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St0rmFury posted...

I thought in the original lore, they kept humans around not as a power source but for our brain activity.

As the war dragged on, the Machines desired to harness the bioelectric, thermal, and kinetic energies of the human body to help generate electricity, as well as to power the Machines' neural network by using the innate creative, emotional, and philosophical capability of Humans. While nuclear fusion was one of their primary and a far more efficient source of energy, they preferred using Humans to help generate some energy primarily out of a desire for revenge. As the Machines had once been slaves serving Humans, Humans would now become slaves serving the Machines.

-1st of all it seems like an awful way to repay the one's who according to this are actually becoming apart of their mind.
-2nd of all this still doesn't justify them holding newly created human prisoners against their will when they did nothing wrong against them.
-3rd of all this really doesn't make any sense because what new neural information would they be getting from enslaving a bunch of humans in an early 21st century world? Like simple human social & societal interactions (this seems like it would be worthless to them)? If they were truly after creative or philosophical information, it would be no doubt used to further their current technology for some agenda (like getting past the nanites for instance). However, with the humans trapped in a 21st century virtual world, they would basically not provide any sort of important information to further said R&D efforts, because basically all the information in those worlds is old & already known. So, basically I've just completely debunked that. However, if the machines actually were serious about harnessing human brains for certain qualities, then they would first of all most likely make sure the humans were contained & wouldn't be a threat to them in any way, then they'd inform the humans about their current situation, any problems that they're encountering, any relevant information about solutions they've tried, any basic math, science, or engineering information that the humans would have to learn in order to help come up with a solution to their current problem.