“Humans are slaves to our genes. Family, friendship, and love are all programs controlled by our genes.”
“If there’s a turkey scientist on a farm who discovers that the farmer delivers food every day at noon, and on Easter Sunday, he announces this to the other turkeys, but the farmer doesn’t feed them that day and instead kills them all, how can we be sure that the laws of physics we discover aren’t just as ridiculous as the laws the turkey discovered?”
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When he woke up, Li Shuiwang found himself traveling to a short video creation competition in a parallel world.
When other contestants were doing anime commentary and spoofs, he chose the science track.
The audience was dismissive: Who would watch such boring stuff?
However, as the game progressed, the whole audience was boiling.
“No one can prove that the universe was not created five minutes ago, because all evidence of the universe’s existence, including your memories, could have been created by the Creator five minutes ago.”
"The probability of life arising spontaneously is as small as the probability of a tornado blowing through a garbage dump and assembling the scraps into an airplane. If you think that this can happen, then life must have arisen spontaneously. If you think that this cannot happen, then it must have been created."
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The contents of this book cover: parallel universes, dark forests, farmer hypothesis, Fermi paradox, super artificial intelligence, brain in a vat... 100 scientific and philosophical concepts that will subvert your worldview.
(The original protagonist's name was changed by Tomato, so the author changed the protagonist's name to Li Shuiwang. Please forgive me, my friends.)
[Mysterious + Gray World + Multiple Extraordinary Paths + No CP + Semi-Invincible]
A strange gray fog shrouded the world.
The extraordinary flame was rekindled.
As the layers of prayers reached above the gray fog, the girl with silver hair and red eyes awoke in response.
Secret prayers, divination, curses, taboos; the real world, the gray world, the spirit world, the kingdom of the gods...
Lilith sat high on the Blood Rose Throne, with twenty ancient bronze thrones before her. "Since the gods regard mortals as ants and ignore the sufferings of the world, let us slay the sky and become the only true gods in the world!"
749th Bureau Confidential Files:
[In 2013, Lilith, the ancestor of the vampire clan, took control of the Kingdom of Death]
[Year 7 of the Mist Era, the Gray Realm Silver City converted to the Crimson Moon]
[In the 11th year of the Mist Era, a group of elves voluntarily transformed into Dark Moon Elves, swearing allegiance to Queen Lilith until death]
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As the crimson moon hung high in the sky, countless high-ranking vampires beneath the Blood Rose Throne chanted devoutly:
Great Ancestor Lilith: You are the Scarlet King sitting high upon the Blood Rose Throne, the supreme ruler of the bright moon and the night sky; you are a great existence that does not belong to the past or the future, the only vampire queen in the world; please draw an end to this golden age, and we will follow you until the end of the world.
Lilith: "At first, I just wanted to lie down and do nothing, so why did things turn out like this?"
The God of Thieves and Games: "Someone is trying to show off again."
God of Fear and Blood: "This is the first time I've seen a devil more shameless than me!"
The god of bows and arrows, art, music, and prophecy: "I saw it, I recorded it, and this will be an epic poem that will last forever!"