Chapter 1687 Self-Essence

Although the current tower spirit is quite different from what Sha Duo originally expected. It is not the kind of artificial intelligence he thought, but a copy of incomplete consciousness without self.

But he also discovered the superiority of this incomplete copy of consciousness compared to the caster's consciousness, that is, it is not afraid of trouble, and its response speed is very fast, which is basically the speed of subconscious thinking.

This has the potential to become a computer replacement.

In fact, people, that is, spell casters themselves, also have such potential, but normal human consciousness has various emotional interferences, coupled with the hierarchical organizational model of conscious and subconscious minds, many times the efficiency is not higher than that of pure subconscious. .

But if there is no expression of consciousness, it is likely to be like the twisted phantom that Sha Duo once saw, with almost transparent thinking and completely undefended.

The integration of latent and expressive consciousness that Chateau pursues is not to fuse the two into one, but to cover them with a self that can perceive itself.

In this way, he can obtain truly extraordinary characteristics that transcend the two. At that time, his consciousness will not lose the natural protection of the conscious mind, and at the same time, he will fully control the high-speed, precise, and multi-threaded thinking ability of his subconscious mind.

It may be difficult for ordinary spellcasters to develop the practical value of their subconscious mind, and they can only use it in disguised form through incomplete copies of their consciousness such as the tower spirit.

Of course, for Xia Duo, until he reaches a certain level of progress in integrating his subconscious mind and his subconscious mind, he can only use this method to make use of his subconscious mind.

The mental model he wants to find is actually an algorithm at the level of consciousness. The sum of all a person's mental models forms a personality.

Personality plus memory are undoubtedly the best expression of a person's self.

The "personality backup" that Chateau does every morning during meditation training can also be called "memory backup" or "self-backup".

The three seem to exist in one person at the same time, so they do not have very clear boundaries for this person.

At least Chateau is not able to determine the boundary between personality and memory very well now, because in his view, personality is the sum of all a person's mental models, which is gradually formed by the person through long-term training in cognitive processes.

The so-called "memory" is actually the sum of information before and after cognition. There is no doubt that it plays a vital role in the formation of personality, and is even an integral part of personality.

Personality without memory does not exist.

In the same way, memory separated from personality will also be discrete and empty.

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In the process of deleting and testing the underlying database of the "Spirit of Communication Artifact", Sha Duo gradually realized that the mental model he wanted to find would largely consist of key memory nodes.

Just like a person's temperament will change after experiencing some major life changes, this is the memory node affecting the mental model.

But unfortunately, after deleting the memory to the point where the "Qi Ling's" intelligence was mutilated and even affected the cognitive process, Xia Duo was unable to find any identifiable key memory node.

The incomplete intelligence of "Qi Ling" seems to be just due to the qualitative change after the memory is continuously deleted. The process is quite smooth, at least it cannot be analyzed by a few simple tests.

But Xia Duo does not doubt the existence of the node, but this node may not be what he thinks.

Of course, Xia Duo did not gain nothing at all. Although he failed to discover more special algorithms that point to the formation of intelligence, such as mental models, he also discovered many subconscious thinking patterns when processing information.

The latter can also be regarded as a mental model, but its role is more focused on thinking itself rather than forming intelligence.

In fact, for Chateau now, discovering subconscious thinking patterns may be more useful than finding mental models.

Because the thinking model is directly available, and the mental model, Xia Duo has not thought of where it can be used for a while.

After all, the threshold of "weapon spirit" intelligence has been passed the moment the [Intelligence Enlightenment Technique] is completed. Generally speaking, only research on strengthening intelligence is done, and reducing intelligence is really a bit against the trend.

However, exploring the starting point of intelligence will help to study the nature of consciousness and focus more on long-term considerations.

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In the laboratory.

Sha Duo once again angrily swept a bunch of mithril components that had dissipated into the recycling bin, then took a deep breath and began to pack away the damaged [Scroll of Enlightenment] with an expressionless face.

The cracking work continues until now. Compared with a few days ago, the progress cannot be said to be zero, but it is also very limited, and only the last two scrolls are left.

"If you want to let go, why bother making it so complicated!"

Although Xia Duo was accustomed to looking for the reasons within himself first, the fruitless cracking work still made him unable to help but complain about the Seven Towers.

Obviously, even if the Seven Towers hope to earn gold coins or other benefits by carrying the spiritual essence of the tower spirit, they still set a very high cracking threshold for something like the [Scroll of Enlightenment] that is almost destined to be cracked if it is released.

Yes, even if it is destined to be cracked, so what? Do you want to give it for free?

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After gathering his emotions, Sha Duo began to check the latest test report submitted by Kent. Since the last test, the "Spirit of Communication Artifact" has been almost destroyed. He doesn't know what the result will be this time. .

The test process was skipped. As before, Xia Duo turned to the end to see the results - the test target was slow to respond to the test and had serious memory errors, cognitive biases, and logical fallacies.

Looking at the analysis process again, after these days of testing, Kent and others have also grown a lot. The analysis process is combined with the testing process, and almost every step is analyzed.

Xia Duo took a rough look at it and decided to suspend the exploration of mental models and instead study subconscious thinking patterns. It just so happened that the "Spirit of Communication Artifact" that had been played out could also exert its last remaining heat.

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After giving the Kent team 1,000 academy points, Shado ended the mission and took back the communication weapon.

Although the "Qi Ling" as an intelligence has now been destroyed, some of the thought patterns that have been discovered have not been affected much. Instead, they have become purer, which is conducive to the next step of research.

In the laboratory, Xia Duo looked at the communication magic weapon whose spiritual light had not changed much compared to before, and knew that the damage to the magic weapon's spirit would not have much impact on the magic weapon itself.

Then, he continued to delete memories. Unlike the previous memories where he only deleted sensitive information and cognitive processes, this time he also deleted a large number of post-cognition memories.

Retaining only the part related to a specific thinking mode is equivalent to strengthening that part of the thinking mode. Of course, "highlighting" may be more appropriate here.