What Trinity intended was going against just about everything she normally did -- she normally wouldn't be as blatant as she was about to be, but again, the circumstances necessitated a deviation. She'd spoken with Morpheus on it for a while, and they both agreed much of it was unavoidable.
She moved further into the room, coming to a stop about midway in the same alert but relaxed position. "You might have started putting some of my hints together since we last talked," she began. "But I'll be as forward as I can." A true rarity, in her case.
"This world isn't Earth. Not as we see it. It's just a highly advanced computer program designed to simulate Earth in the 1990s -- what we call the Matrix. Most of the humans you see every day are unaware; they're tapped into the program at birth and they'll die without ever knowing the difference.
"You can probably understand my confusion when you said you weren't aware of it. As a program that incorporates billions of consciousnesses, including both humans and machines, it seemed highly unlikely that an AI system would be isolated within the Matrix's informational boundaries."
She paused there to let him take it in. It was a lot of information, and she wouldn't have told it half that quickly to any person -- but computers weren't people, and they could process much higher amounts of information, even unlikely ones, at considerably faster rates.
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Date: 2013-02-08 03:41 am (UTC)She moved further into the room, coming to a stop about midway in the same alert but relaxed position. "You might have started putting some of my hints together since we last talked," she began. "But I'll be as forward as I can." A true rarity, in her case.
"This world isn't Earth. Not as we see it. It's just a highly advanced computer program designed to simulate Earth in the 1990s -- what we call the Matrix. Most of the humans you see every day are unaware; they're tapped into the program at birth and they'll die without ever knowing the difference.
"You can probably understand my confusion when you said you weren't aware of it. As a program that incorporates billions of consciousnesses, including both humans and machines, it seemed highly unlikely that an AI system would be isolated within the Matrix's informational boundaries."
She paused there to let him take it in. It was a lot of information, and she wouldn't have told it half that quickly to any person -- but computers weren't people, and they could process much higher amounts of information, even unlikely ones, at considerably faster rates.