Sitting across from him, Ander calmly looked at Lin An, whose expression changed again and again, knowing that Lin An had roughly thought of what these pictures were talking about.
Lin An couldn't hold back the shock in his heart and asked him.
Ender broke the silence directly.
"Yes, this is the second piece of information from the institute."
"When the humans here were studying how to cure phantom limbs, they accidentally discovered an unimaginable horror."
"That means the brainwave data they recorded deviated from reality."
Ander chuckled and spoke quietly.
"Lin An, you also understand, right?"
"In the experiment, human neural activity was ahead of thinking activities, and even ahead of actual instructions. I think you should understand the meaning."
After the words fell, Lin An looked at Ander with a cold expression, and an uncontrollable anger suddenly burst out from Lin An's heart.
But Lin An knew that he was not angry because Ander had said something to deceive him, but was angry out of fear.
Just like human self-protection mechanism.
Rarely, Lin An felt a strong sense of panic for the first time in a long time.
"us"
"No free will!?"
"Snapped"
Ender smiled and snapped his fingers with emotion.
He stood up slowly and looked into Lin An's eyes with interest.
"Can't believe it, right?"
"When I saw these things, I was more shocked than you were."
"Hahaha, we don't have free will, it's as ridiculous as we don't have a head. Phantom limbs!? What are phantom limbs!? Maybe we have nothing!"
Ender suddenly opened his arms, his expression distorted, as if even though he had accepted all this, he still couldn't suppress the anger in his heart!
"In the experiment, these researchers also couldn't believe the facts they observed, so they built a large shielding field in the second round of large-scale experiments! They imagined that the data mismatch was due to external interference, not what they had guessed.
That's it!
"
"It's a pity that they should leave themselves some room for fantasy and a way out!"
"The neural reaction time of the phantom limb is 0.01 milliseconds faster than thinking! 0.02 milliseconds faster than real commands!"
"Lin An!"
"Tell me! What does this mean!?"
Ender took a deep breath, clenched his fists and asked himself.
"Nervous reactions should not be faster than thinking, faster than reality! Just like writing, when the pen does not fall on the paper, when we don't know what to write, how can words appear on the paper!?"
"So, this represents two answers!"
"1. Either we are just a videotape, and everything we do is an established reality! The future of the next second has been decided as early as the previous second! The future has already happened, and the reality cannot be changed!"
"We are like living in a videotape. We are just acting according to the script! Poor us, we still think we are still alive!"
"2. Either the mind does not participate in life activities, and what our body will do does not require mind control at all. We just mistakenly think that we can control the body, and we mistakenly think that we are doing what we want to do!"
"Lin An, which explanation do you choose?"
Looking into each other's eyes, Lin An felt as if his heart was beating heavily on his eardrums like a drumstick.
A strong sense of trance and absurdity almost swallowed his soul.
At this moment, he realized why Ender didn't refute him that memes didn't have subjective agency, but he firmly believed that memes were as alive as people.
the reason is simple.
Because neither does man. If he still thinks he is alive, then the meme must be too!
In the phantom limb experiment, the source of the collapse of the researchers' sanity was their shocking discovery that human behavior precedes conscious activity.
Although people have long accepted that life has physiological instincts, such as breathing, heartbeat, etc.
Activities that maintain the basis of life do not require conscious participation, but if even eating, talking, and even doing everything do not require conscious participation, then what exactly is consciousness? Their thoughts, their cognitions, their thinking, their joys
What on earth are anger, sorrow and joy!?
As Ander said, there are only two answers.
"Fatalism, or"
"We have no free will!"
Lin An slowly closed his eyes. He could not accept either of these two answers.
This is so ridiculous! This is so ridiculous!
"That's right, Lin An."
"So do you want to accept fatalism, like when people first discovered quantum entanglement and realized the existence of fate in interference experiments? Or do you want to accept that you are a dead person?"
"Don't you think memes are dead? Then you are the same as memes now.
"
"In quantum entanglement, the spin of the quantum changes due to human observation."
"These quanta without "consciousness" seem to be able to predict the future. They can change their state before you decide to look at it. If you look at it, it will turn "left". If you don't look at it, it will turn "right"
". And whether it goes left or right actually depends on whether you see it in the future."
“How similar”
"It's like the phantom limb experiment. You think you want to grab an apple with your hand, so you reach out. But in fact, your hand reaches out long before the thought occurs."
Putting down his arms, Ender chuckled as if he was feeling the absurdity of reality.
"The eternal destiny, we never existed."
"How ridiculous"
"Lin An, do you know? In fact, I think we may just be a natural phenomenon."
"Like wind, like water, like a natural scenery."
"There is no life, no living things. Everything is just an illusion, just the illusion of a stone."
"We think we can run and jump, change the world, build complex and sophisticated machines, and create magnificent creations that envelope the stars."
"But what is the difference between these complex life activities and geological activities?"
"Volcanic eruptions are also very sophisticated phenomena, planet rotation, and supernova fusion. Which of these is not more difficult than cutting down trees for humans? In geological activities, simple weathering phenomena can also carve out smooth stone balls. In the earth's crust, there are a large number of
A cube of incredible precision.”
"Theoretically speaking, as long as the time is long enough, under the random movement of atoms, a space battleship can be randomly assembled in the starry sky."
"And all of this does not require the participation of consciousness."
"So, do you know why in the information you found, it appears that you can live without your head?"
After saying this, Ander's eyes flashed and he looked at Lin An calmly.
Every word he spoke was like a heavy hammer, just like what he had felt before, destroying people's will. For a creature that is stronger and has a more determined will, the mental attack is far more powerful than the physical one.
horrible!
Especially for those who are awakened at level five or above, their power comes from their understanding of rules and reality. Once it collapses, it will be no less than completely destroying their source of power!
"This is what you call saving us, right?"
Lin An slowly raised his head, his eyeballs filled with bloodshot eyes.
"If this information is not hidden, then in the task, we will not think that there are two heads, but that we can live without a head. Consciousness does not exist, and the head does not need to exist."
"Yes, if I don't help you"
Before Ander nodded casually, Lin An suddenly interrupted him.
"Go on."
"This isn't the final answer, is it? It's just part of the ultimate!"
After the words fell, Ander was stunned for a moment, then smiled.
"Lin An, you are stronger than I thought."
"It seems that you are supported by some secret that I don't know about."
