Originally posted by flipped cracka
i'm just thinking about it from a coders view. just like the architect said they were getting exceedingly efficient at destroying zion, they could also get exceedingly better at writing the code of the matrix. he said he counted versions of the matrix from one emergence of an anomaly (neo) to the next. so i see it as everytime a neo came, the matrix was rewritten. maybe it was just in the past, because the first 5 neos went back to the source to do whatever they were supposed to do, and this neo didn't. but i've written a couple of programs, and rewritten them a few times, and each time i rewrote them, they got better. did the same thing, just with less flaws.
cliff notes. i agree that there is a flaw, and that flaw causes neo. but i'm also saying it's possible (maybe not probable) to get rid of the flaw while still maintaining the function of the matrix.
Ok I see what your getting at.
One problem with that is that the anomaly must continue....kind of like a backup program or in this case an antivirus program....just in case something does happen the program has to be there to pick up the slack and fix the error.
The machines were originally made by humans, they were given AI programmed by humans...since humans programmed the AI it was made with certain human characteristics such as a lust for power. If it hadn't then why would the machines have revolted in the first place?
This ever so slight imperfection has been honed and passed through generations of machine programming because the machines didn't see it as a flaw but rather as a necessity for self preservation.
The machines are very efficient and as said many times in Reloaded, "When a program faces deletion it will generally go into hiding." This proves that self preservation at any cost neccesary is an inherent design of the system.