Chapter 195: An Alternative to Eternal Life?
After some discussion, everyone still decided that in addition to some informatics decipherment, this high-tech instrument should be temporarily sealed, and after the environment of the home planet has settled down, more refined research will be considered.
As for that high-dimensional fragment, it is even more difficult to deal with, and it can only be temporarily sealed.
Zhang Yuan sighed and said, "In order to patch the loopholes of this high-dimensional prison, the artificial intelligence Ita of the Gaia civilization will cut off the connection with this high-dimensional fragment...... Therefore, if you enter again, you are likely to fall into a real high-dimensional space, and there is no way for even atoms to exist. β
ββ¦β¦ It is even more difficult for us to solve the mysteries of the high-dimensional world. β
One of the scientists asked, "So, Dr. Zhang, what is the so-called space?" β
Zhang Yuan rubbed his temples: "I don't know, it's a noun that is not in our human language library, anyway, since the other party told us so, let's not act rashly." It doesn't make much sense to pay for your life without anything in return......"
After the discussion, whether they were curious or not, willing or not, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
After the meeting, Captain Zhao still had some work to deal with, so he left the conference room first.
After losing the restraint of the leader, everyone began to chat casually, including what the silver-white material on the instrument was, whether it was metal, or composite ceramics or something.
Even such a small issue has been debated for a long time, and some people are still enthusiastically betting on a few pieces of chocolate...... Chocolate is a high-priced luxury, and even Zhang Yuan wants to participate in it with great interest.
He thinks those shells are just ordinary alloys...... A lot of things, the performance is enough, there is no need to use particularly tall materials. He dared to pack tickets, and people in the 50th century still used iron pots when stir-frying.
Others are debating how consciousness uploading is actually achieved, whether consciousness is really out of the human body, or is it idling in the computer?
What exactly is the energy system of this robot, etc.
There are so many things that can be discussed in a comprehensive extraterrestrial technology product, and any one of them can be studied by humans for a long time.
Among them, Zhang Yuan is most concerned about a philosophical issue.
Is consciousness uploading, can it achieve real ...... Eternal life!
Standing at the front of the conversation is an expert in bionics, Ichiro Yamamoto.
"According to our preliminary analysis, according to this technology, it is able to upload everything in the human brain, including consciousness, spirit, thoughts, and memories, to computers or other artificial intelligence machines...... Yes, it doesn't seem to require a brain as a hardware support, and I don't know exactly how it was achieved anyway. It's beyond imagination. β
"Then you can send this part of the data back to your body, and then you can resurrect again."
"So I have a few questions......"
"First, 'I' is not this group of data, anyway, it can be described as a soul to describe the **** Ziman's brain. As long as there is the support of this group of data, is it the real me? This issue is very critical for us. β
"Second, is it possible to use this technique to replace the body in order to achieve true immortality?"
"It's inevitable that our bodies will age, and no matter how advanced biotechnology is, it will still age. But if you have this technology, as long as you prepare a new body and reinstall this data back, can you regain your youth? β
"And the third point, can this group of data be backed up and make a new me in batches? When uploading consciousness, what about the original consciousness? Why did the original consciousness disappear? Is it dead? Is the consciousness generated later a clone with the same memory? β
"That is, if a clone is created by erasing the original consciousness...... Well, I'm talking about if, for Dr. Zhang Yuan and Dr. Li Zhendong, a few experimenters...... What's the point of this technology of erasing and cloning? β
Zhang Yuan was a little creepy when he heard these questions, and the discussion in the conference room gradually became louder.
He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Li Zhendong.
Li Zhendong had a straight face and a sad face: "What's that...... As one of the experiencers, I've already died once? I'm already a newly generated me? Shouldn't it...... Ah, I'm dead, I'm alive again, I'm dead again. β
Zhang Yuan couldn't help laughing.
Mankind is still in a rather naΓ―ve state of philosophical discussion in this regard. However, in the face of this problem, we have to think carefully.
What is the data uploaded by this group?
Soul?
If there were souls in the world, then all the worries would not exist......
The point is that Zhang Yuan does not believe in the existence of souls at all. He does not attribute his existence to the unseen, intangible, unverifiable products of religion.
If the soul cannot be verified, then there is no need to think about it.
In this world, there are many things that cannot be verified, for example, arbitrarily defining a life form A, assuming that it is eternal, immortal and immortal; Define a substance B, which is also eternal, immortal and imperishable. By analogy, we can define C, D, E, F, G, and other messy living substances.
It is impossible to prove whether the imaginary A, B, or C exists, i.e., ...... They cannot be proven, nor can they be falsified. When these things don't have any effect on human beings, there's no need to think about it.
This principle is known as the "Occam's Razor Principle".
Compared with the soul, Zhang Yuan believed more in some theories of "Bozman's self-consciousness".
He stood up and said, "Mr. Yamamoto, first of all, as an experiencer, I think so...... I'm still the same person I was. β
Why? According to the 'Bozemann Theory of Self-Consciousness', human self-consciousness is a series of quantum entangled states that appear in a unique environment. Quantum entangled states can achieve overall transitions, but they cannot be replicated identically. β
"Why? Because once you try to copy, you have to read and observe the entangled states inside, and once you do it, the wave function will collapse. β
"What is the result of the collapse of the wave function? Of course, it is the dissipation of self-consciousness, and the person dies and becomes a fixed value, not a random value. β
"So, the will can be transferred, but not replicated."
This statement is not very convincing. The Bozeman doctrine of self-consciousness is itself a conjecture. Explanation by conjecture is not convincing.