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Neither Neo, Trinity nor Morpheus needed to breathe in the Matrix, otherwise they would've been panting hard after the insanely long and demanding fights they endured.
That's just a bending of the rules. They know they shouldn't get tired, so they don't. If they don't know that, though, there's no difference.
The thing is, Neo couldn't fly or stop bullets in reality. The place in his cyborg-brain that harbors those abilities also harbors his matrix-kung fu.
No, there is no cyborg brain involved (unless you subscribe to the theory that that's why Neo has powers in reality, and everyone else doesn't, but that wouldn't affect this). We've never seen any evidence of brain implants, only of artificial sensory feeds interrupting the real ones. He can stop bullets because he believes he can stop bullets, no more, no less. He can do kung fu because he KNOWS kung fu, no more, no less. His brain CAN NOT tell the difference between reality and the Matrix, except in the fact that he can change the simulation, thus tipping him off to its falsity. Your muscles are controlled by your brain, where his fu is stored. I see no reason why he wouldn't know the moves in reality.
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He can also detect the code in the Matrix and sense things in it. When you open your eyes and everything is glowy green characters, that'd be a pretty big clue that you're in the Matrix, too.
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...which may well be a result of his knowing he's in the Matrix. He couldn't see it for a good long time, after all, nor can anyone else.
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Right. He could only see the code and manipulate it after his mind had been sufficiently freed and he had achieved his full potential as the One. Morph and Trin know they're in the Matrix as well, but they don't have the same skillz as Neo.
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