Chapter 673

【Therefore, the status quo naturally tends to maintain and protect the current state of affairs.】

【Yet the uncertainty required for the continuous development of humanity is inherently contradictory to this certainty, and thus, it is naturally intolerable to the status quo.】

【Social behavior between human individuals gives the status quo itself a universal and complex connotation, and human behavior itself has become a part of the status quo.】

【In other words, the status quo is an organism, and what constitutes it are numerous "cells"—"human individuals' cognition of the status quo."】

【According to "Emergence Theory," when simple basic units combine to form a complex system, the resulting complex system often possesses properties that the simple summation of the basic units does not have.】

【This is because some characteristics must rely on the interactions between basic units to be realized.】

【And the status quo, as a collection of human subjective cognition, is precisely such a complex system composed of basic units.】

【A common example of "Emergence Theory" is humanity itself; that is, humans are composed of cells, but the simple stacking of all the cells that make up a human individual does not possess all the properties of a human.】

【The simple accumulation of cells cannot complete complex thinking and movement, but humans can.】

【These new properties are realized precisely because of the synergistic operation between different cells; this is called "emergence."】

【Similar phenomena also exist in the concept of the status quo.】

【The complexity of the system causes the status quo, as a whole, to manifest connotations not present in any single individual's cognition of the status quo.】

【This point makes the status quo resemble a giant organism with autonomous consciousness, similar to Jung's expression of the concept of the collective unconscious.】

【In human society, there will always be human individuals who tend to break through the status quo, but when encountering major reforms or social decision-making issues, the overall atmosphere of human society often tends to be more conservative.】

【This is the manifestation of the "consciousness" of the status quo:】

【The status quo, and human society itself as the materialized carrier of the status quo, does not have a high degree of acceptance for uncertainty.】

【When human society itself does not realize the necessity of changing the status quo, this way of thinking, inherent in the collective unconscious, will always tend to protect the existing "status quo."】

【However, just as "Emergence Theory" predicted.】

【If we treat the "status quo" as an independent existence and think about this problem from the perspective of the "status quo."】

【We will find that this conservatism is, to a considerable extent, not the will of humanity—or rather, in fact, it is exactly the opposite.】

【The collective unconscious, existing as a whole, is something that no single human possesses; it is the emergent product of human thought.】

【It is the thought of the status quo—it is not that humans make the status quo stagnate, but that the status quo actively makes humans tend toward conservatism.】

【Or expressed as, the "status quo" is protecting itself; it does not wish to face uncertainty, nor does it wish to be replaced by the so-called "new status quo."】

【The research purpose of the "Emergence Project" is to study what in the status quo is weakening the uncertainty in the surrounding environment, while simultaneously suppressing human curiosity and the space for continued development.】

"Oh, I see now. In other words, the so-called 'status quo' is actually some kind of human collective unconscious, and it is humanity that has chosen the 'status quo' and conservatism?"

"But to be fair, isn't this just the stuff experts love to talk about? Like having the courage to step out of one's comfort zone..."

"Assuming the content is true, then human civilization should forever remain stagnant at the primitive civilization stage. Because any breakthrough is breaking the 'status quo.' How does the 'Emergence Project' explain this?"

"They don't seem to have explained it..."

……

On the light screen, the "Emergence Project" team gave their conclusion.

【Undoubtedly, this effect will make humanity content with the status quo, and the form of human civilization will no longer have any development, but this also means that the "status quo" will be maintained for a long time.】

【The research of the "Emergence Project" team finally concluded:】

【There is no anomaly hindering the development of human uncertainty.】

【Eliminating the uncertainty of human development is an inherent property of the status quo itself.】 ===== CHAPTER 675 =====