Chapter 2445 Rebirth, time travel, brain in a jar

Lolita's face looked a little better.

I don't know if it was because her death anxiety was relieved a little because of Chen Mo's hypothesis.

After all, if "the world is fake" and "the circle of life hypothesis" are true, then in fact no one will be bound by "death". The most pessimistic thing is that after rebirth, they will lose everything and start from scratch.

"What do you think of what I said?" Chen Mo asked nervously.

"I feel... I don't seem to be so anxious in my heart. At least at the moment, my death anxiety has been relieved a little."

Lolita sat down, her eyes were cold and not like a human being, and her two white, slender, but scarred thighs were raised:

"Do you have anything else to prove your hypothesis?"

Chen Mo thought, I'm really convinced, do you think everyone has death anxiety? Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world are cattle and horses, everyone is very busy, and there is no time to worry about death! ! !

But Chen Mo didn't dare to show it, and still said calmly: "If you have a fish tank the size of a basketball at home, and you keep three little goldfish in it, guess, do these three little goldfish know the existence of the sea?

Ask one more question, guess whether these three little goldfish have enough thinking and consciousness to know that in this world, in addition to the three of them, there are countless animals that are fish like them or different from them, which are not fish?"

"Little goldfish with only 7 seconds of memory, do they know that you, a human who can decide their life and death at any time, are keeping them in captivity?

Take a step back and say that even if these three little goldfish know the existence of the sea, they also know the existence of other fish and non-fish animals, and they are also clearly aware of the existence of humans, how can they rely on their own strength to go to the sea?

Is it If they can't even get out of the fish tank, or if they jump out of the fish tank, they will soon die from lack of oxygen?

Why can't we humans find aliens?

This is just like the little goldfish kept in a tank.

As long as humans don't allow it, fish can only stay in the fish tank for their entire lives and will never meet other creatures. They will think that the world in the fish tank is everything for them. "

"One of my subordinates named Masike once put forward a similar view, that is, the world is fake, there is a creator, and the endless universe we think of is just a "big fish tank" created by the creator.

Even if one day we complete the immigration to Mars and the Moon, in the eyes of the creator, or in the eyes of that group of "players", "audiences" and "readers", we are just like the little goldfish struggling to jump out of the small fish tank, jumped to a small puddle not far from the fish tank.

Or maybe they flipped through the novel casually, from the first page to the hundreds of pages. "

Lolita stared at Chen Mo with fiery eyes: "Anything else? Anything else? Hahaha, you white dragon really makes me happy. In the past, I couldn't get any comfort in all the countries in the world, but now I can get inspiration from you."

Chen Mo really wanted to hit her with a stick and cursed directly: "What else is there! It's gone, not a drop left! How can I have so much?"

But looking at the bodies of He Chenguang and Xu Zhengyang outside the restaurant, Chen Mo still patiently said:

"There is another hypothesis, suppose an evil scientist took out your brain.

Put it in a nutrient solution that can keep the brain alive, and connect the nerve endings to a supercomputer. It can send Your brain transmits the same signals as your senses. "

"Whether it is eating, sleeping, or reading.

There is no difference from what you feel in the real world.

But you don't know that everything you experience. "

"Just like the matrix in The Matrix, it is all just a virtual image simulated by computer code.

This is the famous thought experiment "Brain in a Vat" proposed by philosopher Hilary Putnam in 1981. It is this thought experiment that has caused people to start thinking about such a question.

If consciousness can exist independently from the body.

Then how can we judge whether we are living in the real world? "

"Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, first proposed the universe simulation hypothesis in 2003, and it has been supported by some philosophers and even scientists.

Just imagine.

After billions of years of evolution, intelligent life in the universe has developed advanced technological civilization. They will try to use computer technology to simulate the world they live in, just like the game world simulated by humans through virtual reality technology now. "

"Although human technology is still relatively rudimentary at present.

However, with the continuous innovation and improvement of computer performance, in the next few thousand or even tens of thousands of years, the technology of virtual reality is likely to reach the level of simulating the earth and even the entire universe.

And the life living in this simulated world can even have consciousness and wisdom, so in their perception, everything in the virtual world is extremely real. In this sense, virtual and reality are not much different. "

"If we follow this logic, the world we live in is also likely to be simulated by an advanced civilization."

"It was my subordinate Masike who once said, "The probability that we live in the real world is only 1 in 1 billion!""

"And the most terrifying thing is that we can never prove whether we are brains in a jar."

Lolita wondered: "Why?"

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "Because if we can prove that you and I are brains in a vat, or characters in games, movies, or novels, then we can feel at ease to end this life at any time, because we know that no matter what, we will not really "die" or "return to nothingness", but just restart a game, that is, rebirth.

Once the brain in a vat, or the "virtual world", is proven, the fear of self-ending will be greatly reduced.

I think this is why the Creator gave us humans the fear of death, because the Creator does not want us to "reborn" easily, which will affect the order of the world he created."

Lolita said, "Well, I visited the Huo family five years ago, and he has a similar hypothesis.

Hawking once said that it would be a very sad thing for humans to live without discovering people who traveled back from the future."

"And the "rebirth" you mentioned is actually a kind of travel, but that person "reborn" with memories, which also completed the so-called "travel" in the Huo family's mouth."