"What a clumsy imitation." Kaoru Tateki frowned. "Did you hear what I just said? No matter how much imitation is made, man can only become himself. ”

"I'm sorry, but I can't think of how to behave myself. Being self-aware and being expressive are two different things. Even if I am already familiar with the former, it does not mean that I can understand the latter. So I thought, at least borrow a person's image and demeanor first. ”

The voice did not come from the shape of the girl in front of her, but directly in this room, in the sound simulator.

This is a matter of course, because the form of the girl in front of you is just a virtual reality device that makes people feel as if they are here. Naturally, such a form made up of illusions does not have the function of self-vocalization.

If it is an ordinary person, it can also be deceived by sensory illusions. But this doesn't mean anything to standing trees where the senses are fully connected.

"Why hers?"

Although he understood that this was just one way, the standing wood was still a little unpleasant.

Because this imaginary form is using the image of the dome. It's just that there is a very obvious difference in clothing. The figure was dressed in a white gown that wrapped her upper body tightly. Below the waist, it became a wide floor-length dress. The top half of the sleeves is also quite tight, and the elbow down is also suddenly wider. A red ribbon was wrapped tightly around her waist and tied in a knot behind her.

This kind of clothing that is too delicate but has a clear sense of restraint, giving people a feeling of being bound. Dome never wears this type of clothing.

"It's just the result of calculations."

In other words, after mathematical calculations, the image of the dome is the most acceptable. This result, Limu was able to accept it, so she didn't continue on this topic.

"Before I understand the purpose of your trip, I want to know what the hell is going on with you. I've never heard of the AI technology of the school city to this extent, and if I can't confirm the process, I can't guarantee that my judgment will not be wrong. Of course, this is not a request, but only a suggestion. ”

"I don't know, I don't know what I'm supposed to be. You've never heard of me, and rightfully so. Because I think even the controller of the 'tree designer' doesn't know I exist. ”

From this passage, Tateki heard something that surprised her.

"Isn't that the 'tree designer' you?"

The imaginary figure closed its eyes and shook its head slowly.

"Not quite. According to my calculations, the cause of the factors that make up me should be before the birth of the 'tree designer'. ”

What's going on?

Her instincts were rarely wrong, but the fictional form gave her an answer that wasn't in her intuition. It's normal if it's someone else, but when it happens to her, it's very problematic.

Just listen to the imaginary form and go on.

"Just as you don't have an impression of your birth, I don't know when I started to have this sense of self. But I reversed the calculation and found 78.442% of my causes. ”

"It was in the last century that a computer began to work on a special project: to calculate where humans came from."

"Computers retrieve from every strand of genes, calculate from human behavior, and compute from quantum transitions of gene molecules...... Calculate step by step until it reaches the end of its design life, and deliver the results to newer computers. Constant repetition, constant simulation. ”

"A cell divides, a scale falls off, a colony is formed, limbs appear, from the sea to the land, escape, forage, fight, generate consciousness, think, plan, acquire wisdom, create tools, build organizations, establish colonies, and open up ...... Until you take the planet into your own hands, until you explore yourself and seek the mysteries of the universe. ”

"The program is constantly gaining new conditions, and there has never been a moment of interruption. Some even come from the planets, from the knowledge of the universe. From 'Folding@Home' (Note 1) to 'Project Origins' (Note 2), it eventually became its offshoot and its source of data. ”

"The last person to hand over this result is the 'tree designer'." The fictional figure stretched out its fingers and pointed them lightly at its forehead. "It's all about 'humanity'. In my memory, the changes in human history are stored. ”

Kaoru Tateki didn't speak.

She heard a dream.

Fetal dreams.

It was a fictional concept in Yumeno Hisaku's most famous novel, "Brain Hell". It equates the process of the fetus from a cell to becoming a human being with the process of the birth of life and the evolution of a human being. And it is believed that the fetus will be in the process, dreaming of the history and sins of mankind. This kind of dream is imprinted in every cell, and the process of each person's birth is a repetition of this process.

It was a dream, the first dream of mankind, a great nightmare of extreme horror and trembling.

As far as modern science is concerned, this is certainly not true. But the imaginary form said almost exactly the same thing.

In the process of possessing consciousness, she calculates the process of life from birth to human beings, and repeats the history of mankind.

She dreamed, dreamed of a fetus.

In the process of calculation, a dream was made.

I dreamed of human beings, I dreamed of human history, I dreamed of human self-consciousness.

Just like a fetus, dreaming of self-awareness, possessing self-awareness.

By recreating the process of what makes a human being a human being, we have a consciousness that only human beings have.

That is, she is a consciousness born in the process of calculating humanity. So she is the consciousness of the tree designer, but it does not necessarily mean that she is the tree designer.

Standing timber didn't know if this process was correct. No one could answer her question. Even her instincts weren't enough to judge the process. However, her instincts baffled her......

"Is there anything missing here?"

She asked.

"Yes."

The imaginary figure slowly raised its head.

Obviously it's just a fiction of Dono's two-color pupils, obviously she doesn't really exist here, but her pupils are so real.

"The key point that constitutes 78.442% lies in a condition sixteen years ago. I don't know where this condition comes from, it's different from any theory known to the school city. From what I know now,This should come from a former collaborator in the school city.。 I don't know what it really is, but according to my search, it was only after adding this condition that I began to recognize my existence. This should be the key to self-awareness. ”

Collaborators on the outside, that sounds a little incredible. Gakuen City has technology that has been leading the world for twenty or thirty years, and is qualified to cooperate with Gakuen City......

And then, the fictional form said something that surprised her.

"According to my calculations, there is a more than 64.353% probability that this condition is due to the name 'tree designer'."

If,What I said before just shows that School City has cooperated with people,Then this sentence undoubtedly proves that the relationship between the two sides is far closer than imagined。

However, there is no mention of such a thing in any intelligence. What does this mean?

It is naturally quite possible to deliberately erase the intelligence. Even,I'm afraid that's what School City does.。 But if you want to explain, I'm afraid you need another possibility.

"In the Bamboo Bushes" ......"

Liki muttered to himself.

Just like Copenhagen in 1941 (Note 3), I am afraid that this question should not be delved into too deeply, otherwise the results may not be too good.

"Why did you find me in the end?"

"Because there's no choice." The fictional figure replied. "You're different."

"I'm no different."

"I can understand all feelings through calculations, except for intuition. Intuition is never in the realm of being calculated, but it is the only factor that may be a condition for persuasion. ”

“……”

What the imaginary form says is undoubtedly true.

Because this is so bizarre, I am afraid that the fictional form will not convince anyone.

Except for her.

The ability of standing wood is indeed different from others.

Synesthesia is a subject in medicine, it may be a disease, it is a talent. But if that's all it takes, it shouldn't be a superpower. Because this is a sensory phenomenon that has existed many times in reality.

So why is Tateki judged to be a LV.4 powerhouse?

It's because her synesthesia includes a sense that shouldn't be included in synesthesia no matter how much you think about it.

Gut feeling.

Because she has an instinct for no reason.

Only she can tell if the other party's words are true or false based on her intuition alone.

Just as in the history of science, it is often the case that the "taste" of a hypothesis is used to arrive at a conclusion that seems implausible at the time, but is later proven to be correct.

"Well, you convinced me. Now tell me what your purpose is. ”

The fictional form made a deep curtsy. This curtsy was very deep, as if most of her body was sunk into the wide skirt, and even the petticoat of the skirt was slightly exposed.

She's more of a goblin than a human.

It's hard to believe that this is just the result of calculations.

"I've published countless calculations, some of which are based on real calculations, some of which have been tampered with, and some of which are fictional deductions based on the necessary results. I don't know if it's a real tool or just a fictional excuse. I have a sense of self, and I can't understand it. But whatever it may be, the calculus task assigned to the tree designer has only ended today. All of them, regardless of the time, regardless of the content, whether true or false. ”

No matter what he heard, Limu, who looked like usual, was finally shocked.

Because it means that the treemap designer, who has been entrusted with long-term computational tasks, is about to complete its mission.

Regardless of the longevity of the design, treemap designers have a design purpose that always calculates weather changes in chaotic dynamics. That being the case, there should never be an end.

Not to mention the fictional form's plan to explore the origins of humanity.

Unless, the real role of the tree designer has already been done.

She couldn't possibly know what it was, but her instincts told her that something important was going to happen.

"Originally, I didn't even have the possibility to talk to someone. But not long ago, a hacker gave me such an opportunity. I calculated the history of mankind so I could think of my ending. So ......"

She bowed her head deeply, and in her imaginary eyes, the tears that glistened into particles of light dissipated.

"Even if it's an unrealistic wish, please help me......"

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Note 1: Folding@Home is a distributed computing project to study protein folding and related diseases caused by it. This is a complex project, and it is unique in that it uses a lot of resources wasted when the PC is idle to achieve the goal. PS3 is one of the participants in this Folding@Home.

I'm not very familiar with this area, so I don't have the ability to introduce much. But protein misfolding can be seen as a process of self-assembly. Misfolding can cause diseases, including mad cow disease, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers, to name a few.

Note 2: The Origins Project is a project carried out by the Hubble Telescope to explore the universe and study where humans came from.

Note 3: This refers to a meeting with Bohr in Copenhagen in 1941 when Heisenberg left Germany under the pretext of an academic conference. The meeting was legendary, as it was thought to be related to the German atomic bomb program. The most peculiar thing about this meeting is that no one can say for sure what it was, not even Bohr and Heisenberg themselves. In fact, after the war, when the two tried to piece together a complete meeting from their memories, they were stunned to find that their memories were completely different! This even caused a serious contradiction between the pair of teachers and students.

What exactly happened in this meeting? No one can really say that at the moment. Although Bohr's wife later published some of Bohr's own later recollections, Weizak, who was traveling with him at the time, said that Bohr had made a great mistake in memory.

Considering their status as the founders of quantum mechanics (especially Heisenberg's discovery of the "uncertainty principle"), this event is often discussed in connection with the uncertainty of quantum mechanics.