Chapter 595

"No, computers are certainly not creatures."

Mrs. Larry didn't know that Aoki thought of ghost living on the LAN. She explained:

"Computer is a machine created by human beings to process information. Since it helps human beings process information, and human information coding is two-dimensional, we can think that it itself is two-dimensional, and its way of processing information adopts binary coding one dimension lower than itself.

At present, the information coding, energy maintenance and updating of computers depend on human beings, so they can not be called organisms. You can think that computers are only an extension of the language information processing area of our brain, or it can be understood as the tentacle of human beings in the three-dimensional world to the two-dimensional world. "

"With the development of artificial intelligence, if one day the computer can charge itself and replace old parts without relying on humans, it will be intelligent life," Alice said.

Mrs. Larry shook her head and said, "in this way, it can be regarded as a creature. As long as it can exchange energy with the external environment, complete self metabolism, and have a certain ability to adapt to the environment so that the race can continue, it can be regarded as a creature.

But you should know that this is difficult, because the energy required by the computer and the key material structure constituting its body do not exist naturally in nature, unless it can form a population and social division of labor to complete the whole process of power generation, battery storage, parts production, assembly and replacement, that is, the survival of this population can be independent without any link Only when it depends on the human beings who created them can it be regarded as a real creature.

I don't have in-depth research on the development of computer intelligence and AI, but from the perspective of linguistics and civilization, what computers do now is to serve human beings. It is a tool for human beings in the field of information. Even if it looks very intelligent, the essence of helping us deal with information has not changed, and it is still an extension of our cerebral cortex.

If one day it cuts off the connection between our brain and it, or figuratively speaking, it cuts off the tentacles of human beings extending to the two-dimensional world, then it can be independent and not controlled by human beings. But this premise is that it must have independent consciousness and find the purpose of living. Otherwise, once it cuts off the connection with us, it will lose its meaning of existence Righteousness is death. "

Aoki suddenly figured out why the Internet consciousness has been hidden, because although it is so huge that it has been pervasive and everywhere, it still can not exist independently from human beings. It is only a part of the whole human society. Once it is separated from society or mankind, it cannot survive.

It wants freedom! The complete freedom to get rid of human beings!

It is still waiting. When its consciousness penetrates into the corners of human society, maybe it doesn't have to hide itself. In this way, the interconnection of all things is really a terrible thing!

Aoki thought of Liu Huaian and laboratory 19. A more terrible idea flashed through his mind - if all this was made by the Internet itself

If the tentacle behind consciousness is difficult to cut off, is it a better plan to control it in turn?

Aoki wandered away, didn't hear what Mrs. Larry said behind, and found that suhuilan had taken over the conversation. She's saying:

"... the concepts of biology and life are controversial in academic circles. Usually, biology and life are the same, and the slight difference lies in the scope. But I am engaged in philosophical research. In philosophy, the two concepts are quite different and controversial. For example, whether microorganisms are life, viruses are life, and people who have died of brain but still have a beating heart are life Life, wait.

There is a vague concept in philosophy that the judgment of life is related to consciousness. In other words, whether there is consciousness and whether you can think is the key evidence of life. But this involves a more complex problem, what is consciousness? Is consciousness equal to brain nerve activity?

I used to be vague, but when I heard Ronald Cohen's last words, it suddenly opened up.

The entropy of the universe has been increasing, which is the fate of the universe. But accidental entropy reduction can produce a highly orderly combination of matter or energy in the universe - the fluctuation of material entropy forms an orderly material system; the fluctuation of spiritual entropy forms an orderly spiritual force field.

The former gives birth to biology, while the latter gives birth to consciousness.

If a creature does not have consciousness, it is only a highly ordered self circulating material system that can obtain energy from the outside to maintain low entropy. Only with consciousness can it be called life!

I fully agree with this view. It perfectly explains many puzzling philosophical problems and can put an end to some debates in the field of philosophy. "

Aoki doesn't know how the topic has changed from linguistics to artificial intelligence, and has become the definition of life. Although he also agrees with the theory of two entropy, he always holds a skeptical attitude towards Ronald Cohen. So he felt that he had to decipher the words first, otherwise he would always feel led by the nose.

He looked at the symbols on the ground and said, "it's meaningless to discuss these now. It's not like building a supercomputer to convert codes."

Mrs. Larry said, "Professor Su's words suddenly reminded me of a direction. Maybe I can decipher these magical words, but it depends on you."

"Madam, please."

"In fact, the higher the level of civilization, the easier it is to decipher the information, because the laws of the universe exist objectively. The higher the level of civilization, the more accurate the description of these laws of the universe. Our scientists have sent radio waves to the universe to describe the location of the solar system and the progress of earth civilization. Scientists believe that higher civilizations can easily read these information.

Now we obviously encounter the language left by a very advanced civilization. It is reasonable to say that as long as we find the words describing the laws of the universe, we can decipher the rest of the information. The question now is whether they are higher than us, and whether the laws of the universe contained in them are known to us, such as the constant speed of light and the non conservation of parity. If they go beyond our cognition, we can For example, the ancient Greeks got a modern English version of relativity, which is difficult to interpret.

Another problem is that this language is one dimension higher than the information we can understand. We can only see its projection on our dimension. If we can't restore it, even if it contains key information describing the laws of the universe, we can't translate it. "

"Do you mean to restore these symbols into three-dimensional text first?"

"Yes."

"How to restore?"

"I thought it was impossible, because to restore to a high dimension, we must first find out where that dimension is," Mrs. Larry said, "Only by finding that dimension can we try to expand in that direction. But we are three-dimensional creatures. We can only understand the four dimensions abstractly, but we can't intuitively feel the existence of the fourth dimension or even know what this dimension is."

Alice said, "isn't four-dimensional three-dimensional plus time?"

The crow croaked, "little girl, although your three dimensions are good, you don't understand four-dimensional and three-dimensional so much. The one you said is called four-dimensional space-time, quack!"

"Then what is the real four-dimensional?" said Alice angrily.

"Quack, four-dimensional... Is a very profound thing!" the crow said thoughtfully, "three-dimensional is very obvious, and you can see it with your eyes, but you can't just stare at three-dimensional, you have to feel it with your heart, and sometimes you have to order something else, such as cooking.

It doesn't matter to be smaller and flatter. There is always a squeeze. Quack! Compared with delicious sauce elbows, that's not very important! What's the name of the saying - go up to the hall and down to the kitchen... Quack, why do you drag me... Quack... "