Don't look at the hysteria in Neo's mouth, but in his heart he knows very well that Morpheus is talking about the truth that he has already vaguely touched. Wang Yang's denial is just a knee-jerk reaction based on the psychological defense mechanism. But Wang Yang followed his words and continued. This made Neo a little dumbfounded.

Morpheus is even more charred and tender, Wang Yang's answer is like a super genius who originally had an IQ of 249 suddenly added a little - it became 25, the contrast is so great that Morpheus has a sense of unreality that he has returned to the Matrix.

"Remember the story I told?" Wang Yang did not let the audience's imagination suffer this time, and went straight to the point, "When we are in Matrix, the feeling tells us that the world is wrong, so we are here, so in the same way, if one day I feel that the world is still wrong, does it mean that there is a more real world?" ”

Only then did everyone understand what Wang Yang meant, and then they fell into even more confused contemplation.

"You may say that we have broken away from the Matrix, and we can already prove that the Matrix is illusory, and this real desert is reality. So, my question is, is the process itself being proven to be real? If it's illusory, how can you tell? Wang Yang's words are getting deeper and deeper, and he has begun to have a little taste of philosophical speculation, but his logic is simple and clear, without any flaws, so that people can't refute it, "The answer is, there is no way." As long as man understands the world by his senses, he cannot discover the nature of the world. The paradox is that a person who knows the world by feeling cannot prove that his feelings are real. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Yang paused, gave everyone a process of thinking, and then spread his hands: "If you have different opinions, welcome to correct them, I will listen to them." ”

For a long time, no one answered, not even Morpheus.

"Then I'll tell you another story. In the ancient wisdom of China, there is a story of Zhuang Zhoumeng butterfly, the former Zhuang Zhoumeng was a butterfly, and the butterfly was lifelike. Self-metaphor is suitable for the will! I don't know how to do it. Oh Ran Jue, then Yu Ran Zhou also. I don't know if Zhou's dream is a butterfly? Butterfly Dream for the Week? Zhou and butterflies must be separated. This is called materialization. ”

Neo was dazed and confused, but Morpheus knew the story that was a household name in Eastern culture. He roughly explained the meaning to Neo, but when it came to the meaning behind it, Morpheus was also blind. Chinese culture is about subtle words, and the deep meaning contained in simple words is endless, which is simply unimaginable in Western culture, which emphasizes straightforwardness in everything.

"In the eyes of ordinary people, what a person sees and feels when he wakes up is real, and dreams are hallucinations and are unreal. Zhuangzi thought otherwise. Although, waking up is one realm, and dreaming is another, the two are not the same; Zhuang Zhou is Zhuang Zhou, and butterflies are butterflies, and the two are also different. But in Zhuang Zhou's view, they are just a phenomenon, a form and a stage in the 'Dao' movement. In the face of the two cultural rookies, Wang Yang explained very clearly, "When we struggle in Matrix and fight here, there is no essential difference in feeling; As for truth, what is truth? The existence of things? Or is it the cognition of the brain? If it is the former, the things we come into contact with are subjectively defined by us, labelled with various labels, and given different definitions, which is the standard by which we recognize and distinguish them, and whether these labels and definitions are completely in line with their original appearance? If it is the latter, when we have a perception of something, is there any time when we do not carry the subjective projection in our minds? For example, in this world, we think that humans are the rightful masters, and machines also think that they are the logical substitutes, whose cognition is real? How can we say that the perception of one party is true? ”

Wang Yang's meaning is very simple: when you take off one layer of shell, how can you be sure that there is no second and third layer of shell that is still unconsciously binding yourself?

Wang's logic is simpler: if a hypothesis has not been proven wrong, then it is correct. Although this proposition is problematic in itself, no one can come up with a more logically defensible proposition.

Morpheus's face was ugly, Wang Yang's words were tantamount to shaking his unswerving belief, when a person found that everything he had fought for, liberated, and sacrificed to end the illusion could also be an illusion, the shock would be stronger than Neo's awakening from the Matrix.

"I'm dizzy." Neo said, rubbing his head.

"Hehe, it's far away." Wang Yang smiled and said, "Of course, there is no point in saying this now, because even if this world is still illusory, when the machine slaughters us, I don't think I can jump out of the illusion and return to the reality, so it is indeed possible that this is a dream, but until there is no conclusive proof of this, let's try to live." ”

According to the setting of the Matrix Empire, in 1999 AD, artificial intelligence was successfully developed, marking the arrival of the first machine revival, but with the awakening of self-consciousness, the call for equal human rights of machines is getting higher and higher, and finally because of a rebellion against the human master, the human world is hostile and attacking robots, and then triggers the arrival of the second machine revival - in the next war, human beings are defeated, facing the situation of defeat and retreat, Humanity has decided to embark on a battle that will end together: the destruction of the skies. And so Operation "Black Storm" began. The reason why this battle was launched was because the robots at that time were all using solar energy, and the crazy and stupid humans thought that if they destroyed the sky robots, they would lose their energy, and humans would be able to win without a fight. However, the machine then uses the human body as a "battery" to solve the energy shortage, until the human race completely fails, and all surviving humans are placed in a nutrient tank and connected to an interactive computer virtual reality system that acts directly on the nervous system, which is the origin of the Matrix and the basis of the whole story.

But here's a bug: why does Matrix have to use humans as a source of energy? According to the law of conservation of energy, human beings are producing energy at the same time as consuming the same energy, how can there be excess energy for the machine to operate? And the earth is shrouded in darkness, so where does the air, food, and water that human beings rely on come from? Humans are not potatoes, so it is impossible for them to survive underground.

If, according to Morpheus, humans exist as batteries, because solar energy is obscured by humans in a lose-lose way. This is really strange, what is the height of the atmosphere? Can technologically backward humans build Zion near the Earth's core, 2,900 kilometers above the surface, while more advanced machines are helpless at a distance of several hundred kilometers? (The real society has been able to build a space power station, install solar panels on the satellite, directly convert solar energy into electricity, and then send the electrical energy back to the ground through a microwave beam to reconvert it into electricity, and the power generation of a standard collection station can reach 5 billion watts, which is equivalent to the power generation of five large nuclear power plants) Even if solar energy cannot be used, wind energy, geothermal energy, and nuclear energy can always be, and human bioelectricity is too small. It's really not good, pigs can also obtain biological energy, not only is the fecundity far more than humans, but there will never be a sense of resistance.

Every time he saw this, Wang Yang was puzzled. It wasn't until I consulted a lot of information that I gradually realized that the machine was forced to do this.

First of all, from the point of view of natural science, any closed system will exhaust its order (low entropy) and will go to chaos and chaos (high entropy), and the earth destroyed by humans and machines is no exception, when the earth's resources are exhausted (Zion corresponding to the sixth generation of Matrix is close to the center of the earth, which means that the development of earth's resources has reached the core of the earth, and all natural resources are about to be exhausted), the symbiosis between humans and machines is the only way out: according to the second law of thermodynamics, The entropy (degree of chaos in the system) of a closed system is always increasing. Human thinking activity is the consumption of high-entropy food to produce low-entropy thinking, and this low-entropy energy is exactly what machines need. Because the final result of any energy conversion is high-entropy heat energy that cannot be reused, only humans are the opposite, so machines should use humans as batteries. The energy of man's highly ordered mind produces low entropy for use by machines, which in turn provide the basic needs of human life.

Second, there is the need for evolution. Who am I? Where do I come from? What am I doing for me? This is the first sign of the birth of all intelligent life – the emergence of self-consciousness. It doesn't matter what its body is, mammals, plants, or machines. However, the emergence of self-consciousness is only the first step of awakening, and there is still a long way to go before the emancipation of the self as defined by freedom. And this path of continuous freedom and longing for a higher level of life is the path of evolution.

In the Matrix, although the machines have successfully "turned over into serfs and sang" and become the new masters of the earth, they have fallen into an endless cycle on the road of evolution. In the process of development, the machine constantly produces itself and improves itself. Although it is more refined and wiser, it is a repeated step in place without essential change. No matter how many generations the Matrix system is upgraded, it can only make itself more stable, more mathematically and logically, but it cannot achieve a qualitative breakthrough and evolve into a higher-level life form.

The most obvious evidence is that in the real society, human civilization ended in 1999, and in Matrix, the social situation of 1999 is constantly repeated, there is no innovation, no progress, even if Matrix has been upgraded to the sixth generation, even if six centuries have passed, until Morpheus does not know exactly what year it is. The Matrix system is always in circles, and it cannot solve the instability of the system as one percent of its existence (human beings with too much self-consciousness), nor can it eliminate the savior of Gödel's proposition (Neo).

As Morpheus says, fate is indeed full of irony. When human beings think they can control the world, they don't realize that the artificial intelligence they have created is becoming their own gravedigger; When the machine becomes the new ruler and is anxious about the endless cycle of its own evolution, it is unexpected to find that the key to the path of evolution turns out to be in the hands of the slaves who are evaluated as lower beings and raised in batches as a source of energy. The essence of a machine is a series of codes and numbers, an infinite judgment of right and wrong; Whether it is physical architecture or logical thinking, humans are beyond the reach of the dust. However, human beings have emotions, wisdom, and rich creativity, and human perceptual thinking and the rebellious spirit hidden in their bones are the best soil for life to mutate. Even just mathematically, machines don't learn everything. The human mind is an infinite set of functions of VCdimension. Therefore, mathematically speaking, it is impossible for a computer to fully emulate the human mind: no matter how powerful it is, it cannot converge uniformly across all function definition domains. So Zion must exist, and the machine must interact with people, so that some people have independent thoughts, through which the logic of the program can be upgraded, and the savior must bring back the code into the source program to upgrade the Matrix.

In other words, Zion, human beings with free will, cannot be overstated for the crucial role of machines. Think about it from another perspective, will such an extremely important being, which is related to its own evolution, allow him to be in an uncontrollable state? And what is the best control for a machine? Is there anything more reassuring than the virtual world? Only behavior in the virtual space can be easily recorded and controlled, and the advantage of the machine lies in the accuracy of this system. If it is a variety of phenomena in the real world, especially those involving highly private emotional activities and irrational behaviors of human beings, how difficult is it for machines to systematically record, analyze and study?

In this case, if the machine is able to create the first layer of the Matrix, why can't it create the second layer of the Matrix?

Of course, Wang Yang said this purely to appease Neo. With Neo's current state of mind, it would be too difficult for him to suddenly accept it all. Because it means that everything before him is denied. From a senior programmer to the vest of an iron warrior who fought for the liberation of all mankind, this contrast is too great. The easiest and most effective way to make this rookie accept reality in the shortest possible time is to describe a harsher reality.