When I see the rise of the Planet of the Apes, I can’t help but think about how the civilization of the orangutans will develop in the future, what level their technology can reach, and how their journey will be similar to what humans have experienced. The difference in their physiology with humans determines that their paths will be very different from those of humans. The most direct example is horse riding. An adult male lowland gorilla with an average weight of 170kg like Luca may not be able to be carried by a horse and walk as fast as in the movie. Although it is not clear how the virus affects their brains, limitations such as smaller brain volume and fewer prefrontal lobes are still there, and I am afraid that their self-control and long-term planning will be more difficult than humans. Just as when the bald colonel was interrogating Caesar, he repeatedly said that he was too emotional, and taught him to think about the consequences of killing the colonel in his anger, and what revenge the other orangutans would suffer. This kind of thinking is actually an important part of human self-awareness, that is, the continuity of the self in time and space. We need to rely on the retrieval of past memories to confirm our identity, and at the same time we need to be able to imagine our own future.
Moreover, even if the virus makes orangutans smarter, complex social behaviors, the cooperation and concession of desires among individuals, and a stable social form cannot be formed overnight, and it is difficult for social behaviors to shape the brain in a short period of time. done between generations of orangutans. I wonder if orangutans who learn about human society and history in the future will criticize the inferiority of orangutans and reflect on why they are hard to change. But no matter what kind of society the orangutan develops in the future, how much responsibility can they actually have? Their evolution does not include the direction of Datong society. The evolutionary history of millions of years is only to allow them to continue the species in a specific environment. Having said that, I feel that I have nothing to be angry or disappointed with myself, others, and the society. The existence of things has no established criteria and purposes. It is our cognition that adds value judgments to the world. Developments that didn't meet our expectations triggered our disappointment. But the world itself has always existed like this. There is no right or wrong. What is wrong is only our expectations of the world. What needs to be revised is our inherent cognition of the world. The more I think about it now, the more I feel the emptiness of my emotions, the more and more I feel my emotions dissipate.
Although the rise of the Planet of the Apes features orangutans as the protagonists, the perspective is still human-centered. It is also possible that the film is shooting orangutans, but the audience sees these orangutans as people. When we observe the conversations and actions of these orangutans, we naturally substitute our own emotions and value judgments. For example, the love of the red-haired gorilla for girls, the hatred of Caesar, the friendship of the bald orangutan, in fact, we do not know what kind of emotional patterns the real orangutan itself will have, but our deep-rooted empathy ability allows us to pass these similar Human behavior, involuntarily judging these orangutans as humans. Analyzing things as human beings is a cognitive model we rely heavily on. For example, people can involuntarily anthropomorphize nature, so that they regard natural phenomena as the emotions and will of God; people anthropomorphize the country to think about the hatred of the country and the family, and create narratives such as Hetalia and the Rabbit. But sometimes society asks us to avoid using our empathy ability for others, such as slaves in slave society, members of hostile groups, society can let us reduce these people with feelings and emotions to a label, so that we don't have to care about them their feelings. Of course, there are also people who expand their empathy abilities to other classes, races, species, and even non-living things outside of social norms. They are often mocked as the Virgin in today's Internet. I think it's just triggered by their own experiences and thinking. Stupid place, but don't expect others to expand their empathic abilities as well, after all not everyone has the opportunity to have the experiences and mindsets that shape this value.
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