MATRIX WARRIOR

and eventually disappear altogether. Long before they attain this lucid state of internal
silence, however, matrix warriors must practise diligently, every moment of their lives,
discriminating between their thought-responses, in order to isolate the inner voice. Basically,
once they have rejected every last one of the false thoughts of the matrix mind, whatever
impulse or intuition is left is the one they can trust in. Accordingly, it is the one they act upon.
In other words, the only appropriate action in any given moment for the matrix warrior is the
unthinkable action, the one that arises from the silent emptiness, behind and beyond all the
senseless chatter of the matrix data-feed.
Thus, it is a truism to say that matrix warriors are impeccable because they are irrational, and
because they dare to do the unthinkable: to act without prior thought or motive.
By continuing to act in this non-rational, spontaneous manner, the matrix warrior constantly
confounds the program. The matrix is unable to assimilate the warrior's choices or to respond
adequately to them, just as a sane person cannot hold a conversation with a madman without
losing the thread. And so, little by little, the matrix begins to lose sight of the warriors, to
loosen its hold on them, and the warriors in turn become progressively freer to heed their
inner voices and to act spontaneously. Yet, so long as they remain within the matrix, the
warriors remain caught up by their fate. They cannot change the components of their lives,
nor in any radical fashion the events and circumstances that shape them. What they can do,
however, is to refine their responses to events, and so alter the manner in which they occur.
In this way, by accepting their fate, matrix warriors are able to accelerate the program, as it
were, and move through the programmed events in a faster, more economical and
empowering manner. And after a time (most especially once they connect to the 2nd
attention sorcerers in the real world), they are even able to see their fates, laid out before
them like a map or a blueprint. They can then work within the matrix, without ever being
restricted by it. By this time, however, our matrix warriors have unplugged and become acting
sorcerers. They have tapped their will.
With great power comes great responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond, and this
is the only freedom warrior/sorcerers can ever have within the matrix: the power to respond
freely to whatever comes their way. Through such a power, the warrior/sorcerers begin to
transform their world. The matrix turns gradually from torture chamber to amusement park.
Seeing as the matrix program is hardwired to warriors' own unconscious will, the fate which
AI has assembled for them consists of elements drawn from their sleeping minds, elements
that must accordingly fit their particular needs as individuals. Even though the matrix has
shaped their personalities from birth, it stands to reason that, since AI cannot actually create
anything (lacking the imagination to do so), but only shape and mould what already exists,
each individual's life-plan, their fate, is actually assembled only partially in advance, and
largely through the process of being 'lived' (i.e., dreamed). The matrix provides a nearly
infinite series of choices, and individuals, from birth onward, select which ones best meet
their needs; these 'choices' in turn give rise to the events and circumstances of their lives. So
although AI may be able to foresee every last one of the countless possible 'fates' for any
given individual, it cannot know which precise fate will be realized. Logically, the longer
humatons remain within the matrix (the longer they are plugged in) and the more rigidly they
keep to its dictates, the easier it becomes to predict their fate, to the point that most
humatons, by the time they reach adulthood, have their lives all mapped out, preordained.
The only possibility of breaking out the pattern, then, is via intervention from the matrix
sorcerers coming from left of field, from outside the matrix program. In just such a way,
Morpheus intervenes in the life of Thomas, to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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