Weirdness is coming: Chen Mu Nugui started with trillions of ghost coins

Hearing this, Chen Mu and the others looked at each other.

To be honest, Dr. Shen's understanding of "life" is indeed far beyond that of ordinary strong people.

Even Chen Mu, who has an active mind, has not thought so deeply about the "definition of life".

Thinking back, Chen Mu remembered that when he met Chief Kong, they once took a walk under the moonlight.

At that time, the Chief of Spacetime felt that Chen Mu’s understanding of life and death was probably not profound because he was very young.

But Chen Mu's later remarks made Chief Kong take notice.

Chen Muben thought that his understanding of "life", which had passed through layers of death and was summarized and refined during countless strange missions, should be very profound.

I didn’t expect that the old saying would come true: “There are people who are better than you and there are mountains who are better than you.”

Dr. Shen gave a deeper understanding of life from the perspective of "function".

Ye Changsheng said: “After listening to Dr. Shen’s words, I was shocked.

I remember it very clearly. I hadn't even finished drinking at that time. I put down the glass and asked him - what you said makes some sense. So you think that the mysterious planet actually has life?

This was actually nonsense, but I was so surprised at the time. It was the first time I heard someone say that planets have life.

The key point is that what he said made some sense, and I couldn't refute it for a moment.

Dr. Shen smiled at me and answered my nonsense.

He says--

'Do you remember what I said just now - a complex function is life, a simple function is not, is there a clear boundary between the two?

When a function becomes complex enough, it can be called life.

I (Dr. Shen) already have the answer. When a function is so complex that it is incomprehensible and unpredictable to humans, it can be called life.

I (Ye Changsheng) didn't understand, so Dr. Shen explained to me -

The laws of motion can accurately describe how a stone should move. Normally, it stays put. If I poke it, applying a force, it will follow the laws of motion.

So this stone function is too simple. We can understand, describe and predict everything about it, so it is not life.

What if it was a frog?

It is true that if we kick a frog, according to the laws of motion, the frog will indeed fly away, and we can even calculate where it lands.

From this perspective, it seems that frogs can also be controlled.

But this is not the case. When we hold a frog, it will jump, croak, and kick its feet. We can only vaguely predict its general reaction, but we cannot predict what it will do specifically.

Even the most advanced life sciences cannot predict this. This is the unpredictability of life.

Similarly, we cannot accurately understand and describe the daily behavior of frogs.

It can stay there motionless for a long time. We can vaguely explain that it is waiting to be hunted, and we can confidently tell our children that frogs are very patient when hunting.

But in reality, is it just daydreaming? Or hunting? Or waiting for a mate? We can't really understand.

Even if a bug flies by and the frog swallows it in one gulp, can we accurately explain that the frog was hunting?

It might just be daydreaming, and a bug happened to fly over and it ate it.

No one can really explain what it is doing while it sits there.

So when we input a data into the frog function, we cannot predict what the output will be. At best, we can only make a vague prediction.

This function is complex enough, so complex that we cannot describe, understand or predict it, so it is worthy of being called - [life]!

This is Dr. Shen's unique understanding of life. The passage about the "pebble and the frog" I just mentioned is his original words.

According to Dr. Shen, he called this theory - function theory.

Use functions to describe everything in the world, and use the ability to understand functions and predict their accurate outputs as the standard for whether something is alive.

Hearing this, Xiao Shi couldn't help scratching his head. "So Dr. Shen told you so much just to share his function theory with you?"

Ye Changsheng shook his head, “Of course not, I’m not a scientist, he won’t share his theories with me.

The function theory he told me about was to provide a theoretical basis for the idea that "planets are life."

Otherwise, he would have told me right away that the planet is actually a living organism.

Well, I definitely think he's crazy.

With this "function theory" as a foundation, I was really convinced by him.

Dr. Shen is very good at persuading others. He used theory to build a consensus with me before putting forward his views.

I still remember his exact words, he said this to me at the time -

Changsheng, look at the planets, don’t they look like complex functions, so complex that we cannot explain or predict them.

I (Ye Changsheng) thought about it and said, "Dr. Shen, this is not right. The orbits of the planets have been predicted, and you also predicted the trajectory of the mysterious planet."

Dr. Shen said:

Changsheng, you still don’t really understand my function theory.

We can indeed predict the orbits of planets, but if you think of a planet as a frog, the orbit of a planet is like where the frog will go after we kick it.

But what about the planet itself? Its magnetic field, its atmosphere, its climate, its internal geological movements... these things are like the croaking of a frog or the stillness of a frog; we have no way of predicting them.

Take our current mainland for example. Even with such advanced technology, humans still cannot accurately predict the weather above this food stall one day later.

For humans, all kinds of activities on the planet are impossible to accurately predict. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, global warming...

The planet is like a big frog. We know where it is going, but we don’t know more details.

Being able to predict its orbit is the most accurate prediction we can make about this "big frog."

From this perspective, planets are functions that we cannot understand or predict, so they should be classified as [life].

After hearing Dr. Shen’s answer, I was stunned for a while, then shook my head at him.

I (Ye Changsheng) am wrong, your logic is flawed.

Frogs hunt, eat, sleep, and mate. We humans understand all of these activities, as they are activities unique to living things, and they are vital activities.

Dead objects like stones and planets have no life activities. No matter how complex they are, they cannot be considered life.

If what you said is true, the weather is very complicated and unpredictable. Then isn't the weather above our heads also a life?

No, no, Dr. Shen, you are wrong, you are just making sophistry!"