Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 934 Life Medium
After a while, the call was connected.

"Mr. Darwin, I am Chen Yan."

Chen Yan's greetings did not exchange for the other party's greetings, but only received sharp questions——

"Mr. Chen, what do you think a chip is?"

Here it is, exactly the same question as when asking counterfeit goods. (Chapter 922)
At this moment, Chen Yan realized one thing—the reason why Lindsay called again was probably because he realized something—he probably felt that there was something wrong with the counterfeit, and he might even be very concerned about the fact that he was standing by the side as the brain. The robot Chen Yan's identity was aware, so he called again to confirm.

How did he notice it?
The body of the general-purpose crane camel is made of material that can isolate radio signals, and Chen Yan cannot connect to the Internet because of the product key sneaking away. How did Lindsay notice that something is wrong with him?

Chen Yan realized that Lindsay might have another way—when Chen Yan thought of this, he naturally remembered the words he heard from Cyborg Quinn (Chapter 739).

Chen Yan thinks back carefully now, according to Cyborg Quinn, Lindsay's death cannot be completely confirmed - Cyborg Quinn saw that Lindsay was involved in the data vortex, but that does not mean Lindsay had [death], and there was no way to be sure that Lindsay lost all life characteristics at that time.

Up to now, Lindsay's reappearance also proved Chen Yan's conjecture at this time - he may not have died at that time, but experienced something else.

It was this so-called "other thing" that drove him to ask today's question.

As it was about the [White Snake], Chen Yan could not help raising a high level of vigilance.

The 6nm chip allows Chen Yan to quickly summarize his previous experience, and to think and express according to his own values ​​and worldview:

"The chip is some sort of imperfect medium."

The voice of the other party raised by one degree:
"Oh?"

Such an answer obviously aroused Lindsay's interest.

Chen Yan continued:

"I think the chip is some kind of medium—a medium linking carbon-based life and silicon-based life—I don't mean a medium in the physical sense, not a simple physical medium like [upload consciousness], but... [Medium] ] This concept.”

Here he repeats:

"The chip is the [medium] itself, which is used to transmit [life], but it is not limited to the material form."

The 6nm chip obviously cannot express what he thinks in concrete.

Lindsay's serious voice came from the phone:

"Mr. Chen, before making the conclusion that [life is transmitted through a medium], I think we should first be clear - [life] is an abstract concept.

In your worldview, what exactly is life?
Is life a collection of organisms formed by the evolution and development of carbon-based biological functional organs?

Is it a complete self-awareness that relies on the connection and synchronization between neurons?

Is it the nerve impulses that make up all the subjective and objective behaviors of biological individuals? "

Chen Yan said:

"[Life] is the sum of all these elements, and life cannot be viewed separately from any element related to life."

Based on his different world views, Lindsay didn't completely agree with this statement, but he didn't deny it either, so he didn't speak, and waited quietly for Chen Yan to continue talking.

"Based on this understanding, I believe that the chip is the material carrier of life and the medium through which life is transmitted between different substances.

Now, the chip is the medium through which life is transmitted from the carbon base to the silicon base. In the future, the chip may become the medium through which life is transmitted from the silicon base to other material carriers.

I do not deny that the chip is the material carrier of life itself, I just say that the chip must have the nature of the medium - in our discussion, I am emphasizing the nature of the chip as a medium. "

Having said that, it has begun to become more abstract.

Lindsay understands what he wants to express, because Lindsay does this professionally—before he researches and designs the [mimetic neural network] of the brain-machine human, he must first understand what life is and what kind of material can carry it. Consciousness, one of the important components of life, and these problems cannot be completely solved through technology. Only by in-depth analysis of them through philosophical means and thinking can a relatively correct answer be determined from a broader perspective.

"I think that any creature with the [life feature] of [subjective consciousness] must have its [substance carrier]."

Chen Yan paused here, because the following conclusions were essentially contrary to his worldview.

"I also believe that under the premise of the continuous development of human society, neither the chip nor the carbon-based life body is the ultimate destination of life, but just a medium.

Then here comes the problem. Under my assumption, as long as human society continues to develop, life will be continuously transmitted in different material carriers. This transmission will have no end, because technology will continue to develop. There will always be breakthroughs in theoretical bottlenecks - the development of modern society has proved this - under such a premise, life actually has no final destination.

If such assumptions and conjectures are true, life will be continuously transmitted and evolved in different media—including but not limited to chips—this is the process of life finding its own way out. "

Chen Yan sums it up here:

"The above is my understanding of [chips]."

After a moment of silence, Lindsay said with emotion:
"Although such a conclusion that does not involve chip technology at all is very unprofessional, it almost explains some essential attributes of chips. Mr. Chen, you are really not easy!"

Chen Yan didn't feel ashamed because of such a compliment mixed with ridicule, but just returned the compliment:
"It's bound to be ridiculous to talk about professional things in front of experts. It's better to talk about things that experts don't usually think about. At least it can provide some ideas from different angles, right?"

Lindsay switched to the honorific:
"So, let's get back to business—what do you think of the development of the chip itself?"

Chen Yan is not ashamed, it is as simple as that, with the help of 6nm chips, he expresses in his own language:
"We return to the chip itself:
Under normal circumstances, the creation of chips is based on the computing needs of huge amounts of data, and most of these needs come from the folks—people's needs for large-scale computing make chips come into being.

From my personal point of view, after the chip was born based on such market demand, until now, it has an ultimate goal-to build a bridge between carbon-based life and silicon-based life-that is, the medium.

Let's not talk about the change of this demand, but just talk about this demand itself - such a demand has led to a change in the development of chips, and the basic goal has changed from "providing computing power for human beings" to "being able to fully accommodate and Digitized Consciousness of Carbon-Based Life'.

I think what we need to understand is that if we speculate back on the future development of chips based on this point of view, we will definitely come to different conclusions than before. "

The voice on the other side of the phone has completely calmed down, without the impatience and impatience before:

"What kind of conclusion?"

Chen Yan replied:
"First, the basic architecture of the chip serves for the compatibility between [consciousness] and [brain-computer], not for obtaining and releasing more computing power for data calculation and processing.

Second, some people must have a certain demand that led to the emergence of the chip industry. This kind of demand is definitely not from the people, because people are dying, and people don't even use computers.

Thirdly, the rapid development reflects the strong and exuberant demand, which is why the chip industry can develop so fast, so [chips] are getting closer and closer to the direction of [life media]—my unconservative prediction For a moment, Mr. Lindsay, I think someone, or a certain group of people, who have a huge resource in society, they are dying, so they are looking for a way to survive, and the brain-computer people who are not perfectly compatible with consciousness are obviously not them The one possibility you want! "

A brief silence.

"Almost right."

Chen Yan heard a clear sigh and repeated again:

"You're almost right, Mr. Chen.

But your mistake is not because your inference is wrong, but because your vision has not reached the point where it should be.

Your vision is too narrow, so you can only vaguely feel that the [chip] is a [life medium], but you can’t describe what it is specifically——for you, the [life medium] It is still an abstract concept. "

Chen Yan said sincerely:
"Can Mr. Darwin enlighten me?"

The voice on the other side of the phone was a little simple and honest, which was an emotion that Lindsay had never revealed in the chat with the impostor before:

"Actually, I don't really understand it. I just saw it, but I haven't experienced it myself, so I need to study it in the future!"

The embarrassment didn't last long.

"As for Mr. Darwin's other question, I have something to say."

"Oh?"

"[Life is a closed loop of logic] (Chapter 922) - I think this sentence is great! Because what I am experiencing personally just verified this sentence!"

"oh oh?"

"That counterfeit—my backup, Mr. Darwin has already met him, and he probably knows what he looks like. I can tell you now that although he has almost the same knowledge as me, in terms of character——in terms of values level, it has completely deviated from me, and the way he talks and does things is completely different from mine.

Why is this so?
In my opinion, it was because his life did not produce a complete logical closed loop, so it became like this——

His life is incomplete, because he is my backup, part of his life is incomplete, and this incomplete part happened in a period of time after my consciousness left the body.

So, I think there is nothing wrong with putting this sentence in another way—the necessary condition for logic to produce a closed loop is the integrity of life. "

"So he's your backup!"

"This... Mr. Darwin didn't deduce it before?"

"No, I didn't even know who you were at the time. I only realized your identity after talking with Wolfe on the phone."

"Then...Mr. Darwin's [life is a closed loop of logic], where did this sentence come from?"

"[White Snake]."

"..."

"Really, I didn't lie to you."

"You know White Snake... what else do you know?"

"I saw [Apocalypse]."

"This……"

"I saw the end of the world, I saw the ultimate of all life forms, it is a perfect circle connected end to end, it is a self-consistent logic, it is... it is... it is [White Snake]! It is [Black Sun] !"

Another fucking day.

A brief silence.

"I do not know what to say……"

"indescribable?"

"indescribable!"

Another brief silence.

"Even if it is indescribable, there must be some specific performance."

"I am the embodiment of that perfect circle."

Chen Yan suddenly understood that Lindsay was able to return to this world because of seeing [White Snake] and [Black Sun]!
The truth is revealed!

'When I touched the white snake, I had the ability to make the brain-computer-human chip compatible with human consciousness.

Lindsay saw the white snake and was reborn immediately!

There must be something special about the white snake! '

Chen Yan has never been so eager to solve the riddle on [White Snake] as he is now.

While he was agitated, Lindsay's voice came again from Wolfe's phone:

"Speaking of which, Mr. Chen, are you really the answer to what you said just now?"

"No, part of it comes from your previous enlightenment."

"..."

A brief silence.

"Mr. Chen is too straightforward, I am not used to it."

"It's okay, I'm different from that counterfeit, just get used to it.

By the way, having said that, can you do me a favor?Help me identify that counterfeit as fake. "

"identify?"

Lindsay reacted immediately:
"You want to use his crippled part of life to deny the logic of his existence—you want him to commit suicide!"

As expected of a professional.

"Yes."

Lindsay's answer made Chen Yan's heart sink:
"Although it is feasible, it is very difficult, and he is accompanied by an alien, do you know about this?"

"I know."

"The aliens in this world are more powerful than most of the upper gods in this world, do you know?"

"This... I really don't know, are you talking about a complete form with a brain?"

"Yes, but being brainless is scarier than having brains, because being brainless means being fearless and capable of anything, right or wrong."

"...Actually, I understand that."

"The alien's life logic is partly connected with him, so once you have a conflict with him, you must face an enemy at the level of a high god. Are you sure you want to do this?"

"..."

"You are not very vigilant towards him just because you used to be a companion. In fact, he is very dangerous! More dangerous than anyone else!"

"Is there anything Mr. Darwin can do to help me?"

"Really."

"Oh?!"

(End of this chapter)