Before watching this film, my impression of cloning technology rests on a photo of cloned Dolly the sheep in the biology textbook. By using modern technology to process sheep’s mammary gland cells to cultivate furry organisms, it really exists in front of humans. It breathes, eats, and grows. Its genes come from another sheep, which is a reproduction of the previous individual. This is an incredible experiment brought about by modern science.
However, as people enrich their imaginations about cloning technology, worries and widespread controversy follow. Many sci-fi works have in-depth discussions on the subject of human cloning, such as Ishiguro Kazuo’s literary work "Don't Lose and Never Forget", as well as this 2018 "Clone" movie, just like the audience expounds ethics and humanity. The proposition of immortality.
Several important stages can be extracted from the movie "Clone". The reaction of the characters and the advancement of the plot vividly interpret the series of influences that clones have on social emotions, ethics, and morals, and explain why. At the moment, cloning technology is the reason why many countries have banned it.
1. The "artificial human" secret project undertaken by the male lead doctor
The situation reflected in the film shows that this project has been advancing for some time, and a huge enterprise is also operating for it. However, it has repeatedly failed. The film first shows an officer donor who was used to extract neural data after the legal attributes were determined in the authorization document. A nerve probe is pierced into the human lacrimal gland, and the human brain is replicated in the robotic artificial human by transmitting data, thereby activating the artificial human. However, when the artificial human was given consciousness, it looked at its manipulator and became very frightened. The only question it asked was "Who am I", and its tone gradually became crazy and violent. Eventually it began to amputate itself. Destroy itself until the power is turned off by the male protagonist. Everything fell into silence.
From this perspective, although the company is currently conducting research on artificial humans, in fact their true intention is to achieve the purpose of "life does not need to be terminated", that is, to achieve the eternal flow of individual value through the transmission of memory. This is undoubtedly terrifying to me. After a living body physically dies, even if its spirit still exists, can it still be called himself?
Including the almost maddening question of artificial people-who am I, in fact, is a major ethical problem facing cloning technology. Even if modern technology allows us to survive in the original state in the eyes of others, for us, are we still ourselves? This is a deep question that needs to be explored.
In addition, the film later explained the reasons for the male protagonist’s repeated failures. The reason why patients undergoing organ transplantation will not self-ampute their limbs, while artificial humans have frantically mutilated themselves. In the final analysis, the reason is the rejection of the body. This kind of rejection makes the brain not know its connection with this limb, and it will cause disorder in subjective thinking like an artificial human.
2. Cloning relatives after a family car accident
Briefly retell the process of cloning relatives. After the car accident, the male protagonist’s wife and three children were all killed. In order to save all of this, the male protagonist took the risk to steal the company’s cloned car to "resurrect" them. (Due to the limited number of cloned cars, he can only resurrect three people, and in the end he painfully took away the right to survival of the youngest daughter). The cloning car is filled with various small molecules such as amino acids and monosaccharides as raw materials, and the 17-day cloning process has been started by starting the sequence determination. If they are not taken out for seventeen days, they will continue to grow, which may be followed by cancer and aging.
Most of the plots here are supported by biological theories, about cell proliferation and differentiation, senescence and canceration. Although the horror of the accident is far greater than the chance of success, when the hero is unwilling to give up this opportunity. We can also see once again that human nature and human emotions play an important role in maintaining social intimacy. The wife of the male protagonist said before his death: Human beings are not only neurochemistry, not just paths, electrical signals and chemistry, but also love and soul that make up human beings.
But this also exposed the potential problem of human cloning, that is, human emotions. If such a technology is opened up, from a criminal perspective, if the technology falls into the hands of criminals, the fingerprints of the clone and the body are exactly the same as the DNA, which will bring great obstacles to the investigation and trial; and from the general family From an ethical point of view, people hope that their families can live longer, but when this technology is developed, people’s lives will no longer be restricted by genes, because as long as they have the right to use this technology, It can spread to one's own clones from generation to generation. There is a serious problem with this situation, and that is the class nature of cloning-as a scarce technology, the high cost is a barrier to divide the rights of the rich and the poor. In most cases, the rich, celebrities, and geniuses have priority. With this technology, how can the allocation and flow of resources ensure fairness? As long as there is the possibility of immortality, some people will fight for this opportunity at all costs, then it is very likely to cause violence, crime, and even war. So for now, I still think that not developing this technology is the best choice, so that people can cherish their lives and bodies more, pay attention to the safety of diet and work and rest, and try their best in a limited time. To create your own value and realize the meaning of "self".
The above is a general analysis of the impact of cloning technology, in fact, it is also worth exploring for the clone itself.
Does the cloning technology itself have an emotional harm to the cloned object? Of course, people who actively choose this technology to prolong life should be excluded here, and the passive situation should be discussed instead. When a person died unexpectedly, his relatives chose to clone him at all costs in exchange for the extension of his life, and he did not know it. Then after cloning and transferring the memory (in this film, the memory is materialized and turned into a storage, which can be added and deleted. In fact, it is extremely scary to think carefully), will there be rejection reactions in the brain? Can this be coordinated by immunosuppressive agents again? If he cannot accept the fact of being cloned, then the clone will inspire a self-destructive mode, and this kind of damage is irreversible for social emotions and family relationships.
When a person is secretly cloned, he is completely disconnected from the world around him. However, his close contact with the world will always make some people notice his departure. For this movie, the male protagonist wants to resurrect his relatives. He chose to cover up these loopholes with one lie after another, but these harms to society are objective and unshakable. So after the clone has regained consciousness, how can he live normally in this world with this lack of society? Love is beautiful and moves people’s hearts, but sometimes love makes us impulsive and undeniably makes people selfish-selfishly resurrecting a person, selfishly to reverse history, using the innovation of science and technology as a tool, using Money is used as a bargaining chip, and people have become their own gods. However, we cannot use science to deny science itself, which is the deeper reason why cloning technology cannot be implemented.
#0809-Beijing: Yesterday, when I was watching a movie, there was a strong wind and showers outside, and the lightning was shiningly smearing the night into the day. Maybe someone is in the future reminding us: Remember, let it be a science fiction movie forever, otherwise, the truth will be more terrifying than Raiden.
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