Lithium Flower-"Ghost in the Shell" and Artificial Intelligence (Originally published in "Iris" under April)

Josiane 2021-11-15 08:01:26

And is she really human?
She's just so something new
A waking lithium flower

—— "Lithium Flower"

Those who are familiar with the "Guns in the Shell" series will definitely not forget this Lithium Flower of Kamiyama Kenji version. A song of prime children in praise of "Superman" (ü-bermensch). At the same time, Kamiyama Softening Motoko and the entire TV version's ingenious style, suspense drama direction and descending to social issues, etc., I am afraid that many hardcore cyber fans, including his teacher Oshii Kari, will inevitably have "Er Ai The sheep, I love his rituals" sigh. In an interview on the eve of the release of the 95th edition, he even said, "In order to brew a proper sense of reality, we have done a great deal of self-restriction on the scale of performance. The result is a bit flat." This complaint is not self-effacing. It is important to know that Oshii's ambitions have even overshadowed Kubrick. Due to ironic economic considerations, the attack on the shell has not been able to say that it completely surpasses the predecessor of Blade Runner. Then there was a sequel like a contest of liberal arts knowledge. Regarding AI, one of the three ultimate propositions of this century, there is no shortage of masterpieces in the film industry. However, Yinyi, Gongku, and Matrix can be regarded as a trilogy that has served as the weapon of the Hulian. It has been in the same line for twelve years. There is nothing else that can truly implant cyberspace in daily life and in people's hearts. It can be said that the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son in the film on this subject matter. But I am afraid it is not very "philosophical." Some time ago, in Jiang Yuhui's circle of friends, someone even wrote a Deleuze-style review for "Super Body." Since the flamboyant copycat version has such a high treatment, it is better to come to memorialize this palpitating Lithium flower. Imagine that in addition to being "flat", thinking can break the mirror reflection of Suzi before diving into the deep sea. For decades, it can no longer be limited to this. Far from the gods. The clichés of "Pygmalion" complex are not listed here. As an intelligent person-I appreciate the term "mind" even more-I would go to extravagantly want to crush the so-called natural intelligence AI It's funny. Compared with its possibility, this desire itself is more thought-provoking. In the field of GOFAI (excellent old-fashioned artificial intelligence), there are two schools that alternately govern, the bionic theory and the robot theory. "Machine is just an extension of man" and "Man is just a machine". Every breakthrough in the application will make the frustrated party become enthusiastic. Just as "HAL9000" in "A Space Odyssey 2001" is so pungent irony, it didn't cut much of IBM's blue brain research and development funds, because it won the chess championship and was complacent. It is easy to underestimate how deep the sea of ​​mind can penetrate through the Turing Test, which is a typical Anglo-American empiricism standard. According to me, the AI ​​that can write to Emerson but doesn't let him hate has just passed. "Quotations from Suluzhi" says, "Man is a rope, connected between the animal and the superman-the rope hangs above the abyss." The author of "Out of Control" Kevin Kelly (Kelly) is even more explicit. Said nihilistically, "Humans are the offspring of apes, and humans are the ancestors of machines." Silver Wing and Matrix are almost a copy of this sentence. The difference is that the former released Adam and Eve that grew in the Asian bushes, and the latter returned to the theme of human salvation. "When a few people hold the mirror, there must be those who become demons, not according to the demons, but also creating them." Saito Luyu, who is quoted by Suzi in "Gun Shell 2: Innocence", is saying that the mirror image of the concept of "humanity" creates man. Demon. Nietzsche was shocked in his early years that all cultures are nothing less than "human narcissism." This is the biggest obstacle. The collapse of anthropocentrism is a vision that Nietzsche would like to see. But I still have to pour cold water, who wouldn't say harsh words? This is also the reason why I love "attacking the shell" more, even if Oshii himself said in the interview that he feels cold to humans, he still has the reservedness of material sorrow. Is it not possible to simply recognize the jihad that has lasted for more than two thousand years between empiricism and idealism? Aristotle and Plato merely re-crossed the electron tube into a cross. A more clever measure is to make a division. Return the order to Plato and the machine, and when the world model that may be mutated at any time encounters a real crisis, turn to Aristotle or the prophet for help. Connected between the animal and the superman-the rope hangs above the abyss. "And Kevin Kelly, the author of "Out of Control", said more blatantly but vainly, "Humans are the offspring of apes, and humans are the ancestors of machines." Silver Wing and Matrix are almost a copy of this sentence. The difference is that the former released Adam and Eve that grew in the Asian bushes, and the latter returned to the theme of human salvation. Saito Luyu, quoted by Suzi in "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", is saying that the mirror image of the concept of "human" has created the demon of human beings. Nietzsche was shocked in his early years that all cultures are nothing less than "human selfishness". Love". This is the biggest obstacle. The dissolution of anthropocentrism is a vision that Nietzsche would like to see. But I still have to pour cold water, and who won’t say harsh words? This is why I love "ghosting" more. The reason for this, even if Oshii himself said in the interview that he feels cold to humans, he still has the reservedness of material sorrow. Can’t it be simply distinguished from the jihad that has lasted for more than two thousand years between empiricism and idealism? Aristotle De and Plato just crossed again in the electron tube to form a cross. A more ingenious measure is to make a division. Return the order to Plato and the machine. When the world model that may change suddenly at any time encounters a real crisis, turn to Yari for help. Stokes or Prophet. Connected between the animal and the superman-the rope hangs above the abyss. "And Kevin Kelly, the author of "Out of Control", said more blatantly but vainly, "Humans are the offspring of apes, and humans are the ancestors of machines." Silver Wing and Matrix are almost a copy of this sentence. The difference is that the former released Adam and Eve that grew in the Asian bushes, and the latter returned to the theme of human salvation. Saito Luyu, quoted by Suzi in "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", is saying that the mirror image of the concept of "human" has created the demon of human beings. Nietzsche was shocked in his early years that all cultures are nothing less than "human selfishness". Love". This is the biggest obstacle. The dissolution of anthropocentrism is a vision that Nietzsche would like to see. But I still have to pour cold water, and who won’t say harsh words? This is why I love "ghosting" more. The reason for this, even if Oshii himself said in the interview that he feels cold to humans, he still has the reservedness of material sorrow. Can’t it be simply distinguished from the jihad that has lasted for more than two thousand years between empiricism and idealism? Aristotle De and Plato just crossed again in the electron tube to form a cross. A more ingenious measure is to make a division. Return the order to Plato and the machine. When the world model that may change suddenly at any time encounters a real crisis, turn to Yari for help. Stode or Prophet.

Don't forget the two things Nietzsche reminded: the boat of Theseus and imitation.

The former challenged Plato while giving some acquiescence to the small dark workshops of Platonists. After all, in the sea of ​​storms, a ship is needed, a conceptual dome, even if it is repaired, it still has to carry sentient beings up and down. There is a joke in the AI ​​industry, "As long as an artificial intelligence project is successfully applied, no one will admit that it is artificial intelligence." Automated control, OCR and voice recognition, SIRI, and refurbished robots have all become fashionable parts of The Ship of Theseus. But at the bolder level of human-computer interaction, it can make listed company CEOs, parliamentarians and economists unemployed. They are nothing but clumsy agents of operations research, decision theory, and cybernetics. Pleasant humans can no longer have to worry about the brain teasing of non-cooperative game balance. The so-called lifespace described by Kurt Lewin in his group psychology has long been calling for the rescue of artificial intelligence. Since it has been explained according to Moravec's paradox, the problem of man is the strength of the machine. Then these leaders, just give way. Why not, isn't this deduced from logic? For the small and fresh errors in the "Minority Report", it is enough to regularly check whether the planning of the world model meets the prediction, and then perform evolutionary calculations. Could it be said that this will be less efficient than bureaucrats who are only good at covering up ugliness? I don't understand, what are they tweaking. It's time to recognize that you are just a bunch of obsolete parts that will be replaced at any time.

The latter, mocking those logical-atomists, got into the Christmas stockings he knitted. But there is also a gift for people whose imagination is drying up: steampunk. Nietzsche only said that learning begins with imitation. This is an intuitive judgment that cannot be generalized. With the same word, Plato's nominalism was stunned. This old argument, even if it is not constituted, is corroding research in the field of strong artificial intelligence and even super artificial intelligence. In a nutshell, trying to encapsulate mental problems in a top-level iterator, dwarf people, and despise life. The paradox is that this is the fortune of the mind itself. It was the moment when Zhi crushed his heart. Of course, this statement is too romantic. To follow Hobbes's more realistic statement, it is to overcome the fear of violent death through intelligent immortality, just like the creatures created in the consciousness of hypocritical patients, to lower the brain pressure for the patients. Isn't Leviathan the same thing that has revived Anglo-American authoritarianism? In Cliff Barker’s Hellraiser, it is incarnate as a box of mourning that directly connects self-centered secularity and asceticism, rather than the contracted state that people expect from the divine to secular. A kind of entity, a type of will to power, a force that refuses to communicate, has no content, and is crushing, and executes the will through the tentacles of empowerment. The giant alloy fortress of Tyrell in the Silver Wing, surrounded by the guard wingman, loaded and read the doctor's brain, is the manifestation of Leviathan. As a black market distribution center for electronic warfare and intelligence networks, Xingang in the shell is remote, dirty, and lowly, but at the same time it is convenient for all kinds of dirty work, just like a puzzle box circulating in the world, which contrasts with it. Robot Revenge-The famous anarchist farce by the Wachowski brothers (temporarily siblings) has finally allowed Leviathan, who is struggling with legitimacy, to find an agent of the general trend. People, kicked away. People become batteries. But this is not serious enough. AI's revenge is still too human and cannot be separated from the imprint of humanity. It's like a jealous God is sending disasters. Dyke, who dreams of a unicorn, shows love to Rachel as a human being and has already stated his position. From the naming of replicant, it can also be found that the logical starting point of Silver Wing is to assume that AI No difference with people. They passed the Turing test. Even the tester is an unknowingly artificial person. Leaving aside the topic of virtual memory that has been revisited in the Ghost in the Shell, Silver Wing, as an outpost, has already noticed a deeper difference. The difference between Francine and Mocomb. In the eyes of mechanist Descartes, her daughter's metamorphosis, a mechanical doll, no matter how rough, naturally shares her essence. Turing really wanted to create a brain, named after his childhood close friend. Turing tests common sense and even small talk. Although facing the machine, it precisely points to the human and the triviality of the human. Intelligence is truly super-mechanical sensitivity. Descartes and Turing heralded the re-emergence of neats and scruffies in the field of artificial intelligence. Man, not others, is the hope of free will in life. Therefore, the intelligent agent (Intelligent Agent), more humbly outlines the value of people, lies in shouldering this agent function for "life". This is exactly what Nietzsche emphasized on the non-life-life valuation: living things are just a kind of non-living things, but they are rarer. Therefore, although life is still insignificant for the whole, in humans, everything has been transformed into life. Has been, and has been able to continue as a result.

John Searle's Chinese room experiment is flooded with signs in the streets of Newport. Chinese has become a kind of smell. In that famous experiment, Chinese represented people. This mess is the smell of human beings. Even if the machine has deceived people, it doesn’t understand people, it’s just calling symbols, just bits of papper. It's like a person who only understands English, unable to think in hieroglyphs. The most fatal flaw of Hiller's hypothetical experiment is that it cannot explain how the words "translation program" are implemented. Therefore, this experiment cannot prove or falsify whether or not they understand a "foreign language". Scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have been stimulated with dazzling "translation" technologies such as data mining, common sense libraries, decision trees, prolog languages, framework-scripts, biometric recognition, and so on. In Silver Wing, simply say, "Whether you are human or not, I will kiss you". Thus, the end of Silver Wing became an escape wedding. Through love, to crack the spell, the romance is too arrogant. Oshii turned to religion. The character of Suzi, from the infancy to the body of the whole body, there is no secular growth at all. It can be described as an infant without a child. Even after being fused with the puppet master, it is still a soul. Compared with Dyke, it is not a "made brain", but closer to the spiritual body. This spiritualism responds to the illusory ego. The reflection of the veneer when Moko dived, the doll in the window, and the glimpse of the cell body in the teahouse all disturbed Moko. In the end, she seemed to be a reincarnated soul boy and entered the sea of ​​codes. In "Innocent", it is even pointed out in the Buddha's words, "I walk alone in the world, and my heart is clean. No desire and no demand, like the elephant in the forest." After understanding the Alaya Consciousness, there is no difference in mind since then. To borrow the words of the poet Musu, "If the world is a mirror, there is the possibility of life and death, both above and below the mirror." If you stop at the Buddha, then Oshii is too floating. It's not that I despise Buddhism, but I can't rely on Buddhism to promote artificial intelligence. In the classic dialogue with Suzi, the puppet master reminded Suzi to correctly evaluate his "life function". This has violated the concept of life. Dyke and Rachel can't breed, but the puppet master can. Through integration, his will is passed on from generation to generation through countless "primitives". As long as the carrier of cyberspace exists. This is a kind of pan-life, non-life. The network, the epitome of time and space, has become a new shell. Suzi became the first soul, a kind of will to survive. The mother and child of the first cyberlife. The moment the mother merged, she was sniped. Child, coldly rejected Bart's adoption. Tsundere's element. Dettol's Lithium Flower. Moreover, Oshii persisted in a kind of limited immortality. Dismal immortality. As Oshii said bluntly, "like Hong Kong half submerged in water". This time-space-physical body depends on various black technologies, black markets, and labor. Numerous Xingang and Tyrell companies exude human stinks. Following this clue, why can't the solar energy be used in Matrix, and the body battery must be used to maintain the matrix, which is a logical matter. This is actually still a bleak outlook on the status quo The analogy of coming. Therefore, Keanu Reeves's incarnation of Messiah is still a cliché.

To promote the "puppet master" hypothesis, the conclusion will be terrible. Viruses and cancer coexist, and their self-proliferation is the only goal. If life is the will for self-proliferation and persistence, can humans also be translated as "humanoid viruses". In other words, even the most primitive electronic virus is a kind of life. But it is not life yet. It has the replicability of viruses (as a life type), but this replication is juxtaposed with contact and must be exposed to the flesh machine. At the same time, in the standby state, it is a dead thing. The two processes of standby and copying are phased and have a continuous illusion. Life is just a mutation of cancer in the natural environment. All this, starting from the fusion of the puppet master and the element, there was a deviation. In the plot, it is explained that even if the "2501 Project" represents the final emergence of everything about computability, it is impossible for him to make a miraculous leap and become a "life body born in the ocean of information". Otherwise, why bother to fuse with the element. There is only one reason. He is a prop for the reincarnation of the element that mankind hopes for. If this is the case, then it is more reasonable for Suzi to accidentally fit a high-end Deep Blue under some kind of opportunity. This seemingly mysterious and mysterious puppet master has turned into a flaw in the shell. To put it bluntly, maybe Oshii still manages the unstable mental problem.

It is not possible to categorically admit that Motozi is a spiritual body, right and non-life because of the complexity of intelligence, narrative, and beauty. Baudrillard warns us to be wary of the cognitive crisis of "simulacra". All of this may be forged. Just like memory. Of course, this project is much more difficult than a dream unicorn or a picture of a small family. Suzi kept asking while fighting in the pool, "Mother's face, place of birth, childhood memories, what else can you remember?" In other words, memory is soul, just as poets say memory is language. Memory cannot be faked, just as an electronic brain needs to be embedded in the soul. The forgery is only scribbled information. Once the soul is gone, it is impossible to distinguish. Will be obscured. Alienation is human ability, mental ability, it can be positive creation or inertia. Laziness is a puppet, giving up autonomy, like a shed head puppet. Only when the first line is disconnected does it fall into the limelight. To say that the natural state of memory is just like the state of life, without a moment of cessation. It's until the dead. It's a commotion. Turing is precisely in this way forcing us to admit that we are not sufficiently digging our intuition pumps. Although, he optimistically predicts that at the beginning of the 21st century, artificial intelligence can survive the five-minute Turing test. This test is directed at the key to memory. Imagine a bureaucrat, a walking dead, even a neighbor next door, can pass the poet's test? So why is this test timed? As the Q&A deepens, from greetings to thoughts, and even Beckett asking Joyce, "Why, as an expressionist philosopher, Hume would write British history?" The stirring knob, no Huge, but exponential. When is it enough to be called "mind"? Let us imagine that through Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models and all kinds of machine learning, an AI Gradually integrated the basic logic of the Minimalist and the various non-logical abilities of the Wuzai, and gradually exhausted the problem of computability...Finally, the emergent computing capability of artificial intelligence has exploded, so how does it leap forward? Having a sign of life-a will? How not to be melted in the sea of ​​information, but to be three-dimensional on it. Or is it not called separately by its various functions, not just a smart phone loaded with top apps? The advantage of the machine is that it has high efficiency for stable logical relations, and the accuracy of input-output. Therefore, for some structural problems, "algorithms" can be derived. However, after the definition of computability is generalized, it actually resorts to instability to make it closer to the human mind. However, this approach of moving closer to the human mind is a step backwards for the machine. The purpose of this regression is only to conform to people's "narcissism." Then it is not necessary. In addition, as a non-stable structure, the living body itself is its model, so only for some set stable structures, the assistance of the machine is needed. That is to say, the value of AI is to leave the calculable problems within the limit to this Kind of machinery and equipment to assist people. If this limit is to be exceeded, it must be sealed. Looking back from the birth of life to the process of intelligent agents, AI is exactly a reverse derivation. Then, this kind of storage can only rely on the issue of "birth of life". For example, Cellular Automation and Prigogine's dissipative structure theory are just the proposed solutions. The conditions for the birth of life are not to be too rigid, but also to overcome randomness. To paraphrase the words of Conway, the inventor of "Game of Life", "Life is born on the edge of chaos." As a result, a "life" startup program that can be encapsulated into artificial intelligence is produced, and finally AI can become a non-life in the philosophical sense. Of course, I hope that the non-life is the element that never needs to be grown up. The most optimistic near future I can imagine is that people travel on a starship roaming in space, and all its bureaucratic, commercial, ethical, and legal functions based on the desire for control are controlled by this or this group of non-life counter-controls. The star illuminates the emblem of its hatch, which is a stainless lithium flower. It is exactly a reverse derivation. Then, this kind of storage can only rely on the issue of "birth of life". For example, Cellular Automation and Prigogine's dissipative structure theory are just the proposed solutions. The conditions for the birth of life are not to be too rigid, but also to overcome randomness. To paraphrase the words of Conway, the inventor of "Game of Life", "Life is born on the edge of chaos." As a result, a "life" startup program that can be encapsulated into artificial intelligence is produced, and finally AI can become a non-life in the philosophical sense. Of course, I hope that the non-life is the element that never needs to be grown up. The most optimistic near future I can imagine is that people travel on a starship roaming in space, and all its bureaucratic, commercial, ethical, and legal functions based on the desire for control are controlled by this or this group of non-life counter-controls. The star illuminates the emblem of its hatch, which is a stainless lithium flower. It is exactly a reverse derivation. Then, this kind of storage can only rely on the issue of "birth of life". For example, Cellular Automation and Prigogine's dissipative structure theory are just the proposed solutions. The conditions for the birth of life are not to be too rigid, but also to overcome randomness. To paraphrase the words of Conway, the inventor of "Game of Life", "Life is born on the edge of chaos." As a result, a "life" startup program that can be encapsulated into artificial intelligence is produced, and finally AI can become a non-life in the philosophical sense. Of course, I hope that the non-life is the element that never needs to be grown up. The most optimistic near future I can imagine is that people travel on a starship roaming in space, and all its bureaucratic, commercial, ethical, and legal functions based on the desire for control are controlled by this or this group of non-life counter-controls. The star illuminates the emblem of its hatch, which is a stainless lithium flower.

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Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Batou: [on radio] So what's the latest word on your "Puppet Master"?

    Batou: [pause as the chief watches the witness on monitor] Chief? Are you there? Come in...

    Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: He's only a puppet himself...

  • Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.