The road to technology

Chapter 827 Why Choose One
After obtaining his contact information from Shang Shaojian, Louise Banks and the others were waved back by Yue Yuanzhou.

Here again, there were only Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian.

Shang Shaojian looked at Yue Yuanzhou, who was drinking tea leisurely, and sat down on the sofa beside the coffee table. He pondered for a moment with the USB flash drive in his hand, and then asked, "Sir, if we also learn the heptapod language, will we Wouldn't he see his own future and be unable to change it like Dr. Banks?"

"The future? After learning the heptapod script, what future do you have?"

"Ah!!! No future?" Shang Shaojian was startled.

"Yes, when you have a synchronous thinking, when you look at things with this kind of thinking, you will think that the present and the future are happening at the same time, so of course there is no 'future'."

"I see!"

Hearing this meaning, Shang Shaojian breathed a sigh of relief.

Shang Shaojian already held an important position, and since the appearance of the Zhuxia Community, he has become even more important as the contact person of the appointed office, so he must consider the future of civilization, and of course he must figure out these things, so he again He said: "Then if we learn their language, will we also fall into the fate of thinking like the heptapod civilization and cannot extricate ourselves?"

"Judging from the fact that your soul or spirit technology level is almost zero, yes!" Yue Yuanzhou replied clearly.

"This, that, this, this..." Shang Shaojian spread his hands, revealing the USB flash drive lying in his palm, and then looked at Yue Yuanzhou eagerly.

"The one for the United States is the incomplete version, and some important scientific and technological knowledge is not included in it, but this one for you is the complete version, and all the things given by the heptapod civilization are in it."

call!
Shang Shaojian let out a big breath, and then smiled on his face: "Thank you so much."

"Well," Yue Yuanzhou nodded and said, "But it doesn't mean that you won't fall into the four-dimensional fate after learning Chinese characters."

"what?!"

Shang Shaojian opened his mouth wide, he thought the full version didn't have such worries!

It turned out to be the same!

"Then isn't this equivalent to a double-edged sword?"

"It can be said that you can learn or learn by yourself, and choose your own civilized path." Yue Yuanzhou leaned back and said.

He generally does not interfere with the development of civilizations in the Zhuxia community.

Shang Shaojian suddenly showed a tangled expression. This thing has the technology of the heptapod, which will definitely play a big role in the development of the descending civilization, but he is very worried that the way of thinking of civilization will become the same as the heptapod.

Seeing this, Yue Yuanzhou said: "Actually, for you, this risk has been naturally minimized, because human beings are not single linear thinkers or have long been aware of this aspect, and found that human beings' own way of thinking is not Unique, and related questions have been asked.

Moreover, Chinese itself is very similar to Qiwen. It can be said that if the pronunciation of Chinese is removed, humans can learn Chinese and use it to communicate, but writing is not as instantaneous as heptapods. Therefore, at this stage, all countries on the earth have Chinese Thinkers are the group most likely to get rid of the fate of thinking. "

Listening to Yue Yuanzhou's words, Shang Shaojian buried his head in deep thought. Unknowingly, he drank several cups of tea, and finally asked: "You said. Human beings have questioned their own way of thinking?"

"Of course, this involves causality and determinism. The root of the way of thinking in heptapods is determinism, while the idea of ​​free will tends to be causal."

When Shang Shaojian heard the words, he showed an appearance of listening attentively.

Yue Yuanzhou twitched the corners of his mouth, and glanced at the illiterate Shang Shaojian with disgust. He didn't want to talk about it at first, but there was nothing wrong with him now, and Shang Shaojian was pleasing to the eye, otherwise he wouldn't have given him so many benefits. .

"About free will, you can actually look through books."

After a pause, Yue Yuanzhou continued to speak: "Kant thinks, um. That's Immanuel Kant. He thinks that free will means that people are not restricted by external factors in real life and get rid of physical instincts to act according to their own legislation. In other words, its core idea is: pure reason. If reason can get rid of external influences, then such reason is pure, and pure reason is free.”

Speaking of this, Yue Yuanzhou noticed that Shang Shaojian looked like he was thinking hard, so he made an analogy and said: "For example, one day you are struggling between skipping work and not skipping work. If you believe in free will, you will think that You must choose to skip work for your own reasons.

Because if you want to go to work, you will!
But determinists believe that all things in the world exist without exception because of the thing or event, um. There are also prerequisites before the event and the unique determination of the laws of nature.

In other words, your skipping work today has been decided, it may be because you slept late with your wife last night, or other things are doomed, although those things may seem to have no effect on your skipping work, so Things that you appear to be in free will to decide are not. "

Being compared to being hehehe with his wife, Shang Shaojian showed a little embarrassment on his face, he laughed dryly, and then hesitated: "Which one is right?"

He felt that he didn't understand very well, so he just asked the answer directly.

"The universe is not a child, why choose one of the two?" Yue Yuanzhou asked rhetorically.

How can such contradictory laws exist in nature at the same time? ! ! !

When Shang Shaojian heard the words, his mouth became an O shape, and he called it incredible in his heart.

I find it unbelievable, but Shang Shaojian just doesn't understand it. If it were a physicist or philosopher, he would accept it calmly.

After all, this problem has long been involved in the field of physics.

That is quantum theory. On the earth where Shang Shaojian lives, the highest form of quantum theory is the standard model, which represents the results of decades of experiments in particle accelerators. Parts of this theory have been tested, and the accuracy has reached one part in 100 billion. .

If the mass of neutrinos is included, the Standard Model agrees with experiments on all subatomic particles, without exception!

But no matter how successful quantum theory is, it is experimentally based on some basic assumptions, which have been strongly opposed by the philosophical and theoretical circles in the past.

Especially the second assumption of the Copenhagen School, because this assumption asks who determines our destiny.

Like Newton and Einstein, they believed in determinism.

For these two men, the concept of free will, the idea that we are the masters of our destiny, is actually a fantasy.

Einstein called the commonsense concept of this entity, that is, the concept that the concrete objects we touch are real and exist in a definite state, as an objective entity.

(End of this chapter)