Chapter 1140: Class 2 Boundary Crossing and Exile of Observers

The latest website: What Enya said was not difficult for Gao Wen to understand, but he still fell into long-term thinking after listening to it. During the thinking process, some theories that had been pending for a long time were confirmed. The key nodes that he couldn't figure out before were supplemented, and most importantly - he finally confirmed a guess that he had had a long time ago, but he was still not sure.

Gods are some kind of "closed system", or in other words, the premise for the establishment of gods in a certain civilization system is the "blocking" of this civilization system in the corresponding field of knowledge-when no new cognition is produced in a system, when Members of this system no longer try to find answers to certain questions from the outside, but point all the explanations of the questions to the inside of the system, and the foundation for the birth of gods will take shape.

Therefore, once the system becomes open, when external information can become the "solution" to certain problems within the system, the gods born on the basis of this system will be immediately impacted, and will quickly go crazy amid fatal contradictions.

This is something like a bug stuck process, or external contamination injected into the system causing a crash.

"So, when the final disobedience happened, the group's trend of thought did not actually change drastically—because only a few 'observer' individuals jumped out of the system, and the information they saw could not immediately affect the entire group," Gao said. Wen slowly finished his contemplation, looked at the golden giant egg in front of him and said, "'Thought change' was not the main reason, or even an effective reason, in the final process of rebellion. negative."

"Based on my personal experience, this is the case," Enya said softly, as if what she was talking about had nothing to do with her, "the relationship between thought trends and gods is extremely close, and the relationship between the two is not just a 'hotbed' and The relationship between "products" is so simple, even in a sense, the gods themselves are the realization and integration of thought trends—gods are thought trends, so as long as a certain branch of thought trends comes into contact with specific information outside the system, it is quite Yu Shenshen came into contact with this information, and if this information cannot be denied by the logic of the system itself, then... the collapse of the system will inevitably happen."

Speaking of this, the voice from the golden dome suddenly stopped. She seemed to be sorting out her fragmented memories. Gawain waited patiently for a few seconds before hearing Enya's voice again: "...I I still remember what happened at the last moment, when the spaceship of the Dragon Clan broke through the atmosphere and stepped into the area that no one had touched in the age of mythology... Even though I could no longer control anything at all, and even my thinking had completely stopped, But that feeling is still seared into my memory through the connection between divinity and humanity.

"It was a cold and painful tearing feeling, with the great fear of being suddenly thrown from a warm and comfortable environment into a cold and unfamiliar environment, like a baby born, who escaped from the mother's body unexpectedly and faced the dangerous external environment ——The part of my divinity has to admit the existence of the starry sky, admit that there is no heaven above the stars, admit that there is a vast "extraterritorial land" beyond the stars, and admit that my mighty power is just a speck on a speck of dust in the universe tiny flash,

Admitting that you are meaningless in the vast space... In a very short period of time, the myth system built by mortals for millions of years was broken down by the cold laws of reality, and neither myth nor god could be established. "

Enya's voice stopped, and Gao Wen sat opposite her, propping his chin with his hands. After a long period of thinking, he slowly said: "So, if civilization is regarded as an ever-evolving system, Then as long as the system develops to a certain stage, the 'divinity' must die - because the divinity is doomed to be a closed loop, it does not match the evolution direction of the whole system, and we can only keep the human part like you at most. .”

"That's the obvious conclusion."

"This is too cruel for the gods," Gawain sighed softly. "It seems that everyone is entitled to live, and only gods must die—don't you think this is unfair? Just like you, even if your The human part is still 'alive', and you as a god are also dead..."

Enya was silent for a few seconds, then said softly: "Gods can die, this is the greatest fairness."

Gao Wen's heart was touched, and he couldn't help saying: "Although it may be a bit off topic to say this now, many of our technologies are pursuing the pursuit of immortality for mortals..."

"I know, but even if it is calculated by the oldest silver empire in the Loren continent today, the history of civilization in this season has only gone for tens of thousands of years, and for the time scale of mortals, these tens of thousands of years can be called It can be said to be eternity—the eternal life pursued by mortals is meaningless in front of astronomical scales, and there is no real eternal immortality in the world," Enya said in a deep voice, "but on the other hand, in front of astronomical scales, there is no meaning Things still have meaning in front of mortal individuals, so this is the reason for civilization to move forward...Look up at the sky, look down at your feet, and never forget one, so that civilization has the opportunity to go further."

"The relationship between the astronomical scale and the mortal scale..." Gao Wen pondered for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "We are obviously discussing practical issues such as the ultimate divine disaster and ultimate rebellion, but in the end it seems to be studying philosophy. .”

He shook his head while talking, and said after sorting out his thoughts a bit: "Then we can conclude that the civilization, the originally closed-loop system, suddenly opened to the outside, which led to the occurrence of the 'ultimate divine disaster', and this 'opening 'It only needs a small but 'definite' opening, even if only one or two individuals in the civilized group break through the system blockade, it is possible to meet the conditions... The essence of this process is not 'people look out', But 'God looked out'?"

"It can be understood in this way. This is like using a needle to pierce an airbag. The needle tip may be small, but for an airbag that is on the verge of limit, the overall collapse only needs a small break."

"Then the research institute of the Theocratic Council can finally make a qualitative decision," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, "We have been thinking about the difference between the 'divine disaster' caused by a single god out of control and the 'ultimate divine disaster' that leads to the extinction of civilization." Now it seems that... the key to all of this lies in the specific reasons for the collapse of the "closed-loop system" of the gods.

"Under the premise that the closed system is not destroyed, a large number of individuals that make up the civilization produce continuous and extensive changes in the trend of thought and gradually cross the critical point that the system can bear, thus causing the gods corresponding to the trend of thought to lose control, and what is produced in this way is 'God's disaster', we might call it 'the first type of transgression'.

"Under the premise that the closed system is destroyed, any individual that constitutes civilization—as long as it is an individual within the 'trend of thought', has direct and undeniable contact with information outside the system, and at the same time, the logic within the system cannot deny this contact , then this kind of contact will lead to the collapse of those systems built on the premise of closed loop, and since all gods are built on the premise of closed loop, so the loss of control at the level of gods will inevitably occur at this stage, we should call it ...'Second Class Transgression'."

"Very good summary," Enya's gentle voice came from the golden dome, "so far, in all the known history of this world, except for those lucky ones taken away by the sailors who forcibly broke the game in ancient times, More than one civilization has survived the first type of transgression, and survived the second type of transgression... only Tarrond."

Gao Wen stared at the golden giant egg in front of him, and said solemnly after a long time: "Yes, so far."

"I'm glad to see that you are not intimidated by this cold fact, although I knew from the beginning that people like you would never stop in the face of such difficulties," Enya's voice seemed to be smiling, that There are mixed feelings of appreciation and comfort, "Then confirming the margin of the 'second category of crossing the border' will help you in your next plan?"

"It's very helpful," Gawain nodded immediately, "At least, now we can confirm that launching unmanned probes into space will not cause a 'system crash'——transgressive behavior can only be accomplished by intelligent individuals in the ethos, in other words In other words, only rational individuals are qualified to become 'observers', which allows us to do something boldly, but..."

He frowned when he said this, and his expression became slightly weird: "Maybe I'm digging into a dead end, but I'm curious about one thing now-even if there really are 'observers' as gods whose eyes have jumped out of the closed system, the essence Is contact with information outside the system really undeniable? The "divinity" of the gods can still think that everything the observer sees is false, and that it is a large-scale illusion and deception. To believe that some force has tampered with all senses and cognitions of the observer, and to fundamentally deny that 'jumping out of the system' has ever happened..."

"You mean...'sophistry'?" Enya was not at all surprised by Gao Wen's tricky question that was almost nonsense, as if she had thought about it herself, "It's like burying your head in the ground and turning a blind eye to the facts. The way to deceive oneself is to refuse to recognize the information injected from outside the system, so as to maintain the divine self-cognition and logic?"

Gao Wen looked serious: "Isn't that okay?"

"For individuals among mortals, 'self-deception' is a very effective means of escape, and sometimes it can even allow people to survive desperate situations, but for gods..." Enya chuckled lightly, as if with Thick self-deprecating, "Gods can't fool themselves. We are a huge logical system, and everything we do is based on the process of 'cognition-interpretation-feedback', which means that when an information stimulus appears, Later, even if our ego will deny it, the feedback caused by this stimulus ... has already occurred."

Gao Wen stared at Enya: "An uncontrollable natural reaction?"

A certain voice came from the Golden Dome: "An uncontrollable natural reaction."

"Then I'm curious—will you still be subject to this uncontrollable natural reaction?" Gao Wen suddenly asked seriously, "Whether there will be some kind of stimulus that makes you suddenly lose control of your will?" , let your instinct deviate from your nature again?"

"If my human part hadn't been truly free, I wouldn't be here talking to you about these self-destroying topics," Enya said flatly, "I know what you're worried about, so don't worry— —What you are facing is the freedom that the giant dragon of Tallonde bought at the cost of millions of years of tolerance and the fate of the whole family. If even such a hard blow cannot break free from the fate of darkness, then this world will not need to What hope are you looking for?"

Gao Wen pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly: "...you are right."

Then he exhaled and brought the topic back to the beginning: "I remember we started talking about those signals that suddenly went out in the stars, and we talked about two 'filter factors' that caused our universe to be extraordinarily prosperous It becomes empty, so that apart from the voyagers, no other civilization can be seen breaking through the shackles of the planet among the stars. One of them is the loss of control of the gods, and the other... is the magic tide.

"Now let's talk about the magic tide.

"What is the essence of the Devil's Tide? How did it sweep and reshape the world? Compared with the disaster that the Gondor Empire encountered seven hundred years ago, compared with the 'Great Devil's Tide' that could really destroy the world, What's the difference?"

"These questions, can you say it now?"

There was a period of silence in the hatching room. Enya seemed to be carefully considering what she was going to say next. The slight hum of the ventilation device and the low-power operation of the magic equipment became obvious in this silence. Surrounded me like a summer afternoon breeze—until Enya finally broke the silence.

"I know that you have realized that the tide of magic that the Gondor Empire encountered in the past and the real tide of magic are actually two different things. You call the former the 'little tide of magic' and the latter the 'big tide of magic' , but in fact, the difference between the two is even greater than you can imagine, so that the former cannot be regarded as a magic wave at all-it is indeed related to the magic wave, but in essence, it is just an unformed 'Front quiver'.

"As for your understanding of the magic tide, I need to correct one point: you think that the magic tide will change the basic nature of everything in the world, which is wrong.

"The real magic tide... that is what you call the 'big magic tide', in fact, it does not change the physical world at all - in fact, it does not even interact with any physical matter, it is just an invisible wind, Just blown through the whole star."

Gawain's eyes widened for a moment, and the great shock even made him lose his usual calmness: "What did you say?! You said that the 'Great Demonic Tide' would not affect the material world at all? How is this possible?! "

"It is true."

"Then what is the influence of the great demonic tide? What about the doomsdays that actually exist one after another?"

"What it affects is not the macroscopic world, but the 'observer' itself," Enya's voice came calmly from the eggshell, with a kind of coldness that has gone through 1.87 million years, "it deviates The observer is in contact with all the information of the material world, causing the observer's mind to interact with the real world in disorder. Its essence is not a storm with physical destruction, but a group exile with a coverage reaching the level of celestial bodies.

"So, what is destroyed is not the world, but the 'world in the eyes of the observer', but if you look at this process from the perspective of the observer, the two are indeed the same thing."