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Matrix is ​​a technological system that does not allow individuality. Morpheus tells Neo that the agents are “sentient programs. They can dip in and out of any software still hardwired into the system. This means that anyone who has not been logged out is potentially an Agent. Inside the Matrix I am everyone and I am no one." As such, the Matrix is ​​one great whole, a “single consciousness,” incapable of feeling or existing independently. The Matrix needs humans to survive. This causes machines to be bound by rules, rules that humans, particularly Neo, are able to transcend once they gain self-knowledge. To transcend these rules, as the spoon boy makes clear, they must not just think the Matrix is ​​a dream world, they must know it. In this, the power dynamic in the “other” relationship changes because humans become infinite beings while machines are constrained by their own technology. The Oracle tells Neo a secret: “being the one is just like being in love. Nobody needs to tell you, you're in love, you just know it. In every way." Machines do not share this innate sense of knowing, these inexplicable feelings. The fact that machines cannot love becomes further proof of their "otherness" and their constructiveness. Feelings and a