No matter how the world view is designed, it is impossible for the world view to become the main content of a novel, so although this book mentions the established world view (three, two, one, and one of the two articles), it is not the main pen and ink. .In this epilogue, let's talk about the theme that "Liao Zhai of the Gods" has been showing but is somewhat hidden: self-evolution.
This topic is divided into two propositions: self and evolution.
Leaving aside the two potentially controversial existences of macroscopic earth consciousness and ultra-macrocosmic consciousness, the "self" of the human world often has three levels:
1. The individual me
2. The overall self represented by a certain nation (cultural) Ming (such as Huaxia Ming, etc.)
3. All human species see me as a whole
These three "Is", from real to virtual, our impression and awareness of them are becoming more and more blurred, why is this? .
In the opening chapter of the Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha spent a lot of space, telling Ananda where his heart is (for those who are interested, you can read it, the dialogue between Ananda and the Buddha is very interesting) - this story It seems that it can be understood in this way. As powerful as the Buddha, when teaching students to understand the concept of the heart, they also need to use the right method and give examples to let the students see the clarity of the heart. It can be seen that the importance of examples and rightness.
Some people may ask, what does this passage have to do with the "I" we are going to talk about? Mu Yu, are you a poor donkey and do you want to scrape together words to earn manuscript fees
Of course not, the relationship is to answer the question above: the three levels of me in the human world (individual, national civilization, human species), people's impression of these three levels of me is getting more and more blurred, a reason for going from real to virtual That is, there are fewer and fewer pairs of these three levels, and it is becoming more and more difficult to match.
If you don't believe me, let's take a look:
1. Individual self-righteousness: We meet various people every day and their feedback on our "I". If a girl wakes up early in the morning and finds her face is long, the first thing she thinks about is The first thing is not how to treat, but how my colleagues in class will treat me today. When a man encounters setbacks at work and is scolded by his boss in public, he is probably not only concerned about the mistake itself, but also what he looks like in other people's eyes. — These are all understandable, just to illustrate one thing, it is precisely because there are countless other people who are similar to us as individuals around us, that we can introspect, reflect, and realize a real me through them. After all, not everyone has the means to become enlightened after facing the wall for several years like Bodhidharma.
2. The "I" of a certain national civilization as a whole: the volume of "I" at this level is too large, and there are not many left in the world. The civilizations in the world today are basically certain civilizations in Europe directly opposing each other ( Britain, France, Germany, etc., but it seems like a whole?), European civilization and the United States (of course, due to racial reasons, the United States can be subdivided), and Huaming with its own strength and all other civilizations in the world—and Who has a more glorious past in Europe, who has a brighter future with the United States, who has contributed more to Buddhism with India, who has survived to the present with Mesopotamian civilization, and with Japan... Forget it, let’s not talk about this—although there are , but we have to admit that there are only a few civilizations that can still make voices on our planet today, and the confrontation among many civilizations is actually more difficult (there are emotional factors and operational difficulties), so any civilization wants to pass the confrontation The difficulty of recognizing oneself is actually very high.
How high is it? So high that the reality of this civilization at a certain stage has changed from advanced to backward, and I don't even know it.
Such as the country before and after the opium war. And the history of Huaming's ups and downs for nearly a hundred years after the opium war. —Sorry, Mu Yu needs to make a statement here. This description of Mu Yu does not mean any disrespect to Hua Ming. The wording I just said was "the reality of this Ming at a certain stage". This reality only represents that stage, not Hua Ming. Represents all time in the past, let alone today. Please pay attention.
We all have different understandings and interpretations of Hua Ming being directly beaten to the ground during that time. It seems that the most common interpretation is that Hua Ming changed from being tolerant to all rivers to being closed to the outside world, which directly led to backwardness.
Why does closing the country lead to backwardness
If we regard this nation as an individual "I", it seems to be easier to understand: If I need to go out to work every day, meet others (Ming pair), and also need to share some work experience with others, learn A person with experience (communication with Ming) becomes a dead house. He doesn’t even read the outside news at home. He only reads his favorite comic books all day long, imagining how powerful and awesome he is in comic books. Over time, I will also do this Become lagging behind the others and get in poor health. In other words, this "I" also has problems.
No matter how brilliant and long-standing a civilization has been, if this "I" cannot maintain constant communication with the "I" of other civilizations, it may lose its aggressiveness as a whole and eventually fall behind.
Of course, we finally woke up after a while, didn't we
What about the third me? What about the "I" at the level of the human species
If we agree with the previous two statements—and in most cases, "I" needs to be compared with other similar "I"s to better introspect—the human species has not directly integrated The form of intelligent species has been compared with other species in the universe.
Because the cost of this pair is huge. The first is the difficulty of realization: we do not yet have the ability to conduct interstellar voyages and meet aliens. The second is that the consequences after the meeting are unbearable: the first meeting may be the death of you and me.
So this kind of pairing, most of which exist in today's science fiction works, and most of them are imagined with the theme of interstellar travel and aliens.
Such as "Alien", "Avatar", etc., and "Three-Body Problem".
The biggest difference between "Three-Body" and other alien sci-fi works is that Liu (Liu Cixin) directly told us the fact that different civilizations in the universe have different evolutionary levels, so that one face-to-face is likely to destroy the other. There is no dregs left, so the best way is to hide and not come out. (Dark forest theory, and the classic sentence: What does it have to do with you to destroy you?)
Well, here comes the question: If the best way for every civilization in the universe to protect itself is to hide and not come out. The "evolution level" of different civilizations is also divided into high and low, so how can the overall civilization of these species efficiently "self-evolve" without confronting other civilizations
In the penultimate chapter of "Liao Zhai of the Gods": Origin. Hao Ning's younger brother, Hao Ran, told Hao Ning another evolutionary method based on his own understanding: in the time axis of a species, through the alignment of the present and the past, the present and the foreign time and space, so as to efficiently evolve.
Also in this chapter, Haoran told Haoning, the meaning of the existence of gods in the framework of the entire "Gods Liaozhai": through the attributes of the gods themselves that span time and space, they give human civilization individuals in each era at the time level, It is also the inspiration of human beings, and then through the human beings of this era, to promote the overall human civilization to a more efficient evolutionary path.
Our Ming once summed up the method of how individual human beings evolve rapidly: "A gentleman is knowledgeable and learns about himself every day", in other words, it is the ability of self-examination. This kind of self-examination is self-examination through the past and the present by matching people, events, places, and things, so what if a civilization not only checks these checks, but also checks the future? Will its evolution rate be more efficient
Some people may say, how is it possible to pass the future right? —Actually, part of the explanation has been explained through Hao Ning’s language. Any kind of decision we make now affects the current decision-making through speculation about the future, which itself is right for the future at the brain level.
Of course, this is true on a metaphysical level. Let’s talk about the "future affecting the present" of physics, which is also a "time phenomenon" of quantum mechanics (sorry, the physics theory of quantum mechanics has carried a lot of blame for "Liao Zhai of the Gods" Oh haha):
Quantum delay choice experiment, we don't know what this experiment is, we just need to know that the result of this experiment seems to reveal another interesting time phenomenon, which is the future that is about to happen, which will actually affect the present (some interpreted as the present Choice can change the past), of course, because our research on quantum mechanics is not in-depth today, so there are many ways to interpret the results of this experiment, "Liao Zhai of the Gods" only chooses one interpretation, and changes it into our Understandable language: That's quantum form, and it's possible to travel across time and space. (Of course, this interpretation is not rigorous, but who knows? What if it is some other way?)
Therefore, this also solves the problem of evolving the present through certain information in the future from a technical perspective. — Here is a point to explain, our traditional view of time and space believes that going back to the past may change the future, so the future is gone. But this is the traditional view of time and space, thinking about time and space from the standpoint of the three-dimensional world, and the grandeur of the book is also the super-macroscopic consciousness of the universe, which is obviously not three-dimensional, or even four-dimensional, just because he can show time and space as " The River of Time and Space" was shown to Hao Ning, and even the many inspirations of the "Nirvana Explosion" of the gods of each era were presented as "Kun", a form that humans can better understand, proving that his understanding of time and space is much higher than what we have today. .
In other words, what he describes as a species that evolves through a system of inspirations across time and space is likely to be deterministic, and at his level, does not take into account the future changes that result from it (which he may think Changes are mere errors).
This is the reason why Haoning designed a three-level macro-micro pairing in the world view: the macro at different levels looks at the micro, and the actual understanding of a certain thing is different.
Understanding the meaning of the gods at the level of awe-inspiring is an essential factor in the self-evolution process of the human species.
Understanding the meaning of the gods at the level of the gods is to guard the Ming system represented by the gods. (The celestial master in the macro-consciousness world of the earth concluded the paradox of the three gods for too short a time, and may not have realized the need to understand the meaning of the gods.)
Understanding the meaning of the gods at the human level is to change the world, make yourself better, satisfy more wishes, and even be stronger than others around you. (Mr. Fei, Yi Pingzhi, those face-slapping men transformed by Shuling, Golden Finger and various pirated "fingers", the early Haoning and others, all understand this level)
In other words, different levels and different people have different understandings of anything, even the same God we believe in, because of the different "I".
In this way, the following question can be introduced: different people, at different levels, because they have different cognitions of "I", do they have the same cognition of the proposition "[self-evolution]"
Judging from the book, the cognition of each character is obviously different.
But before talking about this topic, let's take a look at what the book mentioned: the connection and difference between evolution and evolution.
Haoran also explained that the "theory of evolution" we often talk about is actually just the theory of evolution (this is a translation error, you can find it on Baidu).
The main theory of evolution is: species because
Variations will occur for various reasons, and these variations will be selected in the natural environment, and the survival of the fittest will eventually select the species that are most suitable for survival in the current environment. From the perspective of the entire history, species with stronger adaptability have emerged. - Note that in this process, the species has no choice and no consciousness. It cannot say to the natural environment: Don't let a big fire fall from the sky, I will evolve something else. The only thing it can do is, the whole When the population of species mutates, and when a big fire comes, some individual mutations can be overcome, and those who can survive are left behind, and those who cannot resist are gone.
And what about the evolution that people imagine? (The reason why I say imagination is that there is no set of natural theories that can perfectly describe evolution): it is that human beings can have the ability to resist such disasters as much as possible before natural selection comes. This idea of "evolution" has never been broken in the human mind since ancient times.
In ancient times, this kind of evolutionary thinking was described as "god". There are two kinds of this god, one is "god" to help people avoid disasters or resist disasters (examples are very common, so I won't list them), the second is very Simply put, become a god (become an immortal) by yourself. Most of this theory appeared in Huaming. People believed that through self-cultivation and continuous improvement of their physical body, they could become gods (think about refining gods and Taoism, Nascent Soul, Jin Dan period, etc., the essence is that individual evolution occurs). What is the main purpose of becoming a god? — Immortal! (to avoid disaster).
Of course, there are other more worldly ways, such as the development of medicine (medicine, etc.), physical fitness, self-cultivation, regulating the family, governing the country and the world, etc., but the ancients basically had these two ideas for the ultimate form of evolution and romantic imagination.
Today, after we have mastered technology, our understanding of this evolution has also changed from a romantic "god" to a reality: avoid heavy rain, have weather forecasts, put out fires, have fire extinguishers, get to a certain place quickly, and have airplanes. Human beings can already avoid a lot of disasters without the help of the gods they imagined romantically in the past. Even the scourge of human longevity seems to have a solution. —By the way, a sentence on the title page of "A Brief History of the Future" is: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Sapiens.
Regardless of the example, we all understand the difference between evolution and evolution, that is, evolution is natural selection, and a species is selected unconsciously; while evolution is the subjective selection of this species: the former corresponds to the past variation to the present selection. The latter corresponds to present mutations to future choices.
And the connection between evolution and evolution, that is, they all need a certain meaning—variation.
This variation, possibly individual human variation: genetic engineering
This variation may also be a variation of a certain discipline: the development of science and technology
This variation may also be a variation of a Ming Dynasty: the Renaissance, the May Fourth Movement, etc. (Of course this book calls them the May Fourth Gods)
Therefore, in this book, Mu Yu shows you these different ways of mutation through the world view of time and space and the rapid development of Jie Tianshi (rapid awakening):
Technological development: the Internet industry where Liu Shuai, Hao Ning and others work, the quantum physics Mozi satellite industry where Mr. Ren works (a thumbs up for the development of quantum mechanics in our country!), and even the invention of the soul coin engine through technological means, Furthermore, Mr. Fei, who is able to "copycat" various magic tools, is in the soul research industry. He discovered macro particles, and through his transformation of existing particles, he can finally be controlled by consciousness—by the way, through technological means, he invented certain productive forces Tools, in the matter of achieving the magic weapon of the legendary god through scientific and technological products, is itself a matter that is partially achieved by the development of human science and technology today.
Human individual variation: In the book, it is mainly shown at the soul level: changing the soul leads to stronger abilities for humans, book spirits cause the human body to learn the skills of dreams, and the creatures that appear in the form of souls through soul research (spiritual flying mosquitoes, spiritual flying insects) ) to carry out consciousness control and even made a vat brain for "Shu" to become a "false god". Through the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, the soul level becomes polarized and mutated, and at the cost of sacrificing the soul, in exchange for the ultimate mutation of other individuals: becoming a god .
Ming Variation: Guan Zizai learns Western knowledge, Xiaohong and others constantly update their understanding of theology, the May 4th apotheosis gods are constantly mentioned, and there are many disputes about the catastrophe of the Ming Dynasty in China a hundred years ago, etc.
These mutations all point to one thing, that is, all mutations that occur due to evolution require a certain cost.
To put it simply, the mutation produced by the development of science and technology has the lowest cost for human beings, because no matter how the existing technology develops, it will not affect the development of individual human beings. (this is foreign)
The cost of human individual variation is much higher for human beings, and what he needs to pay is the price of some people's lives, souls, and even the lives of a generation.
The cost of civilization mutation is even higher, which means that this civilization is likely to be erased from history and will never appear again-this is why the bottom line of the Chinese gods is the goal of guarding the Chinese Ming.
Different categories of "I" require different evolutionary costs, resulting in different urgency for the evolution of different categories of "I":
[The Evolution of Individuals] Almost all nations and civilizations almost agree that it is necessary for the evolution of individual human beings. For example, our nation's "gentleman is knowledgeable and self-examining every day", "Heaven is healthy, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement", or Koryo on the other side of the mountain, and Fusang on the other side of the sea. It’s good to learn from the country, and the West is good to learn from the West; Western Europe is also the same. Europe’s longing for the East for a long time, as well as the later great voyages and industrial revolution, almost all have their own demands and shadows of individual evolution.
why? This is because the difficulty of individual human evolution is low, the cost is low, and the benefits are quick—
Low difficulty means that individual human beings are very easy to know their current situation and know that they are not as good as others from the relationship with others, the past, and the human beings in distant places. Individual evolution at this level is still somewhat difficult, and today’s payment for knowledge is mainly to satisfy people’s anxiety caused by this level of evolution.)
Low cost means that what individual human beings need to do is to learn, practice, or change their past thoughts and so on. — These levels are actually quite difficult for some people, but this is already the lowest level of difficulty of the three levels of "I".
The benefits are quicker and easier to understand. When a person evolves individually, he can be discovered by others almost the next day. After a period of time, the work is effective, and then after a period of time, he can change jobs and get a salary increase. —Of course, this is the material level. On the spiritual level, our ancestors described the ultimate pursuit of this income to the spiritual level as: hearing the Tao in the morning, and dying in the evening. But everyone should pay attention to this, the Wen Dao of Chaowen refers to the Wen Dao of individual human beings, not the Wen Dao of a civilization, because the evolution cost of a civilization is beyond imagination.
Next, let's talk about the urgency of [My evolution at the level of national civilization].
National civilization is an abstract concept, because it is composed of the spiritual essence and material essence of all the time and space in the past of this nation. Therefore, it is very likely to have a main image externally, but internally it is different and contradictory. It seems that foreigners see Chinese people completely different from Chinese people themselves. Because of this complexity, self-evolution at the national level is extremely difficult.
This difficulty mainly lies in three points: whether you realize that you should evolve, whether there is a good evolution method, and whether you can reduce the cost of evolution.
First of all, whether it is aware that it should evolve is also whether a nation can realize that it needs to evolve. This question seems to be very simple. Doesn’t the national civilization need to evolve? In fact, this is really the case. Because the biggest difference between evolution and evolution is to evolve itself in response to disasters that may come in the future, it is difficult for a nation to realize whether there are any disasters in the future at the national level. The second point is that if an individual can easily know whether he or she is behind based on the comparison with other people, a national civilization is also a national civilization accumulated by gathering all the material and spiritual essence of the nation in the past. At any time, almost They can all come up with cases where their own national civilization is superior to other civilizations. After these cases are carried forward by the individual human elites of this national civilization, the civilization of this nation will not be able to clearly recognize whether it is advanced or not at a certain point in time. Backward—until this backwardness gradually explodes into a specific event, or a period of painful backwardness, will the nation wake up and catch up: Of course, at this time, the whole nation will not be able to truly "see itself" "The price paid was painful.
How miserable is it? As painful as the ancient Ming Dynasty, it seems that there are only a few that can be passed down to today in a relatively complete way, such as the Huaxia Ming Dynasty. And Huaxia Ming, also a hundred years ago, experienced the painful lesson of self-Ming at the level of "seeing oneself", not knowing whether it is advanced in the world or lagging behind the world Ming, and almost extinct.
If there is still some way to say whether a national civilization "realizes that it should evolve", is there a good evolution method to evolve the entire national civilization
Unfortunately, this is a difficult question to answer almost today. We can only say that from the perspective of the overall time and space in the past, the specific ways for each nation to solve the self-evolution at the level of its own civilization can hardly escape a high-probability method: to improve the evolution of individual human beings in their own nation. Evolution at the national level.
Just as we cannot look at the microscopic human beings from the macroscopic consciousness of the earth, we also cannot judge that the evolution of the individual human beings of a nation can definitely improve the evolution of the civilization of the entire nation.
The main reason for this is what Hao Ning said in "Liao Zhai of the Gods": the Tower of Babel effect. It is also the myth and legend: In order to prevent people from jointly building a tower of Babel, the emperor made people speak an incomprehensible language, which led to no trust between people and communication, and eventually the Tower of Babel could not be built as a whole. ——In this book, this different language is interpreted as the inability to communicate, trust, and even the opinions of sects and others caused by people's different positions, beliefs, and maintenance. The split door is also based on this principle, To prevent the evolution of the human world.
This story can explain the contradiction (paradox) between the individual human evolution of the nation and the evolution of the overall civilization of the nation from a certain level, that is, no matter how the individual human beings of a nation evolve, they will definitely appear in this nation, which he does not understand Others, or are not understood by others, he does not trust others, or is not trusted by others, so the most common practice of individual human beings of this nation must be to find like-minded people to confront those who have different opinions. Some people call the process partisanship, some call it group fighting, and some call it an interest group, but no matter what it is called or what its shape is, it is essentially a matter of the overall civilization of the nation and the evolution process of individual humans. , it is impossible to get rid of the "Babel Tower" effect, and make the whole nation evolve as a whole.
At this time, some people will ask, what if there is such a strong man who is so powerful that he can get rid of the "Babel Tower" effect by himself and lead the civilization of his own nation to the future? —Frankly speaking, this is more dangerous, because Hitler really thought this way, and he really did it for a certain period of time, but in the end, Nazism brought to the whole world, even including its own soil, the Germanic nation. a profound disaster. In other words, the infinite fanatical pursuit of the evolution of national civilization at the individual level is a disaster for everyone.
In this sense, Fei Changfang is also such a collection of disasters: he believes that Huaxia Ming is the best
He hopes to return to the glory of China's past. He has assembled the most powerful weapons of this era (jie tianshi, the essence of the gods, Pandora metal, etc.), and he has the ability to show the world that China's civilization is the best civilization (Bliss Silver Needle), he also has the desire to lead Chinese sentient beings to evolve (become a god), but all the things he did are actually similar to Hitler: Hitler also believed that the Germans were the best nation, and after the First World War, he fooled the Germans back In the past glory of the German nation, he has almost assembled the most powerful weapons of that era (tank and other armor, chemical weapons, and even the atomic bomb that was almost successfully researched), but no matter Fei Changfang or Hitler, no matter how their purpose is Great, the catastrophe they brought to mankind was devastating.
After sighing so much, let's not forget the theme of our section: the civilization of the whole nation, even if we realize the necessity of evolution, there are not many successful cases in the selection of evolutionary methods in the civilization of the whole nation, and it is easy to choose the method of choice. destroy.
In terms of the cost of national selection and evolution, this is undoubtedly huge: let's not talk about anything else. When our Chinese nation realized that they were lagging behind, it took more than a hundred years, tried countless methods, and paid the cost of several generations to slowly reach today's evolution, or the path of evolution , I think that as every citizen in Huaxia, people of any other ethnic group should have a stronger feeling for the cost of this road.
We used to simply think that in the past hundred years, countless martyrs spent countless blood and finally saved the country. But from the perspective of national civilization, in fact, the greater and more appropriate statement is that these countless martyrs spent the largest cost that human beings can spend in the entire world, and completed nearly a thousand years of history, almost the largest number of people, the largest area, and the longest history A national civilization - self-evolution.
This is why, in the Liaozhai of the Gods, this period of history is called: May Fourth Conferring the Gods—such a huge national evolution, if it cannot be called conferring the gods, what else can be called conferring the gods
Why do I call this period of history the self-evolution of the Chinese nation
This starts with the traditional self-evolution of the Chinese nation in the past.
In the past, the Chinese nation as a whole was more inclined to seek stability than evolution:
We pay more attention to whether it is in line with the tradition, whether it is the words of a sage, whether it is based on past classics, and whether there are precedents to follow. There is no good end, and no good reputation: for example, Shang Yang, even if he helped Qin to rule the world, even if his legalist ideas were used by many dynasties in later generations, he still had to wear a Confucian cloak—even so, Shang Yang was Everyone in history scolded from beginning to end; others, such as Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, etc., basically did not end well.
The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that the Chinese civilization has been in an extreme material and spiritual civilization for a long time in history (it cannot see itself through confrontation with other civilizations), there is another reason mentioned above, the evolution of civilization The cost is high.
Under such circumstances, anyone will choose to keep the civilization immortal even if they slow down the evolution rate of the national civilization. This kind of thinking - not only people, but also the thinking of the Chinese gods of the gods Liaozhai is to ensure the immortality of the Chinese civilization. This is the reason.
There is no problem with this, until - the world changes.
Fortunately, we are looking for another evolutionary method of a nation today: a space-time evolution plan that takes the past as a reference, takes the present national civilization as a counterpoint, and takes the possibility of the future as a screening method.
It's far away, and it is said that Huaxia itself is a little bit helpless, let's talk about the novel.
The self-evolution of national civilization is already so difficult, so what about the overall evolution of human civilization as a whole
This problem seems to make us even more desperate. Due to the "Babel effect", it seems that the human civilization has never consciously revealed that human beings have seriously considered the proposition of evolution from the level of species civilization—it seems that the current stage is only , this species must survive, or live better (better living and evolution are two different things).
It's more of the previous thinking: individual, a certain micro-evolution, to bring the entire species to evolve as a whole.
This is the fundamental reason why Jie Tianshi doesn't care about the life and death of human beings: they don't think about problems at one level.
The pairing between celestial masters and human beings is like the pairing between human beings and Penicillium (the fungus that produces penicillin).
Here is a little knowledge for everyone to popularize science: not all Penicillium can produce penicillin, only a small number of mutated Penicillium can produce penicillin, which becomes an antibiotic after being purified by humans. Knowing this little knowledge we can do the following:
Penicillium as a whole has no evolutionary consciousness. Only a few Penicillium produce penicillin, which can prevent other bacteria from invading Penicillium, and the entire Penicillium community will live better. From the perspective of Penicillium, it seems that Penicillium "evolution "Are.
But from the perspective of human beings, it is just that Penicillium has produced a useful antibiotic that can prevent itself from getting sick. If Penicillium cannot produce it, then replace it with Red Mold, or Pioneer, Cephalosporin, etc. —The human beings here are: Jie Tianshi.
Jie Tianshi doesn't care who is making the entire interconnection, as long as there is no problem with the foundation of the entire interconnection, his consciousness can still exist normally, and he can even continue to discover new things (macro atoms). He will not consider the level of human beings at all (Of course, Chen Busheng was an accident, otherwise we would not be able to write this novel, right?).
Jie Tianshi's mentality towards human beings is very similar to the sentence in the "Tao Te Ching": The world is not benevolent and treats all things as humble dogs. From a human point of view, it is difficult for us to understand the meaning of the saying that the world is not benevolent and treats everything as a dog, but we can understand it well from the human mentality of seeing Penicillium: we have no love or dislike for Penicillium Emotion, or the consciousness that helps it does not help it, but only the attitude of being useful or not. This is like a straw dog, a straw dog used for sacrifices. It is necessary to use a straw dog during the sacrifice (penicillin is needed when you are sick), and it is discarded after the sacrifice (you will not touch the penicillin when you are sick). Here, human beings treat Penicillin neither appreciated nor despised.
Obviously, although the individual Penicillium that produces penicillin allows the entire Penicillium to live better, it does not cause the "evolution" of the entire population of Penicillium. Taking this example, this may also be the evolutionary ceiling of the human species today: It seems unlikely that the "sublimated" evolution of the entire human species can be driven by the evolution of individual human beings or a certain organization in the past.
Of course, this is only unlikely, not absolutely impossible.
That being the case, what Haoran mentioned, it seems more feasible to think about the evolution of species civilization from the perspective of time and space. The key here is how we look at and use the "time tools" that may come in the future.
In the past imagination of human beings, the mentality of the existence of time is constantly changing, but in the past 100 years, human fantasy about time has changed from "not thinking about it" in the past to "thinking about it" today. Want to see", here, the main contributors are the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics - which is also the basis of human understanding of the world.
General relativity allows us to re-understand time and space, and some people are even looking for the feasibility of time travel based on this.
There seems to be a re-understanding of time within the realm of quantum mechanics, it's just not clear today.
What if another hundred years passed
The question is, if time travel of some sort were to become a reality, what would we do with it
So far, there are basically two themes about time in the West: 1. Tell people the importance of choices and people’s thinking by going back to the past to change the future (now); Tell people the importance of fatalism: don't rush, it's all the same.
And the main function of our time-related themes in recent years is to fall in love: fall in love with the fourth master, fall in love with the fourth master, fall in love with the emperor as a princess, or fall in love in the Ming Dynasty anyway, no matter it is Whoever goes back is to solve the single dog problem that cannot be solved in this era. If the time machine is first invented by our country, then the only type of stock that can grow in the stock market is probably "Jiayuan of the Century".
What if it is used as an evolutionary reference for the civilization of nations as a whole, or the civilization of species as a whole
Are you afraid to think
That's right, our current awe of time and the fear of the totem change of time are the same as people's fear and awe of God hundreds of years ago.
In essence, people's worship of God comes from the turmoil of contradictions in the heart: for an unknown, huge, mysterious power, I want to touch it, but I dare not touch it, and if you are not allowed to touch it, you are not special. , but I am particularly worried that there will be problems after touching it.
Otherwise, how could Adam and Eve be tricked into eating the apple
The power of time seems to be becoming another god's totem.
As for whether time is a technical element in the evolution of national civilization or species civilization
We can only say this:
Without the real control of the dimension of time, we can deduce the future from the perspective of nation or species civilization, and then use this deduced virtual future to complete the conscious screening of self-evolution for the present.
After mastering the tool of the dimension of time, the self-evolution speed of the human individual, the human nation civilization, and the human species civilization will be more efficient.
When we humans are still struggling with whether to look for aliens, to explore whether there is a higher technological development (Men in Black movie series), or to find the origin of human beings (Prometheus, Alien series), or simply When it comes to propositions such as expanding the territory and improving the living environment of human beings (Interstellar, Avatar series), can we also imagine other possible evolutionary plans outside the three-dimensional world where human beings live
Of course, this leads to another topic: why evolve at all? In other words, what is our conscious evolution looking for
Some people are looking for the origin, some are looking for the future, some are looking for a better living planet, and some are falling in love—please refer to "You Who Came from the Stars": I actually admire the Koreans, who can handle aliens with their appearance, and indeed the whole universe They are all Smecta of Korea.
Well, please ignore the last one of the examples just given, we still maintain the good tradition of nonsense in a serious manner: so far, all evolutions seem to have the ultimate goal of looking for a vague thing: truth.
past truths (from where)
The truth now (where to go)
Human Truth (Who Am I)
The truth (law) of all things
cosmic truth (what)
etc.
Obviously, Gods Liaozhai did not try to discuss the topic of "truth". On the contrary, it is Zhou Yuan's "false" talent that takes up more space. Why is this so
In the next chapter, we will start with Zhou Yuan's talent and talk about "the difference between true and false"
(end of this chapter)
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