Chapter 99 Theseus and Yang Zhu (1/2)
”Of course, I'm still myself,” Hao Ning thought for a while, then scolded in anger, ”Pooh! Your organs are all broken!” After saying that, he suddenly realized, ”I got it! You mean —”
”The ship of Theseus!” Zhou Yuan thought for a while, ”It's a classic thought experiment of the ship of Theseus!”
”What are you talking about?” Hao Ning opened his mouth, then turned his head to look at Zhou Yuan together with Liu Shuai. After Zhou Yuan became the ”moment god,” not only did he mutter something inexplicable, it was easy for him to say and do unexpected things.
”The ship of Theseus is a hypothesis,” Zhou Yuan thought about it. ”This ship that can travel on the sea for hundreds of years is reliant on continuous maintenance and replacement parts. As soon as a board decays, it will be replaced, and so on, until all the functional parts are not the first ones. The question is, is the ship the same ship of Theseus as before, or is it a completely different ship? It is exactly the question that Liu Shuai asked you just now. If all parts of your body are changed, are you still yourself? If not, then when did you begin to become a different person? ”
”... That's resourceful...” Hao Ning frowned, ”How do you know all these things?”
”Hehe,” Zhou Yuan laughed. ”There are always people who post these profound articles on WeChat Moment to show that they are knowledgeable, unconventional, and unscrupulous. Is it strange that I know of these now?”
”Aren't you also unscrupulous …” Hao Ning thought about it, but he didn't say it out.
”That's a WeChat Moment version of Wikipedia...” Liu Shuai sighed, ”That's what I meant. If the body is like that, then, of course, it will be even harder to find a part of the soul that has been replaced. ”
”That's right. You have finally started to understand,” Zhang Quan nodded his head. ”Although the part cut off from a person's soul is not that much, but it can accumulate to a large amount. So, it's still worth it for these people who cultivate devil arts to do it.”
”Why it can accumulate to a large amount?” Hao Ning felt that he had returned to the state he was in a few weeks ago, and he did not understand many things. ”Like what you said, soul cutting is a new method, wouldn't it be more troublesome?”
”Do you have countless questions?” Zhang Quan had never finished even one ”lecture” today. He was always interrupted, so he was in a horrible mood. However, after pondering a while, he still tried to explain in detail, ”The preparation of soul-taking is extremely complicated. If one wanted to exterminate others' souls completely, he must do many preparations so that the other people's subconscious would completely accept the fact that they don't have a soul. That is why Lan Ruo needed to come a long time in advance to tempt Zhou Yuan to say something like 'Don't wait for his soul'. However, if it's only to cut a part of the soul, there's no need to go through all these troubles. ”
”Stingy thought experiment!” Zhou Yuan suddenly said again.
”Damn, bro, what are you talking about?” Liu Shuai was listening with relish, but after being interrupted by Zhou Yuan, he could not help but retort.
”You don't know anything about it?” Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai with wide eyes. ”Isn't this the basic knowledge that losers need today?”
”Dame you …” Liu Shuai blushed a little, ”If you have something to say, say it, don't pretend to be profound.”
”Hehe.” Zhou Yuan glanced at Liu Shuai, ”The stingy person is used to describe Yang Zhu in ancient times. He once said: If you want to pull out a single strand of my hair, even if it would benefit the entire world, I will not give it to you. The descendants then ridicule Yang Zhu for being so stingy.”
”This person is truly selfish,” Liu Shuai nodded. ”He deserves that mocking.”
”Yep. Master Mo Zi's disciple, Qin Zi, had the same reaction as you,” Zhou Yuan laughed softly. ”So he went to argue with Yang Zhu's student, Meng Sunyang, but in the end, he was face-smacked by Meng Sunyang.”