Star Empire

"...Well, my head still hurts..." xs4028 woke up from an uncomfortable sleep. The forced infusion of a huge amount of knowledge brought huge pressure to him. A cycle of sleep did not alleviate much. After getting up, , I am still groggy.

Almost relying on his own body instinct, he sorted out his clothes, got on the transport ship to the school, crossed the teleportation halo in the chaos, and sat down at his corresponding position.

"Strange, why are there so few people in the classroom?" xs4028's eyes inadvertently scanned the entire classroom, and he realized that the already spacious and overly spacious classroom seemed to become even more empty.

"Hello everyone, we meet again."

At this moment, the teacher standing on the podium clearly has an excellent temperament and a sweet voice, but for some reason, at this moment, she does not seem to be from this world, but rather from hell? if so?

"Before going to class, I need to emphasize some things to everyone. You must have noticed that there are many fewer students in the classroom than before. Some of them have chosen to regain their consciousness and start learning again with the next wave of students. Some believe that they cannot fulfill the basic requirements of the empire and directly cancel their lives and existence."

"I would like to remind everyone that you need to be careful at this point: the cancellation process is very cumbersome, you will face many hypothetical situations, and you need to answer many questions. At the same time, if the applicant's comprehensive status does not meet the rigid requirements of imperial law, Then the system will not approve your application."

"Until all studies are completed, the permissions you hold will always be within the scope of the fourth level. The meaning of the fourth level permissions is "integration" and "trying." Any life can log out during this period. . And when you complete your studies and hold the third-level authority, your life in the imperial society will officially begin, and the logout function of life and existence will be prohibited. In this regard, everyone must be extremely cautious - —No matter what choice you make."

"Then, let's start this stage of the course -"

Although his mind is not very clear, xs4028 has realized that the current process of imparting knowledge is probably compulsory. No matter whether he accepts it or not, the massive information can be accurately engraved in his "brain" in the end. In front of him, with the teacher's position as the source, a huge information storm was rapidly closing in and pressing towards him.

"Oops!"

The familiar feeling and the familiar sense of crisis hit me again. However, before he had time to react, his soul and consciousness had been sucked into the whirlpool and wandered in the deepest part of the ocean of knowledge...

"The interaction between information bodies is like the collision between ripples in the ocean. As mentioned here - the unification of information ensures the homology between everything, so everything can interact with each other. "

"There are objective differences between information bodies, but these differences cannot be "absolute" in an absolute sense. Therefore, they cannot completely block the objective phenomenon that information bodies can influence each other. It should be noted that , so weak that it almost does not exist and does not exist are not equivalent. This involves the opposition and unified solution to the question of whether absolute existence exists. This part will be described later."

". There are many materials supporting these views. Therefore, these views are no longer just "practical views" a long time ago. They have gone further and become the "framework views" that support the imperial theoretical system: in the system of unified information , information is divided into three levels. And these three levels can be further refined and broken down into nine levels of existence/potential of existence.”

"These two different classification methods correspond to different original intentions of the division: the three-level division method reflects more the differences between information at different levels, while the nine-level existential/existential potential division method is based on development The process of experience and understanding is used as the entry point and unfolded. It can also be said that: the three-level division method determines where the gaps between information bodies are reflected, while the nine-level existential/existential potential division method declares the order From the perspective of life, “what is” in the world of order.”

“Compared with the nine-level division method, the three-level division method is more conducive to showing the parts where the differences between the demarcated information sets are reflected, as well as the various properties between the same-level and cross-level information activities. . Therefore, we use the three-dimensional division method as the entry point to start the following narrative."

"Strange, why. When knowledge is enriched in large quantities, the path to transfer knowledge always becomes very obscure." During the learning process, xs4028 vaguely noticed some subtle and strange traces: short and straightforward There will be no problem with the clauses, but once the clauses are connected to each other and form long enough whole sentences and compound sentences, problems will arise - the sentences will become obscure and complicated. The question that follows is the meaning of these sentences, and the contents contained in these information aggregates will also be entangled with each other.

Now, I seem to understand why my body is in so much pain after taking the class. The massive amount of knowledge I received during class was so entangled and twisted that it could not be absorbed and integrated smoothly at all. Can such a huge nodule appear in my body without pain? !

"The three major levels can also be called the three major ladders/three major origins of existence. The essence of the ladder is the "distance" between information and its source. In the unified world of information, all order and all information are It comes from the void. But the ways and processes by which information is born from the void are different.”

"The first level, that is, the first level in the ladder of void is the void itself; the second level, that is, the second level in the ladder of void, is the extraordinary level that includes all kinds of extraordinary information and the complete world; The third level, that is, the third level in the ladder of the void, is the mortal level that includes the final degraded derivatives of all kinds of extraordinary information and the true subsets in the complete world."

"The level is determined in this way based on how many times the information has experienced "decay" from the void. For example, crystal energy requires the void to undergo one decay, so it is in the second level, while the world The structure of a proper subset needs to undergo two processes: the decay of the void to generate the world - the decay of the world to differentiate into concrete structures. Therefore, various mundane structures are at the third level."

"However, this method cannot be used to determine the rank. More often, it is necessary to conduct multi-dimensional analysis based on the generation method of the target information body and the performance attributes of the target information body to better obtain results that are consistent with the actual identification. The results..."

"...Huh?" xs4028 suddenly felt that he was being stared at for a while. Although he was still a little groggy, his body seemed to be very sensitive to these sudden changes. He worked up his energy and went back to search, and found that the eyes that were specifically looking at him came from the teacher on the podium.

"Is there anything else you need to tell me specifically later?" xs4028 thought.

"Yes, Kriz. But now, let's go to class first." As soon as this question emerged in xs4028's heart, the question had already been answered.

"The basic unit for measuring the total amount of information is [the micro-element of existence]. This is the smallest unit of information that has been determined so far - information at this "size" can no longer express any other properties. The only property that emerges is "existence" that can be detected and interact with us."

"Theoretically, this smallest unit is not fixed. It will continue to change with the advancement of observation methods. Therefore, the micro unit we currently use is based on the smallest unit measured in the history of the empire. Currently, the micro unit we use is based on the smallest unit measured in the history of the empire. It seems that there is no possibility of this unit being rewritten in the next hundreds of billions of years, and therefore it is stable enough to serve as our "baseline guarantee"..."

"It should be noted here that in actual applications, information elements often do not exist. The process of disassembling the information body into micro elements with only unique existing attributes is extremely complicated, and the generated information elements are easily disturbed and re-aggregated. , they will form a relatively more complex information body and form more properties. Therefore, when information bodies interact in the real world, their operating modes should be considered from a higher level of complexity, rather than starting from micro-elements. "

"Here, I need to repeat again - unless absolutely necessary, do not start from micro-units to analyze the possibility of interaction between information bodies and the composition of the information body itself. For most practical problems, doing so is meaningless. "

"...So far, we have mentioned how to measure the information content of an information body - we need to convert all attributes of an independent information body into existence attributes and compare them with micro-unit units. After completing this process, we obtain The numerical value is the amount of information contained in this information body.”

"An information body that is taken out and analyzed as an independent whole will continue to change its own information volume. Factors that affect this value come from many directions: the evolution of the information body itself and the interaction between the information body and the outside world will affect This value..."

"It is worth noting that the above content determines such a property: information can self-proliferate. This means that an information body can increase the amount of information by itself without merging other information bodies. Theoretically, using this One property can create an endless amount of total information, but in actual applications, due to the convenience and difficulty of operation, the empire generally does not use this method when obtaining the required energy..."

Between utterances, more demonstration models are activated. They constantly change their appearance and overwrite previously used models. Countless tiny points of light transformed into a flat surface of water. There are ripples floating on the water, and these ripples appear from all directions and become more and more numerous. These countless points merge into the collision of these ripples, forming the same ripple. And more ripples join together to form more complex waves and fluctuations.

"Different starting points, different environments and atmospheres, different integration methods between different basic rules and other factors have led to the ever-changing information body. When information bodies interact with each other, it is almost impossible to have exactly the same properties, making it inevitable that there will be differences between them. There will be conflict, collision and fusion.”

"Among them, if these two information bodies can accept each other's differences, then they can coexist with each other, and vice versa. Pay attention to the degree of distinction - there are many "levels" of coexistence and contradiction. Leading to a world The difference between two substances that cannot coexist in the two worlds is often much smaller than the difference that causes the substances between the two worlds to not coexist. As differences, they are not on the same level and can be generalized. This needs everyone to pay more attention to..."

"If they are in the same level, the interaction results between information bodies need to consider many factors such as the structure of both parties, the amount of information, self-explanation ability and the stability of the information body itself. When information bodies in the same level interact with each other, they The differences between them may lead to multiple outcomes such as the coexistence of both parties, the miss of both parties, the annihilation of both parties, and the annihilation of one party.”

"For example, if the operating rules held by two information bodies are incompatible with each other, then contact between them will cause them to collide with each other and annihilate themselves. If the information content of the two information bodies is close, then they may Joint annihilation. If one party has a larger amount of information or a more "solid" structure, the possible result is the annihilation of one party and the partial annihilation of one party."

"Next, we start to talk about the "self-sustaining" characteristics of information..."

“In any situation and in any environment, the isolated information bodies have the property of maintaining their original properties. No matter how unstable these information bodies seem to be, they are also faithfully supporting this foundation. Nature. Everything can exist stably for a certain period of time, and can accept disturbances such as observation and interaction without collapse. They all show the strong self-sustaining ability of the information body. This is also the foundation for the stable existence and continuation of the order environment. "

"Information bodies have various attributes, so the intensity that "self-sustainability" can be reflected is also different. Among the many attributes of information bodies, the most basic attributes that can be used to describe them are the ones that can be determined after considering everything. The "existence attribute" that can be written and become meaningful can be self-sustaining under almost all circumstances. Therefore, from this aspect, the "self-sustaining nature" of information can also be called the "immortality law" of information. .”

"Under normal circumstances, information that already has its own existence attributes is immortal in an orderly environment from the level of existence attributes. In the evolution process of information, there are many phenomena that will cause some information to "disappear." "

"But in fact, these "disappeared" information just turned from an orderly and easy-to-observe state to a chaotic and difficult-to-observe state - for example, any information that is given precise directivity will immediately itself after crossing the target limit. Disintegration and collapse.”

"Intuitively, the information needed to accurately complete the goal disappears, but in essence, from the perspective of the "amount of information" measured by information micro-units, the total amount of information in the ordered world has not been reduced because of this, and even in In a macro situation, the amount of information may also increase due to chaos."

"It's just that after the once highly ordered information disintegrates and collapses, the waste aftermath it generates is difficult to be used directly again. They will disperse to all parts of the ordered world, or to the outside of the world. This information will almost never be used without enough information. Under the disturbance of powerful external forces, we interact with what we consider to be an orderly world environment..."

"Currently, there are only two situations that have been proven to cause information to be truly destroyed - information is eroded by the void, or eroded by the death tide. In front of them, the law of information immortality will fail. The previous theory believed that narrative erasure can achieve destruction The most basic existence attribute of information. However, current observation records show that the highest intensity narrative erasure that the empire can induce cannot achieve this. But at present, whether this theory is "wrong" or has become due to changes in conditions "Not applicable", the jury is still out."

"Narrative. Write a story? Narrative erasure uses stories to attack?" xs4028 frowned slightly. He vaguely felt that he might be somewhat related to these two words.

".From the perspective of interaction and information structure, information in the order can be divided into two categories: entity information and virtual information. Among them, virtual information has two classification methods: generalized virtual information and narrowed virtual information. Generalized virtual information It is believed that any information structure that does not exist and is recognized as "substantial" by the empire is false information."

"As for what an entity is, everyone needs to understand the remarks given by this term. The generalized virtual information theory believes that it includes various fields, fluctuations, probabilities, etc. that can be measured by information elements but do not have an entity structure. They are all within the category of virtual information. The structure of this information is relatively sparse, and they cannot reach the level of what is called an "entity" by the imperial theoretical system."

"Therefore, they are virtual information in a broad sense. Among them, the levels I, II, and III used to measure the broader [virtual information] are the "sparseness" of the information structure itself. ."

"What virtual information in the narrow sense refers to is real "virtual information" - this type of information structure can be presumed to exist through phenomena, but they cannot be quantified, nor can they be effectively captured and extracted by current means."

"In this regard, the clearest example is the void disturbance force. The void disturbance force largely determines what we can see in the world of order, but so far, the empire has not separated this kind of order structure from the order structure. The structure of information. We can only speculate that the void disturbance force is relative to us, just like the laws of the universe and the structure of space-time are relative to the primitive civilization that has just started. Its influence is everywhere, but if we want to separate it from nature and extract the famous It is impossible for matter to be [law] and [space-time]."

"At present, some opinions believe that the disturbance force existing in the void is related to the property of "information immortality". When the void interacts with order, the void will show extreme inertia, which may make a large number of information bodies that have been destroyed in the past no longer were completely cleared. After undergoing a series of transformations and reorganizations, they were re-controlled or interfered by some powerful source or sources, thus forming the information disturbance force we now know..."

"The specific way to determine the influence coefficient of disturbance force is..."

In a trance, time can always slip away quickly.

". So, this time the lecture will end here. Everyone should use their spare time to understand those words and sentences with a lot of remarks. If you can know and understand them in enough detail, then in the future study, you will face relatively few difficulties. It will be much less. So, let’s finish class first.”

"Kriz, please wait a moment."