https://www.bilibili.com/video/av48317553?t=1741
This article is a small answer written by a user of a B station.
I watched the up video and answered my long-standing question about the spiritual core of cyberpunk, so I tried to answer the landlord's question:
1. How does the system of cyberpunk relate to the very limiting thing of robots?
According to Wiener's book "The Usefulness of Human Beings", Wiener wanted to emphasize the absurdity of cybernetics itself trying to act on man himself. He believed that man has creativity and initiative that ants cannot have, so he implemented cybernetics in A specific person is a kind of destruction of human nature, as well as the inhibition and regression of the further development of social productive forces.
This kind of thinking explains why cyberpunk works are so persistent in describing the so-called high-tech low-life scene. In this worldview, what cyberpunk wants to present is the kind of use by a certain class of human beings that Wiener opposes. The result of cybernetics controlling other classes. This result is that on the one hand some people can use technology to do whatever they want across any ethical restrictions, and on the other hand, some people are highly exploited by the labor force, and their personal value cannot be improved in any way. The various cyborgs, humanoid robots, and artificial intelligences of Beau Punkri's work are abstractions of cybernetics, they are created by humans, but they are often not controlled by humans. Or We are actually one with them (the prosthetic people), but we artificially think that pure human beings are superior to them. Some of them have been mechanized and managed with dehumanization, and some of them have abused their power excessively to do whatever they want).
In addition, I think the definition of a robot in the cyberpunk style is not necessarily the same as in other earlier sci-fi literature or movies. Cyberpunk emphasizes robots more, or cyborgs here (to a certain extent, it is actually righteousness). humanoids), prosthetics and the human-like nature of artificial intelligence (they are cybernetic products that go wrong, create self-awareness, and bewilder the line between the two when compared to the privileged (e.g. Blade Runner). ”), and “My body is prostheticized, so am I still human?” in “Ghost in the Shell”) These discussions actually revolve around the same question:” If we assume that one day we use technological means Can we control the physical level, especially the various biological control of our own body, can we control our spiritual level with this? Or is it uncontrollable?” Of course, cyberpunk works tend to be backward By.
ps: If there is a misunderstanding, it must be because I haven't finished Wiener's book.
Bought the book and read it.
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