Terra calendar 1590.12.25.

PM 2:40.

In Iberia.

University of Santos Madrid.

Iberia has many internationally renowned institutions of higher learning, which have significant academic reputation and influence in their respective fields.

Among all the institutions, the most famous is the Iberian National College, or what should be called its full name - the Iberian National Union College.

Joint institutions are cooperative organizations composed of multiple independent higher education institutions. These organizations are usually established to promote collaboration and resource sharing among member institutions to improve the quality of education, expand research scope and enhance the overall institution

strength; and the Autonomous University of Madrid, located in the "Twin Holy Capitals" of Iberia, is known as the Imperial Twin, and together with the University of Lisbon, it is regarded as the leader of the entire joint institution.

At this time, in a bright and spacious thaumatology classroom at the University of Madrid, sunlight shines through the large windows into the neat classroom, creating a warm and comfortable learning atmosphere.

The latest interactive electronic whiteboard is hung on the wall, and next to it is a row of neat bookshelves filled with various professional books and reference materials.

The students sit on modern desks and chairs, with genealogy projection boards and study supplies placed in front of them, ready to record the teacher's explanations and key points in the discussion at any time.

On the podium, the experienced Professor Hansa Arnold is using multimedia teaching tools to explain.

Hansa Arnold was a professor who was unsmiling and serious. His appearance was very majestic, giving people a feeling that he should not be underestimated.

Professor Hansa's hair is slightly thinning, and the silver-white hair is neatly combed, with a slight gray on the edges, showing the traces of time. His eyebrows are thick and angular, and underneath are a pair of sharp eyes, revealing rigor.

and deep light.

These eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, making the students dare not slack off in the slightest in front of him.

The students were in awe and fear of the professor on the podium. This was not only because Professor Hansa Arnold was serious and unsmiling, but also because there seemed to be something else hidden in his words and deeds that he sometimes revealed, which always made people laugh.

Those who met felt a vague sense of fear and disgust.

It is a very strange feeling. If you insist on describing this feeling, then students at Iberian institutions of higher learning will use a proper noun to describe this uncomfortable and unusual feeling. This proper noun

That's it - the uncanny valley effect.

The uncanny valley effect is a psychological concept that is used to explain humans' emotional reactions to robots or other human-like entities (pseudohumans), especially when these entities are very similar (but not identical) in appearance and behavior.

) when exposed to real humans, people may have a strong sense of discomfort or terror.

The uncanny valley effect can be explained as a graph: as the degree of humanization of a non-human entity (such as a robot or humanoid entity) increases, the human emotional response to the entity gradually changes from positive to negative.

At a certain point on this curve, when the entity is very close to humans but still obviously different, humans' emotional response to it will suddenly drop to the bottom, producing fear, disgust and other negative emotions; and when the appearance and behavior of the entity are close enough to real people,

When it becomes almost indistinguishable, this negative emotion will weaken and the emotional response will become positive again.

But in Terra, as long as it has an effect, it has to be related to the memevirus or memexin.

Those pseudo-human groups suffering from [uncanny hoof disease], [ore disease], and [alienation syndrome] have distorted the uncanny valley effect in some aspects, and they have become a special super symbol.

Yes, there is a virus in the group of pseudo-human beings that can make humans sick to the point of vomiting, or even directly to death on a physical level - [uncanny valley effect memevirus].

The pseudo-human group is not welcomed in Terra itself. Even if there is no uncanny valley effect, they will be squeezed out. But now with the [uncanny valley effect mime virus], the situation of the pseudo-human group in Terra has changed.

It got worse.

And even if the pseudohumans can eliminate the [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] by injecting the memo vaccine, the gap between them and the normal group is getting deeper and deeper. This gap is as if they can no longer interact with normal or healthy people.

The equal sign is drawn.

This kind of dark, insidious and terrifying thought makes people think of some kind of distant and immeasurable gap. What's even more strange is that this kind of thought is very common among the interviewers and always haunts them.

This is the feeling that Professor Hanse Arnold gave his students. The students felt a strong sense of discomfort or terror, but they did not stop taking his class because of this.

Because this is the Iberian Union College, this is the University of Madrid, one of the twin holy capitals of the empire, and this is the discipline of applied thaumatology.

Is it strange for a thaumaturge to use [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] as his [entry] or [module] component?

This is not surprising!

Is it strange that a professor at a world-renowned institution of higher thaumaturgy uses the Meme virus to intimidate students into attending classes honestly?

This is not surprising!

Therefore, some things that are full of weirdness and contradictions are always rationalized in such weird ways, and the basis behind this rationalization is well researched.

"There was an island on which in the year 533 there were some Fogmen, Frenchmen and Berliners. There were no thaumaturges, no genealogy network, and no telegraphs could be sent or sent on the island. Every cruise ship that came to this island

It only comes once every sixty days.

And you have to know that at that time, the Youyang plate was still in a situation where the heroes were competing for hegemony. The prototype of the alliance had not yet been formed. Many countries in the territory were vying to become the overlord of Youyang, trying to create an alliance comparable to Oletin and Daeva.

The unified country of the empire.

In September of this year, the cruise ship had not yet arrived at the island, and the island residents were still talking about the news in the last newspaper issue they saw about Madame Caillaux's upcoming trial for shooting Calmet, the editor of the "First Public Gazette of France". Therefore,

When the cruise ship finally arrived in mid-September, people all rushed to the dock impatiently, wanting to hear from the captain how the court would ultimately rule on the case.

However, the news they heard was that in the past six weeks, the Wudu and the French had formed an alliance according to the previous agreement and jointly launched a war against Berlin.

As a result, these six weeks have become a bit awkward: the islanders still treat each other as friends, but in fact they have become enemies."

In the classroom, Professor Hanse Arnold was lecturing to his students. One by one, Terra syllables were "pumped" out of each other's mouths. Yes, they were pumped out like a water pump. It was obviously not stiff, but it gave people a sense of joy.

A weird feeling.

Now, the professor is giving a compound lesson to the students.

This is a public opinion class, this is a political class, this is a media communication class, this is a thaumaturgy message class...

At this moment, Professor Hansa Arnold's lecture was still continuing, and the students on the podium were each taking notes. The students made different objective records of the same thing in their own notes.

After some people marked it with conspicuous symbols, they wrote rationally: Mass communication affects people's cognition and behavior - the alliance between Fog City and France and the news of the joint war on Berlin made the island

People's positions have changed, and the three parties, who are all smiling, have instantly changed their positions due to the spread of the message, and each other has immediately become an abyss of enemies.

Someone wrote from the perspective of analyzing their stance: They were implicated in a national identity label and objectively became enemies of different camps.

Some people wrote concisely and comprehensively: Information changes cognition.

Some wrote after thinking about the distance between time and space: the asymmetry between time and space, differences in status and status, and the lag in information dissemination.

Some wrote after thinking from the perspective of public opinion: People are controlled by information and influenced by public opinion, and their will can change again. As long as the variables are large enough and the existence of public opinion is large enough, even authoritative enough——

If authoritarianism covers public opinion, can free will really survive under authoritarianism?

The students were thinking, while the professor's allusions like a hell joke continued:

"Looking at the above examples from a macro perspective, the situation of these islanders is similar to that of most people in Youyang - the islanders learned the news of the war six weeks later than the actual time of the war.

People in other countries also "know it later", but the delay time is shorter, only six days or six hours.

Since delay is inevitable, it also means that there must be a moment when ordinary people are still going about their daily lives step by step, unaware of the imminent war that is about to upend their lives, and the things they are trying to adapt to

The environment no longer exists.

Until the moment the war started, people all over the world were still producing goods that were destined to be impossible to ship, and were still buying goods that were destined not to be imported; ordinary people were planning their careers, and companies were planning to become bigger and stronger. The society was full of

Hope and expectation, everyone firmly believes that the world in front of them is the original appearance of the world.

There are also people who describe the world through books or even newly formed genealogy networks, and they firmly believe in the picture of the world in their minds.

More than four years later, on a Thursday morning, news of the armistice came, and people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when they felt indescribable comfort at the end of the massacre, they did not know that in the five days before the real armistice, thousands of young people still died on the battlefield. Before that, people had already celebrated

The end of the war."

Professor Hansa Arnold still spoke in neither sad nor happy terms, and after the students thought for a moment, they deeply understood how hellish the story described by Professor Hansa Arnold was.

Real and magical, like a joke from hell.

Why they fight and why they stop is not up to them.

The lagging effect makes the world confusing.

There is always an information gap.

Even though the genealogical network spans Terra, even with so much information available today.

Intermediaries, information differences, information fees, intellectual property rights, information property rights, patents, markets, real estate...

The huge information chain constructs countless cocoons.

“Our understanding of the environment in which we find ourselves is far from straightforward. Information about the external environment comes quickly or slowly, but as long as we are sure that the picture in our mind is real, we will definitely equate this picture with

the external environment itself.

It is difficult for us to reflect on the beliefs that are placed in our own minds and influence our behavior, but we always self-righteously laugh at how absurd the superstitious world pictures of other peoples or people of other eras are.

Under the influence of this sense of superiority, we insist that the world "they" need to understand is often completely different from the world "they" already understand. We can also see that when "they" treat the imagined world

When it comes to governing, or engaging in struggles, transactions, and changes, "their" actions may have a real impact on the real world, or they may be just a mirror image."

When Professor Hanse Arnold said this, he paused involuntarily. For some reason, he began to feel a strange palpitation in his heart. This kind of palpitation was very inexplicable.

Professor Hanse Arnold frowned, and the discomfort coming from his body seemed to indicate something. His intuition told him that he should leave here immediately.

His sudden silence attracted the attention of the students. The academics raised their heads and stared at him with concern.

Perhaps it was because he had been in this body for almost forty years, or because of the attention of the students, or perhaps he had realized that his true destiny was today.
To be continued...