Yet now, Jiro’s persona icon was active in the Matrix, threading its way through the mazes of data, It moved slowly, hesitantly, like a newly freed spirit adjusting to a novel form and abilities, Ghosts made little enough sense in the real world; they had no business in the analog world of the Matrix. This consensual hallucination used by computer operators to manipulate the immense dataflows at incredible computer speeds was not a real "world." It had no way to trap and hold souls.