Under what circumstances are we not free and we are decided?

In this house, Luo Sheng once discussed this issue with Cheng Yin. Taylor's thought experiment is the central illustration: a person may be able to act freely (i.e., without being hindered or coerced), but as long as his desires are caused by something (and they must be the same according to determinism), then it is difficult to say that he is free. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Rosen, in turn, responded: What if that "something" was our self-consciousness? We decide our own desires, and that's why we make our choices.

But Cheng Yin responded to Luo Sheng with another sentence: So even our "self-awareness" is set?

Luo Sheng refuted at the time: Is there anything that can influence our thoughts?

Cheng Yin also replied casually: How do you know that there is not, in other words, how can human beings themselves realize the setting made by the Supreme One that is beyond the reach of human experience.

Luo Sheng was speechless. He kept his point of view, after all, if he refuted it, it would be only one sentence: You brought the Supreme One to me and let me see.

The conversation was just one of many experimental discussions, and after the past few months, Luo Sheng remembered it with little more than a scribbling smile. He can believe that there is infinite motion within a finite distance, but he cannot believe that there is an all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful Creator and so-called design arguments.

However, soon Cheng Yin questioned him again with this argument, which was even more acute and unimaginable - that is, the last conversation between him and Cheng Yin on July 1.

In the messy room of scraps of paper and folders, Luo Sheng sat against the wall, like a loophole waiting to be fixed with one click, and his energy was not high.

He gradually discovered that what Cheng Yin wanted him to believe was not convinced by words in the end, but seemed to be proving it to him with facts.

In this matter, An Yi never regarded himself as an outsider, although he still couldn't understand the whole thing until now, but one thing, at this time, he understood-

Rasheng needs help, or he'll go crazy.

This help is in two words: trust.

An Yi squatted down, extinguished the cigarette with his toes, looked at Luo Sheng and said, "I believe in you." ”

A more intimate word than a hundred bowls of chicken soup is "I believe in you."

Suddenly, Luo Sheng's eyes lit up when he raised his head, although he felt that this situation was really a bit numb for the two men. But no matter how goosebump-inducing the words, Luo Sheng was moved. Especially at the moment of life and death, "trust" is equivalent to the other party giving you a gun and telling you that he will block bullets for you, Luo Sheng's heart is hot.

An Yi saw that the man in front of him began to be lively and full of vitality, so he followed up and asked, "So, what did you say in the last conversation with Cheng Yin?" ”

Luo Sheng exhaled a breath and confessed: "That day, Cheng Yin suddenly asked me, if there is a second me in this world, the three dimensions of physiology, society and psychology are no different from me, the thoughts are the same, the memory is the same, and even the things in the stomach are synchronized, when I meet "him", will I shoot him?" ”

"How did you answer?"

Luo Sheng used to smile: "Of course I answer, no." Then he asked, 'Is he a threat to you?' I told him that since it was the same, he would not be a threat to me if I was not a threat to that 'me' in my thoughts at the time. ”

"And then Cheng Yin denied you?" An Yi lit another cigarette.

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "Yes, he told me that my thoughts and will are not determined by me at all, that is, I have no free will, just like a program, it is set up." ”

"So--you were suspicious when you shot on the roof, ......" An Yi didn't continue, he felt that he didn't want to say this kind of doubtful life.

Yu Luosheng, the words finally turned to the core, if there was no foreshadowing, he didn't know how many words he would have to say this sentence, and now, he can finally spit out the truth: "I suspect that I killed me." ”

For a long time, An Yi didn't respond to a word, just smoked silently, and it was common sense for ordinary people to digest this sentence that he would have to spend his whole life.

He finished his cigarette and thought for a moment, "You're here to prove it now?" ”

Luo Sheng shook his head resolutely: "On the contrary, I want to refute this matter, to be honest, I don't believe it, so I want to find a loophole in it, just like to expose a magic trick." But now there's a problem-" Luo Sheng looked at An Yi with a solemn expression.

The other party said tacitly: "Why would someone want to kill you." ”

Luo Sheng really wanted to nod with his heart, but now that the two of them are of the same mind, An Yi finally understands him from the cause and effect, long live the understanding!

Luo Sheng slapped An Yi on the shoulder...... (Don't say anything, fate!) ）

"And what are your plans now?"

"Find Cheng Yin."

……

That night, the two of them stayed in the research institute, and the daily necessities and food in the institute were used one by one. An Yi helped Luo Sheng deal with the wound on his neck again, so they took a shower and changed into clean clothes, and the two sat down to drink tea instead of wine, and sat in Luo Sheng's room on the second floor, chatting with each other about each other's history.

Aside from the strange reason for their meeting, this scene is like two best friends who have been reunited for a long time talking and laughing (absolute male and female friendship).

Then he fell asleep after chatting. However, do you think this night is so easy to sleep? So easy to flip to the next day? Then go to the person you need to find and settle the things that should be closed? (If I had written like that, no one would have read it.)

Luo Sheng and An Yi were too tired and slept groggyly, and no one was surprised that the door of Luo Sheng's room was opened, silently.

Instead of a dark figure rushing into the room and pointing a gun at them, a round white object rolled in, and a puff of smoke came out.

In his sleep, Luo Sheng smelled a strange fragrance in a trance, and his consciousness woke up before the body, and he wanted to open his eyes...... But he immediately found that his body was in sleep paralysis syndrome, or unable to move, or unable to wake up, but he could see the reality that was not a dream, which was very similar to the soul not possessing the body, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

Those who have not experienced it have never known, but those who have experienced it are called nightmares.

Luo Sheng tried to roll his eyes to find An Yi, and he seemed to be the only one in the room, but An Yi was gone.

What he could see most clearly was the ceiling, followed by the situation within a meter around him, and no matter how far away, he couldn't see it. His eyes had reached the limit and he couldn't look around at 360 degrees without dead ends like a lizard, but Luo Sheng clearly felt that there were other things around him, and they were alive.