The Reconstruction Of Human Identity In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the most important novel of Philip K.Dick.This sci-fi work has created a series of characters of human and androids,which are mutually reflected.It talks about human’s subjectivity identity crisis,human-machine identity boundaries,and reconstruction of human identity,involving capitalist critique,religion re-enchantment,technical ethics,identity politics and many other fields.This is a classic with a sense of advanced problematic and rich dialogic on the reconstruction of human identity in the era of artificial intelligence.In the framework of the relationship between human and society(others),human and nature(environment),and human and machines(androids),the human subjectivity identity crisis becomes more and more serious.The prosperity of animal merchandise fetishism leads to human’s consumption alienation.The cultural industry of the TV program Buster Friendly ideologically domesticates human in the name of disenchantment.Due to the loss of control of instrumental rationality,the phenomenon of entropy increase of Kipple-ized in the environment threatens the future of human and even the entire universe,while the Mercerism focus on Empathy of life to fight against the Kipple-ized.The emergence of androids and mood organ made human subjectivity and the aura of “what is human” dispel from the inside.All of these make human identification in the era of artificial intelligence face inevitable shocks and restruction.Identity crisis and identity reconstruction are the theme and core of the work.In the era of artificial intelligence,how should human deal with the relationship with androids? How to reconstruct the identity of human and individuals? The work answers the above questions through the meticulous shaping of the two series of characters of humans and androids.In the identity crisis and reconstruction of human characters such as Rick,Phil Resch,Isidore,their different attitudes towards androids identification and their strong contrast with androids present several ways of reconstruction of individuals identification.The idea of how the main character Rick treats the identity of androids shows a rheological.However,it always follows the humanity standard of eternity.Resch keeps the boundaries of human-android identity and regards the consequences of human security as its moral standard.As a “Special” of intelligence quotient retardation,Isidore always believes that there is an organised emotional connection between human and androids.The series of characters of androids are also the point or even the highlight of the work.Rachel tried to resolve Rick’s hostility towards the androids with love,which was the mediator between human and androids.Luft was obsessed with the pursuit of humanity and art,trying to acquire emotions and then become a human being.Roy abandoned the plan of imitating human beings and tried to construct the subjectivity identity of androids themselves.These two sets of six mutually-reflected characters of human and androids,eventually transcend the simple binary opposition between human and androids,and jointly provided a multi-symbiotic choice and open and inclusive ethic experience for human identity construction in the era of artificial intelligence.This is also an issue of the times with postanthropocentrism or post-humanism.This thesis also distinguishes Dick’s science fiction from general science fiction,and discusses how Dick breaks the monologue of scientific rationality in his works,and brings the discussion of ethics of complexity of Lebenswelt into science fiction through the intricate portrayal of the characters.The thesis,exploring the hidden thoughts in it,combining sociology,psychology,robotics and even physics to analyze Dick’s complex attitudes on religion,ethics,science and technology and identity politics,provides some Dickian discourse experience for the current ethical ethos,which is increasingly complicated because of the development of science and technology.