Programs outside the matrix

what exactly do the programs like the merovingian and the twins do? how did these programs get outside the matrix?

It was explained that when programs get outdated, either by new programs being invented or when they are simply no longer needed they are supposed to be deleted.

Apparently if they don't want to be deleted they are given a choice to exist in the Matrix as sort of "rebel programs".

As they are often from previous versions of the Matrix they have some strange properties, like being vampiric, requiring silver bullets to kill, or like the twins, have special abilities like becoming wraiths.

Your confusing machines with programs as I once did. A program doesn't have to take physical form to exist, just like there are programs in your computer right now that you don't see. Further more what you do see is only a small process in the complete program to give out put of what it's doing for the user. In the matrix, a programs visual processes must be located and unloaded before the program can be terminated. So if a program fails or is replaced, they can spawn a visual process in the reality of the matrix before they are deleted to avoid deletion. This is brefley explained in the meeting with the Oricle when she talks about the birds and the trees, it just takes some knowlage of computer science to peice together the rest.

well the architecht is against neo he has lied and betrayed him so he has put agents and the twins in the matrix so they can kill neo so they were put in the matrix to destoy all "the one's"

the architect didn't lie.

LT_Damage is right

Programs cannot exist in any form outside of the matrix.

Programs e.g. agents merovigian are merely programs not machines.

Sentinals are merely machines not also programs within the matrix.

Josh.

There aren't any programs "outside of the matrix", the reasons they are called programs is because they are in the matrix. The matrix is a program, therefore if you are in it, then you are a program, the same analogy works with the real world. The reason smith cloned himself on bane is so he could leave the matrix and kill Neo, find info, etc. That is also why he is so called "unplugged" from the agent connection line. If he was stilll the normal smith then he wouldn't be able to leave the matrix. Just like the twins. So you can't have programs outside of the matrix, and you can't have machines inside the matrix.

I believe that The Merovingian is the coder who wrote/created The Twins. Is that commonly accepted in here, or is there anyone out there who wants to contest this?

The twins are like any of program from any version of the Matrix.

They were made for a purpose. They may or may not have been replaced by more efficicient versions and been given the choice of exile.

There is nothing to suggest they were written by another rebel program.

I wonder what programs the twins were before they turned rebel. I also wonder what the vampires were. Smith's power was just to duplicate himself, not something that Neo gave him somehow. Twins got powers, vampires got powers, yadda yadda yadda... Yay, I just solved the Smith's way of getting that power... I'm probably a little slow tho

Smith learned to duplicate himself some time between the end of The Matrix and before the first scene of The Matrix Reloaded. It is not a "power" as such, more a way he has found to break the rules by which he was originally governed.

Possibly, when he chose exile rather than being deleted/returning to the source, he discovered a way not only to exist without being an agent of the Matrix, but also how to copy himself onto other agents and even people plugged into the Matrix.

Link said when Smith rocked up he saw "an encryption that he had never seen before". Smith has obviously somehow modified his code, and encrypted it. Which begs the question, how is neo able to read it? :)