When someone thinks of a priority, they think of what comes first in their life. Everyone has priorities, whether they are big or small. We all go through the process of choosing what is most important to us everyday by sorting out a list of priorities when we feel like we are struggling with something difficult. In the episode of Be Right Back we watched this week, from the Netflix series Black Mirror, the main characters showed several examples of what their main priorities were. Martha and Ash, the newly happy married couple, showed that both of their priorities were each other. They also both showed that their priorities are technology, Ash's being different forms of social media, and Martha's being her career with advanced technological art work. Regardless, both of these characters have traits that exhibit the use of priorities in life. So, what happens when one of those main concerns disappears in our lives? Is there ever a replacement that can be just as significant?
At the beginning of the episode we watched, Martha and Ash did everything together. Their love for one another was evident. Yes, both of them had flaws, but they accepted each other for who they were. Suddenly one day, Ash is killed in a car accident. After being completely broken for weeks, Martha decides to go along with her friend's idea of 'getting Ash back.' Through advanced technology, an almost completely identical version of Ash is created from all of his previous emails, social media posts and text messages. Mimicking his phone calls and texts from before, Martha is now able to speak to her dead husband. But wait, it is taken one step further. Ash is delivered in a box at Martha's doorstep. All she has to do is run him a warm bath and anxiously wait. Is this really possible? A complete replica of someone who has died a tragic death?
In my opinion, you cannot recreate any human being. All of us are made similar, but very unique and different in our own ways. For someone to be completely replicated into the same person that is now dead absolutely disturbs and terrifies me, making me feel unimportant. Just as we talked in class, if a dead person were to be recreated from their social media, text messages, emails, etc. after they died, what makes their life so special? How would you be able to cherish the time with that now replicated version of them? You couldn't. Their existence would be a complete lie and the people that had once put that person first in their life, just as Martha did for Ash, would notice all the differences the created specimen would have. So, to recreate another human being, would be a lie to our priorities.
3 comments:
I feel like no matter how much thought and how hard they ,the inventors, try they will never be able to replicate another human. Maybe by the physical appearance they can get close, but never exact, and lets not talk about attitude, personality, and decision making and all the other intricate stuff humans are made up of. We are all so unique and unpredictable and no technology can even encompass how amazing a Humans are.
I disagree with the fact that they BOTH prioritized technology. I think Ash prioritized it more that Math, although she used technology for work, she was not glued to it like Ash was, but technology was not a priority to her it was her work that was a priority to her.
I do agree with the fact that you cannot replicate a human being though.
I also believe that human beings can not be replicated by robots due to the unpredictable manner in which they act. But, I disagree with you on the matter of becoming unimportant, because I think that having a nearly identical version of a loved one like Ash 2 would allow that person to remember them even more. This is because the small differences between the deceased loved one and the robot will be extremely clear to you in most cases and will refresh your memories. Although, I do not think this is an effective method of coping with a loss because that person will never completely accept the death of their loved one.
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