192: Chapter 192: We Are All Seekers of the Law

This sentence left Xiao Yu and countless viewers in the livestream filled with astonishment.

"Defying the heavens?"

"Damn, defying the heavens, causal manipulation—this perspective isn't about who is more impressive, but about who is more unreasonable?"

"Interrupting the causality of all things... these six words feel quite profound!"

"Is this something I'm allowed to hear? Our Big Brother has already created a hierarchical system for civilizations?"

"Waiting eagerly, I can't wait anymore!"

"Big Brother, is the civilization system linked to the causality you mentioned?" Xiao Yu said thoughtfully. "Even if I don't know about civilization classifications, our biology textbooks and physics textbooks all teach me one principle: energy and resources!"

"Shouldn't the classification start from this aspect?"

Jiang Zhe smiled.

In his past life's think tank, ecologists no longer used this kind of energy and resource-based classification because it was too simplistic!

Because with the progress and development of technology, the scientific community focuses on the microscopic world rather than the macroscopic!

Because it involves one word: dimension!

However, he would not explain it this way to Xiao Yu, simply because it was too complex. True technology is not about whether one can exceed the speed of light on a macroscopic level; it is about being able to do as one pleases in the microscopic world. After all, the speed of light in the microscopic world is trash and can be penetrated at will.

He also wanted to say that this world's technology tree was crooked; as long as the people's basic lives were prosperous, that was enough.

All other technology could advance crazily towards the microscopic!

With a flurry of thoughts, Jiang Zhe smiled and shook his head. "That has nothing to do with Big Brother's classification system. Big Brother's is Big Brother's, and yours is yours."

"Hurry up, Big Brother, I can't wait anymore!" Xiao Yu sat up straight, her beautiful eyes shining as she listened attentively.

"Big Brother has divided civilization levels into seven grades."

"Xiao Yu, let Big Brother explain a concept to you first, and then Big Brother will give you all seven civilization levels at once."

Xiao Yu nodded repeatedly with burning eyes. "Start from Level 0 Civilization. Level 0 Civilization: Obedient Subjects."

"Completely prostrate under the iron laws of causality. You must sow in spring to harvest in autumn; during a drought, you hope for rain; during floods, you hope the heavens will be in a better mood. Strictly following the power of causality."

"They strictly follow the rule that the past determines the future. All their efforts revolve within the chain of causality, whipped forward by time."

"From the Stone Age to the tribal era, to ancient times, to all countries around the world before the First Industrial Revolution—it was nothing more than this!"

"Their history is tightly grasped by the order of causality, a one-way street where nothing can be reversed!"

With just a few sentences, he summarized ancient times and the era of the Industrial Revolution for countries around the world.

Level 0 Civilization... the obedient subjects under the heavens.

If you want to be well-fed, you can only hope the heavens are in a good mood; if you want to sleep well, you can only hope the emperor cares for the people. A good life is impossible to achieve.

At this moment, Xiao Yu and countless viewers narrowed their eyes, losing their initial restlessness and instead beginning to listen intently.

This has nothing to do with how advanced the technology is, but whether one can defy the heavens.

Even if this civilization framework were placed in a fantasy story, it could even be labeled as a magic civilization, a rune civilization... The underlying logic is everything: whether one can defy the heavens. Those who cannot defy the heavens are low-level civilizations, and those who can defy the heavens are high-level civilizations, regardless of whether there are technological creations!!!

Seeing the confusion in Xiao Yu's eyes gradually dissipate, he knew she understood.

Jiang Zhe then continued: "Next is the critical transition."

"It is a process between Level 0 and Level 1 Civilization."

"When a civilization, for the first time, clearly observes in a laboratory that an effect can strangely be determined before its cause, or when there is simply no familiar sequential order between the two."

Speaking to this point, a glimmer flashed in Jiang Zhe's eyes. "Then, in the most accidental way, for the first time, humanity's fingertips touch the reverse scale of the iron laws of causality. The humans in that civilization see for the first time that causality is not a back door that cannot be violated, even if this back door is so narrow that it only temporarily allows information to pass through, and at a high cost."

"This stage, Big Brother calls [Weak Reverse Causality]."

"From here on, the hallmark of civilization level is beginning to clumsily understand phenomena like [Quantum Superposition], [Quantum Delayed Choice], and [Quantum Entanglement]."

"The people in this civilization start to excitedly realize that causality is not something that cannot be violated!"

"From this moment on, humanity can be considered to have truly taken the first step on the road to defying the heavens."

As Jiang Zhe's words fell, many viewers couldn't help but think of human civilization.

Isn't our human civilization currently experiencing and going through these things?

Quantum computing, quantum communication...

In the principal's office, the gazes of Principal Fu, Old Wang, and Xiao Wang couldn't help but fall on the physics teacher, Old Yu.

Old Yu met their gazes. "As you three think, yes. Our human civilization is currently groping at the threshold of this Weak Reverse Causality."

Xiao Yu's eyes lit up, grasping the key point: "Big Brother, is our human civilization currently in this Weak Reverse Causality stage you described?"

"Yes!" Jiang Zhe nodded without hesitation. "That's right. According to Big Brother's system, our human civilization is currently at the stage of a Level 0.5 Civilization!"

"Ah?" Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment. "Only 0.5? That low?"

"Otherwise what?" Jiang Zhe said. "Level 0.5 means we have just caught a glimpse of the threshold and touched the edge of defying, but we are far from reaching the level of stable mastery and universal application."

"To truly step into a Level 1 Civilization, a key hallmark is: being able to maturely understand and utilize the characteristics of microscopic causality, bringing quantum technology from the laboratory into reality, and allowing the general public to use it."

He pondered for a moment, then began to give an example: "Xiao Yu, imagine when mature quantum computers are spread across the globe."

"Their powerful simulation capabilities can deduce all the subtle interactions of the global atmosphere, ocean currents, and crustal movements in real-time."

"At that time, we might not be able to stop the formation of typhoons, mudslides, or volcanic eruptions, but we can judge the path and intensity of disasters, as well as the chain disasters that will occur, weeks or even months in advance with a high probability."

"At that time, through global scheduling at the national level, we can reduce losses to zero."

"This is the application of the understanding of microscopic causality in the macroscopic world after it has been mythologized—a primary form of causal intervention—'I can see the disaster coming, and I can also avoid most of the disaster in advance.'"

"This means—our Earth civilization has entered a Level 1 Civilization."

"Hiss~" Xiao Yu listened intently, digesting the seemingly subtle gap between Level 0.5 and Level 1.

Suddenly, she thought of something. "Big Brother, Level 0 Civilization is called Obedient Subjects. Shouldn't there be a cooler name for the civilization between Level 0.5 and Level 1?"

Not only her, but the viewers' eyes also lit up.

"Damn, well done!"

"That's right, we are at least Level 0.5; we aren't 'My fate is determined by me, not by heaven' right now."

"Exactly, exactly!"

This unexpected scene made the eyes of Ouyang Baili, Professor Wu, Li Mo, Old Chen, and others shine.

Jiang Zhe naturally did not disappoint Xiao Yu, wearing an expression that showed he had expected this. "Law-Peekers!"

"Those who peek at the laws of the microscopic world, peek at the butterfly effect of the microscopic world, and begin to try to understand the observers and beginners of the essence of the world."

"Law-Peekers..." Xiao Yu repeated it softly, feeling that this term had both scientific calmness and revealed a sense of civilization level advancement; it was indeed much better than 'Obedient Subjects'.

Her curiosity was ignited on the spot. "Then Big Brother, what about Level 2 Civilization?"