讲义：幻造种演化假说选 Lecture Notes: Hypothesis on Imagenae Evolution (Excerpt)

某学者讲座的随堂讲义。 Lecture notes from a scholar's presentation.

你问我为什么会想到研究幻造种？这要从我问候同桌的噗噜祖宗十八代那件事说起。

You ask why I got into studying imagenae? It all started when I cursed out generations of my ploo deskmate's ancestors.

——汽水博士

— Dr. Soda

《关于幻造种的形成与演化假说》，这是我在受邀重回绘世学院时，第一个想到的讲座选题。这是我小学三年级的假期作文，从那以后，我便与科学结下了不解之缘。由于烬土纪元的动荡，幻造种演化的历史已无从考据，但基于神话传说，以及幻造种的生理构造，我们仍能一窥它们古老的秘密。

On the Formation and Evolution Hypothesis of Imagenae, this was the first lecture topic that came to mind when I was invited back to Graphia Academy. It was my third-grade summer essay, and since then, I've formed an inseparable bond with science. Due to the turmoil of the Cindearth Age and the Canvas Age, the evolutionary history of imagenae has been lost to time, but based on mythology and the physiological structure of imagenae, we can still glimpse into their ancient secrets.

元胞自动机说

The Cellular Automaton Hypothesis

在博识学会内部，元胞自动机说是公认的主流假说。在绘世还未创造出幻造种的时代，每逢幻月满盈，二相乐园的万事万物都会获得生命，在幻月游戏期间与众人共赴狂欢。

Within the Intelligentsia Guild, cellular automaton is the mainstream hypothesis. In the era before Graphia created imagenae, everything in Planarcadia would gain life whenever the Phantasmoon was full, joining the revelry during the Phantasmoon Games.

在这期间，幻月激发人类的「愿力」，严格地说——被欢愉命途驱动的能量，渗透进了周边的物质，而「愿力」自带的原动力，又为离散或聚合的物质提供了行为模式。在能量、物质、行为模式三要素的驱动下，产生了有规律的生命机器，也即「妖怪」。

During this period, Phantasmoon will trigger humanity's "Wishpower," which, strictly speaking, is the energy driven by the Path of Elation. This energy permeates into surrounding substance. The inherent primary drive within Wishpower then supplies behavioral templates to this substance, whether discrete or aggregated. Here, from the triad of energy, substance, and behavioral patterns, regulated living machines thus emerge, known as "strangelings."

从花草树木到彩电冰箱，任何获得愿力的物质都可能活过来。它们缺乏足够的智慧，依靠本能聚集，并在达到阈值后溃散，犹如现代的尘灵。因此，它们往往停留在生命的初级阶段，由简单，到复杂，最终溃散回简单的行为模式。

From plants to appliances, any substance infused with Wishpower can come alive. Lacking sufficient intelligence, they gather by instinct and disperse once reaching a threshold, much like modern wispae. Therefore, they tend to remain in primitive life phases, cycling from simplicity to complexity before collapsing back into elementary patterns.

直到绘世发明了幻造技术，克服了自然生成幻造种时，难以形成复杂结构的难题。人为绘制形体，赋予故事文脉，为幻造种提供了足够坚实的骨骼，以支撑大量的物质以及能量。复杂的行为模式与骨骼，又为智慧的形成提供了土壤，最终孕育出了现代意义上的幻造种。

It is not until Graphia invents imagenetic technology that the conundrum of forming complex structures in natural imagenae is overcome. By artificially designing their forms and imbuing them with narrative pulse, these imagenae are given a robust skeleton capable of supporting vast amounts of substance and energy. These complex behavioral patterns and skeletons, in turn, create the necessary conditions for intelligence to emerge, ultimately giving birth to the imagenae as we know them today.

魂骨肉说

Spirit-Bone-Flesh Hypothesis

魂骨肉，是带有悲悼伶人特色的一种解释。它与上一假说有诸多相似之处，但自然界的混沌效应，在其中起到了更大的作用。

The Spirit-Bone-Flesh Hypothesis offers a distinctly Mourning Actor perspective. While it shares many commonalities with the previous theory, the chaos effect of nature plays a much more significant role in it.

该假说认为，凡智慧生命，都由魂、骨、肉三部分组成。魂是意识、是能量，是充斥在二相乐园的「愿力」。骨是脉络，是万事万物的本质，存在的概念本身。肉是是血肉，是轮廓，是承载生命的物质和表相皮囊。三个部分，都能在自然界中独立存在，并独立诞生。

This hypothesis posits that all sentient life is composed of three components: spirit, bone, and flesh. The spirit is consciousness, energy, the Wishpower that permeates Planarcadia. Bone is the framework, the essence of all things, the concept of existence itself. Flesh is blood and tissue, the outline, the physical vessel and outer appearance that carries life. These three parts can arise and persist independently within the natural world.

蛮荒时代的二相乐园，就像一个巨大的混沌汤，人类的到来，和幻月的升起，为其提供充足的刺激。在种种事物的刺激下，物质从无意识向有意识变化，并最终因自然选择停留在某个稳定的形态。幻造种获得智慧是必然的发展结果，绘世所做的，只是发现了能复现幻造种形成的手段而已。

The ancient Planarcadia was like a massive primordial soup. Human arrival and the rise of Phantasmoon combined as ample stimulation, along with various spurs, causing substances to evolve from the unconscious to consciousness, with stable forms eventually settling out through natural selection. For the imagenae to gain intelligence was all but inevitable, so all Graphia did was uncover the means to replicate their formation process.

神之蛋糕说

The Cake of God Hypothesis

结构主义烘焙学派主张，基于遗失的《超银河烘焙大全》残卷记载，幻造种的雏形，源于阿哈在寰宇蝗灾时期被众星神追杀，饥饿至极时烘焙的蛋糕。

The Structuralist Baking School claims that, based on fragments of the lost The Ultra-Cosmic Baking Compendium, the prototype of imagenae originated from a cake baked by Aha when THEY were starving while being hunted by other Aeons during the Swarm Disaster.

祂用一块神战留下的残骸（推测来自繁育和某位星神互相扯头发时留下的生物质）作为鸡蛋，以从「世界尽头」偷来的糖为调料，最后顺手摘了片药师的叶子替代面粉，制作出了完美的神之蛋糕。（注：有学者认为，此为药师早在蝗灾时期就已存在的证据。但烘焙学派内普遍主张，此处更可能是文本误传所致，并致力于复原真正的「面粉」。）

THEY used debris from a divine battle (presumably biomatter left behind when the Propagation and another Aeon pulled each other's hair) as eggs, sugar stolen from the "World's End" as seasoning, and finally plucked a leaf from Yaoshi to replace flour, creating the perfect Cake of God. (Note: Some scholars see this as proof of Yaoshi's existence during the Swarm Disaster, but the Baking School generally maintains this is a textual error and is dedicated to restoring the true "flour.")

往后的许多年，阿哈都对当时的味道无比怀念，祂找来各种食材，尝试复现宇宙第一的蛋糕。这些材料像克里珀身旁的筑材越堆越多，最终砌成了二相乐园。祂制作了巨型的烤箱，为蛋糕加热，这一工具被后人称为——幻月。据说，阿哈的垂泪，便是在成功用一杯汽油、两个种族和三首打油诗重新制造出神之蛋糕时，喜极而泣流下的。

For many years after, Aha missed that flavor dearly. THEY sought various ingredients to recreate the universe's best cake. These materials piled up like construction materials beside Qlipoth, eventually forming Planarcadia. THEY built a giant oven to heat the cake, a tool later known as the Phantasmoon. It is said that Aha's tears of joy fell when THEY successfully remade the Cake of God using a cup of gasoline, two races, and three limericks.

后来，无数的厨师聚集在这里，向阿哈学艺。在上千年后，终于有一位烘焙大师参照神迹，用泥土、墨水和故事仿制出神之蛋糕，她将它们唤做幻造种。而她的名字，便是绘世。

In time, countless chefs gathered here to learn from Aha. Millennia later, a master baker finally recreated the Cake of God using soil, ink, and stories based on the Miracle. Thus did she name them "imagenae." And her name was Graphia.