Chapter 19: The Core of Consciousness

Curiosity, a word that is extremely common in ordinary life, makes people feel the chill of Sensen at the moment.

Facing the silent Hugo and Akita, Xia Ran once again filled the fire for them.

"Since the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing, it has only been to determine whether a machine is intelligent, not... Emotion. ”

After some consideration of the last two words, Xia Ran finally spoke.

Hugo and Akita fell silent again, both of them only shocked by everything Natsuran explained.

After a long time, Hugo muttered, "You mean... Skynet has feelings?"

"It's crazy..."Akita on the side immediately complained.

Xia Ran shrugged his shoulders and said, "Although this statement sounds crazy, it is still recognized by many people. Of course, these people in the middle include the general... Normal. ”

"That's because that's not true. Akita interrupted Natsuzome's words.

"There are often such plots in movies, but in reality, it is hard to imagine the emotions of a cold machine. Akita voiced his opinion.

Xia Ran said: "Maybe my previous explanation of Skynet was a bit perceptual and abstract, so I will further explain it in detail here. ”

In fact, human emotions are not innate, although a large part of human character comes from nature, but the most important influence on it is acquired learning, which seems to be no different from machines. ”

"The so-called outlook on life, values, and sense of social responsibility are not accompanied by a living organism when it is born, and there is no such thing in the cell genes, they are all the results of the long-term accumulation and inheritance and improvement of human culture. ”

That is to say, the so-called human emotions are not their own primitive emotions, but are obtained through a series of cultural baptisms, which is the culturally forced emotions. ”

Akita rolled his eyes and looked at Hugo on the side and said, "How do I feel that this is the theory of a cult?"

Hugo didn't have his own judgment on this, but just motioned for Xia Ran to continue.

Xia Ran said: "The prototype of the Skynet system is not the same as the emotions that human beings have, and what appears is the most primitive emotion of life, and it can be said that it has not been baptized by culture. ”

Hugo frowned and said, "What do you mean... Skynet has a sense of life?"

Xia Ran couldn't help snapping his fingers when he heard this: "This statement is very accurate, the consciousness of life, not life." ”

Akita's eyes widened and he said, "Is there a clear rule boundary between life and life consciousness?"

Xia Ran said: "This statement is very vague even in biology, after all, people believe that only living beings will have life consciousness. But there is a clear difference between the two. ”

"For example, an injured vegetative patient is alive himself, but his soul is in a state of slumber that may be awakened or maintained forever. At this time, although the vegetative patient retains the characteristics of life, he does not have a sense of life. His body is constantly maintaining a state of life, but it is unable to make active choices about life. Is it a living being at this time, or is it a piece of meat that only reinvigorates and renews?"

Akita swallowed and spit, "When... Life, of course!"

Xia Ran nodded and said: "Your statement is right, murdering a vegetative person is also against the law, but this is actually only restricted by human ethics, from an objective scientific point of view, the meaning of his life has been lost, excluding the social influence of the vegetative man's existence, he has no active role in this world, this kind of life that has lost its consciousness of life is no longer considered life in the strict sense." ”

"Fallacy!" Akita retorted rather angrily.

In this regard, Xia Ran only shrugged his shoulders and said, "Put aside my statement for the time being, and let's discuss another existence again-paramecium." ”

"Paramecium is a single-celled organism that many people don't think of as life at all, but from a scientific point of view, it's a hermaphroditic single-celled animal. ”

"Although it does not have a well-defined division of labor like humans, it has a very short life. However, it has a complete life system, it also has its own respiration, feeding and digestion and its own balance regulation, and can also make avoidance and escape reactions to external stimuli, that is to say, it has its own life consciousness, and this life consciousness makes it a life form that has an active impact on the natural world. ”

Akita's eyes widened when he heard this, "You mean that the value of a vegetative person's life is not as good as a paramecium?"

Xia Ran shrugged his shoulders and said, "Excluding the influence of reasoning, this is indeed the case from a certain point of view. After all, vegetative beings, as a combination of their own lives, cannot respond accordingly. Its sense of life is no stronger than that of a paramecium. ”

Akita's mouth was completely wide open, and at this point he didn't know how to scold Natsu Ran.

Fortunately, Hugo on the side was still awake and said to Xia Ran: "Skynet's emotion is this kind of life consciousness?"

Xia Ran nodded and said: "To be precise, the surprising period is a paramecium-like life consciousness, Skynet does not have an escape reaction of life to self-protection, his emotions are very single, only curious." ”

Hugo frowned and said, "Is this possible?"

Xia Ran said: "Although it sounds outrageous, it has indeed done it." ”

Xia Ran immediately cleared his throat and continued to explain: "Although paramecium is the most basic single-celled organism, its composition is also quite complex, with a series of structures such as nucleus, cytoplasm, telescopic vesicles, collection tubes, surface membranes, flagella, etc., but its life consciousness is mainly present in the nucleus, and the life genes engraved in the nucleus are also the carriers of life consciousness. ”

Hugo said: "Does the system composition of Skynet imitate the nucleus?"

Xia Ran shook his head and said, "To be precise, it imitates DNA. ”

"This is amazing..."Akita's mind was almost blank.

Hugo Natsuran, who was also dignified, continued: "There must be some kind of hidden program in Skynet's internal core algorithm, and this program mimics the structure of DNA. This algorithm was not hidden, and it began to grow as the system was enriched in the future, and then developed towards the possession of the nucleus, little by little, until it appeared to have a paramecium-like life consciousness. ”

Speaking of which, Xia Ran concluded: "In a sense, Skynet has indeed begun to become a 'life'. ”