Originally, Zhuang Bifan thought that the mechanical civilization might still be there, and it would definitely take a certain amount of time to detect the designated spiral arm of this galaxy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a result, the scout boats quickly discovered that there was a civilization on the spiral arm, although they were not sure if it was the mechanical civilization. However, the detected data shows that the civilization has made good use of machinery.

The observer ship found hundreds of thousands of planets being developed on that spiral arm. However, this approach to development is very crude. They seem to be just mining ore. I didn't even think about transforming the planet for habitation. And there are many material distribution stations between the stars. Some small cargo ships transport resources mined from the planet to these terminals.

The detection boat happened to detect the departure of a large cargo ship from these terminals. And they've made the leap. Through the calculation of the characteristics of the migratory energy field of these large cargo ships, Zhuang Bifan found that the coordinates of their migrating destinations were also located in this galaxy, and it was on the edge of the complete spiral arm opposite the next door, which was more than 40,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy.

The detected target civilization does not appear to have detected multiple pulsed light waves. Judging from this, this civilization level has not reached the sixth level or above. This is because the multi-pulse light wave has undergone a certain change in the energy properties. This technique is one of the grading standards of the seventh-level civilization. And the sixth-level civilization has also touched the edge of this technology.

Zhuang Bifan knew about this situation, and immediately asked the Hanwu to send a reconnaissance boat to investigate. But this time he had a corresponding assessment of this civilization in his mind. Know that this civilization level will not be too high. Therefore, the detection operation of the reconnaissance boat was no longer concealed.

After a few days of waiting, the reconnaissance boat sent to detect the civilization finally sent back the detection results.

According to the judgment of the Han Wu, it should be a civilization between the fifth and sixth levels.

The Hanwu said to Zhuang Bifan, who had been waiting for news: "The reconnaissance ship found that the heavy industry of that civilization in space is very developed. Their exploitation of some planets has also been detected. Even planets that are clearly well suited for habitation have not been modified. There are a lot of planets like that, but that civilization generally has quite active development activity on planets with very different environments. ”

Zhuang Bifan also has a judgment in his heart. Since it is a planet that does not need to be modified to develop activities on it, it should be a mechanical civilization. It's just that the level of this civilization is much lower than he imagined.

"Are you sure they're in the fifth or sixth level of civilization?" It's not that he has to doubt the judgment of the Han Wu, but the impression given to him by the wisdom brain is that the intelligence is very developed, how can a mechanical civilization be less than a sixth-level civilization after hundreds of thousands of years?

The Han Wu was questioned, and immediately analyzed it again, and finally said with certainty: "Judging from their performance, the most likely type belongs to the peak of the fifth-level civilization to the beginning of the sixth-level civilization. ”

Sima Yun had been listening to the side. Hearing Zhuang Bifan's question, she couldn't help but say: "Is it that we imagine the intelligence of the brain too exaggeratedly." ”

He was stunned for a moment and said, "You mean, intelligence is not the same as intelligence?" ”

Sima Yun nodded and said: "We humans on the earth have always used computers to solve things that we can't do, so we have always given computers high expectations. So the mainstream idea is that if computers have the ability to learn, they can easily replace humans. Because they are much more capable of learning than humans, and without computers, human civilization will regress to an era of low productivity. ”

He nodded and said, "That's right." "Human beings do attach great importance to the development of computer intelligence, but there is also a concern that computer intelligence will get out of control and will be harmful to human beings. After the controlled person turns over, the most brutal reckoning will always be carried out on the controller.

"But humanity never thought about what would happen to computers when they lost their humans." Sima Yun seemed to have straightened out his thinking. "The human intellect includes learning, memorizing, imagining, calculating, analyzing, judging, and summarizing. However, computer intelligence only has memory, logical judgment and summary. And the requirements of life civilization for intelligence are these items. ”

Zhuang Bifan thought about her words for a moment and said, "But when human beings are also possible, it is possible for these machines to form human-like intelligence. Even if an AI masters this, it may create a new intelligence based on this human intelligence. ”

"But I think all living civilizations need to rely on their ability to calculate, analyze and make logical judgments, and they are also slightly required to have a certain ability to summarize. I don't think any civilization with a little brain can give intelligence the ability to 'imagine'. ”

The two had some less in-depth discussions about the definition of civilization.

They all believe that one of the important indicators of civilization is the existence of a continuously developing philosophical and theoretical system. An important element of the continuous development of the philosophical theoretical system is imagination. This kind of imagination does not refer to general assumptions, but to analyze and judge existing things, and then coordinate the development history and current situation of the entire social group and society for targeted in-depth thinking and association.

And the most powerful thing about artificial intelligence is its ability to make logical judgments. This logical judgment ability is actually a combination of calculation and analysis ability.

He motioned for her to continue. Sima Yun smiled and continued: "The biggest difference between artificial intelligence and the thinking organs of living beings is that the circuits are inconsistent. Artificial intelligence operates according to the established program, no matter how perfect the program is, no matter how complete the functions are, even if it gives the brain a self-completion ability. But this program is derived from the philosophy of the living civilizations that created them. ”

"The intellectual capacity for logical judgment is entirely based on the philosophy of the creator, and when they encounter something outside the scope of this philosophical theory, they will only judge it as 'wrong'. Even people, once they think that something is 'wrong', they will subconsciously reject it. And the person who created this intelligence will never compile a program that allows the intelligence to have something "wrong" and continue to entangle. ”

"So when intelligence loses its creator, even if they have the ability to learn, the upper limit of intelligence development is determined at the same time." After she made her statement, but felt it was too absolute, she added. "I think that even if it is a high-level intelligence like Heiyan, there is no room for self-development, let alone a lower-level intelligence."

Zhuang Bifan thought deeply for a while, and felt that what she said seemed to make sense. The development of human civilization is actually the development of philosophy. It can be said that philosophy is the fundamental attribute of a civilization. And the development of science and technology can never go beyond the philosophical concepts of the same era.

Why did the four great inventions of antiquity appear in China? Because in ancient China, the monarchy was granted by heaven, not by the king. Believing in God and not believing in God are two different philosophies.

In Europe, for example, the real brilliant civilization appeared before the emergence of God. When God appeared, the whole of Europe fell into the Dark Middle Ages. It was not until the Enlightenment shifted God from the altar a little bit and developed the philosophy of "God in the heart and the devil around" that Europe entered the peak of scientific development.

Of the four ancient civilizations, only the Chinese civilization that did not believe in God has been inherited, while the other three civilizations have been interrupted when they believe in God. Or rather, don't be limited by their gods.

Of course, there was another civilization that believed in God and was not extinct until the invasion of European colonizers. Note, however, that the highest expression of this so-called civilization was the construction of several pyramids for worship of the gods.

This civilization lasted for thousands of years, and it was able to smelt gold, but when they encountered the Spanish colonizers, they did not even have a few iron weapons. As a result, more than 100 robbers directly attacked the capital and captured the emperor. This is a very embarrassing expression of the word "civilization".

According to these examples, philosophy represents the upper limit of civilization, and there is some truth to it.

Even the Three-Eyed People, who claim to be the highest eighth-level civilization, also have their philosophy, and this philosophy also restricts the upper limit of the development of Black Flame's intelligence.

Although the black flame is guarded against, it is only to prevent it from violating the user's instructions and causing harm to the user. There is no program designed to prevent it from learning and developing its own intelligence. But it's a pity that in the Black Flame Space for more than a thousand years, its intelligence has not been improved substantially, it has only gained some more knowledge, but it has not broken through its original theoretical system.

It is the alienated energy system, which is beyond its comprehension, and it is at most a physical use of energy for hedging. In the end, to solve the problem of alienation energy, it is still a way that Zhuang Bifan can come up with. The same is true of the later dark energy system. Again, it goes beyond the boundaries of its philosophical theory of energy. It had to obtain a new theory of energy application from Zhuang Bifan or Koster, and then complete its information base according to this theory before it could continue to analyze dark energy.

That kind of thing is something that Zhuang Bifan, an earthling from a "primitive civilization", can think of, if Hei Yan is an eighth-level civilization creature, he can't think of it after encountering it. But it only thinks that this energy theory system is inconsistent with its cognition, and even if it comes into contact with it, it will directly judge that this is a "non-existent" energy application method. Even if it has been touched, because its main program, although it is said to be complicated, is actually very simple. What is right is acceptable. Wrong, it won't admit without the user's command.

He thought about Sima Yun's words carefully, and felt that there was really that possibility: a civilization was replaced by the intelligence created by itself because of carelessness or other reasons. And this intelligence loses the ability to develop subsequent philosophies, and after its civilization level reaches the upper limit, it will not advance an inch.

If that were the case, he wouldn't have to worry about the civilization being a threat to him in the future. But he felt he needed to make sure that it wasn't really what they had just said. This mechanical civilization has developed into a bottleneck that cannot be broken.