
Also, another point never really touched upon is quite why the machines relied exclusively on solar power in the first place.uh, so why not simply use a fraction of those nanites ON Zero-One, easily shutting down the whole machine empire in a swift strike? What's the logic of having such a weapon, and then use it in the most contrived, indirect, and outright inefficent way possible? Also, the machines (ANY machine, for that matter) can't touch it, since doing so pretty much kills them. The nanites must be either self-replicating or self-repairing since the storm is still there after centuries. So, the humans had the means to deploy a vast layer of nanomachines, covering the world in perpetual darkness. They aren't comperable in any way and even the best of the best computers in the contemporary world don't breach the 1% mark for complexity or raw data crunching. Also the flexibility and complexity of biological computation can't be matched with silicon or machinery.
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The machines are not "using" humans - they are serving them, and that spiel of Morpheus with the battery is full of shit. Without the Matrix, humans would cease to exist in a resource-lacking world. The Matrix is basically life support for the humans.So, by that argument, the Matrix is needed to keep people living, and people need to live to power/compute the Matrix: circular argument with no external purpose. Except the only purpose of the Matrix is to keep people occupied while the machines use them either for power or computational wetware.The neural network is needed to create the Matrix, which is needed for humanity to carry on their normal lives on a desolated planet. It's entirely possible that they still wanted to learn from them. Just because the machines had reached the singularity doesn't mean they'd mastered all the computational competence that a human brain has. What's wrong with the idea? Human brains are complex computational devices.

Too bad the Wachowski Sisters didn't consider this. You could argue the Machines had realized at this point that if they killed off mankind, they'd have no purpose, no reason to function. The revelation that they've achieved nuclear fusion also makes having us around even more pointless. use humans for computational power? Why? That's as meaningful as having a fifth wheel on a supermarket trolley.
