But is it really possible? My answer is no! Let's analyze it from the beginning:
1. The world structure in the movie: The world is divided into three layers, L1, L2, and L3. The plots of the first half of the film are developed on the L2 and L3 layers, and finally the L1 layer is completed. L2 and L3 are virtual worlds created by using source code. The L2 layer is created by the people in the L1 layer, and the L3 layer is created by the people in the L2 layer. The simulation degree of the virtual world can reach almost 100%. Individuals have their own ideology developed independently. The main difference between the virtual world and the real world is that the simulated world is smaller.
2. Shuttle mechanism between layers 1. The high layer enters the lower layer: the characters in the higher layer can convert their ideology into source code, and then attach it to a corresponding person in the virtual world of the lower layer, such as the one in the L1 layer. Someone A1, A1 converts his ideology into source code, and then attaches it to the body of A2 on the L2 layer. A2's own ideology is temporarily "deactivated" and stored somewhere, when A2 with A1's ideology When the body ends the trip on the L2 layer, copy the ideology of A1 on the body of A2 into the body of A1, so that A1 has the experience of the L2 layer, and A2's own mind returns to the body of A2 and " activation".
3. The shuttle mechanism between layers 2, the low layer enters the high layer: The movie also sets a shuttle mechanism between layers from the low layer to the high layer, which is an important setting that affects the ending of the movie. For example, when A2's body carries the thoughts of A1 When the L2 layer suddenly died, A1's ideology and A2's body died at the same time. At this time, when A1's body woke up on the L1 layer, it was carrying the ideology of A2. That is to say, when A1's ideology entered A2 A2's own ideology is temporarily put on hold, and it is not stored in the L2 layer, but is stored in the brain of A1, in a "deactivated" state, When A1's ideology and A2's body die suddenly on the L2 layer, A2's ideology is activated in A1's body, so that the lower-level characters can enter the upper-level.
4. To sum up, we can call this way of shuttle between layers "cutting ideological shuttle". Every ideology is not backed up. Once the body dies, the ideology on the body also dies at the same time. So our question is: as a real person, would you create and accept this kind of shuttle? Will the creators of the system accept the risk that their minds may die in the virtual world? Obviously impossible and unnecessary! Creators can use the way of copying ideas to travel. Even if they die in the virtual world, they will only lose that experience in the virtual world and will not affect people in the real world. Some people may say that the film explained this, that is, the system is still flawed, and there are certain risks in entering the virtual world, but this explanation is obviously too pale, and any normal person will not put himself In such a dangerous situation, we can only understand that people in the virtual world can accept the "cutting thought shuttle", maybe this is the defect of the virtual world.
Now we understand that the harmonious and happy ending of the movie is just another layer of virtual world. Where is the real world? Nobody Knows!
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