reject immortality

Daija 2022-04-19 09:02:29

The last episode of the fourth season of "Black Mirror" is still a bit of a slap in the face. The idea of ​​a copy of the copyman's thinking has appeared many times in the previous episodes. It's just that the story in this episode is darker and sadder.

It also made me suddenly understand that the immortality of the soul is not necessarily a kind of happiness. If the soul does not have a unique body to carry and can disappear with the destruction of the body, then immortality is more likely to become a painful torture.

Just like in this episode, there are three stages of consciousness immortality: 1. Parasitic in the brain of the human host; 2. Parasitized in the inorganic body; 3. Independent virtual storage.

The result of parasitism in the host's brain is as I expected, two sets of consciousness cannot coexist in the same brain, the host can't bear it, and the copy of consciousness is eventually expelled into inanimate stuffed toys. However, the ability to express is correspondingly limited to two repeated sentences: the little monkey loves you, and the little monkey needs a hug.

Such little monkeys could not replace the real mother at all, so the little monkeys were soon abandoned by her children. It is conceivable that the copy of consciousness in the little monkey has entered into a world of loneliness and despair. What is even more desperate is that pure consciousness has no ability to kill itself to end this tragedy.

The third stage of storage simulation is very high, but the imprisoned consciousness is used to perform a Sisyphus-style repeated pain.

After watching this episode, people find that the immortality of the soul may not be so beautiful. Perhaps the fast-morning body is a switch given to human beings by creation. Perishing together, following those primitive and natural ways.

The last episode of the fourth season of "Black Mirror" is still a bit of a slap in the face. The idea of ​​a copy of the copyman's thinking has appeared many times in the previous episodes. It's just that the story in this episode is darker and sadder.

It also made me suddenly understand that the immortality of the soul is not necessarily a kind of happiness. If the soul does not have a unique body to carry and can disappear with the destruction of the body, then immortality is more likely to become a painful torture.

Just like in this episode, there are three stages of consciousness immortality: 1. Parasitic in the brain of the human host; 2. Parasitized in the inorganic body; 3. Independent virtual storage.

The result of parasitism in the host's brain is as I expected, two sets of consciousness cannot coexist in the same brain, the host can't bear it, and the copy of consciousness is eventually expelled into inanimate stuffed toys. However, the ability to express is correspondingly limited to two repeated sentences: the little monkey loves you, and the little monkey needs a hug.

Such little monkeys could not replace the real mother at all, so the little monkeys were soon abandoned by her children. It is conceivable that the copy of consciousness in the little monkey has entered into a world of loneliness and despair. What is even more desperate is that pure consciousness has no ability to kill itself to end this tragedy.

The third stage of storage simulation is very high, but the imprisoned consciousness is used to perform a Sisyphus-style repeated pain.

After watching this episode, people find that the immortality of the soul may not be so beautiful. Perhaps the fast-morning body is a switch given to human beings by creation. Perishing together, following those primitive and natural ways.

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  • Nichole 2022-03-24 09:02:41

    How did 5, which has nothing to do with black technology, enter the Black Mirror system? It's definitely a step down from season three, but 6 exploring the possibilities of neuroscience is great, and 1 rough Star Trek isn't bad either. Judy's 2 makes a pertinent and painful idea about child protection deviate from the expression of the whole season, 3 is a memory fragment that has changed, and 4 is a bit less than the previous season's masterpiece San Junipero. Overall rating is 4 stars.

  • Russel 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    The two episodes of Contrl Freak's mother and the electronic dating gun disguised as Jiayuan's virtual love test are quite boring. The electronic clone Star Trek is really the most interesting episode, and the black and white set of robot dogs gives people a PKD texture, which I like very much. But the Insurance Investigator episode, especially from eyewitness memory, shifts from one person to another, and is especially reminiscent of Blade Runner's (photo) mirror investigation - actually Scott's The studio has cooperated with Philip to shoot a series of short films called "Parallel Lines project", one of which recreates the story of "Blade Runner" "Investigation in the Mirror" - human eyes It's the window to the soul, right? It's also an investigation in the mirror, so I made up a story with a more Noir tone, which would probably be more interesting. The last episode of "Black Museum" has a Black Mirror universe, but the big boss of the salesman is really weak (in fact, shouldn't the big boss be designed as a Netflix dad).

USS Callister quotes

  • Nanette Cole: This is a dream... It has to be.

    Walton: It's more like an eternal waking nightmare, from which there is no escape.

  • Robert Daly: I'm coming to get you!