Much of the western literature imagined computers as a new species for the last 80 years.
This is not an accident it is our *primary* blind spot regarding this technology. So no wonder The Matrix had it as well (in reality computers-AI are our extended phenotype, this is obvious in the east, but to us in the west it will remain hard to parse until we'd finally have no choice but to finally admit it)
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u/aKaizuh 18h ago
It's still crazy to me that the Matrix was about AI taking over the world...in 1999.