Abyssal Wanderer

Hammer and Chisel is just this guy named Chen Wang, a graphical interface for simple interaction. And the stand-in program he uses to interact with the outside world is unwilling to breathe out because of his mentality.

From Jiang Zhou's point of view, this is somewhat unusual—thinking is born in the structure itself, and you cannot expect a "hammer" structure to run human thinking. Under this deep connection with cyberspace, the stand-in program used for perception and interaction is the basis of all behaviors.

At least until the limit of human intelligence is crossed.

"Cartesian Theater."

In this regard, the other party explained it like this.

"This is a special feature of the Pygmalion path...Of course, I don't know if there are other upgrade paths that are like this. But the adjusters of this path can build a 'Cartesian Theater' from depth 1."

"Cartesian Theater" is a philosophical premise based on mind-body dualism—imagining self-awareness as a little soul that inhabits your head. Everything in the real world is displayed in front of his eyes like a theater, and he controls his physical body in this theater like a machine.

The famous philosopher Descartes believed that the human soul resides in the pineal gland in this way. And this theory of duality of body and mind was criticized by philosophers and cognitive scientists of all kinds in later generations, and like "the human brain is only developed by one percent", as a basic setting that is popular to hear and see, it has fed countless deep cultivation in later generations Author of commercial works on sci-fi superpowers.

Anyone with a little knowledge of cognitive science or brain neuroscience can understand the absurdity of "Cartesian theater". But even if you don’t understand it, you can still find the contradiction through a simple logic—if self-awareness is a villain in the brain, will there still be a villain in the consciousness of that villain?

In this way, the Cartesian theater becomes an infinitely nested model.

Self-awareness exists in the structure of the human body itself, which is the most basic idea of ​​Jiang Zhou's development of the "Janus Project".

In principle, the digital personality technology basically relies on destructive and accurate scanning, as well as the exaggerated and powerful simulation of quantum computers, to reproduce the "soul" in a virtual environment with "powerful bricks flying". exist.

Even in this era a hundred years later, human beings explore the abyss and the dark web in accordance with this principle—the structure of consciousness and the strength of the substitute program must strictly correspond to the real self in the base reality.

However, building a "Cartesian theater"?

Is this the core evolutionary idea of ​​the Pygmalion path?

"Actually, it's a virtual machine...Sacrificing part of the performance, the substitute program is run inside the substitute program, and the layer-by-layer nested control reacts in the outermost body. Also because of this nature, in the cyberspace, I Being able to change oneself into all kinds of grotesque appearances without affecting the mental index."

Chen Wang said so.

Of course, doing so is not without cost. After transforming into other gadgets, the adjusters are always separated by a layer when manipulating. Instead of being able to do whatever you want like a stand-in program.

In addition, turning into a hammer and chisel like it is now cannot interact with other stand-in programs under the framework of the base simulation—unless another person hits someone with the hammer.

The hammer went on to explain.

Then he continued:

"In addition, although it was the ferryman's previous request to become a hammer and chisel, I think this is quite good. If you have no other special requirements, please let me keep this form."

"Why?"

Jiang Zhou asked curiously.

To be honest, he was really not used to communicating with a hammer.

And the hammer sighed and said:

"I have always been very interested in the movies of the AD era. If you want me to say that is the real art... I have seen a movie before, and there is a line in it. Every time I watch it, I cry for it:'I wish Incarnation of a stone bridge, subject to 500 years of wind, 500 years of sun, 500 years of rain, but I beg this girl to walk across the bridge.'”

Jiang Zhou had a vague sense of foreboding.

Sure enough, the other party suddenly became excited when he said:

"Galatea, the creature I love the most... I understand, I know how damp and useless I am. Come and walk on me. But if so, at least let me be the hammer and the chisel, and let you walk on the bridge I carved...

"Wuuuuuuu, Galatea, my Galatea. Why did you leave me, why did you reject my love over and over again... Obviously you are the one who is my basis Data calculation, painstaking efforts, meticulous carving, the most perfect fit for my lover's algorithm, but why do you want to..."

This guy……

Jiang Zhou subconsciously took half a step back, trying not to show an overly rude expression.

Hopeless……

Forget it, it's bad enough for someone to be abandoned by his own paper man, there's no need for him to add insult to injury at this time.

However, by building a "Cartesian theater" and continuously running the mode of nesting and superimposing mental models of virtual machines, it seems that it is indeed a good idea to maintain the mental index...

Jiang Zhou turned to ponder.

The pollution of mental index by adjustment and transformation often comes from the mismatch between brain drive and prosthetic body performance, as well as the mismatch between the adjusted individual and human society...Strong evolution is no different from extinction. And this form of the Pygmalion path makes the inefficient human mental model run in the virtual machine, which exists as the original motivation of all behaviors of the complete system.

It is similar to the "voice of the heart" when human beings think in the past "Dichotomous Mind Theory (Note*)".

To some extent, this can be regarded as guaranteeing the status of human free will. It will not allow "self-awareness" to be completely eliminated during evolution.

Of course, if everyone looks like this after the transformation...

Jiang Zhou looked at the Chen Wang who kept beating the chisel and moaning, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

It's still eliminated...

…………

"Hmm... So, you just walked away from Mr. Paradox?"

Looking at Booker who was discussing the next question with him with a serious face, Liao Qi nodded and asked.

After the end of "Operation Magician", Booker found himself immediately—whether it was the on-site order maintenance at the geothermal power station, or the placement of the sacrificed members of the hacker group, or even the outside of the Pluto Deep Dive Company. He pushed aside the inquiries from the studio.

Booker took himself to a room where the "Realm of Silence" unfolded, and talked about his previous experiences.

The broken and collapsing city, the wanderers who are constantly committing suicide, the malicious programs implanted in the prosthetic body, and... the tasks assigned to him by "paradox".

Of course, he still pressed the fact that he was a member of the "Fire Thief". It’s just that because they discovered a deep dive interface in this operation, Paradox worried about the personal safety of the people they chose to be tested.

I have to cooperate with him in acting...

Liao Qi felt a little helpless.

"The situation at the time was too chaotic. At present, we don't know whether the information about the activation of the new deep dive interface has been leaked. But if it is leaked, then we will face unimaginable pressure... It is not out of the question that Pluto Deep Dive's disciplinary force will end up again."

Booker said so.

"But we have a deterrent plan, and if we look at combat effectiveness, we still have you, a depth 4 adjuster."

Liao Qi replied.

Booker shook his head and said:

"not enough."

Then, he took out a piece of memory and pushed it in front of Liao Qi.

"Whether it's protecting that deep dive interface or protecting your life, I need you to do one thing...

"Complete the adjustment and reconstruction of Icarus Path Depth 3." (End of this chapter)