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Originally Posted by soundtest
I'm not gonna pretend I paid anywhere near the attention some of you guys did to this movie, but I read all of this and found it very interesting. But I have a question that has been bugging me for awhile and maybe one of you guys could answer it:
If the whole purpose of the machines is to use humans for energy, then why exactly is the 'matrix' necessary? Could they not simply extract the same energy from comatose humans?
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Soundtest, the only electrical system in the body is the nervous system. Your senses are all the result of electrical firings and synapses of your nerves. Wouldn't it make sense to keep the nervous system as active as possible to extract the peak amount of energy?