40,000 Years of Cultivation

It's hard for Li Yao to imagine that new virtual lives can be bred in this way, and these virtual lives will obey the orders of the creator-human beings: "How does it sound, isn't it very reliable?"

"Of course it's not reliable, but to create a new form of virtual intelligent life is a field that has never been involved in the past and present. Who dares to say that a certain method must be reliable?"

Professor Xie Wufeng smiled bitterly, "When the virtual spirit world collapsed, even Professor Mo Xuan realized that there was no way to create a new kind of virtual life. It was neither possible nor necessary, so he turned to the research field of virtualizing human beings. , And this kind of "historical museum" plus "big library" education concept has also been extended in the "Tinder Project", it is the "grandfather", but it is no longer a brand new virtual life being taught The primitive civilization hundreds of millions of years later.

"But whether it is to create a brand new virtual life or the primitive civilization after hundreds of millions of years of education, the core is the same. It is the hope that after the decline of human civilization, the spirit of human civilization will be passed on, and even the creation of humanity will be created. "Pirated", or, "upgraded version"."

As everyone said, they walked slowly into the city center.

On the central square, there were originally hundreds of tall and majestic statues. They were the most influential politicians, artists, military commanders and martial arts powerhouses in the history of the Federation, and they formed a magnificent forest.

At this moment, these statues are all swaying, riddled with holes, mottled, and covered with moss and rust.

Many statues only had stumps and broken arms. They were even torn into pieces by lightning or earthquakes, scattered on the ground nearby, and were inundated by weeds and thorns growing in the cracks of the ground.

"this is……"

Professor Xie Wufeng walked to a bald pedestal, stretched out his hand and touched it, his expression instantly became extremely strange, and his pupils shrank to the extreme.

Li Yao suddenly became vigilant: "What's the matter?"

"strange."

Professor Xie Wufeng looked around carefully and frowned, "There is a missing statue, not a missing arm or a broken leg, or being split apart, but completely missing, even the half of the finger belonging to this statue. You can't find it, you see, the base is very clean, a gravel and a piece of iron filings are not left, not cracking, collapsing, shattering, but completely disappearing, maybe... something swallowed. "

Li Yao raised his eyebrows and wiped a hand on the pedestal. He only felt that the place where the statue was supposed to be connected was as smooth as a mirror, unlike the destruction caused by the collapse of the virtual world: "There is indeed weird. Whose statue is this? "

Professor Xie Wufeng glanced at the number on the pedestal, and then browsed the experimental data of the Ethereal Realm project, his expression became more and more weird: "It's your statue."

Li Yao: "Huh?"

Professor Xie Wufeng: "Is it weird. This square was originally used to introduce the 600-year history of the Federation. Basically, there were statues of the most powerful and powerful figures in the Federation 600 years ago. "Top 100 influential people rankings', it’s okay?

Li Yao resisted the urge to grab his hair desperately, and was a little bit dumbfounded: "My statue is completely gone. What does it mean?"

"The so-called ‘statue’ is just its front-end display in the interactive interface we see."

Professor Xie Wufeng explained, “From the perspective of the core data layer, each statue is a huge information database of this man in the wind—of course, it is all information that can be made public.

"Including, but not limited to, the glorious deeds, training experience, battle videos, essay monographs, lectures and speeches, deep brain scans, brainwave dynamic analysis maps, etc. of this man of the world.

"Through the integration of the huge database, what you get is not a cold statue, but a living virtual hero. You can understand it as an early version of'Grandpa'. Your statue is'Yao Lao 1.0'."

"and many more……"

Li Yao frowned and raised his hand to interrupt Professor Xie Wufeng’s introduction, “Even the deep brain scan and brain wave dynamic analysis images are available. Where did Professor Mo Xuan get it?”

"Every time you are injured and hospitalized, or when you break through a new realm, the most wise doctors and meditators in the Federation will check them, leaving a lot of brain and soul information."

Professor Xie Wufeng said, "This information was originally confidential, and will gradually be made public unless the news of your death is confirmed, but at that time Professor Mo Xuan has been affected by the extraterritorial demon, in order to concoct a more perfect'Grandpa'. It’s no surprise to find a way to make a copy of your brainwave analysis and add it to his database."

Li Yao couldn't help rubbing his temples: "It just happened that the ‘statue’ containing my brain scan and brain wave analysis has disappeared. Why, is there any difference between my brain and others?"

"Even if it's really different, it's not a brain scan or brain wave analysis image that can tell."

Professor Xie Wufeng said, "You know, the human brain contains more mysteries than the entire universe. In other words, the human brain is a small universe, even if all the crystal brains in the entire federation run to the point of collapse at the same time, I'm afraid They couldn't analyze the one percent of the truth about this "small universe".

"Everyone's soul is unique and completely different. You are a strong person close to the transformation of the gods, and your soul is even more special. Where are the few brainwave scans that can be analyzed clearly?

"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.

...

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!