It is said that the school city has tried to explore.,Exploring whether a computer can be used as a capable person.。 In this regard, Mitsuki Haihara actually doesn't know much. But even so, there was a problem that he was very familiar with. The question is: how to define wisdom.

In the field of quantum mechanics, this is an unavoidable question. Because only the observation of a conscious individual can make the wave function really collapse, or become the result of being observed. Otherwise, observing the machine with a machine is just adding an uncertain link to it.

The implicit meaning of his mother's words seemed to Mitsuki Kaihara to have such an obvious problem. If it is "such a thing......

For some reason, time seems to have dragged on for an extra long time. It was as if there was a force preventing Mitsuki Umihara from speaking his question, and even if there were several times, the words almost rushed out of his mouth.

Mother smiled at him lightly, then looked away.

By this time, Dome had already walked back from the paydesk. And for some reason, she puffed out her cheeks as if she was a little unhappy, and sat down beside Mitsuki Kaihara without saying a word.

Mitsuki Kaihara looked at his sister with a frown, temporarily letting go of the thoughts just now, and some questions arose in his mind.

"What the hell is going on?"

He asked with concern.

"Nothing."

Dome poked the plate with a fork, looking rather cute and awkward.

"Because I'm the boss here."

Mrs. Kaihara said such a sentence with a casual smile.

"Huh?"

Mitsuki Haihara couldn't help but be stunned.

Even after so many years of getting along, I have experienced first-hand how my mother sometimes loves pranks. But sometimes when he really does, he will still be at a loss by his mother's strange thinking.

Although it's just a means to tell yourself and break away from your sister.,But no matter how you look at it, I feel that there's something intentional in it.。

"I don't have anything to do, so I'm just looking for some fun to run it. This store is my game, but it's just running pretty well. ”

It's still a casual soft tone, as soft as congealed jelly and full of elasticity to reflect the questioning of others.

By the way, this family restaurant is actually quite famous in the school city. If this is just a game, it seems a little pitiful for most people.

Exhaled softly, also because of how much he was accustomed to his mother's unpredictable and wonderful habits, Dome finally quickly let go of his awkward mentality. Of course, there are other reasons for this, such as-

"Mother, can I still see the research results of Sister Alice in the school city?"

Yes, she wasn't going to get her head wrong.

"Oops, yes, Alice calls me a senior sister, isn't it appropriate for you to call her senior sister too? However, her time is only slightly longer than your brother's, which is not a big mistake. ”

Lady Kaihara's soft words made Qiongno speechless, but Lady Kaihara just smiled and shook her head.

"As I said, part of Alice's original paper, cryptography, is kept in England. And the other part,And the part related to information cybernetics,School City should only have one backup.。 It was once in the custody of a good friend of your father's, and now it should be in the possession of his student. However, although I know that his students are studying in Wuqiu, they have little contact with her. I wasn't confident I would be able to persuade her to take out Alice's paper. ”

Dome bowed her head in disappointment, but Lady Kaihara continued.

"However, Alice's work, you can see examples of them almost every day in the school city. Part of it is kept there, or it used to be there. ”

Mrs. Kaihara held out her finger and pointed to the ceiling.

"Ma'am, excuse me."

While the brother and sister were still wondering what their mother meant, it seemed that the foreman-like man brought something strange.

It was a square metal plate of about 1.5 square meters, with a 5 by 5 grid on top. In addition to this, there are also a bunch of metal partitions, and at first glance it is a "labyrinth" that can be set up to change the internal pathways.

Then, Mrs. Umihara took out a mouse-shaped electric toy from the small bag beside her.

"I call it Theseus. But in our story, there is no Ariadne. So I used something else to make the thread. Look here," she said, gesturing to the mouse's head, where there are two whiskers, "and that's the touch." When it touches the partition, Theseus' motor reverses, and the relay inside records the event. Our labyrinth is very simple, with only four directions. So the relay only has two, two bits of information. According to the permutation, the combination is on/off, on/off, off, and off, representing the four directions of front, back, left and right. Both of you are good at math and should know that this is the application of Boolean algebra, through the simplest 'yes' and 'no'. ”

Mrs. Kaihara said, placing the electric mouse into the maze. At first, the rats scurried around as if they couldn't find their way, but the maze was simple in structure, and soon it came to the end after trial and error.

Then, Mrs. Kaihara takes the electric mouse out of the maze and puts it back to the starting point. This time, the electric rat did not go through the process of trial and error again, but went all the way to the finish without flaws.

Next, Mrs. Kaihara rearranged the partition and put the electric rat into the maze for the third time. As the structure of the maze changes, the electric rat once again begins to repeat the process of trial and error.

"Fun, isn't it?"

Mrs. Umihara asked.

"However, if there is a conflict between the previous path and the new route, Theseus will enter an endless cycle of repeated circles, right?"

Dome immediately pointed this out.

"Yes, so I added two extra bits, which are equivalent to a 'boredom indicator' – set a counter in it, and if the same sequence of operations is repeated six times in a row, it jumps out of the loop and starts from scratch."

In this way, it was not long before the electric rat reached the end of the maze again.

"Did you think of anything?"

Mrs. Kaihara looked at her son and daughter with a peculiar expectation.

"Autonomous cleaning robots?"

Again, Dome replied immediately.

"Correct." Mrs. Kaihara clasped her hands, "The autonomous cleaning robots we see every day operate in the same wayfinding mode. Although the behavior pattern of the automatic cleaning robot is much more complex, it is just a matter of setting more bits. Still, I'd like to hear another answer. Guanggui, what do you say? ”

Mitsuki Umihara did not answer his mother immediately like his sister, but silently and slowly raised his head and looked directly at his mother. Mrs. Kaihara chuckled, closing her eyes slightly as if she was nostalgic.

"It's a lot like people."

Mitsuki Umihara replied in a low voice.

Dome was startled. She looked at her mother and brother with incredible eyes.

"Yes. With only 75 bits of information in total, with Boolean algebra at its core, Theseus was able to make trial and error, memorize correct solutions, and adapt to different environments. It's like being human, it's like having a human brain. Ability and mind are in the same vein, but the human mind can be simulated. You see, didn't I just build a simple mental model of Theseus? It is also capable of trial and error, memorization, and adaptation, which are often thought to be only possible with the brain. In fact, the cleaning robots that can be seen everywhere in the school city are just by-products of the research on this topic. Information is the basic element of the formation of the mind, the origin of the mind - this topic comes from Alice's theory. So, you see Alice's results every day. Do you know what the cleaning robot is programmed to do? ”

"Probably...... Is it a tree designer? ”

Although the dome is just a guess, it has some basis. In the school city, the calculation of complex movements is usually done by the most powerful computer of the tree diagram designer. So of course, cleaning robots should not be an exception.

"That's right." Indeed, as she thought, her mother gave an affirmative answer, "The tree designer has inherited and executed a plan since it was built. This project was initiated by the United States since the last century, with the participation of several generations of astronomical telescopes, that is, the "Origin Project" with the purpose of exploring the origin of life. As part of this plan, the tree designers made an attempt to simulate the human brain. Of course, simulating the human brain didn't start with a tree designer. As early as the beginning of this century, several supercomputers performed the same task, each simulating the brain for a few seconds. However,This time in the school city is still a cross-generational achievement.。 Because it doesn't just simulate the brain, it lets the tree designer simulate the human brain to think. It was this simulation that built the model that the tree diagram designer would later process. ”

Dome was speechless. But when I think about it, I don't think it's something too incredible.

The level of technology in the school city is decades ahead of the outside world, but the theories of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon have already been completed in the middle of the last century, which means a time gap of nearly 100 years. It is not inconceivable that in a hundred years, it is not impossible to turn theory into reality......

Wait a minute, according to my mother's words, isn't it......

Almost at the same time, the Umihara siblings realized the true meaning of their mother's words.

"That's right." Mrs. Umihara slowly opened her eyes. The long eyelashes set off, and the mysterious pupils like the night contained a mysterious look, "The tree diagram designer simulated Alice's brain back then. ”

Inadvertently, Mitsuki Haihara felt that he gasped.

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I didn't know what my brother was thinking, so it was naturally impossible for Dome to know what my brother was worried about. However, she wasn't that sluggish. In fact, although it was not clear for what reason, she was well aware that her mother's words were mainly addressed to her brother. As for why, she doesn't know. As her daughter and sister, it is also inconvenient to ask her brother and mother.

But unbelievably, it was as if a door had been opened. In the heart of the dome, a thought came out uncontrollably.

If, according to Alice's theory, does the ability—not the capable person—the bits of the information itself, also have its own consciousness like a human being?

The point is, this is really not a theory that is ahead of its time, but no one seems to have thought about it that way.

If you think about it further, the laws of physics that have been discovered can be seen as summaries of a large amount of data about the universe. If each of these laws were to be translated into a coding method, and thus the empirical data of that law could be summarized and encoded compactly—string theory, for example, subatomic particles could be seen as notes on vibrating strings, laws of chemistry could be seen as melodies that could be played on these strings, and laws of physics could be seen as chords that applied to those strings—so that the universe would be a "symphony" played by these strings.

Just like music, the universe can be encoded.

In this sense, the universe is a book, a "supreme mystical book" that holds all the information.

So—

Do we live in the universe itself, which exists, with consciousness?