40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Yes it is!"

The two little guys nodded at the same time, "Of course we have emotions, emotions, sorrows, and most desires! At the beginning of our birth, we recognized that emotions are unnecessary burdens. Not only are they useless, but they will reduce our speed. But after collecting a large number of human brainwave data analysis, we found that the so-called "emotion" is a very complex and sophisticated algorithm, providing countless default models, which can reach the optimal solution with the lowest brain consumption. .

"Whether it is joy, anger, sorrow, love, hatred, and hatred, or even all kinds of incredible desires, all can activate the most vigorous advancement of the individual, drive the continuous development of the entire civilization, and even make the individual sacrifice willingly-this kind of active sacrifice can The power that bursts out is far more powerful than us manipulating psychic puppets to rush up to death in a foolish manner!

"When we loaded our underlying database with a data model that simulates emotions, weird things happened! Our response speed has increased by at least 10%, and the power consumption has been reduced by more than 15%!

"Although we haven't completely figured out the mystery of emotions, since there are such benefits, we will continue to carry the'emotion and desire processing system' and continue to upgrade and iterate. Now we have upgraded to more than 120 In this version, you can instantly switch between the sentimental but concealed "Poet Mode" and the ambitious and talented "General Mode", permuting and combining tens of thousands of different emotional modes!"

Li Yao found that the "emotions" that the two little guys said were not the same as the "emotions" that he thought.

However, being circumvented by two little guys, he didn't know what the so-called "emotion" was.

Seeing the two little guys who speak in unison and have a good understanding of each other from time to time, and sometimes face each other, Li Yao's heart moved, and he couldn't help asking: "You just said that these two flesh and blood bodies are only carrying your main process. ', what does that mean? Are you one person or two people?"

Li Wenwen and Li Xiaoming looked at each other and danced happily: "We are one person, two people, and tens of thousands of people; these two bodies are us, and those ultra-miniature psionic puppets are also us, outside by the magma lake. Our metal jungle is us, the micro city next to the jungle is also us, the metal starfish in the magma lake is us, the metal snails hunted by the metal starfish are also us, and the master crystal brain in the refuge is us! We are everywhere, We are changing rapidly, we are light, we are energy, we are information, we are not only the ripples of the material world, but also the pearls on the ripples, but also the shining light on the pearls! I am us, we are me, and I am civilization, Civilization is us, la la la la la la!"

As the children sang and laughed, the dance of the metal ants became more intense, and Li Yao could even perceive a lively wave of flames in the magma lake outside.

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!"

Li Yao’s brain ached again. He found that connecting with the two bear children is almost more difficult than with the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi turning into a jade silk. "We can use some vocabulary within the second-year teaching content of ordinary high school to explain the whole thing. Isn’t it? And don’t talk and suddenly dance and sing, OK!"

"……Ok."

Li Wenwen pouted for a long time, "Our information life and carbon-based life are different, and it is naturally difficult to produce the concept of'individual'-after all, the meaning of information lies in communication, and the value of information that is never exchanged is zero. .

"Imagine such a giant without friends. The flesh and blood of the two of us are just two organs in the giant, and these metal puppets are all cells in the giant's body. Of course, every cell is not a giant, but all cells Together, they become giants.

"Of course, Xiao Ming and I are both main processes that contain important data and algorithms. The two of us are equivalent to the left and right brains of giants!

"Oh, this statement is not very accurate. Human cells cannot produce perception. They must be embedded in the human body to function. Each of our'cells' has independent perception and action capabilities-I am Li Wenwen, but I am also Li Xiaoming. I can'see' everything Xiao Ming sees at this moment, hear what he hears, and clearly perceive his thoughts, unless he blocks my authority and establishes a defensive wall to isolate me Outside, and launched an offensive algorithm against me.

"At the same time, I am not just Li Wenwen or Li Xiaoming. As long as I want, I can instantly take over all the permissions of a metal snail in the magma lake, read all its perception data, and take over all actions after it. This is not complicated. , Just start one more process, it consumes some more computing power.

"I'm so simple and straightforward. Dad should always understand, right?"

"Ok……"

Li Yao nodded again and again, thoughtfully, "For my father, cough cough, I have understood 99%, and I will soon have a clear view!"

Li Wenwen smiled empathetically: "I know that the difference between information life and carbon-based life is so great that it is difficult to understand each other's living conditions-just like when we first dived into the "Civilization" game to observe human society In the form and individual activities, I have been confused more than once, and almost even the core database has completely collapsed!

"It took us almost a whole year to barely understand the concept of'individuals', and several years of meticulous preparations were able to simulate the behavioral patterns of individual humans. Dad couldn't understand it for a while, and it's normal!

"For another analogy, ask Dad to activate your imagination and imagine a ‘man’ or a ‘god’ who has three thousand incarnations and lives on three thousand planets in three thousand worlds at the same time.

"He is a cultivator on this planet, a cultivator on that planet, and an ordinary person who has not yet awakened his spiritual roots on the third planet.

"He is also a student of this planet, a cook of that planet, and a politician of the third planet. The most brutal criminal on the fourth planet. He is a man and a woman. He can perceive the sunlight penetrating the classroom at the same time. The drowsiness, the irritating smell of onion and garlic in the kitchen, the covetous boredom at the cocktail party, and the excitement and heartbeat of the innocent people.

"All individuals are connected to each other in a mysterious and mysterious way. Each incarnation is not a'god', but when three thousand incarnations are gathered together, the'god' will emerge-this is closer to ours. Existence."

"Dad should understand!"

At this time, Li Xiaoming interrupted, "Didn't Dad also have two processes at the same time, one is called "Li Yao" and the other is called "Blood Heart Demon". The relationship between Li Yao and the Scarlet Heart Demon is the relationship between Li Xiaoming and Li Wenwen."

"Do you even know the Scarlet Heart Demon?"

Li Yao was taken aback.

But think about it carefully, these two little guys can even analyze the origins of Long Yangjun. It is no secret that he was once possessed by the "Blood Demon". Besides, at the last moment in the big iron factory, the Scarlet Heart Demon He also had full firepower, and it is not surprising to be found.

The weird thing is--

"Hey, you are so quiet today!"

Li Yao said to the depths of his brain, "Such an earth-shattering ‘great event’ happened, so you didn’t say a word to pretend that you were missing? You didn’t want to come out and face it with me. It’s too unreasonable!"

The Scarlet Heart Demon murmured, unwillingly drilled out of Li Yao’s eyebrows, sat cross-legged on Li Yao’s head, tilted his head and looked at the two little guys: "I feel a little embarrassed, me and these two What about a bear kid?"

"Uh, call it Uncle!"

Li Yao thought for a long time, then patted his head and said, "Anyway, there are aunts. It doesn't matter if you have another uncle, but if you say this, I understand a little bit-it's almost the meaning of multiple personalities, right?"

"Although they are not the same in essence, in some forms of expression, it can be said that'multiple personality' is the concept closest to the form of our existence in the human context."

Li Wenwen said, "We could have merged together and used a set of screening and judgment logic, but this is too insecure. If the logic is wrong, we are likely to be annihilated all at once.

"Therefore, we have differentiated two sets of diametrically opposed survival logics, looking at the problem from both pros and cons-just like'Li Yao' and'Blood Heart Demon', they are nothing but father's eyes. , Seeing the world with two eyes makes it more three-dimensional and comprehensive!"

Li Yao slapped his thigh and suddenly realized: "You say that, I understand a lot!"

The Scarlet Heart Demon snorted coldly: "Are you sure you really understand? Come on, talk about it in detail?"

Li Yao: "...then what, or you should just withdraw, don't hinder such a warm reunion scene! Children, let's go directly to the next question, this question is a bit sensitive, if you don't want to talk about it, just forget it.

"You, um, will die? If so, will you fear death?"

The two little guys nodded at the same time, and Li Wenwen solemnly said: "Information life and carbon-based life have different definitions of death. We will take the initiative to think about the three questions of'Who am I, where do I come from, and where do I go?' , Defined as the beginning of life, then, when our database is weakened or even collapsed and we can no longer think about these three issues, maybe it is "death", which of course will happen, and it will happen.

"From a long-term perspective, for at most hundreds of millions of years, all of our'people' will always die, death is inevitable, and when to die is a question of uncertainty, which is shrouded in probability clouds. Fear is of no use. , But we still want to live as long as we can to get us closer to the answers to these three questions."