Matrix Discussion

[HD_Morpheus]

well, i just say from a scientific view. geothermal doesnt require you to feed the earth, and humans do have feeding needs, even without movement.

a bigger question would be "why the need to think out of the box?". as you can read on articles, the real AI is not only being self-aware, but able to emulate the human mind and learn by it own ways (semiout of the box).

So machines (with AI) can just do the same way we do. also, with an unlimited (well big numbers) of brains to open (no ethic being machine), you could reverse the phisical brain functions fully. no soul but can get anything doable. And indeed, they can keep track of known results and differences bettern than we do. A simple programming algorithm could show you how to stimulate neurons from a basic one to the full pack and getting all the possibilities. If you add big number of specimens to examine, plus concurrent machines doing it... wont take much longer.

So given the amount of years passed (from 199x, or 20th century, whatever), they just keep them for some reason, but learning... meh.

i see one reason: the objective. machines/sofware had the original parameters and no humans means no fighting/serving/observing = no objective. so if there's no objective, the machines have no purpose, hence they would stop "living". so we are just like a zoo .