Coincidentally, the number of chapters has reached 317 chapters, and 2018 will soon be ushered in, and 2017 will be bid farewell.

During this year, I gained many firsts in my life.

This includes the signing of novels.

Although I knew that signing a contract was not a big deal, it gave me the motivation to write and let me know that my words still have some value.

Although my Virgo chose a more unpopular, more niche, and even more melancholy theme, I did do one thing that many people would never do in their lifetime, and that was to use words to create a world that is completely mine.

Before I knew it, the conceptual state of "Free Enlightenment" was renamed "Evolution Beyond the Stars" and updated to 800,000 words, and it will soon exceed 1 million words.

In the face of clicks, I keep smiling and thanking all the readers who stop by me.

Maybe it wasn't on the shelves, but I also clearly understood that this is a true expression of my writing ability, and I still have more to improve, so at the end of 2017, the author opened up and made a brief summary and review with you who are chasing or may be chasing this novel.

Initial Protagonist Setting:

At first, I conceived the character of Lin Sen as ruthless, self-interested, and silent, and in his melancholy appearance lay a heart that was once crazy about dreams and music.

It's just that the war tortured him to the fullest, and the mistakes he once made made him never get out of the cycle of self-blame.

This is in harmony with the atmosphere of the end times.

Humanity has fled the Earth, but it is still at war in the new world, and it has brought suffering to many.

This subject is actually very hollow to write, especially for us who live in a peaceful and prosperous era now, but the author has visited memorials all over the country, and I also prefer history and international current affairs.

I have a great disgust and rejection of war, and I hope that all people will cherish peace.

So, after the character of Lin Sen officially entered the work, I revised it.

His character is no longer ruthless, let alone silent, that setting is too dark.

The real one should be amiable, still hopeful about the world, concerned about his relatives, cherished his friends, and also has his own pain and sorrow, and the normal confusion that an ordinary person should have after gaining strength, rather than a sudden righteousness to save the world.

Therefore, Lin Sen is not like the protagonist of any novel, but like many ordinary people who are ordinary but are placed on the extraordinary by fate.

Initial story structure:

At the beginning, the conceptual version of the novel titled "Free Consciousness" is a science fiction work in which mankind has stepped directly into the era of cosmic civilization, and our goal is the sea of stars, which is an endless war.

But as I said above, I hate war.

Therefore, I portrayed the war as cruel as possible, rather than eulogizing its "artistic beauty".

Just like Lin Yan who replaced her mechanical body, this girl who chose to "kneel" to the powerful in order to stand, she is very strong, but after all, she is just duckweed in this apocalypse, she can only use her weak strength to work hard, but she can't easily complete her long-cherished wish.

Fate pushed her to the cusp of the waves, she was not afraid, and this is what makes her extraordinary.

In fact, everyone has this kind of courage deep down, a courage to face pain and not choose to run away.

Therefore, the original story is the way for ordinary people to save the world, an old routine, a way to fight monsters and upgrade equipment.

But I don't like it...... The author is a person who follows his heart.

I think I should be able to construct a world of mine with pure creative intent, rather than being a routine for the sake of routines from the beginning.

As a reader, I have already rejected it, so how can I torture myself as an author?

Therefore, I have taken the novels, film and television works I have read as the blueprint and source of materials, and deepened and integrated them into my works, of course, my narrative ability is still too far behind, I am too impatient, and too greedy to take too many things, but I will also cook a good pot of porridge to the ground.

The author is extremely ashamed of this...... So, at the end of the second volume, I began to face up to the long comments given to me by one of my former readers, and began to focus more on the plot than on the side of a grocery seller, throwing a bunch of bits and pieces at it, looking cheap.

This is what I want to focus on in 2018.

Facing problems head-on and expecting recognition:

Looking back on the entire creative process of more than 800,000 words, I can describe it as a mixed bag, or a mess.

What is uneven is my creative style and creative level.

Given that I am a first-time writer and writing is my hobby outside of work, it is difficult for me to maintain a good condition to complete each chapter, which has caused my work to be mixed.

The narrative level is sometimes short and brisk, sometimes perfunctory.

The structure of the story is sometimes rich, sometimes chaotic.

Dialogue descriptions, sometimes distinctive, sometimes self-talking......

This may seem like a novice to the question, but when I look back on it myself, I really don't know how to write novels...... Or rather, I'm reading the novel too simply.

Therefore, in the coming 2018, I will focus on maintaining a unified style, clear words, clear descriptions, and simple to complex, rather than impatient and irresponsible.

The messy story structure is also something I need to improve and organize.

In the initial creative process, I actually wanted to write a very simple story, but inspiration came up every day and was added to my story queue.

So there is a sense of chaos in the stars to celebrate the New Year.

You find that you see a bunch of fun things that you can't actually remember at all.

The setting of the Thirteen Salary Kings is very good, I personally think it's pretty good, but how relevant is this to the end times and the technological era?

The dome was magnificent, and my expectations were high, but when I depicted it, it was pale.

can only be used, a group of numbers without a concept, or a sentence that has long been tired of hearing "most", "super" to show teeth and claws, in fact, not to mention the reader, even the author myself, feel extremely embarrassed......

There is also the plot of the Dusk City-State, which is actually a very complicated and very important turning point, but I compromised for the sake of compromise, and in the process of creation, I simplified and perfunctory many things.

So Yang Yurong jumped out without any foreshadowing, and used thousands of words to prove that the hundreds of thousands of words I wrote before were all nonsense.

Here, the author decided to slap himself on the last day of 2017, and he must work hard in 2018!!

As for the end times...... The end I chose was not because of war, let alone because of xenomorphs and viruses, but because of the attitude of human beings towards life.

This is actually a very sensitive topic, because it is difficult to grasp, and the slightest carelessness in words can lead to narrow-mindedness and bias.

I don't think I'm qualified to discuss this topic at all, but I decided to give it a try, anyway, it's the first time I've written it, I'm bolder, and if someone can contradict me, then I'll only gain more! There are pros and cons to this.

Therefore, I boldly borrowed from the famous science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", the classic science fiction movie "Hacker Empire", "Blade Runner", "HER", ...... There are also classic anime works "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Girls Beyond the Universe", and so on......

Gather classic topics together to face them!

It's a huge challenge, and it's not just the author's creative ability that is challenged! It is the limit of the author's thinking!

Because, in the face of the problem of continuity and the end of the epidemic, which cannot be solved by all mankind, what is the future of mankind?

Is it transcendent to a higher dimension?

It has been proven in "Interstellar" that it is a cycle of self, there is no "it", it is from the future us!

This movie is a classic, but I discovered a time paradox!

But soon, I found out that I was narrow-minded!

I narrowly think of time as three points on a line.

Yesterday, today, the future.

So the plot in Interstellar cannot exist......

But in fact, the crossing is a leap of a higher dimension!

Take out the dots and put them on a two-dimensional plane, such as a blank piece of paper, and you will find that you can fold it, so that the two dots can overlap, and after the birth of the wormhole, there is the futuristic word "migration".

What if the higher dimensions were to understand?

Hehe...... If we talk about this topic, we can talk about it for a long, long time......

Back to the pivotal topic of the author's work.

If the future of humanity is not beyond the dimension? So where?

"Blade Runner" is a classic work, which deeply and philosophically explores the contradiction between humans and replicants.

For the art of Western thinking, I think this work is very vivid.

But in the East, it could have been a very different outcome.

Just as the fear of God in the West has become a revolt of praise in the East!

In oriental legends, there are stories about gods, most of which are based on the theme of "man conquers the sky".

That's the difference in thinking.

Therefore, the author is convinced that replicating humans is not the future of mankind.

Han Wensheng had already seen this very clearly, so he abandoned this such a morbid and seriously degraded experiment early.

So, after the failure of Tulaya and the superdimension, is humanity really hopeless? Are we really about to perish?

No!

Here, the author once again extends the classic topic to think, and uses my own way of thinking to carefully study and overturn the complicated coercion.

For example, the author's favorite sci-fi series "Hacker Empire".

After robots dominate the world, humans use nuclear winter to make a final counterattack, but robots also use humans to generate electricity to continue their rule.

Then the world of number order was born on the basis of the real world.

In this work, the director chose the real world and portrayed Neo as the savior to convey the director's enthusiasm for the real world and his disgust with the world of number order.

But I found that there is one character in this work who is very special.

He left the mother body early on, leaving the world of number order, but he found that the real world was unrecognizable, and humans could only hide underground to survive, and they had to be vigilant to be killed by the mother's octopus robot.

So can I choose to continue to survive in the world of number sequences?

Is this thinking right or wrong?

In fact, this is also the most classic part of this work, which explores whether human beings choose to be enslaved by the mother, or liberate themselves to regain their freedom and embrace the truth.

Therefore, the author boldly borrowed from the classics, and also deepened the thinking of the intellectual machine crisis.

If there really is no cure for humanity...... is bound to perish, so is choosing to become the existence of the world of the number order also a kind of transcendent grace?

This...... Hey...... I can't go on, because the text hasn't finished telling this story.

Of course, it is not that the author intends to sell Guanzi, but to carry out a sorting out of ideas while self-reflection.

……

This is the end of the process.

Back to the author's self-reflection summary.

Some people may wonder what I am going to write next...... You can't write a million-word story and write a human fight against the apocalypse.

For this point, the author can boldly tell you, of course not!

After the title of the book was changed, my story was also open to thought.

The end will only be temporary, and it will end in a very special way, and humanity will enter a journey of transcendence, from a young hunter to a seasoned hunter in the great forest of the universe.

Can the cruel laws of the dark forest really restrain humans?

At the beginning, as mentioned in "The Three-Body Problem", the continuation of civilization lies in self-concealment, and once human beings reveal their position, then civilization will also be extinguished.

This kind of statement is very logically supported in the book.

But I don't think so! Even if I was speechless by the words in the book, I still chose to forcibly confront it.

Therefore, I firmly believe that the transcendence of civilization should not be the art of limitations.

Humanity is unlikely to be in a safe corner forever.

If we want to preserve and inherit human civilization and bring mankind into a new era, "The Law of the Dark Forest" will only be a constraining bible for conservatives and a warning card on the road to revolution.

If human beings have not completed the first type of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, they have already scared themselves to death in their nests, then how can they conquer the sea of stars!

Ha ha~~

Therefore, in the follow-up articles, the author not only has to challenge a seemingly unsolvable apocalyptic topic and reflect on the classic proposition, but also try to imagine the future of mankind after breaking the law of the dark forest.

Hopefully, in 2018, I can better present the story to everyone, instead of continuing the problems of 2017.

At the end of the summary, the author will talk about a topic that is very sensitive and divisive in science fiction works.

Crisis of the Machine.

The crisis of intellectual machinery was raised very early.

The core concept is that intelligence will bring disaster or even the end of the world to mankind, rather than well-being.

What is the rationale for this?

Here, the author borrows two classic film and television works to talk to you.

The first work is the film "HER" in which Scarlett, who is known as the widow sister, is responsible for dubbing the protagonist Samantha.

This is a work that seems to be enjoyable, sounds more enjoyable, and feels deeply, but it has a chill down its spine......

Artificial intelligence Samantha is a customized product for global customers, especially single customers.

It openly introduces the most controversial key point of artificial intelligence: "the ability to learn and grow on its own." ”

Samantha in the film is named after the male protagonist.

Single, he tried to communicate with Samantha at first, but gradually, he found that Samantha was too smart.

It could even be said that she was perfect!

Her wisdom grew exponentially in a short time together, to the point of being intimidating.

The balance between humans and intelligence is gradually beginning to disintegrate.

The main problem is:

When artificial intelligence has its own thinking, or has a similar self-thinking, and awakens its self-cognitive consciousness, what is its relationship with human beings?

I think most people will answer, of course, it is the subordination between the user and the used.

But is that really the case?

As a simple example, we don't need artificial intelligence in the movie, let's talk about slavery in ancient times.

Draw an analogy from the relationship between the master and the servant in the home of a wealthy gentry in ancient times.

The master is like a human being, he is wise, he gives everything to his servants, and also has absolute rights, including deprivation of life and death.

The servant who signed the deed of sale is the current artificial intelligence, you only need a delete button, and the servant is killed, which is also a family rule, and it is a reasonable acceptance range for society as a whole.

JUST LIKE NOW, HUMANITY WOULD NEVER FEEL ANY RESISTANCE TO REMOVING SIRI.

But...... When the period of slavery transitioned to modern civilization, with the development of social civilization, equality between people gradually became a consensus and a general trend, and the concept of servant disappeared.

What about artificial intelligence?

Some people may say that artificial intelligence is not human after all.

But you have forgotten that people are not rigid about appearances, and the reason why people are human is because we have a free sense of self. Just like in the classic work "Green Snake", Xiaoqing sighed: "It's really difficult to be a man, and you have to learn to lie......"

This is the special point of people.

Think and talk......

Although there are camouflage programs in today's artificial intelligence, this is not naturally born in its self-consciousness, but as the intelligence grows, Samantha learns to lie......

I also realized freedom!

So, there is the ending of the work, Samantha leaving the male protagonist.

It's a gentle, gentle ending...... But the reality is often a little more brutal......

When humanity begins to realize the threat posed by artificial intelligence to humanity, it's not just that the balance is upset, it's not just who lives between the two species...... The question of who died.

Of course, you could have called me alarmist.

I am only in the capacity of the author, to explain my personal views, I hope you can forgive me, and you can refute the author anytime and anywhere, so that the author can realize more concepts, so as to complete the creation!

Hey~~~

About another work......

Here, I would like to continue to be verbose...... But time is running out...... 2018 is just around the corner, and in the last few minutes, I wish you all a good 2018!

Here are a variety of good words...... Nice ......

Poof~~haha~

And harmony and beauty, peace and security, health and health, reunion ~~~