to use them as energy. At the same time they have to use any means to make the Matrix look as real as possible. I think it was Agent Smith that said &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;But I believe, that as a species, human &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;beings define their reality though misery and suffering.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>You make a good point, but I don&amp;#39;t see the Machines not perfecting a technique which would allow for large flaws to be prevented. After all they have had years to grow the Babies and learn. Certainly weighing it up, minor flaws would present negligible effects upon the system of pods and the welfare of the system and it would be a waste of resources to simply get rid of the child. However if the handicap of the Child had to potential to severely limit the functions in the pods the the extra cost of sustaining that child through its life may cost more than simply starting over.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>I get what your saying! You know in essence if we follow that thinking it can be said that he Machines could actually &amp;quot;map out&amp;quot; a person&amp;#39;s potential just by looking at his or her DNA. Let&amp;#39;s say the person&amp;#39;s DNA shows a 90% probability that he or she would be born deaf. The Machines weigh in that with the potential of how much energy the human will produce in his or her lifetime and probably be able to calculate the life expectancy of that human&amp;nbsp; (well&amp;nbsp; if the human doesn&amp;#39;t get killed or possessed by an Agent that is&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt; ) . I understand that you mean that if the red pill version of human with lets say blindness doesn&amp;#39;t mean that the pod version of the human would be blind as well. In that I think you may be on to something. maybe the machines just care that the human in the pod is producing its energy allotment and all other concerns are negligible. I was also reading in that other website (I forgot which one it was but it spoke alot about the theories of the Matrix) where the human in the pod also doubled as &amp;quot;memory storage&amp;quot; for the Machines. So I guess its kind of a Catch-22 when it comes to the overall health and well being of the ones in the pods versus the ones in the Matrix. &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:44:58 GMT</pubDate>
<author>CrimsonKiller01</author>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;EndlessVoid wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Just looking at Neo&amp;#39;s state when freed from his pod, I doubt that bluepills still in their pods would be able to successfully carry babies, as it would be far less efficient than harvesting eggs and sperm and growing the child in their own pod (which would act like an artificial womb). It doesn&amp;#39;t make sense for the machines to possess the technology to hack human brains directly, yet be unable to surgically remove their reproductive materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My guess is that normally, when a couple conceives a child in the Matrix, the machines harvest their genetic material from their pods and create a child, which is then &amp;quot;born&amp;quot; to them in the Matrix. This would account for the facts that people&amp;#39;s RSIs look like themselves, and children look like their parents - the child&amp;#39;s genetic information MUST come from the two parents (barring extraordinary cases where the Machines get the process mixed up and the &amp;#39;wrong&amp;#39; child is born with a different identity - which I believe happened in one of the comics).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The best way for redpills to become pregnant would be to have real sex with your real partner, in the Real.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... And now I&amp;#39;m stuck picturing Keanu Reeves&amp;#39; naked backside during that &amp;#39;Rave&amp;#39; scene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... And now you all are, too. };-&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Void&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That would be interesting to see - a virtual pregnancy producing new code in the simulation with no corresponding &amp;quot;hardware&amp;quot; (body) in the Real. Who knows, this could be the key to coming up with some new kind of &amp;quot;truce&amp;quot; or understanding between Human and Machine - a program born of human in the machine virtual world - it would almost be the best of both worlds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I&amp;#39;m just being hopelessly optimistic and the end result would be some abortive horrible rampant code that would create massive problems for the simulation.&amp;nbsp; We&amp;#39;ll never see it unless some scriptwriter thinks the idea has merit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, *CENSORED* you. *CENSORED* you and keanu reeve&amp;#39;s skinny white *CENSORED*. I hate you both. &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Maybe we can see about getting an &amp;quot;infant&amp;quot; luggable that makes your RSI appear to be carrying a bundle of joy. It can give a 15% boost to the Extra Baggage trait and we can simulate scenes from Willow or pretend that it&amp;#39;s Moses.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;Zerotolerance wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Maybe we can see about getting an &amp;quot;infant&amp;quot; luggable that makes your RSI appear to be carrying a bundle of joy. It can give a 15% boost to the Extra Baggage trait and we can simulate scenes from Willow or pretend that it&amp;#39;s Moses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:: Laughs out loud:: Clever idea, though! I rather like it, kinda. :: Giggles::&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And Void, the mental images you have caused in my brain&amp;nbsp;are further proof that you are much more evil than two other guys on Recursion put together, but who will remain nameless, though like the guy in that Carly Simon song, they&amp;#39;re so vain they probably think this post is about them.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>How many people in wheelchairs, or with any disability at all, did you see in The Matrix movies? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hint hint... &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:32:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;cite&gt;Marias wrote:&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;How many people in wheelchairs, or with any disability at all, did you see in The Matrix movies? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hint hint... &lt;img src=&quot;/mxo/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;SMILEY;)&quot; width=&quot;15&quot; height=&quot;15&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;d have to rewatch them and pay attention to crowd scenes and background actors, but off the top of my head, I can think of the blind guy sitting outside the Oracle&amp;#39;s apartment, whom Morpheus nods to... and who replies with a nod. Hm...</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:51:06 GMT</pubDate>
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