记忆可以让仿生人相信自己是人类

Rachael 和 Phil Resch 都可能因为一套植入的过去而相信自己是人类。记忆在这里不只是储存经历，它会向当前的“我”提供证据。只要童年、工作和与人相处的往事彼此吻合，一个人便很难怀疑承载这些往事的身份。

这给 身份就是过去的体验与记忆造出的思维体系 添了一个科幻中的例子，也和 记忆不是存档，而是每次重建 有明确差别。重建式记忆说真实经历会在回想中改变；Rachael 和 Resch 面对的是一段从未发生、却足以构成身份的过去。

当年读完后还有一个没有写进 study questions 的念头：如果新型仿生人不会衰老，周围的人却逐渐老去、死去，植入的身份迟早会被寿命本身戳破。原句是：

If Androids, especially those new types, are immortal. Some of them impregnated with false memories that led them believe they are humans would eventually figure it out by outlive anyone around him without getting old.

另一条问题当时没有答完。Garland 说自己对 Deckard 有一种 intuition。如果直觉是意识之外完成的判断，那么一个有直觉的仿生人，是否也有自己的无意识？这条疑问接到 意识能否脱离生物载体，目前仍只是疑问。

What do we find out about Rachel? - She led Deckard to believe that she was an actual human being with difficulty to understand empathy therefore was unable to pass the Voight-Kampf test due to her special childhood experience. Deckard almost bought it and considered the test flawed until he captured a glimpse of disconformity(that she referred the owl as "it" instead of her) in Rachel and realized she was a robot programmed (with false childhood memories impregnated) to believe she was a real human being. She was equipped with the most advanced robotic brain: Nexus-6. To what does Rick attribute the possibility that Luba thinks she’s human? - Luba and the other android police officer both mentioned the possibility of the false memory that Rick may have been planted. The inception of this idea somehow bewildered Rick. The reason that Luba might think she’s human is exactly that, she might have been planted with false memories. On the first page of the chapter, Garland says that he had an “intuition” about Deckard: Does this seem odd? Why? - It naturally seems odd that an android could have an intuition. But taking this question deeper, we should think about what is an intuition? To me intuition has a lot to do with consciousness, or the unconsciousness. It happens when we figure something without consciously thinking about it. These androids are clearly conscious of their existence. Would they also think about things without conscious? What do we discover about Resch (via Garland)? - Resch is an android just like everyone else in the fake police station without knowing it itself/himself because he/it was implanted with false memories which led him/it to believe that he/it was a human bounty hunter. What about the idea that Polokov was an advanced, undetectable andy? Does that have broader implications for others? - Garland, the fake officer mentioned that “Polokov was a good one. Almost good enough.” It seemed to imply the possibilities that eventually there would be androids good enough to be exactly like humans and pass all kinds of tests.

身份就是过去的体验与记忆造出的思维体系 是这条的正面命题，而 Rachael 是它的反证：如果身份由记忆构成，那么植入记忆就能构成身份，而这正是让她（和读者）无法确定的原因。

量子态不能复制，传送仍留下身份问题 从另一条路走到同一处：当构成"你"的全部信息都可以被拷贝时，"哪一个才是你"这个问题就没有物理答案了。

要保守一个秘密，你得先瞒住自己 是它的镜像。温斯顿要主动把知道这件事注销掉，Rachael 是这件事已经替她做完了。两边都指向同一个不安的结论：一个人相信什么，和事实是什么，之间没有必然的连接。 ——收入 读书笔记 · 一得

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