Chapter 76: The Tower of Babel (Part ?) (1/2)

Chapter 76: The Tower of Babel (Part ½)

A man’s emotions and thoughts were abundant and colorful.

One would only take these words to be a sort of description under normal circumstances. But right now Jack was the embodiment of these words.

Energy spurred the flow of information signals back and forth atop the fine thread structure manifested by the Dynamo Core. Through this special structure, the signals endlessly assembled and converged, collided and transformed. The final products were intent, emotions, and thoughts.

During this process, the energy emitted a multi colored luster while it was doing work. Some sort of unique pattern and tempo were hidden and stored within, flashing and flickering.

The pattern was consistent from beginning to end, but the tempo was random. Two core elements, one of stillness and one of movement, assembled together to form a structure that made one face the tempo of life head on. It was no longer a stiff template; it was undeniably and undoubtedly the pulsation of the soul.

Perhaps it was just as Jack had said; his life had entered a completely new form because of the existence of this structure.

Luo Nan felt that he was watching precisely an educational film about the nature of the soul.

When looking from a physical point of view, man’s consciousness could be simply understood as a series of nerves and neurotransmitters, the transmission of electrical signals. This was the motor that was formed through the long survival of the human race, through evolution. This was the joint effect of a loopback mechanism.

But several top researchers were convinced that the marvelous activity of the human consciousness had a deeper origin to its operation. There should be an even more essential model that would take all these signals, these mechanisms, and use special structures to integrate them…… An efficient system, a synergetic system, that was greater than the sum of its parts.

The soul stemmed from this.

Luo Nan approved these views as someone who possessed a “superpower”, as a believer in Formatting Theory. Frankly speaking, the words “Soul Configuration” that Jack had spoken was truly a marvelous term. Its hidden meaning was linked with Formatting Theory; the link was solid and vivid.

But realistically speaking, it was easier said than done trying to find such a system that integrated all information, especially when using direct observation to look at the exquisite geometry of the structure to reverse engineer the system. To a very large degree, this was only a sort of delusion that was above reasonable meaning.

But then Luo Nan actually discovered something similar right at this time.

Not bad. It was what formed the core of Jack’s demon eye. It was the fine thread structure of the Dynamo Core supported by the energy of two exoskeleton armors.

Though it was crude, though it was just a piece, Luo Nan could see, with his unique viewpoint up in the air looking downwards, something astonishing. He could see a grand construction that took his breath away.

Energy and information that could be physically observed and felt on the material plane were traveling within this construction. From the bottom to the top, they converged and collided endlessly. They climbed step by step. They transformed from simple thoughts and basic feelings to advanced intentions and emotions to enter once again into the purely mental temple.

Yes. This was a building constructed upon the material plane of reality. This was the Tower of Babel that led from reality to the mental plane of the void.

Even though this building belonged to Jack, nothing was stopping Luo Nan from enjoying its marvels; it made Luo Nan applaud in admiration.

This was because his understanding and appreciation of this marvel had already touched upon the essential level. From the perspective of reality, all of Jack’s activity within this Tower of Babel, including intent, emotion, and thought, were practically not a mystery at all under Luo Nan’s observations.

And so, Jack’s recent probings and threats were extremely laughable from Luo Nan’s perspective. Luo Nan would find out a step sooner than Jack about Jack discovering him.

Though Luo Nan found it funny, he was vigilant: “Energy and information can be simultaneously received on the mental plane and the material plane. Perhaps one is more efficient than the other. But if the energy and information are too pure, breaking away from neurotransmitters and chemical carriers, then the inherent encryption by the human body is lost. Everything is then completely exposed on a higher plane of observation, dispersing the darkness like a bonfire within the night. Yet this bonfire can also attract unknown dangers……”

For instance, right now Jack didn’t know that there was such a person, with a view like a god’s, who was completely observing all of his thoughts and behaviors.