Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 256

"How can a person who is in a dream know that he is in a dream?"

"Mr. Black, after Anton came back from London, something always seemed wrong."

In Guangming Academy, Eriksson took Ibrahimovic to find the team's assistant coach Russell.

Russell was busy preparing for the team's 36th round home game against Wigan Athletic. Earlier, Anton handed over the task of designing tactics for the game to Russell. At this time, the assistant coach asked a little absent-mindedly: "What's wrong? Son?"

Eriksson frowned: "I'm also a little hard to say. It looks different from usual. I don't like to talk very much. I look preoccupied, and I always stare at the water glass on the table in a daze..."

"Doubt!" Ibrahimovic interrupted his roommate suddenly.

Russell raised his eyebrows and asked, "What doubt?"

Ibrahimovic glared at Russell, as if to say: What doubts, I said doubts are doubts!

Eriksson next to him nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, Zlatan is right. The boss gives people the feeling of doubting everything..."

"...doubt we can win the championship?" Russell asked, wrinkling his nose.Up to now, everyone has accepted the possibility of newly promoted horses to create miracles. Why did the person who led them to create miracles take the lead in doubting this possibility?

You know, they still have three rounds in the league, and now No.2 is 6 points away from them. As long as Sunderland don't lose all the last three games, they have a great hope of winning the championship.

"No, no, no," Eriksson shook his hand, "Anton is definitely not that superficial, what he suspects is definitely... something deeper."

Russell: ...so I'm superficial?

"I'm going to talk to him, don't delay you two, have you completed the task assigned by the coaching staff to watch the video?" Russell dropped a sentence, regardless of whether the two really followed what he said, got up and went Find Anton.

Anton was in the pantry on the side of the restaurant, staring intently at a glass of water on the table, as Erickson described it.A transparent glass filled with half a glass of clear water, the surface of the water is calm after standing still.

Russell rolled his eyes, thinking: Could this guy be bewitched?

He put his hands on the table.

Anton suddenly looked surprised, staring at the water in the glass.Because Russell propped his arms up just now, causing the table to vibrate, and the water surface in the glass had already made waves and was trembling slightly.

Anton was taken aback, before he raised his head and saw Russell and his arms resting on the table.

Anton suddenly seemed a little more relaxed, exhaled a breath, and with a smile on his face, he nodded his head and greeted Russell: "Why, are you done?"

Russell dragged a chair, sat next to Anton, stared at the glass for a long time, and then said: "I heard that you are studying advanced philosophical issues... I also want to hear your opinions."

Anton was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "I can't talk about a high opinion, but I am indeed stuck in a confusing problem. I am struggling."

Russell froze for a moment, beginning to agree with Eriksson: Anton... was really not quite right.

Since he knew Anton, he felt that Anton was different: it seemed that everything was under his control, and there was nothing in the world that could defeat him.But who would have thought that words such as "confused" and "struggling" could come out of Anton's mouth.

Russell dragged the chair in a bit, sat closer to Anton, and tried to use the most elegant words, saying to Anton: "I would like to hear more about it!"

Anton paused, and decided to open up to Russell. He took out his phone from his pocket, clicked on a certain homepage, and opened a video.

Russell saw a floor full of glass cups densely packed, filled with water, and the water surface in all the cups was vibrating rhythmically.

"This is..." Russell felt that the scene was so familiar, "Which singer's MV?"

His wife seemed to like this singer very much. For a while, the family played this song on a loop all day long, "Rolling in the deep...", which made Russell feel like he had done something sorry for his wife.

"Yes, a part of Ms. Adele's MV...I was just wondering why the water in these cups vibrate..." Anton said intently.

Russell was overwhelmed by the shock, and thought to himself: Sure enough, as Eriksson said, what Anton studies is really "advanced".

But thanks to his wife, Russell actually knew the answer: "In this MV of Miss Adele, these water glasses are all upstairs, and there is a drummer playing drums downstairs..." Probably the drummer kept beating , the vibration is transmitted to the second floor, and all the glasses placed on the second floor will vibrate together.

Anton nodded: "Yes, this is an answer. But I was thinking, if the water surface in the glass shakes, it means that there must be an external force that has affected the state of the glass of water, but if the external force is not our space What will happen to the external forces inside..."

Russell's mouth was half open, but he couldn't close it at all.

This question is too profound!

"In other words, if the world we live in is a virtual world, what we see, hear, everything that happens around us, and everything that our senses perceive are virtual rather than real..."

Poor Russell had no choice but to interrupt. He asked Anton pitifully at this moment: "You mean, we are actually dreaming?"

A smile appeared on Anton's lips, and he nodded politely: "Yes, so to speak, assuming we are all dreaming!"

"When we were dreaming, we found that the water surface in the water glass vibrated by itself without any external force... Can we think that there is another real world outside the world, and all the abnormalities in our cognition are all Influences from the real world?"

"Take that MV as an example. What if the scope of our cognition is limited to upstairs, but the drummer who is playing the drum kit downstairs is beyond our cognition at all?"

"Wait a minute..." Russell tried to make the last struggle.

"You mean we all dream, but none of us know we're dreaming?"

"The question you asked depends on whether you are a pessimist or an optimist." Anton answered steadily, not at all like a dreamer should be.

"A pessimist will think that we are in a dream and cannot see the reality around us; an optimist will think that we are awake and that part of the world that we cannot explain applies to dreams."

"Then Anton, you..." Russell thought to himself: He should have to disarm and surrender at this point.

"I'm an objectivist," Anton said quietly. "Dreamers don't know they're dreaming. It's as likely that the world around you is false as it is real. ①"

"So you'll keep thinking about this question until you find out the answer, won't you?" Russell was not so much asking, but rather begging in his voice.

"Yes!" Anton stared at this partner, but Russell was not in his eyes, and his thoughts flew back to the day when he returned to the house in South Kensington, London.

The person who sent the message to Anton was Professor Friedrich. After receiving the notification from the nurse, he knew that Anton's game was about to end, so he quickly sent a text message to Anton to report the good news, and then rushed to the South Kensington went to see his newly awakened patient, Bernard.

By the time Anton arrived in London, Professor Friedrich had completed all the physical examinations on Bernard and officially announced that Bernard was in complete health and everything was fine.

So when Anton opened the door and saw Bernard, whom he had been thinking about for a long time, Bernard was wearing a hospital gown, sitting on the sickbed, sipping an apple.

When Anton came in from the door, the eyes of the two brothers met. Anton felt as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer in his heart. He didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow.

After all these years, it was the first time that he saw Bernard sitting up so vividly in front of him, but Anton suddenly felt a little intimidated.

Bernard raised his eyes and looked at him so sharply that it made people feel very strange.

But thinking about it again, he found it very unusual: the brothers hadn't "meeted" each other for at least three years. During these three years, Bernard's consciousness hadn't disappeared, in fact, it had always been there.

In three years, people will change in reality. Now that he sees Bernard, naturally he shouldn't still treat him as the Bernard he remembers.

So this reunion after a long absence was like meeting for the first time. Anton looked at Bernard who was sitting up and nibbling an apple with lively eyes in front of him, and was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Bernard looked at Anton and smiled, nodding his head and saying hello: "Anton!"

This is the habit of their brothers for many years, and everyone calls them by their first names.

Only then did Anton feel a little more relaxed. He walked to the side of Bernard's sickbed, sat on a chair pushed by the nurse, leaned forward slightly, looked into Bernard's eyes, and asked softly: "... ...You finally, are you back?"

"Well," Bernard nodded and continued to gnaw on his apple, "Thanks to your friend, I completed this challenge. The result of the challenge triggered a program I set in advance, which just allowed me to solve the last part of the 'Life Module'." Difficulty. I finished building the whole simulator, so I can come back naturally."

Bernard's series of answers perfectly answered all of Anton's questions, which made Anton breathe a sigh of relief.

Anton lowered his head, thought for a while and said, "That's a good relationship, can I stop wearing these glasses in the future?"

Bernard looked up at Anton, paused for more than a second, and suddenly grinned.He said, "Yes, no need, that's the best."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Anton felt that there was something in his younger brother's eyes, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

The author has something to say: ① This sentence comes from "The Banquet of Painted Buddha" by Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Anton encounters a "philosophical problem" here, which is actually the virtual world and the real world, which one is real.But as a person who can always maintain rationality, the first judgment he makes should be: A is possible, B is also possible, and the probability of A and B appearing is the same, so we cannot believe A hastily, nor can Completely deny A and believe B instead.