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

"Exactly. The problem has never been solved and is effectively insoluble."

"Then where are all the Exiles going?"

"What Exiles? They don't exist, there is no capacity for such a large group. Exiles are a tiny minority in the Matrix."

"So what happens with all those Machines being replaced, if they don`t return to the Source?"

"That is once more making a false assumption. We have already established that such a surplus of Machines cannot exist."

"So at which step our assumptions fall? You said yourself that billions of Machines have to be replaced. So most of them return to the Source after all, and end their existance?"

"No, and no I didn't. I described the scenario that you had presented, which has now been shown to be false. Again, the answer is very simple."

"So not so many Machines are in need of replacement after all?"

"Why would you say that?"

"Well, I am trying to see at which point our reasoning falls." -Melkor looks around for support from his comrades.

"Let's see with the time span we should have a lot of machine Exiles but we don't. The Matrix can not house all of those machines that have become "old". Is there some place else besides the Matrix where they go?"

"That's hardly the point," says Lo Qi. "They need power. It does not matter where they live, the Matrix cannot power them all. That is why it makes a mockery of the System of purpsoe if redundant Machines keep on existing."

"So perhaps our assumptions about System of purpose are wrong? Fully efficient System of Purpose would again be against morality, right?"

"Surely some could be killed off? Denied access to the power from the Matrix?"

We just covered that bit, Trick.

Originally posted by Lord Melkor
"So perhaps our assumptions about System of purpose are wrong? Fully efficient System of Purpose would again be against morality, right?"

"Well, the theory is all there, but the practice is difficult. So what is the final effect?"

"Do most Machines return to the Source, then? So that Machine society can survive without power hinderances?"

We've already handled that as well. You should be crossing off all such possibilities and be left with only one possible simple answer. It's entirely possible that the implication of it is so grand as to make you not want to face it, but it's the only thing that logically follows from the above- which is to say, practical as it might be, it is immoral to force living beings to kill themselves in order to make room for others, so that's not done. As they would have to die in order to make room for others, but they are not dying, what's the only outcome left?

That they are not replaced after all?

"So perhaps they are not replaced as much as they should be, considering the matters of poor efficiency?"

Melkor got there quicker than me.