Neo's 'Freak Accident'

**ShiXinFeng** · 02/19/2007 12:06:55

PK brought up a good point in this thread about Neo waking up in the Mobile Ave train station.

What if it wasn't an accident? What if his counciousness was unceremoniously 'booted' there when he tried to reach the Source in the Real?

I'm thinking this way since the train station is obviously beyond the Matrix, and is also somehow connected to the Machine Mainframe (where all there programs are stored).

Further down this line of reasoning, wouldn't said conciousness manifest itself in the simulation as an RSI? Could that have been the reason that Link couldn't see him?

**zeroone506**

I don't think it was an accident, I think it was an effect of certain causes SMILEY

As I already suggested in that thread, I think the Mobil Ave is the Trainman's hidden, secured buffer construct in the simulation's software.

I assume a Machine somehow finds a terminal to transfer itself into the Matrix (there are many terminals on earth that lead to different places of virtuality, but we don't know much about that), but instead it gets into the mobil avenue and has to wait for the Frenchman's permission. Programs also can't leave the Matrix and go back to the Real without his or the Trainman's permission.

So, what did Neo do at that moment? I suppose he used his (electromagnetic?) connection with the Source which again was in control of the Sentinels, and initiated a destruction command from there.
So, his digital equivalent of "consciousness", or his RSI (I don't believe the topic of redpills' mechanical brain structure has ever been dealt with anywhere) was transferred to the Source this way, because he hadn't learned to control this ability yet.

The question is how he got to the Mobil Ave instead of the "Source" - according to the General's spokesman's quoted statement, there are numerous terminals that lead to the Matrix, to the Source etc., so apparently, only certain ways into the Matrix lead to the Mobil Ave buffer (probably those accessible or known to an average Machine), and it's not understandable why this special way still led to it.

I'm afraid this is a question of the technical structure of the simulation software, its hardware, the Real, its connection to the simulation servers, the way the Sentinels work and so on, that the story hasn't answered yet, rather than philosophy, and we're just left with theories on how it might work.

Maybe potential Exiles transfer themselves electromagnetically, not only directly being connected to the Source but also to the Matrix, and that's the way they get caught in the Mobil Ave; in this sense, it would be suggesting how Neo got there.

I think the operator couldn't find Neo just like Link couldn't find anybody when they were in the white hallways - those areas simply weren't viewable, probably because the signal didn't cover other constructs or servers.

They were able to jack Neo out after he was freed somehow, so I don't agree with your suggestion. I don't think "consciousness" is manifested as an RSI in the Matrix, because the Matrix is a computer program, and what ever looks like a human body there looks like that because it's coded to look like one.
I suppose all this information, the appearence and abilities, are all saved on some implanted mini computer, or chip in the brain. There must be something the metallic plug leads to, I don't believe it's just the bare brain mass.

This is my opinion I guess, but I don't believe in anything "spiritual" in the Matrix - Morpheus used to express himself philosophically, but I suppose there is some logical explanation in the code why conviction and "belief" can bend the rules of the Matrix. It's generated in the brain, transferred to the implanted computer, then is broadcasted into the Matrix where it somehow hacks the Matrix and allows to disable rules; equally, an RSI in the Matrix isn't just bare "consciousness", it's a computer program.

Sorry for the long and all too general answer, but somehow I couldn't stop myself.