After living in the Xingyue world for so long, Ye Ting feels that he already understands the rules and characteristics of this world quite well.

First define a metaphysical"will", which is the basis of this world: it can be simply understood as a mechanical command, similar to the instructions in a program.

Four (or less) basic forces are the vague manifestation of this"will" in the representational world.

These basic forces can evolve into more complex instructions and more complex substances in the world. Although on the whole, all of this is messy, but because there are basic rules, there will always be something happening in this messy"chaos". Some special parts, this part of matter and instructions are similar to ancient life in the primitive ocean.

This kind of thing can be understood as inertia and the like that"will keep moving without the application of external force." Tropism, reactivity, instinct, will, reason, etc. are just its more and more complex forms.

Of course, this concept is just a metaphysical description and has little practical significance. It is just a pavement for the subsequent investigation.

This kind of"will" is called"Type" in the world view of Xingyue. Of course, this kind of"will" exists in many worlds, and the"will" that exists at the bottom of the Xingyue world is the so-called

"Vortex of Roots"

"Roots", in fact, have similar things in all cultures - the tree of life in the Jewish Kabbalah, the tree of existence in the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, the world tree in Norse mythology, the golden apple tree in Greek mythology, the wisdom in the Bible Tree. One can even add a modern mythological system - Darwin's evolutionary tree.

The structure of using"tree" as a metaphor for"existence" has a long history. Life is differentiation and branching.

""Root" refers to the root system of the tree of life, and"source" refers to the water source underground - so"root" actually refers to the invisible part buried in the dark soil.

If we use Buddhist terms , above the land is the visible reality, and below the land is the invisible world of cause and effect.

If you use philosophical terms to describe it, you need to turn the"tree" upside down: above the land is the physical world of representation, and below the land is the world of physical representation. Below is the metaphysical world of ideas, where branching branches converge into a common"root".

In the world of Xingyue, the"vortex of the root" can actually be said to be the only protagonist, and all the events involved in all the characters are just its supporting parts. Wearing a mask of personality to amuse ourselves (a bit like"The King in Yellow")

"The rules of"Root Vortex" have long ago created the original universe, original chaos, but chaos does not mean complete chaos. According to chaos theory, even in chaos, there is a local order that is different from the overall chaos, which is manifested in chaos. The order in the universe is the existence of planets - the collection of matter and energy in their universe, which is the order that exists in chaos. The development of astronomy has integrated the evolution of planets into the evolution of the universe - once People believe that the movement of the planet with such a degree of order and harmony must come from the"subjective will" of creation, that is, the theory of intelligent design; but in the end, people discovered that dust spontaneously moves toward the earth through a scientific law (accretion). It has an orderly morphological evolution, so it is better to say that this is an"objective effect."

If the"vortex of origin" represents will, then the whole is the embodiment of its instinct, and the planet is its true will and thinking.

But from another perspective, can’t it be said that there is some kind of manifestation of divinity on the planet?

In fact, the term"star soul" does exist in the Xingyue world. The so-called UO is the theoretical end point of the food chain of planetary evolution and is the king of the planet that executes the will of the planet. If the star soul does exist, then UO is the star. The strongest tentacle of the soul.

But when it comes to the will of the planet, we have to mention the birth of life.

If the planet, as a collection of matter, is an unexpectedly produced order in the chaotic universe, then life, as a collection of organic matter capable of self-replication and reproduction, is a new order that is unexpectedly produced in the chaotic material on the surface of the planet.

If compared to the chaotic universe, matter is the embodiment of order, then compared to inanimate matter, life is a higher level of order.

The existence of life brings about the birth of a new will above the will of the source and the will of the planet - that is the"Gaia Will". The so-called"Gaia" theory - that is, the living bodies and non-living bodies on the earth together form an interoperable world. A complex system of interactions, and"Gaia" is the will of nature - atmospheric flow, water circulation, ocean currents and trade winds, material balance, ecological balance, plate movement, all of which are the self-regulation of the huge consciousness of"Gaia"; The meaning of the alternation of life generations is nothing more than the organizational renewal of"Gaia". For the will of nature, life, like non-living things, is just a means of adjustment. But in turn, it is precisely because of the existence of a large number of lives that the will of Gaia exists. Above the will of the planet.

Above the will of Gaia, the fourth level of will is called"Alaya", which is the collective unconscious of mankind.

Just like order"betrayed" chaos and life"betrayed" matter, as the primate of all things, humans also"betrayed" Gaia, the will of nature.

First of all, we can imagine living things, including humans, as a continuously existing"superorganism" according to each species: an individual is just equivalent to a single cell, and the birth and death of an individual are just this"superorganism" organizational updates.

Then we examined a phenomenon - this"superorganism" has almost no so-called memory, because it has no"brain" part for processing memory, and is at an extremely low level in terms of biological characteristics.

So each species is like a person who keeps losing his memory. Every time he wakes up, he finds himself in a strange place, so every time he repeats the same behavior - in this way,"Gaia" or our planet gets A stable ecosystem and power source.

The key to the desire to survive being able to break away from the control of natural desire lies in the emergence of"civilization" - this is the original sin of Adam and Eve in Christianity who stole the forbidden fruit.

The so-called birth of civilization is based on the fact that human beings can record memories outside the brain through stone slabs, knots, and even oral transmission. Therefore,"human beings", a super life form, finally have the ability to"memory", and memory brings Came thinking.

Thinking arises from the chaotic unconsciousness, which is the beginning of thought. It is not an exaggeration to call Alaya consciousness the subjective consciousness of Gaia.

But just like what humans face: subjective consciousness and subconsciousness are always contradictory, so humans always have to overcome their various desires in life and fight against arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. Only in this way can we It's called civilization.

So humanity betrayed Gaia, and"Alaya Consciousness" was born.

Civilization is essentially an"externalized gene", such as the concept of memes that is well known in our time. _To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download Feilu Novel A

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