In the spacious secret room, the surviving researchers were divided into two groups. A group of people hugged their bodies and trembled, as if they had seen something or heard something, but their eyes were dull and they did not move for a long time. Another group stood stunned by the glass wall, staring into the air in front of them. There was an indescribable silence spreading in the secret room. Even if the dull people kept mumbling to themselves, it only served to accentuate the weirdness in the silence. For all those who can still think, their brains seem a little insufficient at this time. They have seen many strange situations. However, the words of the companion who disappeared from the eyes are just lies in normal times, but in the present moment , but people feel the fatal strangeness more and more.
This is not killing oneself in the ordinary sense, stopping one's physiological functions, but a thought, a thing at the level of consciousness, chasing from the spiritual level. It is invisible and shapeless, but it reaches a person's understanding of himself and the world. Understanding human life and death has objective physical significance, but as a subjectively active life, the subjective spiritual significance seems to be more important. For most people, self-awareness is something more important than self-body. Religion, philosophy, and thoughts that metaphysically guide people to survive and find meaning have always insisted on the formula that "consciousness" is greater than "body".
When a person asks the question "Does a person have a soul?", it means that his understanding and observation of himself has reached a level that is not satisfied with objective physics. When people admit that they have a soul, when they believe that their consciousness is more important than their body, and that their behavior depends on ideological activities, those spiritual things have become faintly part of self-perception. The decisive factor.
"These researchers, who are still conscious and capable of thinking, recognizing and discerning, have witnessed with their own eyes the process of how a person first collapses in self-cognition, and then completely collapses in the physical body. For these people who can think and elevate "thinking" to an essential perspective that distinguishes themselves and others, and even to a level that determines their own existence, all from the height of self-awareness, from the spiritual consciousness The collapse of the human body is a death that is essentially more complete than the disintegration of the physical body. Before their physical form completely disintegrates, the deceased shows ideological distortion, metaphysical denial, and even an ending that is more terrifying than death in the normal sense.
The madness shown by this collapsed researcher is actually a kind of "death". He was already "dead" before he disappeared from the air without a trace.
¡°Everyone who witnessed this scene and was able to think about it could clearly feel the death that constituted the deceased¡¯s self-awareness. And how cruel and complete this death was.
"Compared with the strangeness of the body completely disintegrating and disappearing into the air, these researchers who are still awake are more afraid of the destructive power of invisible erosion on their own cognition. This is also the horror that most strikes their own weaknesses among the various strange things they have witnessed in the hospital.
It doesn¡¯t matter how you feel, what you think, or how you feel physically. What matters is: How do you know yourself? How do you understand the world?
In their research, from the past to the present, they have never seen such an abnormal situation: although a person's self-perception collapses, although it is theoretically established, there has never been such a rapid example. Apparently a few minutes ago, the deceased looked quite normal. No one present could find any trace of what kind of attack this person was enduring during the entire process from a complete personality to a collapse of self-awareness.
This guy suddenly changed his mind and yelled like crazy, as if he had realized the truth of heaven and earth, preaching ideas that he usually dismissed even himself, as if some switch was turned on, and his whole body The inside was completely distorted at that moment. Yes, distortion. Everyone who witnessed all this thought that this was a distortion from the inside out. The distorted posture displayed on the body was completely its self-perception. A more earthy portrayal of a twist.
The invisible enemy, with its hidden methods, directly penetrates a person's body and launches a fierce attack on the mind. This is so terrifying.
"No, it's impossible. It disappeared? Just disappeared?" A researcher muttered to himself in a daze, reaching out his hand to fish out something from the mass of air, but he only felt that there was nothing but air there. ,Nothing at all.
A true, complete death is more clearly visible than ever.
¡°He means our enemy is God?¡± Another researcher seemed to be still thinking about what the already crazy researcher had claimed. In his view, it is an idea that pits self-subjectivity against objective facts. There are contradictions everywhere, and there are many things that cannot be solved naturally.Just what he said. However, from the perspective of human development history, science does not play the primary driving role. Instead, philosophy has a stronger guiding and promoting role. Many people claim that the end of science is philosophy, which in his view is inappropriate, but it is undeniable that this statement means that in fact, most people still believe that "philosophy" ranks third among all human thoughts. One person.
Consciousness dominates behavior, and conscious behavior is human behavior. Once the leading role of consciousness is subjectively affirmed, then the ideological philosophy that dominates consciousness is the first factor that makes humans human. When such a first factor is attacked, any second or subsequent factors will not be enough to fight and rescue.
Only thoughts can kill thoughts. Only the destruction of self-awareness and self-cognition can completely eliminate a person. This is the consensus of many people. To put it more extreme, the reason why people think that the elimination of a person's body can be regarded as a complete elimination is simply because in modern times, science always makes people feel that human consciousness exists based on the body. As long as When the body dies, consciousness also dies, which makes physical death a decisive end point.
However, this kind of thinking cannot hide the essential situation: people want to kill another person physically. In fact, what they want to kill is still the thought rooted in physical behavior. Just consciousness and self-knowledge. If there was a way to directly attack and distort a person's ideology and self-perception, no one would specifically destroy another person's body.
In human society, there are actually not many thoughts and actions on the ideological and cognitive level, and there are many fruitful achievements. The birth of a culture always begins with the collision of ideas and ends with the collision. However, the span of this process is too large and the time is too long. Even if it starts from infancy, it will take at least ten years for a person's ideological education to be finalized, and there will be various iterations during this period.
"Compared with people's attack ideology, the way and process of changing self-perception, and the extent to which it may ultimately be achieved, the invisible attack that is displayed in front of everyone at this time comes even more directly and quickly.
"If the method that humans used in the past was torment with gentle fire, then today's terrifying and grotesque method is like a bullet. With a "bang", a person's self-awareness and ideology are over.
These researchers who witnessed what happened were absolutely unable to admit that this researcher with crazy ideas and declaring that everything was dominated by God was still their partner. When he started to think this way, he was already metaphysically dead.
"What cannot be observed, confirmed, or contacted has no meaning from a scientific point of view." Another researcher woke up from the horror and said this to others as well as to himself.
"If people want to maintain their independence, they cannot admit that their thoughts and self-awareness do not belong to themselves, but are part of others. If self is an illusion, then death is right in front of you." Another researcher warned himself Like, said.
"What on earth did he hear?" Someone else asked: "It's hard to imagine that these words would come out of his mouth, just like it's hard for me to imagine that I would say such things."
For a while, no one answered, as if everyone was thinking about their own things, as if they were thinking about the meaning of this crazy and twisted dead person. As long as they are willing, they can find many reasons to deny the deceased's crazy ideas and refute the twisted revelations. However, they began to realize that it was becoming increasingly difficult for them to deny this crooked idea that they usually dismissed.
Because the situation they are in is completely different from usual. The end is approaching.
"Everyone in this hospital has made various attempts and experienced failures again and again. They use every piece of information they can obtain to outline the changes in the world. Yet, of what they could see, think, and deduce, nothing was good, nothing augured well. Everything is getting worse, and every change is just getting worse.
Their experiences are denying their efforts and ideas in a direct and cruel way. Whether it is theoretical research, practical behavior or objective facts, it seems that the world is not what they imagined. Their understanding of themselves, the world and the future are all subjective and wrong.
"Does something that we can't observe or touch, but actually affects us, really exist?" Finally, a researcher broke the silence and asked, "Our thoughts are being constrained by our vision. , our understanding of ourselves and?The perception of this world is being constrained by the thoughts we are most accustomed to. Amid these layers of constraints, do we think we are right, but have we actually deviated from the right path? "
"Stop talking." The researcher immediately felt disgusted. He didn't want to hear the other person say these things, because he felt that he was also shaking.
"We are so small. The birth of human beings in the true sense is only a few million years ago. The birth of human culture is only a few thousand years ago. The formation of human science is only a few hundred years ago. On this planet, too They are just the shortest group of lives,¡± another researcher murmured, ¡°We once thought that it only took us a few hundred years to have a preliminary understanding of what the world looks like and what we ourselves look like. , do we really know?¡±
"Stop talking!" the researcher who had been feeling sick yelled at him, "Stop thinking about it, stop talking about it, it's meaningless, thinking like this will only make you collapse faster. You don't want to become like that Same guys, right?¡±
"We have always expected that alien life exists. We hope to find existences similar to us in the universe. We have never believed that humans are alone in the universe. However, we really hope that humans are not special. , is there really life like us outside us?" The researcher seemed not to hear the anxious and angry shouts, and was still talking to himself, "We really hope that there are people smarter than us. Do things exist? Is it really hope that human beings are not the special one? No, in fact, our search, our imagination, and our thinking are just to prove that we are the most special one We are afraid ¡¡±
"Shut up, don't say it!" The yelling researcher seemed to realize what his sleep-talking companion would say in the end. He felt extremely sick, a kind of resistance from the consciousness to the body and physiology. His nausea forced him to rush forward and grab his companion's throat, intending to swallow his words back in his stomach, "Don't say that here, never!"
However, his action seemed to be a step too late, and it seemed that a chain reaction had already occurred on the companion who was being held by the throat because of his behavior. This reaction could not be stopped and directly broke through the physiological barrier, allowing him to When being strangled by the throat, he could still make an inhuman voice: "However, we are indeed not special. We are just an inconspicuous one among the thousands of children of the stars. Those things, those earliest The Children of the Starscluckthey are comingthey are looking over"
He seemed to have seen something terrifying, and felt that there was a crazy idea that was messing up his brain. He kept vomiting blood. He suddenly realized what he had said and had a premonition of how weird his behavior was. He wanted to take back what he said, but it was too late. He had a premonition that the terrifying invisible thing was coming towards him.