"Xiaoguang, Nanhesan!"

Against the background of the dark universe, the small light that is a point of light is similar to the three-star light of Nanhe in the distance.

If you don't discern carefully, the little light is like the stars in the universe.

It's just that the three stars of Nanhe are exuding white and yellow,

And the light on Xiaoguang's body is close to orange-red.

It was at this moment that

Yang Meng noticed that Nanhesan's starlight flickered again, and there seemed to be a surging halo around it.

"This seems to be a cloud of energetic particles that only appears when a star reaches the end of its life

Seeing this situation, Yang Meng suddenly thought of a question that had been bothering him for a long time, but he had never asked Xiaoguang directly:

"The huge energy structure of stars still has its own age limit!"

"So as an energy body, do you have such limitations?"

The small light that was still urging Yang Meng to leave this galaxy quickly just now,

Hearing such a question, the light on his body flickered slightly, revealing some confused emotions:

"Is there a limit to existence?"

"I don't know!"

"I don't know!" Hearing Xiaoguang's answer, Yang Meng was stunned for a moment,

He thought of many answers,

didn't expect Xiaoguang's answer to be like this

At this time, Xiaoguang continued to explain:

"Since our civilization abandoned organic life, experienced mechanical structures, and entered the state of energy structures under various coincidences,

Because of the state of the energy structure, in this state, we can always exist as long as there is energy!"

"So, then, you can theoretically reach eternal life?"

I can't hear Yang Meng come to such a conclusion,

Xiaoguang flickered and responded:

"That's not the case, I told you before that my mind will gradually weaken with the passage of time!"

"If I lose the control of my consciousness, what is the difference between me as an energy structure and a flame?"

"I see, consciousness and life ......"

Hearing Xiaoguang's answer, Yang Meng couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

What is the essence of life,

At the beginning of human civilization, philosophers among mankind were thinking about such questions.

Until hundreds of years ago, with the breakthrough of various disciplines, human beings had a deeper understanding of life.

In particular, the concept of entropy proposed in physics has made human beings discover that the speculation on the structure and form of intelligent organisms is still too conservative, and it is very likely that there are intelligent civilizations in the universe that are completely different from those of earth creatures.

The reason for this speculation is that the concept of entropy allows human beings to understand the essence of life in another aspect:

That is, life is the circulation and transfer of energy in the universe,

In this regard:

The essence of human life is a ruthless rice machine,

Human beings take water, oxygen, various nutrients from the outside world and convert these substances into energy needed by the body and brain,

A human being can say that he is not interested in money, and has no impulse for beauty.

But once you stop eating and lose the supply of energy, it won't be long before human beings as living beings will die.

Where does the energy that human beings have to sustain their own existence come from?

In the ancient times when science and technology were backward, it was from animals and plants to obtain the energy they needed.

Animals get it from plants, which in turn store energy through photosynthesis.

Human and animal excrement, as well as their own dead corpses, are decomposed by microorganisms and become fertilizer for plants, which are then eaten by animals again.

And so on and so forth, this is a simple process of energy flow on the earth.

Although in the real earth's ecological environment, such an energy flow process is extremely complex,

But it's this process,

It also allows human beings to discover that the essence of life may be a flow of energy in nature.

Among them, the main energy that drives this cycle is sunlight, which is photosynthesis.

However, with the breakthrough of human controllable nuclear fusion technology,

Coupled with the improvement of synthetic starch, fat and protein technology,

The source of the energy needed by human beings has been turned into controlled nuclear fusion technology.

But whether it's controlled nuclear fusion technology or sunlight,

The essence of its energy source is the fusion process dominated by hydrogen.

Even if one day human beings, tired of the pain of flesh and blood, break through the limitations of their own life forms, and achieve rapid mechanization upgrades,

But as a mechanical body, it still needs a supply of electricity to operate, even if it is a method of separating consciousness from the human body and entering the virtual world of consciousness.

It is the neural action unit that can be supplied to the brain to produce human consciousness, or does it need energy?

No matter how energy is needed to change life,

"The essence of life is energy!" This is a conclusion that mankind has come to for a long time.

looked at Xiaoguang, and then looked at the slightly flickering Nanhesan behind Xiaoguang,

Yang Meng thought a lot for a while,

According to this theory,

The existence of intelligent life may not be confined to living organisms,

As long as the energy can flow in a controlled manner, no matter what the medium of energy flow is, it is possible to produce certain intelligent behaviors on its medium.

In the nearly 300 years of scientific and technological development of mankind, human beings have indeed confirmed this.

As an extremely important electrical energy in energy, human beings have discovered that with a certain voltage, with a certain current, through diode semiconductors,

By controlling the flow of energy at high and low levels, binary signals such as 0 and 1 can be excited.

Then, through a large number of similar semiconductor structures, a series of structures such as latches, combinators, and so on are constructed, and the simplest calculator is generated.

According to this principle,

In increasing its complexity, enabling it to compute more complex data, the first computer produced it,

With the development of computers, a new form of intelligence emerged from them,

Although this kind of equipment with intelligent behavior structure requires human operation,

But just in the time of Yang Meng's grandfather,

Artificial intelligence at that time, under the setting of autonomous programs,

It is no longer necessary for humans to manipulate it in real time, and it is possible to do some animal behaviors on Earth that take countless years for other creatures to evolve.

Such a rapid development of artificial intelligence programs has also made some experts predict that one day in the future,

Such an existence will be completely out of the control of human beings and become an intelligent life.

And such a peculiar existence is essentially the chip in their body, which is created by the flow of high-level and low-level energy in semiconductors of a few nanometers.

And the intelligent behavior generated by this energy flow also breaks the inherent perception that only carbon-based organisms can produce intelligence.

And such a breakthrough also makes human beings think,

There is no other medium in the universe that can flow energy and generate intelligent behavior.

Like a multi-star system......

Looking at the bright point of light outside the porthole, the thoughts in Yang Meng's mind continued to extend:

"There have been bold assumptions that a galaxy could generate intelligence on its own, but is that really possible?"