Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone

Chapter 956 717: Mysteries Perfected, the Four Symbols Tribulation

In a daze, Lu Xuanji was lost in confusion.

Looking at this world, it was hard to distinguish truth from illusion.

Was he really living in a game world?

Once, someone asked the teacher a question, "Why do people grow taller?"

Later, in college, he asked his classmates this question, and one of them asked back, "Why do characters level up in a game?"

I remember the teacher's answer at the time, "Because cells grow and divide."

And the classmate answered himself, "Because the character's experience is growing."

If you compare the growth of cells to the growth of character experience, it's terrifying upon closer thought, because the experience in games is set by humans, so is the growth of cells also predetermined?

According to research, human consciousness is not innate but enters the body at a certain postnatal moment.

Isn't that terrifying upon closer thought?

Not only is someone controlling Earth, but they're also controlling human consciousness.

Human thought, no matter how developed, will never exceed ten percent. In our consciousness, everyone will encounter the word greed. With greed, humans are bound hand and foot, hindering the creation of human thought.

Currently, we cannot control so-called spaces lower than us, as anything below the three dimensions belongs to lower-dimensional space life forms. Space is intertwined, not independent of each other. The lower cannot perceive, and the Cosmic Law dictates that the higher cannot directly interfere with lower spaces.

Thinking about these things, Lu Xuanji's mind was in turmoil.

His spirit swayed, and his Magical Power swayed violently, beginning to dissipate.

His cultivation started to decline, no longer as strong as before, but instead continuously disintegrated.

Qinglian stepped forward, casting magic upon Lu Xuanji's body and shouted, "Husband, why not wake up quickly!"

Lu Xuanji was dazed, seemingly awake, yet not quite, as he said, "I don't know what's happening, why it's like this! I'm caught in confusion, in the philosophical triad of questions, who am I, where am I, and where am I going. In the past, I thought I understood."

"But now I realize I didn't understand at all!"

"Qinglian, maybe we're just living in a fake world, maybe we're just living in a game called the Purple Mansion World, we're now immersed in a virtual game, the integration so profound we've forgotten reality. Maybe in reality, we're just two corporate slaves!"

Qinglian slightly frowned, not understanding much of it.

For example, virtual games, or corporate slaves, and so on.

But still asked, "Husband, what are you trying to say?"

Lu Xuanji said, "I'm thinking, how can I prove this world is false? If we're just living in falsehood, how can we see the true world outside? If the world is a large-scale virtual game, how can I walk out from the virtual, and wake up directly!"

Once in 1981, American philosopher Hilary Putnam proposed a terrifying hypothesis: If a human brain were placed in a nutrient solution, and all of its nerve endings were connected to a computer, then through the simulation by computer programs, this person would believe they're living in a real world! This is the famous "brain-in-a-vat" hypothesis.

Later, people put this hypothesis on the screen in the science fiction movie The Matrix, where artificial intelligence immersed humans in nutrient solutions, creating a virtual world through programs, in which everyone thinks they're living in a real world, while in truth, they're just personal batteries for the artificial intelligence.

Reflecting on these, Lu Xuanji pondered, saying, "If all our perceptions are from programs, then as long as it's a program, there must be glitches. If we find that glitch, we can verify whether our world is truly real."

"Firstly, no matter how powerful the computer, its computation speed is limited. All indications suggest that if we are living in a program, then the ultimate speed of this program should be the speed of light. If one day humans break through the speed of light, we can validate the world's authenticity."

"Secondly, any exquisite image in any program is made up of many basic pixels. If you magnify these basic pixels again, you'll see individual dots, no longer a real image."

"Lastly, to save resources, programs usually blur some unimportant details until someone needs them. In quantum mechanics, basic particles exist in a 'quantum superposition state' without an observer, and once observed, their state is immediately confirmed. We can see the similarity between the two."

"Based on this understanding, if the world is indeed virtual, the program might handle some details poorly, meaning it may have some subtle glitches."

Lu Xuanji spoke of his guesses.

Listening to this, Qinglian found it amusing, but still asked, "So, husband, can you test the world's truth?"

Lu Xuanji said, "It's still lacking, I don't know. My cultivation is a bit low, and I can't speculate. If this world is false, when I ascend to the Immortal Realm, it will be the moment I step out of the illusion, awakening, or maybe directly dissipate. After all, the Immortal Realm is much larger, and the cost to systematically simulate it is even greater!"

Qinglian listened to this and couldn't help but laugh, saying, "The summer insect does not know of winter's speech, many things need not be thought of, nor need to be known. If we become Immortals, or even giants of the Immortal Realm, we will naturally have the right to ask whether the world is false or real!"