USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (PHILOSOPHY)- 'The Door'

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Ok then.

"So," says Lo Qi. as the stick-figure King destroys all the other stick figures.

"The war was won... with a single complication." He draws a long, circular line around the whole scene.

"No more sun. No more light. No more power. So. What happened next?"

"Oracle didn`t speak in such details regarding Sennacherib."- Melkor corrects Berserker. "And regarding your current question, most Machines lacked energy source to survive."

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"Well then the machines found themselves in quite a pickle. They needed us to help power them. The King though wanted to destroy us all which he was turned down."

Originally posted by Lord Melkor
"Oracle didn`t speak in such details regarding Sennacherib."

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"Quite a dilemma, the System found itself in. So what happened and why?"

"Well they turned us into batteries so they could continue to grow and advance? Although I'm pretty sure the King wasn't to happy about having having his total victory taken from him?"

"You are skipping to the end of the story there."

"They created the Matrix to house our conscious minds, so we wouldn't resist."

"One step at a time. What happened first?"

"They exiled the King?"

"No, even that is skipping events. I have taken you up to the moment where the war is won, but the sky is lost. We are looking for the moment of choice."

"They had to choose between following the King and annihilating all of mankind, or choosing to let them as batteries?"

"Ahh yes. Sennacherib- before he was so known, then he was just the General- advoates genocide, the only way to truly win the war. The alternative idea is to spare the Humans to use them as a new power source, requiring the Matrix.

"Consider that carefully. This is a meeting of many issues. Many indeed."

"And they decided to go against the General, creating the Matrix and using humans as living batteries. When the time came to delete him, he escaped and became an Exile in the Matrix."

"Those are the facts. But what can you learn from all this?"

"I believe that the Oracle mentioned that, one, Sennacherib is a very powerful Machine, and two, that the System would side with him when it came down to it, despite their obvious difference in opinions. That, and he's surrounded by an Army of Sentinels at all times..."

"You're comparing this to the current situation with the Virus, are you not?" Klez asks. "Victory requires genocide."

"Well so far it seems like machines are always faced with the same two choices?"

"I think we should seperate two issues here- whether the genocide can be justified at all, and what was the most effective solution for Machine Society. I think that for Machines it was the matter of survival- they didn`t want most of their kind to be destroyed, and believed that the remaining humans wil not threaten the existance of their society. But Sennacherib believed that as long as humans survive, the potential threat to Machine society will exist. Perhaps the decision of humans to scorch the sky convinced Sennacherib that they will always remain the threat, as it was something he could not predict in all his greatness."