Road to science and technology

After obtaining his contact information from Shang Shaojian, Louise Banks and others were waved back by Yue Yuanzhou.

There were only Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian here again.

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

"The future? Once you learn the heptapod writing, what future do you have?"

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

"Yes, when you have a synchronous thinking and 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 such thing as a 'future'."

"I see!"

Hearing this, Shang Shaojian breathed a sigh of relief.

Shang Shaojian already held an important position. Since the emergence of the Zhuxia Community, he has become even more important as the appointed liaison of the office. Therefore, he must consider the future of civilization. Of course, he must understand these things, so he Said: "Then if we learn their language, will we be trapped in the fate of thinking like the heptapod civilization and be unable to extricate ourselves?"

"Judging from the fact that your current level of soul or spiritual technology is almost zero, yes!" Yue Yuanzhou answered clearly.

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

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

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Shang Shaojian breathed out a big breath, and then a smile appeared on his face: "Thank you very much."

"Well," Yue Yuanzhou nodded and said, "But that doesn't mean that if you learn the characters, you won't fall into the fate of the fourth dimension."

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

It turns out it’s the same!

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

"It can be said that it is up to you to learn or not to learn, and you can choose your own civilized path." Yue Yuanzhou leaned back and said.

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

Shang Shaojian suddenly showed a tangled expression. This thing has the technology of the heptapods, and it will definitely play a great role in the development of civilization. However, he is also very worried that the civilization's way of thinking will become the same as the heptapods.

Seeing this, Yue Yuanzhou said: "In fact, for you, this risk has been naturally reduced to a minimum, because human beings themselves are not single linear thinkers, or have already been aware of this aspect, and found that human beings' own way of thinking is not Only, and relevant questions have been asked.

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

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

"Of course, this involves causation and determinism. The root of the way of thinking in the heptapod text is determinism, while the idea of ​​free will is biased towards causation."

Hearing this, Shang Shaojian looked like he was listening attentively.

Yue Yuanzhou twitched his lips and glanced at the illiterate Shang Shaojian with disgust. He didn't want to say it, but he had nothing to do now, and Shang Shaojian was pleasing to his eye, otherwise he wouldn't have given him so many benefits. .

"As for free will, you can actually read a book."

After a pause, Yue Yuanzhou continued: "Kant believed that, well, it was Immanuel Kant. He believed that free will is when people are not restricted by external factors in real life and get rid of physical instincts and act according to their own laws. In other words, In a word, 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 gave 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, Your choice to skip work must be due to your own factors.

Because if you want to go to work, you will go!

But determinists believe that everything in the world exists without exception by the thing or event. Well, there are also prerequisites before the event occurs and the only determination of the laws of nature.

In other words, your skipping work today has already been decided. You may have gone to bed late last night because of sex with your wife, or other things have determined it. Although those things may seem to have no impact on your skipping work, so Things that appear to be your free will decisions are not. "

Being compared to having sex with his wife, Shang Shaojian showed a little embarrassment on his face. He laughed dryly, and then hesitantly said: "Well, which one is right?"

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

"The universe is not a child, why should we choose one or the other?" Yue Yuanzhou asked rhetorically.

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

When Shang Shaojian heard this, his mouth formed an O-shape, and he cried out in disbelief in his heart.

I find it unbelievable. In fact, it's just that Shang Shaojian doesn't understand. If it were a physicist or a 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 is located, the highest form of quantum theory is the standard model. It represents the results of decades of experiments with particle accelerators. Parts of this theory have been tested, and the accuracy has reached 10 parts per billion. one.

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

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

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

Like Newton and Einstein, they believed in determinism.

For both men, the concept of free will, the idea that we are masters of our fate, is actually a fantasy.

Einstein called this common sense concept of entity, that is, the concept that the specific objects we come into contact with are real and exist in a definite state, as objective entities.