It has been almost twenty years since the animation "Lingyin" was broadcast. At that time, Google was just established; the Linux kernel reached 2.2.0; the WWW became the most popular web service. The ideas it contains are really ahead of its time. Although I have read quite a few science fiction novels, I am still impressed by its conception and thinking when I read it. The Gaia theory is proposed in Asimov's "Base and Earth", but the specific details of it are not proposed; Arthur Clark's "Childhood's End" has a discussion of overall consciousness, but it feels a little bit of a magician . There are few such radical ideas in the world of film and anime.
Some people see thinking about consciousness, some people see the direction and resistance of human evolution, and some people see the ultimate question of "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?" Here I would like to talk about my views on the future social form and the relationship between man and machine.
Does anyone think that since the popularity of social media in the past 10 years or so, especially after the implementation of the real-name system, the Internet has become less mysterious. Now with the development of economic globalization, various financial and IT monopoly organizations are gradually formed, because this will greatly improve the efficiency, the cake will become bigger and bigger, the disease in the big cities will become more and more serious, and the center will gradually form. During the Cold War, the United States designed the Internet in order to prevent computers from being dumped. Why choose this name? During the colonial invasion, the emperor of the Inca Empire was taken captive, and soon the empire fell apart. The Indian tribes are difficult to eliminate systematically. The Internet was invented to decentralize, so it was named after the last Indian tribe to surrender to the United States.
I think it is because of the anonymity of the web itself that many things can be done online that cannot be done in everyday life. There is such a plot in "Death Note": when Yagami is sanctioned for crimes, although people are reluctant to express their true attitudes in public, they all express relatively mild views, but in private, especially It is this extreme approach that is very well recognized on the Internet. Under the influence and control of the daily government and major media, the collective is to a certain extent unconscious, at least just drifting with the flow.
I think it is possible that in the future supra-government organizations will be formed on the Internet. For example, when downloading a file initially, it needs to be downloaded on a certain website, but later with the p2p transmission protocol, it can be transmitted between clients without a central server. As long as there are people who have resources, there is no need to worry too much about the server storing it Feng; Later, with Bitcoin, it took a big step in this direction, without the need for the central bank to regulate the issuance of currency, and directly complete the transaction. But so far, it is still far from the new social system. Now there are various social media, such as QQ, Weibo, Facebook, etc., but all of them operate under a specific company organization. Maybe one day, your article will be deleted by the authorities or related companies for various reasons, what else can you do? After all, all your data and information are under their control. In this regard, whether it is a real name or not, it is not much different from the previous government system, even if it is a dark web forum. In the future, anyone with a device will be able to exchange information. When people plan some unimaginable things online, it is a subversion of the traditional social form.
The hottest thing at the moment is artificial intelligence, and machines can become more and more like people. So does it threaten people? of course! But there are several solutions:
Limit its behavior, make rules. The most famous of these is Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. But Asimov's laws of robotics are too difficult to implement today because they are too vague. For example, in daily life, it is easy for a person to hand over a pot of water, but for a machine, how does it recognize the "pot"? It might find out why the shape and size are different from the model on the fly? Why are other objects reflected in the reflection? Back to the law itself, how does a robot define a "human"? How to think that his human companion was speaking an order or a statement? But for the further future, it's a bit simpler. In many novels based on this theme, there are many completely obeying the rules but leading to bad results. In this case, the advantage is that humans have the initiative, and the disadvantage is that there are too many variables.
Addition to humans. Among them, the most influential one is "Ghost Team". Robots can think more and more like humans, and humans can be as indestructible as robots. Artificial organs, robotic arms, etc. can be achieved, which is nothing less than an evolution. The consequent problem is the collapse of the motives for ethical human existence. After all, humans are creatures too. The two most basic properties of living things are to respond to external stimuli, that is, to survive; Obviously these two things have caused me much pain, but I am still alive, just to enjoy that moment of joy. The biological imprint is indelible. As for what the robot thinks, we can't predict it, but human beings will no longer exist by relying on hormones to respond. Once fully transformed into a body of steel, what is the meaning of living? Reproduction is just one more copy. What is the difference between humans and machines?
Do subtraction. I had this idea before watching "Lingyin", and after watching it, my mind opened up. As long as you don't wake up from the dream, you think you are in the real world. Just like a sentence in the animation: "If the relevant memory is erased, it can be said that the event never existed." The current trend of information carriers is that the volume is getting smaller and the capacity is larger. If a person's body can be completely removed, leaving only the mind and the carrier that holds it, keep it in a container that is safe enough to have little or no energy from the outside world. It would be even better if it could be mobile and people could be connected. Just as the loss of desire can gain tranquility, and the broken pot can become calm, the role of human beings in the world has two major attributes, namely, understanding nature and transforming nature. We learn more about nature when we give up radically transforming nature. The text is written on paper, and the data is stored on the disk. I wonder if the information does not need a carrier? If we can, we make copies of our own information, penetrate into every corner of the universe, and form a whole. This behavior is just like God. I like the fun, but I prefer to watch the fun.
I end by quoting a quote from The Song of Saya: "Is it because it is too easy to reproduce? As a result, human beings develop love. In another sense, the idea of love hinders the reproduction of living things. In nature, if it is necessary to be in love to give birth to the next generation, I am afraid that more than 90% of species will disappear. Then, human beings who have the bondage of love, must the object of love be human? As long as the soul is pure, Is appearance less important? Does the so-called love come from the spirit or the body?" Then, my doubt is that, like reproduction, the meaning of human civilization development is only to export as much as possible while maintaining our own civilization. own civilization and values?
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