Chapter 44: Methods of Punishment
"Do you have any opinions on the above three rules?" Yang Hai asked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Nope." Avatar Nine shook his head: "Although these regulations are a little unfair to the second consciousness, at least I can't think of a better solution, and if there is no better way to solve the problem, I think these three rules can already be implemented in practice." ”
Avatar No. 10 also said: "After all, the second consciousness already has an eternal life, and even if he cannot inherit the relationship with his past relatives or friends, he can find new friends and emotional homes again, so I believe that these provisions of the second consciousness are also acceptable." ”
Yang Haidao: "Yes, considering that the second consciousness is the uploader's consciousness itself, if the uploader is mentally prepared to accept these regulations before uploading, then the second consciousness after uploading will never object." So as long as the psychological test on the uploader is rigorous enough, it won't cause a problem. ”
Virtual Personality No. 10: "So what if the first consciousness thinks that the second consciousness can no longer be its successor and asks for another neural upload?" Should we agree? ”
Virtual Personality No. 2: "In principle, of course, you have to agree, but with the second time, there must be ten times and a hundred times, so a time limit must be made, stipulating that the two uploads must be separated by a period of time, so as to ensure that the consciousness can only be uploaded again after the difference reaches a certain level, otherwise it is very likely that a consciousness will have dozens or even hundreds of copies." ”
"It's a must." Several virtual personalities said together.
Then, after some discussion, several virtual personalities set a rule that the time interval between two uploads must reach 3 years.
Avatar No. 2: "There is another question, if the first consciousness suddenly does something heinous after a period of time in his nerves, and then he commits suicide, should we punish the second consciousness or make him responsible?" ”
Avatar Ten: "Didn't you say this before?" If the first consciousness commits suicide and the second consciousness is unwilling to inherit the identity and take responsibility, he is convicted of intentional homicide. ”
Avatar No. 2: "But what if the second consciousness doesn't know?" ”
Avatar Ten: "Obviously, if the second consciousness is unaware, then he shouldn't be held responsible, but if it was all planned before it was uploaded, then he must be held responsible." ”
Avatar No. 2 asked, "So how do we judge whether the second consciousness is aware or not?" ”
The other avatars were speechless.
Yang Haidao: "This is indeed a problem, although it can be judged by reading the memory, but this is obviously not good. ”
Avatar No. 2: "Yes, we must ensure the absolute safety of the uploader's consciousness and never read the memories of others under any pretext. ”
Yang Hai continued: "So I think the best way is to take precautions and screen out people with such dangerous thoughts as much as possible in the psychological test before uploading." If this happens, then second consciousness is more likely to be unaware. Of course, even if this is the case, we still have to find evidence through other methods to make a judgment. If the second consciousness is really guilty, then he cannot be spared. ”
Avatar No. 10: "That's all it takes, then it's back to the previous question, how do we punish the consciousness in the computer to be effective?" ”
In this era, the death penalty has long been gone, and even imprisonment is only used for those who may pose a danger to others at any time. For the ordinary offender, people think more about how to rehabilitate him, rather than punish the offender with revenge, but at the same time, there can be no punishment at all, otherwise it will not serve as a warning to the world.
Therefore, the punishment for Alice is to limit some of the help of the Star Spirit Network in her daily life for three years, such as cleaning and food preparation, and Alice will have to do these things herself. In addition, in the future, although Alice can still communicate with people through the Star Spirit Network and use the Star Spirit Network for scientific research, she will not be able to entertain in the virtual world, such as entering the game world and so on. Of course, for Alice, the latter has absolutely zero effect on her.
Although this kind of punishment seems very ridiculous in the eyes of Lu Ze and Lu Li from the 21st century, it is already a terrible punishment in the eyes of most people in this era, which is enough to achieve the purpose of alerting the world.
Virtual Personality No. 2: "In the past, people often punished offenders by depriving them of their rights, such as the death penalty, which is the deprivation of the right to life, imprisonment, the deprivation of the right to personal liberty, and the deprivation of political rights. Today's Star Spirit Network's restriction on the authority of violators is also a kind of deprivation of rights. So I think the punishment of second consciousness should also be considered from this aspect. ”
Avatar No. 10: "What rights are you going to take away from him?" Game rights? ”
Virtual Personality Eleventh suddenly shouted: "No, such a punishment is too cruel!" ”
Lu Ze and Lu Li almost thought that they had heard it wrong, didn't they just not allow them to play games, and the virtual personality actually used the word cruel.
But when they thought about it, the people of the 'Dream Tower' dream of playing games, and depriving them of the right to play games is almost equivalent to depriving them of their dreams, which is indeed a cruel thing.
If you think about it this way, perhaps the punishment for Alice is more severe in the eyes of others than they thought - although it was only forbidden to play games.
Yang Haidao: "Actually, we can first think about what benefits neural uploading will be for uploaders. First of all, the human body has to experience the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death, and the consciousness in the computer does not, which is the biggest benefit, but these benefits are usually not reflected in daily life, if it is only for these benefits, people can wait until they are old before uploading. The rest of the good thing is that after the uploader abandons the body, he doesn't have to do a lot of meaningless things every day, such as eating, drinking, and lazing, as he used to do, and I think that's the real reason why people yearn for neural uploading - through the upload of consciousness, they abandon the body and thus gain real freedom. So I think the best punishment for them is to punish them for having to eat and drink in the virtual world, if they don't eat, they will feel hungry, if they don't drink water, they will be thirsty, and after that, they will have to poop and pee, just like when they still have a body, and punish them for not enjoying the benefits of nerve upload. ”
Avatar Ten shouted: "Wonderful, such a punishment is wonderful!" ”
Virtual Personality No. 11 also clapped his hands and praised: "Great, if that's the case, it won't be too cruel, and it can play a great role in alerting." ”