Chapter 15: Fiction and Reality

Three days, the limit of human silence.

In 1954, psychologists W.H. Bexton, W. Heron, and T.H. Seott conducted a famous psychological experiment in the laboratory of McGill University in Canada, the sensory deprivation experiment. Have the subject's students wear plastic glasses to reduce graphic vision; Wear paper gloves and sleeves that limit the sense of touch to reduce the subject's movement; Strengthened room soundproofing reduces hearing, and air conditioners make a monotonous hum sound. On the fourth day, in this lackluster environment, subjects begin to experience distraction, severe dysregulation, sensitivity to pain, and hallucinations.

Before the sun has completely set, the neon lights all over the city streets can't wait to light up, colorful light and shadow fill every darkness, all kinds of holograms occupy every space, reshape the shape of high-rise buildings, streets and alleys, a bizarre world emerges in front of people's eyes, desperately attracting the attention of passers-by. In the noisy traffic and loud voices, the crowd of people is like a passing cloud of smoke and clouds of machinery in reality and illusion.

"Boss, how do you sell this?" On a star-lit roadside stall, there was an old man, with his head down, constantly scrolling through the order page in front of him, and a big "0" was displayed in a conspicuous position. The old man prayed silently to the figure that appeared in the projection: "Platform boss, it's good, pity me, let me explode the order......" "Boss, may I ask ......" "Go and go, don't you see that I'm busy?" The old man waved his hand impatiently.

"Mom, someone in front of me fell." A woman who laughed from time to time, holding the child's hand, still drifting with the flow, did not pay any attention to the child's call, did not notice the changes around her, was still immersed in her own virtual world, habitually holding the child's hand and disappearing into the crowd.

"Sir, the destination has arrived." As the system sounded, the man came back to his senses and looked outside the car. Seeing the familiar holographic projection façade in his memory, he habitually got out of the car, walked in, and greeted his friends with their heads down: "It's here." "Here we are." "Okay." After a response, everyone lowered their heads again and immersed themselves in their respective virtual worlds, playing their own games.

"Wow! I'm on the hot search list! A fashionably dressed young girl raised her head excitedly and cheered, as the sound drowned out in the noisy environment, without a trace of echo, the young girl put away her excited expression, lowered her head boringly, and returned to the lively virtual world again to interact, immersed in the pleasure of soaring values, and smiled again.

Put on headphones, from isolating from the noise of the outside world to immersing yourself in the soft words in your ears; Put on your glasses and go from the scorching sun that blocks the sun to the ever-changing Ambilight. From the noisy night market to the silent bedroom, is it the huge gap in reality that makes people reluctant to return, or the virtual dream of Huangliang that makes people reluctant to leave? After throwing reality into the subconscious, people seem to live in the illusion of consciousness.

In 1969, the M Ministry of Defense established the Arpanet network. As more and more information is entered into the Internet, in the 80s of the 20th century, the information explosion was defined, and the black hole formed by the explosion swallowed more and more devices, information and people into this virtual world.

Human sensations are separated, distorted, and reconstructed in virtualization. In reality, a body is like a walking corpse, and its soul is being devoured by the virtual world little by little.