Chapter 54: The Black Box in the Brain

"It's an interesting superpower that symbolizes the inner image of a person." Li Lang was cleaning the battlefield nearby, and when he heard this sentence, he suddenly became interested.

"I'm sorry to hear you, but your superpowers are interesting."

Li Yuanfeng and Feng Han talked in a whisper, but they didn't mean to hide their ears, after all, as long as these secret newcomers survived, they would also say it, even if Li Lang heard it, the two of them didn't care.

"It's okay, but Li Lang, I remember that you are a psychotherapist, can I listen to your opinion?"

"Absolutely, I'm interested to be honest." Li Lang touched his nose and thought for a while before he spoke seriously.

"In the paradigm of psychology, there is a word - shadow, which in Freud's system is considered to be the unconscious of the individual, and Jung's definition of shadow: 'It is the kind of thing that the individual does not want to be'."

"The ...... of humanity The dark side, the tendency to fear, fear, disgust? ”

"No, no, the shadow is not negative, it is something deep, and we think that the human brain is actually a two-layer structure, one layer is animalistic, just like the brain of a lizard, which has what we call cruelty, inhumanity, warmth, bestiality."

Li Lang explained in an easy-to-understand way: "Of course, lizards don't think so at this point...... And the second layer of our brain encloses the first layer, and the outer brain that encloses this lizard-like brain contains all our social experiences, our consciousness, our personality masks, all our social attributes. ”

"Personality mask, persona." Feng Han is also a student of the Department of Forensic Medicine, and even though he has not studied psychology in depth, he has a certain amount of contact with this aspect.

"The second layer is the personality mask used to disguise our bestiality."

"It's not to disguise, first of all you have a wrong view, you seem to think of the inner self as a bad thing, a big mistake, both superficial and internal, for the sake of human beings......"

Li Lang smiled: "The instinct of animal nature is what we rely on to survive from tens of millions of years of evolution, and the second layer of personified surface is the main factor for us to build society and form civilization." ”

"For example, for example, the 'selfishness' of human nature is considered to be a compliment, but this is the first element of life, and the concept of 'self' is closely related to 'selfishness', and it is precisely because of the self-concept that people will have the intention of 'me' and 'other', and can produce the idea of self-protection."

"What we think is bad is often not bad, it's just too primitive, too deep."

"I can understand what you mean, you want to say that the Shadow Beast is supposed to be a product of Shadow?"

Feng Han pondered Li Lang's words and tried to dig up useful information.

"It's not that simple, I think it may be this deep surface, the form of an animal, very close to the shadow, but it can't be allowed to have supernatural abilities, maybe this thing is deeper into the brain than our primitive first layer, it may be produced from the zero level."

"Zero level!?"

Xiao Nan also walked over at this time, he looked at his shadow beast, the porcupine that was humming, and shook his head, expressing his puzzlement.

"The superficial structure of the human brain, that is, the second level, is considered to be consciousness in Jung's interpretation, and it is also conscious, which is the surface layer of human mental activity, and it is also the mental part that can be cognitive, but consciousness only accounts for a very small proportion of an individual's consciousness............"

In the book "Introduction to Psychoanalysis", it is mentioned that it is as obvious as the skin of a potato, and underneath the skin, the most important part of the potato is hidden.

"The first level is the subconscious, which modern psychology generally believes is the largest and most powerful part of an individual's psyche."

"Of course, there are different opinions, and Jung believed that below the first level, there is a deeper level, the zero level, the collective unconscious."

The "collective unconscious" is the boldest, most mysterious, and most deviant of Jungian theories, contrary to modern psychology, and the most controversial of all.

According to Jung, the collective unconscious reflects the collective experience of human beings in the course of previous historical evolution, or, in Jung's own words, "an innumerable achievement of the experience of human ancestors over thousands of years, an echo of the experience of life in a prehistoric society that adds only minimal changes and differences in reality".

"How does this sound so much like something in religious theory, and there is a religion in India called the Akasha Record, which is very similar to this statement."

Feng Han frowned, as a medical graduate, he couldn't accept this kind of doctrine.

"Yes, Jung's statement is deviant from a psychological point of view, but it has been supported by many theologians, religious scholars, and believers, and it cannot be said that it is not a kind of irony." Li Lang smiled slightly and shrugged his shoulders.

"But psychology is a discipline with a very short history, so some theoretical and cognitive deficiencies can be imagined, in fact, my supervisor, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Schwett, is engaged in similar research, and he has come up with a very interesting theory, he thinks that the structure of the human brain is similar to a matryoshka doll, or a box within a box, and the deepest part can be jokingly called the 'black box in the brain'."

"The black box in your head?"

"If you're interested, you can look up Associate Professor Schwright's papers and research, and he now gives the ER3 system, which is an international research society, and you can search for information on the Internet."

As soon as Li Lang's words were finished, a strange situation occurred, the world's unique black and red scenery underwent a drastic change, and all the colors were lost, and they were stripped out at once.

The eyes of all the raiders felt the changes in time and space, and they felt an invisible vibration, pouring out a large amount of light from above their heads, which was a blazing white light, making people lose their vision at once.

It's as if the world in black and red is a huge dome, and now someone has torn the sky above their heads and projected the light of the outside world in.

"It's glaring!"

The crowd kept their eyes open, but when they opened their eyes again, they were surprised to find themselves back in their original position, under the stone steps of the shrine.

"If you look at the time, it's still two and three in the afternoon, and we haven't moved in our original position." Chen Lu has found that the time on the mp3 has not changed, as if the experience is just a nightmare.

"No, it's not a dream!"

Huang Jiang stretched out his hand, which was still holding a Molotov cocktail.

The Molotov cocktail tells every raider that what they have just experienced is not a nightmare, nor an illusion, but a real thing.