Generally speaking, there are several mediums:
1) Looking in the mirror-through the image reflected in the mirror, remembering where this face has appeared. In fact, if you lose your memory and you don’t have any objects around you that you can use to see yourself, you will neither know who you are nor what you look like. The first medium used in this movie is a mirror. Three of the protagonists wake up and first go to the bathroom. They can see their looks through a large mirror, and then they can inspire a short memory of this face. , But this kind of memory is generally relatively short-lived.
2) People or things you have seen in the past-at a certain moment you seem to feel that this person is familiar or that a certain object has appeared in the past, and then fragments of this person or thing begin to appear in your mind, just like fragments Same, it is very short-lived. This kind of deja vu has a professional term called déjà vu.
3) Scenes that happened in the past-this is probably similar to the previous point, except that people and things are replaced by scenes. The only difference is that the memories of this scene are no longer fragmented, but can be connected. Connected into a complete fragment.
4) Hypnosis-Hypnosis is actually to preset a scene for you, and then recall what happened in that scene by letting you go back to this scene again.
5) People-unlike the people who have met before, this person is the one who can define you. When all the above media have expired, and you still can't remember who you are, then someone will jump out and call you Mike. From then on, you can only be Mike, not anyone else.
This is the real purpose of my film review-to explore the cognition of identity.
If you have a complete amnesia, you can't recall your identity through various means, suddenly someone jumps out and says to you, Mike, I know you, and you are a lawyer.
Another jumped out and said, Mike, you and your wife are divorced and you have no children.
So more and more people come out to define you.
Maybe all this is nonsense. Who knows if you are a lawyer or not? You find that you don’t have any knowledge about the law. It doesn’t matter. It may be because you have lost this part of your memory; your wife did not show up, and they explained that she had already With a new family, I don't want to get involved anymore.
So you believed it. Your name is Mike. You are a lawyer. You used to have a family, but now you have nothing.
You start to supplement your knowledge of the law in order to better match the role of a lawyer; you start to try to find a new family because you firmly believe that you only have a divorced wife, and she already has a new family.
You are more and more in line with other people's interpretations of you, you are the lawyer Mike, you have become the husband of a certain woman, and the father of a certain child.
Is there another self? Maybe it's Jack, a vagrant with a wife and children, who are desperate for life because of their disappearance. Maybe there is such a possibility, but who will care. You are Mike now.
Between Mike and Jack, which one is the real self?
Is it an image that appeared on a certain timeline in the past, or is it a real body now?
If thinking works, is there anything Mike’s way of thinking is the same as Jack’s now?
Your identity has been defined. You have a brand new name, a brand new family, a brand new lifestyle, a brand new way of thinking. In the past you were in the slums of New York, but now you appear in the rich districts. Your trajectory has nothing to do with the past. Intersection, you are Mike, but you and Jack share the same body, then who are you? Are you Mike or Jack?
If you are still called Jack, you have no memory loss, you just want to get rid of your past life, you work hard and finally become a lawyer, you have a new family after your divorce, you move out of the slum area to the rich area, Your thinking now is no longer the position of Jack in the past, but the position of Jack now. This is very common for many of us, but we will not be in danger of identity. We only think that this is a kind of progress, getting rid of the past. .
What exactly defines you? Is it just the name? What is the difference between your name Jack and your name Mike? Of course, when your parents first named them, these two names were really accidental, meaningless, and once the name was given a certain meaning, it slowly expanded into a person, a you, A complete you, a flesh and blood you.
This swollen you is a collection of various identities, peripheral relationships, lifestyles, ways of thinking, etc. Changing one of them will not change your own perception, just like using different clothes with the same skirt is still the upper and lower body It’s completely different if you replace it with a dress.
There was once an ancient thought experiment-The Ship of Theseus. The earliest records from Plutarch. It describes a ship that can sail at sea for hundreds of years, thanks to uninterrupted repairs and replacement parts. As long as a board rots, it will be replaced, and so on, until all the functional parts are not the first ones. The question is, is the resulting ship still the original ship of Theseus, or a completely different ship? If it is not the original ship, when is it no longer the original ship? For philosophers, the ship of Theseus is used to study the nature of identity. Especially discuss whether an object is only equal to the sum of its constituent parts.
If we replace the existing identity with a complete swelled identity, is it a new person?
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