Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 252: Postscript 6 of the book Brain in a vat

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The brain of the vat is mentioned three times in the novel, and several times implicitly. .

The dominant ones are: fake special events, Chen Busheng events, and origin discussion events.

Hidden ones are: the first season as a whole is a book event, Zhou Yuankou's "a temple on a mountain" event many times, and Zhang Chihang's time loop event.

From the point of view, it is actually the first hidden brain in a vat incident (the entire first season is a book), and it is more vaguely proposed that the first season is actually a "brain in a vat" in a certain sense ( It’s just similar), there are two small marks here: the first mark is that after Zhou Yuan lost his soul, he said that the world between himself and Hao Ning might be a book written by an 18-line novelist That's all, it was ridiculed by Hao Ning and Liu Shuai at the time, but it was proved in the second season that it was indeed written by Hao Ning, a writer of 18-line novels. The second mark is that when Hao Ning met Zhang Chihang in the first season, Zhang Chihang said "Are you discussing logic with a Bodhisattva?" Acting skills?" Liu Shuai reminded Hao Ning of this retweet, and it can be seen from this that the first season is indeed a book written by Hao Ning. Of course, Hao Ning didn't think the word "return" was a big deal at the time, but later discovered that the word "return" was the key to discovering Zhang Chihang's cycle time.

This small point of the word "return" that real people can't find is precisely a key point that Xiaohong and others put forward later, how the gods of books find that they are the gods of books and not confuse with the gods of the world. Xiaohong's interpretation of it is "Hua Xiaming", and judging from Liu Shuai and Haoning's entanglement with the word "return", there are actually similarities, that is: real people know the actual situation. However, there is no such situation in the book, it is just a "small mistake" made by Hao Ning, which is not worth correcting. The characters in the book only know that the sentence without the word "return" is the truth, and they do not admit the possibility of having the word "return".

In other words, real people know another possibility besides book language.

This matter is also reflected in the false incident, Zhou Yuan and false wisdom: Although false special also has a deep Buddhist teachings, but it has not realized the existence of the brain of the vat, which is also the result of the artistic creation mentioned by Zhou Yuan. "The fourth wall", so he can only answer the question of the "Vimalakirti Sutra" in the book, but cannot answer the answer of "walking" like Zhou Yuan. In other words, the key problem of Jiashu here is that he is not aware of the existence of the word "return" like Liu Shuai.

Chen Busheng wanted Zhou Yuan to help him cheat, and Li Yufei used Pandora metal to create a fake "brain in a vat" for Chen Busheng, which is actually the case. Whether it is the real Chen Busheng or the real Li Yufei, there is an intention here, that is to let the person who made the brain of the vat stay with the person he loves, only happiness, no pain-note, this is only xx , without the imagination of xx, in Zhou Yuan's words, it is deprived of certain rights, in fact, it is a vat created by one's own desires for the other party

brain.

This is the key issue of Zhou Yuan's understanding of the brain of the tank (why is it understood by Zhou Yuan? Because no one cares more about this matter except Zhou Yuan in the whole book): the focus of the so-called brain of the tank lies in the brain of the tank. , Do you realize that you still have the right to make other choices, and whether you can still perform other choices.

How did Zhou Yuan realize this problem? It's because he used to live in the "brain of a vat" that his parents hoped for, and he never realized that he had other choices besides being a good baby of his parents (Zhou Yuan's previous reaction to pornography was that adults thought it was not good. Well, it’s not that I don’t need it), and I never made my own choice (even if I don’t like the job of a designer, I can only choose to lose my soul and work hard to do this job well), for a long time, the human form Zhou Yuan, as well as Zhou Yuan in the form of a circle god, are actually living under this "brain in a vat", and they don't have the consciousness to jump out.

When the whole person was about to collapse, Zhou Yuan used his own mana to design a set of imaginary "brains in tanks" for his parents, and finally under the dual effects of "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss", it led to the "rebirth of the souls of his parents" "The rebirth here is actually two rebirths, one is Zhou Yuan's parents, and the other is Zhou Yuan himself.

There is a sentence in Xiaohong's book: Zhou Yuan is an ape in the boat. The reason why he is so filial to his parents is that Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West" has never been filial to his parents for a day, so he has such excessive compensation behavior in this world. Of course, Xiaohong was only joking, but judging from Zhou Yuan's subsequent performance, it was after his parents were "reborn" that he gradually understood the real relationship between himself and his parents. Pay off the cause and effect of Sun Wukong's life without parents, and return to the normal, self-chosen relationship between parents and children.

It is precisely because Zhou Yuan has experienced so much in the "brain of the vat" that he was able to use that method of treating Chen Busheng to make Chen Busheng realize the fact that when two people are together, it is not necessary to use one lie to nest another lie Yes, let the other party live in his own "brain in a vat", so that Chen Busheng can bravely face Li Yufei, the world celestial master, with his true identity, and then Chen Busheng can face Li Yufei's different life forms and accept it with pleasure—he understands A thing, no matter how beautiful the lie, is just a "brain in a vat" after all, and I have already experienced it once, so there is no need to experience it again.

Of course, based on Zhou Yuan's understanding, the most frightening thing for ordinary people to understand about the essence of the so-called vat brain is that one's own brain is used for experiments by devils or evil scientists. In fact, this proposition goes deeper, but it reveals two A corollary: being unaware that one is not free (there is no other choice), and being aware that one is not free is also incapable of making free choices (multiple choice behavior).

This seems difficult to understand, so Mu Yu explained it with an example:

A movie many years ago: "The Matrix", it tells that everyone lives in a world made by machines

In the virtual world, people may be rich or poor, but they live in that world. But we, as audiences, feel creepy about the world of movies: how scary it is to live alone in a virtual world!

But today we look at the virtual reality games played by many people, and Spielberg's movie "Ready Player One" some time ago, did not have much criticism of virtual reality technology. On the contrary, many industries today are using virtual reality. Reality technology, from this point of view, is it good or bad for a person to live in the virtual world

What prompted me to think about this question was also because one of my classmates told me that she was a young professor at a university. During a class, she did an experiment and asked each student to imagine the future. As a result, many students imagined The future is that in the future, you only need some kind of instrument, which emits the sense of taste, touch, etc., and it is the same as actually experiencing this kind of thing.

When I heard this incident, I was very emotional: Isn’t this the terrible world in “The Matrix”, where Neo, as the savior, desperately wants to lead people out? Why has it become the vision of young people for the future after more than ten years

Mu Yu never thinks that young people are inferior to each other. On the contrary, I later found out the difference between them, that is: whether they can choose freely.

Technology is just technology. If people can choose whether to use this technology to enter the virtual world, it is not a brain in a vat. If people cannot choose, or even realize that they cannot choose, then it is a brain in a vat.

In the face of the vat brain, people are afraid of these two points: 1. Not realizing whether they are in the vat brain (do not know if they are free), and 2. Realizing that they are behind the vat brain and cannot choose.

This is also the penultimate chapter. Haoran has been unwilling to use a universe-level observer to explain the root cause of the "Tai Chi Diagram" to Haoning: this will make Haoning think that the universe is actually under this "possible" observer The brain of a vat, and the panic that this brought to Hao Ning will still accompany Hao Ning even after he turns into a Tai Chi diagram.

And why did Hao Ning panic because of this? It is precisely because even if the entire universe is really a brain in a vat, at the current level of human evolution, firstly, it cannot be realized, and secondly, even if it is realized, there is no way (free choice). The rational approach is what Haoran said, self-evolution.

The most frightening thing about the Vat Brain is that it will make people lose the reason for self-evolution (since there is no choice, so don’t choose), but Zhou Yuan jumped out of his “Vat Brain” with the help of his friends, and also Helping others to jump out, and more gods of Huaxia Books also jumped out of their own "brain in a vat". This does not mean that they cannot jump out. :

Tian Xingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement.

(end of this chapter)

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