National Awakening: You Call A Necromancer A Knight?

"Before we understand undead creatures, first of all, we need to figure out what is life, what is death, and what is the difference between the two."

Lin Hao immediately turned on the optical computer to record Professor Tong's class, and also took out a notebook and pen to record some key points.

"The concept of life originally originated from pain. People perceive the existence of life because of pain, that is, you are alive because you can feel pain. Although this is a very general concept, as a primitive theory, it is reasonable to some extent, because death cannot feel pain. The most popular saying is that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water because it does not feel pain."

Under the podium, the students laughed. The dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. It can be used in such a serious topic.

The laughter stopped soon because it was a class now, and we couldn't laugh recklessly and affect the professor's class.

Professor Tong continued, "So, the most primitive theory is that life is moving and feeling pain, and death is not moving and not feeling pain. But later, people found that some moving things cannot feel pain, so they defined life as something that will experience death. Although this sounds a bit contradictory, this definition is not wrong from the perspective of the old technological society. In short, life is a process of experiencing feeling and not feeling, and changing to not changing."

Hearing this, Lin Hao thought to himself, do his men also feel no pain at all?

Thinking of the ghost doll shaman's legs being bitten off, it seems that he didn't see the expression of pain on his face.

When the ghost doll warriors exploded, they were all laughing happily.

The skeletons learned to grill and used their hands as grills. The bones were burned red, but they didn't show any reaction.

Well, when Wang Siqi wakes up, ask her if she feels any pain.

"In the past few hundred years, our civilization and technology have achieved leapfrog progress, which has enabled us to discover some alien creatures that have appeared since the Age of Force, such as the Old Ones, elemental bodies, silicon-based constructs, etc. They are similar to life but not exactly the same. After a long period of in-depth discussion and debate, we finally refined a more academic concept-quasi-life."

Lin Hao wrote down the four words "quasi-life" and continued to listen carefully.

"When exploring the essence of life, people found that the definition of life is far from as simple as previously thought. The traditional concept is that organisms are composed of cells, but this does not apply to all cases, such as viruses and non-carbon-based life forms. Similarly, it is not accurate to define organisms as sentient and responsive beings, because many organisms do not have these characteristics in their dormant state. Even most plants have life, but they may not be able to respond."

"After hundreds of years of in-depth research, scholars finally proposed that life is an information carrier that has the ability to self-replicate and maintain its own information entropy. This information entropy is called life factor (Life Factor). factor). This view provides a new academic perspective for the definition of life, but it still needs further exploration and verification. "

"It is worth noting that the essence of life lies in the ability to self-replicate, not just the tendency to reproduce. For example, although the original energy construct may have the ability to replicate, it does not always show the tendency to reproduce. "

"In addition, the information carriers of life are diverse. For example, our life information is carried by DNA material, while silicon-based life is carried by photoelectricity, and even elemental life forms, their information is carried by consciousness. "

"Therefore, the question of whether silicon-based constructs that have the ability to reproduce but have no tendency to reproduce should be regarded as life is still controversial in the academic community and there is no conclusion. "

Lin Hao stopped writing at this time. He firmly believed that silicon-based constructs are also a kind of life.

When he came into contact with the Rubik's Cube before, the taboo knowledge that he wanted to instill told him that constructs are also a form of life.

"With the definition of life, we can understand the definition of death as the process and result of information losing its ability to replicate itself. When the life factor can no longer maintain its self-replication, the organism will die."

"Therefore, we believe that life and death are a fixed cycle of life forms, just like entropy increase. Life is like a cup of hot water, which will gradually die (cool down). This is an irreversible law. Of course, this irreversible cooling must be a natural process without external energy input."

"However, after the Age of Force, a special kind of creature appeared in front of us. They can move, but they don't feel pain. Starting from the most primitive concept of life and death,They begin to subvert all our cognition. They are undead creatures. "

Finally, we talked about undead creatures. Lin Hao's attention was raised again, and he was very alert.

"The concept of undead creatures can be expressed as: through some means or mechanisms, the information carrier that has lost its self-replication ability is restored to an anti-entropy system, thereby gaining the ability to maintain life factors. This process may involve complex technology, magic or other unknown means, but its core lies in reactivating the replication of life information or the ability to maintain anti-entropy balance. "

"We use humans as the target to compare with undead creatures.

Human DNA carries life information and is the root of life factors, while the human body is the material carrier of this life factor. When a human dies, his DNA loses the ability to replicate and can no longer maintain the anti-entropy state of life. At this time, the body becomes a "factor carrier that has lost vitality."

Undead creatures, on the other hand, use some unknown means to make this carrier that has lost vitality regain an anti-entropy state. In this state, although undead creatures cannot reproduce and do not have the original life factors, they can maintain the stability of their form for a long time and even show some form of movement.

In short, undead creatures are material carriers that have lost their life factors and have been reactivated by a force beyond the known force, divine power, etc. "

After this paragraph was finished, someone immediately asked from the podium: "Professor Tong, what is the anti-entropy state of life, and why is it the key to maintaining life?"

Professor Tong replied: "The anti-entropy state of life refers to the ordered structure and function inside the organism, which is maintained by the replication and expression of DNA. Anti-entropy means that the organism is constantly absorbing energy and resources from the environment to maintain its internal order and stability. This is the key to maintaining life, because when the anti-entropy state is broken, the organism will die. And there are countless ways to break the anti-entropy state. "

Another person asked: "Professor Tong, why do you say that undead creatures are "material carriers that have lost their vitality and have been reactivated by unknown forces"? Don't they also have their own DNA?"

"I said earlier that undead creatures subvert our cognition, because the core of life is to ensure the transmission and replication of genetic information, which is achieved by copying DNA to the next generation in a genetic way. From an academic perspective, the essence of life is to replicate itself, and to keep information immortal in the process of mutation and evolution. "

"And immortal creatures only need to maintain themselves and keep information immortal."

Professor Tong said solemnly.