Legend has it that the ghost is afraid of the sun, and when it sees the light of day, the ghost itself will be burned with some souls.

So in broad daylight, people who are completely controlled by ghosts rarely go out - the danger is too great.

Of course, there is a slight difference between the performance of the two kinds of seizures at home and abroad...... "Shi Lingren said in a low voice, isn't it related to the sun's magnetic field?"

As we all know, in nature, there are geomagnetic and a large number of cosmic space material rays and solar magnetic storm radiation waves, which will have a stimulating effect on the human brain and organs. These magnetic waves have a promoting effect on the growth of organisms, and at the same time, there is a certain intrinsic correlation between the human body and the magnetic field. The universe itself is a powerful magnetic field, and without the strong magnetic field of the universe, there would be no synthesis of biological cells in nature, and the creatures on the earth would not exist.

According to psychoanalytic theory, most of the hallucinations in human dreams are caused by space magnetic radiation, which can cause significant harm to human beings and can also cause the human nuclear magnetic resonance effect in space. Many strange phenomena in nature have the force of strong magnetic fields, which can cause the failure of the carrier pigeon to distinguish the geographical location, the error of human directionality, and the nightmare of the human brain...... Although the Shiling people are not very sure of this.

But there was undoubtedly another thing he was most concerned about.

Yu Zujia shook his head and whispered, Later, I went to the city bureau to look at the tracking record of Shen Shuiyue - I found that Shuiyue was also moving non-stop during the day, and if it was controlled by something, it was not a ghost.

Shi Lingren didn't speak, but he was obviously disappointed in his heart - he wished I was being taken away or something, and not the person who was the opposite of him, in this era, people are worse than ghosts. "How do you divide the soul from the spirit?" Shi Ling people can still tell the time and place, and they are asking for advice. "Taoism says that there are seven spirits: the first spirit is called the corpse dog, the second spirit is called Fuya, the third spirit is called Que Yang, the fourth spirit is called the thief, the fifth spirit is called non-poisonous, the sixth spirit is called defilement, and the seventh spirit is called stinky lung. It is said that there are three souls and seven souls, and the soul is actually one, and it is generally not good to be separated. ”

The watchful Zen master gently hummed the quaint ballad: "Please invite the fox patriarch to retreat, one invites the heavenly liberation master, and the second invites the earth liberation master to retreat, the seven spirits and three souls of the people come, all the mountain spirits and water monsters, wizards and evil demons dare not come, if there are green and white people to make the law, backhanded." Stored at the bottom of the sea, hasty as the law says. It's an ancient mantra of retreat, and not many people believe in it anymore. ”

Shi Ling quickly explained: "I mean conceptually, what is the soul and what is the spirit. The Zen Master was happy and said, "This is a big problem, and they are still arguing about it."

The results are inconclusive! Many ancient texts believe that the soul refers to the anode of the person and represents the spirit, while the spirit refers to the negative energy and represents the body.

In practice, however, there are many other sayings that conflict with them – such as the six realms of reincarnation.

Since the soul refers to the anode of a person, how can the anode be recycled into the six realms of reincarnation? There are many views in this regard.

Personally, I prefer this view: the soul and the spirit are both the spirit and soul of the person, and in general, the soul dominates a person's behavior, but the power of the spirit is actually very great—it just doesn't manifest it in general......"

Yu Zujia and Shi Lingren glanced at each other, and the statement of the Zen master was actually quite similar to Shi Lingren's measurement.

Even more amazing was still to come, and the watchman continued: "Probably ...... The so-called subconscious! ”

The two of them looked at the old monk dumbfounded, and the Zen master laughed, "Don't look at me like this, I am also from a scholarly family and have read foreign books, do you know Pol?" I talked and laughed with him! ”

In the antique, Zen and elegant small room, listening to the old monk with white hair talking about Western science, Shi Ling and Yu Zujia have a feeling of dreaming.

The watchful Zen master was still talking.

The East talks about the soul, and the West talks about the consciousness. What is consciousness? This is one of the most discussed issues by philosophers, but the response in the scientific community has been relatively lukewarm. In the field of psychology, the school of behaviorism, represented by Watson and Skinner, is usually happy to decompose mental events into stimuli and responses, ignoring the "consciousness" itself, which cannot be verified by experiments.

Indeed, it is difficult to even give a precise definition of "consciousness", where it arises, where it moves, and how it acts on our bodies is still unknown. There is general agreement that not all brain activity is "conscious", and in fact many activities of the brain are unaware of by ourselves, and we usually only notice its output, but do not control the whole process of its operation. For example, when "Childhood" rings in my ears, I can't help but think of my childhood as a child...... That's right, Lao Luo once escaped into the empty door, and I once gave him a lecture on the scriptures.

But I don't know how my brain is doing this reflex-like process step by step, which is done in my "subconscious" or metaconscious! Sometimes I even wonder: why do I think that?

In addition, many people admit that "consciousness" seems to be closely related to the "attention" of the world, and it also requires a certain amount of memory to complete coherent movements. To be sure, consciousness is not a concrete material reality. No one has ever found any tangible "consciousness" within the skull during brain surgery. Is it a manifestation of the role of a part of the brain? It seems that this should be the case, but there are different opinions about which part of the "consciousness" is responsible.

Some say it's the brain, because the brain has all kinds of complex communicative functions, and the cerebellum, which controls the body, looks more like an automatic machine. When people learn to swim or ride a bicycle, they always have to tremble at first, pay attention to the control of each body position, and think about every movement before doing it. But once proficient, the cerebellum takes over the body's movements, turning it into an instinctive behavior. For example, a cyclist doesn't need to be "aware" of his every movement all the time. In fact, the world's "conscious" response is quite slow, some experiments have reported a delay of half a second, when a pianist plays skillfully, he often "without thinking", in one go, this can no longer be called "fully conscious" behavior, as the world usually says: "Familiar and flowing, not even thinking about it". And it's worth noting that this acquired physical skill can often be kept unforgotten for a long time.

It is also said that the brain does not have consciousness, but only directs the actions of the body. In one experiment, an area of the brain can be stimulated to make the subject's right hand move, but the subject himself "doesn't want" to make it move! Then, when people in the world "consciously" want to move their right hand, there must be somewhere that desire is generated by consciousness, and then transmitted to a specific cortex through electrical signals, and finally leads to movement itself. Experimenters believe that the midbrain and thalamus are where this free consciousness lies. But there are also those who think it is reticular, or hippocampus. Many people also believe that the left hemisphere of the brain can be called "conscious", while the right hemisphere is an automata. Putting aside these specific arguments and looking at the question from a higher perspective: what is consciousness in essence?

The old monk does not speak, is it some kind of mysterious ghost of the immaterial world, completely separated from the body and brain of the world, and only when it is "possessed" by the world, will the world gain this consciousness? Obviously, the vast majority of scientists do not agree with this statement, and there is a tacit view that consciousness is a structural model that exists entirely on the material basis of the human brain, but requires a higher level of law to explain it. This is the so-called "holistic" interpretation.

You ask the monk, what is consciousness? It's like asking: What is information? A message is a kind of information, but its carrier itself is not information, but the content it contains. Let me tell you: "The stinky national football team lost today", these 8 words themselves are not information, its content "stinky national football team lost" is the real information. The same message can be expressed in another medium, such as writing a line to tell you, or sending you an emoji, or making a gesture. Therefore, the research carrier itself cannot draw conclusions that are beneficial to the relevant information, and even if I break down these 8 words into strokes and study them thoroughly, this will not help me understand the significance of "stinky national football losing". Information does not exist in every word, but in the combination of these 8 words, and its description requires a higher level of language and rules than a single word.

What is Luo Dayou's "Childhood"? It is nothing more than a string of notes. But the notes themselves are not a symphony, and if the world wants to describe this popular work, it is the "combination pattern" of the notes! For example, what is "Journey to the West"? It is nothing more than a string of characters. But the characters themselves are not novels, their "combination mode" is! To better understand that characters are not novels, the combinatorial mode is the concept of fiction.

The world assumes that the simplest encoding method is used to encrypt the work "Journey to the West", that is, to replace each character with the corresponding symbol. For example, change to circles, change to squares, change to triangles...... Wait a minute. Now that the world has a book full of strange symbols, I ask you: Is this still "Journey to the West"? Most people should admit: still. Because there is no loss of information in the original book, its "combination mode" is still there, but at the basic level, it can be decompiled again. This cipher version of "Journey to the West" is completely equivalent to the original "Journey to the West"! From this point of view, is consciousness a "combinatorial pattern" of the atomic swarm that makes up the brain?

When we say "stone head", we need to know that our Buddha is compassionate and all beings are equal. In other words, the material basis of the human brain is no different from that of a stone, made up of the same carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms...... composition. The elementary particles that make up the human brain are exactly the same as the basic particles that make up a stone, but even if they were swapped with each other, they would not cause the wonder of the world's brain becoming a stone. Unless it's a natural stone monkey Monkey King!

So, if the consciousness of the world is completely based on the structural model of the human head! So as long as a bunch of atoms are arranged in a specific way, it can constitute the consciousness of the world, just as as countless ants constitute the collective consciousness and a bunch of characters are arranged in a specific way, it can constitute "Journey to the West". There is no need for an immaterial "soul" to possess the body, just as you wouldn't believe it, only when the "Wonderful Brush" is attached to a bunch of characters will it become "Journey to the West". A single brain cell is obviously not aware of anything, but many brain cells are combined according to a specific pattern, and "consciousness" arises in the combination.

The watchman smiled mischievously, "I guess at this point, most people should still be satisfied with this rather materialistic statement. But with a few reasonable steps downward, many people may feel a cold sweat on their backs. If "consciousness" depends entirely on the "combinatorial mode" of atoms, the first corollary is that it can be replicated. The publishing house printed thousands of copies of "Journey to the West", why can't the atom be copied? If the world's technology reaches a point where it can scan the position and state of every atom in your body and reassemble them in another place, is this new "person" you?

If memories could be 100% transplanted...... Copy, will he have the same "consciousness" as you? Or to put it simply, is he the same person as you? If the world were to admit that consciousness was based entirely on the arrangement of atoms, the answer would undoubtedly be YES! This is two different concepts from "replicant", the replicant just inherits your genes, and this "transplanter" has your consciousness, your memories, your feelings, everything about you, he is you! Like the six-eared macaque and the great sage, which is true and which is false?

Yu Zujia only felt breathless, and this time, he changed to Shi Lingren and asked: "In the Dan Dao, is there a magic technique that can change the soul of others?" ”

"Actually, there should be, but I don't know!" The watchman said, "When I was young, I learned some secret techniques of subduing demons from my teacher, and I heard him say some soul exchange techniques, but he didn't know how to use them.

It is said that Fang Immortal Dao in the Dan Dao understands this set, but they are originally not accepted by the Righteous Dan Dao Quanzhen Dao and Fu Zheng Sect - you think, the soul exchange technique is a secret technique of many evil sects.

But whether it's true or not, I don't know, and after liberation, Fang Xiandao disappeared.

Of course, you also know about our unprecedented history - all the secret arts and everything else were dismantled...... I started doing some research on this after I was still a layman in the late 80s...... However, there is very little information. ”