. The post-disaster world view of robots in "MATRIX" is actually very old-fashioned. It belongs to the era of "Astro Boy". Robots and natural people are completely separated.
Now, both in science fiction works and academics, it is more popular to transform the world view of people in the future. It is the cyber man. "Ghost in the Shell" uses this world view, and "The Age of Mechanical Soul" is also discussing whether cyber people belong to human beings. The problem.
So when I watched "PLUTO" later, I felt that the world view was very puzzling. How could robots have to marry and adopt children and grandchildren to form a family.
In fact, in the ancient world view of MATRIX, the difference between robots and natural people lies in silicon-based and carbon-based. This worldview defaults that humans will not change their bodies through technology, and that robots are individuals with survival instincts like other creatures ("Ghost in the Shell" is called GOHST). As a result, robots will inevitably become a new ruling species that surpasses humans.
In the world view of "Ghost in the Shell", the difference between a robot and a natural person is not in the form, but in the presence or absence of "ghost". Therefore, in the world of "Ghost in the Shell", people can endow themselves with metal shapes , it is also possible to give a robot an organic body, but the former is still a human being, and the latter is just a robot.
Regarding "ghost", my understanding is "survival instinct". The survival instinct is inherent in all living things, and can be regarded as an innate consciousness for humans. It is because of the "survival instinct" that human beings are imperfect. In order to survive, people are selfish, lazy, indulgent, and greedy. Robots are man-made, and their instincts are formulated by the creator. Naturally, the first priority is to complete the task. Therefore, the robot does not need to be responsible for its own survival, just as the "Dream of the Stars" can have "a perfect heart". Just because robots have no "survival instinct", robots will not be enslaved, because robots' instinct is "labor".
On the whole, the world view of "Ghost in the Shell" should be more suitable for current cognition, especially in the era when transplanted organs, artificial joints, and pacemakers are very common. The world view of "MATRIX" was born out of SF novels in the 1940s and 1950s. Now it seems that it is not science fiction but fantasy.
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