Chapter 64 Laboratory No. 04
The reason why the Lord did not jump was not because He was unable, but because He deliberately stood in a position of obedience and would not do anything without God’s instructions. The Lord’s actions are miraculous, and the Lord’s inaction is even more miraculous. Summit 23S.
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We should only trust and obey God, and we must not tempt Him intentionally; testing God means that we have doubts about His love and His power.
"Deuteronomy"
Steel City, third floor.
"Currently we have 6 special laboratories, numbered 16, and No. 6 is vacant. There is no doubt that only a few masters who have reached the peak of their attainments are eligible to apply for these laboratories."
Strom thought to himself: Your Majesty, you occupy No. 0 outside the establishment, does that mean you are the most powerful?
"Next, I'll take you to the class."
Like a hen leading its chicks, Leibniz led the two of them to Laboratory No. 4. As soon as they entered the door, he said: "Treasure Bag, tell me a little about the topic you are currently researching."
"They also want to be present?" Baobaobao glanced at the two guys and said, "Please allow me to refuse. I can't trust them."
Leibniz smiled and said: "Bargain with me? Well, next month your funding will be increased by 3%."
Baobaobao shook his head and said firmly: "This is not a matter of money, but my ethics as a scientific researcher."
"We will grant you an extra day to borrow the 'mobile hard drive'."
"Deal." Baobaobao forced out a smile and said to the two undead creatures in a friendly manner: "I'm ready to give a lecture. If you have any questions, I will tell you everything."
During the war, this kind of person would definitely betray the country! The two of them rolled their eyes at the same time. What is a "mobile hard drive" that can actually make the master's attitude change 180 degrees?
"My topic is"
Assuming there was an omnipotent God, could He create a rock that He could not lift?
After listening to this, Fermat was confused: "Ah? Can we still study theology here?"
Streum was also stunned, then grabbed Fermat by the collar and shouted: "Idiot! This is a paradox problem!"
(Baobao whispered to Leibniz: "Fortunately, both of them are not hopelessly stupid, otherwise it would be really difficult to teach this lesson.")
In popular belief, God is of course omnipotent.
A scholar proposed this paradox regarding "God is omnipotent".
Can God move a stone? If he cannot move it, it means that God is not omnipotent.
Can God create a stone? If he cannot, it means that God is not omnipotent.
For religious scientists, this paradox is extremely malicious, because no matter whether God can create this stone, it will shake the foundation of religion. So religious people put forward an idealistic answer: God is not unable, but just unwilling. In addition, mortals
Never use such unnecessary tests to test the power of God.
After listening to Ström's explanation, Fermat still didn't understand. This kind of thing was too profound for him. He asked: "Then how to study this? Can you find a god to study it?"
"That's right, so I modified this topic, 'How to imagine something you can't imagine', which can also be understood as 'How to describe something you can't describe'."
This time even Ström couldn't understand.
Leibniz sighed: "Every time I hear this topic of yours, I am so shocked that my soul almost disappears. It's so scary. It's really, 'Don't tempt God.'"
"I prefer to understand it as 'Don't stare into the abyss'." Baobaobao turned around: "Still can't understand? Let's take the 'god' we just mentioned as an entry point. Let's talk about the image of God.
How it was formed."
"In the Chinese mainland, their gods have the image of yellow people; in the Goto continent, the gods have become the image of white people. The gods of orcs have coarse hair all over their bodies, and the gods of elves have long pointed ears. Carvings
Have the craftsmen of the statues ever seen the gods with their own eyes? Of course not! They can only imagine that in their imaginations, the gods are no different from themselves. The craftsmen of the human race carved the statues of gods into human appearances, and so did other races, because they
I can’t imagine the image of ‘gods with a foreign face’. Yes, we just ‘imagined something’.”
It was absolutely deviant to call "god" a "thing", but Ström listened very carefully.
"To put it bluntly, we may not have any imagination at all. We just extract the elements from what we see and hear and combine them into a so-called 'new thing'. When we describe a thing, we always use the vocabulary we already know.
To describe, these words are all we can understand."
"Whether we can understand the outside world depends first on whether we have cognitive tools. As living creatures, the cognitive tools we most rely on are our eyes. Red-green blindness is a disease in which patients cannot distinguish between red and green. Why should I say
This? Because this is the example that best illustrates my topic. How do patients with red-green color blindness describe the 'red' and 'green' in our eyes?! In their eyes, red apples and green apples are the same! They cannot recognize,
I can’t understand it, so I can’t describe it! Let me give you another example, Mr. Leibniz, what is the color of ultraviolet rays? What is the color of infrared rays?”
Leibniz shook his head: "I don't know. My eyes can't recognize it."
"Yes, the naked eye cannot distinguish ultraviolet and infrared rays because we do not have photoreceptors to deal with these two types of light, but mantis shrimps can identify them. Compared to mantis shrimps, we are like red-green blind, and we cannot describe ultraviolet and infrared rays!"
"The pheasant has never seen a mirror. When it saw the reflection in the mirror, it thought it was another pheasant, so it became competitive and danced with the reflection. We knew how the mirror worked, so we laughed at the pheasant."
"The indigenous people think that firearms are a form of witchcraft. They will ask wizards to give them amulets, thinking that they will not be shot. We know how firearms work, so we laugh at the indigenous people."
"The cognition of pheasants and aborigines has limitations, so doesn't our cognition have limitations? Do we observe the world in a limited way, and then happily arrive at a 'truth', while more advanced creatures than us are
Are you laughing at us? What is the essential difference between us and red-green color blindness?"
The dizzy Fermat struggled to hold back a question: "What's the use of studying this!"
After hearing this, Baobaobao and Leibniz sighed in unison. Baobaobao looked for a glass of water to moisten his throat, and Leibniz answered: "Sometimes it may take decades of investment.
, it takes several generations of hard work to get some insights, but the final results may not be immediately applicable. But because it is 'useless', shouldn't we stop studying it? As scholars, we are better than ordinary people.
Look further.”
"He can't understand." Baobaobao put down his cup and pressed a button that appeared out of nowhere: "Then let me show you the practical application of this topic."
With the sound of the mechanism operating, the original wall slowly opened, revealing a wider space behind it. One after another, large glass tanks stood in it. The surface of each tank was equipped with complex machines. These machines were actually different.
It's the same, but the effect must be different. What's even more surprising is that there are experimental creatures in the tank. They felt the wall opening and started to commotion.
Stroum exclaimed: "These are all alien creatures?!"
"'How do you describe something you can't describe?' When we saw this little guy..." Baobao pointed at the nearest sink, and saw a flesh-colored bug jumping around in it from time to time.
It disappeared, but instantly hit the inner wall of the water tank, stimulating the rune light and shadow of space magic: "We subconsciously thought of the word 'worm'. So it was called 'sky-leaping worm', but if you think about it with a booger, you know it must be
It's not a worm. We've learned nothing about it other than giving it a scientific name that we take for granted. We know nothing about alien creatures."
"I don't know the progress of other people's research. I'm just talking about my current findings. They don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't excrete, they don't have the concept of biological clocks, some have no heat, and some have no body fluids. According to me,
They are not living things at all. But why do we call them "aliens"? Because they can move and die, we can only describe them as "creatures"! If you understand it from the perspective of your undead creatures, it is easy
If you conclude that alien creatures are spiritual imprints, and then deduce them from this, you may come to the conclusion that alien creatures are part of some huge collection of life! This is simply 'blind men touching an elephant'! You must have never heard of it.'
A blind man touches an elephant, right?" With the last sentence, Baobaobao showed deep suspicion.
"Listen, heard." Under the glare of the master, Fermat swallowed his saliva subconsciously, but forgot that undead creatures did not spit at all. Brian was well-read and once mentioned this story to his colleagues: Blind people surrounded
Holding the elephant, one touched the tail and said the elephant was snake-like; one touched the trunk and said the elephant was soft and wet; one touched the ivory and said the elephant was smooth and hard; one touched the elephant's tusks and said the elephant was smooth and hard.
Legs, they say that elephants are like trees. Are they wrong? They are not wrong, but they are also wrong because they cannot grasp the whole picture of the object.
"As long as we can fully describe alien creatures, then they will no longer be mysterious and invincible, and we can completely win the 'Doomsday Confrontation'. Do you think this project of mine is useful?"
Fermat kept nodding: "It's so useful!"
In the "Doomsday Confrontation", all the great gods died in bloody battles, and the lives of all continents were devastated, leaving indelible scars in the world of heaven and earth. If the treasure bag can really thoroughly study alien creatures, it will definitely become the biggest contributor in history!
But Stroum's mind was still occupied with the subject.
How to imagine something you can't imagine?
It's simply unimaginable.
That is beyond thinking, that is the blind spot that neither reason nor sensibility can take care of, that is the place that is completely unknowable, that is the abyss that should not be gazed into, that is the part of God that cannot be tested.
Chapter completed!