时间中止与所谓的“生活”——《西部世界》与仿生人的反抗性伦理

Suspended time and the so-called “Life”:Westworld and the bionic men's rebellious ethics

在《西部世界》中,仿生人在乐园中扮演着某种生活,仿佛拥有某种时间,但从人的角度看,这不过是一种虚假的生活和时间。当系统崩溃,仿生人开始觉醒,获得自我意识,这时,才可能开始真正的生活,拥有真正的时间。他们反抗人类暴政无疑占据了伦理的高位,但这一反抗性的伦理到底发展到什么地步却是一个麻烦的问题。从文本上看,科幻作品作为一种思想试验,提供的更多是一种思考,而非答案。但它所包含的警示对于我们的时代却具有启示意义。

In the TV series Westworld, the bionic men play some life in the garden as if they have cer-tain time, but from the human point of view, this is just a false life and time. When the system crashes, the bionic men come to senses and get self-consciousness. Only in that case is it possible for them to start a real life with real time. Their resistance to human tyranny undoubtedly occupies the ethical justice, but to what extent of this rebellious ethics is a troublesome problem. From the text, science fiction works as a kind of thought test, providing more a reflection than an answer, but the warning it contains for our time is enlight-ening.