The story tells us something of future of —- Civilization, it looks to me. In the story, the civilization places the nature of human-being on top priority. The nature of human i.e. latent faculty which human potentially possess, is the foundation of its civilization rather than machines, devices or equipment. By further developing human faculty throughout a kind of training with help of some kind of substance that can enhance human capability, such thing as highly integrated computer is not in use, but then machines are in use only for spaceship or airplanes. For human it is impossible to fly in the sky or to transport heavy or large amount in short period of time and further it is impossible to move firster than the speed of light for interstellar travel. So, these are of works that are only available by machine. Then, for time-space navigation that is vital for interstellar travel, special human who are trained to perform it with 4-dimensional time-space perception by its highly enhanced consciousness, are active.
You, Science Fiction fan, if so, now can guess, where the story above comes from.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune”.
It is a story that extends from vast desert to universe
Science and Technology; in a form of knowledge or, of material overwhelmed society.
In its world in the story, science knowledge is quite progressed than that of ours, but at the same time not so surrounded by machines as we are.
Instead, the power of Human Consciousness, is the driving force.
As entropy has been looming over human existence further and further i.e. CO2, marine plastic, deforestation and war, (you name it!), we have to minimize entropy, ideally speaking, a kind of revolutionary shift is to come, as like war between human and AI as briefly mentioned in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. Here the link to the official home page of Dune. https://dunenovels.com/
Anyway, I don’t know the movie which is film adaptation of the novel of Frank Herbert is popular or not, but I like it very much together with the novel because the insight the story suggests tells us something about what evolution of civilization really could be, it anyway seems to me though.
In 1960′ when the novel was published, some people already thought that AI would be a kind of risk for civilization. I think, maybe of AI, its negative side should be regarded as risk though, entropy generated in overwhelming scale by material-civilization is the real opponent of human in its war against such risk. Frank Herbert referred to AI as the opponent for human in the novel, but I think material-civilization in modern era could be the modern parallel to what he said as AI in his novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
Material-civilizationAI, artificial Intelligence
Consciousness is the driving force, not that way of present human civilization in which material is forcing human consciousness somehow, in the story.
Unfortunately, I could not visit movie theater for Dune 2, but anyway will see it on video in a future. For part 1, I had been somewhat expecting how the space navigator was depicted, but there was no scene of space navigator. I think it is not the major part, the movie directors or producers considered so, maybeeeee————. Dune was once film-adapted in 1984 but it seems that it was not so good for most people. Anyway, in that old version, you can see short footage of space navigator guiding huge gigantesque space craft through time-space. The scene was quite a metaphor thereby people who have not read the novel can never understand at all what the scene is all about.
Oh sorry, the point is not space navigator, rather be focused on is what and how the foundation of civilization should be. Modane world, it seems to me, is full of scientific knowledge and technology which are practiced with mass-scale material, such as machines. Then the side effect is getting out of control. Side effect caused by mass-scale material.
By contrast, in that perspective of the novel, mass-scale material seems under control while human’s natural capability takes fundamental role of civilization, I mean, full of scientific knowledge and technology which are driven by human consciousness.
Material vs Consciousness?
Of course, material is important, and some degree of mass-scale material is necessary for human to be creative as I am now practicing things like networking, netsurfing, vaccination, visiting some distant places on machine vehicle, eating Japanese ramen, reading books in air-conditioned comfort. etc.
Slavery somewhat is depicted in the novel and apparently the society in the novel is not democratic rather, noble like existence are roaming around and some parts of such existences are killing mercilessly some socially weak people. So, the civilization in the novel is not flawless neither.
Here we see two extremes, and now it’s time to really attempt to seek a sophisticated balance in between.
——–Oh, maybe, experts who have this kind of thought have long been active and amateur opinion like the above is surely abundant in the world, so with toast of beer (its just picture though), let me finish my mischievous.
Once I heard of Mirror Neuron. It is a kind of nerve, perhaps in my understanding. Mirror neuron, as it bears a word “Mirror”, it seems having function of mirror. Mirror reflects, especially when something that has its own consciousness sees its “reflection” on the mirror, the presence of the “reflection” causing feedback effect over the formulation of consciousness.
So, mirror neuron needs objects to be reflected, literally saying. But the device is not necessarily a real mirror rather is an imaginary perception of reflection that is taking shape in human consciousness (I’d rather say consciousness than brain) on any stimulation by any outside object it regards. For instance, human’s mirror neuron needs such outside object as other humans.
Without others human cannot shape itself, it suggests, I think. The reflection that is formulated through mirror neuron feedback process will not always be of positive rather be sometimes hater, anger, sadness, missing feeling etc. It sounds like to me something what Yoda said to Luke Skywalker.
Nevertheless, as long as others exist, our mirror neuron continues functioning, regardless of positive or negative.
Then, think about war. That means terminating the feedback loop with others. Don’t you think? Of course, exchanging fires seems somehow exchanging feedbacks but the final destination of war is to exterminate others, means cutting feedback. There only remaining are mounting dead bodies.
OK, sorry, my imagination has just overrun.
Maybe everyone has own problem in seeing the self, sometimes negatively, sometimes positively everyone sees the self. I am always trying to see myself positively but sometimes I face a situation that the more forcing me to see myself positive the further I’m getting negative. Anyway, scientifically also it has been proven that thinking positive leads human to positive manner and enhances its capability.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of apprentice of Yoda said, “Use The Force”. I am not saying Mirror Neuron is The Force. It’s just kind of metaphor for me.
Mirror Neuron has been and will further be an issue for researchers for neuro science and then utilized by computer scientists, phycological study etc.
Here I built a tiny SCRATCH program for short video image on my impression on Mirror Neuron. (For just killing time.)
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