Say Black Mirror. When I heard that it was an interactive movie, I just thought it was a formal attempt, but I was so excited after watching it, because the choice itself is a discussion of the movie's theme.
First of all, the poster "You have a choice." has two meanings. The first one is very straightforward, that is, we are a movie where you can choose the direction of the plot; the second meaning is, you think you have a choice, but you no. Among them, you think you have the right to choose, but your choice is contained in the necessity. This is a discussion about whether people have free will.
There are multiple nests of free will discussions in the film. In the game developed by the protagonist, those players think they have the right to choose, but in fact they do not, their choice agenda is limited by the protagonist; the protagonist thinks he has free will, but in fact he does not, the direction of his story is decided by the PAC/audience; the audience feels that they have free will You can choose, but in fact there is no, the audience's choice is made by Netflix, and the various choices in the early stage will eventually lead to a given path, and the ending is also given a limited number; Netflix thinks that they have free will... No, they know themselves No, they are all human beings like us as the audience, and we probably don't have free will. In such a four-level nesting, each layer implies that our destiny will be determined by the existence above. We are actually a member of the precise "program", and the electronic sound that the protagonist puts on the headphones at the end of the story, just The implication is that our world may be a programmed world.
The discussion of free will can be extended to the physical level. In classical physics, everything in the world is running accurately. As long as you give the initial conditions, you can calculate what his state will be after a specific time. At this time, a conjecture emerged: if there is an existence that can know the current state of all particles in the universe, and has absolute computing power, then he can push forward the beginning of the universe, push back the end of the universe, and know everything in the world. destiny. This idea also portends a terrible conclusion: everything is given, we have no choice, we are just a given expression of the laws of physics at different points in time, we have no free will, everything has been decided.
Although the subsequent quantum physics has the uncertainty principle, the uncertainty principle itself cannot be taken into account due to the observation. At present, the quantum cloud, that is, the integration of probability into the physical world, is a compromise choice similar to Occam's razor after shaving off unnecessary assumptions. Whether the essence of the world is accurate or probabilistic has become a kind of unknowable. field of.
The second topic explored in the film is the concept of parallel universes. Physics has had a similar thought: is it that every choice we make is accompanied by a bifurcation of the world. Black Mirror has many forks, and each fork is a new world. At the same time, it is mixed with the concept of anthropic principle. What is the anthropic principle, that is, the premise of your consciousness is based on your existence, then if you die, you will not be conscious, you will not be able to think about whether you exist, and only when you exist will you know that you exist. For example, man stands on the earth and asks why the conditions of the earth and the universe allow man to appear? But the question implies that you can ask the question because you have already met it before asking the question. Put the anthropic principle and parallel universes together and a crazy idea arises: you are subjectively never dead, because you only feel your presence in the forked parallel universe in which you live; the branch in which you die Fork parallel universes do not exist for you because you cannot feel them. Someone once put forward a scenario hypothesis for this: you have a gun that has a 50% probability of firing a bullet every time you shoot, and keep pulling the trigger at your forehead. You never die, because you live forever in your own parallel universe, but to the bystander, you may die at some point, but you just died in this person's parallel universe, you are still alive in your own Live and have consciousness in the universe.
Free will, parallel universes, anthropic principle. These are fully reflected in Cohen (? It seems that the name), the well-known game producer of the movie character. He gave the protagonist psychedelic drugs and gave the audience a choice whether to take it or not, but in the end, no matter what we choose, we actually have no choice. "You thought you had a choice, but you didn't."
He encouraged the protagonist to jump downstairs, and jumped very calmly without any hesitation, because he knew that subjectively he would never die, he lived in his own parallel universe, and for the protagonist, the bystander, He has already died in the universe of the protagonist's branch line.
Going back to the movie, the audience's control over the choice of the protagonist is too blunt. Many people think that this makes the plot not full enough, but I have another opinion. It was under this kind of blunt manipulation that the protagonist, as a puppet, discovered the strings above his head. Stiffness is instead used as an expression, too explicit to make the protagonist think about free will. Correspondingly, is there any real free will in our world? The world's grip on us isn't that blunt and obvious, but does that mean it doesn't? Or are we kids in the dark who just haven't asked the question yet?
In the end, the author of the book is crazy, and the protagonist is crazy. His madness lies in finding that he has no right to choose. Even if he has "choice", it is superficial, and behind it is still control, whether it is controlled by people or by the world. , free will may just be a false proposition of wishful thinking.
Finally, after being reminded by the audience next to me, I realized that the background of the story is set in 1984, which should be a tribute to George Orwell's 1984. In "1984", Stalin's totalitarian model rules people's minds. In Black Mirror, people without free will are also under a kind of totalitarianism to some extent, but this totalitarianism is natural.
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