Hogwarts and the Unspeakable

Chapter 141 High-dimensional projection (7)

"How do we explore the world like humans?"

Nori, who lives in the laboratory, asked.

Nori will never know,

To explore the world like a human, it requires a brain and eyes.

No brain and no eyes. How can seaweed be the same as humans?

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Allen just felt like he was going crazy.

He is facing madness.

This is an indescribable feeling.

Now, his most obvious feeling is "ridiculous."

Everything has become so ridiculous.

Just like Nori wants to understand the human world.

Allen seems to have no ability to understand the higher dimensional world.

He needs a brain that can understand higher dimensions, and even more eyes that can understand higher dimensions.

It seems like everything has changed in the world, but it seems like nothing has changed.

Everything is changing rapidly.

Allen told himself this.

Allen felt that he could no longer accurately feel the flow of time.

Everything is getting more chaotic.

But his intuition, or sense of balance, was telling him clearly.

Everything around you is moving at extremely fast speeds!

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At this time, he looked at the sky in confusion.

Only then can Allen truly understand what high-dimensional existence is.

Perhaps, there is only the dragonborn suspended in the sky,

It is the only unchanging point in this space.

But Allen was not in the mood to watch the Dragonborn at the moment.

Maybe he just can't bring himself to do anything right now.

He couldn't concentrate anymore.

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human brain, muscles, skin,

Especially when the brain is active,

They all rely on the life experience derived from evolution,

Trying to conform to the practices of the three-dimensional world.

When he was younger, Sir Humphrey told "Alan" such a story.

Allen can't remember exactly what the story is about.

One more thing to add here.

Even if Allen's soul traveled through time,

Human brain development also has a gradual process.

From this perspective, no one is born knowing it.

According to the theory of the cognitive school, a person must first go through the sensorimotor stage, the pre-operational stage, and the concrete operation stage before he can enter the "formal operation stage" where normal adult humans are.

In fact, from the perspective of developmental psychology, Allen is still in the "concrete operational stage". Even Allen himself knows this. But strangely enough, Allen was able to understand and accept this knowledge without any obstacles. At least it won't be a problem for him to understand after he is seven years old.

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Therefore, because the human brain is a developmental process.

So, specifically how Sir Humphrey told the "bedtime story",

Allen couldn't remember clearly.

However, although a long time has passed, Allen still remembers the most important sentence:

"The seaweed in the room thinks that it is exploring the world."

"But they don't even have eyes."

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Yes.

For most organisms,

It's not just the absence of eyes, but the complete absence of the entire visual system.

Without eyes, visual information cannot be absorbed;

Without ears, auditory information cannot be received.

Not even a brain, not even muscles.

No brain to think, no muscles to move.

So, the question is not even asked.

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After growing up a little,

Alan reflects on the "Story of Nori" that Sir Humphrey told him.

But I had a new experience.

Two thousand years ago, Zhuangzi once asked the same question:

"Chao bacteria don't know the dark days, and crickets don't know the spring and autumn."

On the modern Internet, this issue has been further discussed, and it has become a "Three Seasons Man" issue through the mouth of Confucius.

In the morning, Zigong was doing some sweeping, and a guest came and asked, "Master?" He said, "Where are you, sir?" He said, "I'm asking about the time." Zigong saw it and said, "I know." The guest said, "Nian's time." How many seasons are there?" He replied with a smile: "Four seasons." The guest said, "Three seasons." The discussion continued and they did not take a break after noon. The master came out after hearing the sound, and Zigong asked about it. The master did not answer at first, but after observing, he said: "Three seasons." The guests were happy and laughed at the master. When Zigong asked, Confucius said, "It's the four seasons." Zigong looked different. Confucius said: "This time is not that time. The guests are green and pale, the grasshoppers in the fields are born in spring and die in autumn. How can we see winter? When I discuss the time with him, it will last for three days." Zigong thought so. . ——"Zigong's Questions"

In Confucius' time, the word "Ji" did not mean "season". Instead, it expresses the order, such as "Bo Zhong Shu Ji".

Therefore, this article should be a forgery by later generations.

However, whether this article records Confucius is actually not that important. In postmodern times, there is not much essential difference between “Confucius said it” and “Laozi said it”. They are all deconstructed symbols. Allen believes that the most important thing here is the issue of "Three Seasons People".

Simply put, some creatures can only exist for three seasons. In his life, the whole world has only three seasons. So, does it really matter if the world has three seasons or four?

This reflects the point of view in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou".

"Chao bacteria don't know the dark days, and crickets don't know the spring and autumn."

Fungi born in the morning (modern times can also be understood as bacteria with a shorter life cycle) will never know what the night is like.

Chilling cicadas live in spring and die in summer, or live in summer and die in autumn, so they don't know spring or autumn.

Baidu Encyclopedia says: This metaphor is "short-sighted".

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However, when Allen really started to reflect, he discovered a problem:

Is it really bad to be "short-sighted"?

Is "big" good?

At that time, he suddenly recalled the Chinese poets he had seen before. The reason why he only talks about China is because he has never seen foreign countries. Although he traveled to England. But he had not yet had time to enter Winchester School, where he studied grammar, golf and the plays of Shakespeare, Somerset Maugham and Bernard Shaw. Maybe he will know better in the future? But Allen definitely doesn't know that now.

When Li Bai looked back at Kunpeng, he once wrote:

"Dapeng rises with the same wind in one day and soars up to miles."

When Li Qingzhao looked back at Kunpeng, he once wrote:

"The ninety-thousand-mile wind is rising. When the wind stops, the boat blows up to the three mountains!"

Liu Yong praised Jinling and once said:

"Smoke willows paint bridges, wind curtains are green, and there are hundreds of thousands of homes. Clouds and trees surround the dike and sand, raging waves roll up frost and snow, and the sky is endless. The city is lined with pearls, and the households are full of Luoqi, competing for luxury."

It's always "Ninety Thousand", "One Hundred Thousand", and "Three Mountains".

Ninety million, nine hundred billion, nine thousand trillion miles so high, conceptually speaking, how much connection does it have for human beings?

It turns out that "bigger is better".

Zhuangzi once said two thousand years ago:

"Big is not always better." (To this effect)

He exhausted his ability to describe a huge monster that exhausted human imagination.

This monster is unimaginably large for humans.

Big is better.

Kun transformed into a bird, and its name was Peng.

It is a bird, and the sea transportation will start from Nanming.

The meaning of this passage is that a super big fish turned into a super big bird.

Once the sea breeze comes, he will fly from the northern sea to the southern sea like a migratory bird.