Quote Originally Posted by Ramza00 View Post
Yes for Captain Soren is such a common name Soren as in Søren Kierkegaard.

Yes there are many other philosophers and so on referenced in the Matrix trilogy, and lots of the existentialists of some stripe. I hyper focused on Soren for he is considered the father of "modern existentialism" of the last 200 years. Assembling a list of all the references in the matrix trilogy is tedious for it would be long.

But yeah Soren is definitely in there, as in another scene from the first Matrix movie where there is a 90 second montage of a "leap of faith" program, only for Neo to end up in rubber concrete. Only to have the later payoff "He's Beginning to Believe" at the subway station.
Except don't we learn from The Architect that "The One" is actually a product of the Matrix itself in its attempt to self-perpetuate by being periodically reloaded. All that "leap of faith" ended up in betrayal. Neo isn't a messiah figure.

Of course, Neo then simply rebels against his purpose and eventually upsets the system, but its only the intervention of a completely different external presence, the Agent Smiths, that allow Neo the opportunity to make a truce. The Agent Smiths are philosophical agents of deconstructionism, that product of any system (for every system is incomplete and cannot explain itself) that arise only to tear it down.

Kirekegaard was there in the beginning, but they moved way past him while pursuing other avenues. I figured it is "The End of History."

Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Assume all that is true. Doubling resources would give the same effect, but without Thanos killing anyone, so he's still ignoring the obvious.
Doubling the resources would have the same effect as killing off half the population. The population simply grows (very quickly) until it once against outstrips the resources. The additional intervention above is what makes it a "permanent" solution.