Chapter 171     A year and a half later (25)

"Strong learning" is a way of learning, which requires smart teachers. The teacher will tell students what they should know, while the students analyze the information and store it in memory. The less intelligent teacher teaches through different methods. She may not know what she wants to teach, but she can tell students when they guess the correct answer—just like a substitute teacher rating the student's test. If the student guesses some of the answers, the teacher can give a hint of "approach" or "departure" to help students continue to explore. In this way, the less intelligent teacher may generate knowledge that they do not have. Akeley has been promoting the research on "weak learning", which he believes is a way to maximize the computing space: using the least input information and obtaining the most output information. "I have been trying to find the stupidest and most ignorant teacher," Akeley told me, "I think I found it. The answer is: death."

Death is the only teacher in evolution. Aikley’s mission is to find out: what can you learn by just using death as a teacher? We are not very clear about the answer, but there are some ready-made examples: a flying eagle, a pigeon’s navigation system, or a termite’s skyscraper. It takes some time to find the answer. Evolution is smart, but blind and stupid at the same time. (Excerpt from Kevin Kelly, the author of "Out of Control")

"What should we do in the face of death?" The man in black robe asked a new question.

Liu Zheng smiled and said, "There are many kinds of deaths. Some people die in their lives, some people die in accidents, and some people don't want to live at all. Different deaths have different reactions. Only specific problems can be analyzed."

The man in black robe asked, "So, can you give some examples?"

"Some deaths can be avoided. When facing such deaths, we should strive to survive. For example, if a robber wants to kill you, you also hold a knife, and you find that you are not much weaker than him. At this time, what you want is courage, courage, and firmly control your destiny in your own hands." Liu Zheng said jokingly.

The man in black robe couldn't help frowning when he heard Liu Zheng's tone. "But sometimes fate is not completely in his own hands, what should I do at this time?"

Liu Zheng replied: "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. But it is useless to complain when he is under a dangerous wall. Be careful, don't die so easily."

"Well, it's very good. It seems that we are all good students of death. Death is our good teacher." said the man in black robe.

"Haha, the teacher is indeed our good teacher. But don't be caught by him." Liu Zheng said with a smile.

The man in black robe sighed, "But we will not always be his good students."

"But he always lacks good students, right? If there is no life, death will lose its meaning." Liu Zheng said.

The man in black nodded. "Your answer is very interesting. But what if we die and our enemies live happily?"

Liu Zheng said: "If you have a chance, you will drag our enemies to die together. This is actually the meaning of hatred. We die, but we eliminate the enemies, so our relatives have a safer environment."

The man in black nodded in appreciation: "Well said it. Your answer is very consistent with my opinion. Many people are crazy about giving up hatred. In fact, these people are mostly despicable villains. They want to do bad things, but are afraid of punishment, so they fool people into forgetting hatred. But if the enemy is too strong, no matter how strong we hate them, we can do nothing about them. For example, the guard of that palace, we will face him without death, what should we do?"

"This is back to what we just said. In fact, there are many choices, but the situation is extremely complicated. We don't know which one is really correct. We can only place bets on both ends, or even long bets. The more choices, the greater the possibility of the right choice."

"Maybe there is more than one correct answer."

“Wouldn’t that be better?”

Post-Darwinists have proved that a single evolution promoted by natural selection in one dimension does not exist. Evolution should be both wide and deep. Deep evolution is the aggregation of multiple evolutions, a multifaceted god, a creator with a thousand arms, and his creation methods are diverse, and natural selection may be just the most universal method among them. Deep evolution is composed of many unexplained evolutions, just as our mind is an eclectic society. Different evolutions are on different scales.

In addition, this mixed evolution changes over time. Some types of evolution are important for early prototype life, while others assume more important responsibilities today four billion years later. Some evolution (natural selection) will appear everywhere, while others may only see once in a while and play a specific role. This diversified deep evolution, like intelligence, emerges from some dynamic community. (Kevin Kelly, author of "Out of Control")

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