Black Mirror Sophie's World

Kristofer 2022-03-21 09:02:45

"Sophie's World" is a novel about the history of Western philosophy. In the form of a novel, it reveals the development of the history of Western philosophy through the process of a philosophical tutor imparting philosophical knowledge to a girl named Sophie. One of the 100 classic works of the 20th century. However, the author wraps a strong philosophical core in the shell of a suspenseful story, so many people still don't understand it after reading it. The following is the general content:

Sophie, a 14-year-old girl, came home from school one day and received a mysterious letter - "Who are you? Where did the world come from?" At the same time, she received a quirky postcard with the recipient on it. It was "Please turn it over to Sid, Sophie," postmarked from Lebanon.

Since this day, Sophie has been receiving some very unusual letters, and the world is unfolding in her eyes like a mystery.

She uses the girl's innate understanding and acquired knowledge to try to solve these mysteries. Under the guidance of a mystical mentor, Albert Knox, Sufis began to ponder the fundamental questions pondered by masters from ancient Greece to Kant, from Kierkegaard to Freud.

The inexplicable correspondence course continued, the contact method changed again and again, and a bitter and angry Albert Knox finally appeared in front of her and began to teach her the history of philosophy. He takes Sufis back to the philosophical development from pre-Soviet Greece to the era of Jean-Paul Saud in an easy-to-understand manner. Meanwhile, the name "Sid" kept popping up around her with incredible frequency.

It turned out that the character Sophie was just a fictional character created by Norwegian Major Albert Nag who worked in the United Nations Forces in Lebanon to celebrate his daughter Sid's birthday, and compiled her story into a philosophically interesting story as her daughter's birthday. Gift.

Ultimately, the book ends with an open-ended ending, with Albert Knox and Sophie inexplicably escaping from the book world and into Sid's world.

You can see the book's thinking on the self, existence and the meaning of life. Is our life just a game carefully designed by others? It's just that few people are as lucky to know their existence as the Invincible Destruction King, just like the hero of this film keeps repeating: "nobody knows anything", so why not say that this is Truman's world, it's because of the manipulator At least in the same dimension as the creation, and finally the protagonist walked out. And the male protagonist in this film is actually a pile of computer data, where will he go after it collapses, maybe in the heart of the little boy, he will finally be reunited with his son in another world (presented by the director), but is that really the case? How can we know where the AI ​​that broke the Turing test really went with a layer of screen?

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