Road to science and technology

Oh, it turns out that I am here to seek help from future humans.

The future can be expected but not gone, because for a complete and independent individual, once it goes to the future, the future becomes the present.

It seems that the heptapods saw the incident in which humans helped them in the future, so they came to Earth now and participated in the current stage of this time.

In the thinking of the heptapods, they participated in something that they should participate in. Their participation was a stage of the event itself. They must participate in this way, and the event must be complete.

In other words, in their view, the matter of 'human beings helping them in the future' has actually happened in the entire incident and is a part of the entire incident. Now they are not here to participate, but as part of the incident. There must be a link.

The whole event is a complete circle. It is not that they help humans now and humans will help them later, but it happens at the same time.

Yes, this is the concept of the heptapods. They regard this matter as a simultaneous closed-loop event, and each stage is inevitable, so they must do this.

Fortunately, they met Yue Yuanzhou, and then they discovered that in any event involving Yue Yuanzhou, the future closed-loop stage was destroyed and turned into uncertainty, but there was no such thing as uncertainty in their thinking. Concept, that’s why there is so much incomprehension and incomprehension.

Moreover, after evading him, they discovered that they couldn't escape at all, because the more they avoided Yue Yuanzhou, the more things changed that they couldn't understand.

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

Yue Yuanzhou understood that according to the thinking of the heptapods, even if he kills the running dogs in front of him now and then decides not to interfere with humans helping them in the future, they will probably think that death is deserved and part of the whole incident. At this stage, they probably won't be sad, because they were still alive before death, and they will think that death is just a stage of 'this unexpected death' of the heptapod.

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

"Nonlinear view of time? No wonder they think that the future is fixed and their destiny is immutable, and they cannot understand uncertainty. It seems that it is so. The heptapods' search for human help should also be about this aspect." Yue Yuanzhou looked at it Looking at the heptapods on the other side of the mirror, he said in his mind.

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

This incident happened in the future, but Yue Yuanzhou didn't say anything about the future, because there was no need to say it, and saying it would only make it more difficult for the heptapods to understand.

As for how the heptapods can help humans, Yue Yuanzhou probably already knows that it is to provide humans with science and technology. Otherwise, with the current technological strength of mankind, it would be just a dream to help the heptapods.

But how can the heptapods be sure that humans will help them in the future?

Is it because humans also believe in fatalism? Otherwise it would be incomprehensible that the heptapods believed this would happen.

There must be people who believe in fatalism, but if we want to get help from the entire human race, we must make the majority of people who hold this idea the majority. Otherwise, there is no way to explain those people who say, "My fate is up to me." of humans will help them.

Yue Yuanzhou knew that there were actually many such people.

So how did the heptapods turn this group of people into fatalists who believed in their own destiny?

At this time, the heptapods answered Yue Yuanzhou's question, and the one who spat out the words was Ben Bo'erba: "The heptapods are in the stage of extinction of civilization. The heptapods cannot be avoided. Humans have incomprehensible circle breakers. The heptapods will follow. , leading the heptapods out of the incident, it’s amazing, and the heptapods can’t understand it.”

"Circle breaker" is Yue Yuanzhou's understanding of the seven-text translation. If it is a literal translation, it should be a human being who does not stick to the entire closed-loop event. Yue Yuanzhou believes that it should be the group of people who will continue to hold the theory of cause and effect in the future.

Looking at Ben Bo'er Ba's words, Yue Yuanzhou gradually understood the whole story.

Now, the reason why the heptapods were unable to write a quantum mechanical explanation of Fermat's shortest time theorem has finally come to light.

The heptapods must have been caught up in an event in the future, and that event would eventually lead to the demise of the heptapod civilization. The heptapods 'saw' it, but they could only follow the event and could not escape the established fate. Fate.

In the end, they found a breakthrough from humans. Humans have a group of people who don't believe in fate and will help them break through that established destiny in the future.

However, Yue Yuanzhou discovered 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. And in the future, if humans are able to help them, they will need a group of people who still maintain human thinking.

Because humans who think the same way as them will inevitably choose to be like the heptapods, unable to escape their own fate or accept the fate of destruction.

Then the group of people who still insist on "my fate is up to me" will have to play a role. But if you want to get help from humans, humans must have the vast majority of fatalists. This is undoubtedly contradictory.

So, under what circumstances can the few human beings who still maintain the mentality of "I have no control over my destiny" can play a role?

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

Isn’t this dragging the entire human race into the gutter of fate?

Yue Yuanzhou frowned, still thinking about this question. Another doubt in his mind emerged again: How did the heptapods turn this group of people into fatalists who believed in their own destiny? In other words, how to make humans think like them?

What is the connection between these two things?

Yue Yuanzhou's mind was racing. He looked at Louise Banks, who was leaning against the mirror, and then turned to Shang Shaojian, who was touching his forehead and wondering what he was thinking.

He felt that all this should be related, because if he had not come here, a spaceship should have landed on Shanghai Beach, and the person in contact with that spacecraft was probably Shang Shaojian, the supreme commander of the East China Sea Fleet!

Not only them, but maybe also the humans who came into contact with the heptapods at the landing site of the spacecraft.

"Is it possible that in the original plot, these two people will become people with the same thinking as the heptapods?"

Yue Yuanzhou touched the stubble on his chin and thought to himself: "If that's the case, how did these two people's thinking change? Does the heptapod have any ulterior motives?"

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So far, the heptapods haven't seemed to have given much to humans since they came here. They just said some ambiguous words in seven words!

At this time, Yue Yuanzhou's heart moved: Could it be Qi Wen?

Thinking this, Yue Yuanzhou narrowed his eyes and glanced at the haggard-looking Louise Banks, and suddenly asked: "Dr. Banks, have you seen some incomprehensible phenomena recently?"

Banks, who was carefully considering Qi Wen against the mirror, suddenly heard a question that seemed to come from the depths of her soul. She subconsciously said: "Yes, how do you know?"

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