How to define "I"

Filiberto 2022-04-19 09:01:27

On the way to watch the movie, I didn't know what the movie was about, so I happened to chat with a friend about this topic, how to define "I".

Friends say that coherent or complete "memory" defines "me", but memory will be tampered with, damaged or even lost. Is the "me" with the tampered or damaged memory still the complete "me"? If memory is stored, the medium itself must not be defined as "me".

"I" is a rather ambiguous and complex composition.

If I had to find a reference to "I", it would be "consciousness". Even, I think, the world around me is created by my consciousness. That is to say, the world in which we each exist is "I", and the "body" is only created because consciousness needs to rely on a subject from a first-person perspective.

"I" is made up of multiple "consciousness", sight, smell, hearing, touch and thought. In our "world", "I" can be said to be infinite, and any other existence is created by consciousness, and we know very little about it (the images we see and the assumptions we get from feedback). Perhaps it is because of this that I have this feeling that the "world" is just a "me".

As for Kane and Lena at the end, or whether it was the original Kane and Lena, it's hard to tell. If "consciousness" defines me, then I think Lena is still Lena, but she has evolved (mutated) and evolved on the basis of primitive consciousness. The cloned (surviving) Kane, I think it is no longer that Kane. To a certain extent, their consciousness is biased. When Kane committed suicide, another Kane was in charge of the video. They have different perspectives and different memories. , the world of consciousness is not at one point (forked).

In general, the brain hole of the movie is very interesting, and the production is a bit rough, but I never care about the production when I watch the film, I like the story.

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Annihilation quotes

  • Lena: The mutations were subtle at 1st; more extreme as we got closer to the lighthouse. Corruptions of form. Duplicates of form.

    Lomax: Duplicates?

    Lena: [She looks at the tattoo on her arm & lifts her arm up] Echoes.

    Lomax: Is it possible these were hallucinations?

    Lena: I wondered that myself... but they were shared among all of us. It was dreamlike.

    Lomax: Nightmarish?

    Lena: Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.

    [the movie then cuts back in time to show beautiful translucent single-tailed wormfish swimming alongside double-tailed duplicates. Lena is in a canoe on a swamp located quite near to a corpse that bears the same tattoo as Lena]

    Lena: Oww. Ow.

    [She clutches her arm - there is no tattoo yet. However, a dark blue mark has appeared at the same place on her arm]

    Cass Sheppard: You're hurt?

    Lena: It's just a bruise. I must have gotten that from the gator.

  • Dr Ventress: It's not like us... it's unlike us. I don't know what it wants, or if it wants, but it'll grow until it encompasses everything. Our bodies and our minds will be fragmented into their smallest parts until not one part remains... Annihilation.