Chapter 364 (1/2)

”As you know, I study philosophy. In the field of philosophy, there are two views on the origin of the world. Dualists believe that the origin of the world is composed of consciousness and matter, and consciousness can exist independently from matter; while monists believe that the world is only composed of matter, and human conscious activities and emotional cognition are a manifestation of matter.”

Suhuilan walked back to her desk with a smile and asked like a professor, ”guess what kind I am?”

Petru immediately said, ”of course it's a dualist.”

Suhuilan didn't say right or wrong, but turned the topic to science:

”In modern scientific research, there is always a problem that puzzles scientists: how do consciousness and matter interact? If consciousness is generated by a certain movement law of matter, what is the generation mechanism? If consciousness exists independently of matter, what is it?”

”The mainstream academic circles, that is, in our experimental scientific research and school teaching, generally agree with the monism that the body and thought are different manifestations of the same thing. Consciousness is the function of the brain, and thinking is the result of a large number of neuronal activities. With the deepening of human research on the brain, this view seems to have no problem, so it has become the main idea However, you should know that the 'mainstream' is always a conservative collection at any time and in any environment. ”

”In both scientific and philosophical circles, only enlightened, open, radical and even adventurous scholars can stand at the height of surpassing the times, break through the shackles of old ideas, change the world with brand-new theories and become the top thinkers. Aristotle, Newton and Einstein... This is not the case. In today's scientific circles, those top scholars, such as Lester and Flynn Si, Miyamoto Joe, Meiji and so on, they are not conservatives. Although I dare not compare with them in the field of science, we are basically the same on this point. ”

When Su Huilan said this, she paused a little, looked at Qingmu, and her face looked like a smile.

Aoki knew that her words were not only for petru, but also for him, and probably mainly for him.

However, whether consciousness exists independently of matter may be a problem in the eyes of ordinary people. Experimental science usually proves that consciousness is the concomitant product of the brain and the embodiment of brain function according to the conscious cognition after brain injury. Because no matter what kind of damage people suffer, such as breaking a finger, amputating a limb, cutting off a kidney, or even changing the heart, people's consciousness and thinking will not be affected, but if the brain is damaged, consciousness will become incomplete and even the whole child will be lost.

Another direct experience is that people are completely unconscious when they are in deep sleep or under anesthesia. Similarly, it can be considered that the soul after death does not exist. This can also indirectly prove that consciousness is based on the special structure and movement of matter.

So some people say that if you meet a ghost, how lucky and worth celebrating! Because that means you still exist after death and won't disappear.

Aoki agrees with Su Huilan that the mainstream is a conservative view, because after Lester's last words were published, the invasion of parasitic consciousness has almost been confirmed and the order to kill cats has spread all over the world, the so-called elites still adhere to materialism and still don't believe that conscious bodies invade the human brain and people may become another person alive.

Therefore, in most versions of the impending end of the world circulated everywhere, people are still used to calling parasitic consciousness bodies alien creatures, and think that Toxoplasma gondii and gray brain virus are the fundamental means of alien invasion, and cats all over the world suffer from it.

However, all these views and theories are untenable in the eyes of awakened people such as Aoki. For them, the independent existence of consciousness is just a cognitive common sense. If consciousness cannot exist independently, how do they make their Qingming dreams? How does he get into other people's dreams?

So Aoki doesn't understand what Su Huilan said to him. Of course, he knows that Su Huilan, like Professor Mei, recognizes the existence of consciousness, but scientists do not equate consciousness with soul, nor do they make too many unnecessary arguments before there is scientific evidence.

Su Huilan is obviously more special. Compared with Mei Tao, she is an awakener with strong spiritual power and independent consciousness experience; Compared with Aoki, she is also a scholar with profound scientific literacy and theoretical foundation.

Aoki feels that suhuilan is guiding the topic in a certain direction. She doesn't want to say whether consciousness exists or not.