Chapter 508 (1/2)
Dickinson and Mayer talked about some interesting things in Princeton when they were young, so they hid in the room and didn't know what to say.
Huang Liang had to sit in the living room with Hou Biao and wait.
Most of the decoration and furniture in the house are outdated goods of the last century, but the computer is new, and it is different from ordinary computers. It has a sense of science fiction in movies.
Huang Liang doesn't think there's anything wrong with this. After all, it's normal for people who can let Mei come to the door, even if they play some black technology, let alone just a computer.
He looked at Hou Biao sitting next to him and knew that the bald man was Mei's bodyguard. He didn't talk much, so he didn't plan to pick up a quarrel.
He got up bored, moved his muscles and bones, caught a glimpse of some magazines on the computer desk, went over to pick them up and turned them around.
There are three magazines in total, science, nature and cell. They are all authoritative magazines in the scientific community, and there is a thick Science Citation Index next to them.
Most of the articles in these magazines are difficult to understand. For Huang Liang, they are like heavenly books, so he just looked at the title and passed.
However, one of the articles ”the possibility of spontaneous consciousness generated by mechanical IOT neural networks” attracted his attention, because the signature of the article was Charlie Dickinson.
The knowledge involved in this paper is wide, covering almost all fields of physics and life science. Fortunately, it only puts forward a hypothesis without any formula to prove it. The main idea is that when information flows in the Internet of things, with the increase of network nodes and the number of information, the chaos of information will increase, many information will be annihilated randomly, and corresponding new unknown information will be generated, which will cause information out of control, so as to generate initiative consciousness outside the program.
Huang Liang knows nothing about the theories of physics and Informatics, but it doesn't prevent him from understanding what the article is saying. It can be said that Dickinson's writing ability is very strong, simple and in place.
Huang Liang is very interested in the origin of consciousness. If the fluctuation of information itself can give birth to consciousness, are there many independent primitive consciousness in the world that human beings have not found and recognized? For example, a television or a computer, with its use, has already produced a very primitive consciousness, but because it is too low, so we can't see it?
Somehow, he suddenly thought of his mobile phone and took it out of his pocket. The folder named ghost lies quietly on the screen, as if it were just an ordinary app abandoned by users.
He thought of the time before the prison break. He thought that this thing might be connected to a computer somewhere in Wuzhong. Maybe there were many computers there, forming a LAN, leading to the WAN, and even entering the closed internal network of the prison.
In the past, he thought it was just an advanced virus program, similar to the legendary secret agent using encrypted communication technology, but now it's far from that simple.
Huang Liang turned over other articles. Except for several articles on medical breakthroughs published in cell, most of them had nothing to do with him and couldn't understand.
He finally opened the Science Citation Index, which is the most authoritative science citation database in the world. Its English name is science citation index, or SCI for short.
Huang Liang knew this when he was studying. Although he was not in line with the world at that time, he has paid great attention to international influence academically. Generally, at least one SCI thesis is required for doctoral degree in science. Now some schools have required more than two. Whether there are papers included in SCI is the most important or even the only evaluation standard for unit ranking and project evaluation in all scientific research fields.
But now it's all cloud databases, and only these old scientists will buy paper indexed documents and put them at home. What else can they do besides collecting them?
Huang Liang shook his head, closed the book and turned on his mobile phone. He originally planned to use the search engine to find Dickinson's paper, but when he saw ghost on the mobile desktop, he opened it and entered a line of text in it:
Help me find Charlie Dickinson's paper published in SCI.
He's not sure if he'll get a response, just a whim to try. In the past, he always regarded ghost as a special way to contact Aoki, but Aoki hasn't contacted him for a long time.
After inputting on the mobile phone, he sat back on the sofa, took a sip of tea and found that the tea was cold.
He saw Hou Biao still sitting there motionless, like a sculpture. He thought of the professor's beautiful assistant. If he were here at this time, the atmosphere would be much more harmonious. But I don't know why Mei Ziqing, who has always been inseparable from the professor, didn't come.
Just when Huang Liang felt bored, his mobile phone vibrated.