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Human CPU originally, but the directors thought people were too stupid to know what that meant at the time (which might have been right, nobody I knew had a computer at that time) and changed the human brain neural network into “you’re all batteries actuallly”
To be fair, I have no idea what a CPU is
They could've dumbed down the CPU explanation into something as simple as "the human mind is creative enough to make connections robots can't conceive of, so the machines need us to build new patterns to sustain the matrix" and that would've been enough. At least it wouldn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Also I heard it wasn't the Wachowskis who wanted the change, but they got pressured from some suit who said it was too complicated.
They didn't even have to use the term, just say the machines use human brains to process data or something.
Ok I could have grasped that
I was told it's rocks talking to other rocks.