The play sets four types of people: A. Humans, B. Cyborg human LEO (the only one on Earth), C. Machine-essential human-like synthetics without self-consciousness, and D. Self-conscious synthetics, of which A widely uses C to serve himself, while B and D are different types and are hunted down.
One of the main moments that made me turn from Lu to Fan was in the opening episode, where the TV show was showing the opinions of experts who support synths, "Synthes can liberate human beings from repetitive and boring work and return to life. ", ah, the great saviour of mankind.
BUT. Seemingly to achieve a shift in life focus from physical to mental activity, to improve the quality of life, it doesn't seem very tenable when you think about it, and there are other complex effects of synths on human life:
1. Repetitive uncreative work Not scary for the under-creative crowd, but their main source of income and fulfillment, so there is no "liberation". Source: Complaints from classmates of eldest daughter's underachieving grades.
2. The relentless reality of human existence like a robot is revealed, and most people are doing repetitive and boring jobs. Source: Same as above + experts give examples of miners and laborers.
3. When synthetic people can engage in intellectually advanced jobs such as doctors and police officers, ordinary people just have the opportunity to examine the source of their sense of accomplishment: whether it is the affirmation of the crowd, or the fun in the work process-because of this. Positions will no longer be looked up to because of their relative scarcity and loss of importance. Source: Reasons for objection when the eldest daughter chooses a career.
4. The above three points gradually aroused the envy, jealousy and hatred of human beings with limited ability, opposing camps appeared, and social contradictions became prominent. Source: Multiple anti-synth parades and speeches.
5. Synthetic people deprive them of the care and love that housework brings, such as: mothers cook for children, tell stories, and husbands accompany disabled wives. Therefore, synthetic people replace the roles of mothers and husbands and become carriers of love and memories , while the original mother and husband were gradually expelled from life, and the family was no longer harmonious. Source: The hostess and the police family.
6. In families without accompanying characters, such as Grandpa George, synths are the only place for human emotions, and their good memory creates the illusion of concern (the valet always repeats expressionlessly "You like apricot jam the most"). , George"), but this state of "resignation" is actually a helpless realism of indifferent real life - if you can feel love, it doesn't matter if it's programmed or spontaneous. In fact, fetishes have existed for a long time, because the essence of fetishes is "a lot of self, a lot of time, a lot of love" associated with things. Source: Grandpa George and the footman.
The above points are loudly slapped by experts on TV. One of them is that what really liberates people is not what to do, but whether there is love. Many seemingly boring behaviors are meaningful because they carry the motive of love and care, and it has nothing to do with whether they are performed by humans or machines. And there must be a price to use physical strength to free the mind (the most important thing is not to make robots look like people).
Louder slaps are still behind.
Decades ago, scientists secretly wrote programs that could give synthetic humans autonomous consciousness. This means that the last distinction between humans and robots has been disintegrated in an age when the walking dead are more like robots. Spontaneous emotion and consciousness are the main elements that distinguish people from machines, but when the appearance is no different from humans, the physical activity is far superior to humans, and when robots that can even choose to love or hate appear, scientists must panic- - The upgraded version of humans is about to occupy the earth! Although they are essentially robots. But at this point, it doesn't seem to matter what the essence is anymore, because there is no longer any difference in essence. As a result, only envy, jealous, and hateful human beings are left to panic and destroy their competitors who are better in every aspect.
The villain scientist in the show once said to the Class D synths, 'You're a robot with emotions, I'm a human with a machine (pacemaker), and we're probably no different'. If so, why can't we live in peace? Because people can't tolerate their own research results surpassing themselves?
Let's just wait and see for the second season ;P
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