Tokyo Juggernaut 2077

"I'll take a look around, you don't have to pay attention to me." Yuan Ye raised the personal terminal on his wrist, "Contact me if you need anything."

Although Gao Shan Zhenya's trust in Yuan Ye has increased because of Yuan Ye's operation just now, but he will always feel a little uncomfortable staying by his side with an unfamiliar superior, so he naturally agreed to come down in a hurry.

It's just a walk around, but there's actually nothing to see in this underground theater. After all, it's just a stage built in a warehouse, which is really lacklustre.

Yuan Ye avoided the crowd and walked to a corner, cast his gaze on Shinya Takayama who thought he had gone far away, and observed silently.

===Chapter 240 Fifth Persona===

Yuan Ye folded his hands on his chest, found a clean-looking wall to lean against, and waited for the performance to start.

The host on the stage was announcing the curtain. A few young men and women dressed in fancy clothes entered the arena with their musical instruments. After putting down their instruments, under the guidance of the host, they spoke about their non-mainstream band with a mixture of Chinese, Japanese and English. Named and bowed a somewhat perfunctory bow to the audience.

Even so, it still won a burst of cheers from the audience. Most of the people who came here were regular customers. Obviously, this band is quite popular among these audiences.

After bowing, everyone in the band began to introduce their names, and said some polite words intermittently, which set off bursts of cheers in the crowd, and the color of the light sticks changed according to the speaker. Color seems to be the cheering color for everyone.

——The atmosphere is good.

Yuan Ye sighed in his heart as he watched the lively crowd.

The frequency of the breathing method appeared in his chest cavity. Although the breathing method can no longer bring him physical improvement, as he discovered before, the breathing method is not so much a "practice method" as it is It is a kind of "language", a language with breath as the carrier.

Since there are sentences in this language that can make the body "boil", there are naturally sentences that can calm the body, and this kind of distinction is easy for Yuan Ye, who has already understood the "grammar" of the "language" of breathing. Can understand and improve.

Yuan Ye just repeated a few simple speech syllables that can calm the body down, trying hard to keep his body from fluctuating with the heated atmosphere in the field-although fluctuations may not necessarily bring about changes, but for For him, whose psychic capacity has increased, every change, even the possibility of change, is extremely dangerous, and it may cause physical changes at any time.

After the band members on stage introduced themselves, they stepped back and adjusted their instruments, leaving only the lead singer and captain who is a rhythm guitarist to chat with the host.

Naturally, the idol activities in the underground theater are not just a simple performance. The chat content before and after the performance is also part of the solid fans. The lead singer is obviously a veteran. The expression changes between words, coupled with exaggerated action performances, caused a burst of laughter from the audience. , the host is also quite skillful in answering and delivering the words, which has a bit of a variety show flavor.

Yuan Ye leaned against the wall, watching the somewhat exaggerated performance above with relish, although they were all talking about jokes that were fashionable in 2077 and didn't resonate with him, but before and after the time travel, it was consistent, with Yingzhou's characteristic funny variety show style Acting is still fun.

After chatting awkwardly for about 10 minutes, the host interrupted the topic first, said a few words on the scene before retreating, and the lead singer made a few more jokes after the host's exit, making the audience laugh again for a while, and then announced the start of the show.

"Then, please listen to this song "******"." The lead singer's tongue bent rather unskillfully, and said the name of the song that was not composed of any common international language at all.

Accompanied by the drummer's drumbeat, high-frequency electronic sounds spewed out from the speakers, and the lead singer grabbed the microphone vigorously, roaring out a rap composed of language somewhat similar to simple modal particles.

The ear-piercing sound poured into Yuan Ye's ears, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

— some unknown man-made language?This is not uncommon in popular music. Before time travel, many musicians used their own language to write songs.

——But man-made languages ​​are said to be man-made, in fact, most of them evolved from a certain language, but now there is no trace of Yingzhou language or other common languages ​​in this song, and it is closer to a simple exclamation.

——However, this artificial language seems to be quite popular in the recent pop music scene in Yingzhou. Most of the popular new songs use this artificial language similar to exclamation to write hymn-style electronic pop music for religious prayers.

——This should just be influenced by the popularity of the music scene.

Yuan Ye took a long breath and re-adjusted his own breathing. Under this kind of strong rhythmic repetition frequency, ordinary people are very easy to be guided. Even his breathing rhythm is somewhat disordered, which has a tendency to change to the rhythm of the music.

——Spiritual practice is still not in place.

Yuan Ye complained in his heart, using this behavior to distract and refocus, allowing himself to regain the dominance of consciousness.

"Concerts will force your ears" This example Ito Taketa gave when he introduced psychic powers to himself has been perfectly confirmed here. It's not because the spiritual practice is not in place or the ability is insufficient, because only the intellectual life can accept it. Without external information, it will never be possible to maintain absolutely objective thinking.

This is not whether you want to, but whether you can do it at this level.

The Buddha also has the vajra's glaring eyes. Since ancient times, it has been difficult to get rid of the mind. The sages all said that they should not ask the mind, because the human mind is difficult to perfect.

For an extraordinary person like Yuan Ye, thanks to the infinitely divisible nature of psychic energy, as long as there are distracting thoughts, there must be a corresponding amount of psychic energy that will move in response to these thoughts and begin to affect the objective world.

Transcendents in the first domain can't let the psionic energy go too far from the body, so most of the effects are changes to themselves—for example, Yuan Ye's hands that are gradually emitting pink and purple light.

——It can make flesh and blood radioactive, and psionic energy is really an extraordinary and extraordinary power.

At this time, the song turned to the chorus, the lead guitarist played a solo, and the light sticks in the audience turned dark red. After sensing the change in the environment, Yuan Ye's hands also changed color.

——It can also change color, which is amazing.

Yuan Ye raised his head with some difficulty, and cast his gaze at Shinya Takayama in the center of the crowd. The other party was waving a fluorescent stick to the melody, looking very devoted, obviously a fanatic fan of this band.

As if aware of Yuan Ye's gaze, Gao Shanzhen also turned his head and met his eyes.

Yuan Ye waved his hand as a greeting.

The crowd blocked some sight, Gao Shanzhen also mistook Yuan Ye's glowing hands for a light stick, and thought that Yuan Ye was also supporting this band he liked, so he raised his arms in response, and then threw himself into the support middle.

— What a frenzy.

——It's not the same person as he was before.

——But it’s also just right, as a reference standard, it exceeds expectations.

Yuan Ye thought for a while in his heart, then reached out and took out the wooden mask with a ferocious ghost painted on it.

After inspecting the evil spirit on the mask again, Yuan Ye put the mask on after recalling every stroke of the painting in his mind.

——Self-hypnosis, no, it should be said that cognitive manipulation is more appropriate.

——Wonderful experience.

Eyes closed, this mask is no longer a common handicraft in Yuan Ye's cognition, but his [persona mask].

===Chapter 240 The Sixth Self===

Persona refers to the personality appearance that people show in public places. Its purpose is to show a good image that is beneficial to oneself in order to gain social recognition. Effective use of persona is an important means for people to gain benefits in society.

It really sounds like a very useful and necessary necessity in modern society. Unfortunately, there are advantages and disadvantages. Excessive attention to personality masks will inevitably sacrifice other parts of the personality structure, thereby causing harm to mental health.

In layman's terms, it's like an actor wearing a mask when he enters the industry is often warned by his predecessors not to get too deep into the show. Once he goes too far, he will no longer be himself.

But the people who would choose to move forward in the extraordinary realm obviously wouldn't be normal people. To put it in extreme terms, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they are all psychopaths with distorted thinking.

The reason is very simple. If the practice in the first field is just to make the ordinary self become the perfect self in the eyes of "self", then the practice in the second field is to make the perfect self in the eyes of "self" become the perfect self in the eyes of "others". perfect existence.

The "other" here does not refer to others, but refers to the object of the subjective consciousness of the non-extraordinary person himself.

However, it is quite appropriate to directly replace others with words such as the masses or others. From a certain point of view, the process of cultivation in the second realm of the transcendent is very different from the process of an ordinary person growing into a morally perfect person in the eyes of the masses. Similar, they all belong to the category of "how steel is tempered".

The reason for this similarity is that the human brain cannot actually understand the supernatural domain knowledge after the second domain, which is beyond the understanding limit of the normal brain. It is simply impossible to make a perfect move.

For the transcendent in the past, after crossing the carbon-based limit and increasing the capacity of psionic energy to the [natural end point], the transcendent domain has come to an end, and the road ahead is nothing but "crazy babble", something that does not exist.

Physical fitness can't be strengthened again, and the ability to control spiritual power can't be increased. Decades of hard work are just trying to find the moon in the water, and looking for fish in the woods.

But with the development of technology, the pitch-black ore was dug out from the ground thousands of meters deep, and put into the red boiler like the sun. The hot steam that seemed to melt people pushed the steel gears in the shape of a god-like creation. Turning in the calculation array, the iron-like facts were printed on a thick paper tape, and placed before people's eyes.

——There is a road ahead.

It is a pity that even if this step is achieved, it is still an unattainable dream for the extraordinary, because even if the road ahead is clearly shown in the pinholes on the paper tape, it is still not a fragile carbon-based human being. Primates can do it.

Just like an ancient chess player who spends his whole life looking for the so-called "God's hand", even if he knows that there is a "Go God" whose every move is "God's hand", he cannot become such an existence—— How can it be a machine?

But fortunately, the most important thing for a human being to be human is to know how to use tools. Go has a so-called "fixed form", and a similar technique exists in the transcendental field, that is, the concept of thinking.

Transforming the cold mathematical formulas that cannot be done into the image of some kind of "god" or "great being" that can be described and understood abstractly, using abstract thinking, this computer is not yet as good as a human being. Advantages, let yourself advance to a deeper field.

In layman's terms, if one compares a person's natural main thinking body to a rough stone, then the practice process in the second domain is to carve the raw stone into a stone statue, but the main thinking body is not a stone, and even a little mistake is fatal, but human How could there be no mistakes?Therefore, it is natural for a transcendent who has not developed a concept to continue to progress, and one will die after being promoted, and the one who has not died is also crazy.

The two ends of the visualization method, that is, [Second Brain] and [Vision Map], are like CNC machine tools and electronic models. Manuals cannot achieve such high processing precision, so it is left to "machines" to do it. Nature does it fast and well.

It’s just that the human brain is not as simple as a machine after all. Some people have said that the shortest shortcut is to take a long way. Since the concept of visualization takes advantage of the feature of abstract thinking, then the final visualization is not necessarily the original “self” , but the "abstract self", or the self in the eyes of "others" and "others".

But it will never be the self in the eyes of "myself".

But no one would want to become "others" - anyone who would think so would take the prosthetic route.

To use the terminology in a game that Yuan Ye liked very much before crossing, if the prosthetic body technology, that is, the mechanical ascension route is "to give the courageous people a strong body", then the extraordinary technology, or the psychic ascension route, then It is "give the coward a heart of iron".

Prosthetic body technology is to replace the monster with [inhuman heart] with [extraordinary body]. The extraordinary technology after the second domain is to help ordinary people with [extraordinary body] create an [inhuman body] Heart】.

Since the transformation from "human" to "non-human" is to be completed, a question will naturally arise-after becoming a "non-human", am I still the original me?

the answer is negative.

But it is human-made, and it is not impossible to transform into an inhuman if you want to maintain yourself.

The key point is to use the 【Personality Mask】.

Of course, this is just the extraordinary technology borrowing the term of psychology to express its own thoughts, it does not express the meaning in psychology.

Human consciousness will be influenced and "anti-shaped" by group unconsciousness. Human beings are social animals, but the consciousness of successful people in society must not fully meet the expectations of social consciousness.

In other words, in a certain society, successful people in the general cognition of social consciousness need to have extraordinary qualities that the "general public" that constitutes social consciousness does not have to be "allowed" to succeed-we will temporarily A successful person in this social consciousness is called a morally perfect person.

In social consciousness, only those with perfect morals are worthy of success, and those who are not successful are "unworthy of virtue".

But if you want to know with your ass, are there so many people in the real society, are they all morally perfect?Totally impossible!

In this case, social consciousness will "anti-shape" it, and make successful people "become" morally perfect people through public opinion and other methods.

Successful people are naturally unwilling to be morally perfect, and at this time, they have to ask for a personality mask to appear on the stage.

Personality mask is the personality appearance that people show in public places. Its purpose is to show a good image that is beneficial to oneself in order to gain social recognition. For example, people who eat people without spit out their bones often publicize how much they love the poor. It is easy to do charity. Even the ancient sages would pave roads and build bridges, and give out porridge in times of disaster.

Then, if these nouns are replaced with words from the transcendent domain, the answer will be obvious.

Only the perfect main body of thought (moral perfection) can be recognized by psionics (group unconsciousness) and continue to advance (successful) in the extraordinary field, but if psionics finds that your thinking is not suitable for the perfect main thinking body, it will Anti-shape you, and at this time, if you don't want to become "inhuman", you need to wear a persona.

That is to have [I who is not me].

===Chapter 240 Seven Ego, Id and Superego in the Extraordinary Domain===

The so-called "I that is not me" can actually be said to be "the me in disguise".

Seeing delicious food, wanting to devour, seeing beauties wanting to possess, and seeing wealth wanting to seize, this is a common desire of a person, which is perfectly normal, as long as the "mind of mind" has not been fixed, there is no such thing as the Buddha's state of mind. , distracting thoughts can never be eliminated.

In terms of Freud's psychodynamic theory, this is the "Id" - rooted in genes, the most primitive human desire to satisfy instinctive impulses.

But the reason why people are human is because they know how to use [shackles]. After people fall from the tree, they learn to use moral norms to restrain themselves, so as to exchange for greater "great freedom".

After being bound, what remains is the [self], which is the [I] in the ordinary sense.

What the practice of the second realm pursues is the complete mastery of psychic power, or in other words, the complete mastery of the subjective consciousness, that is, the self - because psychic power is an extraordinary power that will never betray, but it is only absolute loyalty. Objectively speaking, you are an independent individual.

Is "myself" the dirty thought that flashes through my mind?Is the subconscious mind that has never been realized in the bottom of my heart the "self"?The vast majority of people don’t think that’s the self, but psionics don’t think so. It is absolutely equal and treats people equally, and it also recognizes the “self” that you don’t want to admit and is unaware of as “you”.

As the times move forward, sociality increases and instinct decreases. For ordinary people, the shackles called morality become heavier and heavier from primitive society to agricultural society to industrial society, and the self is naturally suppressed more and more. The weaker you are, the stronger your self is, which is why the bearded theorist said that "man is the sum of social relations".

Therefore, normally speaking, for normal social people living in modern society without anti-social attributes, the existence of the id has long been disciplined and suppressed by the society, and it is difficult to compare with the influence of the self.

Just like a person who is frail and frail, tends to be a little unconfident and tends to be introverted in interpersonal communication, but if he starts to exercise and become strong and healthy, he will naturally become brighter and brighter. This is material determines consciousness.

The practice of extraordinary people in the first field is the process of strengthening the carbon-based body, suppressing the self and releasing the self. The breathing method in ancient times often imitated the form of tigers and leopards. In addition to strengthening effective speech syllables, using animal nature to suppress the ego can increase the efficiency of breathing techniques is also an important factor.

Breathing method is developed by referring to the phenomenon that people in primitive society can transmit information and order others through only one or two short syllables, in order to order the body to become stronger in the most effective way, and the whole process hardly requires self If you want to participate, you can leave everything to the body, and even eliminate the interference of the self, and don't think about it, otherwise it will reduce the effect of the breathing method.