The “IP” of Silver Wing can be interpreted from many angles. Here, I will only look at the similarities and differences between the novels (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), 2019 (Blade Runner), and 2049 (Blade Runner 2049) as I understand them. The subversion, verification, and inheritance relationship between the two countries will force it. (The opinions are messy, the sentences are long-winded, I am a PKD fan, mainly diverging with novels as the core, pure movie fans are cautious)
From Android to Replicant (mainly comparative novels and 2019)
The novel was written very early (1968), and many of the settings in it now seem to be particularly strange. For example, humans can colonize Mars, and the earth is still using wired telephones (there is no global satellite mobile communication network), and they can be made inside. A robot with wires and metal but with no difference in appearance from humans (Yilin version translated as "bionic human", here for the convenience of discussion, according to the original meaning of the English Android is called "bionic robot"), but it has to pass the "complex bone marrow test." Come to identify them.
In the movie 2019, the biomimetic robot was replaced by a genetically modified biological human (English also became "Replicant", translated as "replicator"), this is to repair "If the inside is metal, direct X-rays are fine, why bother What to test?” This bug (but it still avoids the premise that “the neurotic Tyrell Company does not directly manufacture Robots but must make robots more like humans”).
Meaning #VK tested in this novel without consistent with the trajectory of human science and technology development in the near future, all kinds of strange setting in order to elicit a core Terrier: detected by something called "Voigt-Kampff" quiz to test whether a person can produce "Empathy (empathy)", and then determine whether he is a biological human or a bionic robot.
The "question and answer test" obviously borrows the concept of the Turing test. The Turing test is to judge whether the subject of the question and answer is "intelligent". In this VK test, in order to judge whether the subject has the "empathy ability", to be precise, yes Determine whether the subject has the ability to empathize with animals .
The reason for testing bionic robots with "love or not for animals" is based on the big background in the novel, that is, after the nuclear war, animals are slowly extinct. The Deckard generation is a generation that has witnessed the extinction of animals, so this Generations of mankind love animals very much, regard living animals as a symbol of innocence and beauty, and are also angry at the arbitrary and cruel treatment of animals by humans before the nuclear war.
Bionic robots were born on Mars colonies. They have never seen animals at all. They will not show love to animals like humans on Earth, and they will not recognize what is "cruel" to animals. It is easy to use this point to make a fuss. Let them show off. With this premise, the VK test will have so many animal-related problems.
——It can also be seen from this that the core settings of PKD's novels are often very "soft", sometimes even "shen", but it does not prevent him from using these soft settings to discuss "hard" propositions Once you recognize his serious attitude towards the proposition discussion, you will not dislike the weird premise he made to discuss this problem, and you can even appreciate the humor in this weirdness.
The significance of the VK test in the plot is that there is a change in Deckard’s understanding in the book: In the beginning, in order to confirm that the opponent is a bionic robot, Deckard will solemnly give them a VK test before capturing (Deckard has the authority to direct the robot directly "Retire", the VK test result is equivalent to the "trial" result), and his heart is also to convince himself that "I am not killing people, but some smart machines"; however, after several fights, he realized that this was just a recognition The tool of "you are not a native of the earth" is not a judgment that "you are not a person", nor is it a hammer to determine that "you are not worthy of being a person". He even did a VK test for himself, confirming that he had empathy for certain (female) bionic robots. So when I went to hunt down the remaining bionic robots, I didn't bother to test it. I felt that they were killing people and doing unrighteous things anyway, and I was frustrated with my own depravity.
In the movie 2019, the VK test degenerates into a weird bridge break of unknown meaning. The focus is on the "first seeing" of Rachael and Deckard, not what they talked about. And Deckard only did one test for Rachael and never did it for anyone else (because Racheal was not tested effectively and quickly as a clone, so he was abandoned by Deckard and the police?). Audiences who are watching a movie for the first time will definitely find this test inexplicable and confused, and directly attribute it to the overall weird atmosphere of the movie.
When the dialogue between Deckard and Rachael in the 2019 VF test was reproduced in 2049, the new generation of cloner Luv understood this as "she is teasing him"-which indirectly explains the intention of the VF test in the 2019 script to retain this point.
#Is there any empathy ? The bionic robots in the novel have high intelligence, but most of them lack the empathy peculiar to human society on earth (no love for animals, can’t enter the empathy fusion of Mercerism) ), and because they are good at imitating human behavior, not only are they born with no truth, goodness and beauty (this is very different from the movie's emphasis on the "power" and "fitness" of the clone), but they also learn the evil qualities such as cunning, hypocrisy and gloating. However, they are not without their own unique emotional core. For example, Pris hates the monotonous and empty life of the colony; the opera actor Luba Luft (the character deleted from the movie) is learning human emotions through art, and his skills and temperament also make Deckard very Appreciate. They are more like human children, who will act innocent or evil like children. After all, they only have a life span of 4 years (the book uses Munch's "Puberty" as a metaphor).
2019 clearly tells you: yes! On the premise of transplanting the memories of real people, they can also have the empathy of the earth, such as the romantic and innocent love between men and women, which is shown through the corner of Rachael (Rachael and Deckard in the movie are no longer the relationship between friends in the novel, and It’s true love); in addition, there are "non-earth-like empathy", such as a unique understanding of life in the universe, shown through the corner of Roy (Roy in the movie is not just a criminal leader with high intelligence and high mobility , But a tragic figure who was fighting Deckard but spared his life and had a thorough understanding of death at the end of his life). If it is said that the bionic robot in the book is still the "empathy bud" of the child stage, then the emotions and values of the clones in the movie have basically reached maturity.
#Empathy literary significance bionic man novel ruthless good, have empathy sprout both mean by humans (Deckard) perspective to observe, PKD wrote he's "feeling" out of human introspection:
The world is so bad, human life has no dignity, even because radioactive dust will degenerate into "mental retardation", at this time a creature that looks like a human but has much higher intelligence and functions than humans is produced. Under this premise, What is the essential difference between humans and animals, and bionic robots? Why do people think of people, and on what basis do they stand? What face is still lingering in the universe?
PKD’s answer is: In any case, we still have the ability of Empathy. It is not necessarily “useful” nor “advanced”, but after all, it is the weak light in human nature, which can help us to crave a little joy. Joy, endured endless suffering. (The wife of Deckard in the novel, Iran, relies on the "Empathy Box (resonance box)" to live by the empathy of Mercerism (Mercerism)-a kind of black technology in the novel, but it is strange in modern technology Correspondence, will be written below)
Having said that, is the difference between humans and machines merely the ability to empathize? Of course not only, it can be as big as a mode of thinking, as small as eating and drinking, and really wanting to get along with a bionic robot. Humans can easily identify "outliers" through countless ways.
The reason for the focus on writing "empathy" is probably due to PKD's pessimistic view of human nature after World War II and his usual consciousness/ontology thinking.
On the other hand, conscious and intelligent, but without emotion, without the happiness or pain that Empathy brings, what kind of experience is that? PKD used Pris to describe the spiritual landscape without Empathy:
The whole Mars is lonely. Much lonely than here. ...It is not a place where people live, at least for the past billion years. The place is too old, and you can feel the decay in the stone. There, you have too much time to use up. You must have a hobby, something you can admire endlessly. ...
Bionic robots have enough intelligent consciousness to examine the world, but in the eyes of their unsound human nature, the universe of heaven and earth is just barren.
In this sense, Empathy is the source of awakening the vitality of life from the entropy increase in the universe.
Of course, PKD's explanation of Empathy does not stop here:
In the novel, the creation of bionic robots in alien colonies that are indistinguishable from humans is a mirror image behavior of the same line as the creation of electronic animals on the earth that are indistinguishable from living animals.
Because animals on the earth are gradually extinct, humans have begun to love animals-but this "love" has become a social custom with a disciplinary meaning: not loving animals is regarded as "inhuman", in order to express love (in order to Appears to be human), everyone spends a lot of money to buy live animals to keep at home. If the money is not enough to buy live animals, buy a cheaper electronic bionic animal and put it at home to support the facade. Deckard is the original sheep who got sick and died. I bought an electronic sheep and raised it on the rooftop. I also pretend to take care of the grass every day to ensure that electronic products do not malfunction and show up in front of neighbors (a typical irony of middle-class luxury consumption in PKD's writings) .
Electronic animals were originally products for the comfort of the soul, but turned out to be props for satisfying the self-performance of human "love", and the bionic robots are also similar. The human species is also gradually disappearing. In order to maintain the low self-esteem of human beings, Tyrell has used machine tools that were originally used to open up colonies, adapt to the alien environment, and meet various functional needs, and just create the appearance of human beings, and humans can enjoy this. This kind of "advanced tool" is pleasing to the eye, while despising them as lower creatures without Empathy. Is this another sense of satisfying human narcissism and self-pity?
While PKD beautifies Empathy, it also satirizes this point.
#"People-oriented" and "Replicating people-oriented" can be said that novels are "Human-oriented". How do humans perceive "heterogeneity" in this alienated world, and how to contrast themselves with "heterogeneity" , Seeking self-identification.
The movie 2019 is "replicant-oriented", focusing on the spiritual world of replicators, as artificial creations, how they view the relationship with the creator (human beings), rejection and acceptance of humans, hatred and love, etc. Wait.
The biomimetic robot in the novel escapes from the colony (Mars) to the earth. It is essentially a process from a blank world without Empathy to the Empathy overloaded society. In this process, some people imitate the truth, goodness and beauty of the human world, while others sneer at human affection. No matter what they think of human society, their purpose is to live on the earth under a disguise ("Extending the life span of only four years" is not an important matter in the novel. The novel Roy did not go to the big boss who made him) .
In the movie 2019, Roy and his party came to the earth, the main purpose is to extend the life span, Roy seems to have no particular interest in life on the earth (except for the anger and contempt of "Dad"), this is because he has experienced the universe in just a short lifetime. The magnificent beauty and impermanence ("I have seen things that you humans can't imagine"), Roy's tearful monologue in the rain shows a kind of "cosmic personality" in a few words, and it has been independently developed and perfected. Its values and aesthetics Has long been beyond the realm of human beings on Earth.
"Fight and kill well, why do you suddenly talk about the universe?", not only to refresh the audience, but also to respond to the hidden proposition of "how bionics/copies see the universe" in the novel . (This monologue was temporarily added by Roy's actor Rutger Hauer before filming. It can be seen that Mr. Hauer has thoroughly studied the original work)
The difference between "X-based" is also reflected in the end of the novel and the movie. After the death of Roy, Deckard has a large "peak moment" of spiritual epiphany (and the fall from the peak), at which moment he was possessed by Mercer. , In other words, entered the illusion of Mercer fusion, and got some kind of "revelation" (also the classic paragraph of PDK "drug writing");
The death of Roy in 2019 is the climax of the whole film. Under the impact of the power and beauty of the "Death of Roy", the narrow and ignorance of mankind is invisible (a view of science fiction in the 1980s baptized by Space Opera and Space Rock).
From "this generation" to "next generation" (mainly compare 2019 and 2049)
By 2049, replicators will no longer have exclusive Martian colonies, but will blossom everywhere on Earth.
The focus of the story is no longer "what are the similarities and differences between clones and humans", but has become the difference between "this generation of clones (Nexus-9)" and "that generation of clones (Nexus-6/7/8)".
Because the "replicator + real person memory transplantation" will make the level of consciousness of the cloner no different from the real person, in order to let them have "self-knowledge", Wallace company implanted them with fictitious memories in batches (only for the purpose of allowing them to have normal interactions with real people. ), and clearly told them "you are a clone, your memory is fake", and trimmed genes to prevent them from resisting humans. Such clones are no longer essentially different from those humans who have been enslaved by their compatriots in the thousands of years of history. ——Congratulations to the people on earth, finally turning the contradiction between "people and technology (artificial objects)" into "contradictions among the people" (that is, the oppression of one type of people on another).
In such a 2049 earth society where natural persons and replicators look up every day, the ethical issues of the “replicating world” have also continued from “how to treat the relationship with the creator as a man-made object” to “how to deal with humans” in 2019. Slavery and discrimination".
# Numbness or rebellion against obedience from 2019-3 movies, playing human cloning comes with "insurgents" property, and made as if people are naturally restless like a copy. The main line of 2049 is the opposite. As the latest generation of Nexus-9, Pig's Feet is an ordinary "good citizen" who is mixed among the people of the earth and has a legitimate career and an amateur life.
From the pig's feet K, it can be seen that he has almost achieved the goal of the movie Roy: life is long, no need to worry about the cells being worn out and exhausted; and the goal of the novel Roy: to live on the earth in an open manner, without worrying about being suddenly checked by the police. Test the bone marrow.
As the film unfolds, K’s "ideal life" is also full of flaws. He has outstanding abilities, but he is discriminated against everywhere in the police station. He has no social interactions and lives alone in his spare time. He has to spend money and energy on (parent company development). The holographic girlfriend used to entertain (& monitor) a copy of a person. There is no freedom or dignity for the humble working class, but K himself doesn't care, and accepts it without any dissatisfaction.
This is probably what Wallace claimed in the short film that his clones "will never rebel against humans." The movie doesn’t point out how Wallace technically controls the duplicator. It should be a metaphor. This is a kind of spiritual "soft control", that is, let the duplicator not know the past (after all, the memory is fake), and don’t care about the future (don’t die anyway). Not old and infertile). "Life is mass-produced, and life is infinitely repeatable." It only needs to perform the "functions" set at the factory when the human society is "without any inner ripples" day after day. As for the people on earth, , Even if you don't like them, you can't live without them. After all, some rough work of licking blood depends on them.
On such days, rounding up means "the years are calm and good". What reason is there to "resist"?
Of course, the movie will definitely not let the pig's feet be so numb. At a turning point, K suddenly learned the source of the memory. At that moment, after the murder, there was no disturbance in the benchmark test. He unexpectedly exploded and gave the audience the feeling of "suddenly come back to life".
This "living" does not lie in whether his biological significance is a viviparous person or a clone, but in that he awakens the cognition of the "past" and realizes that he is a person with a unique life track. ——And this "consciousness" will not disappear because of the revelation of the truth that "he is still a copy".
#From history to future, from copying to creation K's pursuit of the truth of his own memory is also an exploration of the hidden history of the copying race. As characters such as Deckard, Freysa, and Ana Stelline surfaced in the second half of the film, you can get a glimpse of the independent actions of the group of cloners trying to break free from human restraint:
After a small group of people in Nexus-8 led the "big blackout" revolution (or "at the same time"), they joined Deckard to concoct a miraculous legend that "Nexus-7 and humans have a child born" (of course, it may also be In fact, after all, Rachael’s pelvic test was pregnant), in order to secretly recruit the remaining Nexus-8 and sporadic awakening Nexus-9 clones to form a “rebel”.
Through this "Miracle" legend, they constructed the past of the first two generations of cloners and promised a future in which the cloners could reproduce themselves (in order to overthrow the dumb status quo that the cloners "don't know the past and don't ask about the future").
(——I think the meaning of childbirth here is not simply "can give birth to babies like humans", but broadly "hold the right of birth in the hands of the cloner." After all, viviparous people have a long growth period and are uncontrollable. The process of mental development of humans makes viviparous people have no biological advantage compared with clones. Assuming that in the future of 2049, clones will finally be independent, and they can "reproduce offspring" by themselves, and they can research and use clone production technology to create The next generation, not really through the union of men and women to give birth to children. ——This stem can be regarded as a continuation of the dual transformation tradition of "creator and creation" initiated by director Ridley Scott from the alien series (engineer → human → David → alien), human Created replicators, and replicators wanted to create new people. ——By the way, if replicators want to create humans, the direction may be "enhanced biological body + AI brain", which is the "righteousness" of "Ghost in the Shell" Body person" or "cyberman" in "Hyberlian")
If you want to go deeper, this miracle legendary "Messiah" son, apart from the rebel female leader Freysa and Ta herself, no one knows Ta's true identity (the end of the movie is also K's guess, Deckard and Ana Stelline did not recognize their relatives) . Freysa claimed to find the "Messiah" at the right time and lead everyone in the revolution. However (if K's guess is true) Ana Stelline is physically weak and can only live in a sterile room, without the "capital" of revolution. . And as part of Wallace's business system, she works as a memory maker. This technology is just a good way to eliminate rebellion and suppress the revolution. If you catch a rebellious copy, wipe off Ta's memory. Except for a reset, nothing is left?
Does such a big coincidence imply that "liberation of all clones" may be a lie that humans crafted to make clones deceive themselves? ——Just like the Revolutionary in Matrix to iterate the system every once in a while?
Of course, no matter whether the "reason" of the uprising at the ethnic level is true or false, it cannot obliterate the value of individual self-awakening and the possession of "free will." Just like in the novel, whether "Mercerism" is a scam or "Old Mercer" is true or false, it cannot obliterate the value of Empathy for keeping human beings conscience and gaining comfort.
In general, both 2049 and 2019 portray the life and three views of the copying people "taking the copy as the center". In 2019, the replicators are still a small vanguard force coming to the earth and human society to fight alone. In 2049, they have become an iterative group with a large number of branches and leaves. Their living conditions and ethics are new compared to 2019. Variety.
However, from the detachment of the leadership style of the “enlightenment figure” in the gestation period of the revolution in 2019, the post-revolutionary period of 2049 has turned to a pawn who has strayed into the whirlpool of the revolution (in the words of "Villain Film Critic", it is a "stepping stone of revolution"). The meticulous depiction of the course, perhaps for the new generation of copyists, persisting in pursuing oneself amidst the torrent of history is a more profound revolutionary road.
Intergenerational inheritance after 50 years (mainly comparative novels and 2049)
What's interesting about 2049 is that, on the one hand, it is in the same line as 2019 in terms of setting, storyline and visual style, and it is getting farther and farther away in the "ethical and moral world" of copying people (what immortality, reproduction, slavery, etc.) The "turbulent history" such as the uprising), on the other hand, it also carries a trace of inheritance from the original novel.
# Use human cloning to kill human cloning joke from the novel opera actress Luba Luft of:
"A bionic person," he (Deckard) said, "It doesn't matter whether other bionic people are dead or alive. That is one of the characteristics we are looking for." "Then," said Miss Loft, "you must be a Bionic." He was stunned and looked at her blankly. "Because—" she continued, "your job is to kill bionics, right? You are what they call—" She couldn't remember what it was called. "Bounty hunter," Rick said, "but I'm not a bionic."
#Rachael and Luv are also "property of the copying company". Luv in 2049 is actually quite a feature of the novel Rachael: a new personality type described by Deckard as "a strange and sophisticated type." Even the appearance descriptions are a bit similar: black hair, thin, and small chiseled faces are full of gloom and disgust.
In the novel, after Rachael failed to prevent Dechard from killing the clones, he angrily killed the black goat Deckard bought for a big price. Luv in 2049 was also angry that K did not listen to her, and stomped on K’s face. The data transmitter where the Joi body is located.
The family life of Blade Runner, which was completely deleted due to space limitations in the 2019 adaptation of #全职老女 and holographic girlfriend, will be fully reproduced in 2049.
K’s holographic girlfriend, Joi, is easy to think of Deckard’s family wife Iran in the novel, but Iran is (in current terms) a very "mournful" person, depressed and unhappy all day long. Deckard is tender to her, but look When she suffered from depression, she also had a headache (it seems to be a shadow of PKD's own family life).
But the holographic girlfriend Joi is a house angel with a bright smile, born with sweet words to soothe the heart of a lonely boy. This function reminds me of the "Penfield mood organ" in the novel that can change mood at any time.
The holographic girlfriend looks lifelike. It can be turned on and off with one key, but it is prone to electronic failures. These characteristics are reminiscent of the electronic sheep raised by Deckard in the novel.
The dialogue and interaction between holographic girlfriend and real person is basically an AI intelligent module generated based on user preferences, which reminds me of the "Mercerism" in the novel. Mercerism is a kind of "community of consciousness" religious behavior based on human empathy and a magical technology called "Empathy Box" (resonance box). In the 1960s before the Internet was born, PKD (under the influence of hallucinogens) envisaged such a concept of "compassionate networking". It was definitely difficult to understand at the time, but now, it is not just use Group big data collection, provide customized experience services for each individual? With the development of AI technology, this kind of service has shifted from the material to the field of spiritual and emotional interaction, and this day is not far away.
The holographic girlfriend Joi actually flashed the wife, electronic sheep, emotion regulator, and Mercerism in the novel. It also closely echoes the current development of AI and holographic technology. It can be described as a very clever setting.
Collapse and Reconstruction # illusion of fiction in a file called "Buster Friendly" (an old friend Buster) talk show (by the secret bionic robot operators) created a special edition revealed "Mercer old man" was a hoax, which makes love Ordinary people who experienced the resonance box (such as Isidore, the mentally handicapped person who helped Pris and Roy) were shocked. ——Just as K later saw a huge holographic girlfriend's advertisement on the bridge, and realized that the private conversations that he had been deeply comforting were actually routines that had already been written in the program.
But "Old Mercer" didn't really disappear because the actor was an unknown actor, and "Girlfriend Joi" didn't really die because the transmitter body was destroyed.
In the novel, Deckard saw the phantom of Old Man Mercer in the frustration of killing the opera actor Luba. Old Man Mercer said to him:
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. You violate your identity. At some point, every living life must do this. This is the ultimate shadow, the flaw of creation. This is the ultimate curse, the curse that swallows all life. The whole universe is like this. )
——This mourning theme seems to be included in the eyes of the advertising girlfriend who turned to K before disappearing.
The empathic fusion of Mercerism in the #No Salvation novel is an illusion experience that simulates "suffering", that is, everyone in the illusion will follow the old Mercer to experience the difficult cycle of "climbing a mountain-falling from the top of a mountain". You will be hit by an unknown flying stone. After being hit, you will be really injured even if you leave the resonance box and return to your real body. This experience is not so comfortable, but everyone in the process can also share the feelings of happiness or sadness of other people “online” (such as who just bought an animal, or whose animal just died), so it's still big popular. This Mercerism is the typical setting in PKD's writing that does not ask for the principle and is true and illusory. At first glance, it looks like some kind of doomsday religion (even a bit of a cult color), which particularly attracts weak-willed people (such as Deckard's wife Iran and mentally handicapped Isidore), "spiritual opium" is undoubtedly.
But why is the human being envisioned by PKD not indulging in pleasure in this "illusion alliance", but suffering and suffering? This again has to be related to his religious philosophy.
Old Mercer's "climbing-falling" is obviously based on Sisyphus pushing the boulder. This myth was once used by Camus to explain the absurdity of existence and the individual insight into the absurdity but still desperate to move forward and back again and again (" The Myth of Sisyphus). PKD borrowed this philosophical metaphor (rather than the "heaven" and "Elysium" in religion), and also said through the mouth of Old Man Mercer: "There is no salvation (there is no savior)", which shows his attitude towards religion.
This rejection of "salvation" is not simply for "mourning."
As Camus preached in The Myth of Sisyphus, this world without a savior is neither barren, nor insignificant. The salvation of the world can only depend on the self-improvement of the world and the permanent confrontation with its own dark side. Just like Sisyphus surpassed his destiny by being stronger than the stone he pushed.
PKD is probably also such a kind of humanitarianism. (Therefore, in the endless mourning of his books, there will always be a flame of courage and hope)
The biomimetic robots in the novel cannot yet experience Mercerism (the novel mentions that Roy once tried a drug that allows biomimetic robots to experience fusion on Mars, but failed), and even "heartlessly" to expose the Mercer deception Coming to hit the people on earth-maybe in the eyes of PKD, no matter what life is born or man-made, it will only come to the day when you can understand the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation, and recognize the value of the absurdity and suffering of existence. , Can be regarded as breaking through the limitations of the ontology and possessing real humanity. (In this way, the movie Roy seems to have fulfilled PKD's expectations for the novel Roy)
It is also a question of the ultimate question in the context of doomsday. 2049 does not have the existential tone of PKD's "worry about the country and the people", but goes back to the Kafka god who influenced existentialism to draw inspiration. For example, it is easy to copy the name of K. Reminiscent of "K" in Kafka's works, K enters the majestic Wallace Earth headquarters, just as (that) K intends to enter the indifferent and majestic castle. K was assigned to investigate a child who was born in violation of the rules, but he found himself on his head. For this result, he ran away and implicated the murder of his boss and the destruction of his girlfriend, but he found out that it was an oolong game, and finally for himself. The unclear "revolutionary cause" died silently. K once named himself "Joe", and the pig's feet in Kafka's "Proceedings" are called "Josef K".
As the latest generation of duplicators, K was born to meet social needs and solve problems (such as investigating borderline difficult cases), but he suddenly became a social problem; the holographic AI girlfriend was originally to relieve the anxiety of an otaku living alone and satisfy the senses Born for pleasure, he suddenly clamored to "Like a real girl" ("Like a real girl").
Since the industrial society of the 20th century, people have often felt pain for being "alienated as a tool" (the theme of absurd literature), but in the future world, if a "tool" suddenly wakes up to be an individual, or suddenly wants to try "Being a human", is it also painful? Can't bear this heavy burden?
Another hidden proposition of 2049 has become the intelligent creatures (replicators) with entities and the intelligent non-organisms (AI) without entities, how do they view themselves, how to understand each other, and how they are " The price paid to be a real person.
At this point, the "brief psychological history" of bionic robots/clone can be summarized as follows: Novel: I don't want to be a tool, but I don't want to be a person like "you"; 2019: I am not a tool, I am me, and I am not "you" The same person; 2049: I have a good tool, you suddenly said that I am a person? Okay, what about the entry and improvement of "being a human"?
In addition, from the perspective of the inheritance of the humanitarian spirit, just as the rescue of mankind in the novel cannot be relied on by the old man in the resonance box, the continuation of the Nexus-6 in 2019 cannot be relied on by the "dad" at the top of the pyramid. His self-liberation, independence, and the suspense of the plot "Who is the Messiah" can almost be concluded: There is no Messiah.
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