[Many of the following are my guesses and unofficial settings]
If the earth entity is removed and only the electromagnetic signal is retained, you will see a huge sparkle Glowing spherical network. "Good Omen" has such a description. But when Cameron and WETA Studio really showed all this before, I was still not deeply shocked. The planet Pandora, the satellite of Alpha Centauri B-4, uses the plants and animals of the entire planet to construct a magnificent planetary network. There is a existence of Na'vi who is regarded as a god in the network-Eywa.
What is Eywa?
In the eyes of the Na'vi people, the Virgin Eywa is their spiritual sustenance and maintains a natural balance, a bit like the earth goddess Gaia who has long been venerated on earth. Later, the female scientist made a more scientific explanation: this "god" is real. Then all the neutral creatures fought back, which also confirmed the existence of Eywa. Some people explain that Eywa is the nerve center of the entire planetary network, or the immune system, and this counterattack is the immune system's self-defense. But this explanation is equivalent to acquiescing that Eywa is an unconscious system. But the film emphasizes the divinity of Eywa. The guidance of the protagonist and the voices of countless ancestors indicate that Eywa is conscious.
My opinion is-Ewya is a complete consciousness body composed of many consciousnesses. Gestalt is a psychological concept. Simply put, it is 1+1>2. The combination of individuals with a single function will form a whole with more complex functions. Ewya is an aggregation of countless consciousnesses on the planet. Since each consciousness has its own way of thinking and purpose, they all want to push the whole to move in its own direction. The result of the joint force is that the overall behavior cannot be controlled by the individual consciousness. This is the collective unconsciousness of psychology. Neytiri also said that Eywa will not take sides, she only maintains natural balance and stability. This is exactly where all consciousness can reach a consensus.
This explains:
1. Why doesn't Eywa pre-estimate the damage like ordinary consciousness and react quickly to participate in the Na'vi people's counterattack;
2. Why does Eywa not completely eliminate the source of the virus-humans, like the immune system, but just enough.
Since this is a film director who needs artistic treatment, not hard science fiction, the ambiguous questions like whether the wood elves fall over Jack's body are manifestations or coincidences will not be filled.
Ewya's production of
Pandora's normal temperature superconducting ore absolutely played a decisive role in Pandora's biological evolution. Superconductivity has diamagnetism and superconductivity. Before Pandora creatures formed their own nervous system, they had the characteristics of nerve tissue in their own structure under the influence of such substances. The flagella surrounding the body under the soul tree should be a relatively primitive structure. This kind of external nerve tissue has played an important role in maintaining the information exchange within the species, the symbiotic parasitic relationship between species, and later sexual reproduction and social relationships. In evolution, plants have become memory and communication lines. Animals, due to their needs, retain the internal neural network and the external connection-Queue (braid). When the "nervous tissue" is enriched and divided, the "nervous system" is initially formed, that is, the hardware is basically completed.
When animals die, they may upload those primitive unformed consciousnesses to the neural network. With the gradual formation of civilization, this uploading becomes a deliberate, a ritual. In order to carry the consciousness of their ancestors, they must Gather around giant storages like home trees. The Na'vi people used religious rituals to promote the formation of the consciousness body, and at the same time gave the consciousness body the image of God-the Virgin Eywa.
Eywa and Religion
Earth’s primitive society has a lot of content involving soul and ancestor worship. In Pandora, this is not just a religious ritual. Na'vi people can indeed achieve spiritual communication with their ancestors. This behavior It also strengthened Na'vi’s religious beliefs.
There are two "soul crossings" in the film, which permanently transfers the consciousness from the human body to Ewya and then to the Avatar. The ceremony itself is shocking and strengthens the religious appeal. In its practical sense, because Eywa is an aggregation of too many consciousnesses, in order to prevent individual consciousness from being absorbed by the powerful Eywa, it is necessary to rely on everyone to establish a path under the leadership of the priest to shield external signals and ensure the stable transmission of signals. But Ewya must exist, just like when the siphon effect conducts oil, there must be atmospheric pressure.
Pandora and the earth are
in Pandora. Eywa is not a myth. The entire Pandora is an independent living body. The forest is her brain. Each tree is a neuron, connected by the tree, similar to our synapse. . All the creatures living in this place are part of her, which is why the Nami people have no war, no ownership, and no territory. The smaller willow trees are like access points, while the larger soul trees are like huge servers or storage centers, where memories are stored. The Nami people communicate over long distances through Eywa, which is why the entire planet has only a single language.
——"Avatar" script setting
When I was in the mother's body, I had carefully studied the history of your humans. I would like to share with you my research experience: I found that your humans are not mammals. Any mammal will try to maintain a balance between itself and nature, and you humans, you will breed desperately wherever you go, until all natural resources are exhausted, the only way you want to survive is to spread out and invade another place. There is only one living thing on this planet that also uses this way of survival-viruses. Human beings are a kind of disease, and you are the cancer and plague of the earth.
—— Agent Smith "MATRIX (The Matrix)"
Human beings generally belong to industrial civilization, in the form of grabbing natural resources for rapid development, and Na'vi, due to its close connection with nature, is estimated to be more difficult to embark on the road to industrialization, but I do not rule out the possibility of detaching from nature in the future, but I subjectively hope that they will develop slowly and steadily, and eventually establish a highly developed biological civilization based on biological energy.
Braids and Cyberpunk
Na'vi people are connected with other creatures through braids, and there are many humans in Cyperpunk science fiction works (novels "Neuromancer", "Avalanche", animation "Ghost in the Shell" movie "MATRIX") Connected to the computer network in this way, the human brain becomes the third largest piece after hardware and software-wetware (it is easy to explain, because the brain is wet). With the development of the times, many elements in cyberpunk: multinational corporations, anti-heroes, computer biochemistry, cybernetics, genetic engineering, drugs, artificial intelligence, cyberspace have all developed and evolved. The term punk seems to It's no longer able to reflect the status quo of this sci-fi element, but let's call it cyberpunk.
In "Avatar", we can also see some shadows of Cyberspace technology, such as Avatar connection. At this time, humans should have invented the corresponding virtual space access technology, shuttled in the network surrounded by computers, the only difference is that this network does not have the participation of other animals and plants, cannot feel their pain, and does not have a powerful one. The consciousness is guided by the only fanatical pursuit of value.
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