After Vézé and Uncle En were the only ones left in the study, the other powerful translators left. A female translator and a slightly thin male translator were left at the scene. The security department had checked Uncle En's clothes and there were no poisons or stingers on him. With Uncle En's age of 69, if he were to really get angry and fight with Viceroy Wei Ze, who was less than 60 years old, Viceroy Wei Ze could probably pinch Uncle En to death with one hand. When they could ensure their safety, everyone was willing to appear more friendly and calm.
Tobacco, coffee, desserts, and wine were served on the table. Uncle En smiled and asked Vézé, "Sir, why don't you give those people a chance?"
"Isn't it a chance for them to see me?" Vézé asked rhetorically.
Uncle En lit his pipe, took a puff of good Turkish tobacco, and said slowly, "But do you regret not being able to see their good side?"
"I don't need anything from them, so naturally, I don't care about them." Vézé's answer was very concise.
Some words did not need to be too clear. Uncle En naturally would not be smart enough to point out that Vézé actually wanted to bring a message to the European Communist International through these people. Moreover, Uncle En did have some problems, and he did not like to talk about these problems in front of others. At this time, the opportunity was just right. Uncle En asked, "Sir, do you have a way to overcome the economic crisis?"
"Mr. Marx has already explained the causes of the economic crisis very clearly. My solution is not to solve the economic crisis. We haven't encountered an economic crisis yet, why should we solve a problem that doesn't exist for the time being? The economic crisis is the result of many contradictions, and the key to those deep-seated contradictions is the stagnation of technology. Too much money has been invested in industries that can generate immediate profits. In fact, the demand for those profit points is not that big, and the return that can be provided to capital is not that much … "
"Do you still use the capital operation model to achieve the operation of society?" Uncle En asked directly.
"In a modern industrial society, capital represents the quality and quantity of productivity that can be used. At this stage, I can't find a more scientific model. "Vézé answered this rather sharp question.
After listening to Vézé's answer, Uncle En immediately raised another question, "I know that your country's government has forcibly invested a lot of resources in scientific and technological research and labor training, which is simply impossible to achieve in Europe and the United States. But how does your country ensure the efficiency of your investment in this area? "
Vézé felt that this problem was even more acute than the previous one. The scale of scientific research was huge. If there was a problem with the direction of the research, there would definitely be a huge waste. China's investment in scientific and technological research had yielded huge returns. This was not because the Chinese scientists had any earth-shattering abilities, but because Vézé was able to provide research directions that had been proven to be correct over a hundred years in industrial countries.
Since he could not tell Uncle En the truth, Vézé could only cover it up with other truths. "We have a scientific system for internal research, which we call the technology tree system." Vézé said as he drew a general model for Uncle En to see.
Uncle En was amused after reading it. He joked, "This style is very European mysticism."
Vézé could only smile. He was too embarrassed to say that he was copying the oak tree style of the alchemists.
Although he was joking, Uncle En also understood something. He stopped smiling and asked Vézé, "Can the system you established really last 50 to 80 years?"
Vézé scratched his cheek and tried to organize his words. At least in the Restoration Party, no one could directly ask such a question. Many people did not dare to, and more people were unwilling. After thinking for a while, Vézé said, "Whether it can last that long depends on the construction of the political system. The driving force of human thinking is not rational, but emotional. Most of the things that make us make choices are things that directly stimulate our physical neurons. And the so-called thinking is more of an analogy. In other words, it is the mechanical materialism. That kind of thing can easily produce a concept and can find a universal 'truth' to solve all problems. The human brain had not evolved to the point where it could be realistic. The ability to analyze specific problems was something that had been developed through training. As for pure rationality, which is detached from the physical body, it is an ability that may not be successful even after thousands of years of training. "
When Vézé said this, his tone was relaxed, but Uncle En did not have the same attitude as Vézé. Human thinking patterns were also very advanced knowledge in Europe. In other words, there were very few people who studied it, and the results were even less. The researchers put forward more hypotheses. At least among the people Uncle En came into contact with, there was no one who could make a conclusive judgment like Vézé.
"Can you tell me in detail?" Uncle En was completely interested.
"You once said something that I couldn't be more praiseworthy. Labor creates man. The human brain has storage units and more neuronal connections. A considerable part of the pattern of these neuronal connections is combined and strengthened by human consciousness. It's like a mark made by a knife. Mr. Engels, have you ever been in love? "Vézé asked a seemingly unserious question after a series of serious questions.
"I have been in love." Uncle En admitted frankly.
"You will find it familiar when you are with the one you love deeply. And when you lose that person, you will feel pain. If you use the method of carving a mark, then the circuit formed by the neuronal connection pattern that has been strengthened over a long period of time receives a conflicting signal. These signals let your brain understand that the circuit is wrong. Then, like using sandpaper or a blunt knife to erase the engraved mark, and then engrave the opposite message. As the host, the brain feels the stimulation brought by this change. And this stimulation then links with other related neurons. "
When Vézé explained, the translator was completely dumbfounded. Some words didn't exist in English at all, and the translator had no idea how to translate them. And although the translator didn't understand the internal meaning of some words, the characteristics of Chinese made the translator vaguely understand a lot. As for what Wei Ze said, the clever translators also felt that it was difficult to refute his words, but they couldn't help but have the impulse to refute him.
The translator finally adjusted his mentality and thought, and tried to translate Vézé's words to Uncle En. Uncle En immediately fell into silence. Even though his beloved wife had passed away many years ago, the pain of losing his wife and the pain he felt every time he realized that he had lost his beloved was still quite clear to Uncle En. It was really an unforgettable pain, a pain that went deep into the soul. However, this thing that was regarded as a spiritual world had become a physical existence in Vézé's philosophy.
Uncle En didn't want to agree with Vézé's theory, because he couldn't help but feel that Vézé was desecrating many precious things. But Uncle En had to admit that what Vézé said might make sense. As a materialist, Uncle En didn't really believe in the existence of the soul. As the first material, the human body must have existed first, and only then did thinking and rationality based on the body appear. Based on this most basic materialist fact, what Vézé said was more in line with the basic principles of materialism.
But … but, why was this point of view that was more in line with the principles of materialism so people were unwilling to agree with it? It should be easy to admit that all wisdom and feelings originated from the body, but when those precious things that were regarded as unique were explained as the basic functions of the brain, why did it make people feel that these precious things were desecrated?
"Where does the pain come from? The brain? Thoughts? "Uncle En finally continued to ask.
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