"I will grant your wish."
He smiled gently, and then fell silent for a moment, as if he were considering how to finalize the content of the third question.
Soon, the final question was raised.
"My child, my third question is:"
“You’ve called ‘pain’ ‘itch’ since you were a child. That’s your true feeling, but others can’t perceive it. How can you prove that you can really distinguish between pain and itch?”
He paused, then chuckled softly, "The final question will inevitably be the one that everyone is best at, child."
Upon hearing this, everyone frowned.
Why are the questions you're best at so difficult?
Some people dismissed the issue, thinking it was nothing more than a matter of switching the descriptions of pain and itching. However, when they saw Xiao Linlin's furrowed brows, they realized that the problem was not so simple.
They may not understand the difficulty of the problem, but they all know that the strongest person's followers must be of extremely high quality.
If even this little girl finds the problem difficult, will it really be as simple as she thinks?
For a moment, silence fell over the air.
No one dared to speak at this moment, and even He, unusually, did not urge them, remaining silent as death, giving Xiao Linlin ample time to think.
Three minutes later, Xiao Linlin slowly raised her head: "Since childhood, I have called pain itch... The difficulty of this problem lies in how to prove it. Wittgenstein proposed that private languages are impossible. My personal feelings need to be linked to public rules."
"Because private language comes from my feelings, and I am a human being, and humans are capable of making mistakes, so it cannot be marked and corrected by public rules. My private feelings are covered by public language."
“The way of expressing oneself in language itself falls within the scope of existing public rules. When the public believes that pain is pain, I alone cannot change the overall perception.”
"If I try to prove it in the conventional way, it will only lead to one result: society will think I am sick."
"From a scientific perspective, using appropriate medical instruments to prove the shifts and contradictions in the neural regions of my brain regarding pain and itching can prove my feelings, but it must be done from the perspective of a patient."
"The question mentions that this is my [true] feeling, and that this is a question I am good at... so it can be inferred that it cannot be proven scientifically."
"The premise of the problem is that I am not sick, and the sensations of pain and itching are merely pure changes in private language to me, relating to the correctness of private language, and thus belonging to philosophical questions."
"But private languages have been proven to be impossible. Once a private language is understood by others, it loses its private nature and is covered and absorbed by the public language."
"Just like 2333 represents laughter, and a smiling emoji represents indifference, when most people accept this symbol, it is no longer private, no longer belonging only to the first user, but a new public rule of expression."
Xiao Linlin spoke calmly, slowly raising her head to look at the void deep in the darkness, and suddenly smiled slightly: "So, the real trap in this problem is your final warning."
“I’m good at philosophical questions. You’re deliberately guiding me to think in the direction of philosophical questions because everything has an answer under philosophical questions, which makes this question stand up: how to prove the correctness of private language.”
"So, setting aside the wrong direction, there is only one seemingly wrong but correct path left: I still want to prove it scientifically."
"Science has proven that this question, whether from a behavioral, neuroscientific, or introspective perspective, will ultimately be co-opted by public rules, leading only to a meaningless answer. Therefore, my answer is..."
Xiao Linlin hesitated, but then He suddenly smiled and asked, "Your answer is that it cannot be proven?"
"No."
Xiao Linlin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly: "My answer is: it can only be proven to a limited extent; my argument is: autonomous reactions always belong to public behavior, and when language fails, we return to the experience itself."
After she finished speaking, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.
The survivors around them looked at each other, all seeing the confusion in each other's eyes.
They couldn't understand Xiao Linlin's explanation, but they could sense a glimmer of hope in the atmosphere.
"......"
He remained silent, without denying it, which confirmed the correctness of Xiao Linlin's answer.
"You are very smart, child."
He spoke slowly: "Eight minutes and forty-three seconds. You spent eight minutes proving a false argument to me. You blurred the lines between science and philosophy and played tricks."
Is He angry?
Did the little girl answer incorrectly?
Some survivors were secretly terrified, not daring to breathe.
"You didn't restrict this behavior, did you?"
Xiao Linlin tilted her head and said with a smile, "This is part of the rules. The real trap in the final question is: convincing you."
"Answering the question is not important; what matters is that the answer satisfies you. We all know that knowledge is an endless ocean, and the answer to any question is only temporarily correct. There is no absolutely correct answer."
"A question can have many answers from different perspectives, and even the correct answer can present a flawed argument from other perspectives, especially the last question you posed."
"You're trying to mislead me. There have been two obvious attempts to lead me astray, so my ambiguous answer to the question doesn't violate the rules."
Xiao Linlin's answer was clear, strong, and very confident.
Wise people are always good at using the rules, and they always follow the rules.
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