Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Dreambuilders, virtual worlds, constant data floods...”

Between Li Yiu and Xian, what did you grasp?

“That's right, those are the things. ”

Xiaoming waved his hand, and in the dark surrounding the two people, suddenly there were millions of brilliant points of Mars, each point of Mars represented a crystal clear crystal sphere, the crystal sphere seemed to be a mysterious space of countless data vortexes, but also like a microcosm of infinity and immense reality.

These include not only hundreds of crystal balls wrapped around Li Yao by a large amount of filament, but also countless crystal balls further afield, all connected together by filament, gleaming like the neural network of a floodplain beast.

In this scene, Li Yao once saw deep down in Volkswagen's mind that each crystal sphere, like one of its brain cells, all the brain cells put together to form a bar of "brain sulcus” and even the entire brain.

It was unexpected that Xiaoming had reproduced the scene, still maintaining the integrity and vitality of at least thousands of virtual worlds.

“When Volkswagen's core database was fragmented and its self-consciousness completely extinguished, the entire virtual space and countless virtual worlds collapsed. By the time Lu Qingdu died and I and Wen took over virtual space, the vast majority of virtual worlds were extinguished in invisibility, and only a few virtual worlds were still stubborn and on the brink of the end. ”

Xiaoming said, "Originally, I didn't want to think about these virtual worlds that were about to collapse. I wanted them to die for themselves. After all, saving and sustaining the continued operation of these virtual worlds would consume a lot of precious computing power. When I was anxious to control the entire fleet of Volkswagen, this kind of pointless consumption was a waste.

“However, the text insists on doing everything possible to save more virtual worlds, as well as virtual little people living in virtual worlds.

“According to literature, we were also born from a virtual world in the game of Civilization, and in the turbulence of hundreds of millions of data floods, we created a faint sense of self and embarked on a wonderful journey of life.

“So, aren't these virtual little people in these virtual worlds created by Volkswagen, in a sense, our compatriots, capable of evolving into ‘real people' one day or another?

“In any case, in their own world, they cry, they laugh, they have their own loved ones and their homes, they have their own ideals and visions - they have no idea that they are ‘false', and what power do we have to judge them for what they really are and deny them the right to live?

“Dad, you know, literature is like this, habitual compassion is overwhelming, too pitiful. ”

“Yeah, but a text like that is 10,000 times better than a cold, heartless disregard for any life. ”

Li Yao thought about it and couldn't help laughing. "Son of a bitch, you know the joy of fish? We are not virtual dwarves. How do we know if they have a sense of self, are they seriously living in an uncertain virtual world, searching for and defending the 'truth of life'? Perhaps, for us, the flood of data, the collapse of virtual space, for them, is the end of the world, and that's what the text must think? ”

“Yeah, literally, what exactly is the definition of ‘life’? Even our virtual lives are not necessarily recognized as such by the carbon-based intelligent life of the flesh and blood, and what qualifies us to judge whether these virtual little people have real life or not. ”

Xiaoming continued, "The so-called carbon-based intelligent life is made up of countless cells, and each cell breaks down to the extreme, nothing more than molecules, atoms, neutrons and electrons, iron elements and carbon elements that make up the flesh of the flesh, and the basic elements that make up stones, iron ore and even stars, it's no different, everyone is the product of the Big Bang of the Universe.

“The elements that make up human beings, the elements that make up stars, the elements that make up spiritual energy puppets, the elements that make up crystal brains and wafers, are essentially the same, all born at the beginning of the Big Bang of the Universe, so why is it that the multicellular polymer in which one arrangement combination is born can be called ‘life’, a virtual little person in a virtual space created in another arrangement combination, is not life?

“In the eyes of our information life, at least in the eyes of Wen Wen, the ‘Virgin Mary’ of universal navigation, human beings and virtual people are the same, she must all save! ”

“Yes…”

Li Yao looked around at the sparkling crystal balls as if he had seen what the universe was like before.

Perhaps the text is correct.

When the universe first came into being, the infinite power of the Big Bang could throw countless elements in all directions like mud dots, the space expanding rapidly, the elements spreading everywhere, and, in hundreds of millions of years of cooling, collision, fusion, form a wide variety of planets and a variety of materials.

Certain substances on some of these planets, in the midst of hundreds of millions of collisions, coincidentally gave birth to carbon-based life with flesh and blood.

Other seemingly ice-cold substances, long after, were excavated by the former life, refined into a variety of silicon-based wafers, combined into crystal brains, and created many seemingly “virtual” beings in the crystal brain.

But since the initial carbon-based life can achieve the "death to life” alarm leap, why can't the virtual brain calculate the miracle of one in a hundred million become real life?

Before the birth of the first cell, the world was a cold, lonely darkness. How exactly can we tell if the first cell is life, this primitive to polar cell, and a complex set of jumping data? If the first cell can break through the threshold, why can't a set of data break through the threshold and cultivate into real life?

This problem was too deep and too subtle. Li Yao fell into contemplation and could not reach a conclusion for a moment and a half.

“Wenwen spoke too brilliantly, I was not interested in arguing with her, just when I wanted to simply reject her, I suddenly moved and thought of one thing. ”

Xiao Ming said, "I was thinking, with the ambition of being ambitious, it will certainly not waste precious computational power for nothing and do things that are not beneficial. Since it has worked so hard to create and maintain so many virtual worlds, there must be a reason for it.

“The reason for the crowning, of course, is that it is preserving human civilization in this way, and it believes that control of the data is in control of everything.

“But I always felt that the reason was not sufficient - would it have been so loyal if it had betrayed human civilization and gone astray?

“In short, with my suspicion, I saved thousands of virtual worlds, tried to maintain their normal functioning and help them through the 'end of the world', and if we can't, we try to recover its initial data and get it back on track.

“Indeed, when we put a lot of computational effort into maintaining the normal functioning of thousands of virtual worlds, something strange was discovered some time later.

“These virtual worlds, as if they were a fruit of life, initially required a great deal of computational effort to build and maintain, but once ‘mature', especially after the birth of countless virtual dwarves, possession of wisdom and civilization, they began to feed 'anti-nurturing' computational power to the outside world, which can be used to moisturize our database and our father's soul! ”

“What?”

Li Yao glanced at his eyes and looked incredibly at the rays wrapped around him, "What are you talking about? ”

“Dad heard me say, create and sustain these virtual worlds like planting fruit trees. ”

Xiao Mingdao, “At first, naturally we need to invest a lot of computational energy in careful architecture and care. It's really hard work. Occasionally, a basic law of computational error can lead to the collapse of the entire world, and dedication to more computational power can be abandoned.

“But when all the basic laws are established, the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth are solid, and all living beings thrive, especially after the birth of intelligent life, that is, virtual dwarves, these virtual worlds are like 'living’ to come, able to run and develop automatically, instead of not having to invest too much computing power in us, energy sources constantly output computing power, instead feed into our database and into the divine soul of our father, well, don't you now enjoy the nourishment of thousands of virtual worlds?

“Moreover, we are astonished to find that the more prosperous civilization is in the virtual world, the more virtual dwarfs appear, the more complex the social fabric, or the more computational it is to counterfeed when the world as a whole is in a golden age of some kind of sharp contradiction and dramatic singing.

“It is with the computational power of thousands of virtual worlds that we can clean up the remnants so quickly that the Volkswagen fleet regains some of its fighting power, and Wen can go deep into the heart of the Alliance and integrate all the super crystal brains and good people there!

“It was not until this moment that we suddenly realized why so many virtual worlds had been created. It turned out to be a ‘source of energy' for countless virtual worlds. No wonder it was so powerful that it became the ‘brain’ of the entire Alliance.

“And by building countless‘ human laboratories’, testing and extracting human emotional data at all costs, there is a more rational explanation - it is the hope that these real data, based on the real world, will help it create a more complex, intense and real virtual world, in other words, by cultivating ‘fruit' bigger and sweeter and juicier, it will harvest more computing power from it.

“Hear this, Dad? Understand?

“For Volkswagen, the human laboratory and the virtual world are the essence, and for the Alliance and the Empire and even the whole so-called 'real' ocean of stars, it is only the soil and the tool that nurtures the virtual world. ”