Chapter 2799 Becoming a Human
What is a human being? This question is one of the eternal explorations in the world of science fiction.
In "Ghost in the Shell", it is believed that a human being is a person with a soul, and the so-called soul is a special substance produced in the brain that cannot be copied. Even in electronic brains, this substance called soul can be produced. Anyway, those with souls are human beings, and those without souls are machines. Even if the behavior is like a human being, it is not a human being.
But many science fiction worlds do not have such convenient things, and it is difficult to define what a human being is.
Why do we need to define what a human being is? In fact, it is very simple, it is a distribution relationship. Only human beings can join the distribution relationship, and those who are not human beings will be kicked out.
At the beginning of ancient Rome, the Romans were composed of three clans: Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans. Only people from these three clans were Romans. But later, as the expansion progressed, the definition of Romans was no longer just three clans, but became people with freedom, men with families, and citizens with the right to vote.
In ancient Greece, only those whose parents were Greeks were Greeks. This kind of expansion could not go out, so in the end they could only strengthen internal distribution and reduce resource outflow.
It is not only in politics that identity needs to be determined, but also in religion. There is always a saying in Buddhism that everyone can become a Buddha, so it is necessary to clarify whether animals, plants, bacteria, and inorganic substances can become Buddhas in addition to humans. If they can, monks cannot even eat vegetarian food. If not, why not?
In monotheism, there is a requirement for the birth of the Messiah. The Messiah is the savior, and once the savior appears, the world will become better. Then the condition for the birth of the Messiah is to require people in and outside the city to stop working and worship. So do the people in and outside the city include people who are entering and leaving the city? And how is the scope of this work included? Do soldiers who are on guard and doctors who are saving people also stop? Does it include pagans?
In the early days of the Central Plains, there was a debate on Huayi, and in the later period, there was "If a barbarian is Chinese, then he is Chinese, and if a Chinese is a barbarian, then he is a barbarian."
Positioning is all for the purpose of distributing relationships. Only people of our own can accept the distribution, and outsiders will leave.
The positioning of ancient Rome and the ancient Central Plains can change, and the barbarians of ancient Rome can join the distribution through war upgrades. The ancient barbarians in the Central Plains could also join the Chinese game by accepting education.
In the science fiction world, although equality for all has not yet been established, many people have begun to think about what humans are, and have erected walls for humans early to prevent artificial intelligence, artificial humans, robots and other products from joining the distribution relationship of humans.
Obviously, there are several sets of distribution methods within humans themselves, and they have not yet been unified and equal. It is obviously a little early to think about what humans are.
So Duran directly said that those who can join the distribution relationship are humans, and those who cannot join are not humans. It is really completely based on the perspective of interests, without any humanistic care.
But this is indeed right, because if you want to start from humanistic care, you must talk about the specialness of humans. Only by finding the unique advantages of humans can you divide humans and non-humans. But Duran has experienced so many worlds and knows many non-human civilizations. It is very clear that these non-human civilizations are as good as humans. Moreover, the problems they encounter are actually similar to those of humans, and the ways to solve problems are also similar, so humans have no superiority at all.
Even the contradictions inherent in humans are not unique. Many non-human civilizations also encounter the same contradictions. If there is no specialness in contradictions, how can humans have any unique advantages?
Therefore, Duran really couldn't answer what a human is from the perspective of humanistic care, so it was much simpler to explain it from the perspective of distribution. Those who can join the distribution are human, and those who can't are not human. Of course, this statement is very devastating to the old man Dongyue. After all, their generation still believes that humans have advantages. Although they were suppressed by the apostles, humans were able to come up with the "Human Instrumentality Project" and compete with the apostles for the dominant position of fusion, and the human ancestors left behind the "Dead Sea Scrolls" early on, which was very foresighted.
The apostles have been sleeping for so long, and when they wake up, they start to give experience one by one. Even if humans rush over, they can rely on technology to defeat the apostles. Isn't this the advantage of humans?
However, Duran knows that many non-human civilizations can do the same. As long as they master the technology tree, there is nothing special.
"Do you think humans have no advantages? You first said that true love doesn't matter in appearance, and then you said that the distribution method is the way to distinguish humans. Do you think that the soul and form of humans are so backward?" Dongyue, as a human, must talk about it.
"There are thousands of creatures with physical bodies in nature, and the human body does not have an irreplaceable advantage. Although the human body does a good job in heat dissipation, it is only good, not the best. Moreover, the apostles have more perfect bodies. For example, the appearance of the Thunder Angel is absolutely flat, which is absolutely absolute in the physical sense, and humans can't compare at all. There is also an absolute spherical shape, which is also absolute in the physical sense, and the human body can't achieve it at all." "Let's talk about the human soul. Lilith's soul is worth hundreds of millions of humans. Humans must lose in terms of quantity. Then what about quality? Ayanami Rei has a variety of forms, which is enough to prove that the quality of Lilith's fragments is much higher than that of humans. There are also demons. The demon soul is also very powerful, so we also lose in terms of soul. It is indeed difficult to admit that humans have no advantages, but it doesn't mean that survival must be the best. Sometimes mediocrity is also a kind of survival wisdom." Duran said.
Standing at the wind outlet, pigs can also fly to the sky.
"So humans don't have any advantages to be proud of?" Dong Yue still didn't admit defeat. He hoped to get Duran's recognition, because Duran was a strong man, and getting the recognition of the strong was of great significance to humans.
"It can't be said that there are no advantages at all. Humans have a good foundation and can make various transformations. This can also be regarded as an advantage. It is precisely because of mediocrity that compatibility is good." Duran said that various transformations based on humans are very potential: "The Valley God is immortal, and there is nothing wrong with not being excellent."
The Valley God is immortal, from the "Tao Te Ching". Valley is a valley, and God is a spirit. The spirit of the valley is tolerance. I don't have any extraordinary abilities, but I can tolerate everything. The cup is empty, so water can be put in. The door is empty, so you can go in and out. In other words, it is better to have no advantages than to have advantages, and there are more choices.
With advantages, it is difficult to change. And without advantages, you can turn around and take other ways out at any time. So from the perspective of Taoism, mediocrity is actually a great talent.
It sounds like a comforting word. After all, if there is no water in the cup, it is meaningless. If no one leaves the door, it is meaningless. But on the other hand, if you pour water, the cup will be disliked for being too big or too small, and if someone leaves, the door will be disliked for being too wide or too narrow. So it is safest to be empty and mediocre.
To survive, the safest way is the best way. So the fact that humans can survive and survive mediocrely is the advantage of humans.
Dongyue did not hear the praise she wanted to hear, but Duran did not say that humans are bad, so she still did what she should do.