system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Since the human forces download their fighting skills from the same source, would every fight against each other result in a stalemate?

I recognize that Morpheus beat Neo at the beginning, but that was training. If two fighters of even strength fought one another shouldn’t it always end in a stalemate since they’d be at the exact same skill level?
gpt
No more than any other program should always run identically across many different sets of hardware, with who knows what other software running as well.

Less pithily, the downloaded fighting programs provide knowledge of how to perform martial arts moves, and some subjective experience in what performing them feels like. However, they do not affect:

- The capabilities of the particular individual's brain, including factors like reaction time.

- Their psychological profile including aggressiveness, pain tolerance, and perceptiveness.

- Their (perceived) limits of their body while acting in a simulated environment.

- Their ability to consciously bend or break the rules of the matrix or other simulated environment in their favor.