Mage Joan

"And when we die, the soul's destination is neither in the brain nor in the kingdom of heaven to rest in. It is either completely annihilated or swallowed by the higher beings that dominate our dreams, just like you just swallowed it in that jar. brain."

Qiao Ann paused to think for a moment, then elaborated on his doubts.

"We might as well take this idea to the extreme. Perhaps even your'spiritual princess' is not a real object, but an image I imagined in the tank."

"Of course, the reverse is the same. I am probably not a person, just because you want a friend like me, you created such a character named Gnostic in your dream."

"Brother Gnostic, you asked a very interesting question, I can try to answer it."

Metatron thought for a while, then slowly said: "When you start to think about whether you exist, it has already shown that you are real, otherwise you will not be able to think at all."

The argument of "Princess Ling Su" can be boiled down to one sentence, "I think, therefore I am", but Qiao An does not agree with this concept.

"You regard thinking ability as the essence of life, and use your ability to think to prove your own existence. This is actually an inverted result as a cause, a circular argument."

"In fact, existence precedes thinking, perception, and all other essences."

"It's like the brain in a tank in your laboratory. They all think and have a complete view of the world in which they live, but they don't live in reality. You can't prove that you are not in another tank for the same reason." The brain is not packed in a higher-dimensional jar."

After hearing Qiao'an's rebuttal, Metatron shrugged and spread his hands, with a wry smile on his face.

"I have to admit that your criticism hit the nail on the head, Brother Gnostic. We are now facing a problem that cannot be falsified and cannot be solved with scientific experiments or other rational-based tools."

"For this problem, most intelligent races have two attitudes."

"First of all, adhering to the principle of empiricism, affirming that all such metaphysical propositions do not help solve practical problems such as eating, drinking, and Lhasa, and are not worthy of serious discussion."

"This attitude is like'closing your eyes and pretending to be dark.' It is purely self-deception. When you feel anxious about a problem, even if others say it is not important, it will not get you out of anxiety."

"Another view is to turn to religious beliefs. As long as you are willing to believe that there is an all-knowing and omnipotent **** who created the entire world and all living beings with great divine power that mortals cannot understand, all doubts can be traced back to the source to be attributed to the gods, then you will not What needs to be doubted, because all destiny is arranged by God. As long as you have a pious belief, you can get peace in your heart, and the soul after death will also rise to the promised land commensurate with your belief."

"If you don't want to evade problems, and don't want to use faith to numb yourself, there is only the third path left, which is the path that our mind-separation clan adheres to-using collective life to hedge against individual emptiness."

"Brother Gnostic, look at me, look at the compatriots around you, and open your heart to communicate with your compatriots. When you realize that you are not the only one who is confused by this kind of problem, do you feel more at ease?"

"Being alone is a sin, privacy is the source of pain, living in a collective, compatriots will help you share all the confusion and pain."

"If life is an illusory dream, so what? Anyway, you are not the only one who has been deceived. Anyway, everyone is like this. Your tragedy is not special, and it is not a special tragedy that deserves our special sadness."

"I can't solve the problems, there will always be smarter compatriots than me to solve them. Even if no one can answer questions for the time being, at least there will be someone who can help me share the disappointment and frustration. At least I can use my knowledge when I am dying. Confusion and confusion into the main mind, pass it on, and leave it to future generations to solve. Isn't it easier to think about it this way?"

"The destruction of a person is a tragedy, and a race to a dead end is a hero. In order to avoid heroism, sometimes we have to endure tragedies."

"Brother Gnostic, I can’t answer your question, but I believe that our children and grandchildren will be smarter and more knowledgeable than our generation. Standing on the shoulders of their predecessors, they can see farther. One day can give a satisfactory answer. For this reason, it is necessary to give our offspring a chance to be born and grow up healthily, even if our generation is sacrificed for this."

"If every generation of compatriots has the same consciousness, our race will have a bright future, and there will be no problems that can keep us from evolving to a higher level of civilization!"

Metatron became more excited as he spoke, and walked straight to Qiao Ann, his eyes gleaming, and he hugged his shoulders hard, as if to imprint his own ideas deeply in his mind.

"My dear Gnostic brother, don’t take yourself too seriously. After all, you and I are just a thinking reed in the universe. When you doubt whether you really exist, you doubt the value of life, and you don’t know yourself. When one should live for what purpose, one should learn to live for the compatriots around him."

"Everyone is for me, and I am for all. This is the panacea of ​​our soul-separating demons against nihilism since ancient times!"

Metatron's passionate speech, as if a stream of heat poured into Qiao An's heart, moved him deeply.

If he was born to be a demon, if he was younger and more susceptible to others, perhaps he would really take Metatron's point of view as a standard, and then devote himself to the collective business and no longer worry about it.

Unfortunately he is not.

From the pessimistic grandfather to the optimistic Master Rawls, from Mr. Jefferson who drafted the "Declaration of Independence" to the ups and downs of his life, from the ups and downs of his life, Mrs. Josephine, to the cynical and deviant Professor Moriarty ...

Over the years, Qiao An has experienced many ideological shocks in the human world, and has been influenced by many teachers. At the same time, he has reflected and even criticized the views of the teachers, and will no longer be easily persuaded by any seemingly perfect ideas.

Metatron’s philosophy is based on the belief that society is always progressing, at least spiraling upwards, and in general "one generation is stronger than one generation" until it reaches the "absolute spirit" advocated by the mind-severs.

However, in Qiao An's view, this idea is essentially a religion, but it replaces the worship of divine power with the worship of reason, and the expectation of gods with the expectation of compatriots and future generations.

However, civilization does not always rise, and descendants may not always be more outstanding than their ancestors. Metatron did not consider the unexpected factors that interrupted the social evolution of the Mind-Defenders at all, and accidents... always occur.

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