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[Ghurshog]

The plot revealed in the ending is self defeating and the galaxyhas been at its mercy up until now.

There is a simply fact: the Guardian's stated purpose is from "its" point of view. And clearly it values logic and highest probability over random chance. 

How probable was it for Shepard to actually get to the Guardian? It stated that because Shepard was there that its 'solution' would no longer work. Which given the stated logic I could have told it the plan would eventually fail, practically any reasoning human being could have. 

In essence the story line is trying to defeat the Theory of Entropy of which you can read here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_information_theory

This is a theory of why we don't live in a Quantum universe (crazy stuff happening all the time predicted by Quantum Mechanics). 

So in simple terms our universe naturally evolves from an "ordered state to a disordered stated constantly". This theory is why a broken glass simply doesn't reassemble itself before your very eyes. Quantum mechanics says its possible if you wait long enough. However we all know that it won't in the current universe we live in, so why not? The theory of entropy or Chaos theory prevents it from occuring.

From what I gathered from the dialog the guardian believed its method had the "highest" success chance of preventing synthetics from ultimately destroying orgaincs. However this ignores best outcomes by focusing on the How and simply accepting the eventual outcome to a large extent. 

Why does this seem so crazy to us humans? our intution, informed by experience, reasoning, and emotions, tell us that we want to try for the best outcome that doesn't destroy us and to strive for it.

The guardian's plan/point of view also assumes organics can't create synthetics with a moral or emotional component. That all synthetic life (we can discuss whether its truly synthetic in another thread) must/will destroy organics because they will eventually view organics as to dangerous to continue their existence. 

Apparently the guardian hasn't heard of Asimov's 3 laws (and a 4th to cover the loop hole). http://en.wikipedia....aws_of_Robotics

All in all the precept of the narrative told to Shepard simply lacks sympathy and empathy. Its the solution a machine would choose who had no sense of either of the affore mentioned attributes. See Terminator, The Matrix, ect.

[Taleroth]

It seemed less "the solution a machine would make" and more "the idea a writer would have after playing Human Revolution and deciding to counterpoint transhumanism and the singularity."

[Ghurshog]

Taleroth wrote...

It seemed less "the solution a machine would make" and more "the idea a writer would have after playing Human Revolution and deciding to counterpoint transhumanism and the singularity."

Possibly but I was trying to ponder out its rationale putting aside my Deus Ex love and fandom.