After lunch, around two o'clock in the afternoon, all the members of the search and rescue team held a meeting in the company's dormitory.

The mission is at an impasse for the time being, something that has not happened in the previous missions - the current state, relying on their strength, there is obviously no way to continue to push forward.

"The Federation has declared war on us," the search and rescue team summed up the situation, "as soon as our search and rescue ships are in their field of view, they will attack us, and they have also started wireless information control, prohibiting anyone from contacting us...... Until the dynamics of the war change, there can be no change in the situation in our favor. ”

"How long are they going to fight?" To be honest, Shen Changwen couldn't understand the war between these two civilizations, originally in his mind, the war between two such high-tech civilizations should break out quickly and violently like the nuclear war imagined by the earthlings...... From the time they arrived, it seems that the two sides spent more time doing nothing and meditating with each other, "so it seems to be more akin to trench warfare in World War I......"

"It stands to reason that the superior side of the Space Force should be able to quickly expand the results of the battle......" Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen's attitude were the same, "Even if it is the inferior side...... Assemble a fleet and raid the opponent's main planet directly. With their huge attack ships, the firepower can be imagined, and if they all carry nuclear weapons, they can blow up the entire planet several times. ”

"It's not that simple...... the search and rescue team reminded them of the fact that "even our search and rescue ship can't go too fast in their galaxy...... Do you know why? ”

"Too many pieces?"

"Yes," the gathering team said, "the ability of any civilization to influence the environment is enormous...... For a civilization like the Federation, which stepped into the space age very early...... Any vehicle flying at high speed in an environment with a lot of space junk is essentially suicidal. ”

"So what are we going to do?" Shen Changwen had an idea, "Is it possible to consider selectively helping the intellectual body...... Open up a war situation? ”

"No," the search and rescue team immediately vetoed, "we must not participate in this war, and once we do, the last chance of success of the operation will be gone." ”

"Can we expect this federation to change its attitude towards us?"

"Quite possibly," the search and rescue team noted the fact that in fact the federal government does not seem to have that much power, and you should have noticed before, the opposition within them...... Big, very big. ”

"It's just blatant."

Both Shen Changwen and Xu Yan were deeply impressed by the opponents they met on their last mission.

"If there is any country on earth where there are such large opponents who take to the streets against the government, and openly use weapons to attack and no one will deal with it...... That country had long since collapsed and entered anarchy. ”

"We can wait and see...... In addition," the search and rescue team paused, and Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen immediately realized what he was going to say, "Your data replication in their civilization...... I believe there is a high probability that there will be some unintended effects. ”

"They...... I guess I was caught a long time ago. Wu Xiaoqing looked at the time, a full 72 hours had passed, and their spacecraft had not received any signal.

Under normal circumstances, if their clones are out of danger, they can always find a way to get in touch with the search and rescue ship - the radio transmitter is definitely not difficult for such a civilization, and the whole planet is full of cars that can fly in the sky everywhere - the aircraft has its own radio inside, as long as one is driven......

But the fact is that until now, the search and rescue ship has not received any signal.

"There is another possibility, that is, they are safe for the time being, but they are just hiding," the team said, "and there is still no new news from Yevgeny's side, which means that the Federation has not yet controlled them...... Otherwise, the mind and body will definitely take action. ”

In the afternoon, the group came to Qinglan for consultation, Yan Yan and Chen She came to greet them, and Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen got the information in their hands - a long list of consultation meetings had been arranged in the afternoon.

Because the objects of consultation are becoming more and more discrete, almost all of them are scattered in all corners of the earth, and all of them are gathered in Ningzhou, China for meetings, which is not only unbearable in terms of cost, but also cannot be reconciled in terms of time, so many meetings now use the method of online video conferencing. To a certain extent, this has facilitated the organization and coordination of Qinglan Consulting, but it has made it more difficult for people like Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen who need to participate in the meeting.

The reason is simple, because if you can hold a meeting online, it means that there are no restrictions on the venue. This means that employees who are not paid can participate in multiple meetings at the same time.

Now in front of Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, everyone has participated in more than three video conferences.

Of course, the search and rescue team will still be responsible for the specific content, but they still need to participate and actively listen to the content of the meeting - especially in their current state of confusion about the task, and urgently need to enter the discussion atmosphere of the consultation meeting to find some "inspiration" for work.

The three meetings assigned by Wu Xiaoqing are mainly divided into three topics, which are all temporarily added because of this temporary accident, the first is about the possible benefits and harms of virtual personalities in terms of technical ethics, the second is about the rationality and shortcomings of the existing political system of the Federation, and the third is the rational explanation of the existing military situation between the Federation and the intellectual body.

The meeting began quickly, and the standard language used in the conference was English because the participants came from all over the world.

Wu Xiaoqing's previous English proficiency...... It's almost equal to 0, but after a few months of study, I can basically understand some, plus the tips of the search and rescue team's subtitles, there is basically no big problem when participating in the meeting normally.

Of course, if Wu Xiaoqing needs to speak in the middle, it still can't be done directly - the formation of language expression ability needs a language environment, and obviously Wu Xiaoqing does not have an environment suitable for exercising English ability.

As a result, Wu Xiaoqing often typed to express his meaning.

The three meetings were displayed on Wu Xiaoqing's computer in three windows, and because of the search and rescue team, all the meetings would start at the same time - which saved the most time.

“…… If the simulation of consciousness functions by the virtual personality has reached such an extent that it can almost be said that they are human beings, another form of human ......"

"This is different from the concept of AI, AI is a kind of thinking program that we use computer technology to simulate an intelligent body, we don't need to care what the principle is, in short, it can show the characteristics of intelligence, it can be ......."

"Some of the AI program concepts that are popular on the earth today are essentially the products of evolutionary algorithms, and of course we know that this is completely different from the mechanism of human intelligence."

"But this kind of consciousness digitization, or ratherization, personality digitization, virtualization is not the same, it should be a comprehensive imitation of our brain function - here we should note that brain function does not only mean intelligence, intelligence itself is only a part of our brain function."

"We can accept a piece of AI telling us the result of a formula, or recognize something familiar to us, but ...... If it can enjoy movies, literature, or music as much as we humans, or even more, I can imagine that if this virtual personality program really exists, he will have the same appetite as us humans when he sees a piece of food, even if he doesn't even have a digestive system. ”

Furthermore, if such a person lives in a virtual environment like the one in the setting, he will not be able to distinguish between his own reality and falsehood when the environment is completely realistic. It's the same premise as mentioned in The Matrix......"

Wu Xiaoqing listened a little drowsy, this foreigner talked for a long time all the words on the information, he had to interject in the form of typing: "Professor, the focus of this discussion should be more on the possible consequences of virtual personality...... Rather than introducing the virtual personality technology itself. ”

After listening for about ten minutes, Wu Xiaoqing finally heard something that he thought was valuable:

"The biggest problem with virtual personality, in my opinion, is also a more serious and terrible problem than AI, and that is the reproducibility ......"

"According to our previous definition of virtual personality, it can be assumed that it should be a limited period of data storage, and a self-autistic program is just like our brain. As long as it is finite and self-contained, or closed for other reasons, it must be technically infinitely reproducible......"

"No matter how advanced this civilization is, as long as it reaches the level of infinity, it will definitely not be able to withstand it. Many professors have just mentioned that such a virtual person will be afraid that he will be a replica, but in my opinion, on the contrary, for this kind of virtual personality, what he should be most afraid of should be that there are no replicas like him around. ”

"In my opinion, as long as there are enough samples of such virtual personalities, sooner or later there will be people who are willing to copy themselves - if they can still coexist harmoniously with each other, then such a collection of virtual personalities can almost be regarded as a social group, and even, if the number continues to rise......"

"Imagine that maybe one person can become a nation, a civilization."

"For a traditional, primitive, multi-personality society, this new type of society composed of a single personality is like a virus that can break out at any time...... It will cause great harm to the original society. ”

"Not to mention the possible tearing of social values, just the energy required by these replicas - no finite civilization can withstand such infinite replication."

"Therefore, as long as such technology exists, there must be corresponding limitations, and on the contrary, once this restriction is opened, the entire civilization will immediately be at risk of disintegrating, just like the world of computers suddenly all infected with computer viruses!"

The second topic is also quite rewarding.

“…… There is no doubt that this federation civilization in the setting is a ...... that has reached heights No, it should be said that the extremely developed super civilization, your company's information is very detailed, I personally admire, I noticed that in their language, salary, currency, treatment...... These words are all used to describe the ...... of history"

"In all the content of their speech, no one, on any occasion, mentioned the concept of money. We can almost assume the fact that money, within this civilization, has become a social tool that has become obsolete. ”

"We all know that for a society, the biggest function of money is to distribute social wealth, and the privatization of financial rights is not only an important guarantee of social order, but also a quantitative tool for social wealth, individual contribution, and even social production.

"First, all of them are saints and there is no such need. This is not true from the information we already know, not only are they not saints, but there are also quite a few contradictions between the community. ”

"Second, they have a more efficient and acceptable way of distribution than money."

"From the rest of your company's premise, it's clear that you'd prefer to lean towards the second one......"

"Then, we can further imagine that an economic system that can accurately distribute social needs and does not rely on money will certainly not have a little bug every few decades like this economic system on the earth, and there is no such word as economic crisis in their linguistic settings at present......"

“…… Then, such a system can obviously accurately calculate the needs and wishes of each person. ”