What are the rules of the Matrix?

[Kesh]

Agents' bodies can be deactivated through severe damage, but they do not seem to actually be injured. You never see Smith bleeding, nor does blood come out of the agent who fell prey to "dodge this," and by all rights, Smiths #103 to #217 should've had fractured skulls from that fight.

I'll have to look again, but I'm pretty sure there's a fine, red mist coming out of his head when he's shot. Just no bleeding in the body when it hits the ground.

 

[Welverin]

- You do not need an operator to enter and exit the Matrix.

Not sure where, but I recall reading that he was setting up/creating a program to take care of that stuff when Neo walked in on him (the scene where he offered Neo the alcohol).

 

[Gargoyle]

Not sure where, but I recall reading that he was setting up/creating a program to take care of that stuff when Neo walked in on him (the scene where he offered Neo the alcohol).

That would certainly explain his reaction to Neo walking in, and turning off the monitors.

 

[BryonD]

The butterfly effect obviously does not exist.

While variations in Neo appear to be of fundamental significance, the rest of the matrix does not vary, down to knocking a vase off a shelf. The oracle can see something happen the first time, tell them it will happen on the next pass, but it still happens.

 

[Someone]

some more:

There´s little difference, or none at all, between human minds and AIs. Human minds can be programmed and infected by virus programs.

CPR works in Matrix; I´m pretty sure it does not in real world when the mind dies while plugged, since there are not defibrilators (sp?) in the ships.

If you fly at supersonic speed and catch someone who´s in mid air, neither of you take any damage.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm reading how you get the guns and Trinity's motorcycle a little differently than some people, it seems.

I thought that the guns are a download/patch sort of thing, whereby you run a 'gun shop' program. You then take those 'guns' from the Construct into the Matrix. They are programs that work like real guns in the Matrix, therefore, you are now armed.

Same with the bike. Trinity gets a bike program from the Zion mainframe, and takes it with her when she is uploaded to the Matrix.

 

[Welverin]

I thought that the guns are a download/patch sort of thing, whereby you run a 'gun shop' program. You then take those 'guns' from the Construct into the Matrix. They are programs that work like real guns in the Matrix, therefore, you are now armed.

You're not alone in that, it's how I interpreted it as well. Fair bit more apparent in the first movie where Neo and Trinity are shown in collecting the weapons first.