Reflections on Film and Reality

Filiberto 2022-03-20 09:01:36

As a science fiction film from 20 years ago, it seems that there is still some truth in theory.

1. The final manifestation of matter may not be particles or waves but information. In other words, consciousness is not necessarily determined by the degree of intelligence - consciousness is only the manifestation of information. Living things can be conscious, and artificial intelligence, machines, particles, and fields may all have corresponding consciousness. The generation of human consciousness itself is an unsolved mystery, or similar forms of unsolved mysteries, such as how particles form matter, and why single-celled organisms developed into the ecology of the earth. The relationship between matter and consciousness is not so clear that the spacecraft An iron-based silicon-based creature must be unconscious.

2. What is a dream? What is the difference between dream and reality? The nature of hallucinations? If the hallucination is the deviation of the receptors, then if the human body obtains additional information through non-organ means, is this a hallucination or a real existence? The same is true of dreams. The dreams at the beginning and end of the film are also the embodiment of the work's scientific and philosophical views. There is no essential difference between dreams and (real) consciousness, and the difference may only lie in the relativity of time. The difference in consciousness between humans and machines may only be the relativity of space or medium or distribution. In essence, these are just information, information/bitstream in some particular distribution

3. The so-called ultimate and other spaces do not necessarily mean blood or hell (only relative to people), hell should be called chaos, the largest information entropy is the state of the most disordered information: DNA is no longer ordered, particles are not In conformity with the existing laws, the will, spirit, ethics, law, morality, religion, science, order, and even the body and material of the so-called superstructure of human beings all collapse - this is the so-called hell. The spaceship seems to have achieved the transition of three-dimensional Euclidean space in some way. You must know that it is not necessarily a four-dimensional way - any dimension or infinite dimension is possible - for example, the total amount of information, including the spaceship, astronauts, mechanical air, tends to be average. distribution and then reorganization. The place where the existing human body and cognition is destroyed is hell. The various awesome scenes in the movie are nothing more than instantiations of the concept

In short, the whole film, whether in the movie, the plot itself or the theme behind it, is relatively insightful and solid, quite inspiring and predictable. The mechanical intelligence of the spacecraft is essentially the same thing as the artificial intelligence of the deep neural network, and it is also the same thing as the human brain, but it takes the spacecraft as its manifestation.

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Event Horizon quotes

  • Miller: You miss me, you blow out the hull.

    Dr Weir: What makes you think I'll miss?

  • Miller: The funky spaceman over there is Mr. Cooper; what exactly is it you do on board this ship Coop?

    Cooper: Listen up doc. I'm your best friend, ok? I'm the lifesaver and the heartbreaker.

    [Starck laughs in derision]

    Miller: He's a rescue technician.