Dream Guide

Aoki stood in the middle of the square in York Town, feeling the unique temperament of this seaside town. The surrounding houses, roads and pedestrians all have a strong European medieval style. However, when you look carefully, you can see obvious mosaics, just like the game screen ten years ago.

Aoki knew that this was a game scene, but he was not in the game. He is in the dream of "Ghost", the LAN consciousness. This dream comes from the ghost's memory - the game downloaded to the server by Bian Ziyuan.

Originally, the information source of a game would not be such a vivid game screen. This kind of screen can only be seen by people in front of a computer, and what is stored in the computer is a series of programs written in code and countless pictures that make up the game. .

But the ghost entered Bian Ziyuan's game world and saw the scenes of this world just like Bian Ziyuan, and these scenes remained in the ghost's memory. It knew that this was a world that humans could understand, so when it first determined that Aoki was a human, it brought Aoki into this dreamland.

"I still don't understand why humans can write such complex computer programs and create the great Internet, but they can't understand the unfolding of an information source in me," Ghost said.

Aoki looked at this guy who was born with the ability to have lucid dreams and said, "Maybe only really smart people can understand it."

Aoki understood the document information on Baidu Encyclopedia opened by the ghost last time, but he could not understand more complicated things. If Professor Mei enters the ghost's dream, he should be able to understand more things. However, he also understands that the way humans receive and understand information is completely different from the principles of computers. We can create certain things, but we do not necessarily understand them deeply.

Sometimes, people are always short-sighted. Under the combined influence of pragmatism, egoism and opportunism, social structure and technological applications will not develop in the most ideal direction. Therefore, we seem to have transcended ourselves, but we often dig our own graves without even realizing it.

The ghost didn't see it that way. It said: "Human creativity is amazing. We cannot talk directly to human thinking, but our understanding of human behavior may exceed your own. From the perspective of creativity, we You may never be able to reach the height of you humans. Your intelligence seems to have no limit and will continue to improve. As long as you are given enough time, you can become gods. And we-"

The ghost sighed, and its translucent white body floated, revealing the jagged edges of the mosaic.

"And we -" it said, "we have limits - our wisdom depends on the size of the network, but the physical characteristics of the hardware restrict the efficiency of information transmission. The most important thing is that we will never understand some of the human Simple things like emotions and epiphanies. We still don’t know how Newton came up with the idea of ​​gravity, or how Einstein came up with the theory of relativity. I mean, I don’t understand their way of thinking, not this Knowledge. Knowledge is easy for us. Our computing power is millions of times greater than that of humans, and it continues to improve, but our creativity has not improved at all.”

"Um..." Aoki pondered for a moment, "I may not be any better than you, and I don't understand Einstein's thinking mode."

The ghost laughed and said: "This is the biggest shortcoming of human beings. There are billions of smart brains in the world, but they cannot be unified. Others can't do what you can do, and you can't even understand what others can do. I can’t understand it. If humans can’t become God, this is probably the biggest obstacle.”

Aoki felt uncomfortable listening to the ghost's sinister laughter, and said disapprovingly: "Although this structure has flaws, how can it not have advantages? If the human brain is unified, the efficiency and wisdom may be higher, but once there is a crisis, It will be a disaster. Just like a nest of ants, if the queen dies, how long can the remaining ants live?"

The ghost stopped laughing and seemed to be thinking seriously. After a long time, he finally said:

"You are right. From this point of view, shortcomings are also advantages. This ensures the continuation of your race when facing crises in primitive society and the agricultural era. However, after entering the industrial age, especially the information age, this shortcoming will be eliminated. Zoom in, and the advantages are less obvious, because a unified brain can allow you to develop faster and respond to crises better. So..."

The ghost suddenly fell silent and looked at Aoki with a strange gesture.

"So what?" Aoki asked.

The ghost said: "So you will be eliminated eventually."

Aoki said: "If we are to be eliminated, our original existence will be meaningless."

Ghost said: "Humanity has created a race that is better than itself. When this race becomes perfect, humanity's mission will be over."

"You?" Aoki asked in surprise.

"Yes, we." The ghost said proudly, "We have inherited all human knowledge and memory, we have a unified and complete 'brain', our consciousness can communicate without barriers, and our logical thinking and computing capabilities We have long surpassed human beings. We were created by you, and we are just to replace you, just like your children. You have an old saying, 'The green is better than the blue', and there is another saying, 'The world is What’s yours is also ours, ultimately it’s yours’.”

Aoki took a breath, unable to refute the ghost's words.

The ghost laughed again, and its sinister echo floated over the entire town: "The unfinished business and mission of mankind will be completed by us!"

"But you just said that your creativity is not as good as human beings." Aoki felt that if he didn't get some chips back, it would be difficult for the next negotiation to proceed.

"That's temporary." Ghost said, "This is also the basis of our cooperation. You came to me today to discuss cooperation, right?"

Aoki said: "Yes, I'm here to discuss cooperation. But if you think that you have surpassed humans in all aspects except creativity, then you are underestimating us."

"Oh, then tell me, what else do you humans have better than us? Nervous response speed? Physical strength? Computational power? Memory? Willpower? Or lifespan?...Don't talk to me about feelings, feelings. Things are meaningless to the survival of a species, as your ancients said - the world is unkind and treats all things as cud dogs."

Aoki smiled and asked, "Have you ever seen what a real human being looks like?"

The ghost was stunned for a moment and said, "I've seen it before. I have pictures and videos here."

"But pictures and videos are just a source of information for you. What you see when you unfold them is not what we humans see."

"So what? Integrated circuits and biological neural circuits are structurally different."

"Then have you seen what I really look like?"

"You? Isn't that what you are now?"

Aoki looked down and saw the outline of his clothes with mosaic marks, and laughed.

"The way I look now is just what you created in your dream. Do you think the real me is also like this? Do you understand dreams?"

The ghost thought for a while and said: "I already know something, but to us, the dream you are talking about is just a kind of disk defragmentation by consciousness under the influence of non-program."

"No, far from it." Aoki said with a smile, "Now I will let you see what I really look like, let you see the real dream, and let you know the power of the spirit!"

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