The Fallacy of the Cycle of Cause and Effect

"I'd been waiting for you to ask that question. You really knew how to keep your composure." Hu Menghao's smile carried a strange sense of relief that Chu Han could not understand. "If I hadn't noticed something unusual in your microexpressions from the start, you might actually have fooled me into thinking you didn't care about your parents at all."

That strange feeling welled up in Chu Han again. He increasingly felt that the Hu Menghao before him was so extreme that his mind had become twisted!

"Please speak more plainly." Chu Han understood the emotion behind Hu Menghao's words without needing to think about it; it was far too obvious. "My parents are only connected to me. Why do you care so much?"

"Because I've studied philosophy in depth." Hu Menghao seemed to be answering a different question, but he did not test Chu Han's patience any further before explaining, "We humans—or rather, all life in this world—actually follow certain laws, or perhaps fixed trajectories. Like how the Earth revolves around the Sun, and the Moon revolves around the Earth."

"You're telling me this is philosophy?! And what does it have to do with what I asked?" Chu Han was utterly dumbfounded. Even talking nonsense had limits!

"Chu Han, you're too busy. So busy that you have no time to stop and think." At that moment, Hu Menghao seemed utterly detached from his age, his gaze carrying a certain sacredness. "Haven't you noticed that every known formula and theory in this world has points of overlap, no matter how far apart their fields may be? Physics, chemistry, astronomy, history—everything, all of it! Could it be that when every category is refined to its deepest point, they all ultimately lead to one shared truth?"

Chu Han was completely stunned. What