Galatea Paradox

Text_Woo Chang-soo, Drawing_Yeondu

Intention of the plan

What is human? What makes humans human?
Physical? Mental?
It is said that the body is made up of a substance called genes, but what is the mind?
The mind is often referred to as what makes humans human, but nothing has been identified in the mind.

Total human memory through interaction with surroundings? Or a microcosm that includes divinity?
From ancient times to modern times, many religions, philosophers, psychologists, and scientists have explained with spirit, but it literally passes by a single theory, and no one has come up with a perfect answer.

Galatea Peradox tries to bring Buddhism's all-maternal doghood, the eldest son's love dream, and Spinoza's pantheism while bringing Android's awareness to a terrifying atmosphere, asking the question, "Can you see Android with the human spirit as human?"

This is just a question, and the above theory is intended to be symbolic and easily expressed.

character

Jia: While living a happy daily life with her caring husband, Minho, since a few years ago, she has a mysterious experience that is similar to an out-of-body experience, that is, she looks at herself in sleep, and that experience comes as fear and fear to her. I tell Minho, but I don't think it's a big deal, saying it's just a dream, and this year's birthday comes as always and puts her in fear. Moreover, he realizes that one of his memories has been completely lost...

Min-ho: Doctor of Biotechnology. I live a happy life with Jia, but I always look at her and feel like I'm suppressed by guilt. Recently, I go to temples and read philosophy books and fall into meditation, but the more I do, the more obsessed I become with Jia. He blames Jia's fear as a dream, but he seems to be hiding something. The one who sleeps at night and disappears somewhere. The underground secret lab is preparing a birthday present for Jia this year...

Plot

Does a dog have enlightenment?
All moving animals have enlightenment.

Miho meditates at a temple. he suffer from some unknown guilt. After meditation, he buy a butterfly-shaped necklace for his wife Jia's birthday. Jia, who was arranging flowers, instantly remembers the "nightmare she has on recent birthday" and stabs her finger with a rose thorn.

The nightmare of putting Jia in fear at every recent birthday is that she looks at herself sleeping or bumps into herself while walking down a dark and long passage, which is so vivid that it leads to physical pain.

While eating a birthday cake with Minho, Jia brings up a nightmare. However, Min-ho smiles, saying, "It's just a dream," and hangs a necklace he bought for his birthday around his neck and talks about jangja's butterfly dream. But there is something unclear about his exaggerated response.

Feeling depressed, Jia realizes that her memory has disappeared at a moment while looking at a video of Jia dying in her bed, and Minho looks sadly at the night sky and recalls Spinoza's theory that "everything exists only in God, and everything that is generated is caused by nature's infinite essential laws."

When Minho came back home, Jia fell asleep. Miho approaches Jia and puts his hand on her head. Then, Jia opens her eyes and a computer chip comes out of her head. Miho sings happy birthday and takes a new chip out of his pocket and puts it in Jia's head.

Min-ho, a former biotech, made it into Android when his wife, Jia, died, and Jia's nightmare was an abnormal phenomenon caused by the exchange of Android chips.