![]() And the operation would be "destructive" in that whichever option was selected would close off the other option. It was effectively a confirmation window with "OK" and "Cancel" buttons. Morpheus wasn't physically offering Neo two colored pills, but providing him with two mutually exclusive options in a purely logical sense. I think the woman in the red dress was another explicit example of this, but it's been a long time since I last watched it so I don't remember exactly. The spoon wasn't a spoon, but simply code that at that moment was rendering a spoon in the Matrix, but which he could modify for his own purpose. This non-thingness of everything in the Matrix was Neo's breakthrough when he realized there was no spoon. The logical object itself is not a square. ![]() ![]() If you say "But I see a square drawn on my screen", then I can modify that object so that it no longer draws a square. This is actually a very common point of confusion in real-world software as well: an object representing a square is not actually a square but a logical model of a square no matter how square-like it looks or behaves. The Matrix is a computer simulation, not physical reality. ![]()
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