In Europe and America, science fiction literature has long been separated from the ranks of popular literature, and all science fiction works in the true sense have their own rich system, language, and a high degree of speculative spirit. This kind of thinking is pushed to sociology and cosmology. Like the metaphysics of the new age, Asimov’s "Base" series has Derrida-style thinking: "(Chuan Tuo) can be either the starting point or the end point. It can be started, but it can also be ended" (this is a typical argument for Derrida to "discover the meaning of the center from the edge"), "Base" as a cosmic proposition has been constantly restored, and has been restored to the robot Daniel Oliva living in the center of the moon. . But Oliva is not the starting point of the universe. It is human beings who created it. What mankind knows and knows is just a closed loop of empirical cycles.
Nolan’s "Interstellar Crossing" talks about such a closed loop. A farmer who had served as an astronaut accidentally discovered a "miracle" in his daughter's bedroom one day, and followed the miracle to find the hidden NASA (Space Headquarters), he has since embarked on the cycle of fate and traveled through the "wormhole" to search for unknown planets. After a series of events, he performed "miracles" for himself and his young daughter through the "five-dimensional space" in the "black hole". ", and he himself was saved by his daughter who had deciphered his code. In such a cyclic structure, I am a little puzzled why some people discover the meaning of father-daughter affection, while others see wormholes and scientific problems? Is Nolan so low? Are you praising or discrediting Nolan? Isn’t "Interstellar" a story about two cosmic magic sticks who saved the world by accident without knowing the reason? Isn’t the problem behind this mysticism a proof of the existence of God?
Some people are excited to mention "Three-Body", then let’s talk about Liu Cixin. Liu Cixin has a novelette called "The Devourer", which says that the degree of biological evolution is related to the dimension they enter the world, and they can enter a higher dimension. It is "God". The low dimension cannot grasp the high dimension, which is equivalent to the finite cannot grasp the infinity. The finite is human, and the infinite is God. The problems of God, truth, and eternity are forever unknowable. This is also the truth. Kant distinguished between "thing-in-itself" and "object" from the very beginning, thinking that the former is unknowable, and to Wittgenstein, "the unspeakable and unspeakable" also draws a limit to the category of human knowledge. This is uncontrollable by science and unknowable by human beings. Kant left it to "practical reason", that is, Socrates' attitude towards "truth" and "wisdom". We can only use a kind of love for God. Come close to God, and can only be close, but never reach.
So behind the closed loop of "Interstellar", there is actually an invisible hand, which is God. Spontaneous circulation is impossible. It must require an original driving force. Who folds out the "wormhole"? Who created the fate of those people? In the movie, the dialogue between Matthew McConaughey and the robot in the five-dimensional space proves the existence of "THEY", but what can "THEY" be? The manipulator behind? Asimov's "Second Base"? The creator of the program in The Matrix? The introduction of "THEY" is a typical skepticism. To regard "THEY" as "God" means religion, and to regard "THEY" as "US" is a kind of humanism. Although the latter topic is thrown in the movie, the discussion is more like human ignorance: man seems to have completed his "revelation" to himself, and it seems that man is his own God, but what actually happened is only a brief use of his help The altar of God was promulgated, and the Hebrew code was promulgated to mankind.
The library in the daughter's bedroom in the film symbolizes human knowledge. The arrangement of these knowledge forms a "code", which can be pieced together to form a language like "STAY". Human beings get God’s "revelation" because of language, and human beings become human because of language. The philosophy of the entire 20th century only discussed one thing, that is, the "noumenon of language". The two major schools of analytical philosophy and phenomenology are restored to the end. Both have to give the status of language ontology (even if they empirically think that this is not the end). Here, the language can be a combination of letters, or a "Morse code" (or binary computer language) interleaved with dots and horizontal lines. Wittgenstein said that "the boundary of language is the boundary of the human world", so when the three-dimensional world and When the five-dimensional world (or the four-dimensional in the five-dimensional world) communicates, all methods are invalid. Except for "language", only language is something that does not completely belong to the three-dimensional world. It is a boundary, and all communication, Can only be formed on the border. And Matthew McConaughey’s inability to complete his own "revelation" also stems from his denial of "private language." The core issue that Wittgenstein has been discussing in the later period.
It is very interesting that Nolan chose two props in the movie: books and clocks. Books are the meaning of knowledge, that is, the symbol of language. Clocks and watches are "time." This difficult proposition that was discussed repeatedly by Kant and Heidegger has been led to the innate intuition or the meaning of life of "death to death". In this movie, it becomes a five-dimensional space. In the form of "substantialization", Matthew McConaughey can "enlighten" himself decades ago, and can also influence his daughter's thinking for decades. However, in the five-dimensional "black hole" space, there are probably only a few A few seconds passed, and he even touched Anne Hathaway's little hand at this moment. This is equivalent to watching the world in God’s window. God is the end of the universe and can also grasp the beginning of time. Time as an entity tool can only be realized in God’s world, and these are mysteries that humans cannot grasp. Sexual conjecture.
Besides, why is it a "corn field". There are corn patterns on many buildings in the United States, which is very meaningful. Corn in Greek is Dagan, derived from Dagon, referring to a pagan god, which is the god Dagon recorded in the Bible. Dagon transforms into Dragon. "Revelation" said: "The dragon was angry with the woman and went to fight with the rest of her children, who are the ones who keep the commandments of God and testify for Jesus. I was standing on the sand by the sea at that time." The emergence of cornfields and the raging sands are the fables of the end of the world in the "New Testament". At the same time, the astronaut played by Anne Hathaway carried human embryos into outer space, which is exactly the same way as "Noah's Ark" to save mankind.
The five-dimensional world is a category that humans cannot understand, and it is completely beyond human understanding. What is a multidimensional world? God’s paradise, the place of Buddha’s Nirvana, many Buddhist scriptures say that the Buddha can appear at 500 fa conference venues to give people lectures at the same time. This is the multidimensional world. The one who lives in the multidimensional world is God. The so-called "scientific" interpretation of the multidimensional world is a deep extension of Darwin's theory of evolution. Human beings can evolve into a five-dimensional world and become their own god. That is only a limited view of modern civilization, or a superficial "science fiction" level. It is a closed loop, and the origin cannot be explored. This is a futile way of thinking. This is like "Twelve Monkeys", people in the future save the present themselves, and Tesseract saves the future of mankind. This is the same way as "dialectics"-pushing everything to an unexplainable future, and technology will eventually explain everything. Any attempt to introduce this point of view is doomed to be futile.
The attempt of "ultimate evolution" is the intention of Luc Besson's "Superbody". In that movie, LUCY enters different dimensions through the development of the brain. When the brain is fully developed, it becomes a god. Quickly master all the knowledge of the world and the ability to shuttle in multiple dimensions. This is an interesting point of view—in Luc Besson, this possibility is highly open. At present, human understanding has reached a critical point. Its breakthrough requires an infinite development of bodily functions (brain functions). This was once regarded as the most potent place in humans, and it still has the possibility of evolution. This may lead to a fundamental change in the paradigm of human science, a major change in the philosophy of physics, and metaphysics deconstructed by postmodernism may be able to be reconstructed.
But we will never be able to solve the problem of origin. This is the common paradox between "Interstellar" and "Superbody". The real world is an appearance, and people have no way of knowing what is behind the appearance, and it is impossible to know. Maybe we humans are just worms in the stomach of a huge creature in the universe, or we are just living in a dream of Brahma. In Nolan, even if he cooperates with the foremost physicist, he can only grasp the most basic Niu's three laws of physics, part of the black hole principle, and quantum mechanics. These so-called "scientific" physics models are only a temporary paradigm after all. Feyerabend once said that the reason why modern physics replaces ancient physics is not that the former is more "scientific" but "more useful". It is a force outside of reason. Therefore, the distance between science and myth is far less than imagined. When people discuss science at a glance, and are complacent with all kinds of detailed analysis of black holes and singularities, it is an eye-catching and sensational rashness. rude. Accepting "science" in this sense, and understanding "science" in movies like this, only means that people have accepted the latest, most aggressive, and most dogmatic concept.
There are two plans to save mankind in the movie. PLAN A is to change the current paradigm, and PLAN B is to relocate to outer space. Both types of thinking are inseparable from the limitations of practical science. This is probably due to the category of human intelligence. . It is tantamount to confirming the agnosticism of the universe and God. The voyage of the galaxy is a dazzling and terrifying pilgrimage as in Dan Simmons’s "Hyberion". In this large universe, our science It was reduced to a weak prop, reflecting the power of faith. Belief is an acre of land created by Kant in practical reasoning. Here our tools are the supreme good and infinite love for God. This is the meaning of the existence of religion and a self-explanatory explanation of the existence of God.
The most profound science fiction must be metaphysics, which is the essence of science fiction and the pure understanding after eliminating scientific superstitions. This mysticism, like the mystery of art, is the silence of the unknown. The origin of everything is theology-people can call it "God", "Truth", "Logos" or "Eternity". They can never be grasped. This is like the black stele in "2001: A Space Odyssey". In "Interstellar", NASA's plan is called "Lazarus", which is also derived from the "Bible". Jesus watched Lazarus die and resurrected it, symbolizing the destiny of man. "Now, let's go! I want you to see what God does, so that you can trust him more." [Luke] Because of this miracle, many people believe in Jesus, so the miracle of "Interstellar" Behind is the invisible God.
In this sense, "Interstellar Crossing" is a theological proposition, which has also created its sadness and nobility. It is not "hard science fiction", but "true science fiction". Many people can't help but compare "Three-Body", but what is "Three-Body"? Isn't the first one a political fable? Isn't the second part a conspiracy theory? (The theoretical system of the dark forest is really a bit unsuitable) Isn't the third part a simple entropy increase principle? (I really don't see any deep propositions in the two-dimensional thing) So I think Nolan doesn't like such novels. What kind of Chinese science fiction can be written? A country without philosophy and faith is terrible.
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