significance

Sasha 2022-03-23 09:01:18

We humans are the only animals that commit suicide, we humans are the only animals that need meaning.

Today, when artificial intelligence has defeated the world champion of Go, Kai-fu Lee said that in the future, AI will achieve the ultimate in all rational thinking, and the only thing in the future world worthy of our human beings is content.

Yes, for thousands of years, we have been trying to distinguish ourselves from other creatures. From the initial use of tools, to the repeated upgrade of ethics and morality, to the industrial revolution, human creativity has been admired to a height of fanaticism. Today, The arrival of the era of artificial intelligence indicates that one day, when all repetitive and logical work is replaced by AI, human beings will return to the most primitive state, creating, thinking about love and meaning.

In the era of Gattaca, human genes could be artificially screened, and a new class division standard appeared in society—the superiority of genes. What is the difference between this and our current era of fighting fathers, it is all brought in the womb of the mother, and it cannot be changed or shaken, and it is an extremely desperate life. It is not a social regression.

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Gattaca quotes

  • [Irene has discovered Vincent's secret]

    Irene: I don't even know who you are.

    Vincent: I'm the same person I was yesterday.

    Irene: I can't hear any more of your lies Jerome...

    Vincent: My name is Vincent, all right? Vincent Anton Freeman, and I'm a "faith birth" or a "de-gene-erate", whatever you want to call it; but I am NOT a murderer!

    Vincent: You're a "God-child"?

    Vincent: [takes Irene's hand and places over his heart] But we do have one thing in common, only I don't have twenty or thirty years left in mine. Mine is already ten thousand beats overdue.

    Irene: It's not possible.

    Vincent: You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.

  • Vincent: I don't know how to thank you.

    Jerome: No, no. I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream.