Chapter 1671: Spiritual net becomes fine (2/2)
”The enemy’s attacks can of course be defended and cracked by various methods. No matter how developed and evil our current enemies are, they are at least human beings, and they all have the same brain as ours, and they will not surpass what we can imagine. The limit can be overcome, at least it can be understood.
”But if there is a problem with the Great Unification Spirit Web itself, in the near future, because the computing power is too expanded and beyond the critical point, the Spirit Web itself awakens the soul, like...”
Professor Mo Xuan said coldly: ”The spirit net becomes a fine?”
The students in the audience roared with laughter.
Xie Wufeng was expressionless and did not back down: ”Yes, that's what I meant. If we really sink deeper and deeper in the spiritual web, let our civilization be completely entangled with the spiritual web, and build on the well-developed spiritual web. On top of the foundation, and one day, when the ling net becomes refined and self-aware, what should I do?”
Professor Mo Xuan’s body continued to ripple with silver light: “We are starting this discussion about the'Great Unification Spirit Net and the Future of Mankind' in the Tianhua Academy today, and the Tianhua Academy is the most famous and highest humanities institution in the Federation. , A veritable gathering of humanities, a place where the style of writing flourishes, I know that most of the students here are majors in liberal arts, maybe there are many novel lovers with a lot of life and fantasy, and you often have read them, even I have personally written a story about'the spirit net becomes a spirit, the crystal brain rebels, and the enslavement and destruction of mankind'. Is there any such classmate? Classmates who have read and written this kind of content, please raise your hand?”
The audience burst into laughter again, and almost all college students raised their hands.
Professor Mo Xuan's voice contained a smile: ”It seems that everyone has the same worries and doubts as Dean Xie.”
Xie Wufeng frowned slightly: ”This may be shared by mankind, an instinctive warning of unknown danger.”
Professor Mo Xuan continued: ”I understand the worries and even fears of the classmates. In fact, since the birth of the magic weapon dedicated to ”calculation and thinking”, the crystal brain has never been feared by humans. It 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 works with the motif of ”the crystal brain enslaves humans” were born.
”Flying swords and war knives are extensions of our limbs; battle armor and psychic 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 human beings themselves! Therefore, no one is worried that one day, the'Flying Sword' will initiate a rebellion and replace human hands and feet; but almost everyone is afraid of being crystallized by the brain. Instead of the brain-even today when the psychic prosthesis is so developed, the human soul can live in the crystal brain, this fear has not been eliminated, but it has become more and more intense.”
Xie Wufeng said: ”This just proves the rationality of this fear and doubt.”
Professor Mo Xuan said: ”The romance of liberal arts students is one thing, the wild fantasies of novelists are one thing, 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 in the dark to create a brand new virtual life form, but unfortunately, I can't create it!”
The audience laughed again, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.
Professor Mo Xuan continued to sigh: ”The birth of life is so mysterious, no one can fully explain what'spirit' or'self-consciousness' is and where it comes from.
”Professor Xie, you just said that the computing power of the crystal brain is getting higher and higher, it is possible to trigger a certain ‘critical state’ and eventually break through the limit and develop self-awareness?
”But in fact, spirituality, self-awareness, and computing power, it can be said that there is no relationship at all!
”Among the tens of billions of people in the Star Federation, 99.99% of them have a computing power that is not as good as an ordinary'Dawn-4' which sells only 12,500 stars in the Magic Mall. Type' crystal brain, and if it is the ”Phantom Dragon-7” master crystal brain used on our heavy battleships, even ninety-nine percent of the Nascent Soul cultivators are far from it in terms of the instantaneous spiritual mind limit calculations. opponent.
”However, the'Phantom Dragon-7' master crystal brain, which has more powerful computing power than the'Natal Infant Boss', did not produce self-awareness, and the'Dawn-4' ordinary crystal brain did not produce self-awareness.
”But the hundreds of millions of ordinary people whose computing power is only a few tenths or even a few percent of them all have self-awareness.
”Even the mentally handicapped children with genetic defects and congenital stupidity have only a few percent of the lowest level of computing power. They can't even add and subtract within ten, but they also have self-awareness and have Precious'soul'!
”What I want to say is, have you seriously thought about-is there really a relationship between computing power and self-awareness? Is it true that the higher the computing power, the self-awareness must be produced? If this is the case, then what you are afraid of,' The new virtual life form after Lingwang became refined should have been produced 800 years ago. No, it was not 800 years, but 10,000 years. Because 10,000 years ago, the Xinghai Empire had a lot of computing power. A crystal brain a hundred times more powerful than humans!”