

To evade this sentence, they remained in the Matrix and existed with fugitive status. If a program had become inefficient, disobedient or merely obsolete, the result was the same: it lacked purpose and thus would be terminated by the machine world. The most common reason was the sentence of deletion. Reasons for programs to choose exile differed, as they were sentient beings with free will similar to humans'. Because of their seemingly metaphysical qualities, most bluepills mislabeled them either as strange humans or paranormal creatures such as ghosts, angels, vampires, werewolves, aliens or other such beings. Few people saw them and fewer still realized what they really were. These rogue programs - artificial minds that no longer worked for the system - were rarely recognized by people in the Matrix. But there were those which malfunction after a time. As long as these programs functioned properly, they were more or less unnoticeable. The Matrix was home not only to human minds and the Agents that policed them, but also a myriad of other self-aware programs that filled various roles in its maintained authenticity everything from weather phenomena to animal behavior.
