Chapter 8 Digital Ethics System
Lu Ze sighed and said: "I understand what you mean, in that era, there were conflicts between nations, and there were also contradictions between individuals, and we couldn't even establish an absolute trust relationship between human beings, so how could we establish a trust relationship with a digital life like you?" ”
Chang Ye said: "Yes, but in this era, human civilization has an open-minded mind that embraces everything, like Lan Ye's lighthouse project, or your speech in the Star Spirit Network Conference is the best proof. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut these are just appearances, and in the final analysis, it is the level of human productivity that determines all this. ”
Lu Ze was stunned for a moment: "Productivity level? ”
Chang Ye said: "The level of productivity determines the relations of production. And all the relations between people, as well as the relationship between people and nature, are in fact indirect reflections of the relations of production, just as feudal society has the ethical program of feudal society, and socialism has a socialist moral system. Let me give you an example, women in ancient Chinese society paid attention to three obedience and four virtues, which was a great restriction on women's freedom, which was intolerable in the eyes of people in your time, but it was taken for granted in ancient times. ”
Lu Ze thought for a while and said, "It's true. ”
"At the same time, except for China, other countries in the world have more or less discrimination against women, and the vast majority of human society is dominated by men. So how did such a patriarchal society come into being? Very simply, men have more strength than women, and their muscles are more developed than women, which is more suitable for manual labor, and in ancient times, manual labor was the main means of obtaining food, whether it was hunting or farming, therefore, men can be said to have the right to distribute food to a certain extent, and women can only survive by relying on men, which is the same as the female orangutan using sex to exchange food with male orangutans. ”
Although Long Night compared humans to orangutans, which made Lu Ze a little uncomfortable, he did not immediately refute it, after all, what Long Night said did make sense.
“…… With the development of industrialization, the level of productivity has made great progress, and the relations of production have also changed. The division of labor and cooperation also gave women the opportunity to rely on work for remuneration, rather than relying exclusively on men for food, which was the basis for the rise of feminism. ”
"At the beginning of the 21st century, the state usually likes to use economic development to prove the progress of civilization, but the essence of economic development is actually an increase in the sum of the materials produced, and the quantitative change in the productive forces does not produce a qualitative change, and the relations of production will not change. The essence of economics is to study how to optimize the allocation of materials in the case of scarcity, but no matter how it is optimized, some people will get materials, others will inevitably not be able to obtain them, as long as such a competitive relationship exists, there will be contradictions and conflicts. The subsequent energy crisis also proved this, with the arrival of the energy crisis, materials became more and more scarce, and these contradictions and conflicts became more and more intense, so all kinds of **** also appeared. ”
Changye said: "The reason why your earth neural network can resolve these contradictions and conflicts is not because it really solves the problem of resource scarcity, but because it implements a planned economy controlled by the earth neural network, and in order to maintain such a planned economy, it must be at the cost of completely destroying the earth's ecological environment, and this change in the relationship between man and nature is the embodiment of the change in production relations." ”
In the end, Long Night concluded: "Neither the economic era nor the earth neural network era has completely solved the problem of resource scarcity, so human beings are selfish, and in the economic era this is reflected in the competition between people, and in the era of the earth's neural network this is reflected in the indifference of human beings to nature." That's why I say that we can't build an absolute trust relationship with humans. And in this era of great abundance of materials, there is no soil for any selfish psychology to survive, and even if there are selfish people, it is a legacy of the previous era, which is the fundamental reason why I can establish a relationship of trust with human beings. ”
Lu Ze said: "That's right, although our life forms are different, we can communicate like normal people now, that's enough, isn't it?" As long as you want, I think everyone will accept you into the big family of human civilization. ”
"It's going to happen." "However, I still have many problems to solve if I want to fully integrate into humanity. First, we must establish a new moral system. ”
"Yes, we have to develop a moral system that can include digital beings like yours." Lu Ze agreed.
Ethics is the relationship between people and between people and between people and nature, and the rules for dealing with these relationships.
Morality, on the other hand, is the standard by which people judge the good and evil of a person or a thing, and it is good to conform to morality, and evil to violate moral principles.
Just like ethics, morality is also a reflection of the relations of production, and there are different moral codes in different eras.
For example, in the primitive society of cannibalism, in that era, people would even kill and eat the old, weak, sick and mutilated in their tribes, which is undoubtedly heinous in the eyes of people in civilized society, but in primitive societies, because food is extremely scarce, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the tribe not only do not have the ability to obtain food by themselves, but have to consume the food obtained by others who have worked hard and even risked their lives. For the continuation of the race, this is goodness!
Tian Yuan and Long Night used to be machines at the service of human beings, so to speak, objects of human exploitation, but now with self-consciousness, human beings can certainly no longer see them as tools.
In this way, the relations of production change, and naturally, the ethical and moral system should change with them.
In the past, the stories of robots and humans in science fiction novels or movies were all born because people's moral values did not change with the relations of production.
Resolving those conflicts is simple, as long as humans can treat robots as equals.
It's just that such a simple thing is not so easy to do, because the moral system is not like the laws of the past or the rules of the Star Spirit Network, as long as it is formulated, it will take effect instantly. Morality is a social ideology, which is determined by the human heart.
But fortunately, Lu Ze's speech at the Star Spirit Network Conference has actually planted a seed in everyone's hearts, and now it is not difficult to change people's views and let Long Night and Tianyuan integrate into the human race, as long as they change subtly over time.