Text Chapter 1662 Spirit Net Becomes Essence

On the way back, in the shuttle car, Li Yao kept frowning, thoughtful.

He was certainly delighted with the vastness and infinite possibilities of "Civilization", but when the initial excitement gradually faded, another unexplainable emotion surfaced in his heart.

That may be the inborn fear of human beings... the unknown.

It's like the inexplicable fear that the first human beings felt when they looked up at the starry sky and realized the vastness of the "universe" itself for the first time.

Ling Xiaole saw Li Yao's expression in the rearview mirror, and smiled "puchi": "Why, are you worried about becoming a spirit?"

Li Yao was slightly taken aback. The words "spiritual network becomes fine" were cleverly used, and he couldn't help blurting out, "How do you know?"

"Because of Crystal, Sea of ​​Trees, Nether and Sky Ring, when the four New Territories join the Federation, their best experts and powerhouses will all come to the Federation for visits and investigations. I am worried that the spirit network will become fine!"

Ling Xiaole shrugged and said, "It seems that any human civilization with a crystal brain has the same legends and fears, fearing that the crystal brain will become more and more developed, and the computing power and deduction ability will gradually surpass humans. It will become a spirit, and in turn control and destroy human beings."

Li Yao: "Shouldn't we be worried?"

Ling Xiaole: "I don't know whether I should be worried or not, but someone has raised the same concern a long time ago. I have a video here. It was about sixty or seventy years ago, two experts were in Tianhuan Academy. The pros and cons of the Internet' was a fierce confrontation, in which Professor Mo Xuan, who was at the helm of the "Civilization" game at that time, supported the unification of the spiritual network, while the opponent was Professor Xie Wufeng, who was the vice president of Tianhuan Academy at the time."

Li Yao: "Wait, Professor Xie Wufeng, isn't he the current leader of Civilization?"

Ling Xiaole: "That's right, Professor Xie was originally a staunch vigilant of the spiritual network of the Great Unification. He had fierce confrontations with Professor Mo Xuan about the spiritual network and the future of mankind many times, but he was finally persuaded by Professor Mo Xuan and joined Professor Mo Xuan's team. The team has even become the successor of Professor Mo Xuan, your doubts and concerns may be answered in this confrontation between the two."

Ling Xiaole sent the video to Li Yao's wrist crystal computer.

One of the "Nine National Congresses of the Federation", the crowded auditorium of Tianhuan Academy appeared on the screen.

Numerous energetic young people set off a passionate atmosphere in the auditorium.

Li Yao's old friend, Professor Mo Xuan, and another younger scholar were surrounded by many students, sitting opposite each other, and the two sides were at each other's throats.

Contrary to Li Yao's expectation, Professor Mo Xuan did not get into a spiritual mechanical prosthetic body as usual, showing people in the form of an ordinary ghost cultivator, but generously appeared in the true face of "liquid metal", with "limbs and limbs" " and "head" are not simulated, just a big silver ball.

This posture made him look sharp and aggressive.

Xie Wufeng: "...to this day, the giant spirit net has controlled everything about us, food, accommodation, work, entertainment, transportation, shopping, everything depends on the spirit net, all data is collected and stored by the spirit net, Once the spirit net is lost, our seemingly prosperous civilization will collapse in an instant, and this state of life hanging by a thread is really too unstable and too creepy!"

Professor Mo Xuan: "The history of the development of human civilization is the process of continuous 'networking'. In the ancient cultivator era 40,000 years ago, ancient monks who built a cave in the deep mountains and old forests could be self-sufficient and practiced in seclusion for decades. , Their living conditions are of course more 'stable' than modern monks who highly rely on social division of labor, developed spiritual network, and resource circulation network. Naturally, it is also more 'stable' than the modern chainsaw sword composed of hundreds or thousands of components, and is less prone to failure, but what's the point of these two kinds of 'stability'?

"On a certain level, the Great Unification Spiritual Network is indeed very unstable, very fragile, and easily attacked by the enemy, but it is not perfected and developed because it is afraid of being attacked by the enemy? What's the difference?"

Silver-white ripples appeared on the surface of Professor Mo Xuan's liquid metal body, and the voice came from the center of the ripples.

This made him look not like a human being at all, but more like a representative of some... alien civilization.

Xie Wufeng: "Professor Mo, don't make detours, you know very well that what we are really worried about is not the attack of the 'enemy', but the 'Great Unified Spiritual Network' itself.

"Of course, there are various ways to defend and crack the enemy's attack. No matter how developed and evil our current enemy is, they are at least human beings with the same brain as us, and they will not exceed what we can imagine. The limit is something that can be overcome, or at least understood.

"But if there is a problem with the unified spiritual network itself, in the near future, because the computing power is too inflated, beyond the critical point, the spiritual network itself will awaken the soul, just like..."

Professor Mo Xuan said coldly: "Spirit net becomes a spirit?"

The students in the audience roared with laughter.

Xie Wufeng was expressionless and did not back down: "Yes, that's what I mean, if we really get deeper and deeper in the spiritual net, let our civilization be completely entangled with the spiritual net, completely based on the developed spiritual net. Based on the basics, and one day, the spiritual network will become a spirit, and have self-awareness, what should I do?"

The surface of Professor Mo Xuan's body continued to be rippling with silvery ripples: "Today we started this discussion about the 'unified spiritual network and the future of mankind' at Tianhuan Academy, which is the most famous Supreme People's Mansion in the Federation. , a veritable gathering of humanities, a place where literary style flourishes, I know that most of the students present here are liberal arts majors, and there may be many lovers of novels who are naturally romantic and full of fantasy, and you have often read them or even written them yourself. Have you ever heard a story about 'spiritual net becoming a spirit, crystal brain rebellion, enslavement and destruction of human beings', do you have such a classmate, students who have read and written such content, please raise your hand?"

The audience roared with laughter again, and almost all college students raised their hands.

There was a smile in Professor Mo Xuan's voice: "It seems that everyone has the same worries and doubts as you, Dean Xie."

Xie Wufeng frowned slightly: "This may be common to all human beings, an instinctive warning of unknown dangers."

Professor Mo Xuan continued: "I understand the worries and even fears of the students. In fact, since the birth of the 'crystal brain', a magic weapon specially used for 'calculation and thinking', human beings have never been afraid of crystal brains. Stopped, even a long time ago, when the crystal brain was just born and could only be used to perform four arithmetic operations, this fear was born, and countless literary and artistic works with the theme of "crystal brain enslaving human beings" were born.

"Flying swords and war knives are extensions of our limbs; battle armor and spiritual shields are extensions of our bones; as for crystal brains, they are extensions of our brains.

"But we often regard the 'brain' as the most important organ of the human body, even the human being itself! Therefore, no one is worried that one day, the 'Flying Sword' will launch a rebellion and replace the hands and feet of humans; but almost everyone is afraid of being killed by the crystal brain Replacing the brain Even when the spiritual mechanical prosthesis is so developed and the human soul can live in the crystal brain today, this fear has not been eliminated, but has intensified."

Xie Wufeng said: "This just proves the rationality of this fear and doubt."

Professor Mo Xuan said: "The romance of a liberal arts student is one thing, and the wild fantasy of a novelist is another, but in the real world, the birth of a 'new life form' is another.

"To be honest, I want to become an 'evil crystal brain expert' in a novel, sneaking around in the dark to create a brand new virtual life form, but it's a pity that I can't create it!"

The audience laughed again, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.

Professor Mo Xuan continued to sigh with emotion: "The birth of life is so mysterious that no one can fully explain what the 'soul' or 'self-awareness' are and where they come from.

"Professor Xie, you just said that the computing power of crystal brain is getting higher and higher, it is possible to trigger a certain 'critical state', and finally break through the limit and develop self-awareness?

"But in fact, spirit, self-awareness and computing power, it can be said that they have nothing to do with each other at all!

"Among the tens of billions of people in the Star Federation, 99.99% of them have less computing power than an ordinary 'Dawn-4' that only sells for 12,500 star coins in the Magic Treasure Mall. type' crystal brain, and if it is the master control crystal brain of the "Phantom Dragon-7" used on our heavy warships, even ninety-nine percent of Nascent Soul cultivators are far inferior to it in terms of instantaneous spiritual limit calculations opponent.

"However, the 'Phantom Dragon-7' main control crystal brain, which is more powerful than the 'Yuanying Old Monster', has not produced self-awareness, and the 'Dawn-4' ordinary crystal brain has even less self-consciousness.

"But hundreds of millions of ordinary people whose computing power is only a few tenths or even a few hundredths of them, all have self-awareness.

"Even those mentally handicapped children with genetic defects and congenital stupidity have only a few hundredths of the lowest-level crystal brain, and they can't even do addition and subtraction within ten, but they also have self-awareness and precious 'Spirit'!

"What I want to say is, have you seriously thought about the relationship between computing power and self-awareness? Is it true that the higher the computing power, the more self-awareness will be produced? If so, then what you are afraid of, 'Lingwang The brand-new virtual life form after becoming a spirit should have been born 800 years earlier, no, it is not 800 years, but 10,000 years, because 10,000 years ago in the era of the Star Sea Empire, it had a computing power far greater than that of human beings. A hundred times more powerful crystal brain!" (To be continued.)