[SPOILERS] SOMA and The Matrix similarities

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I noticed some small but interesting similarities of SOMA with The Martix:

1. The "digital ego" from Matrix, described by Morpheus and the self perception described by Catherine.
When you were in the matrix, your mind created your physical appearence within the matrix based on your mental perception of yourself. Basically, it made you look how you believed you looked, made you see what you wanted to see.
In SOMA, when Simon wakes up in Pathos-II in the pilot seat, he sees himself just like he was (he is even dressed the same) when he took the first scan in Dr. Munshi's lab. If he would come across a mirror at Upsilon, he surely would see himself as he was before the scan. The same happens with Carl Semken in a robot body (he is convinced he is human and states he can see his hands and feet) and many other robots at Pathos-II.
This photo from Frictional Games describes the situaton perfectly and beautifully (I also find it a brilliant work of art, with an impressing feeling of sadness and emotion)
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When Simon finds himself in the Comms Center at Upsilon and the dome cracks and is flooded, he begins seeing his real self. He needed to be inside a diving suit in order to survive, he already was wearing one, but his mind didn't want him to realise that before his survival actually depended on it. If he could see himself again before Catherine tells him he is a robot, he probably would see himself normal (with his human head) and just wearing the diving suit.
Catherine states clearly that after you have been scanned and copied into a robot body, your mind supresses your real self perception and you see yourself how you want to see yourself, similar to the "digital self" in the Matrix.

2. An AI keeping people alive connected to it and trapping their minds in a virtual simulation.
In The Matrix the Machines AI kept people alive and uncounscious, connected to it, and their minds were trapped in a complex virtual simulation.
In SOMA, the WAU keeps the people trapped alive and uncounscious in the structure gel mass, and their minds are in a virtual simulation like the Ark or the Matrix.
A question arises here: What would happen in SOMA if a person inside a WAU simulation would commit suicide or die, would also his/her body die? What would happen if a person inside the Ark died?

3. In The Matrix it is stated by the Architect that earlier versions of the matrix were failed, because the people's minds realised they were in a simulation and they went mad or died.
In SOMA the scans uploaded inside robots would go mad if they found out they were not the original real people. This also happened in simulations, if this happened the simulation would crash or the Cortex Chip would break.
In The Matrix the solution was to give people a sense of choice, not to force a certain reality upon them. There is an interesting similarity between this concept and the choices Simon makes throughout the game...the choices have no effect on the ending, but did they provide him with a sense of choice that helped him not go insane?
Another interesting similarity is that the first version of the Matrix was an actual paradise, while the Ark is also a paradise!

4. Early design and concept art.
The 2013 gameplay (brain in a jar) footage of SOMA looks strikingly similar to the Machines design in the Matrix. The corridor leading to the central room with the brain that gets transformed looks very similar to the Machines City and the Machine technology from Matrix. The transformed brain itself, with the black colours and the red lights looks similar to a Sentinel from Matrix.
In the Soma Vertical Slice video (inside SuperSecret rar), when the player dies he awakens in a similarly designed area (like the Machine City), and he is immediatly put back into the simulation after. This indicates that in this early concept of the game Simon was plugged in a virtual reality similar to the Matrix, and when he dies and awakens, the machines quickly put him back into the simulation (into the matrix).

Has anyone found any other interesting similarities?