Chapter 549 The Original Myth (4000 Words)
The evolution continues…
Taking advantage of this break, Yu Yifeng was summarizing the gains and losses from the beginning of the "game" to now. He discovered that he had made quite a few mistakes during these four billion years.
For example: too much care was taken of the newly born microbial communities at the beginning, causing their evolution to be extremely slow. It also had too many effects on the stability of the environment, inhibiting the occurrence of certain volcanoes and certain earthquakes. This caused crustacean life to dominate the land for a long time, wasting a lot of time.
"The number of life explosions and biological extinctions has been reduced a lot because of me."
To put it more closely, he also made a lot of mistakes: he once influenced the ideology of a primitive tribe, jokingly instilling modern people's "democratic concepts" and "scientific concepts" into primitive people. See what happens. what happened.
As a result, this chief didn’t know why he went crazy, and he really started to promote democracy and equality!
The ending is of course tragic... This primitive tribe disintegrated directly because it could not adapt to the environment.
They died, were injured, or were captured as slaves by their own kind...
When these primitive people fell one by one in the cruel jungle; when their eyes filled with the desire to survive looked blankly at the sky...
Yu Yifeng was really regretful.
"This is not just a game. Be careful, still be careful."
If a large number of people were killed or injured due to his unintentional actions, Yu Yifeng really felt guilty. The bloody scenes seemed to question his "God".
The jungle era was cruel, and survival was difficult. The average lifespan of Blue Star people was less than twenty years old. They had evolved to adapt to nature, and any change might cost them blood.
Disease, predators, hunger, and natural disasters can each claim a large number of lives.
Yu Yifeng is not a good person, but he also doesn't like the large number of deaths caused by himself... He found that the more urgent he was, the worse the situation became, and many measures were counterproductive.
Looking back silently, he found that the role he played was not as huge as he imagined.
Many deliberate and radical actions, with good intentions, turn out to be counterproductive over time.
Many unintentional actions have positive effects.
"The Duke of Zhou was afraid of rumors, but Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne. Xiangshi died at the beginning, who knows the authenticity of his life?" Bai Juyi's epic poem may only express the poet's unique emotion, but it expresses Yu Yi's true feelings. Feng often has some kind of confusion.
"The evolution of history has too strong a chance factor. I have no way to find the overall optimal solution. If many things were not so coincidental, history might be different."
He, the "god", finally admitted that he had no way to control the overall situation because of his lack of wisdom.
“One step ahead is a genius, two steps ahead is a madman.”
"In the primitive era, you must take your time. They couldn't accept big changes." Yu Yifeng frowned in thought and admitted his fault.
He became more cautious.
Due to long-term experiments, his skills began to mature gradually, and he gradually summarized certain rules.
"A small amount of ancient scientific knowledge can be injected, and the positive impact in this regard will definitely outweigh the negative."
"But in terms of thinking, there will be no changes or interference. They haven't even been born with morality..."
To put it bluntly, Yu Yifeng's sentiments and thinking are too noble. Using his thinking to forcefully influence primitive people will only make them eliminated by the times.
If a primitive man is allowed to love others and practice democracy and equality, he will definitely be eaten up by others.
In this era, selfishness is the best protection for oneself.
The contingency of history makes sometimes history, like water molecules in a cup, collide randomly due to thermal motion, and no one is sure who will hit them. But this is not necessarily the case. From a statistical perspective, there must be rules to follow.
If a certain technology can be born in this era, then there is no big problem for Yu Yifeng to make it appear a little earlier.
If something that cannot be born in the era is forcibly brought into being by Yu Yifeng, it is likely to be unacceptable and have some counterproductive effects.
This is the objective law of development.
Also because of the injection of thinking and a small amount of interference, the development speed of this Blue Star civilization has been accelerated many times.
The primitive era of millions of years was shortened to 200,000 years!
This is definitely an amazing achievement, the result of reflection and summary.
No one knows that there is a "god" behind it, but Yu Yifeng enjoys being the mastermind behind it and is content with it.
In 1100 BC, due to long-term social practice, the Blue Star people in Mesopotamia made a series of explanations based on their own observations of nature.
Naturally, they attributed things they couldn't explain to gods.
The first myth appeared, called "The Food of Gilga", and the writing used was, of course, cuneiform.
Cuneiform was formed from the original hieroglyphic system, and the glyph structure was gradually simplified and abstracted. It was formed naturally and was not injected by Yifeng's thinking.
"Gilga Cuisine" believes that the world was created by gods. It places all the meaning of survival, reproduction or death on the gods, and the ownership of all life belongs to the gods.
Of course, at the same time, there were also various simple, strange superstitious witchcrafts.
These crude witchcrafts are also a good thing, because they are the beginning of medicine.
"Okay... okay."
Faced with this answer, Yu Yifeng scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "You seem to have guessed right, but the ultimate destination of life is not the gods. Using idealist philosophy to explain, death is death, and the whole world does not exist. Using gods to explain is just a kind of comfort to oneself."
But he was a little dissatisfied: "But it deviates from my goal... What I want to cultivate is scientific thinking, not mythology or religion."
After that summary, he will no longer directly inject the crude idea of "the universe was born from the Big Bang". Because the requirement of the question is... "Discover it and recognize it."
If there is no recognition from the majority of people, brainwashing a few people alone will not be of much use. Even if a few high-level people are brainwashed, they will be covered by the original stubborn thoughts, and even cause confusion in thinking and mental illness.
Such a setting really made him shrug his shoulders and feel helpless.
"What should I do?" He pondered, pondered... and felt a difficulty in his heart.
"The first way is that the ancients were ignorant, and they used thought injection to slowly create a "Big Bang" religion, and the whole people believed in the Big Bang. Then continue and let it spread to the whole world." Yu Yifeng thought to himself.
"But religion is related to gods after all. God caused the Big Bang? No... How to make the "Big Bang" religion separate from the gods?"
"And... does the whole process count as the "discovery" specified in the question?"
"Religious theory should not be considered a discovery, right?" Yu Yifeng frowned and found the difficulty.
"The second way is to cultivate scientific thinking and use scientific methods to make real discoveries..."
There are two roads, and only one can be chosen for the time being.
If you really choose the religious route, it will be very detrimental to the development of science, just like the Dig people in the past... Yu Yifeng knows this very well.
He was silent for a while, and combined with the intentions of the marginal civilization, he still chose... "the scientific route".
Then the question arises again, from ignorant primitive people, to ignorant ancient people, how can we transform into modern people?
How can we solve the problem of marginal civilization? At least a large team of scientists is needed!
This problem is complex and challenging. Yu Yifeng pondered hard, enjoyed it, and couldn't extricate himself.
Soon, he thought of a way.
That is... to learn from the history of the Earth period, to imitate and promote this "Blue Star Civilization"!
"This may be the simplest and least brain-intensive way. At least the Earth civilization has successfully developed modern science and proposed the Big Bang hypothesis, which is relatively good. The road to civilization development is really too bumpy. If it goes wrong, stagnation for thousands of years is just a small matter. It's too difficult to rely on my own wisdom without any reference..."
"I will help you to clear all obstacles to your progress."
As time passed, four ancient civilizations in different regions began to gradually emerge because of their superiority in geography and humanities.
Yu Yifeng thought about it and began to inject a small amount of ideas into several outstanding geniuses such as "Laozi" and "Sakyamuni", trying to cultivate the scientific sprouts of these civilizations.
This is his second attempt to influence a person's ideology.
The previous attempts all failed, but this time, the time node is relatively mature, and it should not be too bad.
Laozi, a great man, as a national librarian, was the first to come up with his own view of the universe: "Tao gives birth to all things, the Tao is invisible, the universe circulates, and there is and there is no mutual generation!"
Hearing this, Yu Yifeng almost jumped up, excited.
"Tao gives birth to all things", isn't it... the Big Bang? !
"It seems that it is right to let Laozi dream of the explosion of the universe every day!" He stroked his pounding heart and felt that he seemed not far away from success.
As long as this idea can be extended and modern technology is developed, there will be a complete "Big Bang" idea!
But soon, the idle "Laozi" proposed another set of theories to teach him how to be a man: do nothing and do everything!
What does it mean? It means that people should follow the laws of nature, follow the operation of nature, do not interfere with the operation of nature, and do not do unnecessary things. Anyway, no matter what nature is like, just do your best.
It can be said that it is a value that is indifferent to the secular world.
Practice has proved that the first set of theories about the universe is too mysterious, and the ruling class does not care at all, and has not been carried forward too much. And there are really not many people who can accept and understand it...
Laozi's thoughts are still too advanced.
The latter set of theories has been inherited, because it is beneficial to the ruling class, and the people should let nature take its course.
This made Yu Yifeng feel a wave of powerlessness.
Faced with this fact, he felt a little dry in the mouth. He, the god, actually wanted to use water to relieve his mood.
Sakyamuni went even further. After talking to "I", this guy also became desireless and abandoned his wife and children to engage in religion! He also distorted the infused thoughts and created the cosmology of "endless void, three thousand worlds", and the entire religion began to spread day by day.
"Isn't this the fucking many-worlds theory? When did I ask you to do multiple worlds?"
Yu Yifeng was almost furious. This was simply causing trouble. "God" can inject thoughts, but cannot forcefully change people's thoughts. He also doesn't know how Sakyamuni came up with these theories.
But he deeply knows the awesomeness of "Sakyamuni Religion". This religion is much more influential than Lao Tzu. Once word spreads, large areas will immediately become obsessed with religion and it will be ruined!
This is contrary to his original intention...
He had no choice but to be cruel and cause a... big earthquake!
"Boom boom boom!"
The source of the entire "Sakyamuni Religion" was reduced to ruins.
This big religion... therefore declined, and it was fundamentally different from the history of the earth.
Yu Yifeng changed his mind again: "The main point of the problem is modern science... Without modern science, it would be impossible to discover and recognize the Big Bang. The germination and birth soil of modern science... Let me think about it ”
Soon, he cast his sights on ancient Greece, this magical, romantic and unique country.
He believes that a group of high-quality talents can be created in the ancient Greek region to more quickly give birth to the germination of the modern scientific system.
At this time, it was already the 6th century BC. Yu Yifeng, who had regained his energy, was keeping an eye on this land, looking for talented people.
Ancient Greece (Ionia) is a magical place with a very good cultural atmosphere. Politically, it is composed of many small, autonomous, prosperous city-states or islands, and implements republican or tyrannical politics.
This type of system seemed quite strange in that historical period.
On the other hand, the Ionians living on the islands made a living by sailing between the East and the West. In this dynamic trading process, the rapid development of technology and skills has created intelligent people and impacted the minds of theoretical thinkers.
More importantly, many Ionians do not believe in religion!
"Very good, very good. These three points combined can already become the birthplace of modern scientific thought."
Yu Yifeng snapped his fingers viciously, almost destroying half of all life in the universe, and then stopped quickly.
Two chapters in one, I won’t post them tonight.
The place names and people's names here were all named by Yu Yifeng himself. For the convenience of explanation, they have the same homophony as those on earth.