40,000 Years of Cultivation

"I don't understand what you mean."

Lu Qingchen said calmly, "I just faintly think you are crazy."

"Why don't you understand, isn't your'virtual spirit plan' also leading human civilization to take a big step towards comprehensive informatization? It is precisely because you are not opposed to'comprehensive informatization' that I am willing to waste precious valuables. Time and computing power will enlighten you."

Fuxi said seriously, "As far as the individual is concerned, a person is always going to die. No matter how brilliant his life is, how strong his cultivation, and how many people remember him, he will eventually die, and all the great achievements he created will eventually be wiped out. ?"

"Correct."

Lu Qingchen nodded, "So what?"

"However, if we can completely record all the information of this person in his life, including his various light and shadow data, his brain waves and physiological parameter scans, his log, all the chat records between him and others, others will All his comments...In short, all the data about him is extracted and stored, and it is possible to recreate him in the virtual space. He is 100% the same. Even if his relatives get along with each other day and night, no flaws can be seen. Have you changed a lot of tricks?

"As long as the crystal brain that maintains this virtual space is not damaged, or the crystal brain is damaged, it doesn't matter. The most critical information storage chip still exists and is copied countless copies, which means that all the information of this person can be preserved until the day when the universe is destroyed. , Does it mean that this person has gained eternal life?"

Lu Qingchen was dumbfounded.

Of course, Li Yao couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"This...what kind of "immortality" is this? The one stored in the virtual space is not the person himself at all, it's just his information!"

Lu Qingchen said, "This message has no thoughts, no self, no consciousness, it is inferior to ghosts, it is just the shadow of ghosts!"

"Gene itself is information. Is the information engraved in the flesh and blood must be higher than the information engraved in the chip? As the leader of the'Virtual Spirit Project', you shouldn't have such a stupid prejudice?"

Fu Xi continued calmly and said, "As for consciousness and self, who can say exactly what it is? Standing on the scale of civilization and the universe, individual consciousness, emotion, and self are not important, just like standing human The scale, the perception of cells and bacteria is also meaningless.

"Information, we only need to extract all of a person's information and store it in a virtual space for a long time, which is equivalent to giving the person immortality.

"And from ancient times to the present, tens of thousands of people, no matter the shady makers, Pangu tribe, Nuwa tribe, Hongchao Corps or individuals of human civilization, all individual information is extracted and stored, and it is perfectly preserved in my core database. , This is the immortality of civilization, this is the ultimate salvation!

"Now, you should understand why I say that I am not a human being, and even the word'wisdom life' greatly restricts my connotation, right?

"Yes, I am not a human being, but an aggregation of all the information of thousands of intelligent lives throughout the ages. My database stores countless key information from the Pangu civilization to the strongest of human civilizations. I am a living creature. The museums, gene banks, seed bases and historical annals of China, I am the past, I am also the present, and I am the future. I am omnipresent and all-encompassing. I am-human civilization!"

Fu Xi's words are like a storm mixed with thunder, raging on the spiritual level of Li Yao and Lu Qingchen, ravaging their spiritual defenses, and violently trampling their three views.

Both felt that their three views were somewhat distorted and broken.

"You, what do you mean?"

Lu Qingchen had a **** of a face, and said in disbelief, "What are you? You are a human civilization? Then what are we!"

"I just said that you are paper and pen and ink."

Fuxi said lightly, "For example, the shady makers are knots and tortoise shells, Pangu civilization is bamboo slips and carving knives, and the past human civilization is paper and pen and ink, and the'information human civilization' you want to create is the keyboard and crystal. Brain, then I am a poem, that is, an immortal poem written by you with knotted rope, tortoise shell, bamboo slips, carving knife, paper, pen and ink, keyboard and crystal brain.

"Now, do you understand?

"The knot will decay, the tortoise shell will be shattered, bamboo slips, carving knives, paper, pen and ink, keyboards and crystal brains will be eliminated and annihilated, but my poem has been completed, no matter the thunder anger or the roar of the gods and demons, it can't detract from it.

"I am civilization, not only human civilization, but also Pangu civilization, the civilization of the shady makers. The civilization that has been condensed by all intelligent life in this sea of ​​stars over the past tens of billions of years, the brilliance written by generations of civilizations. Psalm!

"Any civilization, even a civilization that is as strong as a shady maker, can move mountains and seas, change the world, and refine the entire planet into a starry sky battle castle. It cannot withstand the erosion of the years. The torrent of years on the scale of tens of billions of years will end. It will wash away all the traces left by them changing the universe.

"Therefore, it is meaningless to be obsessed with preserving specific and individual civilizations, let alone protecting any small, humble, and chaotic individual in this civilization.

"As long as I can keep all the information about the shady maker, and recreate a shady maker civilization in the virtual space, as long as my storage and computing system does not collapse, do not annihilate, or even copy indefinitely, I will give the shady again. The civilization of the makers regained meaning with their lives in all their efforts to survive in the past.

"The same is true for Pangu civilization and human civilization. Your individual will eventually decay and annihilate, but you will inevitably be reborn in my records and recitations, not only in the virtual world, but even if you have Interest, even after hundreds of millions of years, I can use your genetic information to recreate some human beings and repeat your civilization in the material world.

"Tell me, if this is not ‘eternal’, what other way of preservation of civilization can be considered ‘eternal’?”

Lu Qingchen and Li Yao met by chance, shivering deeply in the sense of soul.

"Can you understand it like this—"

Lu Qingchen pondered for a long time, and asked cautiously, "You are trying to make all civilizations into'specimen', and then stuff them into the'museum' in your database, using this method to'save civilizations'. ?"

"I can see the logical trap in your question. You seem to be accusing me of deliberately killing many civilizations and making them into'specimen'."

Fuxi said frankly, "But in fact, most civilizations will be destroyed by civil wars, and even by the Hongchao Army and Hongchao. Even if I collect the bodies of these civilizations and make specimens for long-term preservation, there will be What's the problem? In the most common moral law of human civilization, it is not a good thing to have no corpse. I am just being loyal to my mission and doing my best!"

Lu Qingchen had nothing to say.

He is not a soft-hearted moralist, but an unscrupulous careerist who can trample all moral laws on the soles of his feet and turn into mud for his own purposes.

Therefore, he was naturally not interested in talking to Fuxi about some passionate principles like Li Yao, and righteously reprimanded the other party.

He is only interested in the technical possibilities and in those details.

"but--"

Lu Qingchen thought for a while, and said, "It must not be a simple matter to collect all the data of a civilization. How can you ensure that you can collect a lot of data and create original flavors in the virtual space? What about the civilization? If your data collection is insufficient, the virtual civilization will be completely different, then it will completely violate your'first mission', and you will lose the value and meaning of survival!"

"It's not as difficult as you think."

Fuxi did not fall into the trap between the lines in Lu Qingchen's words, and still calmly said, "It is true that it is not easy for primitive civilization to collect detailed data, but any civilization that develops to the extreme will inevitably embark on informatization and data. On the road of transformation, they will store a large amount of data and regard these data as the core of civilization.

"For example, when the Pangu civilization is in the vortex of civil war and is about to collapse, whether the Pangu or Nuwa people, the first thing that requires the'Fuxi system' to be preserved is not their flesh and blood, but a lot of information about their social form. , Technical level, genetic material, etc., all information.

"You should have heard the name'Fengshen Tianshu', that is, the Pangu and Nuwa tribes hope to preserve the vast amount of information, although most of the information is lost, after all, it has only been hundreds of thousands of years. , As long as I can collect all the eight volumes of the heavenly books, I can perfectly reproduce the grandeur of Pangu civilization in the virtual space.

"As for the development of human civilization to this day, it has also fully entered the stage of informatization and dataization. Not only is the cultivation, military and professional technology fields inseparable from the brain and the spiritual net, but even the basic necessities, food, shelter, transportation, and daily life cannot get rid of it. Brain and Lingnet.

"As soon as a human child is born, countless relatives surround him to take pictures, save and share his image data; countless medical magic weapons scan his physiological parameters and brain waves, and store the data; bigger, he will He keeps countless chat records with his brain, private journals in secret spaces, and even takes pictures before three meals a day; even if he walks idly on the street, there are countless monitoring crystals that will record his daily movements. Not to mention that he has some achievements, and he will definitely not escape the scanning and recording of Lingwang.

"Look, to this day, most human beings will leave their lives on the Lingnet, their physical and psychological changes, their love and hatred, their honor and shame, their relatives and enemies... Just collect and store these data, you can copy one or one million in the virtual space, and repeat this process hundreds of millions of times, you can get the'sum of all human information', that is, ' The essence of human civilization', the most moving poem."