The road to technology

Chapter 823: The Gutter of Fate

Oh, it turns out that they are here to seek help from future human beings.

The future can be expected but cannot be reached, because for a complete and independent individual, once the future is gone, the future will become the present.

I want to come to the heptapods because I saw the event that human beings helped them in the future, so I came to the earth now, and I participated in the present stage of this time.

In the thinking of the heptapods, they are involved in an event that they should be involved in, and their participation is a stage of the event itself. With such participation, the event must be complete.

That is to say, from their point of view, the matter of "human beings helping them in the future" has actually happened in the whole incident, and it is a part of the whole incident. Now they are not here to participate, but as part of the incident. There must be a ring.

The whole event is a complete circle, it is not that they help human beings now cause human beings to help them in the future, but happen at the same time.

Yes, the concept of the heptapod is like this, they regard this matter as a simultaneous closed-loop event, each stage is inevitable, so they have to do so.

But they couldn't die, but they ran into Yue Yuanzhou, and then they discovered that any event involving Yue Yuanzhou's participation would destroy the closed-loop stage in the future and become uncertain, but there is no such thing as uncertainty in their thinking That's why there are so many incomprehensions and incomprehensions.

And after they evaded, they also found that they couldn't evade at all, because the more they evaded Yue Yuanzhou, the more changes they couldn't understand.

In the end, they have to face this incomprehensible existence without understanding.

Yue Yuanzhou understood. According to the thinking of the heptapod, even if he kills the people in front of him now, and then decides not to interfere with human beings helping them in the future, they will probably think that death is justified and part of the whole incident. They probably wouldn't be sad at this stage, because they were still alive before they died, and they would think that death was just a stage of 'this accidental death' heptapod.

From this point of view, there is a problem with the time concept of the heptapod.

"Non-linear time view? No wonder they think that the future is fixed and fate is immutable, and they still can't understand uncertainty. It seems so. In this way, the heptapod's search for human help should also be related to this aspect." Yue Yuanzhou looked at it The heptapod on the other side of the mirror said inwardly.

Thinking of this, he continued to ask: "What kind of help do you need from humans?"

This happened in the future, but Yue Yuanzhou didn't talk about the future, because there was no need to talk about it, and it would only increase the difficulty of understanding the heptapod.

As for how the heptapod can help human beings, Yue Yuanzhou probably already knows that it is to provide human beings with science and technology. Otherwise, with the current scientific and technological strength of human beings, it is just a dream to help the heptapod.

But how can the heptapods be sure that humans will help them in the future?
Could it be because human beings also believe in fatalism?Otherwise it's incomprehensible that the heptapods believe this will happen.

There must be people who believe in fatalism, but if you want to get help from the entire human race, you must have the majority of people who hold this belief, otherwise you can't explain the group of people who say "my fate is up to me". humans will help them.

Yue Yuanzhou knew that there were actually many such people.

So how does the heptapod turn this group into fatalists who believe in their own destiny?

At this moment, the heptapod answered Yue Yuanzhou's question, and it was Benbo Erba who spewed out the text: "The heptapod civilization is in the stage of demise. , led the heptapod out of the incident, it is amazing, the heptapod cannot understand."

"Circle Breakers" is Yue Yuanzhou's translation of the seven texts. If it is a literal translation, it should be the people who are not limited to the entire closed-loop event.

Looking at Ben Boerba's words, Yue Yuanzhou gradually understood the whole story.

Now, the reason why the heptapod cannot write the quantum mechanical explanation of Fermat's shortest time theorem has finally come to light.

The heptapods must be caught in a certain event in the future, and that event will eventually lead to the demise of the heptapod civilization. The heptapods 'see', but they can only follow the event, and cannot get rid of the established destiny.

In the end, they found a breakthrough from the human side. Human beings have a group of people who don't believe in fate, and they will help them break through the established fate in the future.

But Yue Yuanzhou found that there is a contradiction here. If the heptapods want to get help from humans, they must have a group of people who think like them. In the future, humans will be able to help them and they need a group of people who still maintain human thinking.

Because human beings with the same way of thinking as them will inevitably choose to be the same as the heptapods, unable to get out of their own fate or accept the fate of extinction.

Then at that time, the group of people who still maintain the "my fate is up to me" will need to play a role, but if we want to get help from human beings, we must let human beings have the vast majority of fatalists, which is undoubtedly contradictory.

So. Under what circumstances can the small group of human beings who still maintain the thinking of "my fate is up to me" play a role?

In that case, it is estimated that only when civilization is on the verge of destruction, that group of people can play a role!

Isn't this dragging the entire human race to jump into the gutter of fate?
Yue Yuanzhou frowned, still thinking about this question, another doubt in his mind emerged again: how did the heptapod make these people become fatalists who believed in their own destiny?In other words, how to make human beings think like them?
What is the connection between these two things?
Yue Yuanzhou's thoughts changed sharply. He looked at Louise Banks who was leaning against the mirror, and then turned to Shang Shaojian who was rubbing his forehead and wondering what to think.

He felt that all of this should be related, because if he hadn't come here, a spaceship should have landed on the beach, and the person in contact with that spaceship was probably Shang Shaojian, the supreme commander of the East China Sea Fleet!
Not only them, but maybe the humans at the landing site who touched the heptapod barrel.
"Is it possible that in the original plot, these two will become people who think like heptapods?"

Yue Yuanzhou stroked the stubble on his chin, and thought to himself: "If that's the case, how did the thinking of these two change? Could it be that the heptapod has some ulterior motive?"

and many more!

and many more!

and many more!

So far, the heptapods don't seem to have done anything to humans, so they said some ambiguous words in Qiwen!
At this time, Yue Yuanzhou's heart moved: Could it be Qiwen?
Thinking of this, Yue Yuanzhou squinted his eyes and glanced at the haggard Louise Banks, and suddenly asked, "Dr. Banks, have you seen some incomprehensible phenomena recently?"

Banks, who was leaning against the mirror and pondering the seven texts, suddenly heard a question that seemed to come from the depths of her soul, and she subconsciously said, "Yes, how do you know?"

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized something was wrong, so she quickly turned to Yue Yuanzhou and explained: "No, no, I didn't see anything!"

(End of this chapter)