Chapter 119: The Black Box of Consciousness
"Mechanization has made us lose the meaning of life......"
Xiaoguang slowly recounted what had happened to the Rutans
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And listening to Xiaoguang's narration, Yang Meng's expression also changed slightly,
In what Xiaoguang said,
Some of them were guessed by Yang Meng before.
If the conscious body leaves the organism on which it lives, unexpected changes will indeed occur.
Like a lonely ghost, without an object to rely on, the perception of the whole world will have an incomprehensible change.
This kind of change is difficult for humanity to overcome at present,
One of the most troubling issues is the sensory problem.
When consciousness is in a living body,
You can perceive the world through the organs of living beings, such as eyes, ears, and palms.
But once the conscious body leaves the living body and loses these sensory organs,
It's like consciousness, locked in a pitch-black box, it's a very terrible state,
Can't see, can't hear, don't feel anything,
Staying in this environment for a long time,
The consciousness may be crazy, violent, and irrepressibly want to attack everything,
In the end, he became an unreasonable ghost, until his consciousness collapsed and dissipated.
So in the human world,
Although it is already possible to project human consciousness to another world through the technology of consciousness virtual network,
It is difficult to detach consciousness from the human body for a long time.
Although mankind has not been able to break through this technology,
But the Rutans have time to overcome this problem,
And the solution at the beginning is similar to the method that humans have been trying so far.
That is to simulate the sensory organs of the living body through various mechanical equipment, so that the conscious body that is separated from the living body has a place to stay.
But the trouble is here,
Consciousness does not appear in a vacuum, and it requires a lot of energy to function.
Just like humans, the more intelligent a creature is, the more energy the brain needs.
When human beings are in a state of non-exercise peace, the brain consumes the most energy in the body.
And in order to carry the consciousness derived from the brain, a stable supply of energy is needed.
The problem of possible supply is an extremely fatal problem for the Rutan civilization that cannot break through the controllable nuclear fusion.
At first, they were able to use some nuclear fissile material to provide energy for themselves.
However, with the passage of time, the problem of energy resources has led to a huge crisis within the Rutans.
"So, some of you have done a lot of crazy things in order not to be trapped in the consciousness box!"
"Yes! Moreover, the more they reach the last moment of exhaustion, the more crazy the clansmen who have already experienced mechanization become! ”
"I see!"
Xiaoguang's rhetoric Yang Meng also understands,
The consciousness of mankind will quickly dissipate with the death of mankind.
Even if consciousness can stay in the body of instant death for a short time, it can only blink a few times.
But if you put your consciousness in a box that you have made,
Watching the energy that feeds consciousness decrease day by day, the darkness around him is gradually enveloping him.
Yang Meng couldn't imagine what kind of behavior the consciousness in the box would do in that situation.
"It was also since that incident that our civilization was almost destroyed......"
Looking at the small light that flickered slightly, Yang Meng calmed down the waves in his heart and continued to ask:
"But what does that have to do with what you said was running out of time?"
The light flickered for a moment and continued:
"It's complicated, and I need to keep talking!"
Seeing Xiaoguang say this,
Yang Meng didn't urge, just nodded, and then asked Xiao Yi about the preparation of the electromagnetic catapult pry,
For Xiaoguang, Yang Meng is not clear whether this energy body can be limited by human means.
But one thing he was sure of was that he could throw Hikari out......