Chapter 779：

As for why the spirit veins can prove the planet's "consciousness", it has to do with another theory.

0957-Sword

Having lived in the world of Xingyue for so long, Ye Ting realized that he had quite understood the rules of this world and the characteristics of this world.

First define a metaphysical "will", which is the basis of this world:

It can be simply understood as a mechanical command, similar to an instruction in a program.

The four basic forces (or fewer) are the faint manifestations of this "will" in the world of appearance.

These basic forces can evolve into more complex instructions and more complex matter in the world. Although on the whole, all these are chaotic, but because there are basic rules, this chaotic "chaos" will always occur. Some peculiar parts, these materials and instructions are similar to ancient life in the primitive ocean.

This kind of things can be understood as things like inertia that "will keep moving without applying external force." Orientation, stress, instinct, desire, reason, etc. are just more and more complex forms.

Of course, this concept is just a metaphysical description, without much practical significance, just for the preparation of the next investigation.

This kind of "will" is called "Type" in the Xingyue worldview.

Of course, this kind of "will" exists in many worlds, and the "will" that exists at the bottom of the Moon World is the "vortex of roots."

The so-called "roots", in fact, have similar things in all cultures-the tree of life in Judaism Kabbalah, the tree of existence in the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, the world tree in Norse mythology, the golden apple tree in Greek mythology, and the wisdom in the Bible Tree. You can even add a modern mythological system-Darwin's evolutionary tree.

The structure of "tree" as a metaphor for "existence" has a long history, and life is differentiation and branching.

"Root" refers to the root system of the tree of life, and "source" refers to the underground water source-so "root" refers to the invisible part buried in the dark soil.

If you put it in Buddhist terms, above the land is the visible real world, and below the land is the invisible causal world.

If you use philosophical terms to describe it, you need to look at the "tree" upside down: above the land is a metaphysical world, below the land is a metaphysical world of ideas, and branched branches converge to a common "root".

In the Moon World, the "Vortex of Roots" can actually be said to be the only protagonist. All the events involved in all the characters are just for self-entertainment wearing a mask of personality (some of the "King of Yellow Clothes" smell).

The rule of "root vortex" has long been the primitive universe, primitive chaos, but chaos does not mean complete chaos. According to chaos theory, even in chaos, there is a local order different from the overall chaos, which is shown in The order in the chaotic universe is the existence of planets—they are the collection of matter and energy in the universe, and the order that exists in the chaos.

The development of astronomy has integrated the evolution of the planet into the evolution of the entire universe. People once believed that a planetary movement with such a degree of order and harmony must be derived from the "subjective will" of the creator, that is, the theory of intelligent design; but In the end, people discovered that dust can spontaneously evolve toward an orderly form through a statistical law (accretion), so it is better to say that this is a function of "objective will".

If the "vortex of roots" has will, then the whole is the manifestation of its instinct, and the planet is its true will and thinking.

But from another point of view, can't the planet be said that there is a certain manifestation of divinity?

In fact, there is indeed a "star soul" in the moon world. The so-called UO is the theoretical end of the food chain of a planetary evolution theory. It is the king of the planet who executes the will of the planet. If the star soul does exist, then UO is the star. The strongest tentacles of the soul.

But when it comes to planetary will, one has to mention the birth of life.

If the planet, as a collection of matter, is an accidental order in the chaotic universe, then life, as a collection of organic matter capable of self-replication and reproduction, is a new order accidentally created in the chaotic matter on the surface of the planet.

If we say that compared to the chaotic universe, matter is the embodiment of order, then compared to inanimate matter, life is a higher order.

The existence of life gave birth to a new will based on the will of another source, the will of the planet—that is, the "Gaia's Will."

The so-called "Gaia" theory—that is, the living and non-living forms of the earth form a complex system that can interact with each other, and “Gaia” is the desire of nature—atmospheric flow, water cycle, ocean currents and trade winds, material balance, ecological balance , Plate movement, all these are the self-regulation of the huge consciousness of "Gaia"; the meaning of the generational alternation of life is only the renewal of the organization of "Gaia". For natural intentions, life and non-living things are just a kind of adjustment. Means, but in turn, it is precisely because of the existence of a large number of lives that Gaia's will exists on the planet's will.

Above Gaia's will, the fourth level of will is called "Alaya", which is the collective unconsciousness of mankind.

Just as order "betrayed" chaos and life "betrayed" matter, as the primates of all things, human beings also "betrayed" Gaia as the desire of nature.

First of all, we can imagine organisms, including humans, as a continuous "super organism" according to each species: an individual is just equivalent to a single cell, and the birth and death of an individual is just this "super organism" Organization update.

Then we investigated the phenomenon—this kind of "super organism" has almost no memory, because it has no "brain" part for processing memory, and it is of extremely low type in terms of biological characteristics.

So every species is like a person who constantly loses his memory. Every time he wakes up he finds himself in a strange place, so every time he repeats the same behavior—this way "Gaia" or our planet gets A stable ecosystem and power source.

The key to the existence of the desire to survive can be separated from the control of the natural desire lies in the emergence of "civilization"-this is the original sin of Adam and Eve stealing the forbidden fruit in Christianity.

The birth of the so-called civilization is based on the ability of humans to record memories outside of the brain through slates, knots, and even word of mouth. Therefore, the super-living body of "humanity" finally has the ability to "memory", and the memory belt Come to think.

Thinking is produced in the unconsciousness of chaos, that is the beginning of thought, and it is not an exaggeration to call Alaya Consciousness as Gaia's subjective consciousness.

But just like what humans face: subjective consciousness and subconsciousness are always contradictory, so humans always have to overcome their various desires in life, and fight against arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. Called civilization.

So humans betrayed Gaia, and "Alaya Consciousness" was born.

Civilization is essentially an "externalized gene", such as the concept of memes that is well known in our time.

Item 0958

According to the setting of Xingyue's worldview, if it is predicted as usual, human beings should eventually evolve into the UltimateOne of the earth, namely Type-Earth.

It can even be considered that Gilgamesh, the "wedge of sky" created by Mesopotamian gods, was "born" as the prototype of the first Type-Earth.

However, human beings do not know when they started to deviate. As a "person" subordinate to the natural desires, because of their independent consciousness, they have moved on the "path" that deviates from the natural desires. This is the beginning of the contradictory spiral.

"Alaya" was originally a part of "Gaia", but then differentiated separately, which relies on the intellect produced by the highly developed human brain. The two major restraints are fundamentally different: for Gaia, as long as the world is okay, it doesn’t matter what human beings do; for Alaya, even if it is to erode the entire planet, it doesn’t matter. To ensure the survival of mankind.

The reason why the two have been in peace for a long time is because for humans, if the planet is destroyed, they will not survive, unless humans develop technology that does not rely on the planet to survive-facts have proved that this is indeed possible. happen.

However, above the Alaya Consciousness, there may be a fifth level of consciousness—Amorous Consciousness.

Just like the "Alaya" born from "Gaia", "Amoros" is also produced in the depths of "Alaya". Human beings’ desire for survival has betrayed the desire of nature, and individuals have also betrayed the whole. Such a collection of individuals is actually what the world calls "religious believers", "saints", and "magic" existences.

"Sages" think about the ultimate truth; "religious believers" practice asceticism, birth control, and resist the seven deadly sins; "magic" would rather die than march toward the truth.

Since "God" has no cognitive power, then cognitive power transcends "God"; since God is only a will or will, then such people are negatively intended-they not only deny the natural desire of "Gaia," they also It also denies the "survival desire" of one's own species.

These human beings no longer only pursue their own existence, but have started thinking towards a higher level. They pursue the truth and pursue the truth outside of human beings, and they are on the other side of them.

But what are they pursuing? What are they rebelling against? The philosophers and saints throughout the ages have not understood what this kind of thing is. All these are just "emptiness", "...", or "the cave of Jialan".

The so-called "Amorous Consciousness" or "Unsullied Consciousness", if it is to be named, it is the realm of the sky.

Although the “will” originally defined above is divided into several levels, in fact, the “will” of all levels is a “continuum of consciousness” without boundaries. What we have to say is only the potential energy. It's just different.

All the laws of physics, planetary consciousness, and life desires are just its increasingly thin tentacles: the tentacles of the inexplicable **** appear in human consciousness in the form of instinct and desire, arranging human behavior and manipulating human destiny; Human reason and a certain noble spirit always want to resist instinct and get rid of the control of desire. This is the eternal theme of the existence of "humanity".

According to the stratification of consciousness, the consciousness of Amoros is the consciousness of the "betrayers" in human beings, but this "betrayal", which abandons the pure thinking of existence, has brought beyond natural thinking to the "betrayers". strength.

That is the power that comes from the human subconscious—the power called magic and magic.

Although it is human consciousness that manipulates this power, the source of the power comes from another organ-the magic/dharmic circuit.

The magic circuit is a conceptual organ, usually as a nerve, but the core point is connected to other points to form multiple points of divergence. The road composed of these divergent points is connected to the same substance as the nerve synapses in the brain, and the core will never change.

And human consciousness is manifested by nerves and brain.

Through this phenomenon, Ye Ting inferred the connection between the magic circuit and the human will—or subjective consciousness, and in this way introduced the manifestation of the planet’s will.

The imaginary proof of the planet’s magic circuit—the coordinates of the spirit veins is the aspect of the planet’s will.