little man in a bottle

Keshaun 2022-04-22 07:01:40

Second time after a long time. Needless to say, the importance of vision to people, coupled with shielding vision as a sci-fi expansion of one-click blackout of today's social software, I have to say that electronic eye shielding is really great. (It’s a small regret that the other side of the non-negative freedom of the electronic eye is not displayed.) In contrast, I think the setting and specific display of the copy of consciousness is a bit too straightforward and rough, but considering that most people’s default view of mind is This point of mind-body dualism is completely understandable in this setting. (Homunculus, the metaphor of Descartes' "Theater of the Mind" or the "Little Man in a Bottle" of alchemy, is recreated in this play as a digital copy of consciousness - whether it is a storage ball in a container, or The "little people" in the figurative room are all old wine in new bottles. The "bottle" is just a pun here :-P) Finally, the protagonist's love, thoughts and wishes for his daughter are condensed in a closed but beautiful Christmas In the snowball, and the poor copy of consciousness can only "live" in the egg - diametrically opposed to Descartes' argument - this dualistic "self", after losing the extended body, should be free to think But it has become a phantom bound in shackles everywhere. This is not only a self-criticism of dualism, but also a half-hidden question of human beings: we always want to break free from the shackles of the flesh, because in this way we are completely free, but If a "copy of consciousness" is really technically feasible, and it can also be kept in a cage, even less free than a person with a body, is there any sense in immortality of consciousness? Can we be truly free? Or put it the other way around: Don't we now live in bodies of bloody flesh like copies in eggs?

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Extended Reading
  • Karson 2021-12-27 08:01:45

    Refined as always, but there is a very basic conflict. If people really believe that the copy of consciousness is just a program, it is false and therefore not worthy of sympathy and face up, then why did the investigating party recognize their confession, since it has recognized it, That is to say, it recognizes that the copy of consciousness is equal to the original person in terms of personality, thought and experience, so how can society tolerate their abuse?

  • Guy 2022-04-01 09:01:08

    In fact, I think the person who was abandoned by his girlfriend is very pitiful. I don’t know why he was abandoned, but the final outcome is also quite pitiful. The story of the copy shows the ambiguity of morality. However, I also want a Copy, O(∩_∩)O hahaha~

White Christmas quotes

  • Harry: Ultimately the only thing you're worried about is the transition from one state to another, and that can't hurt you because it's it's just a state change.

  • Matt: It wasn't really real, so it wasn't really barbaric.

    [...]

    Matt: She's only made of code, she's not real. Fuck her!