Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

“Do you say that biomimetics may have real feelings? ”

Upon hearing a sudden inquiry from Chairman Li Guangya, Wu Shuhua, standing next to the desk, frowned.

“Life imitation has feelings? What the hell are you talking about? ”

“Nothing, it just seems interesting, and this is really a question to think about," Looking at the report in hand, Li Guangya's index finger lightly lit twice on the desk and said in a chatty tone, “Remember that naturally awake biographer before? ”

“You mean... the tail? ”

Li Guangya: “It seems to be the name. If I recall correctly, should she be a natural awakener of biomicry while making her core code public at the world's largest academic forum? ”

“I have an impression of this,” Wu Shuhua nodded and continued, “but why bring it up? ”

“Because, O 1024 data men... their flesh has been destroyed, but consciousness has been uploaded to the hardware by those who imitate it. We now have two choices: to treat them as the legal deceased, to delete data about them, and to give them a body similar to that of a living human being, to keep them alive in another capacity. ”

Wu Shuhua did not make any assessment on this sensitive issue, but asked without leaking a drop of water.

“And what do you think? ”

Li Guangya: “Let me get this straight. For humanitarian reasons, they are victims of war, and we should give them a body to reunite them with their own families. But reason tells me that this choice is full of risks.”

Wu Shuhua: “Actually, I don't quite understand, that pioneer... that is David Lawrence, why would he do that? ”

“Maybe for an experiment, maybe just out of boredom. Anyway, nobody but himself knew...” Leaning back on the office chair, Li Guangyao said thoughtfully, “Too bad he's dead, it's too cheap for him. ”

This is not just a problem for him anymore.

It can even be said that this is a test for the pan-Asian cooperative society as a whole.

If those people were abandoned, they would have an incredibly “pure” society, and if they chose to be admitted, they might have a pluralistic future.

“By the way, is Master Lu still in North America? ”

“Exactly. ”

Upon hearing Secretary-General Wu's reply, Li Guangya sighed with some sadness.

“I wish he'd come back sooner. I have a lot to talk to him about. ”

Wu Shuhua: “You seem to trust him. ”

Li Guangya: “He is truly a trustworthy man. This is proven by the action. Is there a problem? ”

Wu Shuhua: “I don't deny it, I just didn't think you would rely on someone else. ”

“You are switching concepts, trust does not amount to reliance, how do I do it? I have my own judgment, but isn't it better to take into account the opinions of experts before?” Li Guangya smiled slightly and said, “At least, you can take fewer turns. ”

……

The church in Princeton Township.

A white tombstone standing on the lawn behind the church.

The index finger touched the tiny headline on the headstone and the ark gently read out.

“Great scholar, great professor. ”

[- Pierre Deligne]

He was a respectable teacher, not only because of his mathematical achievements, but also because of his wisdom, which inspired many potential souls.

“I didn't expect to see you again in this way… I was going to commemorate you in my own way, but the manager here told me not to light the fire. ”

The flowers in his hand were gently placed on the tombstone, and the ark did not stop here more and turned away.

Over the next two days, instead of leaving Princeton immediately, the Ark studied the “autobiography” of David Lawrence borrowed from the Stone Library.

Interestingly enough, this autobiography was not written for him, but by him, or at least by his dictation.

Until he graduated from Princeton, his dream was to become an historian. However, the sudden change forced him to abandon the academic path and return to inherit the Lawrence family business.

As the wealthiest and most powerful family in the Boston Consortium, he had a terrible fortune at his early thirties.

Although in the layout of the technology industry, the walls are always touched by standing opposite an old friend's ark, this loss is nothing compared to the Pang industry left to his parents.

“… sickness, aging, natural and man-made disasters, weak flesh will eventually decay, and eternity in the true sense can be achieved only if thoughts are engraved on the circuit board. ”

“I started to fund scholars and dreamers I liked to invest in industries about the future in the hope that in my lifetime, I would be able to upload my consciousness to the Internet. And then I'll do everything I can to create an all-powerful body for myself, and the smartest brain in the world. In digital form, I will acquire the body of Superman and the immortality that the nobles of the medieval kings have sought. ”

“Yet the path to truth is always uneven, just as not everyone deserves to invest, not every investment ultimately brings me the return I deserve. In the end, some of the research had to be fundamentally overturned, while others had fallen into bottlenecks and no way out could be seen. ”

“On my fortieth birthday, I gradually began to feel despair. Until a surprising news came from China across the coast and lit another flame in my heart. ”

“Fate is so amazing, and although my old friend beat the business I supported more than once, this time he developed a neural access device that inspired my passivity. ”

“I chose to continue betting on Mr. Musk, as well as many scientists working on neural access devices. I built a laboratory in Boston dedicated to the derivative technology of neural access devices -- that is, uploading consciousness. ”

“In fact, this technology is not very difficult, and when the bottlenecks between the nervous system and computers are resolved, we, who have been studying this field for many years, quickly grasped the key to solving this problem. ”

“I know, however, that this is not enough, that false programs are not a substitute for my consciousness, and that person on the screen is at best a high imitation of me. At this point, my researchers told me that to be immortal in digital form, at least the program that was written into the hardware had to be brought to life. In other words, it is necessary to have a high level of intelligence in order to be truly human. ”

“My plan plunged into the valley again until one night at the end of 2022, when I was drunk with alcohol, wearing a virtual reality helmet and ready to hide in the virtual world. And yet, at this point, an unknown force is pulling me into a pitch-black space. Actually, I thought the program was bugging until I saw another me in there. ”

“Want to live forever in the data ocean like I do? Then pass my test. The other thing I said to me was that I downloaded a program that was only 5 MB in size onto my terminal. ”

“When I woke up and found that program on the terminal, I couldn't describe the surprise in words. It's like coming from nothingness, saving me from falling into darkness. If I get the treasure to open it, I discover the secret about evolution in it..."

“It's a comprehensive proposition that blends sociology with informatics, and even though it's only 5 MB in size, it's still not an easy thing to solve. As the calculation continues, I continually provide it with experimental materials and observable objects, and the scale of the program is almost exponential. Then I had to buy a super center, or even open a deserted planet, to satisfy his appetite. ”

“Although his appetite grew, I was confident in the future. The end of evolution is in sight, and soon I will be eternal, and selfless I will share the secrets of evolution with everyone. ”

After seeing David Lawrence's autobiography, the ark took a deep breath and closed the book, casting its gaze out the window into a deep night.

The timeline matches, and his guess is true.

The night of the end of 2022 was the day when the IMCRC conducted high-energy physics experiments on anomalous energy zones, and that was the day when human civilization first looked up at the world in the n +1 dimension - what observer civilization called the void.

And that program on Valley God came from there!

“When you gaze into the void, the void also gazes into you. ”

This phrase was repeatedly chewed here, and the ark sighed softly.

“I had no idea it was just a quick glance, so much trouble had come out of it. ”

A hundred years.

If I hadn't lived, the truth about it would have been buried in the dust of history forever.