"Between the World": I am dead, so I am

Colleen 2022-01-22 08:02:12

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In the crusade where the crowd yelled "murderer", in the police fire, Stiller Fred, who jumped on the roof of the car, fell down. He yelled, "This is all Siskins before the blood leaked from his body." Conspiracy..." And another Fred woke up on the test bench, beside Eva Wolmore, in this closed world, Fred was looking for an exit, but the window was closed tightly—a Dying in the public domain, a waking up in a closed world, in parallel shots, life and death constitute a montage narrative: it was the death of Fred who exposed the Siskins conspiracy that made him beside Eva Fred wakes up? In other words, the death of the virtual world is the reason why the real world wakes up?

Life and death, cause and effect, public sphere and private space, constitute a counterpoint relationship. In the binary opposition, it seems that there is a tendency to make a judgment about which is the virtual world and which is the real world, but the logic of this judgment lies in where? Or before Fred was shot, the truth that another Eva told him became an important clue to Fred's realization of self: Eva said that she was "the person above", and the person who appeared in front of Fred at this time Just a shadow, "I am the projection of Eva in this world." She just helped Fred escape from the current predicament, and Fred, who was caught in the virtual world, picked up the gun Eva gave him and pointed it at himself If he ends his life at this time, or enters the closed world, he can come early, but he did not pull the trigger. He saw Eva in the mirror, and Eva told him: "Your world has no Iraq at all. Baby, you are just being reorganized.” The implication is that the Eva seen by Fred is really just a virtual image in the mirror, and she has no ability to control her own existence at all, “and they just want to Delete you, pull the plug and you will be completely gone. They just feel the fun from your horror." Fred can't control himself. He is just a code controlled by Siskins and Smolekjon. , But the system didn’t want to delete him, because he had fun in the inescapable game in the virtual world where he was a unit. Even Fred took the gun and didn’t pull the trigger, which became part of the controlled game.

He has not been deleted because there is the meaning of the game, and this is also the beginning of Fred's self-consciousness in the virtual world. Self-consciousness should be able to control himself, but it is also part of the control system. In this contradictory world Here, the only thing Fred can be saved is one possibility: love. Eva came to Fred as a projection and told him the truth. Fred questioned: "Why should I believe you?" And Eva's answer was: "I love you." Fred continued to ask her: " Why do humans fall in love with non-humans?" Eva's answer was: "Because you remind me of the person I love, he is on top, is the technical director." Fred asked her, "What is his name?" Baby replied: "Stiller Fred." Fred, who heard the name, said in surprise: "It's me." And Eva's answer was: "You are just a copy of him, but I am more love you."

Fred above, Fred below, real Fred, virtual Fred, arrogant Fred, cautious Fred, when humans fall in love with non-humans, it is actually beyond Reality and fiction, surpassing the body and the shadow, in this love against the game, Fred seems to be saved. He knows his identity, he obtains the truth of the system, he has self-awareness, of course, he The final death can be seen as a kind of deletion of the self-because the conspiracy has been announced, the death has turned into a protest against the entire control system. In this process, the "below" Fred was able to gain self-knowledge, the awareness of the control system, and even the awareness of the existence of the game. This is the most critical breakthrough. Those words of Eva actually further confirmed his expectations, and this Consciousness started gradually along with Fred's experience of self and his understanding of other things. Then when did Fred know that he was just a code in a system, just a unit identity in a virtual world?

Fred "above" as the technical director of Smolly Keron, of course knows the operation of the entire system. At a press conference, he and Siskins introduced this system. The simulation model has tremendous energy. , It creates an artificial virtual world under the action of loops, electronic pulses and reflections. It produces its own life. This life system is Smolekeron. There are thousands of unit identities in this system. Each unit identity has its own imagination and memory. They copy human behavior, almost like real people, but their existence is to predict the future of human beings, that is, they exist as future people, and their purpose is It is to create a future life, implement government policies, and build a more humane and fairer new world. Technology can change human beings and tend to be more reasonable in avoiding wrong behaviors, but technology can also be controlled by people, including Siskins, including United Steel Corporation Chairman Hartman. Their purpose is to use this system for To realize one's own conspiracy, that is to say, the thousands of unit identities in Smolai Keron are all tools controlled by them.

Fred is undoubtedly a kind of tool. From above to below, from reality to virtual, from arrogance to caution, this is a kind of metaphor for the fall of mankind, but in fact, Fred as above has never appeared, when Fassbin When De used Fred as the sole point of view to make a film narrative, this Fred was actually the "below" controlled Fred, but at the beginning he did not realize that he was just a tool in the conspiracy theory. , And he also walked through the real world and the virtual world step by step, witnessing the various events that happened step by step, and getting closer to the truth step by step before he gradually gained self-awareness, and grew into an "I" just like a real person—— Fred is exactly where Fassbender’s hope lies, it is the existence of self-saving for the future world, and the symbol of love that dies in the virtual world and needs to be reawakened-a reorganized construction that is lost to mankind The salvation of reality is the interpretation of self-anxiety existence, the exposure of manipulative conspiracy. When he finally embraced Eva, his human declaration was: "I am, I am."

I was established from the realization that I was not myself, and Fred appeared in Fassbender’s lens for the first time after the death of Dr. Walmore. In this sense, it can be completely regarded as It is a sign of the division of two worlds. In the previous world, Secretary of State Winlab and assisted Hulse to enter the Institute of Cybernetics and Future Technology together, and the head of the security department, Loutz, took them to the Siskins office. At that time, Siskins was in charge. Dr. Walmore of the Smalley Cron system. When Siskins wanted Walmore to introduce the computer prediction system, something strange happened: Dr. Walmore took out a mirror and asked Winlab to look in the mirror. "It’s you." Walmore said with a smile. He also showed Siskins. Winlab was puzzled. Siskins was very angry. At this time, Walmore said that he His head was constantly beating with a force. Siskins asked Lowz to accompany Walmore to rest, and Walmore told Lowz that his head had been exploded into thousands of pieces, saying that he had seen what others could not see. Stuff, and this is the end of the world. When Walmore walked out and walked through the instrument door by himself, the instrument door sounded an alarm. When Lawz rushed over, Walmore had fallen, and the piece of broken glass was pressing on him.

This is an image of Walmore's death. From facing the Secretary of State to talking to Lowz about what is in his head, and finally his death, it is all related to the mirror. At first it was a complete mirror, and then it became fragments in his head. , And finally reached the end of his life in the doomsday theory, and the image of death is broken glass—Walmer let Winlab see "you" in the complete mirror, but after seeing the end of the world, the mirror shattered , Of course the complete "you" is also broken. Walmore's death is a metaphor for human self-breaking. As a scientist, he saw the terrible future of mankind and confirmed his own death. This is the duality of science and technology-one you are broken, and the other I die. After Walmore’s death, Fred appeared as the technical director. He was Walmore’s successor. He was responsible for the technical development of the Smolekeron system, but this inheritance relationship was obviously split, because Walmore He was not there when Almore died. According to Fred himself, he was in the cabin on the top of the mountain. After Walmore died, after attending the funeral, he gave a full introduction to Smolek. Rong, introduced the unit identity, loop system, simulation model and virtual world, and accepted the police investigation of Walmore's death.

Everything looked the same, but when he found Lowz and talked about Walmore's death weird thing happened. When Walmore died, Lowz was the only person present. What Lowz told Fred was, Walmore was very strange, "Maybe he was crazy." When Fred continued to inquire, he turned around and found that Lautz, who was still in the chair just now, was missing. Louz's disappearance is the starting point of a series of events, and it is this starting point that triggered Fred's absence and made him know that he exists as a virtual symbol. Fred came to Walmore’s office and saw Walmore’s daughter Eva. When Fred talked about her uncle Lawz, Eva said that there was no uncle named Lawz at all. Her uncle was called Jacob Meconer died four years ago; he found Hahn Franz, who played chess with Walmore three days ago. Fred not only said that Walmore’s death may not have been an accident. He also talked about Lautz, who disappeared for no reason, but Franz didn’t seem to know Lautz. He told Fred that the head of the security department was a man named Hans Elycohen, and when they were talking, Han Si was watching the newspaper next to him; then Fred called Sheriff Rainer to inquire about the progress of the Walmore case. Rainer also said that he had never heard of this case, and of course he did not know who Lauz was... …

Louz disappeared from under Fred’s nose. From being present to not present, Fred was the only witness, but everyone around him didn’t know who Louz was. In this sense, before Fred appeared It is possible that Walmore’s death happened in the virtual world, including Loutz, Winlab, Hulse, and Siskins who were present at the time. They may all be just a symbol of the virtual world, but another kind of symbol. It may be: it was in the real world at the time, and everyone was real. Only Louz was a virtual symbol-and this was a clue when Fred was making the connection of unit identities. Connected and entered the virtual world, looking for Einstein No. 0001, but when entering the virtual world entered by the elevator, he saw Lautz walking through the elevator to borrow the fire. When Fred returned, he did not find any information about Lau in the system. Any information about this, but when entering the 55-year-old single and other information during the identity test, there is an identity called Lowz—this undoubtedly confirms that Lowz is just a unit identity, not the existence of the real world.

It was from this point that Fred began to suspect that there were conspiracy theories in the entire system, including Walmore’s death, including Loutz’s disappearance, which were all controlled symbols, which meant that they became Siskins and Ha Terman is a tool for colluding with each other for his own benefit. This is a sign of Fred’s awakening of self-consciousness. This sign actually has many clues: When Fred was walking on the street, there was a crane on top of his head following him, and there were bricks on it. When De wanted to borrow fire from passers-by, the brick fell. Fortunately, Fred escaped, but the woman was killed innocently. When he wanted to enter the virtual world to connect with Einstein No. 0001, Fred Langz said he had suicidal tendencies, and the report was provided by No. 7326, his name was Christopher Norberty-Norberty is Nobody, a kind of unmanned existence, when you see it in the virtual world Louz, when Fred wanted to connect with this Nobody, Franz told him that Norberty had been deleted by the system, "He no longer exists, he is in heaven." Norberty is a person who can delete at any time. The symbol of, then Einstein related to Norberty is of course also a symbol, Lauz who borrowed fire from Einstein is also a symbol, and Walmore, who died when Lauz was present, is also a symbol—the whole event is a virtual system. . For Fred, another reason for finding Norberty is that his name contains the spelling letters of "Zeno", C·N is the abbreviation of Christopher Norberty, and Frey De added E after C and O after N, CE·NO became Zeno, and Zeno’s most famous is "Zeno Paradox". In Walmore's office, F Reid found a picture drawn by the doctor on the paper. A Greek soldier holding a spear, stepped his leg to the left, followed by a tortoise, and made the same action-this is "Ah The famous paradox that Kiris can't run the tortoise. The reason why this paradox becomes a paradox lies in the creation of a "movement illusion", which limits time in the indivisibility of movement.

Why did Walmore paint Achilles and the tortoise? Of course he pointed out the paradox about time, implying that Smolley Keron, who can predict future events, is actually controlling the present, and it can never become a prediction of the future. In another sense, when Zeno’s paradox recognizes Extensive, and emphasized the point of nonextensive. In fact, it emphasized the divergence of mechanical theory represented by Descartes and Gassandi, and the foreshadowing of this "moving illusion" also helped Fred find himself. Consciousness brought a breakthrough. After Fred learned about Siskins’ conspiracy theory, he said to Winlab, who came to discuss whether Smolley Kjon could predict the future for the government: “What you have in your hand Is a cigarette really a cigarette?" This caused Wen Laber’s doubts. This statement seems to be a reprint of Walmore’s mirror: the person in the mirror is just a virtual image of you, and the cigarette in your hand is just the appearance of the cigarette—from Starting from the cigarette, Fred quoted Descartes’s famous saying: “I think, therefore I am.” In his opinion, thought is the only real existence, and what seems to be is just like a cigarette. To deny that everything you see is true means that only thinking, imagination, etc. are regarded as a kind of reality, which is undoubtedly a kind of transcendence. The so-called real world is full of conspiracy and control, and only the world of thought belongs to oneself. It is the only one that can resist these falsehoods, that is to say, the judgment of truth and falsehood has risen from the physical level to the spiritual level, and it is at this spiritual level that I will stand out.

When Fred uttered the definition of reality, his identity as a unit of the virtual world actually possessed a sense of self that people in the real world did not have. This was of course a transcendence, but in this "I think, therefore I am" In the world, for Fred, it is also full of difficulties to reach the true reality. He started to have a headache. He couldn't find the Eva who loved him. He saw Hahn's car rushed down the river and drowned. What kind of solution is needed to go from the virtual world to the real world? That is to encounter a failure, but this rarely occurs, and even the software will be corrected, but for Fred, perhaps causing an accident or going to death is the only way to end the identity of the unit. He finally came to the chalet on the top of the mountain. This was the scene where Walmore was when he died. This time his return indicates that he has come to the beginning of the incident. Strangely, Eva also appeared, when Fred sent Eva away. , What he saw was a big wolfhound in the woods. He hunted down the big wolfhound with a shotgun, and also hunted down the virtual Eva, and then the cabin on the top of the mountain was blown up—obviously, whether it was The projection of Eva turned into a great wolfdog, or the cabin that was blown up, Fred was still under control. He could not escape the predicament and the pain, and finally shouted, "This is Siskins' conspiracy." "When he fell, he let a symbol really die.

It is confirmed from the disappearance of Lowz that the Other is a unit identity, and from Walmore’s Zeno’s paradox, that the existence of the self is a virtual symbol, from telephone booths, cabins, cigarettes by fire, connection of lines, etc. Smolai Keron made a breakthrough in technology. Fred fully knew that he was a "below" person, but he was aware of himself, the real existence of thought, and the possibility that humans love non-humans and non-humans love humans. Sex, the one I changed from the virtual image of the mirror to the existence of "I think, therefore I am", Fred seems to have found a way back to the real world. But a huge virtual world, with thousands of unit identities, is always a prison. Even if the virtual symbols are eliminated by death, the world is still difficult to escape. "I think, therefore I am" is a confirmation of human beings. But in Fassbender’s world, this is obviously too optimistic. When one Fred dies and the other Fred wakes up, he is actually still being manipulated, and he still can’t get out of the closed world: in front of Eva, he Seeing that the window was opened, it was a joy to let him see the real world outside. He pulled Eva, stroked her body, picked her up, kissed her, and yelled "I am, I am". In the sound, he became himself-but all this happened in a room that didn’t go out. That kind of love happened between Eva who existed as a projection and Fred who thought as a real existence. But it’s another controlled world—whether it’s the control of imagination by "I think, therefore I am", or the confirmation of consciousness by "I am therefore I am", perhaps the only action that truly escapes time, escapes control, escapes from the virtual, just Yes: I am dead, so I am, just as Dr. Walmore saw the invisible before he died, and saw the existence of the end of the world.

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  • Gloria Fromm: The way you describe it is fascinating.

    Fred Stiller: You're fascinating.

  • Fred Stiller: Here's a riddle I came across: imagine a drawing of a Greek warrior holding a spear looking to his right and taking a step. With a turtle going the same way. First, does that ring a bell? Ever seen such a drawing?

    Franz Hahn: Me? What's this all about?

    Fred Stiller: Vollmer left me this drawing. Does it mean anything to you?

    Franz Hahn: Bizarre, if you ask me.

    Fred Stiller: Bizarre, sure. Does it remind you of anything?

    Franz Hahn: Maybe.

    Fred Stiller: What?

    Franz Hahn: Zeno.

    Fred Stiller: Zeno?

    Franz Hahn: Yes. Zeno's paradox. Achilles and the tortoise. Achilles tries to overtake the tortoise, but cannot. By the time he reaches where it was, the turtle has moved ahead.

    Fred Stiller: What could the paradox mean to our work?

    Franz Hahn: I'm only the psychologist for the creations. But, as I recall, the paradox is meant to show that movement is an illusion.