Gou Dabao once again stood opposite Wang Qi. This time, his interest was not as great as the last time. Before Wang Qi could speak, he had already shown a little impatience and said, "It's useless." ”

Wang Qi's phantom shadow floated in front of Gou Dabao through the Ten Thousand Immortal Illusion Realm, and said with a smile: "How do you know it's useless if you don't give it a try?"

"It's useless when it's useless. Gou Dabao's tone was not good: "You have already driven last time, and you have wasted a lot of my time, and you have to waste your efforts this time?"

Wang Qi sighed: "Are you addicted to cultivation or what? Why do you want to cultivate so much? What are the benefits of this cultivation? Don't you think that this is also a manifestation of your influence by the residual consciousness of immortals?"

Gou Dabao was stunned. Against himself, this is the topic he has pursued all his life. Wang Qi's words really fooled him. He thought for a moment, pondered for a moment, and asked, "But, what can I do if I don't cultivate?"

"Listen to me. Wang Qi's figure sat opposite Gou Dabao, then made a finger and asked him to sit down.

Gou Dabao shook his head: "Don't listen." Headache. ”

"If you don't listen to knowledge, how can you become stronger?"

Gou Dabao scratched his head: "I listened to your lecture last time, and I grabbed a lot of my hair......"

"When you get bald, you get stronger. Wang Qi said: "Moreover, I don't plan to talk to you about anything too complicated today. I promise that what I have said today will not go beyond the difficulty of learning. Moreover, let's not talk about algorithms today, just talk about mysteries, talk about emptiness. ”

"Isn't that what you Dharma monks hate the most?"

Wang Qi pointed to himself: "I am a monk of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect. You know, monk of the Ten Thousand Laws. Something has to be different. ”

In the early days. Mathematics is subsumed in philosophy. Although it has developed to this day. Mathematics has long been separated from philosophy and metaphysics and merged into science, but there are still a large number of "conceptual disputes" that are rare among other schools of law.

Gou Dabao sat down as if he didn't understand and asked, "Oh, you can talk about it." ”

Wang Qi drew a few operators on the ground and wrote down an equation: "Today, let's start with one plus one." ”

Gou Dabao's eyes were full of "You're crazy, aren't you" expression: "'One plus one'?

"It has nothing to do with Mingzhu's calculation of 'a prime number plus a prime number'. We don't talk about that. This is 'one plus one equals two'. ”

Gou Dabao's expression. It's already mixed with the anger of "why are you kidding me" and "you kid calling me stupid?": "Wang Qi, what do you mean by that?"

"I'm serious. 'One plus one equals two', this is the source of all arithmetic, the backbone, the rhizome. Wang Qi maintained the gesture of "please sit down" and his expression was calm: "If you say that it is simple, then it is the easiest question." Even babbling babies know how to answer. But if you want to say it's hard, it's really hard. The peak of the Ten Thousand Dharma Gate is free, and I don't know how to explain it. ”

"Oh?" Gou Dabao raised his eyebrows. sat down opposite Wang Qi: "I'll see how you say it." ”

"One plus one equals two. It's a concept you've known since the beginning of your life...... No, more than that. In your previous life, that is, the concept of 'he' in your mind that you first knew, is it this, is it or not?" Wang Qi raised a finger, and then another finger: "One plus one, equals, two." ”

"That's enough, there's no need to demonstrate. I'm not really a child. Gou Dabao interrupted Wang Qi angrily: "You kid, what do you want to say? Just say it directly." ”

"Don't worry, let's talk slowly. Wang Qi cleared his throat: "All addition can be regarded as an extension of 'one plus one', and subtraction is the reverse of addition." Multiplication is the superposition of addition, and division is the inversion of multiplication. The more advanced matrices, vectors and other algorithms, although the rules are different from addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but they are essentially the advanced form of addition and multiplication - if you don't understand it, then understand addition and subtraction as the Qi training period, multiplication and division as the foundation building period, and then those advanced operation rules are understood as the realm after the Yuan Shen. Although there are essential differences, the latter is always developed on the basis of the former. ”

Gou Dabao nodded: "I understand, it seems to be this reason." ”

"If you can understand, that's the best. Wang Qi nodded, feeling that his efforts had paid off. "Although some people think that the set is something deeper and more fundamental than addition," he said. However, from a historical point of view, it is true that there is 'one plus one' first, and then there are others. 'One plus one' is the source of arithmetic, and it is the 'one' in 'Tao begets one'. ”

Gou Dabao nodded in surprise, and then looked at the "one plus one equals two" written by Wang Qi, and his eyes were different: "Sure enough, you are the only one, there is no escape, if the way is true, the same is true of the words." Wang Qi, you can really be called a small word, it turns out that this 'one plus one' has so many truths to talk about. ”

"It's not over yet. Wang Qi shook his head: "In this plus one, there is also a special controversy involved. ”

"Exceptional...... Argument?"

"Is arithmetic a 'way to the near path' or a 'thing of Taoism'? Is arithmetic invented by man, or is arithmetic itself coexisting with heaven and earth, and what man does is nothing more than discovering arithmetic?"

Gou Dabao shook his head this time: "I don't understand what you mean by this." ”

Wang Qi asked, "Gou Dabao, do you know the Dragon Clan?"

Gou Dabao nodded: "I know." It is said that that 'he' was killed by the dragons, and then after several robberies, he finally had me. ”

"The dragon clan established a glorious civilization in Shenzhou 200 million years ago. That's when they learned that 'one plus one equals two.'" Our human race, rising and 80,000 years ago, first knew that it was also 'one plus one equals two', and the demon race opened its mind and taught itself to count, and the first thing we knew was also 'one plus one equals two'. And you ......" Wang Qi stretched out his finger and tapped Gou Dabao's chest: "The immortal remnant soul in your heart, do you reject 'one plus one equals two'?"

Gou Dabao was stunned: "No...... Not exclusive. ”

"Your immortal remnant soul is probably not a product of this world. That is, in places where millions of light years are not known. in different time and space. The iron of 'one plus one equals two' will not waver. Wang Qi's eyes looked directly at Gou Dabao: "This is not the Tao. And what?"

"It's ...... Dao?" Gou Dabao shook his head: "How can this be Dao?"

"Then it's at least 'near the road', it's the iron rule under the road, right?" Wang Qi asked: "Think about it, you have crossed the sea of stars in your previous life, do you have that kind of memory of 'one plus one equals three'?"

Gou Dabao hurriedly shook his head. He was completely confused.

"One plus one equals two", is it the Tao?

"At the very least, 'one plus one equals two' is a shortcut. Wang Qi's tone was calm: "Then you can talk about it, one plus one equals two." Did man invent it, or did man discover it?"

That's an interesting question.

The word "discovery" refers to the realization of something that is already in nature, and "invention" is to create something out of nothing that does not exist in nature.

So, should the laws of mathematics be "invented" or "discovered"?

Did man invent mathematics, or did man discover it?

Is mathematics a route built by man to approach the Tao, or is it something that is itself in harmony with the universe, nature, and the Tao?

Is the Tao counting?

Gou Dabao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. For the first time, he began to examine what was called "arithmetic". The so-called "computing".

It turns out that there are such basic and simple iron rules in the world.

"There is a Tao that is, 'The Tao begets one.'" One life is two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things', this 'one plus one' is the 'one' here, and the subsequent addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are 'two' and 'three', and the arithmetic after that is the 'all-things'. Wang Qi's tone was calm, but Gou Dabao's heart was already churning.

He used to think that it was just a mechanical and rigid arithmetic, but in fact, it was extremely neat and shortcut everywhere, and there was no good reason that showed the tendency of losing the way!

The saint is the beauty of heaven and earth and the principle of all things.

What is the beauty of heaven and earth?

This is the beauty of heaven and earth!

What the Fa is doing today is fundamentally the work of the saints, and the path he is walking is actually the most in line with the teachings of the saints!

O saint!

For the first time, Gou Dabao's expression, which had been numb for many years, became vivid, and he praised it and said, "Good reason! Good discussion!"

For Gou Dabao's praise, Wang Qi accepted it calmly. No one in this world can understand this problem more deeply than him. Because, if the mysterious connection between Shenzhou and the earth is about to be separated, Gödel has not appeared, and other arithmetic artists have fallen into a deep misunderstanding. The mathematical community on the earth has undergone an incomplete baptism, and mathematicians, out of a state of confusion, also know how to correct the attitude between "themselves" and "mathematics". That's where he comes from.

As for the content of Gou Dabao's praise, Wang Qi only sighed slightly. He doesn't care about what "learning for the sake of the saints" or "educating the saints". If his behavior is in accordance with the norms of a saint, it is only a coincidence at best. In other words, the words of those saints used to be the cornerstone of today's Dharma. It is not surprising that there is one thing in common with this method.

In Gou Dabao's eyes, this is the so-called "honor and disgrace" and "free bearing".

Suddenly, Gou Dabao patted his head: "I understand, I understand what the 'Fallacy Method' you told me about a few days ago, Mr. Wang! It turns out that that proof is the truth of cultivating the truth through falsehood!"

Wang Qi was stunned: "What?"

Cultivating the truth through pretenses...... What the hell?

Everything in the practice of the Fa today stresses a "trace" and "evidence" that can be followed, and does not say anything "true or false" or "real or false." Wang Qi had learned this kind of thing from Zhen Yanzi before, but he had already been thrown out of the clouds.

Gou Dabao said excitedly: "'False fingers and two numbers' are false, which proves that the process is absurd and false everywhere. However, this 'false' and ultimately arithmetic principle is a part of the reality of the universe...... This is also the principle of cultivation!"

The corners of Wang Qi's mouth twitched: "Whatever you think." ”

From a metaphysician to a civil science...... It's also a kind of progress, isn't it?

"Now that you have a feeling for what I said, let's first practice the two chapters of 'arithmetic' and 'finger delusion' in the Yiji Sutra! The next time I come back, I will talk to you about the truth of arithmetic geometry. (To be continued.) )

PS: On the question of "invention" and "discovery" - in the history of mathematics in China, the word is generally "discovery", for example, Pythagoras discovered the Pythagorean theorem. At least that's what I see.

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