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△ 283｜Robots are not human, of course they have no shadow
The subject matter is from a mobile phone screenshot. Because I don’t need Douyin, I can’t check the authenticity of this short video and comment area, but it’s not bad to listen to as a joke.
The content of the short video is an apparently post-production robot holding a baby, and the title is that Tesla has developed the first robot that can take care of babies. Someone in the comment area, like me, obviously saw that this was a post-production inferior video, so they questioned: this is fake, and the robot has no shadow. Unexpectedly, someone replied to this comment: The robot is not a human, and of course there is no shadow.
It is because of this sentence that this short video that does not need to think about it has risen to a very philosophical level.
First of all, we need to confirm that there is really no shadow in this world? Regarding the presence or absence of shadows, there is a saying in the West: vampires have no shadows, so they are easy to detect when they are active during the day, and vampires cannot be reflected in the mirror. The reason for this is that vampires are considered to have no “souls”, so they cannot cast shadows through sunlight, nor do they show their silhouettes in front of a mirror.
If you use this “logic” to infer that robots have no shadows, it seems reasonable – because robots can’t have souls.
Another argument is that in ancient times, people would hold up babies against the sunlight and look at the shadows they left on the ground to determine the purity and “weight” of a child’s soul, so as to see if the child was weak .
In ancient Greece, not only the soul, but also emotions can be measured by shadows. Hippocrates disassembled the “composition” of emotions, and divided the four elements that affect emotions into “choleric”, “sanguineous”, “mucus”, and “depressive”, which correspond to the four types of human body. Sticky body fluids: yellow bile, blood, mucus, black bile. In other words, philosophers and medical scientists in ancient Greece believed that all emotional changes in human beings must come from some kind of “drive”, and this drive is the change in the balance of four body fluids. When blood is predominant, people are prone to impulsiveness and anger; and when mucus (saliva, semen, etc.) is predominant, people’s lust and desire are uncontrollable (later this is similar to the theory of oxytocin).
One of the experiments that Hippocrates used in classifying these four body fluids was to see how well it was seen in the sun, and how much shadow it left behind – of course, just how he got it More body fluids are worth scrutinizing for a long time.
Also in the ancient Greek period, the philosopher Plato believed that the soul is simply indestructible, has life and spontaneity, is spiritual, rational, and pure. Because of his desire to pursue the world, he fell to the ground and was trapped. Into the body, destined to go through a stage of purification, the soul will be reincarnated.
I’ve checked back a lot of “theories” about vampires, and some regions have “no soul” rules for vampires. The soul itself can cast shadows from sunlight, or be reflected on silver mirrors. The fundamental reason is that it goes back to Plato’s belief that “the indecomposability of the soul”, even the purest light of the sun and the moon in the world cannot oppose the existence of the soul.
Souls can even distort time and space, causing people’s brains to have strange confusions in processing the reality information they see, which explains why people see the existence of souls in their own dimensions – however, on the topic of souls, please Allow me to organize it for a while, and maybe present it as a separate topic in the future.
Therefore, according to the above inference, ignoring the authenticity of the video, “the robot is not a human, of course there is no shadow” is actually a “stable” conclusion. At this time, a logic game will appear. All beings with souls can be irradiated with shadows, all beings that cannot be irradiated with shadows have no souls, and all beings that can be irradiated with shadows have souls?
When I was young, I was a typical two-faced person. In the eyes of my parents, I was a very obedient and reserved child, and I was also a child of someone else’s family. However, I was not obedient at school, and was even “detained” by the dean of the school and was not allowed to go home until my parents came to the school to find me. Because I told the dean: My parents are illiterate and can’t read if they can’t use the phone, so I can’t contact them.
As a result, my mother really came to the school to find me, and the dean finally found the flaw, and immediately complained to my mother about my various behaviors that I talked to my classmates during class and went to school without books. The dean thought I was going to quibble, so he tried to stop me, but I said, “Mom, I’m so hungry, I’m about to faint.”
This kind of unreasonable trick of playing cards made the dean of the dean instantly bewildered. Seeing my pitiful appearance, it was obvious that my mother was more concerned about the fact that I was “starving” rather than the dean who “detained” me. for any reason. My mother calmly said, “I will educate him when I go back.” Then she made a gesture to take me out of the school. The dean of the school had no choice but to “release” me and go home.
At that time, probably in my mother’s world, the paradox of shadow and soul appeared – all good children should not be left by teachers to educate, and all children who were left by teachers to wait for their parents were all bad. child? Or should all bad kids be left behind by teachers to wait for their parents?
When she realized that this paradox caused her belief that I was a “good boy” to collapse, I, who was jumping out of school, explained, “Look, another classmate who was left with me, he was a “good boy”. “Student” ah, why he was left, not because we talked in class, but because we discussed the content of the book in class.
“Then why don’t you bring the book, what’s going on?”
“That’s because he didn’t bring a book, so I read a book with him.”
The students left by the teacher are all “bad students”, but I stayed with the good students, so I am not a bad student anymore.
Robots are not human without souls, and souls can be shadowed by sunlight. Of course, robots cannot have shadows.
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