my stealth fighter

Chapter 966
Seeing the floating lanterns from the head of the Jiang Chan machine, he was puzzled by the principle that they can be suspended in the air. They only showed a weak thermal induction in the infrared mirror, which indicated that they were not floated by hot air, but they were not Hovering by rapidly flapping wings, magnetic levitation or something is obviously impossible. At that time, he suspected that they were floating by telekinetic force, but a creature of this size, unless its body is full of brains, otherwise it can really generate enough energy. Consciousness that controls telekinetics?
Later, he squeezed them and found that they were not full of brains as he suspected. After all, there were still suspected eating and excreting organs. It is unimaginable to say that the consciousness of controlling telekinetics can be generated by relying on these nerve bundles. After all, telekinetics is one of the top abilities. Even he... can only rely on simulation.

Now, Yukiss has confirmed that they are indeed floating in the air by telekinetic power, and there is no need to doubt it anymore, but he still has doubts that are difficult to solve.

"You can think of them as distributed terminal neural networks one by one, which together form a huge neural cluster. Although the intelligence of each of them is very low, but with enough individuals connected, they have quite high intelligence. Wisdom is at least much higher than the wisdom of individual human beings," Yukis explained.

"Does it mean that their collection is what you call planetary wisdom?" Jiang Chanji was taken aback.

"It's very possible." Jukis admitted, "They are suspended in the sky, like low-orbit satellites equipped with microprocessors, and transmit information to each other through optical signals."

Thinking that there is a super-intelligence beyond human understanding looking down on him from the sky, watching his every move, Jiang Chanji's scalp tingles. No wonder the local indigenous intelligent creatures pay homage to these floating lanterns , this is a genuine god!
This can also explain why these floating lanterns did not appear every time the "channel" appeared before—isn't this nonsense, which intelligent creature would throw out its brain cells casually?Unless an important target worth exchanging for a small amount of brain cells is discovered.

"How smart is it? It can't be smarter than you, right?" He asked, although the latter he knew was impossible, but he still asked for reassurance.

She replied: "It depends on the total number of them, and I can't blindly speculate—you don't have to worry too much. Although their way of accumulating computing power is very flattering, it is not the right way after all. There is an upper limit to the size of piles by violence." Yes, it does not mean that as their number increases infinitely, their wisdom will also increase infinitely, but that they will be limited by their own biological and physical limits when they reach a certain stage."

"You mean, the efficiency of each of these lanterns in processing and forwarding optical signals?" Jiang Chanji thought for a while, and seemed to understand that if distributed computing is really so perfect, it seems that there is no need to manufacture supercomputers that are extremely expensive up.

"In addition to this, its distributed computing will also be accompanied by distributed storage. Its memory is stored in each floating lantern, but it must take into account the possibility of damage to a single lantern—assuming it is You, you don't want a certain memory of yours to be lost suddenly, right? So it must store the memory redundantly, and at least three or four lanterns will be arranged to store the same memory at the same time, and these three or four lanterns are guaranteed to be scattered in all parts of the planet to avoid being destroyed at the same time and causing key memory loss." She explained in detail.

Jiang Chanji suddenly realized that these principles are actually very simple, but he may be too dependent on her, and he didn't think of it at all.

She further commented: "This behavior of distributed memory storage is necessary but wasteful at the same time, because its life can be more than a hundred years, at least in units of ten thousand years, even if it selectively stores memory, it will be A huge amount of data, if it does not compress the data efficiently, as time accumulates, the amount of data will be terribly large, and most of the time fragments of the floating lantern will be used to erase data rather than thinking. I wonder if it will be weighed down by the mountain of memory and go mad—maybe it already is."

Jiang Chanji suddenly thought of Eve. She also stored memories of tens of thousands of years, but the difference was that she only stored what she had seen and heard. On this planet, its memory is the huge surface of the planet. What happened at this moment, the amount of data is too exaggerated, is this the huge price that needs to be paid in order to obtain huge thinking ability?Yuqisi said that this is not the right way, and it is true.

"In addition, the physical limitations it is subject to also include the propagation speed of light. What they see at one end of the planet is transmitted to the other end of the planet and then fed back. It requires a response time of milliseconds. It seems very short, but as In terms of thinking, it is already too slow, which is an inevitable shortcoming of too large distributed computing, and it is difficult to correct." She paused, and added: "Just give me an interface, and I can easily destroy it .”

Although she felt that her last sentence was probably a joke, but to avoid misunderstanding, Jiang Chanji resolutely refused: "I believe in you, but forget it, I don't want to have a physical connection with such a disgusting thing."

He also tends to think that the consciousness of this planet has gone crazy, otherwise it would not be so arrogant as to challenge Yuqisi, and it would not release the "channel" to erode another planet, but this is probably a dead end, the so-called "desire of heaven" To destroy a man, one must first drive him mad"?
The lifespan of a single floating lantern is definitely limited, even if it keeps giving birth to new floating lanterns, it will take a process to replace the old ones one by one, and it is said that it is infinitely replicating floating lanterns, and it is limited by the food chain and the ecological circle. Empty lanterns also need to be eaten, and the planetary ecosystem cannot support an infinite number of them.

As for the physiological research on floating lanterns, we can only hope for the scientific research teachers of Hongye College. Presumably they will also treat this project as the highest priority, but it is not clear whether there will be any useful results, such as knowing what they are. What to use as food, study their central nervous system or decipher their light-emitting mechanism is not something that can be figured out in a short while.

And compared to these theoretical things, he is more worried about how strong the telekinetic power will be when a certain number of floating lanterns are gathered, and whether it will make him unable to resist. If that is the case, it will be troublesome , fortunately, their flying speed is not high, and it will take a certain amount of time even to assemble.

(End of this chapter)