The information carried by this fragment entered Xia Ming's consciousness space, unfolding a somewhat vague scene.

The main perspective should be Professor Xu's eyes, and the scene is like a classroom, and the teacher on the podium is waving his arms: "Are you an idealist?" Modern science is based on materialism, Xu Ping, you have to reflect on your own worldview! ”

Professor Xu's voice was trembling: "A true materialist would not so hastily push the problems that cannot be solved by existing scientific theories to the side of idealism!" People's self-consciousness must also be related to matter! ”

The teacher was equally excited: "How do you prove it?" So far, scientific studies have shown that human brain activity, whether it is consciousness, thinking, or emotion, is a one-to-one correspondence with human neural activity and hormone secretion in the human body! There is no phenomenon beyond these correspondences! ”

Professor Xu's perspective is raised a little: "In other words, there is a completely definite model of human consciousness? There is no uncertainty? ”

Xia Ming's heart trembled, this is really a good question!

He was waiting intently for the rest of the text, when the scene disappeared, and the cloud of consciousness that Xiao Huan's mind had put on also dissipated.

How do I find ......

At this moment, some of Xiao Huan and Xia Ming's thoughts were entangled, and Xia Ming's thoughts were also passed on to her, and she understood Xia Ming's thoughts: find out all the memory fragments related to this problem.

Xia Ming carefully sensed the situation in the depths of Professor Xu's brain, the vast space was filled with thunder and lightning similar to Hou Yunting's brain, and the thunder and lightning in many areas were obviously much darker. It's just that Xiao Huan's thoughts are too subtle. The gap between thunder and lightning is too large, just like a human looking up at a galaxy.

Huge hurricanes of wandering thunder and lightning, some as large as planets, travelled through the thunder and lightning. The sense of fear and oppression made Xiao Huan dare not approach at all.

Fragments of memories like the cotton cloud just now are like floating dust in this space, so numerous that they can be described as the sand of the Ganges, and it is impossible to find them one by one.

According to Liluo's analysis, Professor Xu's consciousness is now in a deep dormant state, but from the perspective of EEG and MIR imaging, some superficial consciousness related to body control is still relatively active. There are also fragments of the subconscious associated with mental activity. Behind these consciousnesses, Professor Xu's autonomous consciousness may also exist in fragments.

If you can find the fragments of your own consciousness, even if you can't wake up Professor Xu. It can also pull out Professor Xu's memory fragments like deep hypnosis.

The problem is that Professor Xu's fragments of autonomous consciousness are in the consciousness space that Xia Ming and Xiao Huan explored. What kind of thing will it be?

Xia Ming suddenly felt. If lightning is the autonomic nerves and brain movements related to autonomous consciousness, then these hurricanes are not fragments of autonomous consciousness?

As he was thinking so, Xiao Huan hesitated, and with his thoughts, he resolutely threw himself into the hurricane.

Sure enough, unless there is a clear and complete consciousness, this contact of the mind is completely excluded. As soon as Xiao Huan and Xia Ming's thoughts entered the hurricane, it was like being thrown into the washing machine. No, more powerful centrifuges. I'm going to be thrown out in an instant.

Xia Ming didn't dare to put more thoughts, otherwise he would break up this hurricane at once, and he had an idea and began to transmit the QNI code.

This hurricane reacted to the code, and it was no longer so violent, and by the time Xia Ming finished transmitting the core layer code of QNI, a layer of consciousness had been rolled out inside the hurricane, which could allow Xia Ming and Xiao Huan's thoughts to be firmly connected.

Because the mind is too weak, the transmission speed is very slow, and to transmit the entire QNI, Xia Ming estimates that it will take a few days and nights. With this floor of consciousness, he stopped.

Then he made an inquiry, which was really just a key word: self-awareness.

One by one the planes of consciousness unfolded in Xia Ming's consciousness space, which were the memory fragments he "searched" in Professor Xu's mind, most of which were too vague or incomplete, but he still found three fragments that could be understood, and they were also very related to the previous memory fragments.

In the first clip, Professor Xu is communicating with some people, seemingly at a small academic salon.

Someone is saying, "The concept of self-consciousness is a sociological thing, and it is determined by what people have been taught and experienced since childhood. It's really a label that people put on their own existence in society, and that's it. You see, whether it is a rabble or an elite elite, self-consciousness is determined by one's class position in society. ”

Of course, there are people who have higher expectations of their own existence, who can transcend their own class, but this expectation is also related to society. Detached from society, I don't see anything else that is purely spiritual. ”

Another person said: "This thing is two sides of the same thing as the free will advocated by the West." Free will is the foundation of capitalist social theory, and self-consciousness is both a reflection of this foundation in the field of science, and an attempt to prove that this foundation has a truth that transcends ********. Science is not pure, Xu Ping, the topic you are talking about is not science, but sociology. ”

Listening to Professor Xu's voice, he is already a middle-aged man, and he said: "If you can completely dissect the entire physical movement process of how your brain makes this conclusion, just like a nuclear fission reaction, it can be reproduced with unmistakable accuracy, then I believe your conclusion." ”

However, such a conclusion may be emotionally unacceptable to you. This means that your judgment is not the result of thought or choice, but is predetermined by past education, experience, or more complex and implicit factors. There is no such thing as an ego in what you do, it is a machine that works according to a program. ”

After a period of silence, the first person smiled: "Lao Xu, you are still confusing the difference between science and sociology, we all have ourselves, but this self is sociology, a philosophical concept. ”

The second person's tone became cold: "What about the machine?" Say that people are machines or lifted! The state is a big machine, and people are just screws in the machine. Put it together. Only then did I have the will of the whole. This view of yours, which is state and collective nihilism, is because of this kind of thinking. The country is so chaotic! ”

Professor Xu sighed softly and said nothing more.

The second clip is like being abroad, the voices in the background are all speaking German, Professor Xu is chatting with another person with a vague face in a tavern, fortunately in English, otherwise Xia Ming would have to use the auxiliary intelligence to turn over the German dictionary.

"Happiness comes from phenyl-ethylamine, and comfort comes from endorphins. Excitement and pleasure come from dopamine, and curiosity and attention come from the posterior pituitary hormone. Xu, a man is a machine. Our ability to think is determined by the physical structure of the brain. Our emotions are determined by various hormones, and there is nothing mysterious about it. ”

"I don't understand why you're obsessed with finding the 'self' on the physical level, our examination of ourselves, our search for the self. Isn't it just an ordinary mental movement in physical terms? What else could be outside the brain? Do you really believe in the soul? Believe 21 grams? ”

Professor Xu said calmly, "I just don't believe in the Laplace Demon. ”

The other party was puzzled: "What does this have to do with the Laplace Demon?" ”

Professor Xu explained, "We all know that. Whether in Newtonian mechanics, relativity or even quantum mechanics, the Laplace demon does not exist. ”

"If the relationship between human consciousness and the outside world is defined as a theoretical universe, according to you, there will be the Laplace demon."

"You see, your thinking is determined by the structure of your brain, and your emotions are made by various hormones, which means. Every choice you make in this life is determined by certain factors. It's like a computer. You're reacting exactly according to the conditions you've set. ”

"The Laplace Demon is based on the premise of knowing the position and momentum of all the atoms in the universe, and can deduce everything that has happened in this universe in the past and everything that will happen in the future. If people are not self-conscious, then in the same way, if we can know all the changes in the external world at a certain moment in the universe of this concept, we can deduce the past and future of all people, and thus all the historical details of human beings, and all the changes in the future. ”

Professor Xu smiled lightly: "Isn't this the Laplace Demon?" It's just that it has another name in religion: God, which is indeed omniscient and omnipotent in the scientific sense of the word, and indeed to man. ”

"No, it's not ......" The other party's brain obviously couldn't keep up with this logic, and after a while, he said: "This is illogical, you are confusing uncertainty with self-awareness, even if there is uncertainty in the basis of human consciousness, it does not mean that there is something beyond thinking." The core of quantum mechanics is also uncertainty, but this uncertainty is premised on certainty, position or momentum, you can always see one. ”

"It's very logical," says Professor Xu, "that uncertainty is a manifestation of self-choice." As long as there is uncertainty, it must be assumed that it is the result of pure self-selection, which is in line with scientific logic, unless it can be falsified. ”

The man also smiled: "Xu, when did you change careers and become a professor of scholastic theology?" What is the difference between this and disproving the non-existence of God? ”

Professor Xu sighed: "This is not a metaphysical question, it is a question that can be explored on the material level. ”

Professor Xu in the third clip is already an old man, the scene is in the living room, and the other party's face shocked Xia Ming, it is Yang Yuanchang!

"Lao Xu, you really went all the way to the dark, look, the report that our scientists just came up with!"

Yang Yuanchang handed over a stack of papers, and continued: "This is not the first time it has been discovered, but it only confirms the research results of the British a few years ago. Self-consciousness does not exist, in fact, in the human brain, consciousness is not higher than other mental activities. ”

"The data is very clear that when people make a decision, it is actually the brain that has already made the decision, and the consciousness has to be dozens or even hundreds of milliseconds late to have the idea of making the decision."

"It's like when I handed you this report, my consciousness made this decision after the brain gave the command to reach out to the body. It wasn't my consciousness that made this decision, and it was my brain that gave the body instructions to act. You see, the order is reversed. ”

"Quite simply, consciousness is not what we think we are free. It's really just a detector that translates the decisions that our brains have already made into our towers of wisdom built up with language and logic. You also know very well that the evolution of human beings is the evolution of language and logic. Every decision made by the brain needs to be explained to the part of evolution and submitted a report. ”

"Since consciousness is a product of language and logic, the brain's decisions about what to do come from two familiar sources. On the one hand, there is the instinct of intelligent beings to survive and reproduce, and on the other hand, it comes from the influence of civilized society shaped by language and logic. ”

"See, it's as simple as that, self-awareness doesn't exist."

Professor Xu flipped through the report, put it aside, shook his head, and said, "There are too many interferences in this kind of test, and it cannot become a definitive conclusion until a theoretical model is established." ”

"And, I'm actually looking forward to this conclusion being confirmed, which suggests that self-awareness is more likely."

"The choices we make, the things we eat, sleep, how we dress, how we dress, how we dress, how we go down, and all the details that we make are not necessarily related to true self-awareness. I think of self-consciousness as transcending the nature and social influence of intelligent beings, and transcending thinking and general consciousness. It is this sense of self that determines the difference of each of us, determines our self. ”

"If the decision we make is really made by the brain first, and then we realize it, then this 'consciousness' may only be the surface consciousness of people, and the one who makes the decision is the real self-consciousness."

Professor Xu's hand waved in his sight: "What does this mean?" It means that self-consciousness has a material basis, but we don't find it. And this kind of self-consciousness is really in control of the brain. To be able to recognize it and to be able to use it is a completely revolutionary evolution for human beings! ”

Yang Yuanchang laughed and said: "Lao Xu, Lao Xu, your problem is that you always don't want to accept the truth that people are just carbohydrates running on established programs, and you always have to find some sacredness for human existence, I think you can't get out of this circle of idealism." ”

After the clip was "played", Xia Ming was still immersed in the impact caused by these three short conversations. (To be continued.) )