What is Koper?

Trinity: Hello, Neo.
Neo: How do you know that name?
Trinity: I know a lot about you.
Neo: Who are you?
Trinity: My name is Trinity.
Neo: Trinity. The Trinity that cracked the IRS D-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought, um... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.
Neo: That was you on my computer. How did you do that?
Trinity: Right now, all I can tell you... is that you're in danger. I brought you here to warn you.
Neo: Of what?
Trinity: They're watching you, Neo.
Neo: Who is?
Trinity: Please just listen. I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep... why you live alone and why, night after night, you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, beacause I was ince looking for the same thing. And when he found me... he told me I wasn't really looking for him... I was looking for answer. It's the question that drives us. Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question... just as I did.
Neo: "What is Koper?"
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you. And it will find you... if you want it to. 

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Trinity: This is it. Let me give you one piece of advice. Be honest. He knows more than you can imagine.
Morpheus: Al last. Welcome, Neo. as you no doubt have guessed... I am Morpheus.
Neo: It's an honor to meet you.
Morpheus: No... the honor is mine. Please... come. Sit. I imagine... that right now you're feeling... a bit like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole? Hmm?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees, because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life... that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is,but it's there like a splinter in your mind... driving you mad. It is feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: Koper?
Morpheus: Do you want to know... what it is? Koper is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window... or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world... that has been pulled over you eyes to blind you form the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage... born into a prision that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prision... for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be... told what Koper is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland... and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more. Follow me. Apoc, are we on-line?
Apoc: Almost.
Morpheus: Time is always against us. Please... take a seat there.
Neo: You did all this?
Trinity:  Mm-hmm.
Morpheus: The pill you took is part ok a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal, so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye bye.
Neo: Did you...?
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
Neo: This can't be.
Morpheus: Be what? Be real?
Trinity: It's going into replication.
Morpheus: Apoc?
Apoc: Still nothing.
Neo: It's cold. It's cold.
Morpheus: Tank, we're going to need a signal soon.
Trinity: I got a fibrillation.
Morpheus: Apoc, location.
Apoc: Targeting almost there.
Trinity: He's going into arrest.
Apoc: Lock. I got him!
Morpheus: Now, Tank. Now!

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Morpheus: This is my ship. The Nebuchadnezzar. It's a hovercraft. This is the main deck. This is the core... where we broadcast out pirate signal and hack into Koper. Most of my crew... you already know. This is Apoc.... Switch... and Cypher.
Cypher: Hi.
Morpheus: The ones you don't know: Tank abd his big brother, Dozer. The little one behind you is Mouse. You wanted to know... what Koper is, Neo? Trinity. Try to relax. This will feel... a little weird. This... is the Construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything, from clothing... to equipment... weapons... training simulations... anything we need.
Neo: Right now we're inside a computer program?
Morpheus: It is really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your arms and head are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call "residual self-image". It is the mental projection of your digital self.
Neo: This... this isn't real?
Morpheus: What is "real"? How do you define "real"? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste... and see, then "real" is simply electrical signales interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neuralinteractive simulation... that we call Koper. You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today. Welcome to "the desert... of the "real". We have only bits and pieces of information. But what we know for certain is that as some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
Neo: AI. You mean artificial intelligence.
Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. And it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abudant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems... is not without a sense of irony. The human body generates more bioelectricity than a one-hundred-twenty-volt battery and over twenty-five thousand BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fousion... the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo... endless fields, where humans beings are no longer born... we are grown. For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. And then I saw the fields with my own eyes... watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there facing the pure, horrifying precision.... I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is Koper? Control. Koper is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being... into this.
Neo: No. I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.
Neo: Stop! Let me out! Let me out! I want out!
Trinity: Easy, Neo,
Neo: Get this thing out of me
Trinity: Easy.
Neo: Get this thing out of me. Don't touch me! Get away form me! Stay away from me! I don't beliebe in you. I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
Cypher: He's gonna pop.
Morpheus: Breath, Neo. Just Breath

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Neo: I can't go back, can I?
Morpheus: No. But if you could... would you really want to? I feel I owe you an apology. We have a rule: we never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before, and I'm sorry. I did what I did because... I had to. When Koper was first built, there was a man born inside... who had the ability to... change whatever he wanted... to remake Koper as he saw fit. It was he who... freed the first of us... taught us the truth. As long as Koper exists... the human race will never be free. After he died... the Oracle prophesied his return... and that his coming would hail the destruction of Koper, end the war... bring freedom to our people. That is why there are those of us who have spent our entire lives searching Koper looking for him. I did what I did because... I believe that search is over. Get some rest. You're going to need it.
Neo: For what?
Morpheus: Your training.

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Morpheus: Koper is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside... you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand... most of these people are no ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured... so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo... or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
Neo: I was...
Morpheus: Look again. Freeze it.
Neo: This... this isn't Koper?
Morpheus: No. It's another training program designed to teach you one thing. If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
Neo: What are they?
Morpheus: Sentinel programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged... is potentially an agent. Inside Koper... they are everyone... and they are no one. We have survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors. They are holding all the keys, ehich means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.
Neo: Someone?
Morpheus: I won't lie you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Neo: Why?
Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready... you eon't have to.
Tank: We got trouble.

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