What makes us different from others? Face, height, body shape, these physical appearances are our primary criteria for distinguishing people in daily life, but I believe that no one will regard these as the final criteria. Our ultimate standard is actually soul, the so-called human soul. In addition to the so-called two words, one is that the materialism education we have always received excludes the existence of the soul, and the other is that no one can give an accurate definition of the soul. However, if there is one who looks exactly the same as your wife/husband/father/mother but is a different person at heart; the other has the appearance of a stranger but has the soul of a loved one, these two are placed in front of you, you Which one will you choose? It must be the latter. So the soul made us unique.
But next is the most critical question, what is the soul made of? Memory, character, way of thinking, etc., but a person’s character and way of thinking are not born, but shaped by the whole process of growth. Is it possible to think that the human soul is made by memory, and our memory makes us? Is everyone a collection of their own memories?
The answer given in the film is no. They believe that in addition to memory, people have a unique nature. In our daily life, we also say that the so-called "unchanging nature is hard to change", the character of the son thinks about the father, and the child of dragon and phoenix begets phoenix will make holes. People also generally think that human nature will be inherited or some Affected by random factors. Does that mean that people are born with certain characteristics, no matter the future environment or hard work, there will always be something in the future that we cannot change? I am afraid we are very reluctant to believe in the so-called fate. And the so-called genetic inheritance, is it caused by DNA or by the living environment in childhood? If two children with different DNAs are placed in the same environment and receive exactly the same life experience, will they create the same personality? Unfortunately, this kind of experiment cannot be done in the foreseeable future.
There is a plot in the American drama Stargate. There is a kind of "light transmission" technology, which breaks people into particles, records the order, transmits them to another place with light, and then reorganizes them in order to realize the human moment (at least the speed of light) spread. I do poorly in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics, but as far as my limited knowledge is concerned, because of the wave-particle duality, the propagation of electromagnetic waves is not the propagation of ions and matter, but the propagation of energy. In other words, if you divide you into ions at this end, these ions themselves cannot travel at the speed of light. They are transmitted in the order of arrangement. Then there is a problem. If the arrangement is passed in order, but here you don’t. Remove it, will there be two you? Using a computer as an analogy, it was originally cut, but it was copied. What should I do?
There is another problem. Even if it is broadcasted according to the standards in the TV, it can reshape you at the destination. With an accurate arrangement order, the reshaped person will have the same appearance and the same memory (provided that the memory is Stored in the brain through chemicals and electrical signals), but even if such a person with exactly the same appearance and memory, is that you? If there is the so-called natural trait, how can this trait spread? Is this characteristic like a memory like an electrical signal, a chemical substance, or even a biological structure? Or a real soul, can the soul move at the speed of light or instantaneously?
What is a person is also the core issue in philosophy, because it will inevitably involve the issue of the origin of matter and spirit, and it will inevitably involve the issue of human life and death.
In "The Little Prince", the final ending is the death of the little prince. Before he died, he said: "I want to be far away, but the body is too heavy to take away." The universe is so vast, but our body is so heavy. , Those galaxies tens of thousands of light years away, can humans really never reach it? If there is an immaterial soul, it might be possible.
Material and spiritual issues, life and death issues, may not really be questions that living people can answer. If we find that the answer we most want to know can only be obtained through death, it would be really helpless.
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