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subsystem2015-08-27 03:34 pm
rathercommon) wrote in subsystem2015-08-27 03:34 pm
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[ Kitty's voice is cheerful, girlish, and energetic. She hasn't been around lately: the effects of getting out the warning about the invasion of Olympus had intense physical effects on her, and a long period of unconsciousness has been followed by a period of working hard to recover from that physical weakness. So this post's chipperness is partially motivated by the fact that Kitty's persona/alias Lizzie is just a chipper person, and it's partially motivated by the fact that Kitty wants to prove to herself that she's recovered and in good health and spirits. So...Honestly, that energy is frankly bordering on manic. ]
Hullo, Zion! Or at least the network-users of Zion. It's Lizzie again.
A few things. The first of these things, I think, is going to make some of you quite happy. I expect a lot of you remember the restaurant I work at - Cafe Modak - it's the one with the best food in the whole city, so you might have heard of it. If you pay attention to those sorts of things. Anyway, Chef and Mrs Dutt - that's our owner - are putting together a little celebration dinner, for the people who helped defend Olympus. And also when I say little celebration dinner, I actually mean that it's going to basically be a feast. Everyone's invited, but people who helped out get to eat free. So if you've got any dishes to request, just request them here, and I'll pass it along to the two of them.
Anyway, the second thing is that we really don't all know each other so well, do we? I mean, we do all use this, but I hardly know any of your names. Or anything about you. So we ought to play one of those silly games like they make you do, to get comfortable with the people around you. So...How about we play a few rounds of two truths and a lie? If you all know that game. Or you could do a little introduction speech. Or just talk about your favorite sims, if you do sims.
[ Translation: let me pick your brains and figure out what sorts of people you are. ]
Hullo, Zion! Or at least the network-users of Zion. It's Lizzie again.
A few things. The first of these things, I think, is going to make some of you quite happy. I expect a lot of you remember the restaurant I work at - Cafe Modak - it's the one with the best food in the whole city, so you might have heard of it. If you pay attention to those sorts of things. Anyway, Chef and Mrs Dutt - that's our owner - are putting together a little celebration dinner, for the people who helped defend Olympus. And also when I say little celebration dinner, I actually mean that it's going to basically be a feast. Everyone's invited, but people who helped out get to eat free. So if you've got any dishes to request, just request them here, and I'll pass it along to the two of them.
Anyway, the second thing is that we really don't all know each other so well, do we? I mean, we do all use this, but I hardly know any of your names. Or anything about you. So we ought to play one of those silly games like they make you do, to get comfortable with the people around you. So...How about we play a few rounds of two truths and a lie? If you all know that game. Or you could do a little introduction speech. Or just talk about your favorite sims, if you do sims.
[ Translation: let me pick your brains and figure out what sorts of people you are. ]
voice.
We're not just jugs to be filled; the mind is an incredibly complex machine, and 'downloading information' into it ... it makes sense that it would rely on assistance that we can receive when our minds are directly connected to another machine, leaving us with an advantage when we leave, but an imperfect one. The matrix is a machine. The way we connect to it is through a machine.
We aren't. We don't function the same way or absorb information in the same way. I imagine it protects against overstimulation and the possibility of being simply overwhelmed to the point of becoming a dribbling idiot full of things we can no longer coherently function well enough to use.
voice.
What, so, like...You think that being in the Matrix actually...changes the way our brains work?
voice.
The things that we can do when we're connected to machines are related to specific aptitudes that we each have, but ultimately we are human beings, with all the physical and psychological limitations that that entails. When we are connected in that way, we are part of something that is able to surpass those limitations, temporarily enabling us to also do so.
But it doesn't change what we are, or how we work. And that's why, when we're unplugged, we don't retain the information and experiences in the same way as we do when plugged in. There is a reason why operatives train for combat in the real, as well - what their minds know in the matrix means nothing to the muscle memory and physical requirements that can only be achieved by actually achieving them. And that's a benefit to them, when they're working. More than the other way around.
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