Pirates: Be the Master from the East China Sea

"This kind of thing is a bit surreal no matter how you think about it, right?"

The narrow room has bright lights that shine on the faces of the people sitting at the tables.

It was a middle-aged man with a messy beard.

The middle-aged man's face is a little plump, but his eyes are full of fatigue and lack of energy. The thick dark circles under his eyes show that he has not had a good sleep for a long time. The fluffy beer belly shows that he has always been very poor in body management. .

At this time, he was telling the story to a man and a woman on the other side of the table.

But the man and the woman obviously didn't believe what he said.

"A person is the anchor of the world. All causes and effects are chaotic on him, and he will reconstruct the entire world without even his own control?! This kind of thing is really outrageous no matter how you think about it!"

The woman had dyed yellow hair and her words were full of disbelief.

"I also think this is too mysterious."

The man next to the woman couldn't help blowing out a smoke ring: "I'm not talking about you, brother, but it's okay to lie to my brothers, but just don't fool yourself. It doesn't really matter if my brothers are fooled by you, just call me haha I've passed it, but I hope you wipe the corners of your eyes after typing this and don't let the tears fall on the screen of your mobile phone. I really don't want to break your guard. Wipe your tears and think about it. Who else will believe you except brothers? ?”

"Why does what you say sound so familiar?..."

The middle-aged man couldn't help but glance at the opposite person: "By the way, do you really understand what cause and effect is?"

"Then I'm quite knowledgeable."

The man next to the woman put out his cigarette and started talking: "Oprah Winfrey once said that what you believe in is what you become. Although this sentence is short, it makes me think a lot. Lian Lian. And these are not entirely important. The more important question is how to achieve cause and effect."

"Schopenhauer inadvertently said that ordinary people only think about how to spend their time, and talented people try to use their time. This makes me think deeply. The will is a strong blind man, leaning on the shoulders of a sighted lame man. I hope you can understand this sentence well. With these questions, let’s examine cause and effect.”

"What is the crux of the problem? We all know that as long as it is meaningful, it must be considered carefully. Zola once said that once the path of life is chosen, we must bravely go to the end and never look back. In fact, to succeed There is no need for any special talents. Nowadays, solving the problem of cause and effect is very, very important. Therefore, we have to face a very embarrassing fact, that is, it is difficult for anyone in this world to explain the nature of cause and effect."

"Isn't everything you said nonsense?"

Not only the middle-aged man, but also the woman rolled her eyes angrily.

The man immediately shook his head in embarrassment.

In fact, he didn't understand the essence of the word cause and effect from the beginning, but he was embarrassed to admit it in front of his female colleagues.

That's why I deliberately talked nonsense.

It's just that this approach actually makes no sense, and in the end it didn't save him any face at all.

"Let me teach you a lesson."

The middle-aged man cleared his throat and said slowly: "Generally speaking, cause and effect refers to the relationship between a series of factors and a phenomenon. Any event that affects a certain result is a factor of that result. The direct factor is Factors that directly affect the result, that is, without any intervening factors. From this perspective, the relationship between cause and effect can also be called causal association."

"Causes and effects are usually related to changes or events. The content here is relatively complicated, so I won't go into it in depth for the time being. In fact, the philosophical study of causality has a long history. Buddhism and Western philosophers such as Aristotle Cause and effect were proposed many years ago, and the question remains an important topic in modern philosophy."

"Things are universally connected. In order to understand individual phenomena, we must extract them from the universal connection and examine them in isolation, one as a cause and the other as a result."

"Usually, the cause must come first, and the result can only come later. The chronological order of the two cannot be reversed."

"But Roach is an exception."

The middle-aged man took a deep look at the two men opposite him again and continued: "What I want to tell you is that the deterministic worldview believes that the universe is just a series of events that occur according to the law of cause and effect, and there is no freedom. Will. Compatibilism, on the other hand, holds that determinism is compatible, even necessary, for free will. Existentialism holds that while essential meaning is designed in a deterministic universe, each of us can provide meaning for ourselves .”

"Can you understand what I want to express?"

"I can roughly understand the meaning of the word cause and effect." The woman's fingers lazily stroked the ends of her hair and asked slowly in a melodious tone: "The focus of our attention is not always Roach? How exactly does what you just said happen to him? "

"As I just said, cause and effect are reversed in him."

The middle-aged man's expression gradually became serious: "According to common sense, the cause comes first and the result comes later, but everything about Roach is chaotic, so whether it is time or space, anyone who is involved with him will be... It’s in a very unstable state of chaos.”

"That's not the point of the question."

The woman's brows began to frown: "The point is, how do you prove that what you said is true?"

"I can't prove..."

The middle-aged man pursed his lips tightly: "But I still want to tell this matter."

"Then how do you know all this?"

"It's very simple..."

The middle-aged man raised his head: "I created this person Luo Qi."

"Are you telling us a fantasy?"

"This is indeed no different from a fantasy." The middle-aged man sighed deeply, and then continued: "You may not know it well, but I actually make a living by writing novels. I usually make a living by earning some royalties. To live my life, I wrote a pirate fan novel a long time ago to catch up on the popularity. The protagonist of the story is called Luo Qi, but the results of the book were dismal, so I committed suicide..."

"Swinging a knife from the palace?"

"It means I stopped writing when I was halfway through writing."

"I know."

The man next to the woman smiled and blinked: "I just asked that on purpose. Speaking of which, you people are really annoying. Do you know how uncomfortable it will be if the novel you are following suddenly stops? Readers who are willing to follow it now It’s entirely your fault, these dead eunuchs, that it’s getting less and less.”

"Of course I know this will bring consequences, but..."

The middle-aged man sighed deeply: "In short, I admit that this matter is my fault, and I don't want to do this."