The Primordial Wizard

The wizard apprentices around the bonfire looked up at Ace, who was floating in the air with his hands raised high, feeling agitated.

Arnold even stood up directly, and said loudly: Although I don't understand what is reality and what is cognition, I am willing to hold the torch high, and I want to be the next fire passer!

Oli blushed, she understood and didn't understand, but she knew that Anuo definitely didn't understand, she quickly pulled Anuo down, and said in a low voice: Brother Anuo is a big idiot! If you have thoroughly studied elementary mathematics, let's talk about whether you can spread fire!

The other wizard apprentices also became excited, their emotions were agitated, they are a group, they are the fire seed of the fire passer, and they are the next fire passer!

Varun frowned. After thinking for a long time, he stood up, bowed to Ace and asked, Dear Fire Passer, how can we think correctly and understand rationally?

Ace looked at Varen with admiration, likes to ask questions, likes to think, and does not follow blindly, which is an excellent quality.

He didn't answer in a hurry, and quietly waited for everyone to calm down, and after waiting for everyone to think, he said:

We assume that the world is a cave-like cave, and only a long passage connects the outside world, so that only a very weak light shines into the cave.

Some prisoners have lived in the cave since they were young. Their heads, necks, legs and feet are bound. They cannot walk or turn their heads. They can only look forward at the cave wall.

Above and behind them, a torch is burning, and between the torch and the prisoner is a path and a wall.

And behind the wall, facing the fire, there are some other people, they hold various puppets, and let the puppets make various actions.

The prisoners saw the images projected on the wall in front of them and mistook the images for the real thing.

At this time, a prisoner was released from the shackles. He stood up, looked around and walked out of the cave. Then he discovered the truth of things. It turned out that what he saw was all illusions, and there was a bright world outside.

So, he no longer wants to live this dark life, and wants to rescue his companion.

Ace quietly told the story about the cave and the torch, looked at the people in front of him, and asked, How do you think his companions will treat him? How will they treat the first person who sees the 'truth'?

Arnold stood up and said, They will definitely respect him and let him lead the remaining prisoners to a bright world!

The other wizard apprentices were thinking,

There was no immediate answer.

Bayern was thinking in his heart, thinking outside the story, as if Arnold said, but what if he became a prisoner?

From birth, they cannot walk or turn their heads, they can only look at the walls of the cave, and they can only look at the images on the walls, so in their cognition, images are everything!

Will they really trust a companion who shatters all their cognitions?

The other prisoners in the cave will not trust this prisoner who saw the light world, they will not trust him. If that prisoner tries to rescue other prisoners, his life may even be in danger!

Because those prisoners have never seen the real, they live in the false, they can only see what the cave shows them! They are people without thinking power!

Bayern stood up and said firmly.

Ace, who was suspended above the bonfire, was a little relieved to see the resolute Bayern.

He said softly: The prisoners not only didn't believe every word he said, but felt that he went up there for a trip, and after he came back, his eyes were burned by the sun, and he couldn't recognize the image as before. .

Since they didn't want to leave this familiar world at all, they killed this kind man.

In reality, we may also be in this cave, in ignorance. If the truth told to us subverts our cognition, what will happen to us?

A group of apprentices fell into deep thought. If someone in reality completely overturned their cognition, what would they do? What would they do?

Decades ago, in the northern city-state of Milne, the Pythian school was very popular! Their cornerstone theory is the 'ratio of any two line segments can be expressed by the ratio of two integers' proposed by Pythias.

Everyone has studied elementary mathematics and knows that numbers are not only integers and fractions, but also irrational numbers and even more expansions. Apprentices were buzzing, and it was hard to believe that anyone could use this theory as a cornerstone.

You may find it unbelievable, but in the eyes of the Pythaists, that is the reality of the mathematical world. Later, there was an apprentice of the Pythaism, named Hibbs, who discovered that the extension of the Pytha theorem is a+b= c, assuming a=1, b=1, because a+b=c then c=2.

You have studied elementary mathematics, and you all know that c=√2 is an infinite non-repeating decimal. But for the believers of the Pytha School, this broke their understanding of numbers, so they drowned Hibbs!

The Pythagoreans are so stupid!

There are people who take fallacies for truth!

They are the prisoners in the cave!

All the apprentices were talking about it, and Varun was still thinking seriously about the relationship between cave metaphor and new number killing and correct thinking and rational cognition.

He seemed to have caught something, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't catch anything.

My apprentices, if one day, some of you claim that the current cornerstone system of magic, the magic power-magic element-rune-spell model system is not correct, and this system is a completely wrong path, what will you think?

Ace was suspended in the air and asked leisurely.

The bonfire has been gradually extinguished, the sun is gradually rising, and the east is white.

The apprentices were in an uproar. They had just stepped into the gate of the magic road, and staggered along the road of magic power-magic element-rune-spell model. This road is so charming that it gave them extraordinary Power, how could it be wrong?

The magic power-magic element-rune-spell model is a true summary of the extraordinary phenomena in this world. It may be imperfect, but it cannot be wrong!

It is hard to imagine that this path can be wrong, and if it is wrong, why can it give us extraordinary power!

Doubt and surprise flashed across Varen's eyes, could it be!

My apprentices, this is cognitive impairment. If one day, all the wizards, including me, agree to oppose this question, then we will become prisoners of the cave, believers of the Pytha School!

Correct thinking and rational cognition require us not to be superstitious about authority, and to always maintain an objective and neutral thinking mode and research spirit!

As long as we maintain an objective and neutral research spirit and don't believe in authority, we wizards will be a group of thoughtful people, and we will be the measure of all things!

The long night is past, the dawn is breaking in the east, the sun is rising!