my return to life

After changing the drink, Lu Weiyu suddenly talked about the 'fun' thing.

"I often see your company's promotion on the news this month. It seems that you are still engaged in some kind of competition recently?"

Fang Nian hummed: "I don't know the specifics, but it is said to be very successful."

After saying a few words, Lu Weiyu changed the subject: "Does that mean your assets have increased a lot?"

Fang Nian thought for a while, and replied: "The specific statistics will be known on the 10st of next month, but from October 7th to now, the operating income has increased by at least [-] million, which may be a lot."

"I opened a tea restaurant with my own money, and it will open at the beginning of next month, so now my personal assets are only 800 million." Then Fang Nian said solemnly: "How is it, does it feel like a step closer?"

Lu Weiyu's eyes moved up and down slightly, and then said seriously: "It has indeed shrunk."

"..."

Before dinner, Fang Nian sent Lu Weiyu downstairs to the rental house, and then rushed back to Fudan.

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In the evening, a purely free discussion class for Class 09 of Philosophy Class [-].

There are no professors, and it is impossible to call names, and credits are not counted, relying on self-consciousness.

So there will be people missing classes.

On Tuesday, Fang Nian promised that Su Zhi and the others would come to the seminar, so naturally they would not be absent.

The topic of this discussion is divergent freedom discussion: Can freedom of thought and political philosophy coexist?

It's homework, and the next seminar will be a concluding speech.

This is one of them.

The second is that qualified students can invite senior seniors to lead the discussion of some slightly complicated propositions, which may not be limited to philosophy.

If you have the ability and resources, you can invite doctoral students.

So, Su Zhi and Gao Jie invited a graduate student from the department to the group.

When Fang Nian arrived in the classroom, there was one member of the group, Luo Qiao.

"Have you eaten, do you want a snack?"

Luo Qiao was busy eating potato chips and other snacks, like a hamster, with bulging cheeks, when he saw Fang Hou, he hurriedly said.

Fang Nian rubbed the tip of his nose with the thumb of his left hand, knocked back the unbearable laughter, and replied with a smile: "I have eaten, thank you."

Luo Qiao made a sound, and continued to "click~click~" and stuffed three different snacks into his mouth.

Fang Nian took advantage of the opportunity and sat next to Luo Qiao, watching with great interest as Luo Qiao ate snacks as if no one else was around.

On Rochow's desk is "Socrates' Apology", which I occasionally turn over a page.

Fang Nian even thought about observing Luo Qiao's swallowing times.

He suspects that Luo Qiao thinks like a hamster, always feels that there is not enough to eat, so he has to hide some in his cheeks.

Not long after, Zeng Yiren came in from the back door of the classroom.

After saying hello to Fang Nian, she sat next to Luo Qiao: "Qiao Qiao, if you eat like this, you will become fat."

Luo Qiao snorted: "Nonsense, I haven't even finished a bag of potato chips, how can I be fat!"

While talking, the food in his mouth did not leak at all.

Inexplicably, Fang Nian remembered a certain adapted lyrics that he had heard at some time.

"Secretly hid a lollipop, just say I'm fat~hmph, I'm the prettiest anyway~"

Just as he was thinking, a slightly noisy voice came from the back of the classroom.

As soon as I heard it, I knew it was Su Zhi and Gao Jie.

It's almost a semester, and Fang Nian can still distinguish the voices of Su Zhi and Gao Jie.

"Ah, you are all here." Su Zhi chirped.

Then he pointed to the young man who came with them and said, "Senior Cheng Qian, let me introduce you. This is Yi Ren, this is Qiao Qiao, and this is Fang Nian."

Wearing glasses and well-dressed, Cheng Qian looks about 27 or [-] years old. Perhaps because he is a graduate student, he looks a little older.

Cheng Qian greeted Zeng Yiren and Luo Qiao politely.

Then he looked at Fang Nian, with a smile on his face, and offered to extend his hand: "Cheng Qian, nice to meet you, classmate Fang Nian."

Fang Nian quickly stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Hello Cheng Qian, Senior. Fang Nian, nice to meet you."

Fang Nian's group came earlier, everyone was present, and there was no need to wait for others, they got together at the table to start a discussion.

In this group, Su Zhi is always the one who talks the most.

"Senior Cheng, can I ask an off-topic question first."

Cheng Qian pushed his glasses, his face softened: "You say."

Su Zhi asked without twitching at all: "Why do we study this issue of political philosophy, and many of the topics discussed this semester are useless, so it won't do much to just count credits."

Cheng Qian replied in a calm tone: "I also had doubts about this question when I first entered Fudan University;

Looking back now, I understand that the school’s arrangement is to allow us to get in touch with some knowledge content more extensively and comprehensively during college. It is not required to understand more, but to dabble.

Especially in subjects like philosophy, which is a very broad and big problem to study, sometimes it feels that it is completely impossible to be specific. "

After a pause, Cheng Qian smiled, and said: "If it is specific to the category of political philosophy, there is another reason, but it is a bit of a bad word for the school;

At present, domestic philosophical research is not as comprehensive as that of the West to some extent. For example, the current curriculum does not include some content such as political philosophy, but it cannot be completely understood. "

With Cheng Qian's explanation, the meaning is very clear.

Due to practical considerations, the class is temporarily insufficient, but some problems are considered to be within the basic scope, and students still have to get involved, otherwise they will suffer in the future.

As for the fact that some disciplines are not as good as the West, in fact, Fudan may not deny it.

Because there are some disciplines that are built following the trend of the West or the world.

Whether it is the cultivation of talents or the teaching staff, there are gaps.

According to Fang Nian's rumors, it is said that Fudan's Department of Philosophy became so powerful because of the joining of some talented people, but now, those talented people have not yet come.

Learning this matter is not only learned today, but also has to be learned tomorrow.

The guidance of seniors, teachers, and professors is also very important.

For example, now, the problem that Su Zhi and the others were confused about was very simple to Cheng Qian.

After Cheng Qian explained these, he took the initiative to provoke the topic: "What you are now reading is the best introductory article on political philosophy. I heard that you have already discussed the first part of Socrates' defense."

"Yes, we have watched the second part of the sentence, and the third part of the final speech."

"..."

Under the leadership of Cheng Qian, several people quickly started a discussion.

Fang Nian also expressed his views: "Socrates did not advocate the general practical or unlimited speech of freedom, on the contrary, he maintained the arguments at the end of the defense...

The life under examination is lonely, but it has the value of living. "

"Moreover, Socrates confidently and boldly expressed to the 'audience': "The unexamined life is not worth living". In my opinion, he even did a perfect death..."

"But our current interpretation may not be the meaning expressed by the image of Plato..."

"..."

After starting the discussion, Cheng Qian's words decreased a lot.

Finally, I made a brief summary: "We are just discussing, not debating. The views expressed by Fang Nian are very good. Discussion and discussion are enough. Self-thinking cannot be replaced by others."

Hearing this, Fang Nian explained: "It happened that I had finished reading "The Defense" before, so I had a little more thought."

After saying this, Luo Qiao suddenly understood: "So it's like this, I said what you said so deeply in the last discussion class."

There was a strange light in several pairs of eyes.

Excellence, even if it is hidden in the body, will radiate from the pores of the body.

When it was almost over, Fang Nian took out a book from his backpack, and asked politely and earnestly, "Senior Cheng, have you studied cognitive philosophy..."

From Cheng Qian's occasional few words, Fang Nian heard something familiar, so he asked the question.

Then he added: "Ah, I'm just curious to ask, are there any senior philosophers in our school who are studying the direction of cognitive philosophy?"

This book is the original English work that Fang Nian found in the Fudan Library, which is difficult to read for the time being: Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Introduction to Cognitive Philosophy).

Cheng Qian's eyes lit up: "Student Fang Nian is reading the original Introduction to Cognitive Philosophy?"

He suddenly became eloquent: "Actually, this subject is relatively broad, and the current research issues are also very broad, such as the frame problem, um... This is a problem in intelligence, similar to the smart phone in the advertisement, for example Speaking of the famous Apple...

This question has a lot to do with epistemology, so my tutor is also leading us to study similar things. "

"..."

Cheng Qian stood in a corner of the classroom, gesturing, and said in high spirits: "For example, when we describe the cognitive process, especially when we describe the induction process, we will make some judgments..."

"..."

Then Cheng Qian discovered that only Fang Nian was listening carefully, while Su Zhi and the others were completely at a loss.

So Cheng Qian quickly said: "I'm sorry, I accidentally said something wrong, Fang Nian, you want to ask if there is any way to ease the difficulty of reading the original work."

Fang Nian nodded and said frankly: "My vocabulary is not enough, this book has too many professional vocabulary."

Cheng Qian thought for a while and said, "If your time is convenient now, you can go to the dormitory with me. I have an introduction to cognition that I annotated when I read it. It should be more convenient for you to read the original book directly."

Fang Nian blinked: "Ah, I..."

Cheng Qian waved his hand: "You're welcome, it's just a small matter."

"Fang Nian, Senior Cheng, what did you just say?" Su Zhi asked in confusion.

Cheng Qian explained: "I just said it casually, student Fang Nian is dabbling in the subject of cognitive philosophy."

Gao Jie raised her eyebrows and said, "I seem to have seen this book before. It's in English, and it's very difficult to read."

"I hope that next time we discuss this course, we can follow suit." Luo Qiao said with a smile.

Zeng Yiren echoed: "I think so too, Fang Nian, come on!"

Chapter 245 Reading, Brilliant Achievement?

Outside the West Building.

Su Zhi and the others bid farewell to Fang Nian and Cheng Qian.

Su Zhi smiled and said, "Thank you Senior Cheng, I might trouble you next time."

Cheng Qian waved his hand: "It's okay, you're welcome."

Fang Nian walked with Cheng Qian to the postgraduate dormitory in the North District, and Cheng Qian then opened his mouth to explain.

"Actually, I was a little surprised, because it was the first time I met a freshman who was exposed to cognitive philosophy, so I said a little more, it's just a book, it's easy to do, you don't have to take it to heart."

It's really not a big deal.

Cheng Qianneng was invited to help these ignorant first-year freshmen discuss topics, which in itself shows that Cheng Qian is not stingy with helping his juniors.

During the whole process, Fang Nian could also see that Cheng Qian's intention was entirely to help.

On the way, Fang Nian continued to stir up the topic of cognitive philosophy: "Senior Cheng, the application field of your current research direction will not be the legendary artificial intelligence."

"That's not that deep, but framework issues and epistemology are indeed a part of the development direction of artificial intelligence." Cheng Qian replied.

"..."

On the way from the Xifu Building to the North District, Fang Nian chatted with Cheng Qian about some broad things.

He also listened to Cheng Qian complain about some things.

A more comprehensive understanding of what kind of state a university, especially a good university, is.

For example, Fang Nian is well aware of the "artificial intelligence" boom that will arise later.

On this point, Cheng Qian said: "Intelligence should be a trend in the future. The more I study cognitive philosophy, the more obvious this trend will be."