Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:11:44 -0000, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Plausible. But then, why not just manipulate the laws of physics so the
>>> man goes flying without having to physically kick him? :-D (Or better
>>> yet, make it so all the oxygen in the room mysteriously vanishes...)
>>
>>   It sounds plausible also with the overly long jumps: They just can't
>> manipulate the system to transport them to the roof of the other 
>> building.
>> They have to trigger the physics simulation by making an actual jump, and
>> then just "nudge" it slightly to boost the jump.
> 
> Thanks you know that always kind of bugged me, why jump from building to 
> building when you could just 'tell' the Matrix that the co-ordinates 
> that represent your position as here are really there. As previously 
> mentioned the real answer is "Because it looks cooler to film", but as 
> internal logic goes your position makes sense.

The Matrix is not a film that can be rationally dissected IMO; it's all 
utter nonsense from beginning to end (why use humans as batteries? even 
if you do, why bother keeping their minds active with all that 
complicated VR? leave them vegetative!), albeit very exciting and 
stylish nonsense. When it comes to the extra abilities exhibited by the 
'free' humans in the Matrix, almost all explanations make a degree of 
sense. What bothers me is how limited the Agents are. If they can dodge 
bullets and hijack 'slaved' human avatars, it should be impossible to 
land a punch or even see them coming...

As for leaping buildings, I like to think that Morpheus and co simply 
don't know how to tell the Matrix to teleport them. With some effort and 
practice (and maybe augmenting their avatars prior to connection) they 
can perform some highly nifty feats sometimes verging on the superhuman, 
but only Neo with his more 'fundamental' mental connections with the 
Matrix can do the truly superhuman. And even he can't teleport. Ha! What 
a loser.

:-)

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