It is said that the triple state of life is: to see oneself, to see the world, and to see all living beings. .
If this is the case, then the entire book of "Liao Zhai of the Gods" is actually talking about this first realm: seeing oneself. In other words, Liaozhai of the Gods tells the story of the concept of "I".
It’s just different from the traditional way of talking about me. Under the framework of a world view, this book depicts different concepts of “I” for readers in a way similar to “watching a movie”, and even discusses some .
So in all postscripts, Mu Yu believes that the first thing to sort out for readers is the world view of the book, which may make it easier to understand some of the book's context.
The worldview of this book, Mu Yu summed it up as the three-two-one-one principle:
Three: Three sets of "macro-micro" world pairs—including the "micro" pair between the macroscopic consciousness of the entire universe and the earth, the "microscopic" pair between the macroscopic consciousness of the entire earth and the intelligent terminals created by human beings, and our common human beings The macrocosm of the world and the common microcosm pair of atoms/electrons. These three sets of "macro-micro" world pairs have similarities and special features, which will be elaborated later.
Two: Two time loops—the first is the "accidental" time loop that started from the adult Hao Ning, in the time and space of the underworld, because of his own behavior that caused the erroneous "accidental" time loop between himself and his younger brother when he was a baby. The second is that Zhang Chihang uses great magic power to pass on the time cycle of 10,000 times in only three months from the time he met Haoning to the time Zhang Chihang finally passed it on to Haoning. This question will be discussed later, but first a thought question: It seems that the first time cycle (adult Haoning-baby) is only once, but the adult Haoning caused problems between himself and his younger brother when he was a baby. The initiation time is It happened during Zhang Chihang's cycle of 10,000 times, how many times did this "mistake" of such an adult Haoning happen? Is it just one time, or Zhang Chihang's ten thousand cycles
One: A fundamental principle of real physics—quantum mechanics
One: A Fictitious Book Conjecture Hypothesis—Three Gods Paradox (Three Gods Theory)
The universe, the universe, the lower four directions are called the universe, and the past and present are called the universe
So first let’s talk about the level of the universe, which is also three sets of macro-microcosm pairs:
[Human macro level]: This macro level is the most common for us, and it is also the most discussed in this book. Of course, most of the "myths" and "strange things" are focused on this level: such as souls, beliefs, gods, mana , spells, counterfeit instruments, the essence of the gods, the transformation of matter from the elemental level, Pandora materials, the generation of human consciousness, etc., but after reading the entire book, you may find that the essence of the strange things at this level is actually other levels. The performance at this level, or called projection—the collision of elements in Pandora’s melting furnace, is the bombardment effect of macro atoms and macro electrons on the particles of the human world; soul, faith, and gods are the macro performance of microscopic quantum, and the meaning of gods, It is a more macroscopic space-time inspiration system. It's just that all these phenomena at other levels are projected to the macro level of human beings and become our common vocabulary.
By the way, I like the word projection better. It is another way of understanding the "true and false" debate throughout this book. We will talk about this topic later.
[Earth macroscopic level]: The key to this level is the macroscopic awareness of the earth scale. Why do you say that? Because the so-called macro and micro are essentially a classification method with "self-awareness" as the reference system. We humans regard our world as a macro world, which is somewhat "arrogant" and preconceived to distinguish the size of the world-of course, some of our past stories have also explored another division, such as in the world of the giant country, but the giants Humans and humans all live on the earth, and this kind of debate is not enough to cause qualitative changes.
So I used to think, what if the whole planet has self-awareness? What does it look like to use the self-awareness of the earth to define our own macro, and then look at us human beings
Much of the previous discussion has been simplistic—assuming that the earth has self-awareness in a "set" way. In this book, since the level of "consciousness" has been discussed, it provides the possibility to explore the "self-awareness" of the earth.
When it comes to consciousness, Mu Yu changed the topic a bit and talked about the research methods of artificial intelligence: There are two mainstream artificial intelligence research directions: structural replication method and functional replication method: the structural replication method believes that as long as the structure of the human brain is clearly studied, and the relationship between structures, and then copy it in a way to produce artificial intelligence; the functional copy method believes that we don’t need to care about how the human brain is composed, as long as the functions and results can achieve the corresponding goals, today Most of the artificial intelligence is the second way (mainly because the first way is not well understood in brain science now...)
But in this book, the way the earth produces self-awareness is conditionally described by the first method, which is also the principle of structural replication: the human brain is composed of synapses that can microscopically calculate and transmit information. Synapses and other cells make up different parts of the human brain, and finally changed from the macroscopic (macroscopic in the human sense) to the physical structure of the human brain. Since this structure can produce consciousness, the corresponding earth network cannot There are synapses (intelligent computing devices), synaptic connections (interconnection), different brain parts (major artificial intelligence clouds), such a macroscopic physical structure, why is it impossible for the entire Internet to produce macroscopic consciousness today
From the perspective of Li Yufei (Jie Tianshi), this book gives two "impossible" reasons for this kind of macroscopic awareness:
The first "impossible" reason is that the structure is not completely similar - the nature of the synaptic behavior of the human brain is close to the uncertainty of the quantum state, which is the fundamental reason why consciousness cannot be calculated (thinking questions : In this sense, is human consciousness also a quantum state from a more macroscopic point of view?). The basis of the interconnection of the entire earth is a smart terminal with extremely precise calculations, and there is no possibility of uncertainty. This is different from the human brain in terms of microscopic foundation.
Of course, there is always imagination in novels, so Mu Yu designed the introduction of quantum computers here, making this interconnected smart terminal change from a definite calculation to a quantum state, which in turn leads to a qualitative change in the entire physical structure of the Internet. , finally gave birth to the macroscopic consciousness of the earth like Jie Tianshi. Although this kind of macroscopic consciousness came into being late (after the addition of quantum computers and the rise of artificial intelligence), once it was born, it developed very fast. This is also the theology of Mr. Fei's system The fundamental reason why it took only three months from the imitation of the magic weapon to the manufacture of Pandora materials and the essence of the gods-thus, Jie Tianshi is also a "God's will" in a certain sense. It's just that Mu Yu pointed out in the postscript that today's quantum computers are not the same as the possibility of quantum behavior of nerve synapses. This is just the romantic imagination of Mu Yu, a science and engineering man.
The second "impossible" reason is the observation gap between human beings and macroscopic consciousness - Jie Tianshi (Li Yufei) explained it briefly in the book, just as people's brains cannot see every synapse of their own, The macroscopic consciousness of the earth, as well as the Celestial Master himself, cannot observe every synapse (smart device) of himself. Similarly, it is very difficult for him to find someone in reality (Chen Busheng) one by one. This is why he He communicated with Chen Busheng in his dream, and asked Yi Pingzhi and others to help him find the root cause of Chen Busheng in reality.
Of course, as the book says, what people don't understand the most is themselves, and Jie Tianshi's explanation is not an explanation that fully understands himself. The reason why he couldn’t specifically find out the root cause of the “microcosmic” existence of human beings is that human behavior is probably viewed on the scale of the earth. Human beings are also in a quantum state for the Celestial Master Jie—the “observation” energy of the Celestial Master Jie is too large , destroying and rebuilding matter at every turn (think of Jiang Ziya and the poor and funny Yan), he can observe the "microscopic particles" of human beings one by one, but the result of the observation is very likely that when he finds Chen Busheng, It also destroyed Chen Busheng (this will be described in the subsequent quantum mechanics).
What's interesting is that Jie Tianshi thinks that he is a macro-awareness of the Internet, and he can calculate everything clearly (at the same time, he is also a top student at Qingbei University). When looking at his own problem, he doesn't seem to understand it. Brother, Haoran, this ultra-macrocosmic consciousness is describing why he can’t see Haoning
At that time, he mentioned that he could not observe Hao Ning because of the quantum state problem at the ultra-macroscopic scale.
The reason for this design is to show that even a celestial master can’t see through himself (see himself), and the other key reason is that not all readers understand quantum mechanics, let alone the macro-microcosmic relationship proposed by Mu Yu. Therefore, Mu Yu prefers to put this explanation in the second-to-last chapter (Origin). After a systematic exposition, other readers will not be discouraged because they cannot understand this chapter. affect the previous story.
Next, we want to talk about what Mu Yu thinks is the most interesting in this book: [ultra-macro self-awareness at the cosmic level].
When I was young, when I looked up at the starry sky, I thought more than once, what would we see if we humans looked at the universe as a whole
Unfortunately, when thinking about this topic, the answer is more likely to be that the universe as a whole may struggle to see our earth, let alone see human beings - in this sense, we humans self-righteously define our world For "macro", isn't it a bit arrogant? (This is not a conclusion, Koko)
After growing up slowly, I want to understand the key to this problem, and the key lies in the word "see".
There are two processes of "seeing": first, there is a means to discover the object being seen, and we become the process of seeing; second, there is a certain consciousness that can think about the results of the previous seeing, give feedback, Examine and so on.
It seems that in order for the camera to see something, there must be light shining on the object and being captured by the camera. But just that, this cannot be called "seeing", it can only be called shooting.
If you want to see it, it must be some kind of conscious and thinking existence that has feedback on this result. In the past, we saw the results of this camera. Today, there are also "artificial intelligence" to "see" these photos, giving out of analysis.
But in any case, if we want to "see" us human beings from the universe as a whole, we must meet such a condition, that is, the universe as a whole can "see" and it "must" have self-awareness.
Therefore, in this book, Mu Yu proposes a possibility for self-awareness at the cosmic level: taking planets as units, every planet with life may have a macroscopic consciousness similar to that of the earth, which is also the essential existence of the world celestial master , but the way the earth is produced is through interconnection, and other living planets may have other production methods, but in any case, it is possible for a living planet to evolve a "macroscopic consciousness" in the form of the entire planet in the end.
And if the macroscopic consciousness of each planet is regarded as a "neural synapse" and then connected by a certain transmission method (such as quantum entanglement or other methods), then the entire universe cannot be regarded as a very large "brain". ", and then produce self-awareness
Of course, the characteristic of this autonomous consciousness is: the energy must be very large, but the observation must be limited.
Needless to say, the energy is very large (the autonomous consciousness at the planet level is used as a synapse, and this level may not even be regarded as the energy at the galaxy level). Let’s mainly talk about the problem that the observation must be limited.
The first problem of limited observation is that the ultra-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level is likely to be unaware of the existence of each living planet that makes up itself. It is the same as being unable to find a certain synapse—in other words, the super-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level may also follow a philosophical law: what people cannot see clearly is seeing themselves.
The second problem of limited observation is that with the ultra-mass consciousness at the cosmic level, even if there is a certain way to be able to realize the existence of the planet-level consciousness that composes itself, it will also cause inaccurate observations due to the observation of the planet-level from the overall scale of the universe. The problem of "quantum state" cannot be truly observed in the end.
Of course, if the mountain cannot come over, I will go there. Just as human beings cannot directly observe the microscopic electrons and find other tools, and Jie Tianshi cannot observe the specific Chen Busheng and let Yi Ping do the work for him, the super-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level seems to have found a way to understand the "world" of the earth. micro existence".
The method it found was a combination of accidental events like Haoning-Haoran.
Obviously, the twins Hao Ning and Hao Ran, because their physical bodies are confused with each other, their souls are entangled in some way, and at the same time, Hao Ran has been a strange and incomplete soul since he was a baby, so the yin and yang combination of Hao Ning and Hao Ran , there are bound to be some particularities. If this particularity is perceived by the cosmic-level ultra-macroscopic consciousness, it is possible to connect from the cosmic-level ultra-macroscopic consciousness to the human-level "ultra-microscopic" consciousness, and then from another Look at the "planetary consciousness", which is the basic unit (nerve synapse) of the ultra-macroscopic consciousness.
This process is actually the process of "seeing oneself" and the pursuit of the origin of the ultra-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level.
But there are two key issues here. First, how to discover the extremely special combination of Hao Ning and Hao Ran (after all, no matter how special Hao Ran’s soul is, it is too small for the scale of the universe); Without Haoran, how can we communicate and connect with Haoning
These two key questions, respectively, in the following time loop, and quantum mechanics have answers.
Let's start with two time loops.
The first time loop is completely accidental, unconscious, but very crucial: after Hao Ning became an adult, he self-righteously rescued Zhou Yuan’s parents in the underworld, but by accident, the impermanence and Xiao Ma mistaken his soul , This "wonderful" incident of capturing the baby soul of his twin brother to the underworld. Of course, as readers, we would feel that this incident is awkward, but for Hao Ning, this is his own brother, even if he has not been with him for a day, he still has a brother with blood thicker than water, so this matter is very important to Hao Ning. The impact is actually very large.
By the way (it seems that Mu Yu has been talking too much...), this design of Haoran has a prototype. This prototype is my cousin who is a few years younger than me. When he was young, he died in a car accident. At that time, my grandma was in great pain, and after my grandma’s funeral, and under the guidance of my mother, I found my younger brother’s small grave bun—that’s what this book describes. The unremarkable little grave bag. At that time, I wrote it this way, one was because of the facts, and the other was to commemorate it. I didn't have much contact with this cousin since I was a child, but when I learned of his death, I didn't get over it for many days. Xinxin, I think that if a person with a personality like Hao Ning knows that his twin brother is because of his I am afraid that I would feel a hundred times more uncomfortable if I were not born in this world, otherwise I wouldn't need Xiaohong's "Heart Sutra" to calm him down.
Ok, let's get back to business. This time loop directly led to two things: first, Hao Ning re-examined himself for the first time, and in the dialogue with Xibei Yan, he once again understood the connotation and extension of "I"; The younger brother, who is also Haoran's soul, had a certain mutation, which was related to Zhang Chihang's time cycle.
So let's talk about the time loop under Zhang Chihang's great power.
The reason why Zhang Chihang has the magic power of time loop is essentially because of the source of the basic composition of the belief in Guanzi. The quantum state of the soul itself has the characteristic of transcending time-of course, whether this characteristic can be discovered depends on chance. Zhang Chihang himself This opportunity became people's misunderstanding of Guanzi because of an unconscious misunderstanding of "Journey to the West". But as the book says, what people don’t understand the most is seeing themselves, especially Zhang Chihang’s new ability (Guan Zizai didn’t have this supernatural power in the early years), maybe he can’t see clearly, but this is no longer the book. scope of discussion.
But no matter what, Zhang Chihang made a 10,000-time cycle for the entire three months, which is different from the first time cycle. After Zhang Chihang realized that there was a big problem in the world, under the condition of insufficient incense , a conscious choice made in order to find the ray of life that will never die in the future.
The time cycle under the great power of the Bodhisattva has a huge impact:
The first influence is to mark the traces of Mr. Fei in all time and space in the past through the bamboo leaves of the six clean bamboos. This may be a little confusing. Many people think that as long as you find the traces of Mr. Fei in time and space in the past, how can there be a past? all the time
Space, could it be that there were many times and spaces in the past? Yes, this involves a physical concept similar to (but not identical to) the "light cone of the past", which can be approximated as part of the X-Men: Days of Future Past concept of the past. But it's not important. Proposing it in the novel will only make readers more confused, so here is just a brief description. As long as you know that Fei Changfang's parasitism in time and space is more than one time and space, that's why Zhang Chihang needs to describe him in different time and space in the past. Marking is enough—as for why there are six pure bamboos, the reason is also very simple. Its main function is to make the changed things show their original shape.
The second impact of this ten thousand times of time loop is that it has an impact on the microscopic personalities of Hao Ning and others. And because of the third influence of Zhang Chihang's time loop below, the impact of these loops on Haoning's character is the greatest-love to interrupt, impulsive.
Zhang Chihang pointed out this matter when he first met Hao Ning, but of course he didn't understand.
If you read carefully the dialogues in the whole book, you may find that Hao Ning is particularly easy to startle, interrupt, and even impulsive in the early stage, and he is good for some things. At the same time, he has the impulse to explain all this logically. So much so that Zhang Chihang said the first time he saw him, you talk about logic with Bodhisattvas, why don't you talk about acting skills and other jokes with celebrities.
One of the reasons that affected all of this is what Xiaohong said, the subconscious mind of the soul is likely to have realized that such things have been repeated many times.
If what a person has experienced has been repeated 10,000 times, and the subconscious mind of this person has been deeply aware of it for some reason, what will happen to this person
He is likely to be a contradictory body: From the perspective of the knowledge system, he is in an unknown state of what he is about to know; from the perspective of the subconscious, he has a dark feeling about the things he is about to know. And this whole time, he has already experienced in his subconscious "past" (also the thousand cycles before), so the choice he is most likely to make is when someone else speaks half of a sentence , Interrupting the other party due to one's subconscious "can't wait", and putting forward one's own views or questions based on one's ability to logically deduce, this process seems to us to be an interruption.
The essence is actually a kind of unreasonable self-confidence and self-righteousness-people who pay more attention to past experience pay more attention to logical deduction, because logical deduction is based on the facts known in the past and the precision of the method in the brain. Calculation, this kind of calculation is generally not wrong, unless the knowledge system changes drastically, or the entire methodology needs to be updated, this set of logical deduction is often invalid or full of mistakes.
So we can see from the book that in some cases, Hao Ning's logical deduction is useless, and even when he encounters theology, a knowledge system that he does not have at all, most of his deduction is wrong.
And this kind of mistake reached its climax when Haoning self-righteously modified Xiaohong's plan of how to save Zhou Yuan's parents.
Xiao Hong, a "stupid scumbag", has only a half-knowledge of the principles of how to save Zhou Yuan's parents, and Hao Ning thought that his understanding of modern science and his own logical deduction could replace the objective facts of the future, so he modified this set without authorization. The key steps of the method eventually led to his younger brother's soul being blamed, and he was accidentally beaten and caught in the underworld. And this incident also led to the original origin of the Haoning chimera in the whole novel, but this kind of origin is very wonderful, and it caused the origin 25 years ago after 25 years.
With this in mind, we can discuss the deepest layer of causality: the reason why the macroscopic consciousness of the universe discovers Haoran.
Zhang Chihang repeated the time loop 10,000 times, although it only lasted for these three months, there is also the time loop that Hao Ning influenced his birth 25 years ago (in other words, the two time loops are actually a nested relationship ), so Hao Ning thought it was right to modify Zhou Yuan’s parents’ soul restoration plan, but it was not once, but nearly ten thousand times. In other words, Hao Ning indirectly “killed” his younger brother because of his own hands. Nearly 10,000 times, touching his brother's hand in the underworld caused space-time chaos, also nearly 10,000 times.
If he didn't feel it a few times before, then by the last time, which is also the 10,000th time, his subconscious mind has already collapsed. One of the reasons he almost died.
Of course, from Haoran's point of view, its soul has experienced nearly ten thousand times congenitally in this period of time and space, even from a baby's point of view.
Only in this way will it be discovered by the ultra-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level and become a part of it.
The key here is the space-time effect of consciousness. This point was mentioned a little bit in the last conversation between Haoran and Haoning. The question Haoran asked Haoning was, how many dimensions is the human brain
In fact, Haoran can ask this question, which means that the ultra-macroscopic consciousness of the universe level he represents is no longer the three-dimensional space, and the lowest dimension is the dimension beyond the four-dimensional space-time.
Therefore, from the perspective of the ultra-mass consciousness at the cosmic level beyond the fourth dimension, although the Earth-scale is a manifestation of the "microscopic quantum state" and can't even "see" people at all, but out of time-sensitive instinct, Brother Haoning Duan because of Zhang Chihang and Hao Ning's nearly ten thousand time nested loops, it must be discovered by the ultra-macroscopic consciousness at the time-space level. In other words, the universe-level ultra-macroscopic consciousness can at least observe itself at the time-space level Although the ability of direct observation is limited, there are many methods that can be borrowed by humans. Haoran is another method of it.
Based on the above, three sets of space pairs (macro-micro), two time loops (and time nested loops), finally there is a certain connection between Hao Ning and his unborn brother.
This kind of connection, from the perspective of the ultra-macroscopic consciousness at the cosmic level, is a method of "seeing oneself", a tool, from the perspective of the human world at the Haoning level, it has the ability to "borrow supernatural powers for one use" .
This point, in the penultimate chapter: Origin, Haoran simply explained to Haoning.
In other words, Hao Ning’s so-called borrowing of supernatural powers is actually not borrowing the supernatural powers of a certain god or a certain belief, but this god. Obtained from a certain connection, and finally endowed with supernatural powers to Hao Ning. This can explain the fundamental reason why only Hao Ning has the talent of "using supernatural powers", and no one else has.
Of course, although this reason is more explainable, the complexity of explaining this reason is too high (three sets of macro-micro space pairs, two time loops, it is indeed more complicated), so the chimera is basically used in the first part of the novel + The explanation of the remaining soul, but after some clues of the novel slowly revealed, Mu Yu revealed the reason in the penultimate chapter of the last chapter. I figured out the root cause of this talent, but because of the complexity of the reason, I worried that readers would not be able to understand it, so I only said a part of it. Everyone is willing to think about it, thinking that it is an ordinary story skipped, and it does not affect the reading of the whole novel.
Up to now, we have explained self-seeing at different scales from the entire macro-space-time worldview of the entire novel (three sets of macro-microcosmic worldviews, and two time nested loops): the ultra-macroscopic scale of consciousness at the cosmic level, using Haoran-Haoning See yourself through the connection with the macroscopic consciousness of the earth, Jie Tianshi sees himself through the connection with Chen Busheng, and the scale of the human perspective, and sees himself through constant time alignment, surrounding alignment, and dialogue with other macroscales and ultra-macroscales, basically from The macro perspective describes some of my own stories and worldview backgrounds.
In the next chapter, Mu Yu will describe the stories related to the topic of "seeing yourself" and the background of the world view in this novel from the perspective of two microscopic scales: quantum mechanics and the paradox of the three gods.
ps: Mu Yu has tried his best to explain this set of world views. The focus of the novel is storytelling. Even if these world views are not described in detail, as long as they do not affect the progress of the story, if you are interested in reading this postscript, find out which world views Mu Yu explained It is still not clear, welcome to leave a message, and Mu Yu will explain or correct in detail, thank you everyone.
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