Planetary Museum

The 60-word detailed text file is in the computer that Rao Xin was working on just now.

Wu Xiaoqing asked Rao Xin to open a part of it directly, and read the general content - but didn't understand it.

Because most of the respondents are Europeans and Americans, it’s okay to answer in Chinese and English, many of them are in Danish and Swedish, and then you can see German, English, Swiss and Italian... These information are the same for Wu Xiaoqing is completely unfamiliar.

"Professor Shen said that he would find someone to translate it..." Rao Xin said, "But most of the content is the same. When I was doing the investigation, I had asked a few college students to translate it..."

"It is mainly divided into two factions, one faction supports it, and the other faction does not support it. Europeans advocate multiculturalism, so more people do not support it. But I talked with Professor Shen, and we all support the existence of a certain reasonable state..."

Wu Xiaoqing's thinking can keep up, and he can realize why the search and rescue team asked Rao Xin to take charge of this project, and why he was asked to do it.

But Wu Xiaoqing's knowledge reserves have been drained, and he can only try his best to describe his own thoughts: "You mean... if there are really alien civilizations in the universe, their civilizations will eventually evolve in the same direction? "

"Yes," Rao Xin looked at Wu Xiaoqing's surprised eyes, and said with a smile, "There's nothing strange about this question, it's an old science fiction project."

Wu Xiaoqing smiled awkwardly: "It seems that those of you who write science fiction are very optimistic."

"Optimism?" Rao Xin shook his head, "This question has nothing to do with optimism."

"The ultimate rational state, this is another way of saying utopia. Can't this be called optimism?"

"..." Rao Xin didn't speak for a while, but just took a deep look at Wu Xiaoqing.

At this moment, Wu Xiaoqing keenly caught a little bit of surprise in the other party's eyes - he has often seen this kind of look before, that is, in class, when he answered a question that was not what he asked, the students around him and the teacher on the stage would use this kind of look staring at himself.

Wu Xiaoqing originally thought that he was already immune to this kind of gaze, but seeing it now, he still felt very uncomfortable.

After a brief silence, Rao Xin began to explain: "Let me explain first, the rationality here is, in a sense, a professional term in philosophy, not the rationality we often say. When translated, it should be called rationality... "

"We are willing to believe in the establishment of the ultimate reasonable state, just like believing that the universe will eventually go to heat death. It is a rational judgment and does not involve optimism..."

"Heat death is definitely not optimistic about the fate of the universe. To put it bluntly, it can even be said to be the most vicious curse on our ultimate fate from the definition of physics."

The search and rescue team is obviously also paying attention to their chat content, and also paid timely attention to the problems Wu Xiaoqing encountered during the chat.For example, heat death is a completely unfamiliar term to Wu Xiaoqing. The search and rescue team gave a corresponding explanation in the subtitles in time, so he could barely understand it.

Following this warm-up explanation, Rao Xin's thinking became active, as if he had entered the state of writing novels all of a sudden: "The search and rescue team and I are more concerned about continuing to deepen on this issue. So our second-level question is to dig further on this basis-if this state exists, do you think it is more inclined to disorder or order."

The search and rescue team did not prompt this time, and the question was obviously meant literally.Orderly, Wu Xiaoqing can understand, but what about disorder?

"Disorder is a state of civilization that we assume," Rao Xin replied, "It is also involved in some novels..."

"Let's make a simple analogy, assuming that the final reasonable state of civilization is the same as the fate of the universe, and it will eventually become discrete..."

"That is to say, the aggregate of all orders will be disintegrated with the advancement of technology—just like the multiculturalism on Earth now..."

"Civilization began to become more and more fragmented and discrete, and finally the state of the entire civilization became as vague as an electronic cloud. This is of course a reasonable state, but it tends to run more chaotic..."

"In fact, in a sense, the current earth civilization is changing from order to disorder. We no longer advocate a certain higher will, to participate in wars, or to contribute to the country. Calculate your own one-acre three-point land."

"Then..." Wu Xiaoqing worked hard to understand Rao Xin's meaning: "It sounds like disorder is much better than order."

"According to our current morality, this is the case." Rao Xin nodded, but quickly shook his head: "But our current morality, in China, has only been formed for a few decades. In most periods of civilization , we still believe that our lives, our civilization itself, are perpetuated for a greater purpose . . . though that purpose is always changing."

After seeing the intracranial orgasm in the book, Wu Xiaoqing was surprised once again that it turns out that just listening to other people's words can make his blood boil.

Rao Xin's few short words have almost perfectly connected Wu Xiaoqing's missions together, and even included the historical knowledge of the earth in Wu Xiaoqing's memory.

For a moment, Wu Xiaoqing had an inexplicable sense of pride that he was on the earth, as a human being.

More importantly, in Rao Xin's intermittent words, he saw his own future - although this future is still far away, he can feel its hugeness.

Rao Xin and him seemed to be two people standing at the door of a huge palace—Rao Xin had already stuck to the door, listened to the movement inside the door for a long time, and described the scene inside to him, while Wu Xiaoqing had already put it on. The man with the door keys.

He is different from Rao Xin. Rao Xin only needs to listen to the movement outside, and then he can talk casually according to his imagination—his hearing may be particularly sharp, and there are many things he said that are right.But Wu Xiaoqing is the one who needs to step into this door in the future and really participate in it.

It turned out that for Wu Xiaoqing, the inside of the door was a completely mysterious world. ——Although he has already experienced three missions and seen three worlds, these three worlds hardly help in judging future missions.

If the first and second missions made Wu Xiaoqing think that all alien civilizations would develop like the earth, then the third civilization almost completely disrupted this pattern.

It's like looking for a pattern with three numbers, 1, 3, and then 12... The first two numbers seem to be arithmetic progressions, but the appearance of the third number directly confuses people.

Wu Xiaoqing began to realize the significance of Rao Xin's project.

In a sense, he was guessing about a certain state—according to a certain judgment of the search and rescue team, he formed a certain theory.

Just two questions. For Wu Xiaoqing, the completely blurred and unfamiliar world has begun to become clear.There's a third, a fourth...

Just as Wu Xiaoqing guessed, in the following pictures, more problems appeared, and they all deepened the previous problems—whether the civilization is orderly or not, what is the key to this difference?Can this factor be established by some exact standard like the discreteness and convergence of the sequence...

If there is order, what about the end state of this order?

If there is disorder, then in a large sample of disordered civilizations, can some kind of law be obtained...

Is the technology sound?Orderly and disorderly?What about morality?

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Wu Xiaoqing once heard Yan Yan talk about philosophy, but he couldn't understand it at all.

Now, when he sees these questions, some philosophical concepts that Yan Yan once said can't help appearing in his head.

These topics sounded very illusory, but Wu Xiaoqing could vaguely feel that they were all vaguely connected with the "rescue" cause he was participating in.

Wu Xiaoqing almost subconsciously recalled the scene when he saw the search and rescue team for the first time.

He followed the search and rescue team into a battleship, a battleship that can navigate in space—now recalling, that battleship itself is a civilization.Such a civilization is unimaginably developed for the earth, but... he finally disappeared.

Without the description of these problems mentioned by Rao Xin, Wu Xiaoqing could hardly use words to describe the civilization he had seen.

But now, he can almost use these unfamiliar terms he just met to make a basic generalization of this civilization—it must be reasonable, and it is likely to be orderly. His terminal state is decline, and this kind of decline is very likely Rooted in the internal causes of civilization, the captain didn't even have the intention of resisting at that time.

And similarly, in the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing almost felt the characteristics very similar to that of the captain—that is to say, the search and rescue team is also likely to come from such a civilization.

And one more thing is certain——Wu Xiaoqing now feels as if he followed the steps in the textbook to solve the problem, and began to subconsciously analyze the problem——the final and orderly point determined by the civilization to which the search and rescue team belongs, or in other words, the final The meaning of is salvation, and salvation is the convergence value of this civilization itself.

Now, he also belongs to this civilization—even though Wu Xiaoqing doesn't even know what this civilization is, he knows that everything he will do in the future will be determined by this value.

Unlike Wu Xiaoqing who was excited about his own future, Rao Xin was more enthusiastic when he told the story-these things are too empty, even if they appear in novels, if there is no large matching plot, they will It looks like an idiot's dream.It's as if a primitive man looks at the stars and wonders how the immortals in the sky live.But human beings are like this, the more unreachable, the more excited they will be.

This project has been going on for more than two months in Rao Xin in Europe, and the cost of organizing student professors and corresponding intellectuals to participate is not less than several million euros.

And all this is just because the boss of a company is interested in sci-fi subjects-this plot itself is enough sci-fi.

During this process, Rao Xin has never taken his attitude too seriously—subconsciously, he still regards himself as a freelancer who writes novels, instead of as a person who decides to make millions of euros, or even bigger. Execute specific projects with large-scale investment.

These two months have been a lot of work, but it's not hard at all-it's almost completely free to travel to Europe, and I can freely talk about topics of interest to these people.

This feeling is definitely much stronger than being bored at home writing a novel.

Now back in China, having an interview with Wu Xiaoqing, the boss, almost made Rao Xin relive the excitement of the past two months. said.

The conversation between Wu Xiaoqing and Rao Xin lasted almost the whole night.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day, when Rao Xin started to feel sleepy, that he slowly stopped.

Anyway, the hotel room is ready-made, and Wu Xiaoqing will sleep here.

But after lying down, Wu Xiaoqing closed his eyes, but his mind was still spinning wildly uncontrollably.At this moment, his brain is like a brand-new powerful engine being injected with a full tank of fuel... Rao Xin was already asleep and snoring, but Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help standing up, and directly used Rao Xin's Get a computer and start looking up information and reading books.

A text volume of 60 words...it doesn't sound that scary.