My Side Job is a Trader

The next day, Zhang Xin took a taxi to a relatively remote place according to the agreed location. Looking at the dilapidated bungalow in front of him, Zhang Xin couldn't believe it.

After checking the house number, Zhang Xin knocked on the door directly after confirming that it was correct.

After a few minutes, a middle-aged man with shaggy hair opened the door.

Zhang Xin first asked, "Mr. Wei Zhiren?"

Wei Zhiren said, "Are you the Mr. Zhang who contacted me yesterday?"

Although he was asking Zhang Xin, he had already confirmed Zhang Xin's identity, stepped aside, and invited him in.

Zhang Xin walked in and put the fruit in his hand on the messy table.

Zhang Xin looked around, the room was in a mess, clothes and shoes were everywhere.

While tidying up the clothes and shoes on the sofa, Wei Zhiren said to Zhang Xin: "I'm sorry, I usually don't have many guests here, so I'm just being casual. You find a place to sit first, and I'll clean it up."

Zhang Xin said he didn't care, and let him go to work first.

When Wei Zhiren was packing up the dirty clothes, Zhang Xin was not idle either. He turned around the room and found that there were some Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and even Bibles on the cabinet where the TV was originally placed, and the books were rather old. It has been read countless times.

Zhang Xin picked up a thread-bound Taoist scripture, opened it, and found that the paper inside was a little yellowed, and it seemed to be very old.

What is recorded in the book is "Dongxuan Lingbao Xuanmen Dayi Interpretation of God Talisman", I saw in the book that it says: All dharmas use the essence of energy.... Essence and qi are used to eliminate evil and falsehood, assist the truth, gather the spirits, control life and death, maintain disaster luck, and stabilize the five directions.

"Mr. Zhang also has research on Taoism?"

Just as Zhang Xin was immersed in the Taoism, he was suddenly interrupted by Wei Zhiren's voice.

Zhang Xin closed the Taoist scriptures and said: "I have read these Taoist scriptures before, but every time I re-read them, I will have new insights, which is exactly what the ancients said: 'If you read a book a hundred times, you will see its meaning.'"

Wei Zhiren asked Zhang Xin to sit down on the sofa and drink tea.

Zhang Xin said curiously: "Mr. Wei is also a scientist after all, and he also has some fame. Why does he look so downcast?"

Wei Zhiren sighed, and said, "I'm a scientist, but to say that I'm famous, I'm afraid it's not a good reputation, right? At least I was able to teach in colleges and universities before, but after I put forward some hypotheses related to consciousness At that time, it actually attracted ridicule and exclusion from colleagues, and the recent conflicts with my wife, so it looks a bit decadent, please forgive me, Mr. Zhang."

Wei Zhiren hadn't dealt with anyone for a while, and Zhang Xin happened to come to visit him today, so he poured out a lot of bitterness.

Zhang Xin had no choice but to listen patiently to what happened to him.

After Wei Zhiren finished talking, Zhang Xin said: "Mr. Wei, the purpose of my seeking you today is to hear your views on consciousness. So I want to know what you said to cause everyone to besiege."

Zhang Xin's words were simply exposing Wei Zhiren's scars, but Wei Zhiren obviously didn't take it seriously, and asked instead: "Mr. Zhang, first of all, I want to ask you, what is the world made of?"

Zhang Xin replied without hesitation: "All kinds of substances, if you talk about it in a small way, they are composed of various small molecules and atoms, and finally constitute the world we live in."

"What is that person's consciousness?"

Zhang Xin was stunned for a moment. He hadn't studied this issue in depth. Consciousness is naturally consciousness, but it doesn't make sense. After all, physics has been developed to this day. It tells people a common sense that the world is made up of matter, but there is nothing in it. There is no aspect of consciousness involved.

The current theories related to consciousness are all related to religion, not to mention foreign ones. Domestic Taoist scriptures and Buddhist scriptures all have some descriptions of consciousness, but some books seem to be contradictory, so they seem very unreliable.

Moreover, religious books have a core point of view, that is, "idealism". All points of view in the scriptures are to clarify the core idea of ​​"I think, therefore I am".

The understanding of this sentence is that there must be ideas first, and then they will exist in reality. This is completely opposite to today's science, because the core point of science is just the opposite: "I am, therefore I think", which means that because I exist first, So I was able to think about being conscious.

Seeing that Zhang Xin couldn't answer, Wei Zhiren said: "At present, biologists have confirmed that brain neurons can produce electrical signals and chemical reactions, and countless neurons are connected to each other to form the advanced consciousness possessed by human beings.

But I disagree. I think consciousness is an invisible and intangible substance that exists independently of matter. The soul is its carrier, and it is invisible to the naked eye, and the soul may also have a magnetic field. "

Zhang Xin called it a good guy, he deserves to be engaged in scientific research, and the conjecture he put forward is relatively close to physics.

Zhang Xin asked: "What is the basis for Mr. Wei's guess?"

Wei Zhiren didn't answer him immediately, but asked him a question: "Do you know the famous 'double slit interference experiment' in physics?"

Zhang Xin replied: "I have heard that in the field of quantum mechanics, this experiment has broken human cognition and caused many physicists to have doubts and doubts."

Wei Zhiren said: "I personally participated in a double-slit interference experiment, which shocked me at the time. This experiment completely subverted my perception of the world.

Because at that moment, we all felt that there seemed to be an unknown existence in the dark, watching us, and whenever we wanted to get close to the truth of the world, we would intervene. When we observe, the result is the same, but when we stop observing, the result changes, even if we observe halfway, the result will change accordingly. "

Zhang Xin listened silently, because Zhang Xin did not do this experiment himself, and he only read related articles from the Internet.

"At that time, we seemed to see a ghost. There was already a definite result. Just because we observed halfway, and no other conditions changed, the result would change. This is simply unimaginable. Two different outcomes, and whether we're watching or not, is the program that flips the switch."

Zhang Xin asked: "Then what does this have to do with your conjecture related to consciousness?"

Wei Zhiren said: "It has a lot to do with it. Even I was inspired by the double-slit interference experiment, and thus put forward some conjectures about consciousness."

"Why?"

"The double-slit interference experiment is essentially an experiment to demonstrate the wave nature and particle nature of microscopic objects such as photons or electrons. However, whenever we observe, the last pattern that has appeared disappears. As long as we don't observe, then The patterns appear again, which means that when we observe, electrons or photons are affected by other forces, so that their own magnetic fields are changed.

Obviously, this force comes from ourselves, that is to say, the behavior of our observation experiment affects the electrons. "