The most prominent shock of watching "The Sixth Day" is not the cloning technology, but the look and expression of the cloned person and the cloned person when they look at each other together, and how they feel when they interact.
The biggest gain from this movie is actually philosophical-the philosophical question of "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where do I want to go?" that I didn't understand at one time began to understand what it meant. NS.
This also made me understand that philosophers are not insane, they are just thinking about "extreme" problems.
The clone in the movie "The Sixth Day" is different from the cloning we generally understand. He uses cloning technology to clone organisms of the same age and body. You don’t have to wait for him to grow up from the embryo, and he can A person's memory, knowledge, etc. are directly recorded, and then transmitted to the cloned person. This kind of clone is a full-scale clone from the physical body to the mental memory. It almost replicates an identical person, but in the same time and space.
There is a paradox in this, which one is the person?
From the perspective of the movie plot, after the male protagonist played by Schwarzenegger is cloned, the cloned person always thinks that he is himself, the male protagonist is a clone, and even wanted to kill the other party, and almost succeeded.
In his eyes, the clone is not himself, but an outsider, or even an enemy, who has taken away his family and career.
When the villain boss brainwashed the male protagonist, he said that cloning is for immortality.
So is clone immortal? The cloned self has exactly the same appearance, physical characteristics, thoughts, habits, memory hobbies, etc., let alone the possibility of this technology, let alone really cloned a person who is exactly the same as yourself, may I ask, Was the cloned person you?
This is a topic that is hard to argue with.
Later in the movie, the villain boss was accidentally injured by his subordinates and had to clone himself. The first thing the cloned self did was to take off his clothes and put on himself, regardless of the dying body, treating the body as a fraud. Xi is as courteous without respect.
This paragraph is actually very shocking. He made us clearly feel that, in fact, the cloned and the cloned see each other not by themselves, but by others.
If we think further, in fact, are you today and yesterday the same person?
Maybe you think it is of course. What did I do yesterday, how I did it, and what I thought are still vivid, and there is no me today without the me of yesterday?
Hearing it sharply, it is indeed the case, and it is also common sense, but if it is possible that the you of yesterday and the you now appear together at the same time, would you still think that you are the you now?
I believe you will not answer so casually after watching the movie.
In fact, the concept of "I" may only exist in the present time and space. If you leave the present, you cannot talk about "I". From a philosophical point of view, "I" is an immediate "present concept", not a continuous concept.
To put it simply, from a material point of view, our physical bodies, especially the internals, are changing all the time. In terms of the spirit of memory and thought, it is constantly changing.
Imagine that every day and even every moment of our lives, we may face choices. Not all choices are the same every time. Many times they may be random or unintentional, or they may be dilemmas.
Therefore, even if you don’t have a clone, you can go back and forth between time and space to re-choose one thing that may change. Therefore, we are actually living in uncertainty. We have the possibility of moving in a different direction in life every second of every day.
Therefore, in time-space-themed movies, you with different choices become another you in parallel time-space; in clone-themed movies, you with different choices become your clone. In short, none of them are you.
So, we have to think: Is he still me? Who am I?
Maybe our current wisdom still does not understand this problem.
Perhaps, when you think of the me in the past, even if it was me a second ago, I am never the me of this second, you can only understand and shout out the famous saying again: I think, therefore I am.
The only thing that can prove my existence is my thinking in progress at this time.
As for what is thinking? How does thinking happen? This may be a thousand-year proposition leading to the ultimate wisdom.
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