He stood in front of the old dusty podium, resting his arms on the table, looking around as contentedly as a newly appointed university lecturer.
Grab it. Grab it. "Then can I start, classmate Zhou?"
The only audience member in the audience raised his head silently, as if unwilling to cooperate with this pretending game. Chen Wei didn't complain about this, he just closed his eyes and thought about it briefly. Then he opened his eyes and began to speak into the void at the back of the classroom.
He said: "This is what I heard. In ancient times, when people saw the stars in the sky, they called them stars. What are stars? People in ancient times thought they were palaces, lights, animals, and gods. People mentioned ' Stars', what they think about are palaces, lights, animals, and gods. The cognition in their minds is wrong, but the words they create are not affected by right or wrong. When the stars are palaces, people can call them stars. When the stars are When it is a celestial body, people still call it a star. 'Star' refers to the star that people perceive, regardless of its true nature. Therefore, language is separated from reality, and language and thought are also separated. Language is the basis of both. Transformed form.”
"However, language is not a pure form. If the ancients had no eyes, 'red' would not be understood. Even if 'red' as a language exists, it will be reduced to an inexplicable thing. The object described by language, regardless of whether it has Entity must be a seekable variant of reality and a concept that can be understood by humans. The meaning of language relies on reality, which is the basis of language."
"However, words cannot describe all reality. Although 'ice' exists in language, ice also exists in reality. For people who have never seen ice, they cannot imagine 'still hard water'. People who know ice try By describing it, a person who has never seen ice knows only the words he uses, not the ice itself. The object described by language cannot exhaust the knowledge of the user, and cannot replace the knowledge of the receiver's mind. '. This is the limit of language."
"What has been discussed above is a language between people, a language that is not deliberately created. Therefore, it can be said to be a 'natural language'. However, if the language itself is studied and summarized, various new words will be created. Description. That is the so-called 'grammar'. Without language, grammar does not exist. Grammar is the language of language, but it can be separated from the meaning of language itself. 'Ice is red'. Although it is wrong at the linguistic level, it is wrong at the linguistic level. There are no errors in the grammatical form. Therefore, grammar is a language separated from real objects, a purely formal language, and a metalanguage. Suppose that on top of this grammar, there is a description created for grammar, which is the grammar of grammar. Metalanguage Metalanguage. In this way, regardless of the total number of things, language itself can have infinite levels of formal levels."
"Now there is a person who makes a wish to the stars in this natural language that can be summarized. 'Please give me endless wealth.' After hearing this, the stars can neither understand what kind of 'wealth' is, nor can they be sure. What kind of number is "infinite"? Because the lifespan of stars is longer than human history, the concepts that are taken for granted in the minds of those who make a wish have been rewritten countless times for the stars, with countless possible answers. All words The directions are unclear, and all grammar can be misinterpreted. To do this, it is necessary to traverse all history to match it, and what is finally given is all the gold of the entire planet."
嘘戅Yunxuan Pavilion 嘘戅. "Another person made a wish to another star. 'Please give me inexhaustible wealth.' This star did not obey words, but read the wish from the mind of the person who made the wish. What it saw 'Wealth' is the medium that enables those who make a wish to satisfy their material desires. However, no matter what kind of valuable or priceless currency, if its quantity is endless, its value is equivalent to nothing. If you want to satisfy your material desires infinitely, you can only Eliminate desire itself. So the stars not only take away the material desire of the person who makes the wish, but also make him lose the sense of number. Because he neither desires to use it nor can he recognize the quantity, what he possesses can be called 'inexhaustible'."
"The third person heard these things and also made a wish to the stars. However, this person had evil thoughts in his heart. He made a trap-like wish to the stars, and the content of what he said was: 'Please do not realize this wish I said.' For this Such words could not be realized by the stars, nor could they not be realized, so the stars fell from the sky in a rage, and the world was destroyed."
"Other stars witnessed this and talked about it. Why did it cause such a paradox? One of them said that it was because the person who made the wish used transcendent language. The wish he made was not aimed at external events, but It is the wish itself. Before the person spoke, 'this wish' did not exist in the outside world and was a meaningless natural language. But once it is created by a person, it reflects itself in the form of language. The formation of the paradox is due to Confusion of different levels of language. Therefore, it is never allowed to make wishes in human language.”
"From now on, you can only make wishes in the language of the stars. They stipulate this and create a language that will never produce paradoxes. What is a 'language that does not produce paradoxes'? In other words, it is the same as the language of the stars. A language with direct access to primitive phenomena. Except for the one and only referent, there are absolutely no redundant creative elements, so it is absolutely impossible to establish any grammatical system. If the natural language is assigned a value of one, the corresponding metalanguage is assigned a value of two , what they created is a language that cannot be upgraded, is lower than natural language, and is a zero-value language. From then on, the most perfect special language for making wishes in the world was born, and the stars stipulated that only this language can be used to make wishes to them ——However, because the language is too close to the phenomenon itself and has gone beyond the scope of human understanding, no mortal can learn this language. So since then, the matter of wishing on the stars has been forgotten by people. People use language to study on daily basis. What they learn is actually the description of language, but they think they have learned the phenomenon itself. This is the trap of human language. If a wise person can transcend the illusion of language and touch the essence of the phenomenon, he will He lamented the fallacy and imperfection of language, so he sent a message to warn the world: All language is empty and is not knowledge, but it is called knowledge."
After saying the last words, the person standing in front of the podium lowered his head and bowed to the only audience member in a decent manner.
Grab it. Grab it. "The above is my imagination of Star Language. What do you think, classmate Zhou?"
"It's unexpectedly good, classmate Chen. There is no need to continue studying in the Chinese Department. Let's go to the mountains to become a monk at dawn."
In response to her sarcasm, Chen Wei smiled without mind, put his hands in his pockets and said, "It's not that bad. Generally speaking, I am a neutralist and have a neutral attitude toward everything. Be it religion or politics. Well, academically speaking, by the way, I am not opposed to same-sex marriage, because I am of the 'men and women can' camp."
"...No one asked for your opinion, right?"
"Let me tell you first for reference. But classmate Zhou, I have actually been thinking about this issue for a long time. Why do you, who consider yourself a male, put the makeup on your face so seriously? What kind of aesthetic obsessive-compulsive disorder is this? ?"
The other party didn't answer, he just sat quietly on the chair, eyes lowered as if falling asleep. Already accustomed to the other party's attitude, Chen Wei also sat back on the window sill, looked at the sky outside and hummed a tune. After an unknown amount of time, he heard the person behind him say: "There's no need for that kind of language."
"What?" he turned around and asked.
"There is no need to invent Star Language. If you don't want to cause paradoxes, you only need to prohibit self-referential wishes. 'Can't make wishes about wishes', this can solve the self-referential paradox. "
"If that's the case, I'm afraid there's no way to prohibit it. Of course, such a rule can be made in name, but it can definitely be smuggled in through some form of transformation. Although it is not a 'wishes about wishes' on the surface, in fact it still causes self-involvement. paradox."
Facing the other party's questioning gaze, Chen Wei smiled distressedly.
"Ah, sorry, this sounds really difficult to understand, and it is difficult to think of examples to prove it for a while. However, the loopholes about self-involvement cannot be filled by prohibiting self-involvement. This has been solved through mathematical methods proven."
"After you fail to become a monk, do you plan to use mathematics to deceive you again?"
"Just ordinary extracurricular interests."
"So that's it. The Chinese student who went for a walk in the haunted house after school is actually a lover of mathematical philosophy. How admirable, Mr. Chen. Use your profound mathematics the next time you encounter a ghost Let’s educate her with knowledge.”
"...You really have a lot of objections to what I came out with. However, I don't mean to connect mathematics and philosophy, classmate Zhou. Maybe that can be established for more professional researchers, but for me My interest in mathematics only ends with reasoning. Ah, for me, algorithms and number theory are the same as the tricks of reasoning. I can't do the specific calculations, but I can talk about the idea of the 'core trick' .”
Again she didn't answer. Although there was no response, the expression on his face showed concentration. This time I wanted to hear what he said.
So Chen Wei said: "There is such a perfect building. It is composed of all the mathematical laws in the world. Each law is a brick of it. Because the laws are infinite, the building can also be stacked infinitely high. . However, no matter how high they are stacked, the general structure of the building has been determined by the rules of construction. Just like language must obey grammar, the countless bricks in the building all obey the iron laws of the system itself. That is, the foundation of the entire building. At the same time, because it is a perfect mathematical building in theory, the bricks of any mathematical law must be able to be placed in it. There is only one kind of material that is not allowed to enter the building, and that is the material that constitutes the foundation of the building. The laws of the system itself.”
"The bricks must go in, but the foundation material must not - this is the absolute iron law imposed to protect this perfect mathematical building. By avoiding such self-referential paradoxes, a formal logical system is used to judge all number theory And so it was born. As long as this security system for the foundation does not collapse, this perfect mathematical building can be said to be the highest masterpiece of mathematical logic."
"However, the building eventually encountered a cunning thief. Through a very complex set of tricks, the thief managed to steal a certain piece of the foundation and turn it into a brick, completely legally, bypassing the security system. It was stuffed inside the building. Since it passed the security system test, it was undoubtedly a brick, but it was also part of the foundation. The entire building proved itself imperfect, so it collapsed. This is a wonderful story As for the story, classmate Zhou, if you are interested, you should take a look at the reasoning process. However, that is also a pity, because the closest attempt by mankind to a 'perfect logical form' was broken. No, for ourselves The failure to defend against the relevant issues can be said to be proof of our incomplete thinking."
"……incomplete."
"Because there are no paradoxes in reality, classmate Zhou. Even if the building of the number theory system collapses, your own life can continue. No matter how unexplainable paradoxes appear in your thoughts, the reality you live in will never be changed because of this. Damaged. In this way, reality has always been perfect and self-consistent, and what is incomplete and contradictory is just our limited thinking. In this case, can the form created by our limited thinking be said to be closer to the ideal state than the world itself? "
He gnaws books and lives in Henan. He looked out the window at the starry sky with a smile on his face.
"Actually, I'm still thinking about another question, classmate Zhou. That is the existence of wishing stars. In the past, I thought that wishing stars would explode due to paradoxes, and I told you that just now. However, recently I thought of it again A new question arises - if the wishing star really exists, is it a man-made machine or a natural phenomenon? If it is the former, it is not surprising that it will malfunction, but if it is the latter, then it is also a part of the world. Part of it. In other words, its self-consistency is higher than our thinking. Why should we destroy it because of our mistakes? No, as a wishing star, it will not be forced by formal paradoxes. , just like the universe will not collapse because people question its starting point, it will just continue to run on its own. However, the resulting operation results will definitely lead to the destruction of those with contradictory thinking. This is my latest point of view, so you said there is no need to invent Star Language, I think it may be right."
"Classmate Chen, you have made wishing a very disgusting thing."
"Then you can't blame me, right? The stars themselves have neither malice nor kindness towards people, they just act according to people's ideas. Whether it's wishes or forms, they are just neutral things in themselves, and they are arbitrarily controlled by people. Subject and object, object and form. Then isn’t it natural to bear the consequences? If you only make some reliable wishes, such as asking the stars to blink at you more, I think that is a completely harmless wish. wish."
The stars in the sky all blinked at the two people inside the window. Although there is a cannibal murderer hidden among them, they all look very cute at the moment. Isn’t this the end? Chen Wei thought to himself that there was no way to extract a confession through torture now.
The girl sitting at the desk put down the coffee can and quietly buried her face under her arms, looking like she was ready to take a nap. After noticing her fatigue, he stopped talking. Instead, he stared at the sky outside the window and played the melody of the Requiem casually. Grab it
From the starry midnight to the blue-white dawn. The first night in this desolate abandoned school, I encountered nothing in the end.
When the birds began to chirp, he walked to the desk and pushed the sleeping girl awake.
"It's almost time to go back, classmate Zhou. We didn't get Ms. Ghost's attention last night, so let's go back and have a good sleep now."
As he said this, he was actually so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyes. On the contrary, the guy who fell asleep in the middle of the night became energetic and helped him walk towards the school gate.
"Can you still ride a bike in this state?"
"Ah, I don't think that's going to work either. Just leave the bike here for now. I'll take a taxi back today."
He rubbed his eyes and opened the map software. At this time, the girl next to me said: "Chen Wei."
"What's wrong? If you want to hitchhike, don't we live on the same side? Although I don't know your current address. Don't you live on the west side anymore?"
"What would you wish for if there were stars like that?"
He put down his phone and looked at the person next to him. Although it was a completely fictitious question, the other party seemed very serious and had a dangerous tendency to seek reality in fantasy.巘戅巘戅
"Well...I don't have any suitable wishes. However, since I am so sleepy right now, I will probably make some dreams-related wishes. Stop having strange nightmares, and stop having dreams about not being able to find the toilet. Just do it. A simple and peaceful dream."
He pressed the confirmation button for the rental call and let out a lax yawn.
"My wish is," he said, "that this dream last a little longer."
