Zhuang Xiaodie learned a lot of things from Zhang Zian’s memory, not only including Chinese, English, Japanese, mathematics, physics, history, geography, and other conventional knowledge, but also the common sense and miscellaneous knowledge that he had quietly accumulated since he was born. It was much more than she imagined. The poor knowledge of the ancient people was like a drop in the ocean. She needed a long time to digest and absorb this knowledge.
However, she had a lot of time. As long as she slowed down the time flow in the dream, she was confident that she could master all this knowledge in the real world in a short time. She even had the leisure to stroll around famous’s imagined world. When she was in a good mood, she would occasionally appear and disappear behind Zhang Zian. Seeing his helpless and angry look, her mood would be even better.
Until she encountered the problem of free will in the ocean of knowledge.
She had almost unlimited time in the dream. Zhang Zian had only received formal education for a dozen years. Even if she had a poor foundation, no teacher’s guidance, and her learning progress was slow, and 100 years was not enough, she could use 200,300,500 years to study … Even longer was no problem.
Therefore, in terms of scientific literacy alone, she had far surpassed Zhang Zian and most people in the world.
The only obstacle between her and the top scientists was that she couldn’t get those high-end experimental instruments. After all, modern cutting-edge science could be said to be built on the basis of experiments. From the electron microscope to the positive and negative particle collider, Zhang Zian’s memory lacked the appearance and structural principles of these experimental instruments, so she couldn’t create them out of thin air in the dream world.
Without reliable experimental results as a Foundation, no matter how much time was invested in cutting-edge science, it would only lead them further and further down the wrong path.
So, she gave up on all the science that required experiments and began to study theoretical mathematics and theoretical physics. These two fields didn’t need experimental equipment, just a piece of paper and a pen.
There were many difficulties without the guidance of a teacher, the discussion of classmates, and the assistance of academic journals. However, these difficulties were not as difficult to overcome as the experimental equipment. She had time.
There were a lot of problems in Zhang Zian’s memory, and he didn’t understand them himself. He had only heard that free will was not outstanding among these problems. It was in the corner and received little attention in the human world, because other problems and conjectures had at least one proof direction, but this one … Seemed to be a blind guess.
Moreover, what was the point of proving the existence of free will?
Didn’t it start from waking up in the morning, going through the house, the car, the money, the children, and the wife like a trotting horse lamp, and finally falling asleep in the middle of the night, exhausted? whether this was fate or he had it coming, what was the difference? What could it change even if it was proven?
Even if they proved to be successful, they would still have to continue doing what they were supposed to do. They would continue to live in the house, the car, the money, the children, and the wife. Nothing could be changed physically or mentally. It was even better to believe in some religion that focused on the afterlife. At least it would comfort them to be a slave in this life to atone for their sins, and they would be able to be a man in the next life …
So what was the point of proving this question?
Perhaps only the idle otakus on the internet were interested in this question.
However, after Zhuang Xiaodie carefully studied this problem, she suddenly panicked because she had more time than the Otaku. Like the Otaku, she did not have to worry about the house, car, money, children, wife, and other trivial things in life. What she pursued and yearned for were things in the spiritual world, and the problem of free will was precisely the core of the spiritual world.
She had been studying in the dream world so that she could be like the protagonists in wuxia novels, cultivate in seclusion for a few years, and become invincible in the world.
But if free will did not exist, what did this mean?
It meant that no matter if it was the people in the secular world or her, they were just some ordinary characters in the novel. Their endings were already destined before they were born. Even if they trained to be invincible in the middle of the game, they could be killed by the plot at any time!
Weren’t there a lot of such examples in novels?
At the thought that all her actions might be led by an invisible red line, and that no matter how hard she tried, it might be useless, she was so vexed that she couldn’t do anything.
It would be best if free will existed. She would no longer have any worries and could just continue to concentrate on her studies.
If free will really did not exist … She would not accept her fate, but would try to find out who had set the fate. Whether it was a man, God, or some unimaginable existence, she would find him, learn from him, and then change her own fate.
However, the current ambiguous situation almost drove her crazy.
She disappeared from famous’s imagined world, and she no longer appeared and disappeared behind Zhang Zian. She locked herself in the deepest part of the dream, put aside all other problems, and tried to solve this problem.
However, although she had almost infinite time, there were many scientific and philosophical experts in human history who had put in painstaking efforts to solve this problem. So, it was no different from a fool’s dream for her to achieve what her predecessors couldn’t do by herself.
In the end, she vented all her anger on Zhang Zian. Who asked him to have such an evil thing in his mind? If he didn’t blame him, who else could he blame?
Zhang Zian had never been troubled by this. In this regard, he was no different from ordinary people. His mind was full of houses, cars, money, children, wives … Well, he had not thought about the latter two, but when he had them, he would probably not think about the problem of free will.
As a form of revenge, she pulled him into the dream again. At least, she wanted him to feel part of her pain, and she would feel the pleasure of “you’ll have this day too” in her heart. Perhaps it was just as he thought, she really did have a little S tendency, even if it was just a little …
After she finished explaining what had happened, her calm expression actually hid a monstrous anger that could erupt at any time, and the target of her anger was only Zhang Zian.
Zhang Zian felt wronged. It was you who intruded into my memory without permission. It was fine to flip through it, but I couldn’t afford to offend you. In the end, you blame me?
This was like a robber breaking into a civilian’s house, twisting his foot while stealing something, and then righteously demanding compensation from the owner … Was it so unreasonable? Is there still any law?
Although he felt wronged, what could he do? He could only hold it in if he was not convinced.
In her dream, she was the reason, she was the law.