Science fiction book “can bionic man dream of electronic sheep?” In the book, two enlightening questions are raised: the first question is whether bionic people can dream, that is, the distinction between imitation and reality; The second question is whether the bionic human can dream of the electronic sheep, that is, the question of the authenticity of the bionic image. From bionic man to electronic sheep, simulation is no longer rooted in reality, but plays reality and eliminates reality.

But simulation is not real after all, and bionic man can never be human. This is because human beings are not completely rational and cannot stand at a safe distance to see everything. Suffering makes us believe that everything we live is meaningful, and noble empathy makes us feel the suffering of others, which is the significance of religious existence.

From imitation to production, it is regarded as “industrial imitation”, and production is the sign that the symbol completely gets rid of the restrictions of grade and status. Production goes beyond imitation. In the roar of large-scale machine production, the products on the assembly line are multiplied in batches, and the products are completely equivalent. Naturally, there is no difference between prototypes and replicas.

Although people are still the creators of value at this time, people have also become undifferentiated machines in the production process. Workers are engaged in simple mechanical work and can be replaced at will.

When production goes further to simulation, it finally becomes the re coding and combination between different symbols. The rise of machines has gradually replaced human labor, and the purpose of production has changed from meeting people’s spontaneous needs to serving the whole social system. Simulation becomes the coding of symbols, and the heterogeneity between each mode is generated through the manufacturing of opposite symbols, which infinitely reproduces things that have no practical significance.