Chapter 45: The Beyond
Thanks to Yang Hai's whimsy, the discussion on how to punish uploaders who broke the law quickly came to an end. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After some discussion among the avatars, the final punishment was to make the second consciousness have to eat, drink, and lazar every day like a person who still has a physical body, and that his body would become dirty if he did not take a bath. The duration of the penalty depends on the severity of the violation.
Lu Ze and Lu Li said that they were once again refreshed their three views - it was just a matter of punishing Alice for not playing games before, but now they can even eat, and take a bath as a punishment!
However, this punishment method is rare and satisfying to everyone, but it is much better than the previous inheritance law.
In the course of these discussions, the conference participants came together to decide on a new term for the second consciousness uploaded to the computer.
- The Beyond.
It means a person who has transcended the limitations of the physical body, does not have to go through the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death like mortals, and does not have to do such trivial tasks as eating, drinking, and Lazar every day, and has attained true freedom.
After that, the virtual personalities talked about the safety of consciousness after neural upload, from the problem of reading memories mentioned by Yang Hai.
However, this problem is not difficult to solve, and the avatars quickly set up a solution on their own: in order to prevent the possible risk of the transcendent's consciousness being read, tampered with, or even deleted, a quantum firewall will be used to protect the consciousness of each transcendent.
Quantum firewall is an encryption technology developed based on quantum teleportation technology, and the laws of physics determine the absolute security of quantum firewall.
In fact, quantum teleportation technology has matured as early as a hundred years ago when Lu Ze was not hibernating, which is the so-called quantum entanglement communication.
This technology first originated from the "EPR experiment" jointly proposed by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, "EPR" is the initials of these three people, and the purpose of this experiment is to refute the "uncertainty principle" of quantum theory, but limited to the level of science and technology at that time, EPR experiment can only be used as a thought experiment. It was not until 1982 that mankind carried out the first real EPR experiment, but the final result was completely consistent with the prediction of quantum theory, Einstein lost, so the "EPR experiment" has been called the "EPR paradox" since then.
In Lu Ze's time, many blind reporters did not know what EPR experiments were at all, and fabricated all kinds of appalling words to attract the public's attention, what "time and space travel", what "faster-than-light communication"...... Whenever Lu Ze saw these reports, he sweated like rain, but there were still many ordinary people who believed it, and even many science fiction novels used quantum entanglement as a means of faster-than-light communication.
But in fact, even if Einstein was wrong, the EPR experiment only proved that locality and objective reality could not be correct at the same time, and did not really prove the existence of signals faster than the speed of light, and if one is willing to abandon objective reality, that is, believe that human "observation" can determine the way microscopic particles move - for example, in a double-slit interference experiment, whether or not an observation is carried out determines whether a photon passes through a double slit at the same time, then the theory of relativity is still correct.
A hundred years have passed, in this era, quantum entanglement communication is as common as the wireless network at the beginning of the 21st century, it is no longer a "black technology", basically every adult knows its principle, knows that this is an absolutely secure way of communication and encryption, and also knows that it has nothing to do with the speed of light. So when considering the need to protect the uploader's consciousness, people naturally think of quantum cryptography.
After determining the use of quantum firewalls to protect the consciousness of the transcendent, Yang Hai and the virtual personalities began to discuss the issue of the transcendent's thinking speed.
That's the biggest problem!
Compared with the problem of thinking speed, the impact of identity issues, punishment issues, security issues, etc., mentioned earlier is actually nothing at all.
Theoretically, the thinking speed of the transcendent can reach thousands of times that of ordinary people, but if the thinking speed of the transcendent is too different from that of ordinary people, the speed of ordinary people speaking and acting will become slower than that of snails in their eyes. In this way, they will naturally lose their interest in communicating with ordinary people completely. And when the transcendents no longer communicate with ordinary humans, although the transcendents are still nominally humans, they can be said to be two species compared to ordinary humans.
This is why Yang Hai originally said that the emergence of neural upload technology has opened Pandora's box, which may bring about the disintegration and even destruction of human civilization.
And that's not all!
If there is no restriction on the speed of thinking of the transcendent, then the average person has experienced a year, and for the transcendent, it has already experienced tens of thousands of years.
In the past, there were no human beings who could live for tens of thousands of years, so no one can imagine what kind of changes will occur in the minds of transcendental beings in this way, and it is likely that they will evolve into a kind of existence that is completely beyond the comprehension of ordinary humans.
Therefore, after some discussion between Yang Hai and the virtual personalities, it was decided to temporarily limit the thinking speed of the transcendents to the level of ordinary people, and only allow it to be increased to ten times that of ordinary people when conducting study and scientific research.
The reason why it is "temporary" is that as people's understanding of the transcendent deepens, the restrictions on the speed of the transcendent's thinking may be gradually relaxed.
At the same time, it is also stipulated that transcendents are forbidden to cross time by slowing down their thoughts or falling into a long slumber unless they have the consent of all relatives and friends.
At this point, the debate about neural uploading has almost come to an end.
The whole process was much smoother than Lu Ze imagined, although there were disputes, there was no chaos. Lu Ze knew that the reason why everything went smoothly was because Yang Hai and Alice had made a lot of preparations in advance and had already taken into account almost all possible problems. In addition, Alice can already be said to be the first person to study the neurological aspects of the human brain, and Yang Hai is also a Promethean with intelligence far beyond ordinary people, even if someone asks a problem that the two of them did not expect, they have the ability to solve it by improvisation. So the whole process of the conference has actually been under the control of the two people.
Yang Haidao: "Then let's enter the final link of this Star Spirit Network Conference, before that, I will introduce someone to everyone." ”
Saying that, Yang Hai snapped his fingers, and Lu Ze and Lu Li instantly broke away from the spectator mode and entered the speaker mode.
They were present in the personal halls of all the conference attendees.