Chapter 155: Listening to the Lecture
Oxbridge University, located in Niudu City, is one of the top three universities in the world and adopts a college federation system.
The exact date of its founding is unknown, but the earliest recorded date of instruction in the archives is 1096, and then developed rapidly in 1167 with the strong support of the British royal family.
Oxbridge University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second oldest surviving higher education institution in the world.
The school has emerged a group of scientific giants who lead the times, and has cultivated a large number of art masters and leaders who have created an era, including hundreds of heads of state, political and business leaders from all over the world.
It has a high academic status and extensive influence in many fields such as mathematics, physics, medicine, law, and business, and is recognized as one of the top higher education institutions in the world today.
It has trained nearly 80 Nobel laureates, 3 Fields Medal winners, and 6 Turing Award winners.
It is one of the cradles of the world's natural sciences and humanities.
There are 38 faculties in total, and their relationship with the university is in the same federal form as the relationship between the central and local governments of a federal state.
Each college is managed by the Head of House and several Fellows, who are experts in a variety of academic fields, most of whom have positions at the school. 6 Quasi-Colleges (known as "Permanent Private Academy" Pe
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After Xin Yifan and the others arrived, they inquired about the location of Turnbier's daughter Besa, but fortunately, Li Yougang found a tour guide here, Zu Fei, a student from Huaxia, who knew Li Yougang when he was working, they were both compatriots, and they naturally became friends abroad.
Zu Fei took everyone around the campus, and by the way, he asked his classmates where the Ph.D. students in the Department of History and Philosophy usually take classes, and asked several people, only to know that the classes of doctoral students are not fixed, and most of them choose the courses they like or are interested in.
PhDs in subjects such as history and philosophy are more likely to go to PE
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It is said that the most popular theories of human extraterrestrial origins and the idea of a brain in a vat began to spread from here.
There is also a private school here to study the history and culture of China, but the teachers taught are not Chinese, they are all cattle people from all over the world, they are basically pure learning, and some people do not have too high visibility to the outside world.
Archaeology has long been ranked first in the world.
Li Yougang still pulled Zu Fei very smartly, and asked him to take the students to the school to find out which college Besa belonged to, and then through the academy, find Besa's specific address or find her classmates.
Xin Yifan knew that Li Yougang must have a lot of ways, and after Li Yougang and Zu Fei left, Xin Yifan, Qiao Minshan, and Mi Xiaodan could only wander around and wait for news from Li Yougang.
Mi Xiaodan saw a building of some age, she walked over curiously, and looked at the stone tablet at the bottom of the building, which was engraved with information such as the time when the building was built, the donor, and the builder.
"Wow, chairman, look at it, it was written on it in 1556, donated by the owner of the Ming Wufeng, or in Chinese! No wonder this house looks so familiar, just like the ancient buildings in China, it was originally built by the Ming Dynasty!Huh~ Who is the owner of this Wufeng?" Mi Xiaodan asked Xin Yifan behind him in surprise.
Xin Yifan was also a little curious, but he didn't expect to see a Chinese-style building here, and it was built by the Ming Dynasty, so Xin Yifan approached the stele and carefully read the inscription on it.
After checking the time and the history he was familiar with, Xin Yifan smiled and said to Mi Xiaodan: "This Wufeng ship owner is Wang Zhi, who once called himself 'King Hui', the pirate leader in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but I haven't heard that he has ever been to England, didn't he go to Japan!" Xin Yifan said while asking himself suspiciously.
"Otherwise, let's go in and have a look, well, it's okay right now, anyway. Mi Xiaodan looked at Xin Yifan and Qiao Minshan and blinked, as if he was asking for their opinions.
Qiao Minshan has never been to Oxbridge University, everything here looks very novel, and it is a legendary institution, hearing Mi Xiaodan's proposal, she said to Xin Yifan: "Yifan, why don't we go in and have a look, Li Yougang can't find us when he comes, he will call." ”
Xin Yifan nodded and walked in with the two.
The exterior of this house looks like an ancient Chinese building, but when you walk in, you find that it is still in the style of the Middle Ages, when it was built, it was designed as a place to teach students, and there are several rooms that resemble classrooms, and there are also people in class at this time, which looks like teaching a small class.
The innermost auditorium, which can accommodate hundreds of people, has been renovated and converted into a lecture hall with multimedia installations.
There were about fifty or sixty people sitting in the lecture hall, and a white professor in his sixties was lecturing, and the door to the classroom was open on one side.
Xin Yifan noticed that the professor's projection handout had a lot of Chinese written on it, with familiar words such as "Dao", "Confucianism", "Buddha", "Laozi", "Confucius", etc., so Xin Yifan walked into this lecture hall and wanted to listen to the content of the professor's explanation, and after finding a back position and sitting down, Qiao Minshan and Mi Xiaodan also sat down next to him.
The white professor was lecturing in English, and at this time he was talking about the Spring and Autumn Period in China, which was a matter of contention between a hundred schools of thought, and many thinkers were born on the land of China, and like the Greek contemporaries, each shining in the East and the West.
At the same time, he also mentioned that the Buddha Shakyamuni was born at a similar time, so the professor began to speculate that there was a mysterious force that produced several great minds at the same time in the most densely populated part of the earth at that time, and gradually freed from the influence of primitive religion, and these ideas are now systematic and full of speculative philosophical theories.
The white professor thought it must have been the mysterious force that told the true worldview to some people to spread the doctrines.
Then he analyzed that these ideas were purely philosophical views at first, a kind of worldview, but later they were disguised as religion and became mysterious and incomprehensible, and some became more pure religions, and everyone went to the ultimate doctrine and forgot the fundamentals, and then he began to criticize those who use religion to fool the public, and scolded several major religions in the world.
This kind of lecture is not easy to hear in other places, and Xin Yifan listened to it with relish and even agreed with the professor's point of view.
Suddenly, the white professor changed his style and threw out the hypothesis that perhaps the same people may have manipulated human religion, thought, culture and economy from ancient times to the present, and then he asked the students below if they could control their own destiny!
The student below also fell into thought, and no one could answer his question.
So the professor went on to say that what he understands is that no one can really control their own destiny, unless, you don't want to live in human society, even if you escape from human society, you still can't control your destiny, because you have to fight for basic means of survival, these things, which seem to be easy to obtain by most people now, will become extremely difficult to obtain after leaving human society.
This topic made Xin Yifan's heart shrink, didn't this white professor's words mean his current situation! Could this professor be a member of the Holy Religion, or a certain force opposing the Holy Religion?
Xin Yifan couldn't help but read the professor's memory, and found that this was a pure scholar, and he was the kind of otaku old man who only knew how to do academics and barely had much social and spare time.
To Xin Yifan's surprise, he actually read almost all the philosophical and sociological books, including many Chinese classics, and he also knew Chinese, could read general Chinese books, and could understand ancient texts with the help of reference books.
In addition to this, the professor named Lunier could read almost all the languages of the European continent, including ancient languages.
Xin Yifan saw a lot of reading classics and language learning experiences from his memory, and this Professor Lunier was like a living library of linguistics, philosophy and sociology.
Reading his memories is actually richer than reading the memories of dozens of ordinary people, and it makes Xin Yifan gain more knowledge.
Professor Lunier is convinced that there is a mysterious force influencing humanity and that it has controlled many aspects of humanity to this day.
Professor Lunier seemed to be a little tired of speaking, but he walked to the podium, moved a chair and sat down, and asked the students a question: "Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think are the limits of the human mind, and how do you find a solution?"
Xin Yifan knows that this is a question that Professor Lunier has been thinking about recently, and from his thinking, he feels that now human thinking has entered a dead end, and the development of human culture has also entered a linear and inertial development, so there will be a non-stop retro, a certain outdated ideological dregs are overflowing, and many things are put on a modern coat, and then they are packaged and then popular.
Some students raised their hands below to answer, saying that it is to break the limitations of thinking is to introduce modern scientific thinking to study culture, especially the quantum theory that is now popular. This is a handsome guy, and his thinking is in line with the opinions of many people nowadays.
Some people believe that it is necessary to abandon the inherent emotions and emotions of human beings, such as good and evil, and return to reason, and use a speculative stance that does not contain human prejudices in order to discover the truth of the universe, which is also the direction of the evolution of human thinking.
Xin Yifan noticed that the girl who spoke was the Besa he had been looking for!
Unexpectedly, this girl's point of view was still very novel, and it seemed to be very reasonable, and even Professor Lunier couldn't help but nod.
Seeing Professor Lunier smiling at Besa, Xin Yifan recalled his memory and found that Besa had recently come to listen to Lunier's class and had also answered questions, and her views had attracted Lunier's attention, but Lunier forgot to ask her name.
After class, Lunier was so focused on his own learning that he almost forgot what she looked like, and today Besa answered the question again, and the point of view was impressive, Lunier remembered her again, so that Xin Yifan also found her in Lunier's memory.
Thinking of this, Xin Yifan thought about it, and then raised his hand as well.