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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 898916" data-attributes="member: 158">...Except for the problem of feedback. We know that in real life psychosomatic triggers can cause responses to imaginary stimuli (for example, after one bad experience with spiders, say, just seeing one can make your skin crawl, or people associating a certain color or item to a painful experience can cause phantom pains). (This may fall into the T.M.I. Department, but I have a similar problem with gnats - one time, years ago, a gnat flew into one of my nasal cavities, and thought my head was going to come off from the intensity of the situation. Now, any time I am near gnats, my nose starts itching like a four-alarm fire.)Now, taking this to an expanded level, if your brain is getting stimuli that you've been shot, or that you have been stabbed, it is conceivable that your central nervous system may send signals that mimic that activity to your body. Ergo, being jacked in directly to your CNS and receiving raw stimuli could plausibly kill you if the Matrix &quot;told your body&quot; that you were dead. It's not important that it's POSSIBLE, just that it's plausible.After all, one of the &quot;throwaway lines&quot; in the First Movie was that the Matrix tried to create an Idealized Paradise for humans originally, but humans started dying rapidly when they realized there was no pain or unhappiness. So, the Matrix must naturally tap into the pain and pleasure centers and the autonomic centers of the brain in order to give the responses it needs to to make you think you are really living there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 898916, member: 158"] ...Except for the problem of feedback. We know that in real life psychosomatic triggers can cause responses to imaginary stimuli (for example, after one bad experience with spiders, say, just seeing one can make your skin crawl, or people associating a certain color or item to a painful experience can cause phantom pains). [i](This may fall into the T.M.I. Department, but I have a similar problem with gnats - one time, years ago, a gnat flew into one of my nasal cavities, and thought my head was going to come off from the intensity of the situation. Now, any time I am near gnats, my nose starts itching like a four-alarm fire.)[/i] Now, taking this to an expanded level, if your brain is getting stimuli that you've been shot, or that you have been stabbed, it is conceivable that your central nervous system may send signals that mimic that activity to your body. Ergo, being jacked in directly to your CNS and receiving raw stimuli could plausibly kill you if the Matrix "told your body" that you were dead. It's not important that it's POSSIBLE, just that it's plausible. After all, one of the "throwaway lines" in the First Movie was that the Matrix tried to create an Idealized Paradise for humans originally, but humans started dying rapidly when they realized there was no pain or unhappiness. So, the Matrix must naturally tap into the pain and pleasure centers and the autonomic centers of the brain in order to give the responses it needs to to make you think you are really living there. [/QUOTE]

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