After watching Black Mirror's Christmas special , I was once again convinced by the writer's easy-to-understand story. Using a familiar setting of "one day in the sky, ten years underground" and mutual shielding, you suddenly see the terrible loneliness.
Loneliness is not just Robinson's drifting, Tom Hanks' desert island, loneliness is not having friends, even being close to the closest people. When all the people we know are gone, or suddenly lose their memory of us, and we also lose contact with all the people we know, then are we truly alone? This philosophical question is actually not far away, and the cryonics industry, which has been going on for more than half a century, is facing this problem. Although there is a problem with whether he can wake up or not, if he does, he will not know anyone in this new world, his great-great-great-grandchildren may be gone, he may not be able to adapt to the social structure at that time, and he will have to start from scratch. It's hard to imagine how lonely he would be.
Another kind of loneliness comes from time. We say that life is short, do it and cherish it, but when you have unlimited time, then all possibilities will eventually become repeated again , and the original novel experience will eventually become a burden and become Sisyphus's curse . This is like playing music to the male prisoner at the end of the film. It was originally a pleasing music, not to mention letting you listen to a single song on a loop for a few years, even if it is used as an alarm clock for a month, it is estimated that you will also collapse. So this tells us that repetition eventually strips away all the novelty and fun, and loneliness is the end result.
Of course, if a world is inherently barren , your options are inherently limited. Then your loneliness may come faster and more violently . Just like the female customer in the film, who has been doing nothing in a white world for several years, she finally collapsed and said, give me anything to do, anything will do. In the end, I was willing to become a smart home. Like sensory deprivation studied by many scientists, if you lose any visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory signals, most people will completely collapse within a few days. This may be another challenge for us to give up the physical, if the sensory simulation is not so realistic, believing that loneliness will make all virtual consciousness depressed and suicidal. I believe that if human beings can one day greatly extend their lifespan, or simply the Protoss who had immortality before, or the Anunnaki who have super longevity, they may end up in depression because they can't stand the long loneliness.
Therefore, if God really exists, then he is in a barren world and has an immortal existence. It is not difficult for us to imagine why he created light, heaven and earth, and human beings. Because it is really lonely, you can do whatever you want. It is also a kind of consolation to have the company of humans, or simply look down at the world of flowers.
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