Review
Philosophy is always inseparable from the three soul tortures, "Who am I?" "Where am I from?" "Where am I going?" It should be said that all that is trying to spend a lifetime looking for answers to these questions.
Some people will follow the direction of social development, go to school step by step, enter the society, and then day after day, in the struggling part-time life, constantly complain about their dissatisfaction.
Some people may skip some steps, such as those with poor grades may enter the society in advance, and they will be exposed to the beatings of society earlier than children of the same age; children with rich families may be favored by their parents, skip the part-time work, debut is the peak, and live the rich life that many people dream of.
There are also some who have set goals in life when they are students, and put into action and effort for them, and naturally have their own direction of efforts after graduation, although it is very hard, but I think this is also a life that most people envy.
No matter what kind of life people live, when walking on the road of life, they will be full of a lot of confusion, some people will become more and more transparent with age, some people will become more and more self-denial, long human growth road, is my existence really meaningful?
Not only us, but also some successful people in society even have this idea, like Tesla CEO Musk, who believes that many human beings do not need to live so long, which is even a stumbling block to the development of society, as long as the human consciousness is injected into a specific container, it may be possible to achieve immortality.
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Just at the end of last month, Musk mentioned in an interview that many times we are easily bound by the old ideas of the past, limited by the inherent framework, resulting in innovation becoming a difficult thing, which will hinder the progress of human beings and society, and become a burden, so many human beings should not live that long.
This is not the first time this kind of remark has appeared in his interview, he has previously commented on a fact that some occupations should clearly stipulate an age limit, even if this is the result of public election, but from a physiological point of view, over seventy years old, no matter how the body is maintained, the body's function, energy and reflexes are far less than at its peak, which is bound to affect the work.
Of course, we do not rule out the interests involved behind it, so that he made such remarks, all in all, such behavior has been criticized by many netizens.
From his point of view, the value of the elderly is obviously not as big as a young adult, but for an ordinary person with feelings, abandoning a person who has made a lot of contributions when he was young is a very shameless thing, which is tantamount to crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, after all, everyone will one day grow old, will retire and lose value, and no one wants to be spurned like this in their old age.
In addition, he also came up with the idea of transplanting consciousness into machines, because machines do not age, so humans may be able to achieve immortality, is this really feasible?
Robots with consciousness
The combination of humans and machines, this is not the first time such a concept has appeared, in many science fiction movies or anime, such as "Alita: Battle Angel" in the residents living, have human consciousness, and mechanical body, in the breakthrough of human physical limits at the same time, do not have to worry about social order chaos.
In a way, it is also an "evolution" in disguise, and Musk's idea is just a little more extreme, because he completely abandons the human body.
We know that the root of human survival lies in the vitality of cells and the division of cells, and telomeres, as a switch to control cell division, control the length of biological life. The reason why people will grow old is that telomeres become shorter and shorter, the ability of cells to divide is worse, and metabolism becomes slower, resulting in the operation of biological functions can not keep up.
Just like a battery toy, when the power becomes weaker and weaker, the toy's movement will become weaker and weaker until the battery is finally exhausted. However, one thing is different, that is, the toy can also be replaced by the battery, so that it can be re-energized.
At this time, there will be people who have a wonderful idea, if the human consciousness is injected into the machine, even if the machine is old, as long as the parts are constantly replaced, then this person can not always exist?
Nowadays, many scientists are also working on this topic, more and more robots, virtual people began to enter our lives, playing a variety of roles, but a huge problem is in front of them, that is, if algorithms and programs generate a "consciousness", let them learn to learn and think independently, just like humans.
This technology is undoubtedly very difficult, but once realized, it will bring a lot of hidden dangers, if there is really a batch of such "robots", their advantage is undoubtedly to crush human beings, then such a practice will not be human suicide?
Thinking of it this way, the idea of giving human consciousness to the machine is obviously more reliable, after all, its essence is still human manipulation, and no new "organisms" have been derived.
At this point, Musk is not talking big, they are indeed developing robots that can fully adapt to human life. For example, the industrial mecha Optimus Prime, which has a similar structure to humans, is a machine with a height of 1 meter 71 and a weight of 113 pounds.
To simulate the balance and agility of human movement, forty electromechanical push rods are installed on it, as well as various smart chip technologies. His face is a huge display screen, on which the camera is installed acts as the function of the "eye", the perception system is installed, in addition to this, there are many "eyes" on the body, simulating the neural network on the human body.
With the advancement of the research and development process, the functions of robots are becoming more and more abundant, from the initial boring and repetitive work, to now not only do housework, but also can awkwardly dance with you, in short, it is more and more anthropomorphic. And Musk mentioned that this robot can already be put into medium-scale mass production.
Perhaps one day, human consciousness will be extracted into a running program that can be given a second life by simply being downloaded by the robot.
epilogue
In fact, technology has long been quietly infiltrated into everyone's life, such as online chat records, previous photos and videos, they are actually part of human memory, but the storage carrier is no longer the brain, but the electronic device.
For example, automatic driving in the past few years may still be a controversial topic, but Tesla's automatic obstacle avoidance is really shocking many car owners, it can always make a "save the car" judgment when the owner has time to react, which greatly improves driving safety and gives users a great sense of security.
From another point of view, machines have actually replaced some of the functions of humans, and in the future, this proportion will only increase.
In "Singularity Approach" written by Ray Kurzweil, an American engineer academician, it is predicted that the processing power of computers will exceed that of humans in 2025.
We cannot predict whether such a development is a blessing or a curse, but what is your opinion on this? Welcome to civilized discussions in the comments section.