Campbell, the master of mythology, believes that we modern people are not in a hurry to continue writing myths, but the most urgent thing is to learn to read myths. Or how modern people view mythology and how to draw new power from mythology, maybe this "Out of Control Player" can give another glimpse of the charm of mythology in the field of science and technology.
"The latest incarnation of Oedipus is standing at the traffic lights at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, and will continue the story of Beauty and the Beast," Campbell said. The little brother in blue in "Out of Control" is a code composed of 0 and 1. It is upgrading its code at an amazing speed, becoming a virtual symbol with self-consciousness, continuing to write Oedi in its own way. The myth of Puth.
Yes, this is exactly a code myth that "Runaway Players" staged.
From a horizontal perspective, Campbell clearly pointed out that each individual with subjectivity is their own hero, then from a vertical perspective, for example, who is waiting for the traffic light Oedipus and the blue shirt in "Out of Control" The younger brother is the Oedipus of the newer age.
As a relatively rustic middle-aged literary artist, I am a die-hard fan of paper books and movies. I seldom play video games. I bought the wrong ticket for accidental reasons, and an unconscious flash made me finish this "Out of Control Player", this one The movie made me string together several previous movies about artificial intelligence, such as "Artificial Intelligence" and so on.
Awakening of Self-Awareness: The Divine Revelation of Object-to-Subject
The robot child David in "Artificial Intelligence", in order to gain the love of human mothers, went through all kinds of difficulties to find the blue fairy in the fairy tale, hoping that the blue fairy can turn him into a human child, but he was accidentally killed Frozen on the bottom of the sea, after hundreds of millions of years, he was discovered by aliens. Even if alien civilizations have occupied the earth, they still greatly appreciate the existence of human beings. They say: human beings must be the key to the meaning of existence, Through art, poetry, mathematical formulas, they have a million interpretations of the meaning of life.
As a part of the vast universe, human beings will eventually die like other animals and leave this world. In this sense, human beings are also an object. But, as the film explains: Humans are not content to exist only as an object, they want to exist as a subject. And showing the problem through artificial intelligence, through disembodied robots, seems to be more telling.
The experience of beauty: the objectified world of sentient beings,
The non-player character in the game is the object character. As an object, it is like a table and chair in a picture. It can be burned, watered, destroyed, and modified at any time. The difference is that it is set to be a simulated person. Object, it is the same as other human beings’ food, clothing, housing and transportation. The difference is that its life is set by the program, and it is a closed loop controlled: fixed occupation, fixed route, and even fixed Clothes and skin are precisely such an object. When it encounters the "dream lover", the code is activated and becomes an artificial intelligence for the first time. With self-awareness, it gradually changes from an object to a subject.
The game's developers, Millie and "Keyboard", have always wanted to create a game of their own. They succeeded, but the most creative part of the game was not favored by investors. The big BOSS only valued the code that the game could make money. Others It was sealed and plagiarized by the boss, and the ideal and enthusiasm of "keyboard" was also sealed.
The setting of their original game is an observation game, where the player is watching it grow, or rather watch computer-generated characters interact and even evolve.
Whenever Millie looked back at the video of interviewing them, she would think of the excited appearance of "Keyboard" dancing, and "Keyboard" herself said that it seemed that she was not writing code, but writing and creating. Create between 0 and 1. Even the little brother in blue said at the end, "I just wrote a love letter to you, and the person who wrote the love letter is in your world." There may also be a romantic god of love behind the 0 and 1, and the manifestation of myth is the moment when imagination and reality are reunited.
Humans know what their own values are, or in other words, human beings know what their own values are. It is not just technology, but the driving force for development within human beings. This is the divinity in human beings, a kind of transcendence. In "Out of Control Players", the type of game that the main creator of the game wants to develop is an open-ended game. This game is to observe the game and observe the interaction and growth of various characters. Such a community game is not just to create a game The sentient world, which is separated from the cold, rigid and rigid object, returns to the emotional world full of rich subjectivity, which is the so-called sentient world.
At the same time, it is not difficult to find that the beach wall in "Out of Control" is also a tribute to "The Truman World". Of course, "The Truman World" is also resisting the limited life and striving to develop human subjectivity.
Art is the re-creation of myth
Mythologist Campbell has found a common story in a variety of myths, that is: a hero bravely enters the supernatural and magical realm from the everyday world: where the legendary power is encountered, and the decisive Victory: The hero returns from a mysterious adventure with this power to bless his people. This is an important thought expounded in Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces".
Of course, the settings of the game are more inseparable from the mythological elements, and many of the game and the rules of the game are based on mythological stories.
The hero with a thousand faces that Campbell said refers to each of us, but more precisely, it should be every subject with subjectivity.
Campbell believes that the artist is the creator of modern mythology. "Out of Control Player" shows the understanding of game and life of game creators who rely on technology. When it comes to technology, people often feel that technology and myth are deviated. But this "Out of Control Player" and "Artificial Intelligence" seem to be the mutual endorsement of technology and myth, technology returns to myth, and myth gives birth to technology. Myth has never opposed science and technology. Of course, the research methods and methods of science and technology seem to be deviating from myth, but the power to promote the development of science and technology often comes from myth.
From the natural myth to the science and technology myth, it may imply the inherent inseparability of science and technology and myth. This kind of inner connection makes the development of science and technology full of the core and spiritual power of mythology. Such technology often displays the power of mythology in the form of artificial intelligence.
"A young Native American at his bar mitzvah,
Got a little advice:
'On the road of life,
You will see a huge pothole. skip it.
It's not as wide as you might think. '
So, back to the question we started with: What is - or what will be, the new myth? It is - and always will be, as long as human beings exist, the old, living, enduring myth, in its In terms of subjective meaning”, the poetic renewal of myth is neither based on the memory of the past nor the projected future, but the present. That is, it is not used to flatter "nations," but to awaken individuals to know themselves, not just to serve the ego's fight for a place on the surface of this beautiful planet, but to be treated as equals To be the center of the "Heart of the Udi" - each one in his own way with the whole. "—from The Myth of Living
The "keyboards" are the current Oedipus. Although they have created a perfect online ecology, this perfect world built by human fantasy, still comes from offline creators. Although they are obsessed with online Perfect, controllable, free, but in the ultimate vision of the game, I still don't want to fall into the old model of stagnation, imitation, and entertainment. They use code to open a door for the present and the future. This door leads to a more open life, a life free from binary oppositions such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and they believe that the meaning of life needs to be constantly discovered and developed. , is not simply a set up game loop.
Just like the blue-clothed brother in "Out of Control", in a game that encourages "beating, smashing and looting" to earn levels, he quickly escalated and became popular by doing good deeds, and it was the one who created this blue-clothed brother. "Keyboard", although he is a top student who graduated from a famous school, he and Millie created a high-profile original game from the very beginning, but he was inevitably hit by the commercial society and faced the reality. But he wrote all his inner desires in the code, just like the little brother in blue said to Millie: "I'm just a love letter to you, the person who wrote the love letter is in your world", obviously although we It is difficult to get rid of the temptation of the game world and fantasy world, but after all, we have to return to reality.
The road of subjectification of the blue-clothed brother is similar to what Campbell said about the hero's journey, and it is also similar to
"On the road of life,
You will see a huge pothole. skip it.
It's not as wide as you might think. "
Lan Yigai bravely jumped out of the glass curtain wall by the sea, completed a transformation, and finally returned to the world of "Free Life", where it is not every day smashing and looting, here is another ideal life, and of course also There are new crises. However, we believe that Gai, who has been upgraded to a subject, should deal with it calmly. The most important thing is not his individual success, but that people see the infinite potential hidden in people through his success, and this potential for development comes from subjectivity. , only when a person has the power to pursue subjectivity, will he have unlimited potential. Isn't this the manifestation of ancient myths in the new generation?
Therefore, from the natural myth to the current code myth are myths written by human subjectivity, but we strive to achieve ourselves, but we strive to develop our subjectivity. This process can move people, infect people, and inspire people. Isn't this the magic of mythology?
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