Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“I don't know what you mean. ”

Lu Qingdu said steadily, “I just thought you were crazy. ”

“How can you not understand that your ‘phantom plan’ is also a major step towards the full informatization of human civilization? It is precisely because you do not reject 'full informatization’ that I am willing to waste valuable time and computational power to make you feel better. ”

Volkswagen said seriously, "Individually, man always dies, no matter how brilliant his life is, how powerful he is, how many people remember him, eventually he dies, and all the great achievements he creates will eventually extinguish the ashes, right? ”

“Yes.”

Lu nodded softly, “So what? ”

“But if we could take a complete record of all the information in this person's life, including all his photographic data, his brain waves, his physiological parameter scans, his logs, all his chat records with other people, all his reviews… Anyway, with all his data extracted and stored, it's possible to create another him in virtual space, 100% identical to him, even his morning and evening loved ones, without seeing any blooms, have you ever changed a lot of tricks like this?

“As long as the crystal brain that sustains this virtual space is intact, or the crystal brain is damaged, it doesn't matter, if the most critical information storage chip still exists and countless copies are copied, it equals that all of this person's information will be saved to the day of the destruction of the universe, does it equate to this person and gain immortality? ”

Lu Qingdu stared.

Of course, Li Yao was also stunned.

“What kind of 'immortality' is this? Saved in virtual space, it's not this person himself, it's just his information! ”

Lu Qingdust said, "This message has no thought, no self, no consciousness. It's worse than a ghost, it's just a ghost's shadow! ”

“Is the gene itself information, the information engraved in the flesh, necessarily higher than the information engraved in the chip? You're not supposed to have this stupid bias as the leader of the Spirit Project, are you? ”

Volkswagen continued not to panic, “As for consciousness and self, who can tell exactly what it is? Standing on the scale of civilization and the universe, the individual's consciousness, emotions and self are irrelevant, just as standing on the scale of man, the feeling of cells and bacteria makes no sense.

“Information, all we need to do is extract all of a person's information and put it in virtual space for long periods of time, and that person is immortalized.

“And to extract and store the information of all individuals from the past, tens of millions of people, whether blackscreen makers, Pankos, Ladies, Hung Chao Legion or individuals of human civilization, perfectly stored in my core database, this is the immortality of civilization, this is the ultimate salvation!

“Now, do you understand why I say that I am not a human being, and even the word 'intelligent life' binds me greatly?

“Yes, I am not a human being, I am an aggregate of all the information of intelligent life that has always existed, and I have stored in my database countless key messages from Pankonian civilization to the best of human civilization, I am a living museum, gene bank, seed base and history book, I am the past, I am the present, I am the future, I am everywhere, everywhere, I am —— human civilization! ”

Volkswagen's words, like a thunderous storm, ravaged Li Yao and Lu Light Dust at the soul level, ravaged their mental defense line, and trampled on their third view.

Both felt their own three views, somewhat distorted and shattered.

“You, what exactly do you mean? ”

Lu Qingdu's ugly expression was incredible, “What are you? You're a human civilization? Then what are we? ”

“As I was saying, you are paper and ink. ”

Volkswagen faded, “For example, the black-screen makers are knots and tortoises, the ancient civilization is bamboo jane and carving knife, the human civilization of the past is paper and pen ink, and the ‘informative human civilization' you want to create is the keyboard and crystal brain, then I am the poem, which is the immortal poem you wrote with knots, turtle armor, bamboo jane, carving knife, paper, pen ink, keyboard and crystal brain.

“Now, do you understand?

“The knot will rot, the tortoise will crush, the bamboo jane, the carving knife, the paper, the pen ink, the keyboard and the crystal brain will all be eliminated and extinguished, but our poetry has come to pass, and neither thunderous rage nor the roar of the devil will diminish its point.

“I am a civilization, not only a human civilization, but also a pan ancient civilization, the civilization of the maker of the dark curtain, a civilization that for the past hundreds of billions of years has been inhabited by all intelligent life in this star sea, a glorious poem co-authored by generations of civilizations!

“Any civilization that is as strong as the maker of the dark curtain can move down the mountains, change the earth, refine the entire planet into a starry fortress, cannot withstand the erosion of the ages, and the floods of the hundreds of billions of years will eventually wash away all the traces left by the alteration of the universe.

“It makes no sense, therefore, to persevere in preserving specific, individual civilizations, let alone protecting any small, humble, chaotic individual in this civilization.

“And as long as I can keep all the information about the maker of the dark screen and create yet another civilization of the dark screen maker in virtual space, as long as my storage and computing system doesn't collapse, doesn't die down, doesn't even replicate indefinitely, I've given the civilization of the dark screen maker a new life, giving them a new meaning for all their past efforts to survive.

“The same is true of Pankonian and human civilizations, where your individuals will eventually decay and perish, but you will certainly be reborn in my records and recitations, not only in the virtual world forever, but even, if you are interested, even after hundreds of millions of years, I can use your genetic information to create more human beings, in the material world, to repeat your civilization.

“Tell me, if this isn't" eternal, "what other way of preserving civilization can be considered" eternal "? ”

Lu Qingdust and Li Yao, differently, struck a deep chill in the sense of a divine soul.

“Can you possibly--”

Lu dusty thought for half a day and asked carefully, "Do you try to make all civilizations into a 'specimen' and shove them in your database ‘museum’, in this way, to ‘save civilizations’? ”

“I can see the logical trap in your problem, as if you were accusing me of intentionally killing a lot of civilizations and making 'specimens’ of them. ”

Volkswagen bluntly said, "But in fact, the vast majority of civilizations will be destroyed by civil war, even by the Hung Chao Legion and the hands of Hung Chao, even if I really collect the bodies of these civilizations and make specimens for long term preservation, what's the problem? Among the most universal moral rules of human civilization, 'death without the whole body’ is not a good thing, and I am just, faithful to my mission, doing everything I can! ”

Lu Qingdu has nothing to say.

He is not a moralist with a soft heart, but an ambitious man with no choice but to trample all moral laws at the bottom of his feet and step into the mud for his own ends.

So, naturally, he is not interested in talking to Fu Yiu about some hot blooded principle like Li Yao, and Yizheng has severely condemned each other.

He was interested only in technical possibilities and in the details.

“But...”

Lu Qingdu thought about it and said, "To collect all the data of a civilization, it must not be an easy thing. How can you ensure that you can gather a huge wealth of data and build an authentic civilization in virtual space? If your data collection is insufficient and the virtual civilization will be completely invisible, then, in total violation of your ‘first mission', you will also lose the value and meaning of survival! ”

“It's not as hard as you think. ”

Volkswagen was not caught in the trap between the lines in the Lu Qingdust script, and remained calm. "Indeed, it is not easy for the original civilization to gather detailed data, but any civilization that develops to the extreme will inevitably embark on the path of informatization and digitization, and will store a great deal of data itself, and put these data at the core of civilization.

“For example, Pangu civilization, in the spiral of civil war, about to collapse in its entirety, whether Pangu or Female, first asked that the 'Volkswagen system' be preserved not by their flesh and blood, but by a great deal of information about their social form, their technical level, their genetic material, and so on.

“You must have heard the name 'Book of the Divine Heavens', which is that Pangu and Lady Wants to preserve the vast amount of information like the sea. Although the vast majority of the information is lost, after all, hundreds of thousands of years have passed. As long as I can collect all eight volumes of the Book of Heaven, I can perfectly recreate the prosperity of Pangu civilization in virtual space.

“As for human civilization, to this day, it has also entered the stage of informatization and digitization. Not only is the crystal brain and spiritual network indispensable in the fields of training, military and professional technology, but it is impossible to escape from the crystal brain and spiritual network even in the fields of food, shelter and daily life.

“As soon as a human child is born, countless relatives take pictures of him, save and share his images; countless medical treasures scan his physiological parameters and brain waves and store his data; a little older, he leaves countless chat records with his brain and keeps a private log in a secret space, even before three meals a day; even if he walks the streets with nothing to do, there are countless monitor lenses that record his daily trajectory of action, not to mention his slight grades, and he can never escape the scanning and recording of the Spirit Net.

“See, to this day, the vast majority of humans will remain on the Spirit Net, leaving behind their lives, their physiological and psychological changes, their love, their hatred, their honour and shame, their loved ones and their enemies… All I have to do is collect and store these data, and I can copy one or a million of them in virtual space, and repeat this process hundreds of millions of times to get the 'sum of all human information', the 'essence of human civilization’, the most moving poem. ”