Concept Repost.

The concept or rebirth is a complex one. Are we reborn as other humans with vague recollections of past lives, or are we born as animals, plants, insects simply going about our lives as the universe intended. What I think this scene embodies is the rebirth. In the case of Jake, he is 'reborn' as an Avatar.

I'll pick on that word for just a moment. "Avatar," is a common term for an icon, figure, face, picture or general medium of representation that one uses (predominantly on the internet) as a sort of alter ego. In this case, it brings the meaning (or at least one of them), to a higher level. He isn't simply representing himself in a different body. That body is his. The actions he takes after his consciousness transfers evoke his five senses as if he were feeling them for the very first time.

First strong representation of the five comes his sense of touch, or feeling. This comes in two forms during this scene. The first is when he wakes up for the first time (in his Avatar body), wiggling his toes and whatnot. You can visibly see the excitement in his face as he slowly gets up, ignoring everyone's order to sit down and wait until the check-up is over. After knocking over anything within tail's length, he finds he way outside, running past nearly everything because he can.

By this time there's some ear candy, filling the background with inspirational music that the scene had originally started with before slipping into silence during his 'escape'. Light and airy, it fills the minds of the viewers with hope, serenity and a sense of peace. All innocent thoughts that can easily be associated with new life. Without a care or worry in the world, he was born anew and continued to take in all the sensations his new body had to give him.

He stops in the middle of the dirt, presumably because it felt much nicer on his feet than the grass. Much like what had happened earlier in the scene, he wiggled his toes, embracing the fact that he can not only use his legs, but feel them as well. During this, he chooses to evoke the rest of his senses, closing his eyes in order to take in everything at once. If you listen closely, you can hear him sniff audibly, around the same time some purple flowers appear in the background. After Grace shows up, tossing him a fruit of some sort, he bites into it and seems ecstatic at the taste. Even his sense of sight is played up when it flashes to Jake's human body in the tube and you can kind of tell that his eyes are shifting as he takes in the environment during his run. At this point, the audience feels for him too. Nearly everyone knows what it's like to bite into a succulent piece of fruit, what it's like to running barefoot in the dirt, to smell fresh flowers in a garden. They not only represent Jake's senses being felt for the first time, again, but also allow the audience to feel what he feels, connecting them to the character.

The final piece of evidence for me was the fact that there was everything around him that he could've interacted with. A basketball court, climbing wall, what seemed to be other military training courses, even a giant robot that he was able to look in the eye (how many people say they can do that?). The thing is, he kept running forward. There was no clear path that led him forward. If anything, the trail he was running on was simply a line he had mentally conjured in his head, so why did he keep running that way? I feel that he was running towards the future. He wanted to see what life held in front of him, and he raced onward in order to see what was there. He wanted to embrace this new life, his new body. He was reborn.