Chapter 14: Causality

"Can this kind of invisible and intangible thing be manipulated at will?" Wright looked puzzled, after all, cause and effect are a bit too abstract, and the administrator nodded, "Of course you can, but it's not that easy, in your imagination, cause and effect is nothing more than chickens laying eggs and giving birth to chickens, A leads to B, B leads to C, a straight line continues, isn't it?" Wright nodded blankly, he didn't understand these very well, at most he tried to understand them with some simple associations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"But in fact, cause and effect are far more complicated than that, so let's take an analogy" The administrator turned around silently, and after a while, many colorful villains appeared in the air, "Let's say this is your parents" Two villains jumped in front of Wright, "Now you can appear here, of course, because the two of them got married and gave birth to you" Wright really wanted to roll his eyes when he heard this, isn't this nonsense.

The administrator didn't mind Wright's gaze, and continued, "What if the cause and effect were disrupted, and the two of them didn't get married, but married to another person?" Wright replied without thinking, "Then I won't be born." The Administrator looked at Wright with interest, "Do you think that's all there is to it?" Wright didn't answer again this time, but waited for what else he had to say.

Then two more people jumped in front of Wright, "These two are the ones who are married to your parents," and the little man representing Wright's parents stood next to the other person, "But have you ever wondered where the people who were originally married to these two strangers went?" Wright was stunned by this question, he really hadn't thought about it.

Then two more villains jumped out and stood further out, "Their previous family was also broken up, assuming they also found another person to marry, then and so on" The villain in front of Wright suddenly increased wildly, like a ray extending infinitely to both ends, composed of countless pairs of villains, which soon exceeded the limit of Wright's eyesight, "All the families of the present generation will change, and they will all marry different people." ā€

Wright grew his mouth as if he couldn't understand it, would there be such serious consequences?" "Even if a bachelor gets married in the middle, interrupting this domino effect, then their children will all be different, and the world will basically change completely." With a wave of the administrator's hand, the little people in front of Wright all disappeared.

"Of course, I'm just giving you an example, the binding nature of the world line doesn't really turn out like this, this little problem is just to explain to you the complexity of cause and effect, it's definitely not just A that leads to B" Wright was a little confused in the barrage of assumptions and metaphors, scratching his head and trying to keep up with his train of thought.

The previous metaphor describes the complexity of cause, so relatively speaking, there is also this complexity of effect, for example, a woman goes back in time, marries her young father, and then gives birth to herself, forming a cycle of death without cause but effect, I will not go into detail about this metaphor. Wright's previous idea has not yet been clarified, and the latter analogy is even more terrifying.

"So what you encounter, simply put, is one cause and two effects, opening the book is the cause, and then two effects are produced at the same time, and two identical you exist at different times at the same time, one is in a daze in place, and the other is participating in history. Wright thought about it for a long time and still couldn't understand how he ran into history in the classroom, which was completely illogical.

Wright asked the question, "What do you mean to be exactly the same self, and can I not be me?" the administrator took the trouble to explain to Wright. From the perspective of the soul, you have always been the same as you, but in terms of content, you are different every moment, every minute what you see, hear, learn, and learn, all the time you change your mind, your blood is flowing and the body is metabolizing, and you are constantly changing your body, the so-called exactly the same you, that is, you are exactly the same in all aspects, there is no difference in the slightest. ā€

Wright frowned and said, "So I'm equivalent to traveling through time?, but now that the magic of time has been lost, how did you do it" The administrator shook his head, "Cause and effect are rules that transcend time and space, for example, there is a river in front of you, this is time, if you want to pick up a branch on the other side of the river, you have to swim down the river to pick it up, so that your clothes will get wet" The administrator waved a river appeared in front of Wright, and Wright knew that it was the administrator so that he could understand.

"But what happened to you is equivalent to a person who appears directly on the other side of the river, bends down and picks up the branch, and then you disappear on the other side, and the branch goes directly to your hand, because both of you are you, and the other you disappear, and the fruit of picking up the branch becomes borne by you on the other side of the river, and the branch goes directly to your hand, so in the strict sense, you don't touch the part of time at all. The administrator also demonstrated with a diagram, Wright looked at the illusory branch in his hand, and countless wild beasts ran in his heart, so it was a foul at all.

Wright sighed, "Okay, I roughly understand what you said, after all, I don't have any clue, even if I question you, it doesn't make any sense, only your words can explain most of the problems" Wright raised his head and looked at the administrator seriously, "But I have one last question, you know it so well, but you didn't do it, so how can you explain it." ā€

The administrator looked at Wright's unkind gaze, still smiling and replied, "Of course, this was done by the person who left this book, and the purpose of this book was to give you an invitation to this library, which is the card with gold patterns on a black background" Wright remembered the seemingly nonexistent card he had found in the last folder before, and when he picked it up, a yes or no question came to his mind.

"Even if I'm an administrator, I can't fully understand all the materials here, all the books here are not entities, they are memories or consciousnesses, and there are a lot of secrets mixed in them, and I can't completely crack them, after all, the people who can manipulate cause and effect are completely out of my reach, and secondly, I have no reason to do so, because I am only a virtual consciousness, managing this library and recording and observing. ā€

Wright lowered his head and thought for a while, but didn't find a flaw in this passage, if he really had any bad intentions, how could the other party talk so much nonsense with himself here" Okay, I believe what you said" Wright raised his head and said, "So according to your original meaning, you invited me here, what is the purpose?" The administrator replied calmly, "The purpose, of course, is the knowledge you have." ā€