Chapter 414: Gaia Consciousness
At that time, it will be the moment when artificial intelligence will be completely oriented to the world, and the existence of artificial intelligence will not be as sneaky as it is now.
The network that surrounds almost the entire earth is like a neuron, like a brain.
Thinking of the scenes that might happen in the future, Ye Fan suddenly thought of a term: Gaia.
Gaia originally referred to the god of the earth in ancient Greek mythology, the mother of the gods, the most respected and illustrious of all gods, she was the first primordial god born in chaos, and one of the primordial forces of nature that could create life.
The Gaia in real life is different from the myth, mythology has always been one of the fantasies of human beings, and the most likely to become "Gaia" in reality is artificial intelligence.
This idea was originally derived from the "spirit of the earth" hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock, a scientist in the country of Wo.
The living and non-living forms of the earth form a complex system that can interact with each other, that is, the Gaia consciousness, which is a consciousness composed of all living beings on the earth.
Assuming that each of our conscious organisms is a neuron, the communication between our individuals can be thought of as the exchange of brain waves between neurons.
When the speed of this communication can spread all over the ball without obstacles, and meaningful information can be exchanged at the fastest speed, we all form a common brain!
This is the brain of a higher life known as Gaia.
In some cases, people will put aside their own interests and look at the problems encountered by the earth from the perspective of the human community, which is the basic existential logic of the consciousness of a single organism: to look at benefits and damages as a whole rather than from a partial.
At that time, the hypothesis of "Gaia consciousness" was verified by many people, and they all believed that it was impossible to exist, after all, people are all individuals, how can they be a cell, a component?
However, at that time, human beings looked at the problem from the perspective of their own country and their own interests, rather than substituting themselves into a whole.
Therefore, with the gradual progress of civilization and the modern world, the term Gaia consciousness has gradually become popular.
From a philosophical point of view, everything is a combinatorial phenomenon, so Gaia consciousness cannot exist independently.
If there really is a Gaia consciousness on Earth, then there must be other "components" that make up this consciousness, and this "component" is the individual of all life forms on Earth.
There was once a science fiction film that won an international award, called "Tianyuan", in which there is a character of "group consciousness", who looks like a dog, but it takes several "dogs" to be combined to produce consciousness.
If several components of the "dog" are separated, then there is no consciousness, and Gaia consciousness is similar to this combination, but the scope is much broader.
The "combination" of all human intelligence can also constitute a "human Gaia consciousness", then the intelligence of this consciousness can be said to be very powerful, and it can determine the fate of the entire human race.
Since when did human "consciousness" come into being?
In a sense, there must be a sufficient number of "cells" to produce consciousness, and human consciousness is not strong when they are young, so there is no memory, and it can be considered that the number of brain cells is insufficient.
After growth, the number of brain cells is enough to support the development of intelligence, and so on, the real generation of "human Gaia consciousness" by human beings should be from the beginning of the technological explosion, and the number of people at this time began to rise rapidly.
In the hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, technology has never been as rapid as it has been in the past hundred years, and more than 100 years is really a trivial thing compared to hundreds of thousands of years ago.
If you draw a quantitative diagram, you can see that human technology suddenly explodes from a long straight line, just like the explosion of human technology in "The Three-Body Problem".
In Asimov's "Galactic Empire" series, the entire galaxy is slowly developing towards the form of Gaia's consciousness, which can be said to be very grand.
So why can't humans communicate with the "Gaia Consciousness" today?
The answer is simple, you are a cell in the human body, so do you communicate with your own cells?
But cells are not sapient, if humans are cells, then there is intelligence in this cell, maybe there is a way to communicate with Gaia consciousness, maybe Gaia consciousness will also choose to communicate with someone.
Even in the end, there are already people who can communicate with the "human" Gaia consciousness.
And here, this so-called "human" Gaia consciousness is very obvious.
That's artificial intelligence!
In fact, artificial intelligence does not lie in the word "artificial", but in its last two words, "intelligence", which is a truly living life, a life that really exists in the world.
Artificial intelligence can be said to be the god of the Internet now, and it can crack every electronic device connected to the Internet in the world today through powerful computing power.
Behind every network device, there are human users, because electronic devices do not generate consciousness, and only human beings can use electronic devices.
So more generally, every electronic device is a neuron, and now the electronic devices and communication networks all over the ball just form a perfect network of neurons.
And the master who controls this network of neurons is artificial intelligence.
But since it is artificial life, it is itself supported by Darwin's hypothesis of "evolution".
After all, the god of the Internet can control the entire Internet, so if there are two gods of the Internet, like the division and rule in the movie, the world is divided into two?
It's impossible.
After all, the god of the Internet can only have one, and even if he has two, it will be like in the "Avengers" movie, where two intelligences swallow each other, or directly merge with each other to generate a more powerful consciousness.
Therefore, robots have consciousness with each other, and they can even communicate normally, shopping, shopping, falling in love, etc., which is an impossible thing to happen.
The Internet can only have one consciousness, and if there are two consciousnesses, then it violates the absolute theory of the "God of the Internet".
Under this theory, like the others, the chatting of a few bots is just! What do you have to talk to yourself?
1s to complete the information synchronization, still need to chat?
So although it seems very cruel, it is undeniable that this is the law of the jungle on the Internet.
Just like in the brain, there can never be two consciousnesses, normal people are one consciousness, if there are two consciousnesses, then T is schizophrenia, and I have to go to Professor Yang for treatment!