But now, predicting the future is a piece of cake for me.
I know what happened to my helpless and trusted children because they have grown up.
I know what happened to my old friends, because most of them have retired or died.
I want to say to Hawking and everyone younger than me: Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie at your feet like a puppy. No matter what you are, it will understand and love you.
? Vonnegut
1? I know the ending of this story very well.
When I started dating Gary, Banks already knew the ending, a bad ending.
They met because of the seven-limb barrel, which is the product of alien civilization. It has seven long limbs, one in the middle, four or six in all directions, and its shape is extremely symmetrical.
Banks is a linguist and Gary is a physicist. Their task is to decipher the language of the seven-limb barrel and then understand their civilization.
The mirror is a tool for human beings to communicate with the seven-limb bucket.
Through the mirror, they and the seven-limb brothers played the game of "you draw and you guess" day after day, and the veil of the mysterious language system of the seven-limb barrel civilization was unveiled bit by bit.
Until one day, Banks suddenly found that the memory of the future, like a messy puzzle, gathered around her.
She saw that her marriage with Gary had finally come to an end; I saw my 25-year-old daughter with a cold face.
This is the result of her continuous mastery of the seven-limb barrel language, which is a system that completely subverts human cognition, a world that can accommodate the future, because they are not pursuing cause and effect, but the most valuable and unique purpose.
Banks, who has the memory of the next 50 years, thought for a long time, pressed the start button of tragedy and accepted life with the script.
Because she had no choice. ...
2? In Fermat's law of minimum time, I saw two equally powerless worlds.
The human understanding of Fermat's minimum time law is that because the refractive index of light in air and water is different, light entering water will lead to refraction.
In the cognition of the seven-limb bucket, the reason why light chooses that path to cross the water is because it is inevitable and unique, because it is the shortest path.
Through the known results, human beings have given the cause of refraction.
The seven-limb bucket knows all the possibilities and points to the only one step by step.
Because of the unknown, human beings are endowed with the ability to choose.
Because as we all know, there is no free will in the world of seven limbs barrels.
In the process of mastering the seven-limb barrel language, Banks gradually caught a glimpse of these two equally powerless worlds.
The prophet that the human world hopes for is just a sad spectator. He can see the joys and sorrows of every individual and the ending of every story, but he loses his free will and the right to choose.
Thus, the prophet became the most helpless role.
Of course, this is an incomprehensible existence in human cognition.
Because they always only see that the prophet can predict the future results, and the reason why they can change the possibility of the future at will is only the reasonable explanation given by the results.
3? All the seven-limb barrels disappeared in an instant, as if I had chosen my own destiny.
"Because I can choose freely, I can't predict the future. On the other hand, if I already know the future, I can't resist this established fate, and I can't tell others about the future I know-this is also a form of resistance. Those who predict the future will not talk about the future, and those who have read the book of years will not admit that they have read it. "
Many readers face the sudden disappearance of unknown so with seven limbs, but they read the magnificent story in the fate of Banks' Choice, because we are always following Banks' thinking, that is, human cognition.
We believe that Banks chose to give up when he could change his fate, even if it was a tragedy, he chose to move on calmly.
When we think so, we have actually unconsciously given the bank the right to choose. The fact is, when memento mori about the future roared, banks were deprived of their choice.
She, from beginning to end, could not resist this established fate.
Many people, like Colonel Wick, have been asking, what is the purpose of the sudden visit to human civilization by the Seven Limbs Barrel?
This question is actually very simple. As long as you stand in the cognitive world of seven limb barrels, everything will be solved.
There is no reason for the seven-limb bucket to visit, because their world has no cause and effect, they know everything about the future, and they only visit the human world because it is the best value in the known world.
So they came, so they left again.
Two seemingly strange worlds finally met.
We regret the one-dimensional sexiness of time, perhaps because we don't know that even if time is reversible, there is nothing we can do.