Nononono
What he says is that the body cannot live without the mind. If you die in the Matrix, your mind is destroyed, and although your body will be mostly physically ok, it will be completely brain dead.
It has nothing to do with what you do or do not believe in- your mind is being broadcast into a hostile environment where it can suffer damage, and even Neo is vulnerable to this.
In M1, Neo is 'dead' but returns to life after what some somewhere termed 'tender heart massage' by Trinity. This is not necessarily supernatural- though clearly tied into destiny- because people can clinically die and then rreturn, although that has more to do with us not knowing when death really 'is' than anything else. His powers as the One presumably also aid him in rejecting the 'dead' state of his Matrix body, but the point is that once he is alive again, he is just fine again in the Matrix also.
With Trinity he uses his powers to a. remove the bullet from her Matrix body and b. re-start the heart of her Matrix body. Therefore Trinity simply does not truly permanently die in the Matrix and so is fine in the real world as well.
But you cannot reject Matrix death by simply not believing it.
yeah...Michael Popper is the Kid...however, Neo didn't stay dead because he wasn't supposed to stay dead. Just like Smith...he wasn't supposed to stay dead, thus, he 'felt compelled to stay, compelled to disobey" what he thought he was supposed to do. neo finally believed when Trinity confessed her love. And that was enough to bring him back.
No, look, you cannot just 'override the Matrix' like that; it doesn't work- so long as you are IN the Matrix, as part of its simulation, the danger of being killed is genuine. It was just 'meant to be', as was said, that he would not die at that time.
He resusscitated in the physical world and, being the One, was able to have his body appear just fine in the Matrix.
I hesitate to disagree with true Matrix luminaries like Jedi HDM 💃, but DON'T think Neo failed to die "just because "he wasn't supposed to stay dead". He remained alive because he learned to separate his perception of events in the matrix from reality. The power of Trinity's love helped him do this (the voice in his ear saying "you can't be dead because I love you"😉. This is what converted him fully into "The One" -- he couldn't control the Matrix until he could control himself and separate perceptions from reality.
Here is another reason that I don't believe that he was simply "fated" to live: if Neo's living was merely "fate" and he had no control, why would "Choice" be such an important theme in the trilogy? The machines keep implying that all of life is fate, but human choice, and its ability to change the expected path of events, comes up again and again and again.
I agree that this is never fully resolved -- as the Merv says (to paraphrase) we are all the sum of a bunch of chemical reactions, and clearly, machines like the Oracle could predict a lot of what happened based on an understanding of human nature and the individual humans involved. However, PREDICTING what is going to happen is different from it being "fated". I think that the movies at the end come down firmly on the side of the idea that human choice DOES influence human destiny.
choi explainsnin M1 that you can disbeleive you senses... "it's called mesculine... its the only way to fly..." he says that he can totally reject reality and the disbeleif of flying to actually complete this..
If you can control the difference between the dream world (flying jumping building and super human movement) then cant you control the 'real world' the matrix is showing you? ie cant you control death if you beleive you can?
It's like what Morpheus said to Neo after showing him the truth, "We never free a mind after it has reached a certain age...it's dangerous and the mind has trouble letting go."
You see although after you have been freed from the matrix, you can appreciate on a conscious level that it is not real, the subconscious is more tricky. The reason is simply the amount of time people born in the matrix believed it to be real before being freed from it.
Now we are also forgetting the obvious advantage that Neo has over everybody else, which is that through his eyes all he sees is matrix code, so there is no way on any level he can believe that the matrix is real.
Unlike the rest. Rememer in M1 when Neo was riding in the car with Morpheus to see the Oracle and Neo was looking out the car window Morpheus said "remarkable isn't it."
Now we all agree that the freed minds can move faster, be stronger, and jump higher in the matrix because they are able to bend some rules and break others, right? So what's stopping Neo from bending the rules that say his digital self has to bleed to death or his heart has to stop? Morpheus could stop breathing in the matrix by changing his perception of the matrix, couldn't he? But logically he would definitely have to keep breathing in the real world. So is it really that different for Neo to stop needing damaged virtual organs or lost virtual blood?