Evolution and Space-Time in Akira

Junior 2022-04-20 09:01:35

"Where do you say all this knowledge and energy come from? Didn't man once be like monkeys? Earlier, like reptiles and fish, earlier, like plankton and amoeba, even so lowly Organisms also have amazing energy in their bodies. If this is true, what kind of memory is preserved in the genes? It may be the birth of the universe, even earlier than this. Maybe everyone has that kind of memory, What if something went wrong and the whole process was changed, like something like an amoeba being empowered with human powers?"

In the world view constructed by director Otomo Katsuhiro in "Akira", this clearly shows that the historical accumulation of biological power in the evolutionary process exists and can be extracted. That is to say, even for people who are the most intelligent creatures on the earth, all the existing parts that are different from primitive creatures are the historical accumulation of biological power, that is, the power difference created by time. Similarly, human beings will gradually accumulate such power in the future evolutionary history, so that the body functions reach a state that is unimaginable to us like amoeba can't imagine human beings. Otomo Keyang called this mutant power "absolute power". the power of".

So this kind of absolute power was targeted by humans who coveted genetic technology. The government with the monopoly of science and technology believes that as long as it has absolute power in the future, it can suppress domestic riots and restore social order; while the adverse citizens regard the birth of absolute power as the will of God, which will lead them to nowhere. A bright future for government populism.

But the fact is that after the overdraft of power in the future causes the qualitative change of human body functions, since the overdrawn power cannot adapt to the current natural conditions, when two absolute forces of equal mass collide together, it will trigger a huge energy like nuclear fusion, producing The big bang that destroyed everything, the original complete world turned into scattered fragments, scattered in all directions, this is the big bang of the universe, and it is also the origin of the universe.

Based on this, it can be judged that Otomo Keyang believes that the time and space of a single universe are bounded. But the difference between the time boundary and the space boundary is: the boundary of time is cyclical, and the alternation of time between universes starts with an explosion and ends with another explosion; the boundary of space is cyclical and decreasing, and what we have The universe at this place is only a part of a larger space in the last time and space where it exploded, so Otomo Keyang believes that there is a universe beyond the universe.

So the universe has always been born out of the desires of the dominant beings and ends up with the same desires. At the same time, desire is also the source of overdrafting absolute power, the core of reincarnation.

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Akira quotes

  • Yamagata (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): You got a bad attitude, pops. Lighten up before your arteries harden.

  • Kaneda: He's not your friend, he's ours! If somebody's gonna kill him, it should be us!