Chapter 1866: Disappearing statue (2/2)
”In my opinion, maybe Professor Mo Xuan deliberately retrieved this database containing a lot of your information in order to deal with you?
”That's not right, he didn't know that you would return at that time, and he must have a copy of your database on hand. There is no need to restart the virtual spirit world and take away the data about your brain and soul.
”So...”
Li Yao, Long Yangjun, Wei Qingqing, Xie Wufeng, and all the expedition team members fell into a long silence facing the empty base.
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In the virtual world, after six hours, the expedition team still found nothing.
Neither did they find any fragments of the super spirit bodies ”17” and ”18”, nor did they find the disappearing statue of Li Yao.
Professor Li Yao and Professor Xie Wufeng returned to the unhappy beach again, staring blankly at the endless sand paintings, and at the end of the sand paintings, the lifeless black sea.
The many strange events after entering the virtual spirit world made Li Yao uneasy, and he always felt that there was an invisible rope connecting everything together.
”As a result of preliminary exploration, the 17th and the 18th should have been completely deleted.”
Professor Xie Wufeng breathed a sigh of relief, and said with regret, ”This is not bad. Although there is no way to get the core database fragments of the two super spirits, at least there is no need to worry about them falling into the hands of careerists, and then making an uproar. Trouble.
”As for the disappearance of your statue, that's nothing. 99% of the information contained in the statue is public information. Even the brain scans and the like are data from more than a hundred years ago. In the past one hundred years, your soul has happened. Because of the earth-shaking changes, these outdated data are rubbish, and it is impossible to cause you any harm. Don't worry about that.”
”Professor Xie, you said--”
Li Yao stared at the sand painting blankly, and suddenly said, ”Is it really impossible for a real virtual life with self-consciousness to appear?”
Professor Xie Wufeng stunned slightly, smiled, grabbed a handful of sand, and said, ”It's not impossible, but the probability is relatively small. How small is it? For an analogy, suppose every piece of sand on this beach , All wrote a word at random, and now I grab this handful of sand and let them leak freely from the gap between my fingers. The sand drifting away in the wind just makes up the most moving poem in the universe-that's it small!
”I know what you are thinking.
”You are wondering, after the experiment failed and the fragmented numbers 17 and 18 were thrown into the virtual spirit world, will it happen because of some unexplainable coincidence that they suddenly evolve and give birth to self-consciousness? From ”artificial intelligence” to a real ”virtual life”?
”Hehe, I can assure you, no, all crystal brain and ling net experts in the entire Federation can use their heads to assure you that this is absolutely, absolutely, and absolutely impossible.
”The 17th and the 18th are essentially a database plus a bunch of cold operating logic. They are no different from the Moonlight Messengers. They are tools, just like the rocks that humans used to break nuts and animal bones. The same, it's just a tool.
”Stones cannot evolve into human beings. Naturally, these ‘virtual stones’ cannot evolve into real ‘virtual lives’.”
Li Yao frowned, and pondered for a long time: ”Professor Xie, I once heard a saying that more than 97% of the human body's mass is composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, helium, phosphorus, and sulfur. The billions of stars in the heavens and worlds are also composed of these elements.
”In other words, the basic elements that make up our bodies are not much different from the basic elements that make up stars. We are all literally ”children of stars”.
”You just said that only cells can evolve into adults, and stones cannot evolve into adults, but where did the original cells come from? At the beginning of the Big Bang, those elements that will make up cells tens of billions of years later, and What are the essential differences between those elements that will become stone?”
Professor Xie Wufeng was speechless for a while, and said for a long time: ”As you have said, it will take billions or even tens of billions of years to change the probability of one in a billion to become a reality.
”On the scale of tens of billions of years, naturally everything is possible.
”But if we are only talking about the short 100,000 years of human civilization, or even the next millennium of the Star Federation, then I can still very seriously guarantee that virtual intelligent life is an absolute must without external interference. Impossible to be born!”
Li Yao's ears and eyebrows were erected together: ”Excuse me, what is ”external interference”?”
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It's been two changes, but after a look, our twenty-seventh leader ”Pond Fish is Occupied” was born, and the old leader ”Grey Night Sky” also spent a lot of money again, and other book friends strongly supported it.
This third update, I have to make it out anyway, thank you all the book friends, thank you all, happy New Year’s Eve, and all the best!