My idea-
It is not difficult to draw the following stages of development according to the direction of the future life of the film.
1. Technology advances to the first stage: replacing the physical body with a prosthetic limb and subjectively producing the same experience as the original
2. The second stage: Human research on the brain has really achieved pervasive thoroughness, including the formation of memory, the formation of emotions, the formation of various thinking abilities, etc. This is the premise of replacing the human brain with an electronic brain
3. The third stage: The electronic brain can simulate various subtle experiences of the human brain in the second stage, and then transplant the memory and consciousness of the human brain. That is, the electronic brain replaces the human brain.
At this time, we see that due to the development of science and technology, the material basis of human beings from nature has been replaced by more advanced material carriers. We can still think of life as a continuous existence, because even if the whole body is replaced, in terms of individual subjective feelings, it is even possible to not notice any changes. ——Can’t it be said that consciousness and memory are the essence of life? (At this time, a drastic change has taken place. You might as well quantify this substitution thoroughly. Later, you will see that the entire world can continue to run in a machine without living organisms. If we say that humans have been replaced by robots, the chips stored in the But it is the human soul, those robots are human, and the concept of human has been expanded. Isn’t the body itself a combination of matter, this principle is just a replacement of some artificial matter, the function remains unchanged or even evolves)
However, another hypothesis is proposed: when the consciousness and memory are transplanted, an individual is provided to two electronic brains or even multiple electronic brains, just as the soul of a child is copied into a toy in 2 Innocence, at different times. A single copy or multiple copy operations at the same time will produce different individuals with souls in the real material space, or in other words, multiple independent consciousnesses will be produced by one consciousness. From the film, we understand very well that the little girl who was rescued at the end was not any doll that was copied. At this time, we found that the original life has not been changed by the transplant of the soul (it should probably be called a copy at this time). Still really gone.
All this is contradictory - you have replaced everything about yourself, and you are still you; and you have replaced two you at the same time, and one is not you, but either both are you, or both are not. . The source of the contradiction should actually be the process of transplanting the soul. And finally found that the correct explanation should be, neither, or if you change everything about you, you are not you anymore.
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Suppose the individual loses consciousness briefly during the transplant process. When consciousness is restored, he will still think he is himself, but multiple electronic brains will have this feeling at the same time, and then their thinking and behavior will be different depending on the environment. Therefore, we can regard the consciousness of the human brain as a causal signal system, that is, only the past and present cognition will affect the decision made now, because the cognition of the next moment is unknown, so the structure of the next system That is, consciousness, and the decision of the next moment is unpredictable. At the same time, we also know that the universe cannot be restored to the past with certainty from the present. Many phenomena have evolved from the previous phenomenon with a certain probability, that is, even if the same soul is transplanted into two electronic brains in the same future environment They may also make different decisions. In this way, it can be fully affirmed that the front and rear souls are not a single soul, and the multiple souls produced at the same time are not a single soul, and the life it identifies is not a single life, but a new life cloned from the original soul as a template. Then it should be the case when one-to-one transfer, and if the original soul is not the transferred soul, where did it go? Dead in your human brain. He was dead when he lost consciousness briefly during the transfer process, and the consciousness restored in the electronic brain at the next moment is already a brand new soul.
Looking back at life in this way, when we sleep every day, we die, and when we wake up, we are a new life built on the memory and consciousness of the past. Until the final death, he is just a repeat of the disappearance of consciousness every day, but there is no Just a new life
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Restrictions on the porting process are now lifted. ——When consciousness is continuously transferred from the human brain to the electronic brain, just like pouring water, the human brain is actually washed clean (brain death), and it has nothing to do with speed or slowness, so the electronic brain still produces a new life, accompanied by The death of an old life. ——When consciousness takes care of both at the same time, it seems that some centers of the human brain have lost their ability, and the electronic brain is used to replace the work of these centers, and the electronic brain is added to improve the memory capacity. This is also the principle. One consciousness can operate two brains at the same time. But in more advanced fields, it is not repeatable. For example, in the decision-making part, the two brains can only execute one decision. If the two brains send different action signals to the body at the same time, how will the body act? Losing the highest decision-making power, the two brains immediately become two individuals (even if they share many low-level fields), so non-repetition also includes the meaning of inseparability at this time. In this way, the souls in the two brains are also non-repeatable, that is, there is only one complete soul in the two brains. When the body is finally replaced, the electronic brain gains the soul, and the human brain loses the soul, it is still the same conclusion: a life dies and a life is born.
In this way, in reality, there is no need to suspend, and consciousness realizes death and new life in a awake state. The only measure is time, which means that every moment we die and are born again, literally! Of course, after rebirth, we are no longer our past self, but because we inherited the memory and consciousness of our previous life, we think our past and present self are the same life. What we now call the end of life is nothing but a momentary loss of the possibility of rebirth, like the sudden extinguishment of a flame. Time suddenly stands still for the dead, and no new life emerges to succeed him in the next second. But isn't the death in our eyes not objective, then what is death subjectively? We experience it all the time, but we can't notice it. When consciousness is interrupted for a period of time, or a period of time has passed suddenly for consciousness, or the environment suddenly changes, when we wake up in the morning, we can abstractly reminisce about falling asleep last night. It is like understanding death in the feeling of that moment (the last moment when consciousness existed). However, the experience of death at this time is still objective, but it has entered a more vivid level, because we think that our consciousness is continuous, and we can only observe the death of the past from the standpoint of new life, a soul It is never possible to realize one's own death.
The above are all my assumptions, after reading Attack in the Shell 1 and 2.
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