Star Empire

"...After the overview, we still need to systematically study each subsection in the field. These subsections contain practical content. They are the flesh and blood covering the big framework of the overview. Each part of this needs Everyone is in control.”

"The logical depth threshold that divides the actual application layer and the structural system layer is..."

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"The relationship between the world's macroscopic laws and basic parameters is as follows...Currently, differences in such parameters determine the similarities and differences in the void quadrant..."

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"The effective strength and breadth of general concepts and strong laws are as follows. General concepts and strong laws are relatively abstract, and they can find their corresponding entities or phenomena in the multidimensional world. However, they cannot be infinitely included and nested. When the threshold is exceeded , the actual information body will no longer be compatible with such information body..."

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"The existence attribute contained in the actual micro-element structure is the current irreducible "one". This is different from the indivisible structures that you may come into contact with in the future that use a large amount of information to pile up and lose the damaged intermediate state. There is indeed only one existence. Below this unit, we lose the possibility of interacting with them. However, these statements are not true for void structures and virtual information..."

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"The higher the level of the field, the stronger its ability to merge with the lower-level fields. At the same time, in the higher-level fields, the content covered by the lower-level fields is highly integrated..."

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“…There’s more homework again.”

Kriz shook his shoulders, looked at the pile of homework in front of him, and shook his head slightly.

Since I started to receive intermediate education, there haven’t been many other changes in the furnishings of my new home. The only changes are that the table I use to study is getting bigger and bigger, and the multiple interfaces used to transmit information allow for more and more information transmission. big.

"Speaking of which, the recent courses have become boring. Except for the initial overview of the chapter, which is more interesting, the later parts that talk about the specific content are becoming more and more cumbersome. In the past, I could finish a chapter very quickly. But now each chapter can be divided into dozens or even more subsections, which is very tiring to learn. I really don’t know how the predecessors obtained this knowledge.”

"Ah, but this chapter should be coming to an end soon. If I think about it now, it seems like the overview class was just yesterday. I guess the sense of accomplishment after learning the end can make up for the fatigue. But these homework questions are still We need to look up more information, the development process, and compare the differences between the original version of the information and the current information, okay?" Kriz skillfully ordered the active pointers in the network, which can already be said to be a vast sea. Search the huge database for the information you need.

"Compared with the original version, is this the version from a trillion years ago?!"

Kriz frowned in surprise. While discovering that string of quite large numbers, he also discovered that there was a lot of history mixed in between the data he was currently using and the version one trillion years ago. There were so many iterations that he knew without even thinking that if he read them all, even if he had 10,000 times more time, he would only be able to scratch the surface. Therefore, he chose to compare directly to the original version.

"The "Nine Heavens" are the nine levels of existence delineated according to the cognitive process of civilization. Apart from being concise, this part does not have many changes, such as specific divisions, etc., what are these?!"

Kriz quickly discovered a huge difference: knowledge such as the "Nine Heavens" division method should be the backbone of the entire system. Just changing it in the slightest can cause countless branch knowledge to undergo earth-shaking changes. The oldest "Nine Heavens" division has several obvious differences from the present one: in addition to the disappearance of the "truth" and other content described by the teacher, the "extraordinary information" that once was in the fifth-level realm has also been removed.

"how so??"

Kriz was secretly surprised.

The entire extraordinary information has been moved out of the Jiutian system. Such a change is too huge.

Moreover, judging from their version, these materials do not seem to be versions that can be used to learn from people like myself.

There are thick annotations, a large number of obscure formulas, and many grammatical errors. It seems that it is specially designed for some old people who are already familiar with it. Only those people can use such information, but why is extraordinary information Will it be removed?”

With questions in mind, Kriz began his own "study rafting": he searched for relevant information in a large number of iterative versions over hundreds of millions of years. The power from within his body guides his direction and sight, allowing him to bypass a large number of precise but time-consuming queries and find the results connected to his questions faster:

"After extensive analysis of extraordinary information, multiple departments of the empire and key researchers determined that the entities covered by the term extraordinary information have a huge span. This determines the scope of the term [extraordinary information]. It seems difficult for entities to be clearly classified into any simple order of existence or potential of existence.”

"Because their impact and their own nature determine that they may be able to span the entire "Nine Heavens", therefore, after detailed and rigorous demonstrations and a flawless review process, the imperial academic community made a decision: to transfer the macroscopic extraordinary The movement of information out of the "Nine Heavens" system only allows the standard nature of the Empire's extraordinary energy and its derivatives to remain in the corresponding position."

"The empire plans to change the understanding of this part of the empire by all entities in about 700 million years."

"Extraordinary information has a more profound significance. Currently, the upper limit of the structure of extraordinary information is still under study."

"Seven hundred million years. Sure enough, if this kind of pillar part wants to make such a huge change, it will take a lot of time and energy to deal with the subsequent effects of all this. So speaking of time, why is it already tomorrow?!"

"Not long ago, we finished learning how to divide the fields involved in the empire. Next, we have to learn about the technical system - because there are various technical systems as extensions and supplements of ourselves, we can span one field after another. , moving towards a higher level.”

"Currently, the empire mainly uses several technical systems including technology system, magic system, reality distortion system, memetic system, symbolic system and narrative system. Here I need to tell you something first: technical systems are not completely isolated. .”

"Don't be troubled by questions like "Which precise technical system does this need to be classified into?" because many specific implementation things may not be accurately classified into a certain basic system. They may eventually It will be classified as a certain item in the technical system, or it may have multiple attributes, or even - they may be an isolated case that cannot be classified."

"Here, what we need everyone to learn is more about "concepts", that is, learning "how to identify problems" and learning "how to understand and solve problems."

"Then next" in the increasingly horrified eyes of the surrounding "people", the "nightmare" that has been theirs for several months unfolds again.

"No?" "Don't?"

"Why this again?!"

"Hey, everyone, please be prepared. This chapter is closely connected to the previous one - so we will not only use this model, but also add other content to this model. I hope everyone can bear it. ~”

"No!!"

The very familiar reflection once again appeared in Kriz's eyes: the nine-layered sky unfolded amidst the words that sounded like a curse. What followed was a terrifying and powerful torrent of information. Once again, I was drawn into the deepest part of the rapids and waves, swimming freely in the ocean of knowledge.

But far away from his head and feet, the nine levels of sky have been fully unfolded. Only this time, something else appeared in the "Nine Heavens" model that I was already familiar with. They were like forked lightning that continued to differentiate and extend.

Two of the lightnings spanned the entire "Nine Heavens", and although the traces of the other three lightnings were fairly common in the Nine Heavens, they were not in close contact with the origin of development. And that last lightning bolt...it only exists in the most extreme upper skies.

"First, let's initially learn about the technology system and magic system."

Two forked lightnings running through the "Nine Heavens" are highlighted. They appear golden and purple respectively, which reminds people of the two most commonly used types of extraordinary information in the empire: crystal energy and arcane magic.

"Our technological system has existed as long as the civilization of the stars - note, not the empire, but the entire civilization. Technology represents the most direct way for our civilization to know and understand the world. Under the guidance of this system , our civilization has gone through countless difficulties step by step over trillions of years. Until now, it is still one of the foundations of our civilization."

"The magic system emerged a little later. The most ancient traces of this system can be traced back to the end of the Federation. During the Renaissance, due to the discovery of the natural supernatural arcane generation structure, the magic system began to develop rapidly, and in a considerable amount of time In a short period of time, it has developed to the point where it can compete with the technological system."

"But soon, due to insufficient foundation and lack of guiding ideology, after a short period of rapid development, the magic system came to a standstill. It was not until the Leap Annals period that under the influence of huge external driving forces, the original obstacles The shackles were shattered, but the impact that followed was far-reaching and heavy. Everyone will learn the history related to this part in their advanced education."

"Here, there is one thing that requires special attention." The suddenly raised "volume" attracted everyone's attention: "If you study these two systems carefully, you may find that they are very similar: except for the energy used and the energy used Apart from the methods, they don’t seem to be any different. They all focus on the formulation of knowledge, which in turn requires the laws to be relatively constant, explainable and reproducible.”

"So, they can all be classified under the term "technology" which is led by science and assisted by technology, but why... did they eventually separate?"

"In fact, all technical systems we use will contain these factors - if a certain type of phenomenon or a certain thing is not replicable and reproducible, then they will actually exist as isolated cases, that way It cannot form a stable system, and it is not suitable for everyone to learn now."

"As rational intelligent creatures, it is actually difficult for us to accept irrational and non-scientific phenomena or existences in the true sense. Even if such things do exist, we often take steps to transform them into certain, us-like things as much as possible. Treat things that can be understood and faced. All systems have this commonality, so it is difficult to completely separate one system from another."

"There are many reasons that determine the "differentiation" of the system. Guiding concepts, general resources, scope of application, and inertial influences from culture and history, etc., can all lead to the emergence of new independent systems."

"For example, the two systems of "technology" and "magic" are divided into two systems due to factors such as different cultural understandings, common energy sources, and different guiding concepts. Among them, ancient cultural factors believe that the world may have " There are two possibilities: "Materialism" and "Idealism." From a practical application level, "Materialism" means that all matter is the essence of the world. Only matter can change matter. Wisdom requires subjective initiative to change the surrounding environment."

"And "idealism" means that the origin of the world is related to spirit and will. The non-substantive will or thoughts of intelligent entities can directly change the surrounding environment. They are opposed to each other."

"From now on, both statements are true under the right circumstances. But at that time, when the magic system and arcane energy had just begun to be widely used, due to the huge differences, shock and lack of knowledge at the cognitive level At the same time, the imperial academic circles at that time believed that the technical system that mainly used crystal energy was well in line with the properties of the "materialistic" concept that had been determined, while the magic system that used arcane magic showed more understand the nature that the "ideal" concept should display."

"It is precisely because of this that the technology and magic systems were separated at that time. In the long development that followed, due to the inability to complete the conversion between crystal energy and arcana, and the guiding concepts and strengths parts had greater differences. Due to differences, the two separated systems have developed relatively independently. However, the expectation that the two systems can combine to improve each other has always existed."

"So, the efforts to promote system interaction have continued with the development of the system to this day - ultimately, all this has formed what everyone sees as the two major systems of technology and magic."

"This is a more formal and comprehensive statement." At this point, the teacher standing at the center of the information storm paused and then said, "——You can remember this point more briefly: the two major systems of technology and magic, In fact, it can be seen as the same core idea wearing different skins and taking different paths, but ultimately reaching the same destination."

"so easy."

"So rough."

"good……"

"It seems that everyone has no objections." The teacher glanced at the students who were swimming in the ocean of information with satisfaction. "Then, let's start with the overview of other systems."

The "lightning bolts" representing the reality distortion system and the memetic system were lit up.

"Compared to the technological system and the magic system, the history of other systems is "relatively short". Of course, in the face of the huge span of one trillion years, the gap of millions or tens of billions of years is no longer so obvious. ."

"The reality distortion system and the memetic system are separated separately because the models used to construct them are different from technology and magic. Their guiding concepts and angles are very different from traditional technology and magic. Through The cost of integrating this part of content by improving and supplementing the technology and magic system itself is too high, and it is easy to make the original system bloated. This is one of the reasons why the new system will become independent."

"The guiding ideology of the reality distortion system is as follows: when comprehensively assessing the real environment, multiple indicators of the real environment are jointly measured. The new comprehensive unit formed in this measurement method is the "Hume Index", which is the key to determining the reality. A measure of strength.”

"Any information body has its own independent Hume index - you, me, all the furnishings in this classroom, the building itself, the star where the building is located... Any "closed whole" that can be identified has a Hume index. In this In a system, the higher the Hume index, the stronger and more stable the closed whole is. At the same time, if these closed wholes with a high Hume index have their own will, then their ability to affect the surrounding environment is also stronger."

"On the contrary, the existence of a low Hume index will be affected by a high Hume body - the direction after being affected follows the "will" of the high Hume individual. If the high Hume individual does not have a specialized will, then the low Hume individual will gradually move along the evolutionary trajectory. Converging to high Hume individuals. All this is like the gravitational field being reset after replacing gravity with reality - individuals with higher gravity (reality strength) can affect more other individuals on a large scale. Currently, Look, we're not sure yet where the upper limit of all this might be."

"The focus of research on memetic systems is very intuitive, on memes. Memes are very interesting, they are a kind of information structure, they are the carriers of information transmission and diffusion. In the unified field of information, the former unified field has become After the new origin rules, memes began to become more and more important.”

"There are two main types of memes that have been documented: silent memes and autonomous memes. Silent memes can be said to be everywhere, and all of our own properties come from the silent memes that make us up. Think of it this way: Silent memes are the source of the properties displayed by macroscopic information bodies. When chaos begins to gradually precipitate into order, it is likely that countless of them at that time initiated and accelerated such a changing trend."

"Silent memes themselves also have the ability to be contagious and passed on, but they do not carry out autonomous activities themselves - just like the properties of our bodies will emerge upward through our consciousness and thinking, and more will be formed. High-level integrated understanding and expression, but they themselves will not leave our bodies at will to change the bodies of other people or things."

"That's one of the focuses of meme research, and another focus of research...is autonomous memes."

"As the name suggests - autonomous memes have some "autonomous" capabilities. They can spread and spread themselves autonomously. Their structure is not certain. As a set of information with the ability to self-replicate and infect externally, they have no definite structure. Small-scale memetic structures may be ubiquitous, while large-scale ones may require one or more layers of specialized boxes to effectively encapsulate them..."

"Effective……"

"diffusion……"

"Teacher, teacher?!" Kriz suddenly felt that during his brief moment of daze, everything around him seemed to have melted.

"...Next, we begin to introduce the symbolic system..."

"Just now...what happened?!"

Kriz wanted to recall his previous experiences, but during his struggle, he discovered that he seemed to have just experienced a strange blank period, and what was even more terrifying was that he seemed to feel that everything was normal.

"No, no..."

"Just now... nothing happened?"

"Everyone pay attention to the observation model - symbolism exists in a relatively extreme field. This is because inducing symbolism often requires a strong enough foundation, which either requires us to borrow power from a high-level powerful existence or the original rules of order. And as evidence of symbolic mapping, either we need to ensure that our actions remain valid at low enough levels - just as memes can continue to absorb surrounding information elements and use them to reproduce and spread themselves."

"I believe everyone has already seen it - relatively narrow systems established from a special perspective often have higher entry thresholds."

“Therefore, symbolic systems are similar to memetic systems and reality distortion systems. Although they can appear in lower-level fields such as practical application layer and structural system layer, they may not be very effective in lower-level fields. Effective development and utilization. Therefore, they are not firmly connected to the origin of development.”

"The technical system with the highest entry threshold is the narrative system. If we want the huge chaotic model of reality to evolve like stories we can understand, then the first thing we need to do is to be able to integrate countless "chaos" ”, so that they can covariate with each other and flow in the same direction - this requires the ability to control information to be highly integrated. Therefore, if you take a look at the narrative system, we can say that it is actually a series of information control Technologies, but only when brought together do they have the ability to alter reality as well as to alter or even write stories..."

"I don't know if you have noticed it, but this may be similar to what we talked about before, whether information structures have a more complete structure..."

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get out of class has ended.

The surrounding students walked out of the classroom in twos and threes, and their fatigue could be felt in their heavy steps and feeble conversations.

Kriz also got up and left the classroom. As he walked down the long stairs step by step, he was thinking about a question: What makes him think now.

Is it because you know that this is just an overview class and the difficult content will come later?

No, that doesn't seem right.

Is it because I haven’t learned it clearly?

It seems not.

It seems that I always feel that I have forgotten something or lost something.

"Hmm...what exactly is it..."