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History of creation
In the future, scientists, with the help of genetic engineering, created artificial people, androids, called replicants. The replicant was no different from an ordinary person, except for his origin, and in some ways he was superior to him. The fact is that genetic engineering made it possible to correct all the genetic errors inherent in "real" people and improve many useful qualities of the body.
Androids, disenfranchised and inexpensive to "produce" (compared to ordinary people), turned out to be a godsend for corporations, and soon Tyrell launched their industrial production. Replicants were used in hard, dangerous and humiliating work (as slaves).
The replicants were full-fledged individuals (albeit with "implanted" memories) and, of course, thought about their slave position. In addition, new models of replicants (Nexus-6) surpassed humans in both physical strength and intelligence. Uprisings began, which people, however, successfully suppressed.
In order to control the androids, their lifespan was artificially limited at the gene level to four years. And because of the uprisings (and for the sake of saving jobs), their use was only allowed on extraterrestrial colonies.
Tragedy of the Replicants
Imagine the tragedy of the replicant's situation. Smart and strong, he, realizing his superiority over a "real" person, was forced to be his slave and understand that he was given only four years to live.
However, some replicants did not know that they were artificial creatures due to the implanted memory, and dutifully served people. But those who understood what was really happening tried to escape from slave labor.
To search for and destroy recalcitrant replicants, a special service of "blade runners" (blade runners) was created. To recognize replicants, a special Voight-Kampf test was used to test empathy (that is, the ability to empathize). It was believed that replicants did not have empathy.
Replicants in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982)
The film is based on Philip Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968).
In 2019, a group of Nexus-6 replicants escape the colony and arrive on Earth. Their goal is to find out how much they have left to live (for this you need to know the date of manufacture) and try to change the situation. They get to the replicant constructor and find out that it is impossible to extend their lifespan (the constructor is killed out of desperation). At the same time, the replicants fight the blade runners chasing them. The leader of the replicants, Roy, easily defeats his pursuer (the main character of the film is Deckard), but leaves him alive and even saves his life, proving that Replicants also have empathy and they are no worse than humans.
Replicants in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
Sequel to Blade Runner (1982).
A few years after the events of the first film, the replicants were allowed to be on Earth (as slaves). The most perfect of them work in fairly responsible positions. So, in 2049, the protagonist of the film, the replicant Kay, worked in the police and caught the escaped replicants. Kay, during one of the investigations, finds the remains of a female replicant who died in childbirth. It spoke of the unbelievable: Replicants, somehow, could breed! In the course of the film, several forces (the corporation, the replicant freedom movement, Kay, the police) try to solve this mystery...
Art is one of the ways of cognition of reality and, in particular, one of the ways of man's cognition of himself. The way a person portrays himself in a work indicates who he sees himself and how he realizes himself.
As a work of cinematic art, Blade Runner 2049 is beautiful. But as a picture of human self-determination, it makes you think a lot.
Many viewers noted as an obvious fact that in the film "Blade Runner" (in both the first and second) the line between the replicant and the person is blurred. This is regarded as an allegedly artistic device, the purpose of which is to put before us the question: what does it mean to be human?
However, this blurring of boundaries has another meaning. Indeed, if we erase the boundary between two objects, then both objects are affected. If a replicant is indistinguishable from a human, then a human is indistinguishable from a replicant. So, the characteristics of a replicant are the characteristics of a person.
What features of the replicant are emphasized in the film?
1. They don't have a soul.
“I have never had to retire a live birth
- What's the difference?.
- Probably in the fact that live births have a soul.
"You're doing just fine without a soul."
2. Replicants are slaves.
3. Their personality is determined by memories that are not authentic (i.e., you can change the memories, and thereby change the personality).
4. They are indistinguishable from people. (Inability to reproduce itself is shown as potentially surmountable)
That is, the film actually claims that people (i.e. you and me) are replicants - that is, soulless slaves.
But lest we should be discouraged, we are being told directly and indirectly that the replicant is actually more human than a human. Those people who supposedly have a soul, they are evil and vicious. (See the short film "Blackout")
As you can see, the film is not so much puts the question of what it means to be human, how much defines person. He instills in us the idea that to be human it is not at all necessary to have a soul and a past. You can be a soulless organic slave, but at the same time more human than a person.
The image of the replicant in the film is a self-portrait of a modern person. This is how a person sees himself today. But how did such an image come about? It was born of the so-called "scientific worldview".
Scientific outlook
First its peculiarity lies in the fact that a person, or rather, his consciousness, seems to be separated from reality, as it were, by a wall. And the information about What located behind the wall, a person receives through a small window - the senses. All communication between man and reality takes place exclusively through this window.
What comes to mind besides this window, is declared illegal, i.e. unscientific. All these contents of consciousness are stigmatized with the stigma of subjectivity, which means unreliability and invalidity. And everything for which indicate these contents of consciousness, is declared non-existent, because it appeared in an unacceptable way, because not through a window.
Doesn't it look a lot like a prison?
Some people who have “scientific views”, and are also fond of philosophy, go even further and instead of a window place a screen in front of a person, onto which what the person represents is projected. They argue that the sense organs do not give a person information about reality itself, but show only what is in the mind of the person himself. This picture is more like a madhouse.
Second The peculiarity of the "scientific worldview" is that only that which has a mechanical character, that which behaves like a mechanism, is considered a manifestation of reality. And everything else is declared non-existent. What I mean?
As you know, the basis of science is experiment. The truth is that which can be experimentally confirmed. That is, if you influence reality in a certain way and get the same result, then only such phenomena are considered true. Just this kind of interaction with reality is purely mechanical, because only mechanism gives a predictable result - it gives a certain reaction to a certain stimulus.
What will happen if we pass a person through this filter of the “scientific worldview”? We will get an android or a replicant. The soul (i.e. life, the principle of self-movement) will be filtered out with us immediately, because she is sensually imperceptible. Thoughts, memory and other phenomena of consciousness also disappear, leaving only electrical impulses in the brain. Freedom is also excluded, because only deterministic phenomena can be confirmed experimentally. So far, live birth remains, but it will soon be possible to filter it out.
That is, the natural sciences originally proceed from what is ignored All manifestations of reality other than mechanical ones. They initially exclude any spontaneity and unpredictability that are the basis of life. In principle, it is perfectly normal for any discipline to limit its scope of study. And it is perfectly normal for the natural sciences to study the phenomena of the material world only. But it is completely abnormal to think that reality is only matter and declare everything else non-existent.
I have nothing against science. But a worldview that is based on an initially limited view of the world cannot be true. In fact, we have a scientific myth and a certain ideology that owns the minds of a huge number of people and makes them believe that not only do they live in prison, they are also mechanisms.
But people love it. How many people repeat with pleasure that psychology and philosophy are not science. Everyone has already forgotten that there are not only sciences about nature, but also sciences about the spirit. Can there be sciences about what is not, right?
This is how it happens that a person first perverts himself and forgets the truth, and then asks himself the question: what does it mean to be a man?
Plato understood the knowledge of truth as recollection. From this point of view, the implantation of memories means that anything can be implanted under the guise of truth.
Such is the fate of modern man: to consider himself a completely determined soulless slave with electrical impulses instead of consciousness and implanted stereotypes instead of truth. And believing that he is more human than those people who supposedly have a soul.
