Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“This…”

It took Li Yao a long time to understand what the ancient meaning was.

Indeed, in the human civilization in which Li Yao lives, both the Xingyao Federation and the Real Human Empire have entered the age of informatization. Almost everyone is connected by a crystal brain and network. Whether working, learning or living, all aspects are inseparable from the network, and even “spiritual tribes” such as Lu Qingdu have been born, in an attempt to connect everyone to virtual space through the network and create a whole new form of civilization.

Not to mention, the "voodoo”, the head of the Covenant Alliance, is the crystal brain and spiritual net of some meaning, like Xiaoming, Wen Wen and the boxing champion, is the new generation of information life.

So, the ancient unintentional so-called "superbody” is the same as Lu Qingdust, Volkswagen, Xiaoming, Wen Wen and the information philosophy of the boxing champion?

Li Yao thinks no, Ancient Heart and his superbody have touched the deeper realms of information life than Lu Light Dust, Volkswagen, Xiaoming, Wen Wen and the boxing champion, perhaps that is the essence of life.

“You have to admit that people —— or all carbon-based intelligent life -- are information animals that have existed since our oldest ancestors, the bacteria and viruses that were born in the primitive oceans, to replicate, transmit and weave information, to devour information, to continually devour more information, to output information, to transmit information to larger populations and beyond -- these are our instincts, and the meaning of our existence. ”

Ancient carelessness continued, "In ancient times when technology was lagging behind, individuals with carbon-based intelligent life had to seal themselves up and live a life of monotony, boredom, boredom and lack of information interaction, but that did not mean that they liked it, only that their instincts to absorb and transmit information were suppressed.

“As soon as technological means mature and the social environment permits, carbon-based intelligent life immediately transforms itself in the direction of informatization, post-informatization and hyper-informatization, transforming the whole world, connecting all individuals closely with networks in all their forms.

“They yearn for information, constantly devouring information that doesn't mean anything to them, big enough for cosmic change and national events, medium enough for celebrity stories and social news in the next town, small enough for parents and chicken garlic trivia around them - in fact, what does this information have to do with their lives and how does it affect them? But they just want to know that they're wasting their precious lives.

“Likewise, they constantly upload their information to the Internet, regardless of what nobody cares about, what they wear, how they feel, or what problems they encounter at work -- nobody cares about it, they know nobody cares about it, but they just can't control the impulse engraved in the deepest part of the gene, like a high-powered radio station that never stops, releasing information, information from the outside, and using it to reconstruct themselves, a better, better, more wonderful, more ‘real' self in the Internet and virtual world.

“This is what happened to every individual in the early days of Pangu civilization's entry into the information society.

“Of course, because the Pankos themselves possess the capability of large-scale ECG induction and pass it on to other races in the Pankos Alliance of Civilizations, we may network and interact with information in a different way than you do.

“But I believe that in essence, there must be more and more 'cyber addicts' and ‘informants' in your civilization, and your society is slowly moving towards informatization, networking and even virtualization, right?

“No need to answer, I've sensed the answer from your brainwave.

“In fact, what is the difference between reality and illusion, and what is the difference between me and others?

“As I said earlier, once chained to superbodies, I can live in the minds of hundreds of millions of people, and hundreds of millions of people can pour into my brain to share wisdom, emotions and memories, and you seem to be very vigilant and disgusted, but think carefully, not as exaggerated as you think.

“I don't know if there's anything like that in your civilization… In the words of the Earth, novels, games and movies, I guess there is, so when you're intoxicated by a beautiful novel, a wonderful film and exciting games, don't you just substitute yourself for the character of the protagonist in novels, movies and games and experience another life? Who refuses to live a brighter, better and richer life in the online world when technology is constantly upgrading to make the online world all the better and a hundredfold better? After all, how weak our brains and bodies are compared to our wisdom and desire to explode geometrically, and how lonely and boring our real world is!

“Historical trends, tremendous swings, those who follow, those who die the other way, you see, this is the inevitable trend of civilization evolution, not shifting with the will of a ‘hero' or ‘demon' - first of all a variety of large, stationary terminals set up a primary network; then the terminals become smaller, movable and wearable, so that the network covers the entire civilization; then the terminals become smaller and can be implanted under the skin, becoming artificial organs to be worn by all human beings in their lifetime; gradually, the division between the flesh body and the network terminals becomes blurred, and with the development of biotechnology and quantum technology, the brain cells will become a biocrystalline brain, and the crystalline brain will shrink to the level of mustard seeds and cells, perfectly integrated into the flesh body, and will not be damaged and scrapped for life.

“At every stage of development, the efficiency with which people interact, including the amount of information they devour and output per second, will increase hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of times over the past! A normal person who lived in the early information age, who could have read more news information in a day through the Internet terminal than his ancestors who lived thousands of years ago in the villages of the Dark Age of Obscurity, would have had more news information in a lifetime, and he lived in the late information age, the descendants of the 'super information age', which consumed more than a trillion times as much information in a second —— if such a wonderful super information age did come, wouldn't they, the brains of all of them, be connected together, sharing wisdom, emotions and memories, forming ‘superbodies', a logical, natural thing?

“Of course, I'm sure you'll mention the old-fashioned and old-fashioned question of how to maintain ‘free will', which cannot be blamed on you. This is a question that carbon-based intelligent life would inevitably ask within the confines of stereotyped thinking. I think my ancestors thought about this question over and over again when they decided to build a small hyper-information network that would link us to our own superbody.

“Don't worry, even if you're chained to Super Body, you can still maintain your tiny, futile, ridiculous independence, and if you want, you can shut down your Super Information Interaction Agreement, cut off contact with others, and stay off the edge of Super Body - there's no compulsive order to prohibit it, but very few people do it. ”

“Why?”

Li Yao couldn't help but ask.

“Why?”

Ancient consciousness raised his eyebrows high, as if his strong cynical brain waves were still insufficient to express his surprise, “Isn't it obvious, self-evident, that human-carbon-based intelligent life is an animal of information, information is our mission and meaning, no one can get used to ‘billion-digit' hyper-information interactions and then return to ‘100,000 digit' or even '10,000 digit' low-information interactions.

“Imagine indulging in a world of internet, day and night, wearing several information terminals, having countless accounts in countless forums, experiencing countless kinds of life in countless novels, games and movie worlds, throwing back into isolation, backward technology, obscure medieval times, no internet, no newspapers, no books, no 10,000 wonderful lives, facing a monotonous sky and barren land, and a mountainous hill surrounding the village, the only entertainment year round is to intoxicate himself with inferior quality anesthetics - can he bear such a life? If it were you, disconnected from the internet, living without entertainment, how long would you live with it?

“It's the same thing.

“For people living in the ‘Super Age', they read 10,000 messages every second, from the explosion of supernovas millions of light-years away to the cultivation of a whole new form of life by experts and scholars from another thousand worlds, to the spectacle that explorers have just discovered on a planet… at the same time, they have to express their views and generate their feelings about this 10,000 messages, And upload these ideas and feelings to the superbody, and share them with everyone —— information is as essential to them as air and water, let alone go back to ancient times, when there was no information interaction at all -- that is, back in the early days of the information age, using all kinds of handheld terminals, ‘just' processing three or five pieces of information per minute, is unimaginable, and if this‘ tragedy ’did happen, they would either have a nervous breakdown, or they would have been alive. Dead.

“So, you see, cutting yourself out of the superbody and maintaining ridiculous independence is like mental suicide.

“Besides, communication and isolation are both two-way, if you want to maintain the independence of spirit and thought, which means that you cannot spy on and share the wisdom, emotions and memories of others, you will become an orphan wild ghost free from the main civilization. After all, man is a herd animal. It is against nature to do so, there is no good at all! ”