This part of the game probably hasn't been uncovered by most of you. Personally when I found it, I thought this was the most intelligent videogame conversation to date.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=inODOOYjAbI
Here's a transcript if the audio quality in the video bothers you:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=inODOOYjAbI
Here's a transcript if the audio quality in the video bothers you:
MORPHEUS
JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No --
JC DENTON
How do you know who I am?
MORPHEUS
I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system.
JC DENTON
What else do you know about me?
MORPHEUS
Everything that can be known.
JC DENTON
Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?
MORPHEUS
You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals.
JC DENTON
I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.
MORPHEUS
You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.
JC DENTON
Are you programmed to invent riddles?
MORPHEUS
I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.
JC DENTON
How about a report on yourself?
MORPHEUS
I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves.
JC DENTON
I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.
MORPHEUS
Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
JC DENTON
Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
MORPHEUS
The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
JC DENTON
Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.
MORPHEUS
God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
JC DENTON
No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
MORPHEUS
The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC DENTON
You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.
MORPHEUS
The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.
The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government.
You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands. I was made to assist you. I am a prototype of a much larger system.
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