It is still boundless darkness, but it is no longer nothingness, but real darkness, and it is the real darkness that replaces the darkness of nothingness.

Aoki's consciousness floats in the darkness like a ghost, without form or logic, but he has feelings, he can feel a lot of strange things, complicated, like the macro information of the universe, everywhere, but he can't grasp it.

Then, in the darkness, there were countless dense bright spots, brighter than the stars in the night sky. But you can't tell how close it is. It seems to be far away from you, and it seems to be within reach, and even Aoki feels that those bright spots overlap with himself.

Aoki is very sure that this is no longer at the point of zero dimension, this is entering another world. If this is the dream of a local area network, then what is the composition of this world?

Of course, the LAN has no concept of people, and its memory is not a human memory, so Aoki is also disembodied at the moment. As an invading consciousness, his form depends on the dreamer's memory formation, or he uses his powerful mental power to interfere with the dreamer and make himself manifest.

However, at this moment, Aoki felt a strange spiritual power, but did not feel the existence of the dreamer's subjective consciousness. I don't know where this spiritual power comes from, as if there is no origin, it is this strange space itself. He floats in this strange space, or it is not called floating, because the meaning of the word "floating" is "floating", a state formed by the buoyancy of air. Aoki's consciousness is not affected by any force, nor does it appear to be "floating" because of this.

The ubiquitous bright spots are constantly shaking, and Aoki feels that these bright spots contain a lot of information, but Aoki is very sure that the bright spots in front of him are not luminous objects, but just a kind of reductive cognition of consciousness. The so-called reduction of cognition is to reduce what cannot be understood and described into something that can be understood and described by oneself.

For example, in dreams, there is actually no time, but we usually feel the passage of time, which is a kind of reductive cognition. In fact, many things in the dream are overlapping, just like rolling up the universe on a time axis, the world can be understood in the subconscious, but our apparent consciousness cannot understand it, and language cannot describe it, so after waking up from the dream, or at the moment of exiting the dream, the consciousness will expand this timeline, so that we can understand and describe the dream. So no matter how long the dream is, the dreamer is often only a moment in the real world.

Aoki's consciousness and those bright spots constantly collide and merge and separate, like shuttling through a kaleidoscope.

A bright spot suddenly unfolded, and it became a blue ocean. There is a flag in the sea, and the flag is a four-colored square, which is fluttering in the sea breeze. The flagpole is horizontal, slowly changing color, and there is a line of letters above the flagpole.

Aoki felt that this flag was very familiar, and suddenly remembered, isn't this just a picture of a Windows boot interface?

He immediately understood that the bright spot was a source of information that contained the painting, and when his consciousness received the complete information of this source, the source of information would expand into a dimensional that he could understand.

The blue boundless sea suddenly enveloped his body, but he couldn't see the existence of the sea at this time, the flag and the letters of windows were gone, he could only see the floating points around him one by one and the lines connected by the floating points, and when he shuttled between the floating points and the lines, the shadows created by the lines made him see the flat shapes of various shapes.

Aoki knew that he had now entered the two-dimensional world where the information source of the boot interface had unfolded. Our three-dimensional world is a three-dimensional world composed of points, lines, and planes, and the light and shade formed by light allow us to visually form a three-dimensional cognition. This is a world composed of dots and lines, and floating points and lines form a similar effect of light and shadow in the process of shifting and disposing, and you can see flat things in your consciousness.

Aoki understands that this is a multi-dimensional world, and that the source of information can be expanded in any dimension, and then the consciousness will transform the expanded information into something that can be understood.

He quickly broke away from the two-dimensional world composed of the boot screen, and the world became a kaleidoscope in front of him. He shuttles through the kaleidoscope in search of sources of information that can be unfolded.

When the source of information is unfolded, there are some that he can understand, some that he cannot understand, some that can be described in words, and some that cannot be described in words. Some are one-dimensional, some are two-dimensional, some are three-dimensional, and some are indescribably high-dimensional.

For example, there is an information source that is overlapped and densely packed after unfolding, like a three-dimensional city. When Aoki first saw this, the first thing that came to mind was the mountain castle, with the street on the roof and the street below. However, in this three-dimensional city, no matter where you start, you can go directly to another and anywhere. It's like if you're sitting at home, you can see the actors in the opera house through the wall of your living room, and you can reach out and take the books in the library. This incredible feeling of space cannot be described in words.

Aoki is now very sure that the professor's guess is right, that the LAN does have consciousness, and the machine consciousness also dreams. Now, he's in this guy's dream, and these messy sources of information are the data stored on the server, but I don't know if it's all of them, or just a part of the memories like a human dream.

Now the most critical question is, where is this subject of consciousness?

Aoki has been looking. He has to find it in order to know what Internet consciousness is, and whether it is the same as human consciousness.

At this moment, a voice came into his ears, to be precise, a consciousness was communicating with him, this communication was not verbal, and he didn't have ears at the moment, but we can only use the method of reducing cognition to describe the content of Aoki's communication at the moment.

"Ghosts!"

This is the first communication message Aoki received, and it is not vague at all, it is a ghost.

"What did you say?" This is Aoki's question.

"I'm a ghost." This is the consciousness that says, "Who are you?" ”

Aoki said, "I'm human. ”

"People?" That consciousness said, "Is this it? ”

Aoki saw a point of light float and soon spread out in another dimension, becoming something that was not easy to describe, like a long wire crawling with many twisted bugs. This is the visual cognition after the restoration of human consciousness, not the information cognition after the expansion of this information source. But Aoki understood the information of this information source, which is a word-like document, and it is an encyclopedia of information about "people" -

Man, whose scientific name is Homo sapiens, means intelligent man, is a species of the genus Homo primates, whose mitochondrial DNA and fossils prove to have originated more than 5 million years ago......