Chapter 106: The Bizarre World of Near-Death

"You can't play us like this, sister."

"You took up a resource for no reason and then told students not to bother you; have you considered our feelings?"

"Damn, I waited for seven days, only for a slot to be taken for no reason. This makes me extremely unhappy!"

"..."

The audience began posting angry comments.

Fortunately, in the next second, Jiang Zhe's voice came from the big screen: "That question doesn't count; we still have 3 slots."

As soon as he said this, the audience and experts finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If a slot had truly been taken by such a meaningless question, that female professor would have been ruthlessly criticized the next day!

"Let's start connecting with the first viewer now!"

As Jiang Zhe was connecting with the viewer, in households across Su City, many middle and high school students watched the previous female teacher's outburst on their televisions.

Displeasure appeared on the students' faces.

If it were ordinary science popularization, it wouldn't matter—it would be meaningless and boring anyway!

Crucially, this wasn't ordinary science popularization; it was a program hosted by Jiang Zhe himself. Someone taking up a slot and wasting it felt worse to them than being robbed of money.

"I was actually planning to ask my teacher on Monday, but that woman just told us not to bother asking because they don't know either. For fuck's sake!"

"Dad, aren't you a high school teacher? Don't you understand it either?"

"Son..." a father said with an incredibly awkward expression, "I really don't quite understand. If I understood these things better than most people, your dad wouldn't be a high school teacher right now; I'd at least be a university science professor."

Seeing his son's disappointed look, the father quickly comforted him: "Next time you can ask online; there are hidden experts there. You're not going to get through on the call-in line anyway."

Individual parents who were teachers were also momentarily speechless.

Teachers are supposed to pass on knowledge and solve doubts, but now, because Jiang Zhe's science popularization was too difficult, they had to seek information from other channels themselves.

Those teachers felt extremely—nine out of ten, in fact—uncomfortable!

...

In the lecture hall of Kyoto University of Science.

Watching the first call on the TV, which hadn't counted as a connection.

The university students and graduate students on-site adopted a haughty posture.

"Luckily our professors can solve our difficult problems."

"Exactly. Good thing I'm not a high schooler anymore, but a university student; though it seems my IQ as a university student hasn't increased much compared to high school..."

"Jiang Zhe's appearance has really screwed over those middle and high school teachers, hahaha!"

While the students were discussing, the actual first call came through the big screen.

An excited young male voice came from the other side: "Hello, hello, Teacher Jiang! I'm a high school student—the kind that female teacher was talking about earlier."

"I love watching your science popularization and decryptions; I haven't missed a single moment!"

"I actually have a request."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhe smiled. "I will satisfy any request within a reasonable scope."

"Mhm, I know. Actually, I have two questions."

"I will only ask one question myself. For the second question, I hope the next viewer who connects can ask it."

"Everyone, don't be in a hurry. Although it's a bit selfish, it's definitely something we're all interested in."

Hearing this, all the viewers and experts looked curious; the rebuttals they were about to voice stayed in their throats.

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly: "That depends on the will of the next viewer, but please, ask your first question!"

"Ok, ok!"

"My two questions are—"

"The first question is: Can Near-Death Experiences and returning to the body be explained by your theory?"

"What I mean is: when patients are near death, some leave their bodies. For example, there was a female patient abroad who, after a Near-Death Experience, floated to the hospital roof and saw a pair of worn-out red shoes. After she woke up and recovered, she went to the roof immediately and actually saw those red shoes!"

"For the second question, I hope the next lucky person can adopt it."

"The second question is about the third segment you mentioned earlier, which is [The World After Death]."

"Like, what's the situation there? After all, after death is something we can't see or touch; some even say only dead people know The World After Death."

"But listening to your detailed introduction earlier, I discovered a truth—"

"The World After Death is very likely a quantum world. If it is a quantum world, then after we humans die, we should linger in that place after death."

"Teacher Jiang, do you understand the core of what I'm asking?"

This underage high school student's thoughts and sense of logic were incredibly powerful. Despite some incomplete conceptualization, he had decrypted the core of today's science popularization questions.

These questions caused the eyes of the viewers in the livestream and in front of their TVs to light up.

If not for this high school student cleverly raising these two questions, many people really wouldn't have imagined that questions could be asked this way.

"Damn, both of these questions are things I'm interested in."

"+1. If that's the case, what's the harm in giving the second connection slot to the first person's question?"

"..."

Most viewers had already stated their position, agreeing to the young man's request.

Only a few viewers expressed that they didn't give a damn.

Hearing this, Jiang Zhe nodded with a smile: "It's just two questions."

"1: The truth behind those bizarre Near-Death Experiences, and even what's going on with the universe we dream of while sleeping."

"2: If there really is a place in The World After Death, what is it like?"

"Correct?"

The person on the other side nodded excitedly repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly it, Teacher."

In the lecture hall, the experts were even more curious; these were also the questions the experts wanted to know.

On the big screen.

Jiang Zhe thought for a moment and then gave the answer to the first question:

"Actually, the answer to your first question is reflected in the core content of my paper."

"The core viewpoint of the Orch-OR Theory is: consciousness originates from Quantum Mechanics. Consciousness is not a mechanical computer process, but the result of quantum processes in the brain's microtubules."

"We previously gave everyone a deep explanation of this when we explained the [Quantum Link Network] within the Protein Microtubules."

The audience already knew these answers.

Consciousness is not a calculation process like that of a quantum computer, but the result of quantum processes within Protein Microtubules.

"Young student, regarding the Near-Death Experiences you're interested in—"

"The answer can actually be expressed in one sentence: when patients fall into a Near-Death Experience, the reason their consciousness briefly leaves their body is—"

"The quantum information within their Protein Microtubules briefly loses its Quantum State."

"As the name suggests: the Quantum State includes states like Quantum Superposition State, Quantum Entanglement State, pure Quantum States, Mixed States, and so on."

He looked at the camera and gave an example without hesitation.

"For example: when a normal person faces two choices, A and B, at this moment, the Quantum Consciousness Information in their brain is in a Superposition State. Superposition State means—they might choose A, or they might choose B; no one is certain what they will choose."

"When the normal person makes choice A, the Superposition State of the quantum information in their mind collapses and becomes a [Determinate State]."

"This is one state of quantum consciousness."

Jiang Zhe faced the camera, held up one finger, and continued to explain:

"However, after a near-death patient's consciousness briefly leaves the body, they briefly no longer have this [Quantum Superposition State]."

"What does that mean?"

"It means: after the near-death patient leaves their physical body, any world they see could potentially appear before their eyes."

"A simple example: I am a normal person. I will either buy a lottery ticket or buy a car."

"The normal person's follow-up: After buying the lottery ticket, I win, then suddenly become rich, squander it all, and jump off a building to commit suicide."

"The normal person's follow-up: I buy a car. After buying the car, I go racing on the highway, get overexcited, and die in a crash."

"But!"

With a serious expression, he continued to explain:

"The near-death patient's follow-up is: they can see both the follow-up of buying the lottery ticket and buying the car appearing in their field of vision simultaneously."

"In other words: with a single thought, a near-death patient can personally experience the world after buying the lottery ticket, finding that they squandered everything and committed suicide by jumping off a building."

"Then they don't want to stay in the world where they died and want to switch worlds—"

"Then they can jump-cut to the world after buying the car."

"When they see that the world after buying the car also ends in a tragic death from highway racing."

"What should be done then?"

He smiled slightly and shrugged.

"Naturally, they continue switching until they switch to a world where they haven't died."

"This is the true phenomenon of human quantum consciousness when it has a [Superposition State] versus when it loses the [Quantum Superposition State], corresponding to the states of a [Living Person] and a [Temporarily Dead Person] / [Dead Person]!"

After saying this, he smiled slightly and then blinked: "Does everyone understand the importance of the [Quantum Superposition State] of human consciousness now?"