Return to the Road of God

Earl Rhine seemed to have guessed what they were thinking, and explained: "Safale won the championship because of his own strength. I held this competition just to provide him with a chance. Of course, I also want to see if he will win the championship. How far he can play. But his strength is beyond my expectation, and I found that he is still growing... His future is immeasurable." This sentence is probably the highest evaluation given to a young artist by Earl Rhine during his lifetime up.

The four of them were all stunned, not knowing whether to be surprised or happy...

"Principal, earl... sir," Father Ye looked at these two authoritative figures who are almost household names in the world art field, and said a little uneasy, "Actually, I have a story about my child, I don't know if it should be told or not. speak."

Rhine said: "You say."

Hearing Father Ye's words, Ge Qinzhou immediately looked at Chong Shan nervously, and Chong Shan nodded to Ge Qinzhou to express his reassurance.He is the translator, no matter what Father Ye said, what Rhine and Locke heard depended on Chong Shan's retelling.

Father Ye: "Ye Yufan is actually not as talented as you said, he is just a very ordinary child in terms of art."

Rhine: "Oh? Why do you say that?"

"All of this is due to a sudden change..." Father Ye honestly told them what happened to Ye Yufan two years ago. There are many details here that neither Chong Shan nor Ge Qinzhou knew.

"He can achieve today's achievements, which are beyond our expectations. However, I think these achievements do not belong to Ye Yufan, but to the great artist hidden in his body, Xia Xiaochuan." Father Ye exited reached his conclusion.

As a father, he was able to say all this with such candor, which was stronger than anyone could imagine.Moreover, in the face of such a high evaluation, he can tell the truth so honestly, the degree of a gentleman is admirable.In such a comparison, Chongshan is not a "little person". He translated everything that Father Ye said to the letter.

But Locke and Rhine didn't seem to show their expected expressions, only occasionally surprised, but all of them were fleeting.Their reaction was more like hearing a childhood anecdote related to Ye Yufan, rather than this absurd theory of resurrection from the dead.

After listening to Father Ye's story, Locke briefly asked him a few details, and then said: "Mr. Ye, in fact, your son also told us about his relationship with shotray, but there are some discrepancies with what you said."

Father Ye let out a "huh" and asked, "When? What did he say?"

Locke: "Before last year's theme exhibition, our freshmen had just returned from a study tour in Italy. Because of Ye Yufan's special academics—well, I think Professor Andrew should have told you that he was the first to discover that Ye Yufan was special. For this reason, Andrew also consulted an authoritative expert who analyzed the age of the painter according to the works, but the expert inferred that the paintings painted by Ye Yufan were from an artist who was about 40 or [-] years old. Our ages are different, we once suspected that Ye Yufan was cheating in his studies, so we made an appointment with Ye Yufan alone..."

Afterwards, Locke recounted in detail everyone's discussions about shotray, the artist, and Ye Yufan's response at the meeting. What shocked them was that Ye Yufan actually said that he is shotray!

No one would believe a boy of sixteen or seventeen who said he was a dead artist in his thirties.But he was so swearing that people couldn't refute it, and Andrew's investigation was used as a reference, which made Locke more willing to take a risk and take a look and "seeing is believing". Now that he heard Father Ye's story, Locke understood better that Ye Yufan did not Make fun of them.

But their point of departure is that Father Ye believes that Ye Yufan is possessed by the soul of a dead person, and positions shotray as an "outsider". In this way, no matter what Ye Yufan does, it may be divided into two for discussion.

But the school's understanding is what Ye Yufan said at the beginning, from his own point of view - he believes that shotray is himself, whether it is the resurrection of the dead or the awakening of the soul, they are one, or they are just one person at all.

These two conclusions are actually fundamentally different.

Father Ye doubted, "Maybe that artist surnamed Xia has occupied Ye Yufan's body?"

Locke asked, "Then what conclusion do you want to draw?"

Father Ye frowned, and said in pain: "I just want to know now, Xiao Yu, is it the Xiao Yu we know well..."

Everyone was silent for a while, only Earl Rhine remained calm and composed: "Mr. Ye, I don't think you need to be entangled in this at all."

Father Ye looked at him with a puzzled look on his face.

Rhine said with a smile: "Maybe you are still young and cannot accept such a change."

Father Ye: "..." It seems that the only one who can say that he is "young" at his age is an old man like Rhine who is over eighty and still energetic.

Rhine: "But I suggest you think about it from another angle. There are still many things in this world that we cannot understand. Just like before Copernicus proposed the heliocentric theory, everyone believed that the earth is the center of the universe... But the fact is, firmly believe in the geocentric theory Therefore, no matter what era we are in, we may still be at the beginning of human history. We cannot explain supernatural phenomena, but that does not mean that it is wrong. We cannot reasonably explain what happened to Ye Yufan. Why can’t we just let it happen and accept its existence?”

"Let me tell you my own story... I have been a person with a very good memory since I was a child. I can't forget any books I read. Because of this talent given to me by God, I am fortunate to be able to read more than others. Several times the books, and firmly remember that knowledge... But when I entered the age of 30, I found that my memory began to decline. I used to read a book, and I only need to read it once to remember All the details, this kind of memory is stored in my mind like a photo, and I can read it anytime, anywhere; but after I am 30 years old, I can no longer be so precise, I feel that my brain is like It’s almost full, once, when I was writing a thesis, I fell into a deep panic because I couldn’t recall a point of knowledge I learned more than ten years ago…”

"Later I realized how common this situation is to ordinary people. Most people learn something, and if they don't memorize and recite it repeatedly, they will quickly forget it. So you can also imagine that before that, I How much I despise the existence of "diary", I can't understand why someone wants to write a diary, can't you remember what happened last year today?...But on my 34th birthday, a friend Let me tell you what I ate the night before my 33rd birthday, when my mind went blank. I feel like fate has played a huge trick on me..."

"From that day on, I started to write a diary, not only writing what happened that day, but also pushing forward, recalling bit by bit what happened before the age of 34. I was surprised to find that unless that day was very special, otherwise the more , the less things I remember... This diary has been kept for 50 years, guess how much I can remember now?"

No one dared to answer, because Rhine's experience was not something ordinary people could imagine.

Rhine looked at them and said with a smile: "If I don't write a diary, I can't even remember what I ate yesterday morning...Of course, this is just an example. My nutritionist has made a strict diet list for me." , I eat almost the same thing every morning.” Rhine crossed her legs, put her well-maintained hands gracefully on her knees, and continued, “What I like to do most every day now is to read about my past fifty years. Diary. I found something amazing—I didn’t know my younger self.”

Everyone: "..."

Rhine said leisurely: "To be precise, the me before the age of 30 and the me every ten years after the age of 30 are different. When I read the articles I wrote at that time, my thoughts felt very strange. This kind of strangeness is not because I feel naive - I know that many people will not recognize their former self because they grow up, but I am not like this. Because I have read a lot of books, I have more than everyone in my age group. It is a mature idea. The "stranger" I said is the original meaning of "stranger". Sometimes I feel that those are me who exist in another time and space, just like Ye Yufan and his... shotray."

Everyone: "..."

Rhine: "I have fantasized more than once, if all this can be reversed, if I am 30 years old and suddenly have the thoughts of 50-year-old me, then what will I look like...Of course, my vision is absurd, because people They all rely on the existing shape, and then evolve into different shapes little by little along the track of time, like the ship of Theseus sailing for a hundred years... Well, let's go back to Ye Yufan's question. His' The illness' came out of the blue, but he didn't suddenly become a completely different person. He took a different path on his own initiative, and he discovered a talent that he didn't have before. In my opinion, it is the ego A kind of awakening, but the form is quite special, he is guided by a certain power in the body, you can say that this power is caused by illness, but Ye Yufan does not have "forced" in the process of transformation, until now, He has become a different person from before, this is inevitable, everyone will change in the process of growing up..." Rhine looked at Ge Qinzhou and Chong Shan, and asked with a smile, "You guys will go to the bottom of it, what is the reason? What made you change?"

Ge Qinzhou was stunned, thinking of his experiences over the past ten years, which had led to changes in his views on the feelings of the world. It is impossible to sum up in one word, but the only thing he can be sure of is that many of the changes are due to his love for Chongshan .

"As for the theory of the soul, although there is no reasonable explanation yet, I am willing to believe it, and I am more inclined to Ye Yufan's own statement—he is shotray." The soul is reincarnated and reborn in a new body. Halfway through, the lost memories come back... It's like the 20-year-old self crossing ten years step by step, and meeting the 30-year-old self, how interesting!

Everyone: "..." Rhine's remarks were like enlightenment, completely refreshing the three views of Father Ye and others.

The author has something to say: Note: The ship of theseus.

One of the oldest thought experiments, also known as the Theseus paradox, is a paradox of identity.

From Plutarch's account: Describes a ship that can sail at sea for hundreds of years, thanks to constant repairs and replacement parts.As soon as a board rots, it is replaced, and so on, until all the functional parts are no longer the original ones.The question is, is the resulting ship the same original Ship of Theseus, or a completely different ship?If not the original ship, at what point is it no longer the original ship?

Explanation: Suppose the components of an object are replaced, but is it still the original object?

The elements of the Ship of Theseus in this article refer to Rhine’s thoughts at different ages.