Rebel Demon King

Chapter 17 Coincidence
What Cheng Mo thought could be solved with just a few words, he only needed to delay in Wang Shanhai for a while and then he could go back. He didn't expect Wang Shanhai to keep him here for dinner. He didn't eat at other people's houses. Habit, from childhood to adulthood, there is no experience of dining in other people's houses, which makes him extraordinarily cautious.

At this moment, Cheng Mo was sitting at the round table in the dining room, his straight back was a little hard, thinking of a tenacious reef that was resisting the waves.

Naturally, Wang Shanhai also noticed Cheng Mo's restraint, and raised a topic to make this poor and wise child not so tight, so he smiled and said, "Cheng Mo, I remember you should be Changya too, right? "

At this time, the nanny served the first dish of steamed eight-treasure fish, and at the moment when the plate touched the wood-colored table, Cheng Mo replied, "Yeah."

Wang Shanhai immediately said brightly, "It's a coincidence, my family's Xiao Jin is also from Changya. I haven't introduced you yet. This is my granddaughter Xie Minyun. You are from Changya and you should know her."

Xie Minyun, who was sitting across from Cheng Mo, couldn't bear the smugness that his grandfather said about himself, and immediately said indifferently, "A lot of people study in Changya in this yard, right? It's not surprising that you know me. Now! The so-called 'coincidence' is just a probabilistic event in its essence."

The reason why Xie Minyun is a bit aggressive in her speech is that she is a bit stubborn. The main reason is that she is still angry at Wang Shanhai's cheating style. Of course, it has something to do with not taking Cheng Mo seriously, but in essence, what she hates is actually My grandfather, as for Cheng Mo, it's not worth her anger, so Cheng Mo is just a disaster for Chi Yu.

Wang Shanhai didn't care about Xie Minyun's attitude, he smiled and turned to ask Cheng Mo who was sitting beside him: "Cheng Mo, what do you think? What is the coincidence?"

Seeing her grandfather's question, Xie Minyun also focused her attention on Cheng Mo. She didn't think that the seemingly ordinary child on the opposite side could give any decent answer, but since grandpa asked him, it meant that he had what grandpa liked. There are many academic leaders from the Academy of Social Sciences in the locality. Grandpa can keep him for dinner, which means that the parents of the other party are definitely not low-level. This level may be in terms of power, wealth, and more likely in terms of knowledge.

Although the parent's level does not represent the child's level, since grandfather asked the other party this question, he thought that the other party could answer this question.

However, Cheng Mo just watched the nanny serve the second dish "braised pork" and said while the clay pot was placed on the table, "I agree with this sentence."

Xie Minyun couldn't see what she expected, not to mention flashing answers, not even decent answers, and could only pretend to be profound, Xie Minyun immediately looked away from Cheng Mo, looking at Wang Shanhaidao : "Grandpa, there is really nothing indisputable about this matter. The so-called 'coincidence' happens all the time. It is not surprising. There are 70 billion people on the earth, and with such a large sample, anything incredible is possible. Coincidence The scope is too vague. If he happens to be in the same class as me, we can say it was a coincidence. Even if he is not in the same class, he is now my alumnus. We can also say it is a coincidence. Even if we are not in the same school, then Let’s enlarge the scope, assuming that the place where we met is not in Star City, then we can still say it’s a coincidence, we are all from Star City, so the so-called ‘coincidence’, as long as you search hard, you will definitely find it.”

Wang Shanhai asked Cheng Mo with a faint smile again: "Cheng Mo, what do you think?"

Cheng nodded noncommittally and said, "I think it makes sense."

Xie Minyun saw that he was debating seriously, but the old man and the young man seemed to be teasing her, and he was a little angry and said blankly: "Okay, okay, you treat your granddaughter like this, I don't know who was on the phone yesterday. Crying that he is an empty-nest old man, saying that the son-in-law and daughter are not filial, and the granddaughter should be filial. When I come, you treat me like this, play chess, pretend to be deaf and dumb when you ask you questions, and I will never come to see you again next time.”

Seeing Xie Minyun's cold expression, Wang Shanhai was really angry. He smiled at Xie Minyun and was about to say something, but Xie Minyun immediately turned his head away and didn't look at Wang Shanhai at all. As for Chengmo, it didn't exist at all.

Seeing Xie Minyun's appearance that I don't listen to me, Wang Shanhai turned to Cheng Mo and said, "Cheng Mo, look, you annoyed my little Jin!"

Hearing this, Cheng Mo was suddenly a little confused. He had never met such a person in his memory, and there were many more unreasonable ones. It was the first time that Cheng Mo had met a rogue of the younger generation. , but this Guo Chengmo didn't intend to carry it back, just when he was about to open his mouth, he heard Wang Shanhai say: "Xiaojin is angry, I will be angry too, when I get angry, maybe I can't do the things you asked me to help you. You What to do?"

Cheng Mo was a little dumbfounded. He really wanted to say what's wrong with your granddaughter's anger?I didn't do anything, I didn't say anything, it's you playing chess that made your granddaughter upset, okay?
But people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and can only say helplessly: "Although I think coincidence can indeed be regarded as a probability problem, but coincidence cannot be explained only by probability."

Wang Shanhai asked like a slap in the face, "Oh? How do you say this?"

Cheng Mo thought to himself: he should have become a tool for Wang Shanhai to educate his proud granddaughter, but for his own goals, let her take a hit!As for the feeling of Lianxiangxiyu, Cheng Mo did not have it at all.

So Cheng Mo said lightly: "Probability can only explain 'why coincidences occur', it tells you that these coincidences will occur, there are such and such preconditions. But probability cannot explain 'the coincidences that appear at this time are this one, Rather than any other form', Carl Jung elaborated on this issue: In addition to the force of 'causality', there is a force called 'synchronicity' (Note 1). He believes that 'synchronicity' Sex' is a 'non-causal connection principle' (note 2) by which events are linked together."

Hearing Cheng Mo's words, Wang Shanhai's expression was very relieved, while Xie Minyun frowned. From the beginning, he didn't see Momo at all, but turned to face it.

Cheng Mo turned a blind eye to the changes between the two, and continued: "This connection is obviously meaningful and worthy of interpretation in his opinion. For example, when I was thinking of someone, that person just called me, We say it is a coincidence, which can be regarded as a matter of probability. But we also often find more supernatural, for example, we often hear reports that when one of the twins is in danger, the other will also sense, when the close relatives When a person dies, his own body also behaves differently; for example, we often find that the experience of reality is similar to the dream, which cannot be explained by probability."

Xie Minyun's mind was already running fast at this moment. As the captain of the school's debate team, she naturally would not allow herself to lose to an unknown person, so she looked at Cheng Mo sharply and said, "Coincidence only exists in reading In its eyes, those who believe in religion and mystical power prefer self-interpretation, and those who believe in intuition, destiny, and love to find 'meaning' will believe in this kind of coincidence without cause and effect. In fact, as long as you If you look carefully, you will find the premise. Although the lottery is difficult to win, as long as there are many people who buy it, there will always be someone who will win. What should be surprising? This is the truth of coincidence! The vast majority of so-called supernatural events are lie"

Cheng Mo pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at Xie Minyun's beautiful face and said lightly: "If you have to argue like this, you are playing a rogue like President Wang, because the other way around, the probability is actually a coincidence. Quantification is just different degrees of coincidence, because we cannot set a specific value for coincidence, so you mistake coincidence as probability, but in fact we can also say that probability is a kind of coincidence.”

Hearing Cheng Mo's seemingly sarcastic words, but in fact even Wang Shanhai's sarcastic words, Xie Minyun said with a frosty face: "You~~~~!"

　Note 1: Synchronicity can also be called simultaneity, which is actually an explanation of mysterious phenomena.For example, you are thinking about your friend, and the friend comes; or you dream about something, then you hear about it, and you discover it while you are dreaming; and so on, so-called mysterious phenomena.

　　 In his 1952 essay On Synchronicity, Jung defined in detail the concept he was dealing with, and briefly described the fact that the concept of "synchronicity" touches: as etymology shows, this vocabulary is related to Time is concerned, or more precisely, with the nature of simultaneity.Instead of presenting the term at the same time, we can also use "meaningful coincidence" of more than two or three events, a concept that shows more than just a matter of probability.

　　Note 2: The principle of non-causal connection - the principle of synchronicity proposed by Jung is non-causal. a treatment.

　　
　
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