论情感作为人类主体性解释的悖论——以《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗?》的人机恋情(关系)叙写为例

On Emotion as a Paradox of Human Subjectivity: Taking the Narrative in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

科学技术作为修复、弥补、延伸人类身体功能的工具正不断更新着我们对身体的认知,它对人类肉身的变革最终会涉及人之为人的最后一道屏障——情感。机器人会有情感吗?如果机器人拥有了人类的情感,人类将走向何方?本文在梳理各学科领域定义的“情感”定义后,提出人类使用情感来建构人类主体性的解释。但这种情感与人类主体性的关系在后人类时代被解构,情感并不能作为人与机器/仿生人的根本性区别。本文特别以《仿生人能梦见电子羊吗?》作为研究范本,强调情感只是一种人类社会的差异性建构。小说文本对这种差异性的解构也表明在后人类时代人类情感的悖论,人类如果需要强化人类的优越性和主体性,应该建立新的情感范式和认知形态。这也为新信息技术时代的人类提出了挑战性的声音。本文认为,人机情感交互新范式将成为一种可能性。

Science and technology are constantly evolving as tools for repairing,substituting,and extending the human body. It will eventually be implanted in the person itself and break through the last barrier,namely,emotion. The new issue appears: Can robots have emotions? If robots have human emotions,where will human beings go? This paper outlines the definition of“emotion”in various disciplines,in order to reveal the relationship between the emotion and the interpretation of human subjectivity. But the relationship between emotion and human subjectivity has been deconstructed in the post-human era,and emotion cannot be regarded as the fundamental difference between human and robots. This paper takes“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”as an example,emphasizing that emotion is only a kind of Differentiation created by human society. The deconstruction of this differentiation in novel text shows the paradox of human emotion in the post-human era. If human beings needs to strengthen the superiority and subjectivity of human,they should establish a new emotional paradigm and cognitive form. This also puts forward a challenging sound for mankind in the future.This paper argues that the new paradigm of human-rob emotional interaction will become a possibility.