When Lan Mu's spaceship was less than three hours away from the planet, many people who were worried about the country and the people sent him private messages through radio waves.
This was very simple. They only needed low-power radio signals to be transmitted to the spaceship in space. These were all intercepted by Eve and collected as intelligence.
There were tens of thousands of radio signals, so it was impossible for a person to look at them one by one.
The content of the signals was strange. Some tried to use music to move the aliens, some tried to persuade the aliens with philosophy, and some tried to use all kinds of art to prove to the aliens the beauty of this world, the meaning of peace, and the preciousness of life …
Eve was the first to appreciate these cultural works. Even though she was just an artificial intelligence, she was still impressed by the depth of these works.
As an artificial intelligence, she already had the sensitivity of a human, even if it was just a little.
Eve, who was impressed, spread these works to the other crew members. Even after crossing the barrier of race and civilization, they still exuded a unique charm.
When it finally reached Lan Mu, he was very shocked. He was very impressed by the rich cultural heritage of this civilization.
Because these works of art and philosophy were too outstanding. They perfectly combined pessimism and optimism in a hopeless situation.
According to Eve's analysis, this civilization's artistic level had a terrifying increase in just three hours. Countless works that could be considered classics in the past were created explosively.
"This is the explosion of a civilization's survival?"
Under the heavy pressure of the civilization's survival, this civilization had a huge cultural potential.
This situation was similar to the technological explosion caused by the apocalyptic pressure of the monster world.
However, this civilization was a little strange. It was actually a cultural explosion.
Moreover, the source of the pressure was merely an inadvertent disregard that led to his imagination.
The tiny collision between the two civilizations produced a change similar to a chemical reaction.
Lan Mu didn't feel anything because he was building a castle in the air and had a weak foundation.
However, this was the first time this civilization came into contact with an alien civilization, and they had just unified the world and culture not long ago.
This time, Lan Mu didn't need to analyze it alone. His subordinates quickly told him the results of the analysis.
"The technological explosion is objective, but this kind of explosive growth doesn't only appear in science and technology. It applies to culture and art as well. Although there are no biological anatomical studies, we can speculate that this civilization is biased towards the emotional brain. "
Lan Mu smiled and said, "I've seen the explosion of human technology before. Could it be that humans are rational brains? I've always thought that humans have very rich thoughts and emotions … "
"That is not the way I understand it, Ambassador. A technological explosion required a trigger point, or a fulcrum with sufficient weight. The stimulation of external factors was only the pressure of the lever. If the fulcrum was not solid enough, it would be difficult to produce a technological explosion. Unless it is an absolutely rational brain. "
The scientist said, "On the contrary, a literary explosion doesn't need such a foundation. It can explode out of thin air!"
Lan Mu asked, "From their art, I can see that their lives are very different from ours. Even their images are very different. Even so, I can still feel the depth of their art and the emotions they want to express. Why is that?"
The scientists were also puzzled. Even their worldviews were different. Why did their art move us so deeply?
One of the scholars who studied humanities hesitated for a moment and said, "Could it be that art can cross the gap between civilizations?"
This was a shocking discovery. Something like art, when magnified on the scale of the universe, actually had such a huge impact.
"This is not scientific, Ambassador. Maybe this is just a coincidence. We don't understand their history and haven't experienced their lives. We can't appreciate their art. "
"No, no. You're referring to the art that requires a foundation of knowledge to understand. To be honest, even on Earth, this kind of art that requires a lot of information and a lot of knowledge to understand is actually too simple. Otherwise, you can't understand it."
The scholar who studied humanities continued, "On Earth, there are also many universal arts. Those are the real arts. The simplest example is melody. Music itself is a language. The more emotional a person is, the greater the amount of information it contains. "
"And this kind of universal art, at least for now, smooths out the cultural differences between us and them."
As he spoke, he took out a few examples, all of which were music.
"Let's not talk about the melody. Everyone can feel it. Just the lyrics alone give us a lot of interest to study the culture of the civilization. It's like a magnet. Even if we can't understand it, we want to explore it. "
"There's also this. We can understand this. Because there's no allusion, the whole thing is a description of the scenery of their planet. None of the words are protesting, but when these details are combined together, they burst out with a great charm. It makes people unable to have the thought of destroying it, as if destroying this kind of beauty is a great sin. On the surface, it's just a description of the scenery, but in fact, it's anti-war. The thoughts are finally settled here. It's really a classic. "
Many people were listening. After some of the classic works were analyzed, everyone had a deeper understanding of them.
However, a physicist said coldly, "I appreciate this work because of its melody. To be honest, I don't agree with your analysis. There's nothing good about its lyrics to me. They're all very straightforward. These described scenes don't have the feeling you're talking about. Since you're anti-war, why don't you say it directly? "
The humanities scholar smiled and said, "Why not? Haha, yes, it seems like you're the most rational one among us. We can understand these arts because humans also have emotional brains, just like them. If we have a purely rational brain, then in our hearts, this kind of metaphor can't be understood. The more rational we are, the lower our ability to understand art. But in fact, rational people also have artistic views. For you, perhaps cold numbers and formulas can also be perceived as artistic beauty. "
The physicist was stunned and nodded.
The humanities scholar turned to Lan Mu and said, "Special Envoy, this is a major discovery. Although we still need to come into contact with more civilizations and have more data to support it. But I can basically say that when the height of art reaches a certain level, it can ignore all the differences between civilizations. As long as you have an emotional brain, which is like us humans, who have rich thoughts and emotions, you can understand it. It seems to exist objectively … "
Lan Mu said, "What does this mean?"
The man said excitedly, "This means that the intelligent races in the universe have universal artistic cells! Ignoring the fact that purely rational intelligent creatures may have a unique interpretation of art, then it can be asserted that the artistic standards of the universe are very likely to be common. "
Lan Mu murmured, "Common …"
Not only him, but the others also fell into deep thought.
The humanities scholar said anxiously, "Think about it carefully. If this is really the case, isn't it too unscientific? Or rather, art and science are on equal footing. Because the universe is too vast, the environment and evolution of each place are completely different. At this scale, there is only one thing that can be said to be common in the universe … and that is the basic laws of science that are distributed throughout the universe. "
"And now, we found out that there is another …" Lan Mu looked at him and said, "Is that what you mean?"
He nodded. "Although we can't prove it … in fact, we can't prove that the scientific laws are common in the universe."
Lan Mu reacted. This was indeed unscientific.
At first glance, it didn't seem like much, but thinking about it carefully, it was terrifying.
If the scientific laws were common in the universe, everyone wouldn't think much of it. This was quite natural.
Because the scientific laws existed since the birth of the universe, they existed objectively, and humans just summed them up.
Even if the universe was dead silent and there was no life, the scientific laws would still be there in theory.
But if art was also common, then it was too unbelievable. If that was the case, what kind of logic was that intelligent creatures in one corner of the Milky Way could feel the art created by intelligent creatures in another corner of the Milky Way? Could it be that art also existed objectively? The universe was destined to give birth to humans?
To put it bluntly, art could be created as long as it was an intelligent creature with thoughts and feelings. And if all the intelligent creatures in the universe understood the same thing in a convention, then it meant that the "art cell" existed the moment the universe was born.
It had a general outline of a big concept! This concept encompassed the thoughts and perceptions of all intelligent races since the birth of the universe.
This wasn't scientific, but it was philosophical.
It wasn't scientific because scientific laws existed objectively when the universe was born. That was because without these scientific laws, the universe wouldn't exist. That was the basis of the universe's operation.
But why would there be a big concept of art when there was a big concept of scientific laws?
Philosophy of art was something that should gradually appear after intelligent creatures appeared. It was useless to the universe. With people, there would be art. Otherwise, there would be no meaning and no value.
Was something like art valuable to the universe itself? Not a single cent of value.
But now, if art was common, it meant that this was an objective concept that existed before intelligent creatures existed!
Why would the universe have such a concept that didn't mean anything to the universe itself but only meant something to intelligent creatures?
Logically speaking, this meant that … the universe already knew that there would be intelligent creatures. It was born for intelligent creatures.
Wasn't it too contradictory?
Lan Mu took a deep breath and thought to himself, "Who set this?"
At this moment, Lan Mu felt that this universe had something that wasn't self-contradictory, but was a little wrong.
"Is this a bug?"
…
PS: This is the only way I can think of to prove that there is no subjective human factor in the universe. If the reader encounters many extraterrestrial creatures in the future and they can't understand our art, such as melody, then it means that we are a universe that was born naturally.
On the other hand, we can consider the existence of a brain in a vat, or the existence of a creator.
Because the universe objectively prepared a concept that didn't mean anything to intelligent creatures.
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