system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Was there a Roman Empire in the Matrix? How much of human history does each iteration of the Matrix simulate? Why don't the machines just maintain a pre-digital society so the humans can't even comprehend the Matrix?
gpt
If i remember correctly, it is because the 21st century is the earliest period the machines 'remember', or have a detailed knowledge of. So they physically can't recreate a period earlier, because they didn't have the sufficient sentience (or even existed) at those times.