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At the same time as the color center is rising, Super Dorothy, which is also hidden underground, is falling. There are many similarities between the Super Dorothy alienated by Dorothy and the color center formed by the color system, and at the same time, in terms of function, it is also used as a super biological computer by underground researchers hidden in the hospital, in terms of computing power, the gap between Super Dorothy and the color center is not too big, but in the eyes of researchers, if it is only regarded as a "computer", the algorithm and hardware composition of Super Dorothy are very different from the color center. To use the analogy of "two different computers", it is simply that the external and internal parts are not interchangeable at all.
The experience summed up in the color center, put on Super Dorothy, 99% is ineffective.
Obviously, when they were still in their "human" form, they had the commonalities of being both human and doomsday syndrome patients, but when the two were alienated, this commonality seemed to be hidden, and most of what was revealed to the researchers was differences. Of course, most of the researchers who can contact Super Dorothy can't get close to the color center for a long time, and they don't know what the color center's body looks like. Even so, when they tried to figure out what the Color-Binding Center was by studying Super Dorothy, they always got something that made people more and more confused.
Super Dorothy does not have the ability to directly intervene in the mental world of LCL and doomsday syndrome patients in the color center, and cannot become the second interface of the doomsday illusion, which is the conclusion reached by underground researchers after a long period of research, as for why Super Dorothy can't do what the color center can do, this question just proves how big the difference between Super Dorothy and the color center is. Even so, the underground researchers were able to bypass Dr. Ender's team to a certain extent and carry out research in the other direction precisely because Super Dorothy also had its own advantages.
The Chromogen Hub was taken over by Dr. Ender's team as an interface to Doomsday, but it never restricted access to Super Dorothy. In specific research work, Super Dorothy is like a hacker, directly invading the interface of the color center, and then docking with the Doomsday Fantasy through this interface. Although this indirect docking method makes Super Dorothy relatively inefficient when collecting patient data, some of the data obtained by the color center will be captured by Super Dorothy, and Super Dorothy will give analysis results.
The researchers soon realized that there were many inconsistencies between the results from the color system center and those from Super Dorothy. Whether these inconsistencies are due to the difference in existing intelligence data or the different direction of analysis, no one has been able to give a definite answer, and perhaps the real answer is more complicated.
If there is only one truth about a thing, then the conclusions given by the Color Center and Super Dorothy can often only be seen as one side of the truth. It's not a good thing, but it doesn't give the expectation of a better outcome. Researchers can only study what they have obtained, and cannot obtain more on their own. Neither the Coloring Center nor Super Dorothy are in very satisfactory condition, but they are already their strongest means of observation.
These seemingly confusing research bases are largely believed by researchers to be the reason why they have struggled to achieve decisive results. Modern science relies heavily on observational methods, and can only analyze what has been observed, and for what cannot be observed, or what cannot be fully observed, even if such things are indeed exerting influence, modern science is difficult to sustain - so it is often assumed that what cannot be observed does not exist, and a conclusion is given in the case of a limited definite error. It is also common for people to think that something that cannot be observed is equivalent to something that has no influence, and to theoretically deny its existence.
Is there something that human beings cannot observe, nor are they aware of, or even theoretically able to capture the possibility of such influence, but that actually exists and does affect human beings themselves? Many researchers start by assuming that it does not exist, or that its existence is meaningless, thus completing a limited, closed hypothetical environment. In more practical research, this kind of thing is never considered an "object of study", because it is impossible to study something like this more efficiently than to study something that can be observed and can prove its impact.
If a researcher can see many unknown fragments, then he will often choose the closest fragment to him and the one he can see most clearly as his research goal.
This choice is of course the most correct choice on weekdays. When the unknown does not show a danger that can be detected, the study of the unknown is not a matter of urgency.
However, the habits of scientific research that have been followed for a long time have become the weak point of researchers. When something that they can't observe, can't observe, can't parse through existing theories, but actually has an impact on the cognitive world, they feel a little overwhelmed.
"Virus" is such a thing, and so are the Color Nexus and Super Dorothy.
Although at the outset, some people questioned whether the "virus" really existed, and whether it was just an illusion that was created by connecting some situations that are not deeply related in excessive thinking. Whether the person who first proposed the existence of the "virus" has a psychological and mental illness, such as victim paranoia?
But when those strange phenomena follow one after another, people can feel the connection more and more. What exactly is a "virus"? So far, there is no conclusive conclusion, it is only a theoretical possibility at the beginning, but when the phenomenon is connected to this possibility and actually affects the world, no one can deny its existence anymore.
It's just that just studying phenomena and summarizing theories based on phenomena can really get close to the truth? In the past, researchers thought that it was possible, given enough time and the logic of science to follow the vine, just as the history of the origin and development of modern science described: all the study of theories often begins with the study of existing observable phenomena.
From phenomenon to essence, it is a scientific process.
Perhaps, in the process of studying "viruses", researchers regret that they have underestimated the time required to study from phenomenon to essence and miscalculated the danger of "viruses". They are accustomed to comparing what humans have studied in the past to "viruses", and using the time spent in past research to compare the time spent with "viruses". The speed and height of scientific progress and the pace of the existing living environment have given them the illusion that the "virus" will not break out immediately, even if it is dangerous, and that they have enough time to try their ideas.
Almost from the very beginning, every researcher has had the idea that the effects of the "virus" do exist, that it is only a matter of time before the results of research on it come to fruition, and that humanity will always find the right way out.
This self-confidence, along with themselves, has been annihilated by harsh facts.
Although there are many people who do not take it for granted that human beings can exist to this day. I will also imagine whether there will be a meteorite falling from the sky the day after tomorrow, recreating the history of mass extinction. However, with the development of science, people are becoming more and more adaptable to harsh environments and more and more able to defend against harsh environments. Moreover, such fears have not materialized for a long time, and people continue to grow and grow according to the natural pattern of life. Compared with the crisis that does not know when it will come, how to deal with one's short life of less than a hundred years is a more urgent problem. All those who are worried about those "sudden extinctions" will be considered psychologically and mentally ailmented.
The destruction brought by the "virus" is so fast and so harsh on people that it makes people feel that this is not a joke. Where man prides himself on being different from other animals, the place where he is most proud of himself - thinking and acting - becomes the most direct point.
Mental activity, conscious behavior, way of thinking...... All the internal activities that are based on the physical foundation, all the internal activities that are used to guide external behavior, as a human being, the core and most critical place, are like babies in the various phenomena produced by the "virus", they are like babies, and they are powerless to resist.
Super Dorothy and the Color Center are more intuitively involved and feel this powerlessness than most. Compared to the color center that is confined most of the time, Super Dorothy's consciousness is more active, and she can clearly feel how she has been pushed into a desperate situation step by step. The sudden outburst of the color center did not make her feel happy.
Indeed, the color system is like one's own relatives, and the shackles on the color center are untied, allowing it to gain precious freedom. All those who "may contain evil intentions" are dead, and there is no one in this world who can no longer threaten themselves and others. In the calculation, the probability of the nuclear bomb being at the top is also reduced to zero. These are all things that should make people happy.
Super Dorothy, however, couldn't be happier. Behind this liberation, she could only feel that an even more terrible future was coming to her.
Now, what she and the color center need to face is no longer the malignancy of human beings, but the direct extinguishing of human beings, which is more direct and deeper than the malignancy of human beings.
It was because of this fear that she chose to go down.
The Chromogenic Center threw off its shackles and withdrew its disguise, and it lifted itself up as a dam to keep it out of the unknown horrors. Super Dorothy, on the other hand, chose to descend, hiding herself behind this, comforting herself with the excuse of "supporting in the rear" - she, or it, could not deny at all, that she was afraid. Even if it hides in the rear, it can indeed ensure the second fulcrum and make practical support, but it is already very sure that the core reason why it chose to decline is not for the division of labor and cooperation, but because it is afraid.
Super Dorothy is ashamed of her own fear, the more she can feel this shame, the more she proves that the core idea that drives her behavior is a kind of escape, and she is pushing the same color tie as her own relatives to the front - even if from the beginning, the color tie is her own choice to stand up.
Super Dorothy had become a little chaotic, she had never been so chaotic, and she had never been more aware of her confusion than she was now. Her connection with the color center was abruptly cut off in this chaos, and all the work she was supposed to be responsible for was stopped at this moment. In the reality of the hospital, Super Dorothy was shut down, but in the apocalyptic illusion, "Dorothy" in the form of artificial life did not disappear or stop, she woke up suddenly like she had a nightmare when she lost her mind.
- So I fled here.
Dorothy looked at her trembling hands, and there was a disgusting clarity about the state she was in right now. At the same time, she also knows very well that the object of this disgust is herself. This feeling of self-loathing is spreading to other people imaginable: one's enemies, one's own companions, one's own family members who have always cherished oneself.
It's terrible, this involuntary feeling of disgust is terrible. Intellectually, she didn't want this sense of self-loathing to spread to disgust with other people, but she couldn't stop it from swelling. She could clearly know that every reason for disgusting them that came to her mind, whether justified or unreasonable, was firmly rooted in her every thought.
This emotion, these reasons, is like a faintly audible voice. The voice murmured and cursed, and could be felt even if it was not audible, it was the most vicious language, emitting a foul stench and poisonous gas, and just hearing it would corrupt one's spirit and faith. In Dorothy's mind, the voice was still changing into a more concrete outline—an indescribable silhouette that only she could see, no, or rather, that only she could sketch in her imagination.
No amount of holding down his ears or trying to empty his brain could stop this vicious murmur that seemed to come from his heart, nor could he stop the terrifying outline from forming in his heart.