Terra Calendar 1590.12.25.
PM2:40.
In Iberia.
University of Santos Madrid.
Iberia has many internationally renowned institutions of higher learning, which have significant academic reputation and influence in their respective fields.
Among all the institutions, the most famous is the Iberian National College, or what should be called its full name - the Iberian National Union College.
United Colleges is a cooperative organization composed of a number of independent higher education institutions. These organizations are usually established to promote collaboration and resource sharing among member institutions to improve the quality of education, expand the scope of research, and enhance the overall strength of the institution; while the Autonomous University of Madrid, located in the "Twin Holy Capitals" of Iberia, Known as the Imperial Duo, it is regarded, together with the University of Lisbon, as the leader of the entire joint institution.
At this time, in a bright and spacious thaumaturgy classroom at the University of Madrid, sunlight shines through the large windows into the neat classroom, creating a warm and comfortable learning atmosphere.
The latest interactive electronic whiteboard is hung on the wall, and next to it is a neat row of bookshelves filled with various professional books and reference materials.
The students sit on modern desks and chairs, with genealogy projection boards and study supplies placed in front of them, ready to record the teacher's explanations and key points in the discussion at any time.
On the podium, the experienced Professor Hansa Arnold is using multimedia teaching tools to explain.
Hanse Arnold is a professor who is unsmiling and serious. His appearance is very majestic, giving people a feeling that he should not be underestimated.
Professor Hansa's hair has become slightly thinner. The silver-white hair is neatly combed, and the edges are slightly gray, showing the traces of time. His eyebrows are thick and angular, and beneath them are a pair of sharp eyes, revealing rigor and depth.
These eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, making the students dare not slack off in front of him.
Students are in awe and fear of the professor on the podium. This is not only because Professor Hansa Arnold is serious and unsmiling, but also because there seems to be something hidden in his words and deeds that he sometimes reveals. Something else always leaves those who meet with it with a vague sense of fear and disgust.
It is a very strange feeling. If you have to describe this feeling, then students from Iberian institutions of higher learning will use a proper noun to describe this uncomfortable and abnormal feeling. This proper noun That's it - the uncanny valley effect.
The Uncanny Valley Effect is a psychological concept that is primarily used to explain humans’ emotional reactions to robots or other human-like entities (pseudohumans), especially when these entities look and behave very strangely. People may experience strong feelings of discomfort or horror when they are close to (but not identical to) real humans.
The Uncanny Valley effect can be explained by a curve graph: as the degree of humanization of a non-human entity (such as a robot or humanoid entity) increases, the human emotional response to the entity gradually changes from positive to negative.
At a certain point in this curve, when the entity is very close to humans but still obviously different, humans' emotional response to it will suddenly drop to the bottom, producing fear, disgust and other negative emotions; and when the entity's When the appearance and behavior are close enough to the real person to be almost indistinguishable, this negative emotion subsides and the emotional response becomes positive again.
In Terra, as long as it is an effect, it has to be related to the memevirus or memexin.
Those pseudo-human groups suffering from [uncanny hoof disease], [ore disease], and [alienation syndrome] have distorted the uncanny valley effect in some aspects, and they have become a special super symbol.
Yes, there is a virus in the group of pseudo-human beings that can make humans feel sick to the point of vomiting, or even directly to death on a physical level - [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus].
The pseudo-human group is not welcomed in Terra itself. Even if there is no uncanny valley effect, they will be squeezed out. Now with the [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus], the pseudo-human group is in Things got even worse for Terra.
Even if the pseudohumans can eliminate the [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] by injecting the Meme vaccine, the gap between them and the normal group is getting deeper and deeper. This gap is as if they no longer exist. It can no longer be equated with normality or health.
This dark, insidious and terrifying thought makes people think of some distant and immeasurable gap. What is even more strange is that this thought is very common among the interviewers and has always haunted them.
This is the feeling that Professor Hansa Arnold gives to his students. The students feel a strong sense of discomfort or terror, but they will not stop taking his class because of this.
Because this is the Iberian Union College, this is the University of Madrid, one of the twin holy capitals of the empire, and this is the discipline of applied thaumatology.
Is it strange for a thaumaturge to use [Uncanny Valley Effect Meme Virus] as his [entry] or [module] component?
That’s not surprising!
Is it strange that a professor at a world-renowned institution of higher thaumaturgy uses the Meme virus to intimidate students into attending classes honestly?
This is not surprising!
So, some things that are full of weirdness and contradictions are always rationalized in such weird ways, and the basis behind this rationalization is well researched.
“There was an island on which in 533 some Wudu people, Frenchmen and Berliners lived. There were no thaumatologists, no genealogy network, and no telegraphs could be sent or sent. The cruise ship on this island only comes once every sixty days.
But you have to know that at that time, the Youyang plate was still in a situation where the heroes were competing for hegemony. The prototype of the alliance had not yet been formed, and many countries in the territory were competing. In September of this year, the cruise ship had not yet arrived on the island, and the island residents were still talking about the last thing they saw. There was news in one issue of the newspaper that Madame Caillot was about to be tried for the shooting death of Calmet, the editor of the First Gazette of France. Therefore, when the cruise ship finally arrived in mid-September, people all rushed to the dock with impatience. , I want to hear from the captain how the court finally ruled on the case.
However, the news they heard was that in the past six weeks, the Wudu and the French had formed an alliance according to the previous agreement to jointly go to war against Berlin.
In this way, these six weeks have become a bit awkward: the residents of the island still get along as friends, but in fact they have become enemies. ”
In the classroom, Professor Hanse Arnold was giving a lecture to his students, and the syllables of Terra were “pumped” out of each other’s mouths one by one. Yes, they were pumped out like a water pump. Obviously It's not blunt, but it gives people a sense of weirdness.
Now, the professor is giving a compound class to the students.
This is a public opinion class, this is a political class. This is a media communication class, this is a thaumaturgy message class······
At this moment, Professor Hansa Arnold's lecture was still continuing, and the students on the podium were each taking notes. The students made different objective records of the same thing in their own notes.
After marking it with conspicuous symbols, some people wrote rationally: Mass communication affects people's cognition and behavior - the alliance between Fog City and France, and the news of the joint war on Berlin, This caused a change in the stance of the people on the island. The three parties, who were all smiles, instantly changed their stances due to the spread of the message, and each other immediately became like an abyss of enemies.
Someone wrote from the perspective of analyzing their stance: They were implicated in a national identity label and objectively became enemies of different camps.
Some people wrote concisely and comprehensively: Information changes cognition.
Some people write after thinking about the distance between time and space: the asymmetry between time and space, the difference in status, and the lag in information dissemination.
Some wrote after thinking from the perspective of public opinion: People are controlled by information, influenced by public opinion, and will can change again, as long as the variables are large enough, and the existence of public opinion is large enough, or even authoritative enough—— If authoritarianism covers public opinion, can free will really survive under authoritarianism?
The students were thinking, while the professor’s allusion like a hell joke continued:
“If we look at the above examples at a macro level and continue to observe, the situation and physical presence of these islanders Most people in Youyang are similar - the islanders learned the news of the war six weeks later than the actual start of the war, and people in the various countries also "learned about it later", but the delay was shorter , just six days or six hours.
Since delay is inevitable, it means that there must be a moment when ordinary people are still going about their daily lives step by step, and they are not prepared for this imminent and upcoming crisis. There was no understanding of the war that upended their lives, and the environment they had struggled to adapt to no longer existed.
Up to the moment the war began, people around the world were still producing goods that were destined to never be shipped. Buying goods that are destined not to be imported; ordinary people are planning their careers, and companies are planning to become bigger and stronger. The society is full of hope and expectations, and everyone firmly believes that the world in front of them is the original appearance of the world.
Others describe the world through books or even nascent genealogy networks, and they firmly believe in the picture of the world in their minds.
More than four years later, on a Thursday morning, news of the armistice came, and people finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, when they felt indescribable relief at the end of the massacre, they did not know that thousands of young people still died on the battlefield in the five days before the real armistice came. Before that, people had celebrated the end of the war. "Professor Hanse Arnold still spoke in neither sad nor happy terms, and after the students thought for a moment, they deeply understood how hellish the story described by Professor Hanse Arnold was.
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Real and magical, like a joke from hell
Why they fight and why they stop is not up to them.
The hysteresis effect makes the world confusing.
There is always a gap in information.
Even though the genealogical network spreads across Terra, even with so much information available today.
Intermediary, information gap, information fees, intellectual property rights, information property rights, patents, market, real estate········
The huge information chain creates countless cocoons.
“Our understanding of the environment in which we find ourselves is far from straightforward. Information about the external environment comes quickly or slowly, but as long as we recognize that the picture in our mind is real, it will Equating this picture with the external environment itself
It is difficult for us to reflect on the beliefs that are imposed on our own minds and influence our own behavior, but we always self-righteously laugh at the superstitions of other peoples or people of other times. How absurd is our picture of the world.
Under the influence of this sense of superiority, we insist that the world "they" need to know is often very different from the world "they" already know. We can also see that when "they" govern the imaginary world, or carry out struggles, transactions, and changes in it, "their" actions may have a substantial impact on the real world, or they may just be a mirror image. "
When Professor Hanse Arnold said this, he paused involuntarily. For some reason, he began to feel a strange palpitation in his heart. This kind of palpitation was very inexplicable.
Professor Hansa Arnold frowned, and the discomfort coming from his body seemed to indicate something. His intuition told him that he should leave here immediately.
And his sudden silence attracted the attention of the students. The academics raised their heads and stared at him with concern.
Maybe it’s because he has been in this body for almost forty years, or because of the attention of the students, or maybe he has realized that his true destiny is today.
So, instead of following his inner intuition, he stayed and finished today's lesson.
“Public opinion, information gap, the external world and the image in the mind, sometimes just like the most famous [cave fable] in philosophy, there is a cave wall between information and the spread of information. People in the cave think The shadow cast by the firelight on the wall is the entire world. When the prisoners in the cave are liberated and look back to see clearly the 'truth' composed of torches and puppets behind them, most of them think that the 'truth' is an illusion. thereby refusing to accept the truth.”
Dong Dong Dong——
Professor Hansa Arnold felt that the sensation coming from his body was getting stronger and stronger. He felt an unbearable headache and had a completely unfamiliar and weird feeling, as if Someone else is trying to take over this body's mind again.
“..., we live in such an environment, it is easy to regard the surrounding environment or the environment that others want us to understand as the real environment; it is like the simulated environment created by the media for us in reality, but they are subjective The information environment provided on the Internet is not the world we actually live in, so... we will generate wrong signals for the real world; when our world view, values, and the world formed in our minds have basically taken shape, we want to break it again and Change is even more difficult.”
Professor Hanse Arnold used his vocal cords awkwardly, fumbling for each syllable, and his wording also seemed very strange and stiff. It was as if he had learned the Terran language entirely from books. This feeling of stupidity only appeared when he first took over the real Professor Hansa Arnold, and now, he appeared again.
Dong dong dong——
Who is watching, the shadow of the night?
Who is persecuting, the fear in your heart?
The beast has no chains, and free will begins to stir!
"Professor" raised his head with difficulty and found that the students were looking at him with frightened eyes, or in other words, behind him...
He turned around and looked back, and then saw that Wearing a black priest's robe, and those amber eyes.
Then he saw an amber moon, a bulging moon with a fungus-like color that gradually set in the west.
The amber moon is as psychedelic as the moon in the mirror.
Involuntarily, he fell into the whirlpool of nightmares.
Golden shackles and jade locks, a gorgeous cage,
The world is silent, the flames are burning,
Who is cooking me, this silent world?
He looked down at his body in embarrassment, which was covered with scratches and bloodstains.
He smiled bitterly.
"This...is...fate...fate..."
Then.
The skin, flesh and blood gradually peeled off,
even the bones were exposed, naked red and white.
“Ah——”
The students were stunned and couldn’t believe the scene in front of them.
Blood seeped out from the cracks in the professor's body and dripped onto the floor, making a pattering sound.
They looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief, and the man in black priest's robe raised his head and looked at the students with his amber eyes.
Some students screamed and tried to escape, but their steps seemed to be stuck by fear, slow and clumsy.
The hearts of these young people are permanently imprinted with unspeakable fear. They witnessed the boundaries of human reason being torn apart, and how the unfathomable darkness swallowed up all light.
And this is just the beginning. The bloody terror brought by the number one sword holder in the Kingdom of Heaven is spreading throughout Iberia at this moment.
This is the darkness brought about by miracles in the world, and the entire Iberia will be shrouded in this bloody terror.
At this moment, a sense of absurdity enveloped the hearts of the students. They seemed to be in the hell accident the "professor" just talked about, ignorant and full of fear.