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Chapter 34 Transparent Thinking

Li Yang looked at the world where Ye Wenjie left. Ye Wenjie's last words, "This is the sunset of mankind," had as much impact on Li Yang as the suicide note left by Yang Dong.



At the end of 2006, I was originally looking forward to the New Year's Eve meeting at the International Joint Conference. The Minister of Defense and Security officially presented the contents of the 28g data deciphered by hundreds of Blue Star scientists around the world.

The content in the data is quite shocking. It contains detailed records of Evans' communication with the Trisolarans using the radio wave equipment on the "Second Red Bank Base".

The information also includes information that the Trisolarans sent an interstellar fleet to Blue Star decades ago in an attempt to invade Blue Star, and records that they launched two sophons to Blue Star to suppress the development of Blue Star's basic technology.

Among these materials, what really interests the International Joint Conference and the Ministry of Defense and Security is the record of the exchange between Evans and the Trisolarans.

That was the last conversation Evans had in the cabin of the "Judgment Day" with that distant civilization that is currently evil in the eyes of mankind. The content was recorded by Evans himself. (The words of the Trisolaran Man are subtitles.)

Subtitles: This is our twenty-second real-time conversation, and we are encountering some difficulties in communication.

Evans: "Yes, Lord, I found that you actually did not understand a considerable part of the human literature we sent you."

Subtitles: Yes, you have explained all the elements clearly, but overall it is always difficult to understand, as if your world has more than ours, and sometimes it seems that there is less.

Evans: "Are these more and less the same thing?"

Subtitles: Yes, we don't know if it's more or less.

Evans: "What would that be?"

Subtitles: We carefully studied your literature and found that the key to the difficulty in understanding lies in a pair of synonyms.

Evans: "Synonym?"

Subtitles: There are many synonyms and synonyms in your language. In the Chinese we first received, there are such things as "cold" and "cold", "heavy" and "shen", "long" and "yuan",

They express the same meaning.

Evans: "So which pair of synonyms did you just say cause difficulty in understanding?"

Subtitles: "Think" and "Speak", we just discovered to our surprise that they are not synonyms.

Evans: "They are not synonymous."

Subtitles: According to our understanding, they should be synonymous: thinking is to use the thinking organ to carry out thinking activities; speaking is to convey the content of thinking to the same kind. The latter in your world is through the organ called vocal cords.

Vibration waves are modulated to achieve this. Do you think these two definitions are correct?

Evans: "Correct, but doesn't this mean that 'thinking' and 'speaking' are not synonyms?"

Subtitles: According to our understanding, this shows that they are synonyms.

Evans: "Can you please let me think about this for a moment?"

Subtitles: Okay, we all need to think about that.

Evans looked at the surging ocean surface under the stars and thought for two minutes.

Evans: "My Lord, what is your organ of communication?"

Subtitle: We don’t have a communication organ. Our brain can display our thoughts to the outside world, thus realizing communication.

Evans: "Show thinking? How to do it?"

Subtitle: The brain's thoughts emit electromagnetic waves, of various wavelengths including our visible light, which can be displayed over considerable distances.

Evans: "That is, to you, thinking means saying."

Subtitles: So they are synonyms.

Evans: "Oh... but even so, it should not cause any obstacles to understanding the literature."

Subtitles: Yes, there is not much difference between us in terms of thinking and communication. We all have brains, and our brains generate intelligence through the interconnection of huge numbers of neurons. The only difference is that our brain waves are stronger.

It can be directly received by the same kind, thus eliminating the need for communication organs. That's the only difference.

Evans: "No, there may be a greater difference hidden in this. My Lord, please let me think about it again."

Subtitles: OK.

Evans left the bow of the ship and walked on the deck. Outside the ship's side, the Pacific Ocean was still undulating silently in the night. He imagined it as a thinking brain.



Evans (long silence): "I understand, Lord, I understand."

Subtitles: What do you understand? Isn’t this all very clear?

Evans: "Your thinking is completely exposed to the outside world and cannot be hidden."

Subtitles: How can thoughts be hidden? Your ideas are incredible.

Evans: "That is to say, your thinking and memory are completely transparent to the outside world, like a book placed in a public place, or a movie shown in a square, or like a fish in a completely transparent fish tank, completely

Exposed, you can see everything from the outside world. Oh, some of the elements I mentioned above you may..."

Subtitles: I understand. Isn’t this all natural?

Evans (silent for a long time): "So that's it... My Lord, when you communicate face to face, everything you communicate is true. It is impossible to deceive or lie. Then it is impossible for you to carry out complex strategic thinking."

."

Subtitles: Not only face to face, we can communicate at a considerable distance. In addition, the words cheating and lying have always been difficult for us to understand.

Evans: "What kind of society is a society with transparent thoughts? What kind of culture and politics will it produce? You have no strategy and can't pretend."

Subtitles: What are ploys and disguises?

Evans:…

Subtitles: The human communication organ is nothing more than an evolutionary flaw. It is a last resort compensation for your brain’s inability to produce strong thinking waves. It is a biological disadvantage of yours. Of course, it is more efficient to use the direct display of thinking.

Highly advanced communication methods.

Evans: "Flaw? Disadvantage? No, Lord, you are wrong. This time you are completely wrong."

Subtitles: Really? Let me think about it too. It's a pity that you can't see my thoughts.

There was a long interval between conversations this time, and the subtitles did not appear for twenty minutes. Evans had already walked from the bow to the stern of the ship. At this time, the subtitles appeared in his own eyes again.

Subtitles: You are right. Now that I think about those documents, I understand a little bit.

Evans: "My Lord, you still have a long way to go before you can truly understand those things about human beings. I even doubt whether it is possible for you to understand them in the end."

Subtitles: Yes, it’s really too complicated. Now I just understand why I didn’t understand you before. You were right.

Evans: "My Lord, you need us.

Subtitles: I'm afraid of you.



The conversation was interrupted like this. This is the content of the conversation that Evans received with the Trisolarans. It is also regarded as the most precious information by the Ministry of Defense and Security. Because it is learned from the above that the thinking of the Trisolarans is transparent, and they do not

Understand what strategy is.
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