Understand.

What is understanding?

Is it comprehension to establish the characteristics of things, and then form specific concepts in the mind, memorize and apply them?

So, how do you understand me?

From Yu Kai's on-stage appearance, the audience knows a person's name, but quickly forgets what he looks like, this neglect is not due to insufficient comprehension, but a process of self-selection.

So does it mean that the understanding is not in place and has not been deepened?

No, this situation is more specifically described as - cognition!

Cognition is a special ability that has existed since the birth of intelligent life.

See with your eyes, smell with your nose, hear with your ears, touch with your hands, and taste with your tongue...... Even go a step further and try to telepathize.

The first five are very concrete, we call them the five senses, and the latter is more abstract, and different people have different experiences in this area, which we tentatively call telepathy.

With all this, we have a concrete understanding of the world, but this is only superficial, the initial form of a deeper understanding.

Like now.

This tricolor ball was shown to everyone at the end of summer.

Its shape, color, state of matter, and even smell have all been acquired, but everyone present can only stop there, to further determine what this tricolor ball is, what gives it such wonderful properties, it needs to rely on more detailed and in-depth exploration and cognition.

So, at this point in the lecture, everything is officially getting to the point.

At the end of the summer, he thanked the three people on the stage and invited them back to their seats.

After Xue Ming sat down, Sierra was holding a tricolor board and looking at it carefully.

"Do you figure it out?" Xue Ming asked.

Sierra shook her head, "I've collected all the data I can collect, but Mannie says I'll have to give her some time." ”

Xue Ming nodded and stopped asking.

In the stands, in the face of the chattering crowd, the end of the summer showed great patience and tolerance, he did not disturb, let alone signal everyone to be quiet, but took care of himself to clean up the podium.

Halfway through the packing, the hall was quiet again.

At this time, the end of the summer stopped working, looked back at the crowd, and then he asked, "Can you give me an answer now?" How do you define me? ”

Everyone remained silent, but this time they were speechless because they really didn't know how to answer, as if the end of summer had inadvertently broken the inherent thinking of everyone present.

In the face of silence, Xia Mo did not look very embarrassed, on the contrary, he smiled slightly, and then raised his hand and waved in front of him, and then the lights of the entire studio dimmed, leaving only the brightness on the podium, and the bright place, the five things that appeared in front of Xia Mo.

Five things that are built from holograms.

The first is a palette, the second is a rotating triangle, the third is a staves, the fourth is flowers, and the fifth is a tricolor ball.

"Everyone has seen these five things, and except for the three-color ball, the other four are familiar to you." Walk up to the palette at the end of summer and stand still.

"The world is full of colors, we give them names, we identify their existence, and we form our perception of the world about colors, such as ...... Blue sky, white clouds, and dark night......" said Summer, using cutting-edge imaging technology to display what he said in the studio hall.

"Shapes, squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, etc...... The world is full of all sorts of shapes, and we refine it again, then recognize it, and make more specific perceptions clear in our minds, such as ...... Round tables, benches, pyramids......"

"Sounds, music, noises, songs, the world is full of all kinds of sounds, some of which we can hear, so we mark them down and form musical notes, which represent our appreciation of the beauty of music, and there are many things that we can't hear, such as ultrasound and ultra-low frequency infrasound, which our ears can't hear, but that doesn't negate their existence."

"Smell, smell is a wonderful thing, compared to the previous specific characteristics, smell often needs a more delicate experience to recognize, of course, in daily life smell is actually everywhere, such as...... Floral, delicious, rotten stench......"

"Finally, that's what everyone is curious about, this three-color ball!" The end of summer waved again, and in an instant all the things that were known to everyone before were gone, and what was left was the ubiquitous tricolor universe.

Such an exaggerated and amazing imaging technology is rare in the world, including Xue Ming and Serra, they did not expect that such a powerful vision mimicry technology has appeared in the world.

[Vision mimicry: It is an imaging technology that covers the surrounding environment without discrimination, under the effect of this technology, the experiencer can fully feel the immersive reality brought by the mimic vision, but due to the limitations of this technology, it has not yet been popularized at the civilian level. ]

Xue Ming looked around, the sea of stars, vast.

Those mentioned at the end of the summer before......

Topics of colour, shape, sound and smell are now fully integrated in this all-encompassing landscape.

Xue Ming wasn't sure if the wonderful breath he smelled was the breath that existed in the real universe, and he knew in his heart that the splendor he saw in front of him was just an illusion brought by the mimic vision, but the infinitely close to the real experience still made him feel convinced, I have to say that this lecture at the end of summer was indeed very distinctive, at least, he brought an unprecedented mode of understanding.

It's just that Xue Ming still doesn't know what the end of summer is talking about.

At this moment, shortly after the thousands of listeners in attendance had adapted to their new surroundings, the sound of the end of summer sounded again, and this time he was standing not far in front of everyone.

"We are accustomed to knowing everything that exists in the world by its characteristics, so I enlarged the ball, unfolded it, and found out of it, the shape!" At the end of the summer, he lifted a new tricolor ball, and this time the tricolor ball was dismantled as soon as it appeared.

"Voice!" At the end of summer, the tricolor ball was struck, and the tricolor ball made a crisp and pleasant sound.

"Breath!" Saying that, he closed his eyes and sniffed gently, for some reason, everyone smelled a very wonderful fragrance, that kind of fragrance is vague, a little subtle, but when you find it and capture it, it becomes wild and warm in the depths of your nose, this enthusiasm is enough to make you remember it clearly, experience it.

"And finally...... Feel ......" said that the figure of the end of summer disappeared, and in its place was an incomparably large planet.

It is aqua blue, like a sapphire embedded in the starry sky.

Everyone knows its name - Gaia.

"Let me ask, if we lose our previous cognition of the characteristics at this time, and only rely on your vision and the mood at the moment to feel Gaia, the planet that has rekindled the fire of human civilization, how do you feel?"

Xue Ming looked at Gaia Xing, and gradually had some outlines in his heart about what he wanted to convey at the end of summer.

"All along, we have been thinking about the world for a long time, and in this deep exploration, we have drifted away so much that human perceptions have begun to diverge! Those who engage in science look at things and see their existence and their essence, while those who engage in art can magnify limited things infinitely, so who is right and who is wrong between the two? ”

Xue Ming had heard a lot of similar questions, but it was the first time he felt this problem...... A problem indeed...... A seemingly insignificant issue, but in fact a very serious one, a matter of survival.

"There's no answer, is there? So...... Let me put it another way, at this moment, in the face of Gaia Star, and the world beyond Gaia Star, do you and I feel a sense of humility and self-deprecation? ”

Lowly...... Xue Ming smiled with relief......

Deprecating? The outline in Xue Ming's heart finally became clear.

"Perhaps busy people feel distant about things other than survival, so their narrow existence becomes more and more confused and blind in cognitive evolution...... For example, have you ever been guided by the thinking of the masses, the sense of helplessness that you can't even establish your self-worth after losing the guidance of group consciousness, and the sense of vulnerability that you will inevitably die in loneliness after leaving the social group? ”

The sound of the end of summer seemed to be everywhere, and he said as he showed the audience the state of the human community at this time.

Busy......

Rush about......

Mirth......

Suffering......

……

All of this, compared to the star Gaia seen in front of you, seems to be ...... It's not worth mentioning.

"If so, do you feel a sense of sublimation when you break away from all this and look down on Gaia? In transcendent cognition, can those who are trapped by characteristics acquire a new look? Is it more valuable to look at the universe from a human perspective, rather than as a humble individual who is obsessed with trivial matters? ”

More valuable......

For a long time, Xue Ming, as a part of the grand plan, never defined himself as a humble individual, but jumped from his weight to a higher level, and then came to this day.

However, Xue Ming has always had a doubt...... That is, can he really do it? Or rather, including Amy...... Han Kongwen ...... People like Lin Sen, can they really do it? Can you claim to be a human being to do all this?

And today, Xue Ming has the answer.

This is the end of the lecture, for most of the audience, it is just a visual feast without a beginning and an end, remembering something in their hearts, but not successfully grasping what they want to explain at the end of summer.

Of course......

Maybe the end of the summer doesn't know what he's talking about, because he keeps asking questions from beginning to end, constantly looking for answers in questions, and then continues to ask questions on the basis of answers.

This derivative-like mode of thinking is indeed transcendent.