Don't be silly, are you really sure that you are not a robot? !

Yes, the heroine in "Westworld" once thought she was a real human being.

Every morning, she woke up, walked to the balcony and said good morning to her father with a smile. During the day, the father and daughter herded and basked in the sun. In the afternoon, she went to the city to have a love affair with a young man named Teddy. Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in the evening - her father was killed by bandits who broke into the house. Her heart-wrenching cry was still stuck in her throat, and she was brutally killed or raped by strangers in the blink of an eye, and then lost consciousness.

The next day, as if nothing had happened, she woke up at the same time, smiled, said good morning, fed the horses and chopped firewood. Day after day, she repeated the same fate.

This is because she is an artificial person, and the world she lives in is a high-tech artificial paradise that provides tourists with killing and sexual satisfaction. And the purpose of her existence is to keep Teddy, a young man from a small town who just returned from the battlefield.

Even if part of the story line is disturbed by "real humans", how she thinks, how she answers, what expressions she uses and what actions she matches have already been set in advance, and everything will eventually return to track - there are only a few fates after dark: fainting from fear, being killed, being raped by players from the real world, and then returning to the factory for repairs, forgetting everything, everyday is a brand new day.

Finally one day, the heroine had a bug - in other words, she woke up. She said lines that had been carefully thought out and never appeared in the script. For example, "I don't have two personalities. I am myself. I think when I know myself, I can be free."

The robot heroine learned to deceive after awakening. When asked "whether she would kill", she smiled and said no to humans. But in the blink of an eye, she slapped a fly that flew to her neck to death.

But before that, she would not react even if a fly flew into her eyeballs.

But it seems like something was discovered.

Hillary Clinton had a fly landed on her brow during a speech, but she didn't react

And Mr. Obama

Westworld, is it really far away from you?

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After living for decades, it seems a bit cruel to suddenly let you accept the fact that you are a robot. But it is true - here are ten reasons that are enough to convince you, some of which come from the physics research of Nobel Prize winners, and some of which you can observe if you pay a little attention to your life. The following facts may make you so excited that you can't sleep at night, or you may lose confidence in life.

Come on, I hope you can keep your mood peaceful while your worldview collapses.

1. Nobel Prize winner: People on Earth say that this is the most advanced place in the universe. Where do they get the confidence from?

Nobel Prize winner George Smoot provides you with evidence that we are indeed living in a simulation. He talks about the fact that there are 1 billion habitable planets in the Milky Way and 100 trillion galaxies in the universe. The number of places with life and the ability to develop into advanced civilizations is about 10 to the 20th power to the 22nd power.

He said there must be a more advanced civilization running the simulation, and then running it layer by layer, which means that the person running the simulation may also be simulating him.

He said, don't think that the human brain is unreplicable. With current technology, we can already use MRI to scan the highway in the computer, and your conscious activities are clearly written on it. All we need now is a chip. If we can successfully implant this chip into the brain, we can import a person's thoughts into the computer (the technology of mapping DNA was not dared to be thought of before, but it is now mature). By 2045, we can upload the entire consciousness to the computer. Through the integration and acceleration of the computer, people's thoughts will be millions of times faster, and your life will also be millions of times faster.

Finally, he delivered the fatal blow: people are not good at discovering whether they can distinguish reality. Your mind does not have this ability.

Famous visual illusion experiment: Although we know there are no black dots in the picture, our brain "sees" black dots uncontrollably

This statement is particularly meaningful coming from the mouth of a Nobel Prize winner.

2. Excellent example: Double-slit experiment of light

There is a question on the foreign question-and-answer website Quora: "How do we know that we're not living in a computer simulation?" The questioner suspects that we are all living in the "Matrix" in "The Matrix", in a fully immersive virtual reality environment, experiencing the world in the form of computer avatars.

The answer that received the highest vote confirmed this statement, and here is an example to illustrate:

"In fact, we can understand it by analogy with computer games. When the player is staring at a certain place, the modeling of that place is very realistic. For corners that no one pays attention to, the game maker will use another simple and crude method, such as rough picture quality, so as to reduce some CPU resources.

Accordingly, if we want to know whether we live in a computer-simulated world, we only need to look for traces of this optimization. That is, we need to prove that objects exhibit different properties when someone observes and when no one observes.

Light is the best example. When no one observes light carefully, it behaves like a wave; but when we observe how light passes through two slits at the same time, it behaves like a particle! Obviously, if a computer models each small piece of light accurately to the particle state, the cost will be very high. So the universe decided to use another more optimized way, that is, to represent light in the form of waves, in order to save some system resources.

So obviously, the "Double Slit Experiment of Light" proves that we live in the Matrix."

——@Glyn Williams

This means that when you start observing a phenomenon, its colors will be brighter and its details will be richer, and this is nothing more than the optimization, decoding and encoding that the system performs because it cannot solve the bug.

Remember the once-popular game Temple Run, where the details of places you reach become realistic, but the areas you don't reach actually exist?

Just like this mini-game, you control the character to enter different scenes, and the details in front of you gradually become clear and real. As a human, you naturally notice the time it takes for the scene to change from rough to fine - but what if this time is extremely fast, almost the speed of light? How can you tell whether you are a player or a character?

Don't jump to conclusions. But before Galileo discovered that the earth was round, no one doubted the "square" world before their eyes; when Aristarchus proved to everyone that the earth revolved around the sun, not the sun around the earth, he was immediately ostracized; Einstein said that if you walk too fast, time will not be able to keep up with your speed. Before he discovered the "theory of relativity", no one had ever questioned the absoluteness of time.

What you see is not necessarily true, and the world in your mind is not necessarily the real world.

3. People who are not related by blood but look very similar

A Canadian photographer named Francois Brunelle even took a photo specifically for this subject, titled "There is a person who looks like me"

Search for the designer's name Francois Brunelle and visit the photographer's homepage for more incredible photos

Sperm and egg, after trillions of different combinations, eventually change into similar appearances but completely different destinies. Perhaps everyone has another "double life" that lives endlessly in a corner of the earth.

4. Dream within a dream

Every time we fall asleep, there is a process from light sleep to deep sleep. During this process, the individual's thinking consciousness, that is, the part that controls rationality, will gradually disintegrate and relax, returning to a deeper subconscious state.

The "dream within a dream" occurs in the link between the "sinking and unsinking" of consciousness. A part of your subconscious mind awakens, and you know that you are dreaming, and you try to wake up. However, due to the lack of awakened consciousness, you are still trapped in the subconscious mind. At this time, the performance of the dream is to constantly try to wake up, but constantly sink back into the dream.

I believe you have had similar dreaming experiences. From the first level of dreams to the second and third levels, every time you open your eyes on the bed in the dream, there are only two results: either you confirm that you are awake and return to reality, or you confirm that you are still in the dream and find the exit to wake up again. . . . . . . . Finally, when you reach the Nth level, you will confirm that you have walked out of the dream maze and completely returned to reality. Just like you looking at the screen at this moment.

But how do you ensure that there is no N+1 layer?

5. Sense of déjà vu. A scene seems familiar, as if you have really experienced it at a certain time and place.

There is a special word in French to describe this feeling of "déjà vu": déjà vu. It describes the feeling that a person has seen a scene before, even though it is the first time they see it. According to a survey conducted by Scientific American, 2/3 of people have experienced the feeling of "déjà vu" at least once, and 1/3 have experienced it multiple times, especially young people aged 15-25.

Among the existing scientific explanations, people tend to believe that it is the "hippocampus" in the human brain that is at work. This part is responsible for storing long-term memories. When people encounter a familiar scene, perhaps with a hint of similarity in vision, hearing, or smell, the neurons in the brain that have processed that memory will take effect. "Déjà vu" is the result of the disordered operation of the hippocampus, which inadvertently puts the current feeling into the memories of the past, thereby confusing the two.

The hippocampus is a "brain rainbow" under the microscope

To what extent can this statement be verified experimentally? Many people prefer to believe in the existence of "parallel universes". In other words, a person's life originally has countless possibilities, but due to the limitation of a layer of time and space, his life trajectory can only develop linearly: from a decision he made, he has to experience some things. And those "deja vu" moments are the moments when he meets himself in another layer of space who made completely different decisions.

He felt that he had been to this place before, and then told himself that it was an illusion. No, he had really been there, but in another reality.

6. Become a different person

Big eyes, pointed face, uniform nose bridge... Science cannot yet explain whose face they replaced? Why are they all exactly the same?

7. Different faces after grouping in Moments

Thanks to the thoughtful barriers built by technology, people you group into different groups see completely different versions of you. So everyone is complacently thinking that they have the key to a second life. When they open the door, there will be a corresponding group of people and a corresponding scene waiting in front of them. But are the people you grouped into really waiting as you think? You group them, and you are grouped into groups... No one can really know what other people, or even themselves, look like.

8. Reality TV

Hey, everyone knows that the sisterhood and sweetness of couples on TV are fake, so why are we still inexplicably moved? Isn't it because our genes have the DNA to admit that we are "fake people"? So there is a force pulling us to find evidence of the "real" human emotions. At present, there is still a long way to go.

9. The unknown mysterious power on social networks

Last year's ice bucket challenge finally came to an end, and this year's mannequin challenge is back. This is not so bad, as more and more incomprehensible "trends" are developing inexplicably like religions: Remember the blue and gold & black and gold dresses that filled the screen last year? Remember many girls took photos with an A4 paper covering their waists? Remember there are always people who save up their coins and pile them on their collarbones without spending them? Remember the confusion you felt when you heard "Lanshou Xianggu" for the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time?

When a group of people who don't know each other are doing things in unison that you don't understand, can't you believe that there is indeed a force controlling this world?

10. Life is like a robot following orders

It’s the end of the year again. I believe many people’s annual plans are as follows:

When I saw this dusty annual plan, my real self wanted to just make a stroke of the pen - not to tick everything, but to change 2016 to 2017.

Then I thought, that's not right, I'm so busy every day. The alarm clock has not changed for years, and it rings on time five times a week. You put on your slippers, wash your face, and brush your teeth. You jump on the subway at about the same time every day, and luckily clock in a few minutes before the specified time. You shuttle between different corners of the office, occasionally fly to other cities, and face the same people with similar routines. Occasionally, you will watch a movie, listen to a concert, and have a drink with friends. The topic revolves around work, housing prices, customers, bosses, and that mentally ill person...

Just like the NPCs in Westworld, they follow the sun, follow the calendar, go to school and leave home on schedule, and are assigned multiple roles by society, from sons and daughters to lovers, fathers or mothers, employees or bosses. . . . . . . It seems that they are being pulled by an invisible line. At this moment, what he is thinking, doing, and saying, every subconscious reaction is actually the result of past accumulated life experience, calculated and deduced in the database.

At some point, you suddenly feel like everything is familiar: How many times have I worn this dress? How many times have I blurted out this sentence? You suddenly look up from your desk, watching the shadows cast by the sunlight shining through the French window, and the girl in the cubicle next door typing away on her keyboard... Why does this scene seem so familiar? It's like falling into a crack outside of time.

Yeah, why?

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Have you ever doubted the world you live in?

For example, how do you tell whether the yellow in your eyes and the yellow in my eyes are the same color?

For example, like the piano keys that play automatically in the air in "Westworld", if this is the world you see when you open your eyes when you are born, would you still doubt it?

Just like you would doubt whether flowing water and mountains have consciousness? They cannot express themselves in a language you understand, does that mean they do not exist?

Just like you would be curious about what you would get if you cut the table or cup in front of you piece by piece? Would there be particles that are so small that they cannot be cut any further?

In addition to the space you can feel and the matter you can touch, does "energy" exist? Can they transform into each other?

Does the universe have a boundary? What lies beyond the boundary?

As Morgan Freeman said, "The universe is too big for humans to grasp. In many cases, perhaps we will have to shift from what we know to what we believe."

Perhaps one day, technology will develop to the point where humans can fly spaceships into the depths of the endless universe. When the astronauts finally reach the edge of the universe, they may touch it but be unable to break through, or they may be swallowed up by the huge energy after just a few seconds of looking at it, or they may see the cycle of the N-dimensional world on the other side. In short, they have seen the truth of the universe, and the "truth" has sensed their perception.

With luck, he might be able to quietly get the spacecraft back and tell the whole human race what he saw and heard (although humans would probably think he was crazy).

At the same time, from an inconspicuous corner on the outer edge of the universe, there was a barely perceptible humming sound of machinery, and a strangely shaped camera quietly turned 15 degrees to the left.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.