Chapter 353 First Lecture

In Zhu Fengdan's cave, Li Qi was chatting with his teacher after a long absence.

After Zhu Fengdan asked the question, Li Qi immediately replied: "I encountered some problems and wanted to ask the teacher."

It is natural for students to ask teachers for advice.

"Oh? You are so smart, I thought you would not encounter any problems in the seventh rank. Tell me, what is it?" Zhu Fengdan asked.

"I, why me?" Li Qi asked.

This is the question that Li Qi is most confused about.

I am me.

This is simply unclear.

"This question... Well, let me think about how to say it. It's a bit early to tell you this now. If I tell you, it will be difficult for you to understand, and it may even mislead you and cause you to have other problems later." Zhu Fengdan's head looked distressed.

Moreover, his hand was still scratching something ten meters away. Looking at that thing, he should want to scratch his head.

Unfortunately, he can't do it now.

But Li Qi can see that his distress is real, and Teacher Zhu really wants to scratch his head.

Because this kind of thing is really hard to say, if you tell Li Qi directly, the problem may be bigger.

If things go wrong, Li Qi will misunderstand or know something in advance, which will lead to premature development, and then affect the path to go astray, and it may be a dead end.

In the path of life, if you take a wrong step, all the steps will be wrong.

The cost of changing after taking a wrong step is too high, otherwise why would so many powerful people choose to reincarnate and rebuild?

It is really hard to turn back, so just kill yourself and start over.

Zhu Fengdan was distressed for a while, and the head flew up and shook: "But you are also a sensible person. Now you ask me this, you must have something in mind, right? You go to see the witch god, and he will definitely give you suggestions in this regard."

"Teacher is very smart." Li Qi bowed his hands and said.

"In this case, I won't say it to you. Let me give you a few guesses. Remember, these are all guesses, none of which can be believed. They contradict each other and conflict with each other. They can only be used as inspiration for you."

Hearing Zhu Fengdan's words, Li Qi sat down cross-legged, then took out paper and pen, listened carefully, and prepared to take notes.

Li Qi certainly understood.

In the process of enlightenment, this kind of thing will happen. You will find that your views on the same thing at different times will be completely deflected.

Moreover, both views seem to make sense. If used in practice, they can also play different roles.

That's why the road to Tao is dangerous.

When you are at the ninth level, useful ideas are adopted. When you reach the eighth level, this idea may become part of the shackles, and you don't know it yet. You will only find that your practice has begun to stagnate, but you can't find the reason.

At this time, a good teacher's advice is better than ten years of hard work.

Zhu Fengdan began to play the role of a teacher for the first time and talked to Li Qi.

He did not use the Tao sound used for preaching. That kind of supernatural power is used to tell extremely complex and systematic knowledge, and can condense a lot of information in one syllable.

What he is going to teach Li Qi today is not those things.

What he is going to say today is just a "guess", some words like chatting.

Only inspire, never do any substantive teaching.

Because of this kind of thing, Zhu Fengdan's idea may be right for himself, but if he tells Li Qi and Li Qi uses it, his life may be ruined.

Zhu Fengdan thought for a while: "Suppose, I mean suppose, a powerful person uses his own magical powers to create an identical you, then is this person you?"

"No." Li Qi said immediately.

Whether from intuition or thinking, although the two people are exactly the same, they are obviously not the same person.

"Yes, of course it can't be you, because even if they are similar, they are two independent material entities. Killing one will not affect the other, and your two thoughts are not connected, so we can draw a conclusion, that is, the identical body is not a necessary condition for me to be me." Zhu Fengdan talked freely.

Li Qi wrote furiously below.

Zhu Fengdan continued, "Although these two bodies are the same, you are independent and free entities, and you have essential things. Your independent existence does not need to rely on other things."

"Then, take this assumption to an extreme. After creating an identical you, every aspect of you, including thoughts, memories, and feelings, is exactly the same as the original you, and then completely destroy the original you. At this time, is this new you still you?"

Faced with this question, Li Qi thought for a while, and then answered, "To others, he is me, but to 'me', he is definitely not."

Zhu Fengdan nodded, "Yes, now there are two more questions."

"The first question is that the you in the eyes of other people in this world may not be the real you, and the real you may not be recognized by others."

"So...?" Li Qi was a little confused.

Zhu Fengdan emphasized again, "Don't ask why. The 'why' is something you come up with yourself. I only talk about the doubts derived from these things. Think about the rest yourself."

Then, he continued: "Now let's talk about the second question, that is: since the physical bodies are exactly the same, but because they are two different entities, they do not have the continuity of time and cause and effect, we can conclude that two exactly the same people are actually different. This is a counter-proof."

"Then, if we continue to be more extreme, we abandon the physical entity, and now another personality appears in your mind. This personality is the same as what we said before. He has all your thoughts and memories. He is no different from you. He loves what you love, hates what you hate, and understands what you understand."

"Then, this second personality has no physical body. He is just another consciousness that suddenly appeared. Now, this personality killed your original personality and took control of your body silently and without any pain. So, is he still you?"

This question is a little tricky, and Li Qi fell into deep thought again.

If it is said that the physical body exists because of the physical entity, so the difference between the two entities can be clearly distinguished no matter what, because the two have no continuity of time and cause and effect, and exist independently and freely...

Then what about the spirit?

If the spirit also undergoes such changes, does it mean that there is a spiritual entity like the material entity of the body? Only in this way can there be 'two' spirits.

With the existence of this spiritual entity, the spirit and will can be judged, because the spiritual entity and the physical entity have the same properties and can be unified by the continuity of time and cause and effect?

This spiritual entity cannot be the soul, because the soul is a real substance, not an illusory consciousness. The soul bears part of the responsibility of thinking and is part of the physical body in this world.

Because it is not the soul, the spirit is more mysterious, but it is still a distinguishable entity?

While Li Qi was thinking, Zhu Fengdan did not stop.

He continued: "If you understand the above two steps, then we will go one step further this time. Now you have lost your memory and lost all your memories. Then, such a personality that is exactly the same as before you lost your memory appears. Is he you? Are you still not you?"

Li Qi's thinking was interrupted and his mind was confused.

If the spirit has an entity, then in what form does this entity exist?

The answer is obvious. Thoughts, memories, feelings, and preferences are the characteristics of spiritual existence, because apart from these, people cannot prove the existence of spirit at all.

Only thoughts, memories, feelings, and preferences can prove the existence of spiritual entities.

Then, if a person suddenly loses his memory permanently and completely forgets his previous experiences, then everyone knows that it is difficult to say that this person is still the same person at this time.

The person who loses his memory is no longer the same person as before. Although he has continuity in time and cause and effect, it is difficult for anyone to recognize that he is the same person as before.

Because from the perspective of thoughts, memories, feelings, and preferences, he has become another person, he is another spiritual entity, because the representation of his spiritual entity has completely disappeared and he has become another person.

At this time, another spiritual entity with the previous characteristics suddenly appears. At this time, who is who?

According to thoughts and memories, the second will that emerges is real, and the one with permanent amnesia is fake.

Li Qi fell into confusion.

But Zhu Fengdan seemed to have no end in sight, and continued to ask without stopping: "Then, if neither the spiritual entity nor the physical entity is enough to prove that you are yourself, then what exactly do you rely on to prove yourself?"

Li Qi frowned, and he suddenly raised his head and said: "According to this statement, teacher, does self-identity seem a bit prominent in this issue?"

Matter is an independent and free entity.

Spirit is also an independent and free entity from matter.

Because of the existence of these two entities, the entity has causal and temporal continuity, so it can be judged as 'I'?

So, 'I' is an entity with temporal and causal continuity?

So, to get the answer, the important thing is identity.

Is this the answer?

Li Qi didn't know.

"Don't ask me, today I am only responsible for making conjectures and raising questions, not answering them." Zhu Fengdan rolled his eyes: "This is the third time I've said this today, I'll do it next time."

Li Qi shut up obediently and listened honestly.

After that, Zhu Fengdan continued to raise various conjectures.

For example, does the spirit really have an entity? Are the choices you make out of free will or out of many external factors that have been determined before? For example, the state of brain nerves and the state of soul.

If the puppet of Li Dao is precise enough, it can be almost the same as a real person.

Then how to judge whether others are not puppets and really have spiritual entities?

It is very likely that people's thoughts are just a fluctuation of various substances, which are governed by the laws of physics to form a specific neural network.

For example, are spiritual attributes independent of material attributes? Is the mind the spiritual attribute of material entities?

Zhu Fengdan talked for a whole day, not talking about anything practical, but only talking about these questions without any answers. The directions of these questions are contradictory, but each of them makes sense.

For a whole day, he bombarded Li Qi with these endless questions.

There are too many such conjectures, too many 'possibilities'.

Li Qi felt like his head was going to explode.

Every time Zhu Fengdan asked a question, she gave him a new choice.

Now there are hundreds of choices in front of him, and each one seems to be right, can be used, and can be used as a guide on the path. Some can even be developed further to develop new techniques. The new magical power will greatly increase his combat power, or improve his cultivation level.

But the more choices there were, the more confused and scared Li Qi became.

Having too much is actually a kind of evil barrier.

Inner demons gradually arose, and the demonic thoughts of fear and doubt began to breed in Li Qi's heart.

Zhu Fengdan glanced at Li Qi at this moment.

His whole body was covered in cold sweat, his hands and feet were trembling, the pen and paper used for recording were thrown to the ground, his eyes were bloodshot, countless thoughts were tumbling in his mind, and the answer to each question seemed to be related to his future.

well.

Long before this sermon, Zhu Fengdan had said in advance that it was not good to encourage others, and telling Li Qi some things would only add to his burden and make his future path more difficult.

Look, this is coming.

However, he still believed in Li Qi.

It's a bit difficult, but it's always smooth sailing, but it's actually very dangerous, and your ability to resist risks will be greatly reduced.

Alas, the road is such an awkward thing.

The journey is safe, but it is also dangerous.

Is it right to deliberately abandon stability to look for danger and turn danger into opportunities?

That's nonsense. Danger is danger. If you can't survive it, you'll die. Pursuing that thing is just out of your mind.

Those who deliberately pursue danger usually die early, and only a few lucky ones can be screened out.

No matter how talented you are, you can only rely on luck at that time.

But what the great leaders want is not good luck, good luck is of no use.

But there is no way. There must be many reasons for a genius to grow up.

Wait until one day later——

Zhu Fengdan's head floated in the air and said: "The last question is, how can we be sure that the reincarnation of a powerful person is ourselves? After committing suicide and being reincarnated, why don't they worry about becoming another person?"

Li Qi was stunned.

yes.

If reincarnated, the continuity of the physical body will be broken.

In other words...spiritual entities really exist?

Reincarnation means abandoning the physical entity, choosing the spiritual entity, and then obtaining a second physical entity?

But... reincarnation also has the mystery of the womb, and you will lose your memory...

Li Qi fell into deep thought again.

Zhu Fengdan looked at Li Qi, whose eyes were bloodshot and his whole body was exuding despair, and shouted loudly: "Okay, don't look like that. I won't be responsible if you die here soon. What are you thinking about?" If you get your own answer in one day, I will give you my head as a ball, get out of here and think about it later!”

After Zhu Fengdan shouted loudly, Li Qi raised his head and his mind became clearer.

He reluctantly got up, saluted and said, "Thank you so much, teacher. I'll think about it when I get back..."

Zhu Fengdan's head turned around Li Qi irritably: "What are you thinking about? It's useless to think so much. These are just introductions. Do you understand the introduction? You are only in your thirties, do you really want to reach the sky in one step? If you don't care, This stuff is just a bunch of crap, and if you think about it, this stuff is your motivator.”

"Clear your mind, go have a meal, change your clothes, and then get out of here!"