Chapter 66 Material and Spiritual

Standing on the rooftop, Lin Sen looked at this city full of tall buildings. If the height of tall buildings represents the height of material civilization, then what represents the height of spiritual civilization?

From persuading people with virtue to now having laws to abide by, has society really become more and more civilized? As the Internet that ignited the explosion of human information, it should have bloomed bright fireworks in the night sky, but now it no longer allows a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to contend. Zhou Zhiqi stood on the rooftop and looked at the gray skyline, letting the gentle breeze blow her long hair away, making her look a little messy.

"In the past, I thought that the virtual world, which integrates the achievements of human technology and civilization, would get rid of the jungle laws of nature and become a new world where all living beings are equal. Now it seems that it is just a utopia."

Lin Sen smoothed Zhou Zhiqi's messy hair, held her in his arms and said, "That's because compared to the real world that is not dependent on human will, the virtual world created by humans truly reflects the human spiritual world."

"Isn't the human spiritual world moving forward?"

"Then tell me, how much has human spiritual civilization progressed?"

Zhou Zhiqi thought that this was an obvious fact, but she was about to explain it but couldn't. How much worse were ancient bad guys than modern bad guys? How much better are modern good people than ancient good people? It seems that human civilization is progressing, but is the proportion of good people in the world really increasing? When these simplest questions were put in front of us, it seemed to show that human character had not changed since ancient times. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Lin Sen and said aggrievedly: "Don't you see that the world in front of you is getting better? ?”

Lin Sen looked into the distance and said slowly: "Beauty or not is just a subjective feeling."

"What about the virtual world?"

"As time goes by, the virtual world will eventually become old and faded. Will you still find it beautiful by then?"

Zhou Zhiqi replied stubbornly: "What if its mind becomes beautiful?"

“The limitations of the virtual world lie in human limitations.”

"Are you saying that the spirit of the virtual world will not change? Then if it blossoms, bears fruit, and then takes root again, can it evolve?"

"Your metaphor is very vivid, but I prefer to interpret this process as an infinite loop. The virtual world is a material created by humans. Although human material civilization can be built through generations of workers, it is also a product of the human spiritual world. In the virtual world, human spiritual civilization will not be written into genes and passed on to the next generation. The knowledge and character recorded by human beings through language and writing are two different things. It is character rather than knowledge that represents spiritual civilization. However, many people mistakenly believe that Understand spiritual civilization as knowledge. Human spiritual civilization has not yet evolved so far, so the virtual world will not evolve, and everything keeps happening over and over again."

"I understand why people always heal their scars and forget the pain, and why history always repeats itself, because people's memories only last for a few decades."

"Looking back at this network cable that connects the whole world, it has trapped a larger group of people together, achieved control over more people, and further amplified the wealth effect. In this flattened virtual world, the rising The tide will submerge a wider range of habitats, and those who have lost their habitats will eventually have to leave their homes to live in reality. With the domino effect caused by the end of the song and the dispersal of people, this extremely expanded virtual world will also collapse rapidly."

"So will it go away?"

“It will come back to where it started and grow again.”

At this time, the system prompt sounded: "The data synchronization of the data center has been completed, and the signal light system has begun to be built... The mirror planet has entered a 60-minute countdown, 59 minutes and 59 seconds..."