Baihe thought about a very serious question, that is, after the body changed from humans to dragons, is it still me?
The conclusion is that he is still himself, because perhaps due to brain structure and hormone secretion, his way of thinking may have changed, but one of the most basic things has not changed, that is, the conscious subject, “I”, which inherits Baihe’s past experiences and still thinks independently, has not changed.
From this perspective, ‘I’ is still ‘I’.
But another very clear conclusion is:
Although I am still myself, from a biological perspective, I am no longer a human.
This made Baihe think about several questions that followed:
Is the philosophical concept of ‘I’ referring to ‘I’’ body or ‘I’ consciousness? Especially when thinking about this problem based on changing your body.
The second question is whether the life form of ‘human’ is indispensable for the concept of ‘I’?
The answer is obvious.
Shirakawa has to admit that as long as consciousness can continue to exist, whether the body is human or not is not very important to him.
Perhaps his idea of traveling to a spider ant would be different, but from another perspective: what would ant choose if a wise ant faced the choice of traveling to a dragon or a human being?
Let’s think about it further: For human civilization, the human body’s life form is probably far less important than humans themselves imagined.
In other words, most humans do not realize that for themselves, the most important function of the human body is actually to support the existence of consciousness, not the other way around.
Primitive humans grow wisdom in order to live better and meet the instinctive needs of survival and development. Their model is that consciousness serves the body.
But when civilization develops to the stage of modern humans, the master-slave relationship between consciousness and body has long been transformed invisibly.
Even ancient people realized this. In ancient times, there were alchemy and elixirs of immortality. Taoism in the East even proposed the concept of corpse interpretation and becoming an immortal. As a common point, both the East and the West proposed a beautiful wish that seemed impossible to achieve: that is, the soul will not die.
Baihe still remembers that a certain song company had posted a message before traveling through time. They believed that humans were already standing at the door of the gate of immortality. In the future, humans could guide the contents of their brains into mechanical containers to achieve immortality in a sense. Although it is generally considered to be the sensationalism of a certain song company, what can be seen is: in addition to thinking that it is technically impossible, many opponents think that ‘If the body is lost, will humans still be humans?? ’
There is no doubt that these opponents unconsciously see a fact: if the statement of a certain song company is true, the future ‘human’ is likely to evolve into a semi-mechanical or even fully mechanical ‘biota’.
This is not without feasibility. Although the essence of the soul has been discussed by a large number of theologians and philosophers since ancient times, in the eyes of modern science, it is just a collection of information generated by the activity of some chemicals in the brain.
The deep repulsion and fear of this possible future by opponents is that this ‘evolution’ will destroy all the moral order on which the current human society relies for and is accustomed to: