Chapter 565 (1/2)
The reason why Bian Ziyuan came to seek meiwang's help was to find the answer about the origin of consciousness that he and Cronus were thinking about. Cronus produced consciousness, but he didn't know where it came from, whether it was generated automatically in the process of self evolution, or whether it was caused by any other mechanism. What is the relationship with the original version and subsequent improvements? What does it have to do with the dream guide game?
No one can answer these questions except Mei Tui. Of course, the professor may not be able to answer, but Bian Zi wanted to have a try. He always felt that the professor was an unfathomable person, and had the same calm when Mount Tai collapsed in front, as if everything was under his control. Even the birth of Internet consciousness was rarely mentioned later, except that there was a little noise during the Turing test.
”Did Cronus have consciousness?”
Mei Tui suddenly took out her pipe from her mouth. The white smoke covered his face disappeared in a moment, and she saw his gully wrinkles and deep eyes.
Bian Ziyuan shivered and his breathing became heavy. He hesitated for a while, but he still didn't dare to lie and said, ”yes.”
Mei nodded and said, ”isn't that what you expect?”
Bian Ziyuan shook his head and said: ”At the beginning, I only pursued the intelligence of the program, and did not think that a program would produce consciousness, which is beyond my understanding. It's like my child suddenly became an angel. I feel that he is going to fly away and does not belong to me. Although from my ideal, I hope that such a thing will happen, and I hope the world will become a country of angels, I have to admit that my self-confidence I've been hit. I'm very frustrated. I don't know what to do next. ”
”Ah... I can understand!”
Mei tried to finish, put the pipe back into his mouth and took a hard breath. Some white soft smoke overflowed from the corner of his mouth, gently climbed up his face, and was surrounded by a large canopy of smoke from his mouth.
”We know very little about consciousness.” the professor looked at the smoke in front of him, his eyes had no focus, as if he were looking at a distant nebula. ”Do you know Boltzmann's brain?”
”Of course,” Bian Ziyuan said, ”According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of the universe has been increasing and cannot be reduced, but the universe we observe is often orderly. Therefore, Boltzmann proposed that entropy does not always increase in the local space of the universe. The low entropy world we see stems from the random fluctuation of entropy. When the entropy decreases to a large extent, it is possible to produce a conscious large entropy Brain. So... ”
Bian Ziyuan seemed to see a glimmer of dawn - consciousness is the product of entropy reduction? But he didn't think Mei would give himself such a simple answer, so he looked at the professor and didn't go on.
Sure enough, Mei Tao didn't say the answer directly, but asked, ”you study information technology. Should you be familiar with the concept of information entropy?”
Bian Ziyuan nodded.
The professor continued: ”Boltzmann's brain conjecture is still based on the material level. At that time, our scientific community did not separate consciousness from matter, even now it is not completely separated. The universe mentioned in the second law of thermodynamics is also based on matter. We are not sure whether the universe other than matter also conforms to this law. Let's talk about the material world first. In fact In fact, the reduction of the entropy of matter can only make matter more orderly, which can not give birth to consciousness. The Milky way can't think, and the big Nebula can't think. Can you say that the degree of serialization and systematization of the Milky way is not high enough?