Who cares about science when algorithms can explain everything?

Edmond 2022-04-21 09:03:01

It is a very high-level subject. Since human cloning technology was mentioned, it has always had high dialectical logic and humanistic considerations, and it can always inadvertently issue grotesque logical extensions. However, these have nothing to do with this film. If this film is really considered from the plot, it can be said that it is Keanu Reeves' dream. As long as he can resurrect his lover and live together again, everything else is not a problem.

Cloning technology is difficult, how to clone a human body perfectly? I'm sorry, I'm not a medical student, I can only understand from what I see in the plot: this is Ed's research field. His method is to ripen a person from the embryo and compress a person's growth process in Within 17 days, I don't know why it is 17 days, but since the mother and child are also ripened within 17 days, it is not difficult to find that the ripening process can be adjusted artificially, so 17 days is not a fixed number. , according to different algorithms can have different ripening effects. But are the clones produced in this way the same as normal people? Ed's explanation is to stop the ripening and come out of some kind of cabin. Without thinking, the brain is equivalent to a blank piece of paper. Of course, this explanation is definitely not scientific. I think it is probably like the wolf child. Without any influence from the outside world, the brain will not generate any knowledge on its own, and the baby's brain is only equipped with a mature body.

So after that, you need to enter the field of male protagonists, brain transplantation. Of course, this is not like the normal logic of transplanting an undead brain to a cloned body, but a probe that takes a few minutes at most to copy the entire brain to a hard disk-like thing ( The efficiency is simply amazing), I was also fortunate enough to watch "Transcendental Hackers", which also downloaded human brain data. It took Depp several days to actively upload thinking data by relying on his dying body, but this film didn't go away. Transcendental hackers upload their thoughts to the computer, but directly to an artificial brain. This is even more amazing. To some extent, the most difficult problem to overcome, the male protagonist is actually already in the background setting of the story. Solved, there is no difference between an artificial brain and a human brain! However, how can the plot develop so smoothly? So experiment No. 345 must fail. Of course, I think the experiment itself is a success at all. It is because the brain provider's ability to accept is too poor to accept that he has a machine body, so he engages in self-harm? Then enter the main storyline.

In the rainy day, the road could not be clearly seen, but the male protagonist was still talking while driving without mercy. As expected, he was attacked by a tree trunk that was suddenly blown away by the wind, and the car crashed and killed people! Oh no, although it's not clear why the male protagonist's car didn't even deploy the airbag, but the male protagonist only had a scratch on his forehead, while the co-pilot and passengers all died. Well, without evaluation, there are all kinds of traffic accidents, and this is not impossible. At this time, the rain was very face-saving, and it suddenly became much smaller, so the male protagonist decisively contacted his good partner: Ed, like all supporting roles in the movie, Ed unconditionally provided all assistance to the protagonist, including: Evacuated all the company's equipment (I can't understand that such a large-scale equipment was stolen by him, and his colleagues were silent after that), kept making up excuses to cover up the fact that the male lead and his family were missing for 17 days, gave the male lead Continually provide cover at work. After all the second half of the plot suddenly took a turn for the worse, the male protagonist was trapped by his boss, and Ed had no choice but to betray the male protagonist. In fact, it is the most reasonable from the plot, otherwise this company will close down sooner or later, and the rights of the employees are too great.

emmm, next is the plot of the sudden success of cloning technology, very weak, very weak! Not even scientific! The male protagonist accidentally finds that his wife's brain responds only when he touches his wife. At other times, the brain remains unresponsive. He excitedly tells Ed that he has discovered a barrier to the failure of the brain transplantation technology: the brain needs a living body! It seems reasonable, do you think about it? As mentioned earlier, the essence of cloning technology is to ripen human beings, so even if the brain does not grow, at least there must be basic activities. Is the baby brain dead as soon as it is born? How could there be no response? Then, her brain only realizes she has a body when you touch her? Does this brain have no memory? In the end, this doesn't actually explain why the male protagonist's experiments have always failed, because from the artificial brain experiment No. 345, there is no problem with the brain's thinking transplant. Finally, the male protagonist can use the machine body normally with his own thinking, so why clone a human being The brain has been unable to transplant thinking normally? It can only be understood that the cloned human brain is defective, and there is no artificial brain practical, which excludes all thought transmission. How to solve it in the end? Two words: algorithm. The magic of the male protagonist is here. All the problems that can be explained and cannot be explained by the male protagonist are solved by the word algorithm. Why can't Experimenter 345 accept his machine body? The algorithm is wrong. Why does transplanting brain data into clones keep failing? The algorithm is wrong. Why did the wife and daughter suddenly remember the young daughter who had been deleted by themselves and have nightmares? The algorithm is wrong. Okay, everything is the fault of the algorithm. There is no difference between the human mind and the computer program code. As long as the code is correct, all problems can be solved.

During the period, there are still some hidden problems. For example, the cloned wife of the male protagonist suddenly felt unwell during the jogging process. It should be a lung problem based on the location. The wife and daughter of the male protagonist can recall the deleted daughter and even restore it. In the memory of the car accident, the male protagonist's son's body has always been incoherent. He kept pouring sauces on breakfast, pouring food into drink cups, and a series of unexplained eye contact. When I thought that these clones had some problems and needed to be dealt with later by the male protagonist, the male protagonist did an operation that I am amazed at: put the device on the daughter again, and continue to use the algorithm to delete her memory! It completely overturned my evaluation of the entire movie. If there was no such nonsense magical setting, I would still give this movie 4 stars. Seeing this, I decided to lower it to 2 stars! Has the director never thought about what this means? The thinking of clones can be deleted and changed at will with the algorithm of the male protagonist!

The villain's big boss is going to use the male protagonist's algorithm to replicate the fighter pilots and continue the life of the dying. It's normal, businessman logic, probably has a military background, and successfully catches up with the trend of American blockbusters, there must always be some conspiracy guided by the government of. The male protagonist here is very passive. The clones have trackers on their bodies. Let’s not talk about when the clones that start to ripen from the embryos are planted with the trackers. The female protagonist can directly track the trackers with a medical defibrillator. What is the operation if the device burns people and it doesn't matter ? Sure enough, there is a conventional routine here: the killer finds the wrong room and the male protagonist successfully escapes, such an old routine, there is no tension at all. I just want to scold people: Why do so many of you go up together, isn't it good to leave one person on the ground guarding the car? Doesn't the inpatient department of the hospital have special signal shielding? If you are not strong enough, you can still go to the radiology department. You will not be discovered by the interference frequency band alone. Do you have to follow such a routine plot?

The male protagonist can't find the key to the boat, and the whole family is captured by the killer. The plot here is even more routine. From the villain's big boss's call, you can know that there must be a traitor, and there can only be one traitor on the male protagonist's side in the whole plot: Ed . And the male protagonist didn't remember to call Ed and tell him to run away all the way. It can be seen that it is really a plastic brotherhood. The male protagonist left his family in the car and ran all the way to drive the boat. Basically, he would definitely not be able to run away. In fact, the villain boss can send someone to hide in the cabin to shoot the male protagonist. Anyway, you should get on the boat first. The key is gone, but in the end, I still have to follow a routine, arresting the family and coercing the male protagonist to hand over the algorithm himself. (The villain, I said, do you have quality or not?)

In the final plot, there is no climax, there is really no climax , the hospital in front is a routine, and the male protagonist's family is arrested is also a routine, this movie really has no climax! The villain watched the male protagonist start the robot step by step, probably because he couldn't understand what the male protagonist was doing, thought he was writing an algorithm, and it was acceptable. After that, the robot ran out and you all stared at the robot and shot the male protagonist to save lives . mean? Have you ever thought about putting a gun on the head of the heroine? Let's see what the two main characters are going to do. Powerless to complain, the villain's IQ, no wonder the movie can't have a climax. As for Ed, decisive cannon fodder, I don't know why I believe that the villain's big boss won't hurt anyone. I don't believe it when I hear the heroine say that the big boss wants to kill them! Get the box lunch you wished, but still expect the brain to be intact? After looking at the glorious appearance of the protagonist of the machine, it is estimated that his cloning technology is fully backed up in the company, and he cannot achieve the unique status of the male protagonist at all.

Finally, happy ending, two male protagonists: the human male protagonist spent 17 days to clone the little daughter, and the family lived happily together, the standard American ending. Robot male protagonist: To be the big boss behind the company and to use his own algorithm to extend the lives of the local tyrants in Dubai is quite satisfactory. So the director really didn't figure out what kind of super plug-in the algorithm can change the mind of the clone at will. For example, the robot hero here can completely change the brain of the villain's boss, so the boss will change his ways and return to the right. No more looking for a human male lead. Who doesn't like such a tempting technology after that? Who doesn't want to live forever? One by one clone, the brain will be changed, and finally the world will be ruled smoothly from top to bottom. There will be no objection at all. If there is objection, then clone you, upload the protagonist's thinking, and click you directly. Drop, delete all your family's memory about you, one-stop service, oh ho ho hoo! With this technology, all human beings will no longer have secrets and estrangements. In the whole area of ​​the thinking download device, the probe can be inserted into the eye, and the memory can be read at will. Harmony and unity are just around the corner.

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Replicas quotes

  • Ed Whittle: I'm not a freaking genie here, OK? I can't just sneeze out another pod.

  • Will Foster: Three's not four.