The advent of intelligent society and intelligent revolution provides a new era background for the re-reading of some of Marx's classic documents. The earliest starting point of civilization was the separation of man from nature, the first process of "why man became man". Later, due to the division of labor and alliance of people, especially the difference in the mode of alliance, the form of civilization was different, and the agricultural civilization, industrial civilization, information civilization and intelligent civilization appeared.
Unlike the millennium calculation of agricultural civilization, the centennial calculation of industrial civilization, and the ten-year calculation of information civilization, we still cannot predict how long it will take for the development of intelligent civilization, and what kind of social form will intelligent civilization eventually appear? Industrial civilization and intelligent civilization are civilizations that travel in two different directions, industrial civilization is mainly based on the pursuit of enriching people's material life, and intelligent civilization is a civilization that deeply tortures human nature, which is mainly based on the pursuit of spiritual life.
When we re-read the Communist Manifesto, looking at the current intelligent society along the trajectory of Marx's research on the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, a question worth pondering is: Are we about to usher in the social civilization of the "useless class", "intellectual class" and "leisure class"? This has led to the reversal of the relationship between people and the world: digital privacy, in the world of ultra-memory, hyper-reproduction and hyper-proliferation, the control of personal information and the transfer of the right to delete and many other issues.
Intelligent civilization has opened the second process of "why people become people", that is, how to adhere to the moral bottom line of "people", how to guide and regulate the development direction of intelligent technology, and establish ethics about the future.
If it is said that in the natural environment, human beings follow the laws of nature, the survival of the fittest, and the survival of the fittest, then in the social environment, human beings form a social framework from reverence for nature to control nature, and human sociality becomes the intermediary or horizon for people to re-view nature. With the advent of the technological environment and the result of the first three technological revolutions, technical standards have become the standard for judging other things, human autonomy has given way to the authority of technology, and technology has become a new intermediary for human beings to look at problems.
The characteristics of the intelligent era created by the intelligent revolution are mainly based on the digital transformation of artificial intelligence, neural engineering, biotechnology, quantum computing, nanotechnology, chip technology, etc., the deep interconnection of society, the symbiosis of man and machine, and the universal use of robots, including the "metacosm" that has been widely discussed recently.
Regarding the metaverse, it's a very hot topic right now. Its characteristics can be summarized as "transcendence". The first is to go beyond the single and pursue integrated applications. Integration applications include several major integrations, one is technology integration, the other is platform interconnection, our current platform and platform interconnection is not so good, that is, random switching between different worlds.
The second is to go beyond the interface and increase the sense of space. It is a state beyond two-dimensional to three-dimensional, beyond vision to perception, and the future metacosm is perceptual and immersive. So the problem is, the metaverse makes people's perception into commodities, our original human perception is only your understanding and feeling of someone, something, something, something, is a personal thing, but after the metaverse appears in the future, how to guide your perception and use your perception has become the object of business talk.
The third is to transcend static and increase the sense of situation. The fourth is to transcend the boundaries of the body and increase the sense of crossing. Finally, transcend reality and increase satisfaction. We can achieve some wishes in the metaverse world that cannot be achieved in reality, to achieve personal satisfaction, the metaverse of such a digital world knows what you want, can give you a lot of automatic satisfaction, because it understands your history, your joys and sorrows, these will provide a business machine, will bring great social change. Behind all this is the role of algorithms and big data. In the era of algorithm manipulation, from empowerment, intelligence to empowerment, this in itself constitutes an exercise of power, which leads to a fourth paradigm, that is, data-driven scientific research.
The inherent requirement of the intelligent revolution is to reshape the interrelationship between man and nature, man and society, man and others, man and himself, man and intelligent robots and even biological intelligent robots from material to spiritual, to guide, constrain and standardize the research and development and application of intelligent technology. Therefore, any humane care as a starting point for judging technology, society and nature, and how to reconstruct a society in which nature,society,technology—humanity is highly entangled and integrated, is a crucial issue. For example, the new crown epidemic has had a great impact on many traditional enterprises, but some high-tech enterprises have developed better and better, including the current network conference, which has a great impact on our original production methods, which actually provides a realistic basis for understanding some traditional views of Marxism, and also helps to explain the contemporary values of Marxism.
Re-reading Marx's theory of human development can find many new resources, for example, the first stage of human growth is the natural form, and the development of human ability in Marx's original work is the interdependence between people, which is the simplest. The second stage is material, forming the material exchange of a universal society, which is the satisfaction of things. The third stage is to realize the freedom and all-round development of human personality on the basis of common social wealth and the premise of common social development, which is a very high spiritual realm.
The fourth technological revolution with artificial intelligence as the core is not only a technical issue, it requires the simultaneous development of humanities and science and technology. At the same time, it is also a dimension that we must add to the study of common prosperity. Common prosperity is not only an economic concept, and common prosperity must be added to spiritual prosperity. Only when material prosperity and spiritual prosperity can be realized together can we truly achieve common prosperity.
