Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 448 This is how one's life should be spent

"Why is it different? You don't need to ask this question at all." Zhu Xinyu frowned: "I am completely different from him. I... I don't have any thoughts about those stinky money."

Xiang Shan said: "Yes. Of course you are different from that person. But why?"

"There is no reason, because I am not a scum." Zhu Xinyu said angrily.

Xiang Shan shook his head: "Not necessarily. I think it's because you are a person who knows what you are thinking."

"So? What's the matter?"

"In addition to 'immediate, physical euphoria,' there is also a 'long-term sense of well-being.'"

"I'm not saying that 'long-term and stable happiness' is necessarily far stronger than physical euphoria. After all, a human being is a flesh-and-blood machine. How the brain works, what people think. Drug abuse is a A behavior that can bring about a strong physiological euphoria. If the meaning of life lies in 'continuation' and 'pursuit of happiness', why don't human beings drown themselves in euphoria through cheap drugs after passing on the family?"

Zhu Xinyu stared at him: "This is too..."

"Ask yourself. It is possible for human beings to experience the unhappiness of 'disgusting themselves' while gaining physical euphoria." Xiang Shan said,

Zhu Xinyu thought for a moment, and said: "It seems that this is indeed the case..."

"This is a brain regulation mechanism." Xiang Shan said: "Evolution regards euphoria as a reward, encouraging organisms to find food to fill their stomachs, and encouraging organisms to mate to reproduce. However, evolution must also ensure that this euphoria It must fade away quickly, otherwise, the creatures who are full will continue to eat and forget the great cause of reproduction. Or the creatures are addicted to mating, even forgetting to find food, and cannot carry out the next reproduction behavior."

"So, unless you destroy your own brain and this set of mechanisms, otherwise, dissatisfaction and pain will always exist. Even if you use illegal drugs to obtain physical pleasure, when the effects of the drugs wear off, before the brain is completely broken When it's time... there will always be double pain."

"But in the long run, in a long life, the continuous accumulation of happiness ... in this process, whether looking forward to the future or remembering the past, can obtain greater and overall happiness. It may be a single point in time In fact, such 'satisfaction' may be huge."

There is a famous study by Nobel Laureate in Economics Daniel Kahneman.Volunteers followed Kahneman's request to describe their full-day itinerary on a typical working day, and then rated how much they liked or hated these moments one by one.He found that most people actually have conflicting views about life.Take “raising the next generation” as an example.In terms of purely estimated "happiness" or "disgust" numbers, raising a child can be said to be very unpleasant.A lot of the time, raising kids is about changing diapers, doing the dishes, and dealing with their crying and tantrums, which are drudgery no one wants to do.However, most parents say that their children are their main source of happiness.

This may also be a constraint imposed by the evolutionary mechanism.But it also reveals a little bit of the law of the operation of the human spirit.

Happiness is not as simple as "more pleasant moments than painful moments".Instead, happiness looks at the totality of one's life; the totality of one's life has meaning and value, and that is what makes one happy.

Zhu Xinyu asked: "Then what does this have to do with my dislike of money?"

"Because you understand this. You know what money can buy. Money can buy a lot of good food and drink, but you don't think the physical euphoria that it brings is that great. Money can buy respect, but you think What you do is more worthy of other people's respect. In your imagination, when you look back on the years with gray hair, you will not regret the time wasted, and you will not be ashamed that you did nothing."

"This is how a person's life should be spent! The most precious thing for a person is life, and life is only once for each of us. Therefore, a person's life should be spent like this. In this way, when he is dying, he can say : 'My whole life and all my energies have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world'."

Xiang Shan stood up with a slightly excited tone.

"But the person I told you about is having a great time." Zhu Xinyu pouted.

"And the guy you hate really wants to have what money can bring him. He thinks that if he has money, he has 'success'. He deserves 'happiness'. What he has experienced The environment made him produce such a measure of value - if you have money, you will have happiness, so everything other than money is not important." Xiang Shan said, "To be honest, 'happiness' is a kind of value that is difficult to be precise. Therefore, I dare not guarantee that his current "happiness" cannot offset the "emptiness". I can't tell you that his happiness must be fake. However, according to the "human happiness" There is an upper limit to the index' and the theory that 'euphoria will fade quickly'. The happiness his brain can give him will definitely not be much higher than the average happy family. However, if there is only this kind of value scale in society , then his happiness will cause more people's 'unhappiness'."

Although Zhu Xinyu still didn't understand Xiang Shan's words, but his last sentence Zhu Xinyu could still understand.

So Zhu Xinyu nodded and agreed.

"So I think it's better to have a more diversified value scale in the world. If 'strong labor ability', 'high artistic attainment', 'ability to entertain the public' and 'ability to obtain money' can be placed in the same position, people will gain almost the same If you receive almost the same amount of positive feedback, then the overall happiness of human beings will improve a lot, right?"

Zhu Xinyu couldn't help applauding: "Yes, yes...why not?"

"But sometimes you have to admit that money is really important." Xiang Shan sighed.

Zhu Xinyu's smiling face disappeared immediately: "Why are you like this? Good and bad things are said by one person."

"If you have ever been poor, you should know that in this era, it is difficult to maintain dignity without money, because there are really people who reject you and belittle you because you have no money. Sometimes, having no money means that you cannot survive. Or they can't survive in the face of poverty and disease. Because the reality is like this, so we can't blame people for having only this kind of value concept."

Zhu Xinyu gritted her teeth: "A kid from a rich family like you, how do you know what a poor person is?"

Xiang Shan said: "You really believed me when I was joking. According to the information, your family is richer than mine...ah!"

Zhu Xinyu kicked Xiang Shan, then walked out of the lounge and said, "I'm going back!"

(End of this chapter)