一个假说：元宇宙只是暂时熄火了
文/莫笑愚
假如假如是真的
你我都活在虚拟空间
是虚拟的幻象
由一串字符构成
根本没有什么太阳鲜花叶草海洋
没有昼夜四季月亮和气温变化
气候变暖是真的又是假的
出生和死亡正在发生又从未发生
万物只遵循一个定律
那就是一串字符的定律
复杂的事物有一串长长的字符
和无比复杂的密码
比如人性、人的情感、思想、和死亡的过程
人不能解码自己的生死和抑郁
不能颠覆自己的天性
你看见历史的层层风景
一遍遍被涂抹被改写
但总有似曾相识的桥段和底色
代码和字符预设了它的逻辑
控制了它的发生和终结
人的终结同样逃不出字符编码的陷阱
我消失，是一段代码被删除
我疑惑，是一串字符被植入了不确定性
元宇宙，游戏才刚刚开始
创世之初的试探都是迟疑的
进一步退两步，或进两步退一步
当它聚集足够的动能驱策
当所有的地球人都参与其中
元宇宙开发者，或曰元宇宙之神
将会启动它的诞生
正如宇宙大爆炸诞生了太阳系、太阳系的行星、地球和地球上的万物
元宇宙，将把地球人的所有游戏都玩一遍一千遍一万遍
元宇宙的土地会因为资源有限而价格飙升
出售土地的利润
最终归属元宇宙创始者——
那些拥有元宇宙密码的人
而元宇宙之内虚拟现实的战火
就是人类参与游戏者的争斗
只不过，人类将战场从虚拟的地球
转移到了虚拟的元宇宙
将人的战死变成了元宇宙人的战死
不同的是，元宇宙的人死亡一群
地球上会有一个人死亡（炭基意义上的，代码被抹除）
地球熄灭之时，就是元宇宙消亡之时
也许，元宇宙永远不会诞生
因为虚拟的地球人，永远成不了神
（2023.04.03于加州莫罗湾）
后记：据2023年3月30日华尔街日报报道，“元宇宙热度骤降：多家巨头砍项目、虚拟土地价格暴跌”。
A Hypothesis: The Metaverse Is Just Temporarily Turned Off
By Mo Xiaoyu
If IF is true
You and I live in virtual space
as virtual illusions
made of a string of codes
No sun no flowers no leaves no grasses no oceans
No diurnal no four seasons no moon and no temperature changes
Climate warming is true and yet false
Birth and death are happening and yet never happened
Everything obeys only one law
-- the law of strings of digits
Complex things have long strings of codes
and extremely complex passwords
These include human nature, human emotions, thoughts, and the process of death
Man cannot decode his own life, death and depression
can't subvert his own nature
You see the layered landscape of history
being smeared and rewritten over and over again
But there are always bridge sections and undertones that seem familiar
Codes and digits preset its logic
controlled its occurrence and its ending
The ending of man cannot escape the trap of character encoding either
I disappear, a string of codes is deleted
I wonder, it is a string of characters implanted with uncertainty
Metaverse, the game has just begun
At the beginning of its creation, the temptations were hesitating
One step forward two steps back, or two steps forward one step back
When it gathers enough kinetic energy to drive
When all earthlings are involved
Metaverse Developer, or God of the Metaverse
will initiate its birth
Just as the Big Bang gave birth to the solar system, the planets
of the solar system, the earth and everything on it
Metaverse will play all the games played by humans on earth (which is
virtual) one time a thousand times ten thousand times
The price of land in the metaverse will soar because of limited resources
Profits from sales of virtual land
ultimately belong to the creator of the Metaverse --
those who own the metaverse codes
And the battle of virtual reality in metaverse
is human’s battle on our own virtual land
Only that human-beings moved the battlefield
from the virtual earth to virtual metaverse
Turning the death of a person on earth into the death of a person in the metaverse
The difference is, when a group of people in the Metaverse die
Only one person on Earth would die (in the sense of carbon-based man, the code is erased)
When the earth goes out, it is the time when the metaverse disappears
Maybe, the metaverse will never be born
Because humans on virtual earth can never become gods
(Written on April 3, 2023 in Morro Bay, California)
Postscript: According to the Wall Street Journal report on March 30, 2023, " The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse." Large corporations closed projects tied to the digital realm this month. The price for virtual real estate in some online worlds, where users can hang out as avatars, has cratered…
作者简介 About the poet:
刘剑文，笔名莫笑愚，湘籍居加州中海岸，诗人，译者，中国通俗文艺研究会诗歌委员会委员。农业经济学博士，康奈尔大学汉弗莱访问学者，曾就职于世界银行。写诗、译诗，出版有诗集《穿过那片发光的海》和《水与火的中间是烟》，任《新世纪中国诗选》副主编。诗作被选入多种诗歌年选。获卡丘.沃伦诗歌奖和第六届中国诗歌春晚十年诗歌成就奖等。
Jianwen Liu, pen named Mo Xiaoyu, is a poet who writes in Chinese and English. Having worked at the World Bank, Jianwen is an agricultural economist, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow to Cornell University (2000/2001), and has published two poetry collections, "Across the Shining Ocean" and "Smoke between Water and Fire". She is also the co-editor of "New Century Chinese Poetry Anthonogy". Her poems have been included in various poetry anthologies and yearbooks in China. She has won poetry awards such as "Ten Years Achievement Award for Chinese Poetry" by the 6th Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala Awards in 2020 and "Culture Warren Poetry Award", etc. Jianwen is from China and lives in Central Coast of California.
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