Mechanical modifications may become the norm

Rahsaan 2022-04-20 09:01:29

After watching "The Three-Body Problem" a few days ago, I still have no idea what to do, so I read the movie and watched it again


In fact, I am optimistic about the mechanical transformations that appear in cyberpunk movies. I think that mechanical transformations will become the norm sooner or later, but I don’t know what kind of scale it will take or how long it will take.

If the mechanical transformation begins, it will inevitably bring about a controversy over the ship of Theseus. Today, the legs are modified, the arms are modified tomorrow, the eyes are modified the day after tomorrow, or the brain is directly modified, then where is the boundary between humans and robots. Just as the major was anxious, is the major a real person? I thought about this question a long time ago when I watched "The Machine Butler". The film finally recognized his definition as a human being in law, but what step should be taken to be considered as the boundary between a machine and a human? Maybe this will It is a milestone-like achievement in philosophy.

The problems brought about are not only philosophical, but also social identity. Conservatives and radicals will inevitably have disputes. Even now, there will be a series of social identity problems for animal organ transplantation, such as pig skin transplantation.

There is also the issue of cloning. When mechanical transformation becomes a cloned organ, how to define this original person.

Maybe it's because I think too much, the development of technology still needs a long way, and maybe the problems that come with it will be solved little by little by then, even if the technology is not so advanced yet, there are people like me to think about it. Macroscopic issues should not be too worrying in the future, after all, social sciences are more specialized in this area.


The third time I brushed it, I started to pay attention to some small details on the props, such as the handsome Honda motorcycle. Honda must have sponsorship. Listening to the sound of the motor, it seems that Honda is also very optimistic about electric drive in the future. .

The car has to say, although this movie is a cyber movie, but after all, the technology is developed, and there is no obvious wasteland element and doomsday element. I don’t know why the car design is so rough, like a freshman fitter training work .

I don't even know what to say about the major's combat uniform. I'm so embarrassed to see it. I remember that before it was released, people complained that it was changed to autumn clothes for the sake of passing the review. Now it's inexplicably uncomfortable. Layers, say it looks like a nude, it doesn't look like it, in short, it's uncomfortable to look at. And I feel more and more that Scarlett Johansson doesn't seem to have such a good figure, especially after watching "Under the Skin", I felt that Durant said that he wanted to drink her bath water was a bit too much.


The plot is quite satisfactory, there are not too many surprises. The first time the major came home, let’s count it as one, I was a little moved. Although the person in front of him has nothing but brains, the cat and mother in the house vaguely sensed something, and some feelings are always subtle.

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Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Batou: [Batou just got new eyes] Say something nice.

    Major: You chose those?

    Batou: They're tactical.

  • Major: Tell me who you are.

    Kuze: I am that which you seek to destroy. In this life, my name is Kuze.

    Major: What are you doing to me?

    Kuze: I have connected you to a network of my own creation. When I am finished in this world, my ghost can survive there and regenerate.

    Major: What do you want from me?

    Kuze: I became fascinated with you, reading your code while you were inside that geisha. Like nothing I had felt before and yet so... familiar. We are the same.

    Major: We are not the same. You kill innocent people.

    Kuze: "Innocent", is that what you call them? I am as they made me.

    Major: Who made you?

    Kuze: What have they told you? That you were the first? The first cerebral salvage? You were born of lessons took from my failure.

    Major: What are you talking about?

    Kuze: I was conscious while they dismembered my body and discarded me like garbage. I was lying on a table, listening to doctors talk about how my mind had not meshed with the shell that they had built, how Project 2571 had failed, and they had to move on to you.

    [removes a piece of Major's face]

    Kuze: What a beauty you are. They have improved us so much since they made me. They thought we would be a part of their evolution, but they have created us to evolve alone... beyond them.

    Major: "Evolution", that's what you call killing everyone who made you?

    Kuze: You're not listening to me.

    Major: You're a murderer.

    Kuze: They tried to kill me first. It is self-defense; defense of self! More will die until they tell me what they took!