Chapter 22: Consciousness
"It's out, it's out!" Cao Xuefei held Zhou Zhiqi's hand tightly, her eyes staring at the glimmer of light in front of her.
"That's it." Lin Sen said unhurriedly as he drank his tea.
"Isn't this just an egg?" Cao Xuefei asked puzzled.
Zhou Zhiqi looked at the egg in front of her and found that a trace of pink light came out of it, projecting a smiling face. "Xue Fei, look, is it laughing? It's so cute! ”
"This is the soul carrier of our thoughts, and now we are just an unconscious baby, only capable of projecting these simple emojis to express the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness of the function."
"And will this egg hatch any treasures?"
"I don't know what it prints out of the egg."
Chen Zhang took Lin Sen's words and said, "Look at Brother Sen, are the dark circles under your eyes deep?" Is there too much gray hair? ”
"Understood, arranged. Brother Sen, Sister Zhiqi, let's go, let's go to Lao Chen's house to eat roast whole sheep. ”
"Sister Zhiqi, this is delicious, you can taste it. Our old Chen has a hobby, which is to herd sheep. I didn't understand it before, but since I ate his roasted whole lamb, I understand it at once. ”
"You know the herd effect, right? I guess your old Chen was thinking about this when he was herding sheep. Zhou Zhiqi looked at Cao Xuefei, who was eating meat, and said with a smile.
"Speaking of the herd effect, tell me, is this a conscious or unconscious behavior? Recently, you Sengo have been plunging headlong into the study of consciousness. ”
"Conscious behavior under consciousness, conscious behavior under unconscious. The focus is on the understanding of consciousness. ”
"I think we're making the subjective mistake of assuming that humans with consciousness are smarter than other species. But when I stand on top of the mountains and walk in the forest, I will find that I am very small, wisdom is everywhere in nature, and the more stupid people are, the wiser they feel. ”
Lin Sen smiled after hearing this: "Xiaofei, the psychological phenomenon you are talking about is called the 'Dunning-Kruger effect'. In 1995, a middle-aged man named Wheeler discovered that words written with lemon juice were invisible and only revealed when he was near a heat source. So he thought, "Then I'm covered in lemon juice, and as long as I don't get close to the heat source, won't I be invisible?" So Uncle Wheeler smeared himself with lemon juice and robbed two banks in Pittsburgh in broad daylight. When the police arrested Wheeler, they wondered if he was drugged or insane, and Wheeler muttered in disbelief, 'I've got lemon juice on me, there's no reason to see me!' ’”
After saying that, everyone burst into laughter.
Zhou Zhiqi looked at Lin Sen, who was a little worried, and said slowly: "So, that egg is trying to understand consciousness and knock on the door of the soul?" ”
Lin Sen touched his chin and said in contemplation: "Just now Xiao Fei mentioned the understanding of consciousness, and Lao Chen and I also deeply feel the same way. Human beings are like this Uncle Wheeler, we feel that human beings are the highest beings in this world, and we naturally feel that because human beings have consciousness, they are smarter than all other species. We don't believe that cells are intelligent, or that we don't believe that non-living things are intelligent. For example, the earth and the earth that we are stepping on now, the moon and the sun that we see, and so on. Wisdom may be the embodiment of the laws of all things in the world, the soul is the portrait, and consciousness is the ripples caused by the electrocution of the neurons of our brain. Maybe we are too small, so we can't realize the wisdom of the earth, as small as the dust. ”
"Have you ever seen the dust that shines into a dimly lit room, dancing in the sun's beams? I think they are intelligent beings, but from human cognition, we are not aware of them. What we can realize is the bugs flying around the lamp. As she spoke, Zhou Zhiqi pointed to the night light not far away.