未來的黑暗Darkness in the Future

雖然現在已經很黑暗了，但未來還會更黑暗，直到什麼也看不見，甚至無法看為止。

We know that it is very dark now, but it will be further darker in the future, until we cannot see anything, and cannot even see anymore.

為何咖啡店適合做工作？之遐思 Thinking about Why a Coffee Shop is Suitable for Doing Works

在辦公室，會有拘謹之感，而不欲做工作。	At office, we may feel tension, and thus are unwilling to do works.
在家雖然自在，但會打開奇怪的東西而分神，無法做工作。	At home, we may feel free, but may also open strange things that distracts us, and thus cannot do works.
在咖啡店既自在，又不可打開奇怪的東西，以維持文青的形象，即可專心做工作，故甚適合。	At an coffee shop, we may feel free, as well as will not open strange things, in consideration of keeping our hipster appearance, and thus can concentrate on doing works. This is why a coffee shop is a suitable place.

新精神分裂生活法 Novel Schizophrenic Living

吾之心性進化以至於此刻有悲傷之事而悲傷之，次刻有喜樂之事而喜樂之。反之亦然。	My mind has evolved into a way that I can be sad when there is sadness at this moment, while can become happy when there is happiness at the next moment. Vice versa.
使此刻之悲傷與次刻之喜樂，一分為二，截然獨立，毫不混同。	The sadness at this moment and the happiness at the next moment are separated into two independent feelings and will not interfere each other.
否則悲傷之多淹沒喜樂之少，如何生活？	Otherwise, how can I live in such a world that sadness always overwhelms happiness?

邏輯之盡頭 The Epilogue of Logic

願一切事物皆有邏輯可循，而不可得。	I ever hoped that everything follows logic, but I realized that it is impossible.
乃願自己一切事物皆有邏輯可循。	So now, I just hope that my everything follows logic.
其他無邏輯者，再不探究。	I will no more even try to understand those non-logical things.

探索後設猜想的最終目的 Discovering the Ultimate Goal of the Metahypotheses

《後設猜想》的條文描述的是永恆不變的真理。不過，追求永恆不變的真理，並不是後設猜想的最終目的。而是使我們在履行後設猜想時，獲得主觀上永恆不變。直到有朝一日，客觀上持續變化終於壓垮主觀上永恆不變為止。

The articles of the Metahypotheses describe eternal truths. However, the pursuit of the eternal truths is not the ultimate goal of of the Metahypotheses. It instead allows us to obtain subjectively eternal unchange when executing the Metahypotheses. It will lose its effect when one day, the objectively continuous change finally overwhelms the subjectively eternal unchange.

共在之假象 Illusion of Compresence

天下無不散之筵席，古有俗諺。	No party last forever, said the ancients.
惟因網路，雖筵席散去，賓客尚有共在之假象。主人無意識悲離之事實，獨處原地，舉杯於無聲之幻影。益顯落寞。	However, the Internet makes an illusion where even though the party is over, it seems that the guests are still compresent there. The host does not realize the fact of the sorrow parting, staying alone in the party place, toasting to the silent phantoms. What a loneliest scene.

職業之異化 Alienation of Career

已確知材料之來源亦已確知成品之去向者，為無異化。	A worker is doing a non-alienated work if he knows everything about the source of the material and the destination of the product.
不確知材料之來源或不確知成品之去向者，為小異化。	A worker is doing a slightly alienated work if he does not know everything about the source of the material and the destination of the product.
確不知材料之來源亦確不知成品之去向者，為大異化。	A worker is doing a seriously alienated work if he knows nothing about the source of the material and the destination of the product.

存在性證明之悲哀The Sorrow of the Existence Proof

斯時，未經驗即見屆時之貌，則未知之趣當下消滅，而經驗之樂自始不生。祇有得證之喜剎現於飛秒之間，聊以寬心。

The existence proof refers to the case where you have already seen the future at the present without experiencing the process of life. In that case, the fun of unknown disappears at the time, and the delight of experience never appears from the beginning. Anyway, you may find the sudden pleasure in femtoseconds when the proof is done, as your only comfort.

最小純淨後設構造 Least Pure Metastructure

後設構造之淨化，即使後設收斂為無後設，則當然至空集合。	The purification of metastructure is to make the meta converge to the meta of void, then of course, to the empty set.
惟空集合之確立，須蒐集一切共性，而排除一切共性，乃需二後設層。	However, to construct the empty set, we must collect all common properties, and then exclude all the common properties, so we need two metalayers.

人是機械 Man a Machine

極其顯然，人的肉體是機械。所謂「機械」，是由多個元件組成的構造，並具有功能。所謂「功能」，是用於將輸入轉變成輸出。	Trivially, a human body is a machine. The so-called "machine" is a structure composed of multiple components and has a function. The so-called "function" is used to convert an input into an output.
那麼，人的精神呢？人的精神只是由電子來傳遞的神經訊號而已。至於「記憶」，則是神經訊號在大腦皮質的刻劃而成的皺褶。這些，毫無疑問，都屬於機械。所以，人的精神也是機械。	What about a human spirit? The human spirit merely comes from neural signals carried by electrons. As for "memory", it comes from folds in a cerebral cortex written by neural signals. These belong to mechanics, of course. Hence, the human spirit is also a machine.
是故，人與機械確實毫無區別。人就是機械。	Therefore, there is actually no difference between a human and a machine. A man is exactly a machine.
這點，只需要坦然接受，既不需要任何懷疑，也不需要任何討論。無法接受的人，是因認知錯誤，或勇氣不足所致。	All we need is to accept this conclusion immediately. We do not need any doubt or any discussion about it. While, some people just cannot accept this conclusion, because they have incorrect knowledge or they do not have enough courage.
不過，我們可說：「人是比較特別的機械」，來獲得一絲絲的慰藉，並恢復一點點的自信。	However, we can say: "man is a special machine", to get a little comfort and to restore a few confidence.
申言之，並不是外觀上長得像人的傢伙就一定是人，還必須觀察它有無具備人的核心功能。它如果欠缺人的核心功能，就只是普通機械而已，也就是「物」。	Accordingly, even if someone looks like a human, he is still possibly not a human. We must observe whether the one has the human's core function. If he lacks the human's core function, he is merely a ordinary machine, that is, a "thing".
為了積極保障人權，什麼是「人」，什麼是「物」，必須區分清楚，以免人權發生濫用。	In order to improve human rights protection, we must clearly distinguish "things" from "humans". Otherwise, human rights may be open to abuse.

文本誕生之前提 The Precondition of the Birth of the Text

作者在世時，文本即未誕生。凡遇文章疑義，皆須一一請示作者，殊不可濫自解讀。	When the author is still alive, the text has not been born. When we find any doubt in the article, we shall ask the author for his authoritative explanation, but shall not explain it at our will.
由文章尚可衍生自身之體悟，惟不可偷渡為作者所說。	We may derive our own comprehension from the article, but we shall not pretend that it is the author's opinion.
作者肉身亡滅之際，因事實上無從請示，始不可抗文本誕生，甚為遺憾。	At the time of the author's physical death, since we can no more ask him ipso facto, the text is then irresistibly born, and the birth of the text is very regrettable.

三級意向測試 Third-Order Cognition Test

心智未達三級意向者，因不足以實現康德之定言令式，不視為人。	The one whose mind is incapable of third-order cognition shall not be deemed a human, because it cannot realize Kant's categorical imperative.
三級意向測試，納入〈圖靈測試組〉。	Third-order cognition test is included in the Set of Turning Test.

世界非宇宙 The World Not the Universe

世界，非由眾人，不可構成。	The world must be constituted by people.
宇宙，雖無一人，亦可構成。	The universe may be constituted without a person.

小世界 Small World

人活在他的主觀上小世界中，是指他所承認的世界小於他所認知的世界。	A person is living in his subjectively small world means that the world he admits is smaller than the world he knows.
人活在他的客觀上小世界中，是指他所認知的世界小於他所承認的世界。	A person is living in his objectively small world means that the world he knows is smaller than the world he admits.
另外，人不可能認知全世界，故不必討論這個例子。	In addition, a person is impossible to know the whole world, so we do not have to discuss this case.

自由意志為真類 Free Wills Forming a Proper Class

倘一人存其自由意志以求廢其自由意志，則其自由意志之存廢已發生後設矛盾。	If one person possesses his free will to abandon his free will, a meta contradiction occurs for the present state of his free will.
是故，自由意志為真類，屬於不可觀察宇宙。	Hence, free wills forms a proper class, which belongs to the unobservable universe.

認知活著的能力的邊界條件 Boundary Condition for Ability to Recognize Living

嬰兒，於初生之際，因智力未成熟而無法認知活著。	An infant, at the time of his birth, is unable to recognize his living because his intelligence has not been developed.
老人，於因智力已退化而無法認知活著之際，臨死。	An old man, at the time when he is unable to recognize his living because his intelligence have been degraded, is about to die.
活著的認知，屬於後設認知。	The cognition of living is a metacognition.

聖人之孤獨 Solitude of Sage

聖人包括純正奇點。	A sage includes a genuine singularity.
聖人超越哥德爾界限之部分，當然不可觀察。	A part of a sage beyond Godel's boundary is unobservable, of course.
在圍繞聖人之哥德爾界限處，無向內資訊通量，但有向外資訊通量。	On Godel's boundary around a sage, there is no inward information flow, but there is outward information flow.

後設人類機械論 Meta-anthropic Mechanism

起初，他覺得自己是人類，他擁有人性。	At first, he feels that he is a human, and he has humanity.
接著，他覺得人類是機械，他失去人性。	Then, he feels that a human is a machine, and he loses humanity.
最後，他覺得自己是機械，他揣摩人性，已知人性即為函數。	Finally, he feels that he is a machine, and he tries to understand humanity, and knows that humanity is exactly a function.
此即《後設人類機械論》辯證過程。	This is the dialectical process of the Meta-anthropic Mechanism.

高後設層者之願 Wish of One on the Higher Metalayer

於高後設層上，獨攬下景，併見美醜，已知舉措。	One stands on the higher metalayer, overlooking the lower landscape, where beautiful things and ugly things are both lying there, and he knows how to handle them.
欲眾人皆登高至此，乃物理上不可得。雖然，不失其願。	He wishes that everyone can climb onto this layer, but it is physically impossible. Even so, he still believe in it.

Staying Unchanged

我討厭改變。	I hate change.
有人期待改變，因為他期待由壞變好。	Some people want change because they want getting good from bad.
而我和身邊的一切已臻於完好，不需要改變。	While, everything around me and myself have been wonderful yet and need not change.
可是，他們改變了。	However, they changed.
所以，我勉強改變。	So I changed, unwillingly.