Cheng Mo thought that something that could be solved in a few words, he only needed to delay Wang Shanhai for a while before he could go back, but he didn't expect Wang Shanhai to stay with him to eat, he didn't have the habit of eating at other people's homes, and he didn't have the experience of eating at other people's houses since he was a child, which made him extra restrained.

At this moment, Cheng Mo was sitting at the round table in the dining room, his posture was a little hard with his straight back, thinking of a tenacious reef that was resisting the invasion of the waves.

Wang Shanhai naturally noticed Cheng Mo's restraint, and provoked the topic to make this poor and wise child not be so tight, so he smiled and said, "Cheng Mo, I remember that you should also be Changya, right?"

At this time, the nanny served the first dish of steamed eight-treasure fish, and at the moment when the plate touched the wood-colored table, Cheng Mo replied: "Hmm."

Wang Shanhai immediately said with his eyebrows fluttering: "That's a coincidence, my family Xiaojin is also Changya.... I haven't introduced you yet, this is my granddaughter Xie Minyun, you are Changya, you should know her......"

Xie Minyun, who was sitting opposite Cheng Mo, couldn't stand the smugness that his grandfather felt when he talked about himself, and immediately said without being salty or light: "There are a lot of people studying in Changya in this courtyard, right? There is nothing strange about knowing me! The essence of the so-called 'coincidence' is just a probability event. ”

The reason why Xie Minyun spoke a little impulsively, his own uncompromising character is a point, and the main reason is that he is still angry at Wang Shanhai's style of cheating, of course, he didn't take Cheng Mo seriously, and it has something to do with it, but in essence, she is actually her grandfather, as for Cheng Mo, it is not worth her anger, so Cheng Mo is just a victim of the pond fish.

Wang Shanhai was unimpressed by Xie Minyun's attitude, and turned his head to ask Cheng Mo, who was sitting beside him, with a smile: "Cheng Mo, what do you think? What is the coincidence?"

Seeing her grandfather ask like this, Xie Minyun also focused her eyes on Cheng Mo, she didn't think that the ordinary-looking child opposite could give any decent answer, but since her grandfather asked him, it means that he has a place that his grandfather can see, and the academic masters of the Academy of Social Sciences are gathered, and his grandfather can keep him down for dinner, which means that the other party's parents must be at a high level, and this level may be in terms of power, wealth, and even more knowledge.

Although the level of parents does not represent the level of children, since grandpa asked the other party this question, he must think that the other party can answer this question.

However, Cheng Mo just watched the nanny serve the second dish "Mao's braised pork", and said while putting the clay pot on the table: "I agree with this sentence.....

Xie Minyun couldn't see what she expected, not to mention the flashing answer, not even a decent answer, so she could only pretend to be profound, and suddenly Xie Minyun took her eyes off Cheng Mo's body, looked at Wang Shanhai and said: "Grandpa, there is really nothing to argue about in this matter, the so-called' Coincidences are always happening, it is not surprising, the seven billion people on the earth, such a large sample, anything incredible can happen, the scope of coincidences is too vague, if he happens to be in the same class as me, we can say that it is a coincidence, even if it is not a class, he is now my alumnus, we can also say that it is a coincidence, even if we are not in the same school, then we zoom in on the range, assuming that the place where we met is not in Star City, then we can still say that it is a coincidence, we are all from Star City..... Therefore, the so-called 'coincidence', as long as you try to find it, you will definitely be able to find it. ”

Wang Shanhai asked Cheng Mo with a faint smile: "Cheng Mo, what do you think?"

Cheng Mo nodded noncommittally: "I think it makes sense." ”

Xie Minyun saw that he was arguing seriously, but the old and the young seemed to be teasing her, a little angry, and said expressionlessly: "Okay, okay, you treat your granddaughter like this, I don't know who cried on the phone yesterday that he was an empty nester, saying that if the son-in-law and daughter are not filial, the granddaughter should be filial..... When I come, you treat me like this, play chess, ask you questions and pretend to be deaf and dumb, I will never come to see you next time...."

Wang Shanhai was really a little angry when he saw Xie Minyun's cold expression, smiled at Xie Minyun, and was about to say something, but Xie Minyun immediately turned his head away, and didn't look at Wang Shanhai at all, as for Cheng Mo, it didn't exist at all.

Wang Shanhai saw that Xie Minyun looked like I didn't listen to me, and turned his head to Cheng Mo and said, "Cheng Mo, look, you annoyed my little jin!"

Hearing this, Cheng Mo was a little confused, he had never met such a person in his memory, there were many unreasonable people, and it was the first time that Cheng Mo had encountered a scoundrel to the juniors, but this pot Cheng Mo didn't plan to carry it, just about to open his mouth, but heard Wang Shanhai say: "Xiaojin is angry, I will also be angry, I am angry, maybe you ask me to help, I can't do it.... What do you think?"

Cheng Mo couldn't laugh or cry, he really wanted to say that your granddaughter was angry with me, what did it matter? I didn't do anything, I didn't say anything, it was you who played chess and played tricks to make your granddaughter unhappy, okay?

But under the eaves, people had to bow their heads, and could only say helplessly: "Although I think probability can indeed be counted as a probability problem, coincidence cannot be explained by probability alone." ”

Wang Shanhai asked, "Oh, how do you say this?"

Cheng Mo said in his heart: He should have become a tool for Wang Shanhai to educate his proud granddaughter, but for the sake of his own goal, let her suffer a little blow! As for the feeling of pity and cherishing jade, Cheng Mo has no feeling at all.

So Cheng Mo said lightly: "Probability can only explain 'why coincidences occur', it tells you that these coincidences will occur, and there are such and such preconditions." But probability cannot explain that the coincidence that occurs at this time is this one, and not in the other form, and Carl Jung elaborated on this problem: in addition to the power of 'cause and effect', there is a force called 'synchronicity' (note 1). He argues that 'synchronicity' is a 'non-causal connection principle' (Note 2), and that under the influence of this force, events are linked together. ”

Hearing Cheng Mo's words, Wang Shanhai's expression was very pleased, while Xie Minyun frowned, and he didn't look at Cheng Mo at all from the beginning, but turned into a serious face.

Cheng Mo turned a blind eye to the changes between the two and continued: "This connection is obviously meaningful and worth interpreting in his opinion. For example, when I was thinking about someone, that person happened to call me, and we said it was a coincidence, which could be counted as a matter of probability. But we also often find more supernatural, for example, we often hear reports that when one of the twins is in danger, the other will also have senses, and when a loved one dies, their own bodies will also be different, for example, we often find that real experiences are similar to dreams.... There is no way to explain this kind of thing with probability. ”

Xie Minyun's brain was already running rapidly at the moment, as the captain of the school debate team, she naturally would not allow herself to lose to a little-known person, so she looked at Cheng Mo with sharp eyes and said: "Coincidences only exist in the eyes that read it, so those who believe in religion and mystical powers prefer self-interpretation, and those who believe in intuition, fate, and love to find 'meaning' will believe in this kind of causal coincidence..... In fact, as long as you look carefully, you will definitely find the premise, although the lottery is difficult to win, but as long as there are many people who buy, there will always be people, what is there to be surprised? This is the truth of coincidence! The so-called supernatural events, the vast majority of which are lies.....

Cheng Mo pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at Xie Minyun's beautiful face and said lightly: "If you have to argue like this, you are playing a scoundrel like Dean Wang, because on the other hand, probability is actually a quantification of coincidence, but the degree of coincidence is different, because we can't set a specific value for coincidence, so you mistakenly think that coincidence is probability, but in fact, we can also say that probability is a kind of ..... of coincidence."

Hearing Cheng Mo's seemingly ridiculous words, but in fact, even Wang Shanhai mocked him, Xie Minyun said with a frosty face: "You~~~~!"

(There will be a more update later)

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Note 1: Synchronicity, also known as simultaneity, is actually an explanation of a mysterious phenomenon. For example, if you are thinking about your friend and a friend comes, or if you dream about something and then you hear about it, and you discover it at the same time as you are dreaming, and so on.

In his 1952 essay On Synchronicity, Carl Jung defined in detail the concept he was dealing with, and briefly described the facts touched upon by the concept of "synchronicity": as etymology shows, this term is related to time, or more precisely, to the nature of simultaneity. If we don't use the term at the same time, we can also use more than two or three kinds of "meaningful coincidences", which shows more than just a matter of probability.

Note 2: The principle of non-causal connection - Jung's principle of synchronicity is non-causal, which is considered to be a parallel relationship without cause and effect, which is simply a treatment of non-causal connection between many events.