Chapter 16: The Soul
On the top of the mountain, Lin Sen and Zhou Zhiqi snuggled together, overlooking this bizarre city, wisps of colorful light and shadow like firewood, scorching the city red, mixed with steaming heat, rising and disappearing into the night.
"You know, reality feels less and less real to me, and sometimes I can't even tell what's true and what's fake. Just like the city in front of me, I feel completely different during the day and at night. Zhou Zhiqi leaned on Lin Sen's shoulder, held his hand tightly, looked into the distance and muttered.
"When I was a kid, I loved to look at the stars, and then the scientists told me, 'Kid, the stars you see don't exist anymore.'" Then I retorted unconvinced, 'You lie, you see that the stars are clearly in the sky.' 'Zhiqi, do you see the stars above our heads now?' So the stars really don't exist anymore? Which sentence is true and which is false? As he spoke, he covered Zhou Zhiqi's hand in his heart, "But it's true." ”
Zhou Zhiqi's face was hot, she looked at the gray and black night sky polluted by the light and thought for a while, and replied: "So, what we see is only what we can realize. ”
"Just like the brightly lit city in front of us, what can you see?"
"In addition to the architectural outline of the city and the traffic context, my thoughts will take me to all kinds of lively scenes. Lao Lin, what about you? ”
"I think of the souls of one person after another boiling and boiling in this bright wine, do you look at the halo of the circle, does it look like the soul is boiling and evaporating?"
Zhou Zhiqi asked with a puzzled face: "So my soul is being vaporized by this city?" Will it feel more and more unreal? ”
"I don't know, maybe the soul is like a cocoon, what is wrapped in it after peeling off the cocoon? Is it me in my eyes? Or am I in the eyes of others? In today's world where the virtual world is combined, if our virtual world is an extension of the real world, the virtual world of me also has a part of my soul. Others look at me through the virtual world, and that me, is it because of my real existence that I have a soul, or is it given a soul the moment the account is created? ”
"I know what you're talking about, and a lot of times, I can't tell if it's him or it on the other end of the network. If that wasn't human, it would be the same as me talking to the air, and it would be the same as me wasting my time and life idling. ”
"You know about the Turing test, right?"
"Yes."
"The Turing test is a standard used to determine whether a machine has artificial intelligence. The virtual world we live in now has been replaced by these more efficient and less expensive artificial intelligence, that is, robots. The war in "Terminator" has two major battlefields: one on the Internet and one in reality. This sci-fi film travels back in time through a time machine to prevent the birth of Skynet, thus changing the fate of humans in the future who are defeated by robots in the real battlefield. The moment the net was released, humans were defeated by robots on the cyber battlefield, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated by robots on the real battlefield. It's like everything that's happening in our virtual world, in the real world. However, reality is not science fiction, and time machines do not exist. ”
"Isn't there the Three Laws of Robotics to protect us as human beings? First Law: Robots must not harm an individual human or stand idly by while witnessing the danger to which the individual human will be exposed. Second Law: A robot must obey a command given to it by a person, except when that command conflicts with the first law. The third law: Robots should protect their survival as much as possible without violating the first and second laws. ”
Lin Sen hugged Zhou Zhiqi and smiled helplessly, "This is made up by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov himself, and it is self-talking." ”
"You're so smart, you'll find a way to solve it." Zhou Zhiqi kissed Lin Sen and smiled evilly.
"Then I'll study and research now and find a way to find my life."
"Hahaha...... Itchy ......"