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There are many people who study metaphysics, and I believe that the number of this group will not decrease, because no matter how far science develops, even if all the things people want to know now are explained, there will always be new unknown boundaries, so metaphysics will not die.

In fact, metaphysics is not useless. After many bosses become successful, they always feel the need for some metaphysics to feel at ease. There is nothing wrong with this. They hire feng shui masters, set up formations, and if it can make people more confident in their careers, then the money is not wasted. Or believe in Buddhism, believe in gods, believe in anything, if it can make people awe the mysterious power and do more good deeds, it is not a bad thing.

Metaphysics is an attempt by people to explain or predict things without complete induction or strict empirical basis. Its role is often not really about doing things right, but about bringing a psychological impact to people. So if you used to believe in it, I won't make you stop believing. You should study it carefully. The deeper you study, the more useful you will find it. At this time, if you do some positive things, it will have a positive impact on your psychology and make it easier to accomplish things. But if you are skeptical, metaphysics is actually difficult to bring you positive benefits. I will explain the reason to you so that you don't have to worry about how to "decode" like a "master" when you encounter negative events in the future. At that time, you may become more cautious and increase the probability of messing things up.

In fact, whether in China or in other lands, there is almost a history of metaphysics. And the path of metaphysics is almost the same. At first, it was some things that sounded absurd to modern people, such as tapping ash into water to cure diseases, eating something red to accelerate blood production, or burning grass to predict good or bad luck. Later, it became a little more "serious", but it still sounded plausible and didn't make people feel like they were rubbing their intelligence on the ground.

Why does metaphysics need to progress? Because science is progressing. It can be said that if the theories, empirical evidence, and tools in science do not continue to progress, we would still believe in the set of theories from thousands of years ago. Every time science unveils a layer of the world's veil, metaphysics has to come up with something new, because obviously the old "unknown" has become known, and people realize that their previous thoughts were wrong, so not coming up with something new won't work. Do you still believe in thunder gods and lightning mothers? Do you still believe that lightning strikes bad people? You don't believe it. Why don't you believe it? Because when both sides provide explanations, you will definitely believe the one with more evidence, right? So what science swallows is actually the territory of metaphysics, but the reason metaphysics will not disappear is that science always has boundaries, and beyond those boundaries will be its new territory.

In the past, everyone thought that computers would never be able to defeat humans in Go, because Go contains the oldest human wisdom. Everyone thought that Go was a view of life and that it took a lifetime for someone like Lee Sedol to practice it. It even embodies the "Tao" of how to conduct oneself. It is an art, and machines have no overall view and do not understand art. How can they defeat humans on infinitely complex things through cold calculations? But with the emergence of AlphaGo, it directly crushed Lee Sedol. It turns out that there is no art in Go, it's just that your computing power is not enough to make you think it is an art. At the same time, as the widely spread saying goes: the intersection of AI and humans is very short. You see that it hasn't changed for a long time because it is still far from us. Once it gets close to us, there is only a moment of intersection - the moment when Lee Sedol won against AlphaGo. Since then, humans have no idea what level AI has reached. Yes, it can't even achieve the difference in perceptual levels.

AlphaGo does not follow our chess rules and all of our "tricks" and "traps," no matter how cleverly designed, are useless. Those so-called "miraculous moves" that "should only exist in the heavens" are full of loopholes in the eyes of AI, and they can easily be cracked with a simple move. It turns out that these "arts" are just self-indulgence exclusive to humans with low cognition and computing power. The way to crack the Zhonglong chess game is to actively seek death, which is unlikely for human wisdom. The only thing that can be done is to not understand anything like Xuzhu. But in the eyes of AI, there is no difference between seeking survival and seeking death. They are all ordinary moves. The same goes for light skills and internal skills. No matter how proficient your skills are, try them out and you will know. Everyone should stop boasting and practice is the only criterion for testing truth. No matter how high you jump, you will never jump higher than an Olympic champion; no matter how well you can float on water, you will never float better than a parkour expert. All the rumors about Qiu Qianren will eventually be exposed as fake. We now know how the human body works, how the "soul" emerges from algorithms, and we also know that there are craters on the moon, where there is neither Chang'e nor Wu Gang.

Some people say that the end of science is metaphysics. In fact, the original saying is "the end of science is theology." The rumor is attributed to Einstein, but Einstein denied saying it. Einstein explicitly opposed the anthropomorphization of God. Newton turned to theology in his later years because in his time, he couldn't find a better explanation for the "first mover" problem, and at that time, religion and politics were not separate. Newton's later turn to theology was also understandable as he pursued fame and fortune. But we all know that these problems have been solved later. If Newton lived in this era, he would not turn to theology. The end of science is certainly not metaphysics because science has no end. And the territory of metaphysics is precisely those areas that have not yet been illuminated by science. In those areas, you can believe in metaphysics to some extent as long as it brings positive spiritual benefits to you. But in those areas that have already been illuminated by science, we should try to be realistic, otherwise we will only harm ourselves. A simple example, which group has a longer average lifespan, Tibetans or Shanghainese? Without exaggeration, there can be a difference of 20 years. Is it because of the environment or the air? Neither, it's a problem with the mindset.