More than 10 years ago, Bill Gates made such a conjecture in his "The Road to the Future" that with the development of modern information technology, engineers have With the ability to create a real feeling, you can put on display eyes, stereo headsets, and VR tights. What you see, hear, hear, and feel is controlled by the computer. If the hardware and software are powerful enough, you will Can't tell the difference between real and simulated. You have to know that this kind of thinking is not a fantasy. From a biological point of view, all human senses are nothing more than electrochemical reactions. If you can precisely control certain nerve impulses, you can completely simulate when you kiss your girlfriend. The wonderful feeling, although this is probably difficult for you to accept psychologically.
Today, more than 10 years later, many trendy young people are playing an online game called "Second Life". In fact, it is very inaccurate to say that online games are moving towards the reality of simulating real situations. Here you can use currency to make money, engage in jobs, speculate in stocks and sell houses, and even fall in love and have children. Moreover, internationally renowned companies including IBM, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Toyota, etc. have joined "Second Life" to continue their business activities, and news such as Reuters The media also has special people here to report the stories that happened in this virtual world. "Since I was a kid, I was fascinated by computer simulations of reality," says Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, which built Second Life. "We should Make a platform, not a game."
Going down this path, it won't be long before Gates' ideas and Rosedale's ideas will come together, and we can enter another world through circuits, where things happen Stories, too, will give us an almost real feeling, and we'll be addicted to them. Of course, our physical bodies still have to do some necessary activities in this world, and while that world is still going, many people are still having fun while you're gone. And we are obviously greedy enough to want to possess as much as possible, and the result is that we load our virtual selves into our thoughts and feelings, and let them live there according to a certain thinking, and continue, but not let them be conscious into our presence, but only when we want to be in them, occupying their moment and feeling their life. It's fun, isn't it?
But it won't be long before you can't tell the difference between reality and simulation, us and them. Then, you will find that a few wise men in that world, Gates and Rosedale, are also building another "virtual life", and they are also playing. So you are stunned: God! This is a system failure! They have such talent! At the same time, a bigger and terrifying question is coming to you: Are we real? How many Sims platforms are there? How many layers of different-dimensional time and space are real and not real? And what is real? At this time, you will find that as early as 1999 AD, a talented director named Joseph Rusnak shot a movie called "Thirteen Stairs" (also known as "Thirteenth Floor", "Different") Dimensional Hackers"), prophetically foreseeing all that you are realizing.
Wake up, wake up, back to the present! This is just a film review, about Thirteen Stairs. There is no doubt that this film moved me deeply. Although there are no big-name stars and dazzling stunts, it has enough ideas, enough depth, and enough inspiration. It is the kind of The kind of movie that makes us feel trance-like about our real environment and makes us think about our real existence, it is the kind of movie that makes us connect with the world 3. The so-called world 3 is an existence other than the "real world" (world 1) that we live in and the virtual "cyber world" (world 2), and, beyond world 3, it may also be extended to 4, 5, 6...even n. Then you will find that the moment when Zhuang Sheng dreams of a butterfly is also the moment when he is docking with the world 3. All the "love at first sight", "like the past at first sight" and "deja vu" are actually just you, or someone else, with a certain self in the world. There's a role conflict, that's all.
Then, you will also find that the so-called "agnosticism", Descartes' "I think therefore I am" is also something on this path. While "God laughs when human beings think", there is indeed such a "God" who is smiling at you through the computer screen. The thought of that is enough to make you shiver, hard enough. Is not it? What exactly is real? Just the feeling of the moment, or what? And what is "yes" and what is "no"? OMG!
PS: I found that making the picture bigger is particularly good-looking, thick and thick, thinking about deforming my blog! In addition, the most famous films in the focus angle of "The Thirteenth Staircase" are "The Matrix" (which came out after "The Thirteenth Staircase"), and "Twelve Monkeys", etc., but none of them "The Thirteenth Staircase" Come directly and thoroughly.
I think a few similar themed films that think about the future state of existence include "Metropolis", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Blade Runner", "Brazil" and Spielberg's "Encounters of the Third Kind", Minority Report, Artificial Intelligence, etc. I don't know which works in literature focus on this kind of stuff. It is said that Mr. Borges wrote an article "Rounded Ruins" in "Fiction Collection", which is the inspiration for many such films. I did not read it carefully. As for the others, except for the works of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who can introduce me to it?
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