Cyber Ghosts

﹄—﹃A network novel worth collecting

In the novel, Brain in the Cylinder was mentioned three times explicitly and several times implicitly.

The obvious ones are: the fake Wenshu incident, the Chen Busheng incident, and the original discussion incident.

The hidden things are: the whole of the first season is a book event, Zhou Yuankou's "there is a temple on the mountain" event many times, and Zhang Chihang's time cycle event.

In terms of writing, the first recessive brain-in-brain event appears first. The entire first season is a book. It is rather vague to suggest that the first season is actually a kind of "brain-in-cylinder brain". "It ’s just similar, there are two small marks here: The first mark is that Zhou Yuan has no guts after losing his soul, saying that he and the world of Haoning may be a book written by an eighteen-line novel writer. It was only mocked by Hooning and Liu Shuai at the time, but it was proved in the second season that it was indeed written by Hooning, an 18-line novelist. The second mark is that when Ho Ning in the first season met Zhang Chihang, Zhang Chihang said, "Do you discuss logic with a Bodhisattva?" In reality, Zhang Chihang said, "You still discuss with a Bodhisattva." Acting? "Liu Shuai reminded Haoning of this return word, which also shows that the first season is indeed a book written by Haoning. Of course, Hou Ning didn't think that the word "return" was a big thing at the time, and later discovered that the return was the key to discovering Zhang Chihang's cycle time.

The small point that people in the reality of "return" can't find is precisely what Xiaohong et al. Proposed later. How do the gods in the book find themselves to be the gods in the book, without being confused with the gods in this world? key point. Xiao Hong's interpretation of it is "Chinese civilization", and judging from the tangled word "return" between Liu Shuai and Haoning, there are actually similarities, that is: people in reality know that there is a return word in reality , And the fact that there is no such return in the book is just that Ho Ning made a "little mistake" and is not worth revising. However, the characters in the book only know that the sentence that has not been returned is the truth, and it does not admit that there is one more sentence of "return".

In other words, people in reality know another possibility beyond the words in the book.

This matter is also reflected in the wits of Zhou Wen and Fake Manju in the event of Fake Manju: Although Fake Manju also has deep Dharma, it does not realize the existence of the brain in the tank, which is what Zhou Yuan mentioned In the "Fourth Wall" of his artistic creation, he can only answer the answers in the book when facing the questions of the Vimalakirna, and cannot answer the answer of "walking" like Zhou Yuan. In other words, the key problem of Fake Manju here is that he did not realize the existence of the word "return" like Liu Shuai.

Chen Busheng hopes that Zhou Yuan will help him to fake, and Li Yufei uses Pandora Metal to create a fake "brain in a cylinder" for Chen Busheng, which is actually the case. Whether it is the real Chen Busheng or the real Li Yufei, there is an intent here, that is, the person who made the brain in his tank, accompanied by his beloved person, has only happiness, no painful attention, this is only **** Without xx's imagination, in Zhou Yuan's words, it is depriving of a certain right, in fact, it is the brain in the tank that he created for the other party.

This is the key question of Zhou Yuan's understanding of the brain in the tank. Why is Zhou Yuan's understanding? Because no one in the whole book cares more about this matter than Zhou Yuan: The key point of the so-called brain in a tank is whether the brain in the tank has the right to realize that it has other options, and whether it can be carried out. Alternative behavior.

How can Zhou Yuan realize this problem? It is because he used to live in the "brain in the tank" under the hope of his parents. In addition to being a good baby as a parent, he never realized that there was any other choice before Zhou Yuan ’s response to Xiaohuang tablets. The adults thought it was not Well, not that I do n’t need it, and I never made my own choice. Even if I do n’t like the designer ’s job, I can only choose to lose my soul and work hard to do the job. For a long time, Zhou Yuan in human form , And Zhou Yuan in the form of circle gods, are actually living under this "brain in a cylinder", and have no consciousness to want to jump out.

When the whole person soon collapsed, Zhou Yuan used his mana to design a set of imaginary "brain in a tank" for his parents, and finally, under the dual role of "Elysian Pure Land", led to the "soul of his parents" "Rebirth", the rebirth here is actually two rebirths, one is Zhou Yuan's parents and the other is Zhou Yuan himself.

Xiaohong has a sentence in the book: Zhou Yuan is the Ape under the boat. The reason why he is so filial to his parents is because Sun Wukong had no filial piety to his parents in the Journey to the West. Of course Xiaohong only joked, but from the perspective of Zhou Yuan ’s subsequent performance, it was after his parents “rebirth” that he gradually understood the true relationship between himself and his parents. In other words, at that time, he had already The cause and effect of Sun Wukong's life without parents was paid off, and the normal relationship between parents and children with self-selection was returned to their parents.

It is precisely because Zhou Yuan has experienced so much in the "brain in the tank" that he was able to treat Chen Busheng with the same way that Chen Busheng realized the fact that the two people are together, not to use a lie to nest another A lie, let the other party live in his own "brain in the tank", so Chen Busheng can bravely face the world master Li Yufei with his true identity, and then Chen Busheng can face Li Yufei's different life forms and be happy Accept that he understands one thing, no matter how beautiful a lie, after all, it is only a "brain in a cylinder", and he has experienced it once, and there is no need to experience it again.

Of course, the above is Zhou Yuan ’s understanding. The so-called essence of the brain in the tank, the most terrible thing that ordinary people understand is that his brain is used by the devil or evil scientist for experiments. In fact, the proposition is deeper, but it is revealed There are two corollaries: I do n’t realize that I do n’t have other choices if I ’m not free, and I ca n’t make multiple choices when I realize I ’m not free.

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

A movie many years ago: The Matrix, tells that everyone lives in a virtual world created by machines. People may be rich and silk, but they live in that world. But as an audience, we feel horrified by the world in the movie: how terrible it is to live alone in a virtual world!

But today we look at it again, many people play virtual reality games, and Spielberg ’s movie number one players have not criticized virtual reality technology. On the contrary, many industries today use virtual reality technology. In this way, is it good or bad for a person to live in a virtual world?

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

I was very emotional when I heard this: Wasn't that the terrible world where Neo, as the savior, desperately wanted to lead people away from the Matrix? Why, after more than ten years, has this become the dream of the young people now for the future?

Mu Yu never believed that young people are inferior to the next generation. On the contrary, I later found 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, that is not the brain in the tank. If people cannot choose, or even realize that they cannot choose, that is the brain in the tank in a sense.

Faced with the brain in the tank, people are afraid of these two points: 1. I do n’t realize whether I am in the brain in the tank or not, I do n’t know if I am free or not. com2. Realizing that he is behind the head and unable to choose.

This is also the penultimate chapter. Haoran has been reluctant to use the cosmic-level observers to explain the root cause of the "Tai Chi Map" to Haoning: this will remind Haoning that the universe is actually the "observer of this" The brain in the next tank, and this panic brought to Ho Ning, even after it turned into a Tai Chi figure, it will still accompany Ho Ning.

And why did Haoning panic? Precisely because even if the entire universe is really a brain in a tank, at the current level of human evolution, the first consciousness is not possible, and the second even if conscious of it, there is no way to choose freely. In the face of this matter, the most rational The approach is what Haoran said, self-evolution.

The most terrifying thing about the brain in the tank is that it makes people lose their self-evolution. Since they have no choice, they will not choose, but Zhou Yuan jumped out of his "brain in the tank" with the help of friends, and It also helped other people jump out, and there are more gods in the Huaxia book also jumped out of their "brain in the tank". This does not mean that they cannot jump out. The key is that the Chinese gods have been guarding That Chinese civilization:

Tian Xingjian, the gentleman keeps on strengthening himself.

{Old iron please remember}