From Chief to Ball

The quiet Lin Xi stared thoughtfully at the corn that had just sprouted coleoptiles and bent towards the porthole after germination.

The corn that Boredom tried to plant germinated, and some seeds that Chen Jian planted in her mind a few years ago also began to germinate.

During the four years of studying in the academy, Lin Xi read a lot of books.

In addition to professional books on natural history, agronomy, and hybridization, the most influential book on her is a book that was published not long ago.

When that book was published, Chen Jian had just come into this world.Among the first batch of professional articles I saw was one by that author, which was an extremely anti-human article that believed that a batch of poor newborn children should be drowned in batches.

What deeply affected Lin Xi was also a long article about the number of people, and the author was also that person.Some of these viewpoints are very interesting and deeply influenced Lin Xi.

She is not in the humanities, just as she was not interested in the activities of the Freedom Society and the Youth House when she was in the capital, the world she sees is also a world of pure amoral consciousness.

When Xue Gong was in school, the content written in that book was about the similarities and differences between humans and animals.That book regards human mating and reproduction as a continuation of animal nature, and points out that every animal wants to reproduce its own offspring.

Appears to be different from animals, but is actually the same.When people choose a mate, they also follow the standards of animals, except that fangs and claws and strength are changed to whether they are rich or intelligent.

The core content of this book is that humans, like animals, wish to have as many offspring as possible, and this has become a natural instinct.This instinct is beyond the pleasure of copulation and is completely animal.

When I read this book, it was still three years ago, but the cold style and language in it left a deep impression on Lin Xi.

With the gradual emergence of things like mechanics, Lin Xi's thinking also fell into a kind of confusion.

She believes more and more that even removing a person's humanity, or even a part of it, is only dominated and controlled by something in the body.A person is a precise machine.

And the entire universe, the entire world, is also a machine controlled by certain rules.

Just like the combination of forces and atoms, this is an unchangeable rule that was created at the beginning of the world.Animals and people must also have a rule that they have not been aware of, shaping this colorful world in the dark.

This kind of thinking accompanied Chen Jian to travel to Europe, passed the coast of Africa, and saw many different animals; accompanied by her observation of the sprouting corn bending towards the sunny place through the porthole... This kind of thinking is getting deeper and deeper. her heart.

Coupled with the conversation on the roof when they met for the second time in Mincheng a long time ago, this kind of thinking began to mature little by little.

Based on the book she had read about humans and animals, she believed that the content in it made sense. Animals or plants have the instinct to reproduce.

From the library in the capital, she observed Europe and Africa with her eyes all the way. Those strange animals and Chen Jian's explanations that seemed normal to Chen Jian made her fall into deep thought.

For some strange animals, Chen Jian explained that in order to adapt to the survival here, these animals may die here if they are replaced by other animals.

At first, Lin Xi thought it made sense and didn't think too much about it.

However, after returning to the boat, Lin Xi suddenly thought of a kind of fast-growing cattle and sheep that he saw in the Netherlands. Compared with some wild animals in Africa, he suddenly thought of something.

From the point of view of the commonality between man and animals, such fast-growing cattle and sheep are not the instinctive priority of animals.

If there is a choice, it must be a male with long horns, strong and aggressive, which is written a lot in that book and gives a lot of examples.

The purpose of that book is for the author to prove that people are rich because they are stronger.It is a kindness to compare the rich man to the alpha wolf among the wolves, who should have unlimited mating rights, and human beings should follow nature and eliminate those poor children.

However, Lin Xi thought of another matter.

When people choose these cattle and sheep, they violate the rules of nature.These fast-growing cattle and sheep have been passed down from generation to generation because of people's choices.

However, without people, these fast-growing and bloated cattle and sheep would not be eligible to mate at all.

So from the perspective of the inherent rules of nature, what determines who should reproduce and who is not qualified to reproduce?

Man is a part of the universe and nature. Obviously, man cultivates what he wants through the rules he has mastered.

This is a violation of nature, but it does not violate the rules of nature. That is to say, people are governed by the hidden rules of nature, but once they understand these rules, they can use the rules to do things that go against the will of nature itself. .

The will of nature itself, the rules of nature itself, are these two the same thing?or two things?

Or... nature itself has no will, only rules?

Nature does not want to shape the desired world at all, because it has no will and no consciousness, but the hidden rules give a sense of consciousness and will.

Just like the development of mechanical mechanics, objects fall downward, which seems to be the will of nature, but its essence is a kind of attraction.

There are only rules in essence, and such rules condense a kind of virtual will and will of nature.

But what is this rule?

Lin Xi thought of what Chen Jian's friends often said, such as the invisible hand, and suddenly came up with a bold idea.

Just like those fast-growing cattle and sheep, they can survive and reproduce because of a pair of visible hands—human hands.

Human hands select fat cattle and sheep to continue to reproduce, while those who are not fat will be artificially cut off the chance of reproduction.

So, what kind of choices did the invisible hands of nature make?

If it was just these, Lin Xi wouldn't be so depressed and couldn't find a clue. On the contrary, he would find some clues easily, and aim at his own thoughts to collect enough information.

However, the existence of premature hybridization and pea height, which Chen Jian worked out hundreds of years ago and is still the basis of agronomy classes today, complicates this issue. .

Lin Xi thought, if laziness, fatness and masculinity and restlessness are the two sides of yin and yang, after countless selections by natural and invisible hands, natural animals should all tend to become stronger and more active.

But no matter how many years of selection, lazy and weak cubs will still appear naturally.Where did these characteristics of these cubs come from?

Ordinarily, these things should no longer exist in the world, and have been eliminated by the invisible hand of nature.

But it still exists, and it still happens.

Why does this happen?Did it suddenly appear?

Or is it like light and shadow?Every human being, every animal, every plant, from the beginning of birth, is like a universe in the body, possessing all imaginable characteristics.These characteristics have always been hidden in the bodies of animals and plants, but only the positive side is selected by the invisible hand of nature, and the dark side does not disappear but is hidden.

It's just that under certain circumstances, this hidden, hidden, hidden shadow will sprout.

So some things will never disappear, not being seen does not mean not existing, just like the sunlight separated by a prism, what people see is not an illusion, but not all.

Compared with the natural hand, Lin Xi's thoughts are more terrifying and bolder, even going astray.

She thought, whether it is a tangible human hand, or an invisible natural hand...it's all just a matter of choosing whether to show the yin or yang to the outside.

What can be done now is to wait until those things that are useful to people appear, and then artificially select this feature to continue.

If... If people can figure out when to make those hidden features appear, wouldn't it be possible for people to control everything in the world?

Similarly, nature is influenced by the rules of the Dao of Heaven and Earth, but the Dao of Heaven and Earth has no will, it is just a simple way, there is no good or bad, and it has never determined the appearance of the world.

Under this kind of crazy idea, Lin Xi took out his notebook when the fleet crossed the Tropic of Capricornus, and wrote this kind of era full of characteristics that was influenced by Chen Jian several years ago and finally began to sprout now. The first words of man's crazy idea of ​​conquering everything and even manipulating the world.

"From the Invisible Hand of Nature to the Visible Hand of Human Needs—Starting from the Selection of Domesticated Livestock and Farmland Crops—Tao is just Tao, without will, neither benevolent nor evil, without virtue and ruthlessness""

In the swaying cabin, Lin Xi still didn't know the terrifying power and possible turmoil caused by the few words he wrote.

Constrained by the myths and legends of the times and traditions, she attributed the birth of all things to the mysterious unknown that opened up the world.