owlsbooks Chapter 1875 Lying to Myself (5 chapters asking for double monthly tickets!!! Please recommend!!!)
Chapter 1875 Lying to Myself (5 chapters asking for double monthly tickets!!! Please recommend!!!)
Chapter 1875: Lying to Yourself (-word chapter, please give me double the monthly votes!!! Please recommend!!!)
Saji was extremely indignant at Kai's behavior of only caring about his daughter's life and death and ignoring the lives of others... He was wearing a vest and shorts. The magic power of the amulet before was not very lethal. It just pushed people away. Of course, you can't expect it to be gentle. Others were fine. At most, they fell down, but no one died. The injuries were just that. But Saji... He was covered with scratches all over his body. With clothes and without clothes, the "defense" was definitely two completely different concepts. What's worse, the scene was very bad, with gravel and uneven ground everywhere. The feeling... Anyone who learned to ride a bicycle during the summer vacation as a child and fell down can deeply understand it.
Those small stones or other debris will directly embed into the skin and flesh due to falling... It hurts when you fall, and it hurts again when you treat the wound.
But no matter how angry Saji was, he didn't dare to say anything... That was his boss, and Saji knew his boss's temper too well. In this situation, if he went to accuse his boss, the most likely thing he would get was a beating, most likely the kind that would be delivered directly to him.
So shut up! Wait for it to be over, and then the boss will definitely feel guilty and make all kinds of compensation.
Believe in Saji, he definitely has a lot of experience in fleecing his boss. Why is the Special Forces so arrogant and doesn't give face to anyone? Because they have two big sponsors, the Wayne Group and the Stark Group. Why can the Special Forces look down on other departments? Because their special equipment is rich enough to make other departments drool!
All kinds of black technology weapons, even the US government is a little jealous. After all, it is too unreasonable for a local security force to have black technology that even the most core violent agencies of the US government drool over.
But no one dared to move.
Because these high-tech weapons were all provided by Tony Stark and Kai Wayne.
If you have the ability, ask these two people to hand over all the black technologies to the country!
Look at them, are they not paying attention?
Saji reacted quickly and figured out all the messy things in almost an instant.
Here, Emma saw that she was being protected. She also sensed what her father was doing, so in order to prevent things from getting out of hand, she quickly shouted, "Dad!! Don't! I'm safe here! Really safe! I'm fine! I'm fine!! Really, I swear!"
Kai's movements suddenly froze.
He immediately checked Emma's condition through the amulet.
I found that Emma seemed to be fine except that she was a little tired.
Yes, the amulet can sense the user's status. It's just that Kai was so anxious at the beginning that he forgot it.
"Are you really okay?" Although it was a bad behavior to misuse the precious amulet, Kai was more concerned about Emma's safety. They could talk about it alone after returning home. He would not scold Emma while she was still outside. This would make Emma lose face... In fact, Kai would try his best to respect the three children. Even if they made mistakes, as long as they were not fatal, he would rather talk to them face to face at home rather than outside.
Children also have self-esteem.
"Really! But I have a very urgent matter here that I need your help with, Dad!"
Kai was relieved when he heard that Emma was safe. As for Emma playing with the amulet like a naughty child... Theresa did that, Kai believed it. Because she was indeed a little... naughty. As for little Bernard, that was more likely, because she was really stupid. Sometimes Kai was worried, will this child really be okay in the future?
As for Emma, it was impossible for her. She was too sensible, so sensible that Kai sometimes felt like he was redundant.
"So?" Kai asked directly.
If Emma said it was urgent, then it definitely couldn't be a small matter.
At this time, a blue figure and a group of men in black came rushing over from a distance.
Emma recognized the woman. She was the one who first attacked Marx. In Marx's impression, this guy was a minion of the government!
So Emma immediately shouted: "Dad! There are bad guys trying to take Wanda's dad away!"
"Huh?" This was Kai's question. Who was Wanda's father? If he remembered correctly, Wanda was an orphan. For this matter, Wanda and her brother Pietro even went to Tony for revenge.
Is her father alive?
Of course, this kind of thing was nonsense in the past, but in today's world, although it is ridiculous, it is not impossible.
There are so many monsters and demons that all kinds of messes can happen.
"Huh?" This is Pietro.
Wanda's dad, isn't that his dad? They are twins, born from the same mother, so they naturally have the same dad... Wait? It seems that there are exceptions.
Pietro has now come to the United States, where information is well developed and many anecdotes can be heard. Pietro has heard of the rumor of "twins with the same mother and different fathers." (This thing really happened, but the probability is very, very low. The probability is less than one in a million. (According to China News Weekly. Deng Yajun, director of Beijing Zhongzheng Judicial Appraisal Institute and paternity tester, talked about such an incident in an interview: A man's wife gave birth to twins, which was originally a very happy thing. Because there were some problems in registering the children, he went for a paternity test. The result of the test was that one of the twins was his biological offspring, and the other was not, which means that one of the children was not.)
What kind of behavior can lead to such a situation? Usually, it can only be that two men have sex with a woman of childbearing age in a very short period of time, and the reproductive cells of the two men survive in the woman's body at the same time. At this time, the woman must produce two mature eggs at the same time, and then the sperm cells of the two men find these two eggs and fertilize them at the same time. The fertilization process must be completed at the same time to form two fertilized eggs with the same mother and the same father, and then implant and gestate separately, and two babies with the same mother and the same father are born.
The birth rate of twins is about one in a thousand, and the birth rate of half-siblings is about one in a million, which is extremely rare.
A similar incident also occurred in Dallas, Texas, USA in June 2008. Twin brothers Justin Washington and Jordan Washington were found to be half-siblings through a paternity testing agency.
In short, this situation is rare, but it does not mean that it does not exist.
Pietro thought about his appearance, then looked at Wanda who was still kneeling beside Max, and found that the two looked... not much alike. Wanda had red hair, not dyed, pure natural hair, and he? His hair color was light yellow. The facial features were also a little different...
Damn it.
Is it true?
What should I call Wanda?
Wait, that's not right. Although they don't have the same father, they have the same mother!
They are still twins, just with a different dad, and they are still brother and sister.
Pietro breathed a sigh of relief.
But looking at the man in front of him, Pietro's feelings became complicated.
Damn, this is the bastard who cheated on his dad?
No one knows where Pietro's thoughts have gone astray.
"Huh?" was the reaction of the others.
How come Wanda’s father appeared?
What kind of number is this?
Made up, right?
But why?
Spider-Man was curious.
The older ones looked at Wanda. It didn't look like she was pretending. Wanda didn't have the acting skills to do that.
Fortunately, Emma quickly told the whole story in a clear and coherent manner.
Thanks to Emma, after all, this matter is really complicated.
Even for an adult, it is estimated that it would be impossible to express it completely, clearly and concisely without a period of organization and adjustment.
It's easy to understand what's going on.
Pietro was also relieved from his wild thoughts. Fortunately, it was not so bloody. This was his and Wanda's biological father. It was just that due to a series of tragedies, he was separated from their mother, and finally they were separated for so many years.
Kai was also stunned... Is New York so lively now? This plot is too dramatic.
"So what do you want me to do?" Kai probably understood and asked.
"I want you to help Wanda, Max... Wanda's father. He is about to be taken away by those bad guys."
"Emma... my little Emma." Kai didn't know what to say. His Emma was so emotional: "Do you know who he is?"
"I know. I've seen his whole life! I know him inside out. He's not a bad guy!"
Emma said quickly.
"No! Emma, when you think like this, it means that you have lost your objectivity and are looking at this matter completely subjectively. Of course, this is nothing, no one in the world can be truly objective, but Emma, do you really think that what you see is real, the truth?"
Kai finally felt like an old father. He was still somewhat useful, at least he still had some life experience.
"His memory can't lie to me!" Emma said affirmatively.
Wanda also looked over at this time.
The group was getting closer.
Even with Wanda's knowledge, she knew that she and Pietro would never be able to stop that group of people. More importantly, once the war started, their peaceful lives would be completely lost.
Wanda didn't want that.
"Memory won't lie to you, but that doesn't mean there are no problems with memory. My Emma, my dear daughter, you have to remember one thing: memory is unreliable. It is a description of the past by the brain, a self-description. It is more subjective than anything else! People are the best at deceiving themselves."
Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" begins with this: Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía would recall the distant afternoon when his father took him to see ice. At that time, Macondo was a village of twenty families, with houses made of mud and reeds lined up along the river bank. The rushing river was clear and the pebbles in the riverbed were white and smooth like prehistoric giant eggs.
There is no doubt that this passage is a classic in the history of literature and is destined to be remembered for thousands of years. However, psychologists have given a completely different explanation for this. Psychologists believe that any text that begins with "Many years later, I still remember it clearly" is a story. Because after a long time, our memory is like a dead old tree. After decades of ups and downs, it is destined to become rotten and there is no way it can be intact. There are a lot of falsehoods and reconstructions in our memories, and even fabrications out of nothing. Speaking of memory, we have always thought that memory is like driving a car into a garage. When we need to recall it, we open the garage door and the car will drive out intact.
This kind of metaphor about memory just reflects our profound misunderstanding of how memory works!
In fact, the real situation of memory is like this - this car has no garage at all, only a series of parts shelves. If you want to store it, the whole car is disassembled in an instant, and different parts are stored on different shelves; if you want to drive this car, you need to temporarily reassemble all the parts, some parts are lost, some parts are extra, and some parts are taken by mistake; after many times of assembly, this car even becomes a completely different car - but we are completely unaware of this!
We live so carelessly and confidently! For example, if I recall the events of my middle school decades ago, I can only remember some fragmented fragments, most of which are blank. However, the brain cannot accept the existence of these blanks, so the brain will automatically fill them in, and the whole event will still be continuous and complete. In fact, I have accidentally changed a lot of the content.
At the same time, memories can be implanted.
Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist at the University of California. In 1995, she conducted a famous experiment: the shopping mall lost experiment. She found 24 volunteers and gave each of them a booklet with four childhood experiences of the volunteers. Among these four childhood experiences, three of them were true, which were real life fragments collected by Loftus from the relatives of each volunteer. However, the fourth experience was made up by Loftus herself - when the volunteer was about 4 years old, he was lost in a shopping mall, and finally a stranger sent him back home.
To make the fabricated story more realistic, Loftust specifically asked each volunteer's parents about the details of their childhood, such as the name of their local shopping mall. The experiment required each volunteer to carefully recall four childhood memories and write them down.
Guess what, what is the result?
Among the 24 people, 6 of them remembered the fictitious incident of getting lost in the mall, and they could remember the details clearly: what the stranger who sent him home looked like, what clothes he was wearing...
In fact, research on childhood memories has found that most childhood memories are forgotten because of the underdeveloped brain, immature language skills, and the lack of logical relationships between things. Most childhood memories are information obtained from conversations with adults, and then constantly supplemented, imagined, and fabricated.
Yes! This is one of the most important reasons why childhood is wonderful, because you don’t remember many things at all, so what should you do? Just use your imagination!
Almost everyone will miss the time and happiness of childhood, when the sky was blue, the ground was green, the air was clean, and people were carefree. In childhood, because the mind is not yet polluted, the dream is still hazy, with the care of parents and the warm bed of home, it will naturally make the little people more carefree and have more simple happiness.
But actually?
It is common to all people that they know how to cherish what they have lost and feel the beauty of things only after they have gone through them. In fact, the truth is that the present has its own advantages, and the past also has its own shortcomings. People just like to filter out the bad memories of the past in their memories, just like dyeing a black and white photo into a color photo. The thing is still the same thing, the person is still the same person, but the angle is different, and the mood is also different.
So memory is unreliable!
Many people say that the brain is amazing, but in fact, when it comes to the ability to store information, the brain is much worse than a computer. It will forget many things and many attacks over time. And the brain is actually best at imagining and deceiving itself.
Your memory and what you actually experienced are sometimes two completely different things.
Because memory is so subjective, it is completely based on me! Often, it will automatically modify many details and even distort the original things!
So, a person’s memory is really what actually happened, without any error?
The answer is no!
Professor Wollister, a famous criminal psychologist, designed a unique experiment: During his class, a senior student pulled out a pistol, and another student rushed to stop him. As a result, the gun went off, but fortunately no one was injured. The students were still in shock, and the professor told them that this was a pre-designed teaching link. A few minutes later, the professor asked the students to provide details of their entire witnessing process. It was found that 80% of all witness records were wrong.
Elizabeth Loftus proposed a concept: the witness memory effect - many testimonies provided by eyewitnesses are inaccurate and have typical personal biases.
Her opinion was endorsed by the U.S. Department of Justice and sparked the Innocence Project, a nonprofit group of lawyers and law students whose mission is to re-examine dubious murder convictions.
Of the more than 360 cases involved in the "Washing the Wrongful Mind Project," up to 78% cited eyewitness testimony as key evidence, and DNA analysis was later used to clear these people of their grievances. A large number of studies have shown that people tend to overestimate their facial recognition abilities, and that we mostly remember some common features. However, our brains automatically fill in information through our own speculations, and all of this is done quietly, without even the parties themselves noticing. Our brains are reconstructing memories every moment.
As I said, human memory is unreliable!
(End of this chapter)