Starting from Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, it is actually a not very tenable point of view. It looks very similar to the Two Principles of Robots introduced at the beginning of this film, but it transcends this boundary in the evolution of the plot. Machines are logical, and when there is a loophole in the symbolic subject that logic describes, the boundary is broken. The core question is how to define people? How is the biological human species fully described by logic to machines? Soon, on the ninth day, the machine brain realized that this was an unanswerable refutation, so it used the law of duality to give the answer by natural evolution, instead of the law of three, which I personally think is better than Asimov. a lot of. Because the first principle expresses the real object of benefit, the second principle expresses the necessary preconditions for the beneficiary object. This is like the relationship between time and space - I want space, energy, matter, light, so I want to give them time to exist - just like the first thought of God's creation - they are a phenomenon with two sides of one body produced at the same time, Indivisible, the rest are its derivatives, or phantoms. The variables of the two principles of robotics depend precisely on how the first principle is defined.
Interesting things often happen when a definition changes and everything reorganizes: what is the person to protect? How to define first principles?
I think the magic of this movie is here. The machine brain understands all possibilities on the ninth day, and gives the idea of this wonderful duality law of human beings. It has already calculated the result of the development of this program, and evolution will happen naturally. It is the inevitable logic of Taoism, two beget three, and then all things! Finally, as seen in the film, when human beings are close to extinction, their energy in line with the way of the universe is already very small, and how the light of human nature inherits and evolves itself, the key lies in how to define human nature? I think the male protagonist named welcom (which means laughing at the future) is a trivial person, but he has made a choice between the sympathy of life and the selfishness of life, so he can be called the Adam of the machine age. , and the female robot can be called Eve. The robot prophet who can be called God has introduced an irreversible regular evolution track - redefine the first principle, human nature can be preserved, so the second principle must be redefined and revised! I think that's what makes the film great.
"Survival is not the truth, life is", which made me think, no matter what you encounter, how important it is to transmit your positive energy in our life, because we are in this variable universe, just a momentary illusion of life and death, so Small but able to transmit constant signals, it is not prosperous in life. People, the most important thing is to know how to cherish, otherwise there will be only suffering left, even if you live in a high position and arrogant, or live complacently with leisure, the oncoming will no longer exist, there will never be tomorrow, only in the past. Being able to act as a story, what else can we do besides cherish all the experiences we have in our lives and illuminate others? Maybe that's what the robotic prophet told humans about life. It has to be said that this generation of robots is full of strong Buddhist spirit - "non-violence, non-cooperation", and also enlightens the world around them because of self-sacrifice, and at the same time does not waste their life to create a transmission medium, this is the next The reason why human nature + technology must be passed down in the era. In this way, human nature can be immortalized in the universe, not comparable to the survival laws of those flies and dogs.
The most brilliant place of the prototype of the robot brain is to start with the second principle of the existence condition - to transform yourself - to gradually promote the evolution of the external world through self-awakening, rather than directly challenging the first principle of how to understand the object. This is also the core of Buddhism's thought: knowing oneself and correcting oneself is the starting point for transforming the world.
Of course, there are few science fiction films that discuss what is the subject of human value. The reason why this film has a high gold content is also because the female robot protagonist has repeated many times: the theme of "not born, not to die", what is real life and what is real death? Has the machine created by human thinking really "lived"? Are those human beings who only care about themselves and their surroundings "life"? Are you afraid of dying? Is the demise of the visible individual the death we humans consider ourselves to be? What about me after I die? These grand propositions have long been answered in the dialogue between machines and humans! Time is a giant ruler used to measure truth and falsehood - no matter where "my" life comes from or where it goes, "I" only seriously deal with the events of current cognition, and this is, in addition to this I have never lived or died! Those selfishness, planning, worry, anger, fear, and expectation that are unique to human beings are all garbage generated by the duality world.
To put it more deeply, the past is the cause of life, but inevitably becomes the whole of death; the future is the result of life, but it can never be truly obtained. This is the fundamental logic of no life and death. Anything can only live in the perceptible present. That's the whole point! In the narrow sense, morality, rules, and technology are all tools to adjust the self and link the world, not the life-saving straw for the illusory mission of immortality. Therefore, the first ancestors of the robot era were not afraid of death, greed for life, and not fatal. In the illusion of self-moment, they passed on awakening - awakening machines and enlightening human beings. Such well-thought-out works are more authentic "serious sci-fi" than "hard sci-fi" in the usual sense. Not many can be considered to this standard, and some of Clark's works seem to be within reach. I hope that friends who have feelings can share more.
Speaking of the half-Dallas brother, his emotionality is very suitable for this role, and the casual emotional expression reveals the hidden poetic hidden traces of the bottomless proposition of the film. The soundtrack and art are very honest, and they are not messed up because of limited funds. In the end, this film is much more mature in ideological level than the one about becoming a Buddha by drug addiction, and has great potential to make a sequel. I hope the team will continue to work hard and have more valuable dry goods.
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