Chapter 11: The Ship of Terror
00010404040404 Fan Xiong told Teacher Zheng that because she couldn't understand complex feelings, she tried to interpret the world profoundly from an artistic perspective.
Teacher Zheng encouraged her to do so. And let her try to write some assignments.
I asked curiously, "Did she write it out?" "
Teacher Zheng nodded: "Fan Xiong's writing is great, and I am also impressed by the logic of the content arrangement, and there is an unstoppable momentum in her articles." Modern people write articles, most of which are novels. They all love to pile up rhetoric, show off their skills, and the so-called irrigation. Certainly not to say that rhetoric is bad, ornamental sentences are not a bad thing in themselves, they only become a bad thing when they are used to cover up the paleness of the structure. Fan Xiong's articles are straightforward, what he wants to say, and he doesn't play tricks in language. And you can see between the lines that she has a kind of paranoia. Once a sentence or paragraph begins, it must be completed in one go, and there is absolutely no sentence that is unfinished or ambiguous. "
I listened to it with fascination. The tea is cold in my hand, and I don't even notice it.
"I once showed one of her assignments to another child. This kid wrote a novel on the Internet. It's very popular, and he's a veteran, and he's full of praise after reading it, he's half a professional, and I think his must be convincing. Teacher Zheng said.
I asked, "What's the name of this writer?" "
"Liu Yang."
As soon as Mr. Zheng said this name, he said that he was an old acquaintance. I thought about it, I had never heard of such a person, and I guess he was also a nameless rat.
Teacher Zheng took a sip of tea and waved his hand: "Speaking of running away, I mean that the reason why Fan Xiong was able to achieve great achievements in painting later has a lot to do with her talent for artistic exploration." When I read her article, I could tell that she was confused. "
"Confused about what?" Xie Ling asked.
"She is like a child lost in a labyrinth, looking for her own faith, looking for her own god." Teacher Zheng said.
I seemed to be touched, thinking of Fan Xiong and Shenggu, Shenggu is the sect master of the True Buddha Sect in the underworld, and in a sense, she is also a god. Fan Xiong joined this church and worshiped under the Holy Aunt, could he have found the God she wanted?
"In a narrow sense, Fan Xiong is looking for faith and looking for God, but in a broad sense, she is actually looking for an answer." Teacher Zheng said.
We listened quietly, and this time we came to visit Mr. Zheng, and we got unexpected gains. Fan Xiong's complexity is far beyond imagination, and I think it's getting deeper and deeper, and it's not simple.
"She's looking for," said Mr. Zheng, "a universal law, a universal explanation, an answer that applies to all phenomena and cases." "
"Huh." I laughed: "There is no solution to this question. Einstein did this job in his later years, and he couldn't study it with his old man's brain and knowledge accumulation, let alone Fan Xiong. "
Xie Ling didn't smile, but thoughtfully.
Chatting and chatting, before I knew it, Mr. Zheng said that he hadn't had such fun for a long time, and pulled us out to have a light meal in the community restaurant. When I finished eating, I felt that I was about to say goodbye, but I was a little unsatisfied with this walk, and suddenly remembered something and asked: "Teacher Zheng, I heard others say that Fan Xiong was almost expelled from school, what is going on?" "
Teacher Zheng thought about it: "Yes, there is such a thing. It's quite mysterious, this matter is still related to the topic we talked about in the morning, Fan Xiong in order to find the truth of the world's law, do you know what she began to study in the later stage? "
I shook my head.
Teacher Zheng said: "Fan Xiong began to study death. "
I and the bell were both shocked and looked at each other. Teacher Zheng thought it was beyond our expectations, she smiled slightly, in fact, the turbulent waves in our hearts are really indescribable. After experiencing a series of strange and terrifying things in Pantao Village, we have our own understanding of Fan Xiong's research on the topic of death.
Ms. Zheng continued, "This research project of hers should have happened after a winter vacation, and she went on a trip during that winter vacation, as if she had gone to the countryside and lived there for a long time. When she returned, she set out to study death. The method she uses is different from the research method of other people who just use their brains to think and deconstruct with philosophical views, and only stay on the pen and imagination, she is making a device by herself. "
I listened a little creepy, the chopsticks stopped, and my eyes didn't blink.
Teacher Zheng looked at us: "Have you eaten well?" Let's go for a walk around the community, and I'll tell you. "
She settled the bill, and the three of us came out of the restaurant and walked along the artificial pool into the tree-lined path.
Teacher Zheng said that Fan Xiong once talked to her about his views on death. Fan Xiong believes that after death, people will continue to exist in some form. This does not need to be proved anymore, since the eighteenth century there has been a conscious study of the soul from a physical point of view, and many facts have proved that the soul does exist. Fan Xiong believes that the reason why souls are so difficult to communicate is that one of the shortcomings of the wandering spirits is that they cannot use the material brain.
This is an indescribable entanglement, the tool on which thinking depends is the brain, and the brain itself is precisely material, if a person dies and is separated from the brain, the soul that is discharged still has the ability to think? Or is the soul just a chaotic mass of energy?
I look at Xie Ling, Xie Ling is a person in the Tao, in my opinion, his spells are very powerful, and he can understand yin and yang, such a person must have a deeper understanding of such a problem than me. At this time, Xie Ling did not speak, touched his chin, and realized.
At that time, Fan Xiong entrusted Mr. Zheng to find a small warehouse with the help of logistics. Teacher Zheng was very interested, she wanted to see what Fan Xiong could toss.
Fan Xiong spent a lot of money, bought a lot of materials and books and piled them up in the warehouse, except for classes, eating and sleeping, the rest of the time soaked in that place. Mr. Zheng once went to the small warehouse to investigate, looked through Fan Xiong's information, and was surprised to find that almost all the books Fan Xiong found were out of print, and they could never be seen on the market. Fan Xiong told her that he had an out-of-print book group with booksellers from all over the world. These booksellers are very special in that they never sell popular books, they only do one kind of business, and that is to sell out-of-print books. Of course, out-of-print books are not genuine, and most of what they sell are reprints and copies. Although rough, it does not affect reading.
Teacher Zheng looked at the first instrument made by Fan Xiong, and Fan Xiong told her that this instrument was based on the sketch of Descartes back then. Descartes was a great man, known as the "father of modern philosophy", and was proficient in all fields of philosophy, physics and mathematics. He is best known for proposing the concept of "brain in a vat". The idea is how you can tell if the world in front of you is real or comes from the brain fantasy of the current stinging muscle18.
Mr. Zheng told us that Descartes was a very deep researcher of the soul and death at that time, and this old man found many corpses for autopsy, and knew the human brain very well, and most bizarrely, he also dissected many cow heads himself. He drew a sketch of an instrument to deconstruct the existence of the soul. Of course, he didn't make this instrument, and it was still in the fantasy stage. He believes that the current human cognition and the utilization of material resources have greatly limited the implementation of the concept, so it can only stop on paper.
Descartes came up with a model of the nervous system with a full line of valves and bellows. His idea was that there was a common idea at the time that there was no soul at all, and that human thinking was nothing more than the result of the interaction of neurons, just like waves, and what a wave was was nothing but a series of rhythmic changes in the movement of matter. You can't call the rhythm a material storage zĂ i, right? Descartes, on the other hand, believed that the soul did exist, so he conceived a simulated model of the nervous system, in which a series of valves and bellows "whirsh" began to move at the push of a switch, mimicking the operation of the human brain, to see if it could produce a soul.
Of course, this is just a fantasy, not to mention his time, even now, he can't make a completely imitation of the human brain. However, this topic made Fan Xiong extremely obsessed, and she even had such an idea, once science and technology developed to a state in the future, and an artificial nervous system that can be completely comparable to the human brain was made, then what is the difference between the soul produced by this system and the human soul? Shouldn't it be called a mechanical soul? Age of wood.
Based on the description of Cartesian sketches and other sources, Fan Xiong made the most primitive and crude device that she thought could detect the soul.
Fan Xiong took this device and abandoned the building in the back mountain. The old building used to be a girls' dormitory, but now the school has been sealed off as a dangerous building for reasons that only the students of the school know.
Because in this building, there was once a girl who hanged herself in a very strange way. Fan Xiong took the device to find the ghost of the girl who hanged herself.