Chapter 606: The Brain in the Jar (Two More Requests for Subscription)
Now that Lin Han is so popular, Yenching University Press naturally wants to borrow his influence openly, "Philosophy in the Matrix" is a relatively professional interpretation book, and not many people will buy it in normal times. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But now is basically the best time, the novel it interprets is on fire, and many people can't understand the hidden meaning, and the analysis and answers on the Internet are limited and scattered after all.
Moreover, once Lin Han writes a preface to this book, it is equivalent to half an official text, so I would rather wait for him to read it slowly and hand over the preface to him!
Lin Han put his mobile phone in his pocket, now he has something to do after work, he has to finish reading the book produced by the Department of Philosophy of Yenching University, if the interpretation is not good, then he would rather refuse than smash the signboard himself.
Building a good name isn't easy, but ruining it is incredibly easy!
Zhang Guangbao's work efficiency was very high, and a few hours later, a courier from the same city sent it.
Xie Xin curiously took this package and entered the set, at this time the movie was being filmed, and Lin Han was so busy that he didn't have time to pay attention to her.
"Sister Xin, can we still receive express delivery in the studio?" Xu Jiayan's assistant sister Cao Qianqian said in a low voice, "Then can you give me the address as well, it happens that I am bored here every day, and I can also find something to pass the time." ”
"This is Director Lin's thing, you should be fine if you keep a low profile when you send it. We'll have to spend a month in the studio!"
Cao Qianqian nodded matter-of-factly, she is in her early 25s this year, and she usually has no other hobbies, she likes to shop Taobao, and add everything she likes or dislikes to the shopping cart, especially when the crew is bored filming.
"Director Lin actually shopped online, I really didn't expect it. ”
Xie Xin shook his head and explained in a low voice: "This is not an online purchase, looking at the address sent from Yenching University, it feels a bit like a book." ”
"It's amazing! It's actually Yenching University, and Director Lin's social circle is really big!" Cao Qianqian always felt that Yenching University could only be used to look up and worship when she was studying.
"Okay, just finished filming, I'll take the things to Director Lin. Brother Jiayan is also coming down, go get a bottle of water for him to drink!"
The two of them talked for a while, and this part of the shooting ended temporarily, but Lin Han still looked a little dissatisfied, and was pointing at the monitor with the director of photography, probably wanting to shoot again.
After the two of them finished communicating, Lin Han put the headphones aside and sat on the director's chair to think.
"Director Lin, this is a package sent from Yenching University, and it has just been delivered. ”
Lin Han took the package in his hand, he was a little surprised, he only received the call at noon, and now it has been sent in less than three hours, and the express delivery in the same city is really awesome!
Now he showed a freehand unpacking effort, directly tore open the express packaging bag, and took out the book samples inside.
"Philosophy in The Matrix" has been authorized by the National People's Congress Publishing House and Lin Han, so the cover of the book is exactly the same as the simplified version of "The Matrix", with a very similar cover!
It's just that there is no preface in this book, it is probably just a temporary print, and the ink on it is still very strong, Lin Han casually flipped through a few pages and found that his workload must be very large, there are actually one hundred and thirty pages.
Xie Xin, who was standing on the side, saw the name of the book very sharply, and she asked puzzledly: "Which teacher from Yenching University wrote this, it looks exactly like our novel!"
"It was written by all the teachers and students of the Department of Philosophy, and let me write a preface for them. Xiao Xie, you can help me remember the time, if I forget, remember to remind me in a week. ”
Xie Xin nodded again and again, she couldn't help but admire the people from Yenching University, who could invite Lin Han, the main author of the novel, to help them write the preface, this publicity stunt is worth at least hundreds of thousands of copies of sales!
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With the advancement of the filming time, the tacit understanding of the actors is getting higher and higher, and the cooperation of the on-site staff is much more orderly, plus several actors are basically old actors, so the progress soon exceeded Lin Han's expectations.
The time to finish work every day is gradually advanced, unless there is a night scene, otherwise Lin Han can usually return home at 7 o'clock in the evening!
In addition to teasing and teasing Chai Chai, he was reading the book "Philosophy in The Matrix" when Chen Jiaxuan was watching TV, and he had to admit that the teachers and students of Yenching University were very interesting in their analysis.
Obviously analytic philosophy, but they take the lead in starting with the part that the reader is most interested in, and describe the story of the whole novel from the perspective of security technology: this situation is somewhat similar to the scene when debugging a virus in a virtual machine, normal programs run quietly in the virtual machine, a few privileged programs like Neo can do a lot of outrageous things, and even jump out of the virtual machine to run on the host, and finally Neo sacrifices himself to help the matrix locate Agent Smith is the PID of the virus process, and then through a round of memory anti-virus and restart the virtual machine to restore the matrix to a normal state!
Of course, this group of people are all really talented and learned, they have both writing and thinking, and use words to show their thoughts in front of readers, and even Lin Han feels a little novel.
For example, this "Brain in a Jar" written by Professor Wang Ruogu, Lin Han didn't know what it meant before, but after reading it, it was popularized scientifically.
"Known as one of the most difficult novels in history, it's not easy to understand the storyline of The Matrix. Fortunately, it is enough to know the background of the story, but this seems like an old cliché for discussing the relationship between humans and machines.
The pinnacle of this type of writing is Lin Han's own debut work, "I, Robot", but "The Matrix" has sparked much more discussion than that book. Why do philosophers have a soft spot for The Matrix?
Because it brings us to think about a more fundamental question, which is the background of the whole novel, it can also be called the most daring assumption of one's own destiny in human history, that is: if we are really in a virtual world created by computers, can we still be sure of the reality of the external world?
If this expression is too tongue-twisting, then it will be described in philosophical language, which is also the famous brain in a vat hypothesis in the history of thought.
Although the brain in a vat is a hypothesis, it is based on real experiments.
In the 30s of the last century, Penfield, a famous neurosurgeon in the United States, tried to treat a 14-year-old girl with severe epilepsy with surgery.
The little girl is lying on the operating table, her skull is open, and doctors are probing the temporal lobe of her brain with electrodes. The girl suddenly found herself in the middle of the grass, and on a sunny summer day, a strange man slowly approached......
The horrific scene of the past has been recreated, and Penfield uses external stimuli to bring the person back to the real world.
At the moment, you are sitting in a chair reading a book, your hand turning the pages of the book, the smell of pizza next door wafts over, and there is beautiful music in the distance......
Wait! None of this is true.
The truth is, an evil scientist takes your brain out and puts it in a vat full of nutrient solution. Every nerve in the brain is connected to a computer, and the computer is transmitting nerve signals to the brain.
You think your hands are flipping through a book, you can see the scenery outside the window, you can smell the food, you can hear music in the distance? It's just the sense of touch, sight, taste, and hearing created by artificial signals.
Do you think you can reach for something next to you? It's just a three-dimensional sensation simulated by adjusting the voltage.
You pinch yourself hard and try to prove that you live in the real world with pain, but it doesn't work, because the pain can also be simulated with signals. In short, you don't have any way to prove that the world around you is real.
Well, the ultimate question is: how can you prove that you're not living in this situation?"
The answer to this series of questions may be pessimistic, and we may not be sure that the outside world is real, or even whether we are in a dream or not!
Lin Han closed the book, and now he couldn't help but question in his head, did he travel to a plausible world or did he actually dream?
Is all this around real?
He didn't know how the time travel happened, why he came to this world for no reason, and he was able to remember so many things like cheating.
It is said that thinking day and night dreaming, becoming a world-class writer is what I dream of, so when I dream, let myself realize this opportunity?
But this dream came too real, everything I had experienced, nothing I had done seemed to be false.
If it was really a dream, it was remarkable that I was able to conceive such a large and orderly dream world!
He reached out and touched the sofa with some trembling hands, the touch was very real, and he picked up a petal of oranges on the table, the slightly sour taste was also very real!
Is Chen Jiaxuan next to him real?
"Honey, what's wrong with you?" Chen Jiaxuan looked at Lin Han as if he had been struck by lightning, and she asked with concern.
Lin Han held Chen Jiaxuan's hand, and couldn't help but lean over and kiss it!
All things are illusory, only love is eternal!
It doesn't matter if your brain is in your body or in a vat, whether you can really control your destiny or not, life must go on!
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