Chen Feng thought about it for about five seconds.

But in the end, he did not stand up and clearly support Iren's point of view, and only said very vaguely: "Dr. Ilan's analysis has some truth and is in line with my personal speculation, but there is no conclusive evidence at present." Dr. Ellen said I saw some mysteries that people couldn't see, that didn't exist. ”

"I've come to these conclusions by synthesizing the results of my predecessors and adding some of my own bold speculations. But since I decided to call the book "Crazy Man Conjecture". This means that these theoretical knowledge are all my very arrogant and bold speculations, and it still needs to be proved or falsified by everyone in the following years. ”

His words were very conservative and did not stamp Iren's views.

Of course, this once again shows his crazy side.

He thus admits that the knowledge in the fields of physics and biology in the "Madman's Conjectures" is a conjecture that has not been rigorously demonstrated.

Skip the rigorous scientific experiments and get straight to the answers.

He looked inflated.

If you change someone to make such a big statement, you will definitely be sprayed to death with saliva.

But the mathematical problems he solved in the "Conjecture Collection" have been checked one after another.

One after another Chen's theorem calculations are being serialized in several top academic journals of mathematics at the rate of one episode a week.

A person who can achieve such an achievement in mathematics at the age of twenty-five, even if he seems to be gibberish in other fields, is inevitably pondered for a while before questioning.

Yi Lun was obviously a little disappointed in Chen Feng's attitude, but he didn't say much, and walked down after almost finishing the question, and sat back next to Chen Feng.

"Mr. Chen, you are ......"

After enduring it for about two minutes, Eren still asked.

Chen Feng smiled and shook his head slightly, "The time is not ripe." You think more about the problem from an academic point of view, but I can't just think about that. In the current era, the social productive forces are still insufficient, and there are still many contradictions that need to be resolved. For example, there will be contradictions between countries, between classes, between skin colors, and even between two adjacent regions of the same country. Until these problems are solved, neither ordinary people nor leaders can afford this. ”

Eren nodded.

He understood.

Previously, he thought that in addition to being a musician and scientist, Chen Feng could actually become an excellent politician.

Now it seems that this is indeed the case.

He can always stand on a higher angle and see everything from a more comprehensive perspective.

"I didn't think about it, I thought it was a good opportunity, so I made a hasty decision. I'm sorry. ”

Chen Feng shook his head, "It's okay, this shows that you are a professional academic worker." ”

"It's a great blessing for humanity to have such an all-round perfect leader as you."

"It's been awarded, it's been awarded."

While the two exchanged voices in low voices, the semi-academic, half-casual speech on the stage continued.

There weren't many attendees, but they were all elite scholars from all over the world, and there was something about the people who could speak on stage.

About an hour later, Chen Feng heard another interesting argument from a big man in social sciences and economics.

He did not jump out of his professional scope to argue for the existence of aliens, but completed a large-scale social experiment in five years.

Today is the day of his final report.

This meeting was also convened by him.

His social experiments are twofold.

First, invite up to 500,000 volunteers to participate in an out-of-the-way town.

The content of the experience is a regularly unfolding themed simulated life, entitled "If the End of the World Will Arrive in 10/100/1000 Years".

Volunteers ranged from billionaires to homeless people, and the experiment perfectly simulated a small social community.

In the past five years, the big man has held a total of 21 social experiments in the town, focusing on the suspense of these three time periods.

Second, there are millions of large-scale questionnaires that are consistent with the theme of simulated life.

These two aspects complement each other, one is theoretical projection, and the other is practical exercise.

The results of the experiment are interesting, showing extremely multi-dimensional feedback.

Feedback varies greatly depending on the number of years the apocalypse has come, as well as the status of the volunteers themselves.

Assuming that the end will be ushered in in ten years, most of the ordinary people who received the theme simulation life and questionnaire surveys said that it was ten years later, and they had to think about it, but it could not be the whole of their lives at present, and they had to solve the credit card bills in front of them, and then when they had a little money left, they would quickly stock up on more guns and ammunition, and then find a safe place to stay in the countryside.

If it's a bachelor, you may end up with the idea of going crazy when something really happens.

If you are middle-class, you will try to maintain your business and career, still stock up on guns and ammunition, and you will try to form your own team.

If it is a big businessman in the upper class, he will try to combine more vertically and horizontally on the basis of the preparation made by the middle class, and quickly pay to fund Musk to complete the research and exploration of space travel as soon as possible.

If you have the chance, you have to get a ticket.

When the question shifted to a hundred years later, people's feedback changed.

The assetless tend not to think about anything, it's all after their death, who can care so much, what to do.

The middle class will probably add one more thing, that is, not to leave future generations, so that future generations will not suffer, and as for themselves, try to spend the money just when they die.

The big bourgeoisie, on the other hand, is still sponsoring the space program and is enthusiastic about the future.

Replace the question with a millennium later.

The vast majority of people answered plainly.

A thousand years? What is that? What does it have to do with me? My ashes will never be seen that day.

Just having to deal with the bills, work, and business in front of me is enough to make me anxious, and I will take care of what happens in a thousand years?

Crazy?

Chen Feng was not surprised by this result at all.

This is the way of thinking of normal people.

When he himself traveled to the millennium two times before, he had similar thoughts to this one.

Just being alive in reality is tired enough, how can you have time to care about the flood after death.

But the scholar on the stage listed some interesting phenomena.

The views of the decade are similar across all classes, but in the 100th and 100th centuries, there are some groups that show marked differences.

These people said that they should work harder, find ways to create more value, and try to fight hard.

There aren't many people who say that, but there are still a lot of differences.

For example, some big businessmen and politicians will speak beautifully, but they are so beautiful that they reveal strong hypocrisy, and their essential intention is to obtain immediate and visible benefits such as money and fame by packaging themselves.

Others answered more constructively, immediately began to use their brains and constantly asked in what form this "doomsday" would come, how to avoid it, and how to fight it.

Most of these people are scholars, and they have to be very successful scholars.

The big man who took the stage finally summed it up this way: "It took me five years to complete this social experiment, and the results are not optimistic. I believe that when the crisis is far away, only those who have no worries about food and clothing, and who possess a considerable level of knowledge and a very high level of personal moral character, can consider a relatively ethereal sense of responsibility. ”

"But when the crisis is imminent, almost everyone will quickly fall into doomsday fear, we will see the collapse of social order, the streets will be filled with gunfire and flames, the robbery will become a job, and the lives of our own people will not be respected. It may be that our population will have to drop by at least half before the real end comes. ”

The scholar's view is pessimistic.

Chen Feng, who had seen the apocalyptic scene many times, did not refute him.

First, the scholar's postulated end times do not actually exist.

According to his description, this is first and foremost an irresistible apocalypse.

But the facts that Chen Feng saw in the future proved that when science and technology are developed enough, everyone can have no worries about food and clothing, can receive higher education, and people do not need to plunder each other to obtain enough favorable material conditions, as long as there is enough time to complete psychological construction, even if it is facing an irresistible and unpredictable apocalypse, human beings will still want to try, commonly known as the Yellow River heart is immortal.

In addition, the economist from Oxford University made another mistake.

Both the sites of his experiments and the survey were confined to Europe and North America, and the vast majority of the respondents were native English speakers.

The scholar ignores the Chinese-speaking population, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population.

Therefore, his seemingly referential large-scale social experiment is actually biased.

Chen Feng intuitively believes that if you ask the same question to a native Chinese speaker, you may get a completely different answer.

The cultivation of a person's three views is highly related to the environment and education he has been exposed to since he was a child, and it will also have a great relationship with the type of his mother tongue.

Human thinking needs to be based on the medium of language.

The truth and philosophy in the human mind are not empty concepts, but should also be self-summarizing theories based on different linguistic structures.

These theories form a person's code of conduct and will determine the direction in which he will think and make decisions when faced with each choice.

It's easy for people with different native speakers to respond differently to the same problem.

Chinese and other language families are quite different in many aspects such as pronunciation, text pattern, sentence expression, logical structure, and emotional expression.

Chinese is a fast language that is biased towards accurate expression, which is more specific.

English is a slow language that tends to be metaphorical, rather abstract.

Chinese speakers tend to focus solely on the present, which seems practical.

Native English speakers tend to look to the future, and a wide enough knowledge to have a high level of sentiment is easy to look to the future. Therefore, when facing the "doomsday problem", the performance of scholars in Europe and the United States did not disappoint.

But unfortunately, the largest number of people in the world are still ordinary people with a relatively narrow level of knowledge.

Therefore, ordinary native English speakers are easily immersed in abstract and intensified fear, and have no time to think about any sense of responsibility.

According to Chen Feng's calculations, the average native Chinese speaker will be quite different from the ordinary native English speaker.

It's not that the proportion of native Chinese speakers can be reversed, but the proportion of those who focus on the future and settle in the present will be much higher.

Because Chinese thinks about problems fast enough.

When a person's overall knowledge level is narrow, and the understanding of the nature of the world is not so deep and extensive, the fast structure of Chinese can make it easier for people to think about the future.

The slow structure of English makes people have to stop more on collecting the information they need to collect at the moment, and make slow decisions about the problems that need to be solved at the moment, that is, credit card repayment, and so on.

But on another level, through his observation of the future, Chen Feng believes that top scholars who are native Chinese speakers and native English speakers can actually focus on the future based on the present.

When the two native speakers reach the pinnacle of their respective academic fields, they are not distinguished.

This part of the people has a good enough knowledge and a grand enough world view to jump out of their own limitations.

At this time, the influence of the mother tongue structure on people's feelings will be minimized.

In fact, there is a new logical paradox hidden here.

Are people with more knowledge more ethical?

This is not the case.

Knowledge does not breed morality.

Morality derives from the education that people receive from childhood to adulthood, as well as self-learning as adults.

The abundance of knowledge does not necessarily mean that the morality is high or not.

It is just that people with high morals will add some extra sense of responsibility to themselves as a driving force when learning knowledge, and this part of the people will have a higher level of concentration in learning knowledge and a higher degree of desire for new knowledge.

Therefore, the proportion of people with strong moral standards among top scholars is relatively high.

But that doesn't mean there are no scumbags among scholars, and there are still cases.

Although Chen Feng thought so in his heart, he was a little unconvinced, but he did not stand up to refute the other party on the spot.

At the end of the meeting, he also took the initiative to talk to the Oxford professor.

He privately expressed his doubts, and invited the other party to return to China with him, and also had this kind of social experiment in the Chinese mother tongue department.

Professor Oxford had already abandoned the idea, but he could not refute Chen's doubts, saying only that the funds were limited.

"Don't worry about the funding, I'll do it. We skip the small-town model of social experiments, focus on questionnaires, and strive to come up with conclusions within a week. ”

Professor Oxford narrowed his eyes, "Mr. Chen, are you sure you don't want to beautify your motherland?" ”

Chen Feng shook his head, "So I invited you to come, not me personally." The final statistical results will also be your sole responsibility, I will only look at it, and will not interfere, which will be more convincing. ”

"Okay."

Chen Feng rolled his eyes and decided to take care of his alma mater.

"Let's cooperate with Jiangnan University in Hanzhou?"

"No problem. My team hasn't been disbanded yet, when will it start? ”

Chen Feng blinked, "Now." ”

Some things that seem to be big things for ordinary people, when it comes to Chen Feng's current level, it is actually just three or two sentences.

……

Nine days later.

The number of questionnaires in China is as high as one million, which is already very significant.

Looking at the results in front of him, the Oxford professor was dumbfounded.

Chen Feng was very relieved and full of emotion.

There is no gap without contrast.

Although the vast majority of native Chinese speakers do not show a particularly pronounced inclination in the face of the crisis 100/100 years later, they generally agree with the idea of working hard, studying harder, and trying to achieve more self-worth.

Less than 30 percent of people show a clear sense of irrelevance.

As for the crisis a decade later, the performance of the Chinese language department did not disappoint, and almost no Chinese showed obvious violent tendencies in the face of this irresistible apocalypse.

Actually, there are still some, but this kind of violent tendency is more biased towards the "enemy" behind the apocalypse.

If they are completely unable to resist, most people prefer to stay with their families at the last minute.

Professor Oxford was dissatisfied with the findings and angrily accused, "The Chinese are too hypocritical!" ”

Chen Feng did not deny it, "This may also be really hypocritical." But if 70 percent of the people in a huge civilization are willing to be 'hypocritical' in this way, and spend their lives in 'hypocrisy', it has become a certain degree of sincerity. Isn't it? Businessmen are hypocritical in order to gain more immediate benefits, but with such a large proportion of the 'hypocritical' population here in China, can we gain more benefits from hypocrisy? Even if this were the case, would you let go of your prejudices because of our hypocrisy? ”