"I don't understand what you mean," Lu Qingchen said calmly.
Lu Qingchen said calmly, "I just have a feeling that you're crazy."
"How can you not understand? Didn't your 'Virtualization Plan' lead the civilization of mankind to a major step forward toward comprehensive informatization, too? It is exactly because you do not reject 'comprehensive informatization' that I am willing to waste my precious time and computational ability to enlighten you, "Fuxi said solemnly.
Fuxi said seriously, "In terms of individuals, a person will always die. No matter how glorious his life is, how strong his cultivation is, and how many people remember him, he will still die in the end, and all the great achievements he has created will be destroyed in the end, right?"
"Yes."
Lu Qingchen nodded. "So what?"
"However, if we can record all the information about the person in their entire life, including their light and shadow files, their brainwaves and biophysical parameters, their logs, their conversations with other people, their comments on them … All in all, if all the data about them are retrieved and stored, it will be possible to recreate them in the virtual space, one that is 100% exactly the same. Even their family members who get along with them day and night will not be able to see any loopholes. You've played such tricks a lot before, haven't you?
"As long as the crystal processor that maintains the virtual space is not damaged, it doesn't matter if the crystal processor is damaged, as long as the most critical information storage chip still exists and is duplicated countless times, it means that all the information about the person will be preserved until the day the universe is destroyed. Does it mean that the person is immortal?"
Lu Qingchen was dumbfounded.
Of course, Li Yao was dumbfounded, too.
"What … What kind of 'immortality' is that? What is stored in the virtual space is not the person himself, but only his information! "
Lu Qingchen said. "The information does not have thoughts, self, or self-awareness. It is even less than a ghost and is nothing more than the shadow of a ghost!"
"Genes themselves are information. Is the information engraved in the flesh and blood necessarily more valuable than the information engraved in the crystal chip? As the leader of the 'Virtualization Plan', you shouldn't have such a stupid prejudice, should you? "
Fuxi continued unhurriedly. "As for self-awareness and self-awareness, who can tell what they are exactly? Standing on the scale of civilization and the universe, the consciousness, emotions, and self of an individual were not important, just like standing on the scale of human beings, the feelings of cells and bacteria were meaningless.
"Information, we only need to extract all of a person's information and store it in the virtual space for a long time, which is equivalent to giving that person eternal life.
"Also, by retrieving and storing the information of all the millions of people in history, including the Blackmakers, the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, the Flood Tide Army, and the individuals of the civilization of mankind, perfectly preserved in my core database, that is the immortality of civilization and the ultimate salvation!
"Now, you should understand why I said that I am not a human being. Even the term 'intelligent life' greatly limits my connotation, right?
"Yes, I am not a human being but the amalgamation of all the information of thousands of intelligent lives in history. My database stores the critical information of the ultimate experts from the Pangu civilization to the civilization of mankind. I am a living museum, gene bank, seed base, and history book. I am the past, I am the present, and I am the future. I am everywhere and everything. I am the civilization of mankind!"
Fuxi's words savaged Li Yao's and Lu Qingchen's souls like a thunderstorm, savaging their mental defense line and stomping on their worldview brutally.
Both of them felt that their worldview was somewhat twisted and broken.
"What — what do you mean exactly?"
As if he had seen a ghost, Lu Qingchen found it hard to believe. "What are you? You are the civilization of mankind? Then, what are we? "
"Like I said just now, you are paper, brush, and ink," Fuxi said casually.
"For example, the Blackmakers are ropes and tortoiseshell, the Pangu civilization is bamboo slips and carving knives, the civilization of mankind in the past is paper, brush, and ink, and the 'informationized civilization of mankind' that you are going to create is keyboards and crystal processors. Then, I am your poem, the immortal poem that you have written with ropes, tortoiseshell, bamboo slips, carving knives, paper, ink, keyboards, and crystal processors.
"Do you understand it now?
"Ropes will decay, tortoiseshell will shatter, bamboo slips, carving knives, paper, ink, keyboards, and crystal processors will be eliminated and obliterated, but my poem has been written. Neither the fury of thunder nor the roar of gods can damage it at all.
"I am a civilization. Not just the civilization of mankind, but also the civilization of the Pangu, the civilization of the Blackmakers, the civilization of all the intelligent lives that have lived in the sea of stars in the past billions of years. It is the glorious poem that generations of civilizations have written together!
"Any civilization, even if it is as strong as the Blackmakers' civilization, which can transform the entire planet into a space fortress, cannot withstand the erosion of time. The torrent of time in the scale of billions of years will eventually wash away all the traces that they left behind when they changed the universe.
"Therefore, it is meaningless to insist on preserving specific, individual civilizations, not to mention protecting any insignificant, humble, and chaotic individual in the civilization.
"As long as I keep all the information about the Blackmakers and recreate a civilization of the Blackmakers in the virtual space, as long as my storage and computation system does not collapse, perish, or even duplicate infinitely, I will have endowed the civilization of the Blackmakers with life again. All the efforts that they made to survive in the past will be meaningful again.
"It is the same logic for the Pangu civilization and the civilization of mankind. Your individuals will decay and perish eventually, but you will certainly be reborn in my records and recitations. Not only will you be eternal in the virtual world, if you are interested, I can also recreate some human beings with your genetic information and reproduce your civilization in the material world billions of years later.
"Tell me, if that is not 'eternal', is there any way to preserve a civilization that is' eternal '?"
Lu Qingchen and Li Yao both shuddered deeply in the soul sense.
"Can you understand it in such a way?"
Pondering for a long time, Lu Qingchen asked carefully, "Are you trying to 'save the civilization' by making all the civilizations into 'specimens' and then stuffing them into the 'museum' in your database?"
"I can see the logical trap in your question. You seem to be accusing me of intentionally killing many civilizations and making them into 'specimens'," Fuxi said matter-of-factly.
Fuxi said matter-of-factly, "But as a matter of fact, most civilizations will be destroyed in civil wars or even by the Flood. Even if I do collect the bodies of those civilizations and preserve them as specimens, will it be a problem at all? In the most universal moral law of the civilization of mankind, dying without an intact body is not a good thing. I'm just doing my best for my mission! "
Lu Qingchen was rendered speechless.
He was not a merciful moralist but an ambitious man who would do anything to achieve his purpose. He could stomp all the moral laws under his feet into the mud.
Therefore, he was naturally not interested in lecturing Fuxi on the blood-boiling philosophies and scolding him righteously like Li Yao did.
He was only interested in the technical possibilities and the details.
"However —"
Thinking for a moment, Lu Qingchen said, "It must not be an easy task to collect all the data of a civilization, right? How can you ensure that you can collect abundant data and establish authentic civilizations in the virtual space? If you do not collect enough data, the civilizations you build will be utterly deformed, too. Then — then, you will be violating your 'primary mission', and you will lose the value and significance of your existence! "
"It's not as difficult as you imagine."
Fuxi was not caught in the trap in Lu Qingchen's words. He continued calmly, "It's true that it is not easy for a primitive civilization to collect detailed data, but any civilization will inevitably embark on the path of informatization and digitization when it develops to the peak. They will store tremendous data and consider the data as the core of their civilization.
"For example, when the Pangu civilization was caught in the swirl of civil war and was about to collapse, both the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan asked the Fuxi system to preserve not their fleshly bodies but tremendous information about their social form, technological level, genetic materials, and so on.
"You must've heard the name 'Book of Revelation' before, haven't you? It is the information that the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan hoped to preserve. Although most of the information has been lost, it has only been hundreds of thousands of years after all. As long as I collect all eight volumes of the Book of Revelation, I will be able to reproduce the magnificence of the Pangu civilization in the virtual space perfectly.
"As for the civilization of mankind, it has fully stepped into the informatization and digitization phase today. Not only can training, military affairs, and professional technology be inseparable from crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus, even the daily life cannot be free from crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus.
"When a human child is born, countless family members surround him to take pictures and save and share his image files. Countless medical magical equipment will scan his physiological parameters and brainwaves and store the data. When he is older, he will leave countless chat records on his portable crystal processor and a personal journal in a secret space. He will even take pictures before his meals every day. Even if he is walking on the street with nothing to do, countless surveillance cameras will record his daily activities. It is needless to say that his minor achievements will not escape the scanning and recording of the Spiritual Nexus.
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