Chapter 227 Unsolvable Questions
Du Ming is very satisfied with his current life. As the creator god of a world, he enjoys the happiness of all people. According to the Buddhist saying that one suffers in this life and enjoys happiness in the next life, no matter how much suffering he endures in this life, he will not be able to enjoy such happiness in the next life.
"In fact, in the past thousand years, we have discovered the existence of the soul."
"Soul?" Du Ming repeated, outlining the concept that civilization has soul, but never confirmed its existence. It seems that the real world has developed very quickly in the past thousand years.
"Yes, the soul is the basis for judging whether a person is alive or dead. If there is no soul, it is a corpse, and if there is a soul, it is considered alive. Feitian Company said that it can make people live for 200 years, which means that after 200 years, people will die and their souls will go to the underworld."
Jiang Li did not lie to Du Ming. He was quite knowledgeable about the soul, and this was the conclusion he came to.
The soul and thinking ability are closely related. Having no soul does not necessarily mean having no thinking ability. Having a soul must mean having the ability to think.
The remnant of Mr. Da Meng is that he has the ability to think, but he is not a soul.
The Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal enlightens the spiritual treasures by giving them the embryonic form of souls, allowing them to have the ability to think, and after a period of time, they become real souls.
Now that several years have passed, those enlightened spiritual treasures have real souls.
It can be seen that the ability to think is a prerequisite for the formation of the soul.
However, the Gou Le civilization has not yet developed to the point of giving the program the ability to think. This is creating something out of nothing, the power of creating a soul. This cannot be done unless one reaches the immortal level, so the virtual personality is just a program.
"You mean to say that Du Ming is indeed dead, and now I am Du Ming's virtual personality, and my current behaviors are all programs?" Du Ming's pupils shrank slightly, and he was shocked by the news, but he quickly returned to normal, but there was a hint of loss in his tone.
"It is true. I thought I lived a different kind of life, but I didn't expect..." Du Ming shook his head. "No, it can't be said that I didn't expect it. I just deliberately didn't think about it in this way."
"Gone?" Bai Hongtu stared.
Bai Hongtu thought about how Du Ming would react when he learned the truth about his death. He might become confused, scream, or even have his lungs broken.
But I never thought it would be so plain, as plain as drinking a glass of boiled water.
"He's dead, so what? It's the real Du Ming who died, and I'm not the real Du Ming." Du Ming shrugged.
"Besides, the real Du Ming was mentally prepared before entering the virtual world. He died without regrets. If he could turn back time, he would make the same choice."
Jiang Li didn't know how to refute. If he were in Du Ming's position, he wouldn't be able to make a better choice for him.
Du Ming is a microcosm of billions of people.
"What surprised me most was not death, but the existence of souls." Du Ming said. Although he is a virtual personality, judging from his reactions, he is no different from the real Du Ming.
"Have you ever thought about why our civilization discovered the existence of the soul only in the last thousand years, while the concept of the soul existed before that?"
It depicts that civilized people are generally knowledgeable. Even though Du Ming did not have a high level of education and could only work as a clerk, he learned about humanities and society at school and thought deeply about these issues.
Du Ming expressed his own opinion: "Because what humans fear is not death, but the disappearance of consciousness."
"Dust returns to dust, ashes returns to ashes. When a person dies, it's like a light goes out, and everything disappears. This is what humans fear. That's why they imagine the soul, thinking that people still have consciousness after death, which gives the living some psychological comfort."
Du Ming laughed: "I didn't expect that the soul really exists. Hearing this news actually makes me feel like I'm pleasantly surprised."
"The real Du Ming is dead, but he still has a soul and consciousness. I am happy for him."
"I am unconscious and can only act according to the program. However, consciousness is a very vague thing. Even if you say that I am unconscious, I still feel that I am conscious. At most, I feel a little uncomfortable."
Du Ming was very open-minded, leaving Jiang Li and the others speechless.
"I remember you said that Feitian Company forced you to work, so you think the virtual world is wonderful. If you can find your love easily in the real world, or even without working, will you choose to stay in the virtual world for the rest of your life?"
Jiang Li checked Du Ming's position at Feitian Company and considered the technological level of Gou Le civilization. This position could be completely replaced by a robot.
Instead of using robots to reduce Du Ming's workload, Feitian Company deliberately increased his burden.
This forced Du Ming to come to the virtual world.
Jiang Li also discovered that most of the duties in Outline Civilization were redundant and could be completed by machines.
Du Ming thought for a while and said, "After struggling for a while, I will still come to the virtual world. No matter how free the real world is, it is not as free as the virtual world. In my world, I can play with the world at will, create everything, and adjust time. If one minute passes in the outside world, I can live for a hundred years in the virtual world. Compared with the real world, the virtual world attracts me more."
"If I find someone I like in real life, I can also bring her into the virtual world, where there are more ways to play."
The two were silent. It seemed that Feitian Company deliberately increased people's workload just to speed up the implementation of the euthanasia plan. Even if it didn't increase the workload, people would choose to enter the virtual world sooner or later.
This is an unsolvable problem.
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The holographic simulator captures people's hearts and forces them to accept it.
From a personal perspective, no one can reject the virtual world. If Jiang Li had not been a Human Emperor or a Mahayana master when he first traveled through time, he would probably have stayed in the virtual world for the rest of his life.
Only the ruling class, who stands at a global level, considers the overall situation and wants to advance civilization, has reason to reject the virtual world.
However, the ruling class that outlines the civilization, Feitian Company, which should have considered the overall situation, was the one who brought about this result.
Therefore, it is inevitable that the entire civilization will enter the virtual age.
Is it sad and lamentable, or is it cause for celebration?
The two men said goodbye to Du Ming and wanted to ask other people to see what they thought, because Du Ming was only one person's opinion after all.
Du Ming watched the two people leave, and felt uncomfortable when he thought that he was just a virtual personality, a program, without the ability to think.
And this discomfort is also a procedure, not a real feeling.
He has no real feelings.
"If I were a living person, I shouldn't be able to modify my memory, but I'm a program, so why can't I modify my memory?"
Du Ming did what he thought and found that memory could really be modified, so he deleted the memory of meeting Jiang Li.
"Huh? Why am I here?" Du Ming scratched his head and found himself in the big world, but he couldn't remember why he was here.
"Never mind, Lisdell and the others are still waiting for me."
Du Ming returned to his little world and continued to live the life of a brave retired man, carefree and free.
(End of this chapter)