Chapter 606 Brain in a Vat
Lin Han is so popular now that Yenching University Press naturally wants to borrow his influence openly. "Philosophy in the Matrix" is a relatively professional interpretation book. If it is put in normal times, not many people will buy it.
But now it is basically the best time. The novel it interprets is becoming popular. Many people say that they cannot understand the hidden meaning. The analysis and answers on the Internet are ultimately limited and scattered.
Moreover, if Lin Han wrote the preface to this book, it would be half an official text, so he would rather wait for him to read it slowly than give the preface to him!
Lin Han put his phone in his pocket. Now he has something to do after get off work. He has to finish reading this book produced by the Department of Philosophy of Yenching University. If the interpretation is not good, he would rather refuse than smash his own signature.
Building a good reputation is not easy, but destroying it is particularly easy!
Zhang Guangbao's work efficiency is very high, and a courier in the same city came here a few hours later.
Xie Xin curiously took the package and entered the set. The movie was being filmed, and Lin Han was so busy that he had no time to pay attention to her.
"Sister Xin, can our studio still receive express delivery?" Xu Jiayan's assistant sister Cao Qianqian whispered, "Can you give me a copy of the address? It's just that I'm bored here every day, so I can find something to pass the time."
"This is Director Lin's thing. It should be fine if you send it to the studio for a low profile. We still have to stay in the studio for a month!"
Cao Qianqian nodded seriously. She is in her early 25 years old and has no other hobbies. She likes to visit Taobao and adds everything she likes to the shopping cart, especially when the crew is bored in filming.
"Director Lin actually knows how to shop online, I really didn't expect it."
Xie Xin shook her head and explained in a low voice: "This is not an online shopping. It depends on the address sent from Yenching University. It feels a bit like a book."
"It's amazing! It's actually Yenching University. Director Lin's social circle is so big!" When Cao Qianqian was studying, she always felt that Yenching University could only be used to look up and worship.
"Okay, I just finished the shooting, so I'll take the things to Director Lin. Brother Jiayan has also come down. Go and get a bottle of water for him to drink!"
After the two of them were talking, the shooting ended temporarily, but Lin Han still seemed a little dissatisfied and was pointing at the monitor with the photography director, probably wanting to shoot again.
After they finished talking, Lin Han put the headphones aside and sat on the director's chair and started to think.
"Director Lin, this is a package sent from Yenching University, and it just arrived."
Lin Han held the package in his hand, and he was a little surprised. He received the call at noon and now he has sent it in less than three hours. The same-city express delivery is indeed awesome!
Now he showed his skill in unpacking the express delivery with bare hands, and directly tore open the express delivery packaging bag and took out the book samples inside.
"Philosophy in the Matrix" has been authorized by Renmin University Press and Lin Han, so the cover of the book is exactly the same as the simplified version of "The Matrix", with a very similar cover!
However, there is no preface in this book, probably just printed temporarily, and the ink on it is still very strong. After Lin Han read a few pages, he found that his workload must be very large, with 130 pages.
Xie Xin, who was standing aside, saw the name of the book with sharp eyes. She asked in confusion: "This is written by a teacher from Yanjing University. It looks exactly the same as our novel!"
"It was written by all the teachers and students of the Department of Philosophy. Let me help them write the preface. Xiao Xie, please help me remember the time. If I forget it, remember to remind me in a week."
Xie Xin nodded repeatedly, and she couldn't help but admire the people from Yenching University who were invited to invite Lin Han, the owner of the novel, to help them write the preface. This publicity stunt is worth at least hundreds of thousands of copies of sales!
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As the filming time progressed, the actors' tacit understanding became higher and higher, and the cooperation of the on-site staff was much more orderly. In addition, the several actors were basically old actors, so the progress quickly exceeded Lin Han's expectations.
The work time is gradually getting ahead every day. Unless there is a scene at night, Lin Han can usually return home at 7 o'clock in the evening!
In addition to teasing Chai Chai, he was reading the book "Philosophy in the Matrix" while Chen Jiaxuan was watching TV. He had to admit that the analysis angles of teachers and students at Yenching University were very interesting.
It is obviously an analytical philosophy, but they are the first to start from the part that readers are most interested in and describe the story of the whole novel from the perspective of security technology: This situation is somewhat similar to the situation when debugging viruses in a virtual machine. Normal programs run quietly in the virtual machine. A few privileged programs like Neo can do many extraordinary things, and even jump out of the virtual machine and enter the host to run. In the end, Neo sacrificed himself to help the matrix locate Agent Smith, which is the pid of the virus process. Then, through a round of memory anti-virus and restarting the virtual machine, the matrix is restored to normal state!
Of course, this group of people have real talents and knowledge. They have both writing style and thinking, and use words to present their thoughts to readers. Even Lin Han felt a little novel.
For example, Lin Han had no idea what this article means before, and after reading it, he was considered popularized by science.
"It is known as one of the most difficult novels in history, it is not easy to figure out the plot of "The Matrix". Fortunately, we only need to know the background of the story, but this seems like an old routine of discussing the relationship between humans and machines.
The pinnacle of this type of article is Lin Han's own debut work "I, Robot", but the discussion triggered by "The Matrix" far exceeds that book. Why do philosophers have a special liking for "The Matrix"?
Because it brings us thinking about a more essential issue, which is the background of the whole novel, and it can be regarded as the boldest hypothesis of our own destiny in history. That is: If we are really in a virtual world created by computers, can we still determine the authenticity of the external world?
If you think this statement is too confusing, then you can change it to philosophical language, which is also a famous imaginary in the history of thought.
Although the brain in the tank is a hypothesis, it is based on real experiments.
In the 1930s, Penfield, a famous American neurosurgeon, tried to use surgery to treat severe epilepsy in a 14-year-old girl.
The little girl was lying on the operating table, her skull was opened, and the doctor was using electrodes to explore the temporal lobe of her brain. The girl suddenly found that she was in the grass, on a sunny summer day, a strange man slowly approached...
The horror scene that once reappeared, Penfield used external stimulation to bring the parties back to the real world.
At this moment, you were sitting on a chair reading, your hand turned over the page, the smell of pizza next door floated over, and wonderful music came from the distance...
Wait! None of this is true.
The truth is that an evil scientist took out your brain and put it in a large tank filled with nutrient solution. Every nerve in the brain is connected to the computer, which is transmitting nerve signals to the brain.
Do you think your hands are flipping through books? Can you see the scenery outside the window? Can you smell the fragrance of food? Can you hear music in the distance? It is just a sense of touch, vision, taste, and hearing created by artificial signals.
Do you think you can reach out to get the thing next to you? It's just a three-dimensional feeling simulated by adjusting the voltage.
You pinched yourself hard, trying to use pain to prove that you are living in the real world, but it is useless, because the pain can also be simulated by signals. In short, you have no way to prove that the world around you is real.
OK, the ultimate question is: How can you prove that you are not living in this situation now?"
The answer to this series of questions may be pessimistic. We may really not be sure that the outside world is real, and we cannot even prove whether we are in a dream!
Lin Han closed the book, and now he couldn't help but question whether he had traveled to a specious world or was he actually dreaming?
Is all this true around you?
He never knew how time travel happened, why he came to this world for no reason, and he could remember so many things like cheating.
It is said that if you think about something every day and dream about something at night, it is my dream to become a world-class literary master, so when you dream, let yourself realize this opportunity?
But this dream comes too real. Everything you have experienced and anything you do doesn’t seem to be false.
If it was really a dream, it would be amazing that I could actually conceive such a huge and orderly dream world!
He stretched out his hand and touched the sofa with a trembling trembling. The touch was very real; he picked up a petal of orange on the table, and the slightly sour taste was also very real!
Is Chen Jiaxuan next to her real?
"Dear, what's wrong with you?" Chen Jiaxuan looked at Lin Han as if she was hit by lightning, and she asked with concern.
Lin Han held Chen Jiaxuan's hand and leaned forward without saying a word and kissed her!
All things are illusory, only love is eternal!
Regardless of whether your brain is in the body or in the tank, no matter whether you can truly control your own destiny, life must continue!
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