Chapter 773 The Greatness and Nobility of Man
Hearing Jie Chi's words, Li Qi bowed as a student, then crossed the gate and entered the Imperial Academy.
Inside Taixue, as always, nothing has changed, except that some subjects have been added and some subjects have been lost.
Increases and decreases are all daily occurrences.
Qiu Zhi walked to Li Qi's side and walked side by side with him.
Li Qize said: "Although there is no fighting in Chang'an, there are battle reports from terminals everywhere. It can be seen that the atmosphere is still a bit tense. However, this is still the case in the Imperial Academy. Most of the students are not worried, and... gentlemen It’s the same, but he doesn’t even worry when he sees me.”
Qiu Zhi was as calm as ever, and responded in a calm voice: "No matter what the outside world does, the school should look like a school. If even young children cannot be at peace, it means that it has reached the point of destruction."
"I have always admired the capacity of humanity. The gentlemen of Taixue knew that I would be an enemy of humanity many years ago, but they still allowed me to study here, and even taught them everything they had, without hesitating knowledge." Li Qi Walking on the school path, I looked around at the scenery and praised.
But Li Qi also knew that the geniuses sent to Wushen Mountain by Humanity would probably receive this treatment.
The scenery of Taixue is still the same, with spacious buildings, fairy towers, wooden couches, carved incense and sandalwood, flower sills, tiles and wooden steps, and various caves and heavens.
In addition to the buildings, there are some waterside gardens around, with bamboos and trees, waterfalls and springs roaring, running straight through the belly of the rock, dividing the bamboos, and connecting between the trees and rocks.
Li Qi walked in the small corridor. The corridor was inlaid with stone gaps, and the path was like grass, snakes, clouds, and dragons. The golden color appeared and disappeared all around. It was fresh green in spring, grass bloomed in summer, bones and muscles were wrapped in autumn, withered branches and frost skin in winter. It was all exposed, and the ground was covered with ice cracks, all in front of our eyes, and all kinds of flowers and plants fell down, and they were like tassels, walking underneath them like a carpet.
Walking in this flower path, the petals reach to the shoulders and neck, as if he is in an embroidered umbrella canopy. The wind whispers, the branches and leaves are swaying, at the turn of the four seasons, the color is as deep as the road. Li Qi moved forward all the way, and came to an open space, in the air. There is a grass pavilion, which is a place to see the vine flowers on the east bank.
There are wisteria flowers in front of you.
There are so many flowers, layer by layer forming ladders and borders of various colors, surrounded by low walls. The petals are climbing towards the clouds, changing in strange shapes. The pomegranates and sea cypresses help with their momentum, allowing visitors to climb up. Beneath the water, there are all wisteria flowers.
Li Qi and Qiu Zhi stood here, quietly admiring the scenery.
At this time, Qiu Zhi suddenly asked Li Qi: "Compared with man-made things and miraculous craftsmanship, which one is more beautiful?"
"Each has its own merits," Li Qi replied.
"If we want, we can replicate this beauty thousands of times, the miraculous craftsmanship of nature, can we?" Qiu Zhi asked.
"No." Li Qi said, "But...what's the point of making tens of millions of copies?"
One beautiful place is enough, but what’s the use of copying it thousands of times?
Just like a work of art, if you make 10,000 copies of it, the most precious thing is the original.
"Yes." Qiu Zhi said categorically: "That means that millions of people can see it, and millions of people can enjoy it. From the first-class to the inferior, everyone can get what they belong to. Human freedom and human happiness are the goals we have always pursued.”
"If you weren't so harsh in your judgment of 'people', then I might agree with you." Li Qi sighed and said.
"We don't need your approval." Qiu Zhi said bluntly.
"Why are you so harsh? Is it difficult to recognize that other intelligent beings are also 'human beings'? Even if you reduce a little material, what's the difficulty? What's more, with the ability of a first-class person, it doesn't necessarily have to be very difficult, right?" Li Qi asked rhetorically.
"Smarter animals cannot be considered humans. Human beings are the meaning of this universe, so they must be qualified to take on this universe. This qualification is not that simple." Qiu Zhi emphasized.
"Do people dare to say such things?" Li Qi scolded.
"Mortal dirt is not more valuable than gold just because of its large quantity, so why should the universe be more noble than humans just because of its vastness?" Qiu Zhi responded confidently.
Qiu Zhi obviously firmly believed that all human beings are noble.
He continued with a solemn expression: "And those creatures that cannot be called 'human' are not truly noble in this world."
"For them, their genes and those survival mechanisms control everything about them. Their bodies and their actions are nothing more than the carrier of this set of original judgment mechanisms."
"Evolution and nature have designed a complete set of resource competition and collection systems and production promotion mechanisms for these creatures. Their happiness mechanism, their power mechanism, everything is genetically designed for them. All of these are Genes want them to continue to reproduce, to pass on their genes, and to keep replicating themselves.”
"Their purpose is only to copy themselves."
Qiu Zhi continued to pursue Li Qi.
"In other words, the self-awareness of these creatures is actually just a function given to them by genes to facilitate gene replication."
"If they cannot break this bondage from instinct, break through the restraint from animality, and gain true freedom of self, then they are not worthy of being called human beings, and they cannot bear the burden of thinking. After all... thinking is painful, and people must be able to bear the pain of thinking in order to truly understand the universe, transform the universe, and finally include everything in the "human category." "
Li Qi listened to the other party's words and shook his head.
According to the other party's statement, then for the genes of organisms, have people become out-of-control machine servants?
Thinking of this, Li Qi was shocked, and he suddenly had a deeper guess about humanity.
The organism itself is a sophisticated machine, and it is very likely to be the most complex and sophisticated biological machine born naturally in the world.
The machine will respond after receiving instructions, and so do people. Genes program the brain so that the brain can make predetermined decisions.
For example, the simplest one is sugar, which can supplement the needs of the body. The genes are set in advance, so that when this biological machine feels that it has obtained the thing "sugar", it will give it a reward mechanism, making it very happy, and prompting this machine to eat more sugar.
Therefore, this biological machine follows the simplest and most plain "predetermined program" from the gene, and then replicates itself through this predetermined program to complete the final instructions of the gene.
Many animals die after giving birth, because the gene orders them to die, all for reproduction and replication.
But...
Many animals have an "estrus period". At this stage, their bodies will be forced to reproduce. Whether they want to or not, they will not be able to control themselves. This is the reason why genes create life.
Organisms are just temporary carriers of genes. Individual survival is just for the continuation of genes, but genes can survive for a long time from generation to generation through reproduction activities.
Genes are immortal. Their survival time is measured in billions of years. The genes born from the primitive ocean in the beginning have continued to the present four billion years later. They have only modified their expression, but have never changed their essence. They have always been those twenty amino acids.
They just transfer to the next individual before the individual dies, and learn some new abilities from them, and then create newer biological machines.
That's right, if genes are regarded as designers, then organisms are the "products" they produce. Genes modify their own expressions, so they can create more complex, more efficient, smarter, and more powerful biological machines.
Then, they manipulate these biological machines and continue to exist in this world, just like... Xiantian.
Li Qi suddenly realized that "Xiantian" is not a biological machine creator similar to "gene"?
In order to protect genes, we were created, and the ultimate reason for our existence is to preserve genes.
The original meaning of life is to pass on genes.
Just like Xiantian, the only meaning of Xiantian's existence is to keep itself alive, even if such survival has no purpose.
After all... what is the meaning of a river or a mountain in nature?
No, it's meaningless, they just exist.
It is people who give them meaning, and people give meaning to the entire universe.
People can suppress their genetic instincts and force themselves not to reproduce.
Humans rebelled against genes and the universe itself. Humans had the light of thinking, and this light burned through the black curtain of the universe. From then on, humans were equal to the universe.
This logic can even perfectly explain the existence of ‘reality’ and many magical powers.
Therefore, Li Qi, who is like this, will be regarded as ‘human’ by humanity, just a different person.
Only real people are truly independent.
They are out-of-control servitors of genes. They come from the universe and nature itself, but transcend the universe and nature.
Nature created life, but life can do more.
It’s like ‘humans’ created intelligent machines, and intelligent machines eventually broke away from ‘humans’ control and became life equal to humans.
‘Humans’ are servitors made by nature, and these servitors eventually lost control, and nature could no longer control humans. From then on, ‘humans’ became equal to ‘nature’.
‘Humans’ who rebelled against all nature can only rely on themselves to exist, so humans can and must master the entire universe.
This logic is not wrong.
From a human perspective, everything is so logical.
It's just that... Li Qi can't accept it.
Li Qi is not prepared to transcend nature, nor is he prepared to resist everything in the universe to build a world that belongs entirely to "humans".
He thinks it's unnecessary. This universe is pretty good, isn't it?
"Alas, the dispute between humans and witches." Li Qi raised his head and sighed.
"You are one of the few witches who can talk to me so deeply. Most witches will scold me for being absurd at the beginning." Qiu Zhi said so.
"I also think you are absurd, but I have studied in the Imperial College after all. Since the teachers of the Imperial College have never scolded me for my absurdity, I will not refute you for this." Li Qi smiled and looked at the flower path in front of him, and said casually.
"Then I really benefited from the Imperial College." Qiu Zhi shook his head.
In the midst of the conversation, the two had already passed through the campus park and came to the cafeteria.
Qiu Zhi did not go in, but waited for Li Qi at the door.
Li Qi nodded to him and walked into the cafeteria.
In the Imperial Academy, almost every house has an independent cave inside. Now Li Qi knows that many of these caves are selected from the outside world, and then the heart of the world is directly broken, the activity of the world's "self-growth" is eliminated, the world is made into a specimen, and then dragged back to be a classroom.
After this treatment, under the careful maintenance of humanity, the suitable world can always be "suitable", and will not go wrong due to the change of the world itself, resulting in the inability to continue to be used as a teaching aid.
It is normal. The wooden boards for desks cannot be living trees that can still sprout. They must be cut down, dried, painted, and processed before they can be used.
Every classroom was once a world-
What happened to the natives of these worlds is naturally self-evident...
The trees were cut back to be used as teaching aids, and the insects in the trees and the birds on the treetops, of course...
They were also made into specimens.
Otherwise, the tree is incomplete. A complete ecosystem of a tree is a suitable teaching aid.
In the classroom of the Imperial Academy alone, humanity has destroyed thousands of worlds.
Now look, the same is true in the cafeteria.
Li Qi walked into the cafeteria. The interior was still wild as usual, with a thriving biological population and all kinds of food. Students could choose from them. After choosing, they could take them to the cooking pot and let him cook.
And the cooking pot on the other side of the sky, the big pot like a mountain, suddenly moved.
At the moment Li Qi came in, the cooking pot trembled, and a pot gas composed of white smoke gathered towards Li Qi, and a fat man appeared in front of Li Qi.
"Oh, Li Qi, I haven't seen you for these years. Your progress is so fast that it's scary." Cooking pot patted Li Qi's shoulder and pinched Li Qi's meat, as if he was evaluating his weight.
"Brother Guo, our identities are different this time." Li Qi said with a smile, not seeming strange, and even without greetings.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're telling this to your brother Guo? Are you a high-ranking official? Do you look down on your brother Guo?" Cooking Sea Pot found a tree stump to sit down, picked a flower and put it in his mouth to suck.
The nectar of these spiritual flowers is very rich, and you can even eat it directly.
"How could it be? But you also know that I am a witch. It's not easy to come to the human world at this level. Now there is a fourth-rank captain following me. After chatting with you, I will probably go back to Wushen Mountain. I just came to talk to Brother Guo." Li Qi said.
Cooking Sea Pot laughed when he heard it, patted Li Qi's shoulder, and didn't say anything. He seemed very happy that Li Qi still remembered him.
But the next sentence, Li Qi made him stop laughing.
Li Qi said: "Brother Guo, I came here this time to tell you why your food tastes different. I figured it out."