Life in the collapsed world from scratch

Bianca thought about it, and it seemed to be true. If artificial life cannot produce a soul, then Teresa, who is said to be artificially cloned, should not have a soul.

"Life itself is not special to the universe, and it is not fundamentally different from other substances. When life was born, the universe had already evolved for hundreds of millions of years. Before that, there was no soul at all. It stands to reason No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to build a complex soul system for a non-special existence."

Cheng Xi rubbed his temples, and said with some headaches: "After all, this system of the soul exists purely for life. Even if this system is removed, the universe can still run intact without any logical errors and loopholes." and conflicts, then according to the Occam's razor theory of 'If there is no need, don't multiply entities', theories like the soul with a lot of complicated settings should be shaved off."

"But just like Honkai, although there are many unreasonable settings, who made them really exist." He spread his hands and said helplessly.

Bianca and Xier fell silent. After hearing Cheng Xi's words, they realized that there were indeed many unreasonable phenomena in the world they lived in, but what did this represent?

Cheng Xi didn't give them extra time to think, and raised his second finger and said, "Then, the next question is the second."

"Since the soul does exist, where is it?".

Chapter 280 The Definition of Life

"where is it?"

Do I still need to ask?Isn't it in the human body?

Bianca was a little puzzled.

"My question might be a bit ambiguous, so let me ask it in a different way." Noticing the confusion on the girl's face, Cheng Xi changed the subject and continued, "Since souls do exist, why haven't we observed them~?"

"It should be normal for living people not to see souls?" Guan Xing said while pouring tea for a few of them, "And you're wrong about one thing, I've seen souls before."

"I'm talking about our world." Cheng Xi waved his hand and said.

There are different rules in different worlds, not to mention that as the manager of a world, it is not surprising that Guanxing can see souls. Anyway, this world is in her hands. Cheng Xi, the god of death, will not be surprised.

"If you can't think of an answer to this question, then let's change to a simpler question." Cheng Xi continued: "Do you think the soul is life?"

Is the soul life?

This question sounds trivial at first glance, but if you think about it with universal rationality, you can immediately appreciate the contradictions inside.

As a legendary non-material existence attached to the human body as the master, the soul usually only appears after the death of life, or its departure often means the death of the original life body. In this case, what is the soul itself? Dead or alive?

"Is this question important?" Guan Xing asked, shaking his lupine fan.

"Of course it's important." Cheng Xi took it for granted: "Even the life and death of a fish in the fresh market will be repeatedly studied, let alone the soul."

Abandoning the essence of things and only talking about external phenomena and artificial meanings is difficult for Cheng Xi, who is used to thinking in science, and perhaps it is for this reason that he is often said to be incomprehensible Be funny.

"Has there ever been a girl like this?" Sirin asked in the realm of consciousness.

Cheng Xi was stunned for a moment, bowed his head in thought for a moment, and said uncertainly, "There are always, right?"

Celine: "..."

"Ahem..." Cheng Xi coughed twice to hide his embarrassment.

"In short, we are not discussing those philosophical things here. What I am asking is the literal meaning-do you think the soul is alive? Or can it be defined as life?"

"It should be fine, right?" Bianca replied after thinking about it.

According to people's description of the soul, it seems that it is not much different from ordinary people except that it does not have a body, and it can even be regarded as a special energy body.

"Then, that's where the problem lies." Cheng Xi raised a finger again and said: "Removing the physical restrictions on the definition of life by carbon-based organisms, life can basically be defined as a kind of life that can be continuously obtained from the outside world." and energy to maintain its own survival and development."

"According to the law of entropy increase, the entropy of anything must increase irreversibly with time. For living organisms, the maximum value of entropy increase is death. Therefore, it needs to offset itself by constantly absorbing negative entropy from the environment entropy increases, thereby maintaining itself at a stable but lower entropy level."

"That is to say, as long as a life exists, it will inevitably lead to an increase in the entropy of the surrounding environment. This is determined by its own characteristics and is absolutely unavoidable."

Hearing this, Xier already felt that her brain couldn't keep up. The soul, entropy, etc. These things are really complicated.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, it's too early for you Xi'er." The voice comforted the girl.

On the other hand, Guan Xing quickly understood the meaning of Cheng Xi's words.

"That is to say, as long as the soul as a life form exists, it will inevitably interact with the surrounding environment in terms of energy or matter, which will lead to changes in the entropy value of a system, right?"

"That's right!" Cheng Xi affirmed the girl's inference: "As long as there is a change, even a slight disturbance, it should be easy to detect with our current observation methods, even if it is still interacting with it." It is not confirmed whether there is dark matter and dark energy, but the gravitational changes and space disturbances caused by mass changes can actually be detected."

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"But unfortunately, even so, we have not been able to directly prove the existence of the soul through observations."

Cheng Xi spread his hands and said, "Then there is only one possibility left: In our world, once a life dies, the soul will dissipate along with the consciousness."

"That is to say, unless the time is turned back, there is absolutely no possibility of resurrection."

Having said that, he finally answered Bianca's initial question, and the answer he got was very simple:

 …  

People cannot be resurrected from the dead.

...unless the person is not dead at all.

In the realm of consciousness, Sirin inexplicably felt as if someone was hinting at herself.

"So, you said a lot, just to answer this one question?" Guan Xing said a little speechlessly: "Then you just say the conclusion is not enough."

Anyway, based on their trust in you, unless you say that 1+1 is equal to 3, they will probably believe no matter what you say.The girl complained in her heart.

"It's not just that." Cheng Xi shook his head, looked at Guan Xing and said, "Actually, I just want to tell you."

"Me?" Guan Xing was stunned for a moment, what does this have to do with him.

"Remember that thing I mentioned in the first question?" Cheng Xi said.

"first question……"

Is there anything noteworthy in that statement?

Guan Xing tried his best to recall, and soon recalled what Cheng Xi said at that time:

"Wait, do you mean..." She widened her eyes slightly and looked at Cheng Xi in disbelief.

"That's right." Cheng Xi nodded, confirming the girl's conjecture.

"Lovely Miss Stargazer, may I invite you to help me?"

"Help me - create a soul!" Death.

Chapter 280 The third stage of human beings ascending to the gods

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Stargazing's tone began to become serious: "Creating souls belongs exclusively to the Creator's authority, and even I, as the world manager, cannot get involved in this field."

"Sir, do you want to be a god?"

"It's not me." Cheng Xi shook his head and said, "The path of human development itself is a path to becoming a god."

"God knows everything in this world. Human beings are observing, collecting and recording everything in the world, and building a database based on the entire world."

"God's brain can handle all the things in this world at the same time. Human beings have created supercomputers and quantum computers, and developed artificial intelligence based on this "[-]"."

"God can create and transform everything. On the one hand, human beings are analyzing the world from a microscopic perspective. On the other hand, they rely on AI to calculate the protein structure, and gradually acquire the ability to transform the world and themselves."

Cheng Xi paused, looked at the girl's blue eyes and continued: "So, it's not that I want to become a god, but that human beings are already becoming gods, and this process will not stop unless human civilization is completely destroyed. "

As for the soul, it is just a research topic in this process. Since it really exists, there is no reason not to study it. The so-called materialists are probably like this.

"If creating a soul means becoming a god, lovely Miss Stargazing, are you willing to build this long step to God for human beings?" Cheng Xi asked the girl.

Guan Xing shook his head: "Sorry, I'm not interested in this kind of thing."

"..."

"But..." She changed the subject and said with a smile, "Since you invited me, there's nothing I can do about it."

"Is that so..." Cheng Xi asked after thinking for a while, "Should I be moved?"

"What do you think?" Guan Xing glanced at him, covered his mouth with a feather fan, and said, "Besides, it's really interesting to think about creating souls."

"You just said you weren't interested." Cheng Xi complained.

"You heard it wrong." The girl used an affirmative sentence.

"Sister Guanxing, there are times when you can't be frank." Xi'er whispered to her other self in her heart.

However, it's surprisingly cute.The girl thought to herself.

……

"So, when are you going to go back?"

Bronya raised her head, looked at the familiar face of "myself", and asked with some dissatisfaction.

At this moment, she has returned to her long-lost soul steel body, and is being held in someone's arms.

And the person holding her is herself, or in other words, her original body being controlled by the consciousness of another world.

"It feels so confusing to say that." Bronya complained in her heart.

"Bronya is not in a hurry." The girl shook her head and said, "Bronya has nothing important to do in that world right now, and it doesn't matter if she stays for a while."

"I'm in a hurry!" Bronya patted the table with her small hands and said dissatisfiedly, "If it were you, what would it be like to be occupied by someone for so long?"

Not to mention that the person occupying her body is still playing her games, eating her snacks, hugging her mother... Just thinking about it for a while, Bronya felt herself getting angry.

"Enjoy?" the girl asked, tilting her head.

"I'm talking about my feelings!" Bronya complained loudly: "You're not empathizing at all, are you!?"

"Also, can you stop referring to yourself by name, don't you think that sounds awkward?"

"Bronya doesn't think there is any problem..."

"..."

Alexandra looked at the scene in front of her with a smile, feeling as if two sisters were arguing. This feeling was very strange, as if she suddenly had an extra daughter.

In the past, she also thought about what it would be like if Bronya had another brother or sister, and now she finally saw it. Although there were some deviations from what she expected, it felt good. It's also fun to get along with.

(Bronya: It’s bad, I’m a younger sister)

"Speaking of which, Bronya, you seem to have said that you were not in good health in that world, and you couldn't bear the power of the Herrscher of Reason well, right?"

As if thinking of something, Alexandra suddenly said: "In this case, can you try to borrow the power of little Bronya? The connection established by that hole?"

"Just add a small letter in front of my name so naturally, and don't you plan to consider my own opinion?" Bronya complained in her heart.

You are really my mother.