On Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 7:43:45 AM UTC-8, Richard Schultz wrote:
> I suppose that this post contains spoilers.
> As I understand it, in _The Matrix_, everything that people "experience"
> is actually a virtual reality created by the computers, and the "real"
> people are in pods and are somehow being used to power the computers.
> One would think that if the computers had actually figured out to
> circumvent the Second Law of Thermodynamics as implied by that "explanation,"
> they would have thought of something more clever as a way of generating power
> for themselves. For that matter, you'd think that given the constant
> problem of pesky humans figuring out how to escape the Matrix, the computers
> would just keep all of the people anesthetized, or lobotomize them, or come
> up with some way of dealing with them that didn't involve the creation of
> an artificial reality.
> But that's not my question.
> What I was wondering is: how do the real humans (the ones in the pods)
> reproduce? If a woman becomes pregnant in the virtual reality, her
> baby would not correspond to any real person (unless the only women who
> become pregnant in the virtual world are those who are pregnant in the
> real one -- see the previous question). If so, the virtual world would
> be populated by an increasing number of virtual people. At what point
> would the computers' memory capacity be exceeded? ("Core dumped --
> world destroyed")
> -----
> Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
> Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
> Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
> -----
> "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad."

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