Chapter 282: The Silent Pendulum
It is a shining star that lights up the dark universe.
However, in addition to the stars that emit visible light, other stars also emit invisible light. Visible light, on the other hand, is just one type of electromagnetic wave.
From this point of view, the planets are also emitting light, but they are electromagnetic waves such as infrared rays that cannot be detected by the naked eye. And under the light of the stars, the light emitted by the planets is masked.
The laws of the real world are back on. This time, however, Zuo Zhe's perceptual target became a light that seemed to be everywhere. During the day, Zuo Zhe felt the light from the stars. At night, after the star's light was blocked by the planet, Zuo Zhe felt the invisible light emitted by the planet.
Just something familiar that can be ignored is something that is everywhere. It's like a bell at home, and the sound of the pendulum can be clearly heard at first. Over time, the mechanical and repetitive sound faded into people's hearing, although it did not deteriorate. The wait was so long that even if people approached the clock, they wouldn't even hear the sound of it being close at hand. Unless you listen deliberately and diligently, you won't be able to hear the sound of a clock clearly!
Because it is too familiar, it begins to be deliberately ignored, even directly ignored. This kind of ignorance allows people to spend more energy on those things that are new, unfamiliar or even ignored, and make people feel the outside world better.
It's like a microorganism in a petri dish, spreading its own colony outward in the frenzied reproduction. As for the internal, hidden contradictions at the core of the colony, they are ignored. As the colony expands, the bacteria at the core of the colony move further and further away from the nutrients in the petri dish. Wait until the bacteria in the center of the colony are completely detached from the nutrients in the petri dish, and wait for the bacteria in the center of the colony, which are death and mutation. Bacteria in the centers that are unable to make mutations will die because they can't get nutrients.
As for the bacteria that mutate during starvation, the direction of the mutation that wins in the end is likely to be evolution in two directions. One is to feed on the dead bacteria in the center of the colony, like a scavenger. The second is bacteria that feed on peripheral bacteria. It's like a group of herbivores that mutate into carnivores in sheep's clothing.
For colonies, the second mutated bacterium is like a natural disaster. Abnormal bacteria that live by devouring or enslaving other bacteria may be wolves in front of the sheep or shepherds in front of the sheep.
So, from the initial single-celled life to the later multicellular life, is this process from single to many, the enslavement of other cells by abnormal cells?
If this is the case, the moment single-celled organisms evolve into multicellular organisms, there will be unfair oppression and oppression in the world.
As for the oppression of predators from the outside world, will the bacteria at the food level subconsciously huddle together and use the huddle to avoid or delay the fate of being devoured? This is like a school of fish hunted by a school of dolphins, and in the end, those who can survive are the sea fish that desperately squeeze into the core of the fish.
Nowadays, higher multicellular beings will do things to protect their superiors, sacrificing some organs that are not lethal in order to preserve the core organs. For example, the gecko's severed tail survives.
From the perspective of the evolutionary route of living organisms, the most cherished organ of life is the nerve center headed by the brain. From the point of view of the characteristics of the ancestor of the machine who only retained the brain and abandoned other organs of the body, if the external environment is too harsh and forces people to abandon aesthetics and continue to evolve endlessly on the road of evolution, the brain will become more and more important, and the volume of the brain will become larger and larger, occupying a higher and higher proportion of nutrients in the body.
The natural direction of the evolution of life is to make its range of activities larger, so that it can have more opportunities to see the wider world.
So, in the process, why not take a step back? In the age of Australopithecus, when humans were at their weakest, humans could only evolve by instinct. Did the instinctive evolution at that time lay a solid enough foundation for the subsequent evolution of human beings?
The question here is, do humans have an absolutely perfect evolutionary template from the beginning, or do they improve themselves little by little in the process of evolution? If it is the former, human beings are created by some high being, such as Nuwa in myths and legends. If the latter is the case, then the foundation that humanity has built in the beginning is likely to be flawed and not solid enough. If you don't have a solid foundation, how can you build a tall building?
People's eyes are always on the unknown world ahead, but they rarely pay attention to the corners that have been so familiar that they have forgotten. Therefore, when people develop to a certain extent, they will encounter insurmountable hurdles. By beating these insurmountable levels, people look back on their own fragile side and move forward in a passive tinkering.
However, if the foundation is not solid enough, and it is only a partial tinkering, can it really withstand the real wind and waves?
What is familiar is not necessarily what you are good at, and it may even be a fatal shortcoming. It's like a brave and diligent warrior, in the process of struggling forward, he unconsciously exposes the fatal point of his back to his companions who are gradually drifting away because they are ignored and ignored.
It will be difficult to save it when the dagger from behind pierces the heart.
"So, I, a saint, really lead the brains of these billions of people, or something else?"
If you are an ordinary person, you may subconsciously equate the nerve center headed by the brain with people. After all, the rest of the human body has been represented by the nerve center headed by the brain for too long and has completely lost control over the body.
Therefore, as long as the human body is injected with an appropriate amount of anesthetic, even if the body is undergoing a "thousand cuts" surgery, human beings will not feel any pain during the operation. However, in this process, is the human body really not painful? In the process of body tissue being cut off with a scalpel, how can the cells of the corresponding parts of the body organ tissue be free from pain? It's just that these pains are not felt by the nerve centers headed by the brain.
Because it was too familiar, I just ignored it. Unless the necrosis of these cells spreads to the body's neural networks, people do not feel physical pain at all. Therefore, in the very beginning of the outbreak of cancer cells, the human body does not feel anything at all. The formation of cancer cells represents the resistance and betrayal of somatic cells against neuronal cells in the process of oppression of somatic cells by neuronal cells for countless years.