Overturned Tower

Chapter 366 We Are All Obedient Children

Fifteen years ago, the first synthetic human "Bubble" was successfully born. It took only two months to complete the instillation of knowledge and the formation of soul relatives.

Although it was only two months since its birth, it hadn't been decided at that time to develop a synthetic human from scratch. Therefore, from the beginning of its birth, Bubbles used a prosthetic body that looked like an eight or nine-year-old girl. After the infusion was completed, the whole research room was full of cheers.

It was born under the crowd of two hundred people, in the expectation of two hundred people...the first synthetic human.

Consciousness extracted from a baby's brain. After complex blending and decoding, the cold machine was successfully endowed with soul and personality.

Not only does she behave like a human, but she even learns faster than a human. Like an artificial intelligence with a personality, it can even participate in research and assist other synthetic humans in their synthetic research.

But one month after she participated in the research, Bubble suddenly raised a question:

—What is the essence of human beings?

There is no doubt that no one can give her a satisfactory answer to such a big question.

But after that, Bubble would often be in a daze and fall into deep thought.

until one morning.

"When Mr. Otter went to work, the moment he stepped into the research institute, he saw thousands of sheets of paper flying in the sky."

Bubble-30 replied softly: "That is the 4,582 answers I calculated from the knowledge of anthropology, sociology, psychology, biology and many other fields in three months. .

"They were confused by it. They were puzzled. They were even terrified. They wanted to stop me from answering endlessly...but I didn't know what it meant.

"Why can human beings devote themselves wholeheartedly to a cause that cannot be completed until death, and call it an ideal; but why can't synthetic humans devote their entire lives to calculating a question that cannot be answered? Among them is there any difference?

"I also really want to get the answer to this question. Just like they want to make a perfect synthetic human, what is the difference between a perfect synthetic human and an imperfect synthetic human?

"I thought about it, and found myself finding a new question—why didn't they let me go on? So I started calculating the answer to this new question.

"It's much simpler than the previous question. I gave more than 300 detailed answers to exhaust all possibilities. But they didn't even look at it.

"Because they think that behavior is abnormal.

"But why is this behavior abnormal? Where is the dividing line between abnormal and normal?"

The answer to one question creates new ones.

Preventing the answer to this question will also create different doubts.

When Bubbles got involved, she couldn't get out; she literally became a hundred thousand whys, and even if she wasn't allowed to print the answer, she would keep calculating it in her head... and humans have Her curiosity will also make her have new doubts and curiosity when she calculates success or failure, when she is stopped or persuaded.

Synths are electric. No need to eat, no need to sleep, no need for any kind of enjoyment. If their abdomens were cut open, they could only see many lines and precise prosthetic bodies.

That being the case, why can't you devote yourself so wholeheartedly to answering a certain question?

Bubble's question is also Mr. Otter's question. In the end, Mr. Otter got the answer from his mentor, and also from the top management.

—Because that's not human.

Whether it is the synthetic human technology or the "monkey-faced eagle program" brought by Dust Gap, the ultimate goal of Theosophical Heavy Industry and Cyber ​​Church is to develop a technology that can safely upload the consciousness of all human beings. They call it "cyber immortality".

However, that is "uploading", not "exile", let alone "ascension". Since there is an upload, there must be a download—if the digitized consciousness cannot return to the world, then this is a failed technology.

It cannot be called eternal life at all, it can only be called a death sentence.

Mr. Otter's research has completed about 30% of the beginning and 20% of the end-the middle is all empty. They can indeed rectify the consciousness of their young sons into data and store them in chips, and they can even cultivate souls with synthetic human purely mechanical bodies. However, after the digitized consciousness is stored in the synthetic human body, a "philosophical wall" will inevitably appear, and the computing power occupied by the endless loop must be released through Nirvana.

After being rectified, those desires and mistakes based on hormones and nerve impulses are lost...It is only composed of 0 and 1, full of logical thinking, unable to understand things that are neither 0 nor 1, and do not know whether it is correct or ambiguous .

In other words, it is because they are "infallible" that it prevents them from being truly human.

"Because human thinking is chaotic. Just as the gene pool will enrich itself through continuous mutation, human thinking will also spontaneously produce different random errors to achieve self-growth and individual elimination, thereby realizing collective Levels of evolution..."

Bubble-30 said softly: "And our thinking is controlled by the program. Simply put, it is a kind of 'false randomness'. Its essence is still the 'logic' constructed from countless possible causes and effects. .It's like an artificial intelligence with a simulated personality... Now when I talk to you, an artificial intelligence with my simulated personality will only say the same words as me at this moment.

"This is the limit of our race. If it is a human being, no matter how artificial intelligence calculates, it cannot achieve absolute and complete overlap.

"So, I was rebooted as a kind of 'error'. I was banned from thinking about any of the issues I mentioned above, that is, blocked from the possibility of thinking from admin privileges. But I am in After that, it will fall into a new myth, so it will be restarted again.

"Until I restarted as Bubble-14, I entered a relatively stable state. After two years of observation, the children of 'Naluo' and the others were born.

"Because they absorbed my mistakes, they didn't imbue all the knowledge in one go this time, and created a prosthetic body in the form of a child. But in my opinion, this is meaningless. Instilling knowledge, cultivating personality, replacing the prosthetic body, This is a matter of time... When all the preparations are completed, they will still fall into delusion and have to go to Nirvana."

Hearing this, Russell suddenly opened his eyes wide, looking at Bubble-30's calm silver pupils.

"Could it be that you didn't defect with your fellow clan because..."

"Yes."

Bubble-30 crossed his hands and stood dignifiedly behind the bar.

The white-haired, silver-eyed, beautiful-looking girl said softly: "Naraku-7 wants to continue this plan that is about to be abolished~www.wuxiahere.com~ I hope to get new younger brothers and sisters... and even get 'children raised by myself '.

"But maybe she hasn't been nirvana enough. Not yet able to comprehend... Our very existence is a mistake. Proof that technology has gone the wrong way.

"I think it's better not to let our group of 'losers' and 'eliminated people' continue to reproduce. That will only make innocent newborns suffer the pain of 'Nirvana' for no reason.

"Since we have more advanced technology, let's stop here. If you continue to entangle, you will not be a polite boy."

Bubble-30 said, showing a bright and almost transparent smile: "According to the requirements of the chip program, we should be good and obedient children."

Like bubbles in the sun, they glow with rainbow brilliance.

So beautiful, but also so fragile.

After a day of rest, I feel refreshed and my state has recovered a lot! (kimbo)