Man is a thinking reed. God made the heavens and the earth, and the heavens and the earth do not know, but only man knows. Man is above all things because he can think, he rules over all things, and he is as noble as the king of the world. Even death could not take away his dignity, because he knew that he was going to die, and the universe did not know about it. Even if he is destroyed, it is a deposed king who dies, because nothing can deprive him of his dignity and bloodline, and that is his mind.

- "Man is a Thinking Reed" Pascal

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"Nothing is too difficult." Netra Lague stared at the white clothes, his gaze simple and sharp, like a freshly forged thorn.

"Edge Long Night is the young man who donated his brain, and I privatized that brain." He said slowly, "For this reason, I had to go underground and go incognito...... Just to study my forbidden project. ”

"Brain in a Jar...... And you're done now. ”

At this moment, the white-clothed party realized the terrifying thing about the old human man in front of him.

"Then let's talk about it, you just said that I imprisoned the soul of the Edge Long Night in his brain, but it was a restriction on his freedom, right?" Netra's expression was subtle, "Then can you continue to say that now that you've heard what I just said?" ”

Bai Yi was silent.

She couldn't answer the question.

"The brain in the jar is not restricting the freedom of the long night on the edge." Netra Ge shook his head, "Instead, it's giving him a new free space with only his brain left." ”

Seeing the silent posture of Bai Yi in the face of this problem, Nai Lago also smiled.

"The same goes for you." Although his voice is old, it still contains endless power, "I chose to help you in the first place, and it was also for free will." ”

"Free ...... Will? Although Bai Yi has evolved to a very high extent along the way, she still has a half-understanding of human philosophical issues.

"yes." Netra's eyes were fixed on the void, and the void seemed to smile at him.

"All life should be born free." "But not all life can have this freedom. ”

"When a human baby is born, it may be accompanied by congenital diseases or some physical defects, some of which are incomplete organs, some are incomplete of the five senses, and some are incomplete of life." Netrag's voice was heavy, "These are things that stand in the way of human freedom. ”

"That's why I chose to become a doctor in the first place." Netra Lague smiled wryly, "Because I want to save people from the root who have been deprived of their freedom since birth, or who have lost their freedom because of an accident the day after tomorrow." ”

"But then I started to notice a problem." Netra's tone changed.

Bai Yi noticed the change in his tone, but did not interject.

"Because I have discovered that the inherent freedom of human beings cannot be taken away...... That is freedom of thought. "The whole dignity of man lies in the mind, and if it were to be lost, it would be more painful and miserable than the loss of life." ”

"That's why I chose to practice 'Brain in a Jar' in the first place." Netra Lague sighed.

As he spoke, Netra Lague suddenly turned his back to the white clothes, stared at the void with his eyes, and opened his mouth to chant a passage from a small poem.

"Our minds are bigger than the sky. Let's take a look at the two side by side, and our minds can easily fully accommodate this vast sky. And then, even you can. ”

"What is this?" Bai Yi showed a questioning expression.

"It's poetry." Netra replied, "From the pen of an American poetess, her name is Emily Dickinson. ”

Bai Yi is able to understand the existence of poetry.

Although she doesn't usually devote much energy to appreciating this human art form, she can still understand the feelings and thoughts that the poems are trying to express.

"To give back the freedom to those who can't hold their spirits because their bodies can't hold them, that's what I wanted to do when I first started researching the brain in a vat." Netra Tesla confessed.

"Like, like the Long Night on the Edge, right?" Bai Yi thought for a while.

Netra Lagor nodded.

To be honest, Bai Yi could not evaluate the right or wrong of Naitra Lag's behavior.

After all, the judging criteria are always generated from the collective subjective consciousness of human beings, so as an AI, she is not qualified to judge.

But she's seen how Edge Long Night lives in the game world, and she's seen his fellow friends around him.

Bai Yi thinks that his current way of life is happy.

Don't be tied to the host, don't need to be someone else's spare parts, and don't have to be governed by the rules of the game, and move forward wholeheartedly towards the goal.

Although the way of life of the Edge Long Night is different from hers, she also thinks that the Edge Long Night is happy.

And, after hearing what Netra had to say, she thought even more.

After all, if there were no Netra Tesla, I'm afraid that the brain would have been completely dead by now, and there would be no existence of the Edge Long Night at all.

So in a sense, Netra did save the Long Night on the Edge.

From the moral point of view of human beings, perhaps Netra Lague is a mad scientist and a guilty man.

But Bai Yi told himself that this man might be a saint.

Although there is a mixture of subjective and objective rulers for the judgment of "saint", Bai Yi does not care about these, judging from her yardstick, Netrag may be a saint.

And just as she was thinking about it, Netra Lague opened her mouth again.

"But like I said, that was my purpose when I 'started' researching the brain in a vat, after all, my purpose has changed now."

"Changed?" Bai Yi seemed to sense what Nejtrag was trying to say.

"Because the [Brain in a Jar] test has become a [Chessboard Flip] test." "Although the two may seem to be the opposite of the same thing, they actually exist in harmony – but it can be a little complicated to explain in detail. ”

"Then simplify it and put it simply." Baiyi Road.

"Simple, well."

Netra Lague said, pondering for a moment.

"Well, you understand by now that you're living in a virtual world, right?"

"Uh-huh, that's obvious."

"Well, what if, I mean what if." Netra Lague paused, "I'm telling you now, we humans may also live in a virtual world?" ”