"Many people have no concept of self, their thinking rarely goes beyond 'me', and they are always led by the superficial senses, memories, and thoughts."

"It's like when you have an interview question, ask who you are, and almost all of them will say their name. If you ask who you are with your name removed, those who think this question is stupid have been eliminated. ”

"From a psychoanalytic and sociological point of view, this is also normal. Spiritually, it is the animal nature of man to be full of warmth and lust, and even if language, wisdom and technology surpass those of animals, it is still the means to satisfy these natures. In society, human beings have both the side of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, as well as the side of competition, and human thinking and human choice do not show a higher essence than animal society. ”

"Therefore, although human beings have language, technology, and culture, and have even rushed out of the earth, human beings have not surpassed animals in themselves, and the self is still buried deep under the sensory experience and social needs of animals."

"But the reason why humans are the spirits of all things is because of the potential for evolution."

"There are three threads of human evolution, the first is physiological evolution, walking upright, losing hair, and so on. The second is intellectual evolution, relying on tools to discover and exploit nature. The third is the evolution of society, where humans have perfected language, invented writing, and can think abstractly. ”

"In the third vein, there is another vein, and that is the evolution of the self. More than 2,000 years ago, in the first explosion of human thought, this vein was revealed. At that time, it could only be attributed to philosophy, but until now, it has not been able to get rid of this stage. ”

In the hall, eighty young men and women sat cross-legged in a large circle. There was no one in the center of the circle, but in their AR senses, there sat an old man, gentle and wise, explaining self-awareness to them.

"Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am' is a philosophical definition of the self, which does not mean that I think, so I exist, but that thinking makes me exist. Now, this definition has finally been scientifically established. “

"The self is also a microscopic physical movement on a scale smaller than the quantum level as it is now defined. There is also uncertainty in it, and the mind is an external manifestation of it, which can only be observed by a particular mind. ”

"The neural quantum effect proves that thinking is a physical movement on a more microscopic scale. The fact that the brain makes decisions before consciousness also proves that our sensory experiences, memories, and thoughts are only superficial consciousness. ”

"Neither of these phenomena can be measured by the existing scientific system, so the mainstream scientific community is reluctant to admit it. However, in the stargate, the existence of the cosmological constant is richer and more three-dimensional, and we can gain more scientific understanding of the self. ”

The appearance of the old man is exactly the same as Professor Xu Ping, the founder of the "Xu's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute", but he is not Professor Xu himself, just a teaching GEI.

"Self-awareness is the way through which we can observe ourselves and exert our own power. As mentioned earlier, the self is different from the supernatural concept of the soul, it is a material movement, and in order to contact it and grasp it, you cannot rely on the so-called 'spiritual cultivation' alone. ”

"We divide the self into five quadrants......

"The world that directly affects the self, that is, the human brain, and the body that the brain controls."

"The world that indirectly affects the self is the environment in which people live, not only the earth, the universe, but also the society of people."

"Observing and controlling the movement of the mind of the self is also a separate one."

"Who am I, this is the ultimate question of philosophy, and in science, it is to anchor the self with a coordinate."

"Finally, the other ultimate question of philosophy is why I came and why I go, which makes our search for the self continue to go deeper, and this process is the evolution of the self."

"We believe that the search for the self, and the enhancement of self-awareness, should be the evolution of man, not alienation. If you only focus on observing yourself from one quadrant and improving your self-awareness, the final self you will obtain is incomplete, there are unknowable dangers, and you may even become the same kind of mutant Borg. ”

"So, the training that you have received covers all five quadrants, and it's all-encompassing. Only in this way can the self evolve healthily, and only then can it stand out among the human beings and fight for the human race outside the stargate. ”

After class, some people pondered and some discussed, An Daoyuan scratched his head and muttered: "I still don't know how to understand, forget it, just train hard." ”

Wu Kang was about to count him down, when a blonde, blue-eyed, petite and delicate girl stood in front of him, stretched out her fist and said, "Captain, I want to challenge you, SM, do you dare?" ”

The other four shrank aside, and An Daoyuan whispered, "I finally found Lao Kang." ”

"Mina, are you trying to prove something?"

Wu Kang asked seriously: "Or compete for the position of squad leader?" This position is specified, not won by the ability of a few projects. ”

The girl's name is Mina Kramer, she is from Finland, and she is the genius who scored 120 points in the sensory self-discipline category. She was also assigned to Team 08 and was appointed as the vice-captain.

Mina also said seriously: "Isn't it the basic quality that a vice captain should have to figure out the expertise and flaws of the captain?" ”

"What do I think...... Are you just expecting me to have more things inferior to you? ”

Wu Kang smiled and raised his fist, pressing against her fist: "SM, accompany!" ”

This SM, of course, is not that SM, but Space-Mecha, a space mecha.

In the asteroid belt, two 18-meter-tall mechs are facing each other from afar, and the battle is about to break out.

"Lao Kang, don't pity the jade! I'm going to lose on this! ”

"Pay attention to the distance, this girl is invincible in close combat!"

"I'm counting on your marksmanship to defeat her!"

"Don't be reckless, it's not a shame to lose to your own family."

In the distance of the starry sky, the avatars of An Daoyuan and others floated, and text bubbles appeared. There are also other avatars appearing all the time.

"Squad 08 Civil War? Interesting. ”

"Joint Maniac vs. Turret Waltz, has anyone opened?"

"I'm betting on the joint maniac to win, this girl's nerve expansion score has broken through the sky!"

"It's hard to say, the Turret Waltz's Consciousness Gyro score is much higher than that of the Joint Maniac, as long as you don't go into the complex environment to find death, you will definitely be able to hit the Joint Maniac within three shots."

Looking at this situation, neither the mecha nor the asteroid belt is real.

Space Mecha is a mecha fighting game developed by SynaCyber based on the Sativa engine to satisfy gamers who are obsessed with giant humanoid mechs.

However, the "Space Mecha" played by Starlink Special Service is very different from the general version, the general version can only be operated with a controller or keyboard, and the mecha only follows the physical reality on the body. This version has an artificial nervous system set up in the internal structure of the mecha, which needs to be connected to the human brain, and the brain will perform the mental operation.

In the past science fiction novels and film and television works, this kind of mental operation is described as very simple, as long as the artificial nerve is connected, it is as casual as a person playing a game with a tube in the back of the head in a nutrition cabin.

But in reality, this is very problematic. First of all, in order to consciously manipulate the mind, one must be awake. And in a waking state, the brain's control of the natural body is the first priority. If an additional nervous system is attached, the brain will have difficulty adapting.

Humans, like all primates, have two hands and two feet, two eyes and ears, two nostrils, and five fingers and toes. If there are six fingers, one of them is bound to be disabled. This is because in the long process of biological evolution, the optimal structure formed is such a balance, taking into account the needs of survival and the efficiency of the management of the brain.

The brain has long adapted to this structure, and even after losing its hands, legs and fingers, the brain will stubbornly maintain this structure, so the phenomenon of phantom limbs will appear.

If, as in the novel, additional limbs are added, the brain cannot take care of both. The reason is very simple, for ordinary people, the four arms can still be used normally, and the feeling is unimaginable.

In order to realize the idea of operating a mecha in the novel, it is necessary to light up the technology tree of the "brain in a vat", that is, it can accurately and completely cut off the brain's control over the natural body, but until all the mysteries of the human brain are understood, this technology is even darker than black technology such as vacuum energy.

Another method is relatively simple, which is to synchronize the nerves of people and mecha in one direction, which is also the development direction of power armor. People don't have to use their brains to directly control mechas, they just need to move their bodies. Through the neural interface connected to the human body, the mecha obtains the control information of the brain over the human body, and synchronously presents the movement of the body.

However, this way is good for power armor, but when used in a huge mecha, it has to leave room for the human body to move. If the human body is limited in the mecha, it is not a one-way synchronization, and there is still the problem of neural adaptation. But with this kind of design, it is difficult for the human body to move freely. And the bigger the mech, the sluggish it is.

The only way to do this is to train the human brain to adapt to this limb expansion.

However, the sequelae of doing so are very strong, and over the years, the egg-pain scientists have not done research in this area. Not only Xia Ming is researching brain-computer interface technology, but some research institutions that have made progress in this area have done research on expanded limbs.

For example, they equipped the volunteer with a robotic arm to adapt him to life with three hands. The process is arduous, and a few people succeed. But scientists have found that the brain is starting to have problems in other areas. For example, the autonomic nerve stubbornly wants to integrate the new limb into the management system, but because it cannot succeed, it becomes disordered.

When the volunteers terminated the trial, it took a long time to get used to it and get back to normal, and in the process, the brain suffered a lot of damage.

When Xia Ming discussed the training course of the Starlink Special Service with Liluo, Liluo mentioned it. Xia Ming first tried it himself, and then found Liluo, Xiaotang, Xiao Huan, and even Anson and Lao Hong Lao Huang to do experiments, and found that after the activity of consciousness was improved, the brain's neural control ability was also enhanced, and it was easy to cope with this kind of control of the expanded limbs. Scaling and contact scaling are not only quick to adapt, but also have no after-effects.

This is how the advanced training course "Neural Expansion" came about, and the neural control version of "Space Mecha" is one of the contents of this course. However, for Starlink Special Service, this is not only a training subject, but also an excellent entertainment sport.

In virtual space, the pink mecha is powered by a super ion engine and shuttles through the asteroid belt, and the blue mecha holds a weapon with a slender gun body, elegantly adjusting its posture to ensure that the opponent is within range.

Mina Kramer is known as "Joint Maniac" for her ability to get close to her opponents with her nimble movements, knocking them down with just her mech's joints.

Wu Kang is good at keeping a distance from his opponent with rhythmic movements, and then defeating his opponents with accurate shooting, because the rhythm of the movement is quite rhythmic, known as the "Turret Waltz".

Seeing that Mina was about to borrow a huge asteroid to approach Wu Kang, Wu Kang opened fire, an asteroid exploded, and the fragments of **** disrupted Mina's maneuver, she had to change direction and bombarded again.

The pink mecha with one arm cut off and retreated into the confused asteroid belt, followed by one asteroid after another smashing at Wu Kang.

The confrontation between the two caused waves of applause, and later even Lao Hong, Lao Huang and Su Yu and others quietly entered the game. When Wu Kang's sniper bombarded Mina's other arm, the knee of her pink mecha also hit Wu Kang's lower gear.

The vice-captain of the 08 squad defeated the captain......

Mecha is the romance of space, from a scientific point of view, it is not only not suitable for the current human war in the stargate, but it is also difficult to appear in space in the future, so everyone only uses it as a training course that takes into account entertainment and sports.

Who knows what the future holds, though? Maybe there will be some special environment that forces humans to go to battle in huge humanoid mechs......

In the high-dimensional space-time, the training progress is advancing rapidly, and in less than a month, the average consciousness activity of this batch of agents has exceeded the safety line, and the lowest has increased to 0.08, and they have also ushered in the long-awaited first battle.

The passage in the buffer zone is filled with people and goods. 12 squads, a total of 108 Starlink agents, plus a combat robot with everyone by their side, formed a small square team and stepped on the conveyor belt for the first time.

Hidden joints, space power armor with red lines on a pure white background, and a clam-style full-cover helmet, a slick sensor array went around the back of the head from the forehead, flashing a faint red light. The compact backpack on the back is integrated with the armor, and it can be seen that both the battery and the life support system are the most advanced and sophisticated design. In addition to the conventional weapons on the mechanical arm, the same mechanical hand also carries a huge individual electromagnetic cannon, and the equipment of the Starlink agents is full of a high-tech violent beauty.

On the other conveyor belt, the officers and soldiers of Younas, who should have been withdrawn from the alpha belt, all subconsciously stared at this small unit.

Their space-powered armor is still an old model with external joints, and the dark blue capsule spacesuits that reveal them are crumpled and apparently mass-produced rather than custom-made.

Their helmets have transparent masks, and although there are areas of protection against weak points, this is also the tradition that sighting systems are difficult to integrate with more information and must rely on the human eye. Unlike the Starlink Special Service, there are sensors everywhere on the body, and the sensor array on the helmet can be quickly switched if it is broken, relying on advanced intelligence and powerful consciousness to adjust the senses, so that the head can be more effectively protected.

The batteries and life-sustaining systems of the Younas officers and soldiers are still old-fashioned, and they are more than half the size of the Starlink special service, which makes them look not much different from the astronauts who used to work outside the cabin, still so bloated and clumsy.

Of course, the mechanical arm does not have a precise palm, and the weapons equipped are all gunpowder weapons, and these differences are also obvious. The front end of the robotic arm is basically equipped with a high-strength drill bit, and when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the drill can only be relied on to destroy the hard shell of the mutant borg. However, the melee weapons of the Starlink Special Service are varied, including ion spray guns, smart silver knives, and even power maces.

The blue flow of people and the white flow of people staggered, and both sides looked at each other silently, secretly commenting.

The officers and soldiers of Younas were disdainful and dissatisfied......

"The honor guards who rely on money to pile up, looking at the color tone, you can know that they have spent a lot of money to hire an appearance designer, just like making a movie."

"There really is a single electromagnetic cannon, but unfortunately, the upper echelons are definitely reluctant to spend this money."

"Why didn't Xia Ming join Younas? If he becomes a general, we can also get some light on these equipment. ”

"What can such a person do, just to be Xiao Xia's bodyguard, right?"

The Starlink agents are merciful......

"They are all mortals, and I heard that none of them have more than 0.01 consciousness activity, so I really admire their courage."

"It's all been infected by chaotic strings, it's okay now, it's a tragedy if it mutates in the future."

"They have syringes in their helmets, and they have to fight off their minds with hallucinogens if necessary."

"If it weren't for the fact that we were few people, it would not be their turn to go to the front."

"If we fight them, one person can top them in a platoon."

The two teams staggered past each other, and although the battle robots were scattered at the back of the queue, they also presented a stark contrast.

Younas has significantly more combat robots, ten to one or more. They have a simple structure, the head is fixed, the arms have no palms, only the four simple four spouts on the back and chest, and the weapons are also very uniform.

The combat robots of the Starlink Special Service are one-to-one with people, and the structure is closer to that of people. Although it also has no neck, it has the same sensor array as a human and the same palm as a human. The vents are eight front and eight in the front and rear, as in the case of a human, allowing for more agile maneuvering. The weapons equipped are also varied, which is determined by the owner's setting of the cooperative combat style.

An Daoyuan muttered on the team channel: "Although I don't want to say that, but Younas...... It's really like cannon fodder. ”

"Don't say that, the people of Younas are volunteers, just like us," Wu Kang reminds.

"Then why not give them better weapons and equipment?"

"yes, I heard that Natsu gave us our training plan, but they didn't take it."

"One person controls so many robots, and the robots are cannon fodder for cannon fodder."

Wang Tang and the others were also discussing, but Mina said coldly: "In the eyes of generals whose soldiers are numbers, their equipment and training are good enough. ”

These words aroused everyone's understanding of themselves, and they had a lot of feelings, and they were speechless for a while.

Passing through the light film, walking through the silver-white square, and then through a light film, following the silver-white light belt, the team was sent to a huge asteroid in the Alpha Belt.

It's like a space dock, with several passages erected and spaceships moored to the left and right.

Looking at these spaceships, Wu Kang couldn't help but sigh: "Can this TM be called a spaceship?" (To be continued.) )