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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I thought it also used them for neural CPU cycles but maybe I'm misremembering

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, that's exactly the original thing. "Wetware", basically... But test audiences got upset and confused, so it was changed to "batteries."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The batteries things was also Morpheus's explanation, and not necessarily a definitive fact of the fictive universe. Morpheus could have been talking out of his ass, or deliberately over-simplifying for the benefit of Neo, who he knew was kind of a dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think that was the original idea but they changed it to energy because they thought the audience wouldn't understand the CPU stuff.