"Crazy. Crazy. The guy has completely lost his mind!"
Li Yao couldn't hold it back anymore. His soul was bubbling like the hot porridge that had just been boiled. "I finally understand that this Fuxi is not as simple as the Spiritual Nexus turning into a demon; it is more like a tombstone turning into a demon!"
Li Yao recalled the 'Tombstone Plan' of 'Gui Suishou', a famous old man of the Xing Yao Federation.
It was true that when a civilization felt that its time was coming, it would build tombstones of the civilization with all kinds of materials and methods, trying to carve all the information of the civilization, or at least the most important information, on the tombstones as a memorial of the civilization, hoping that it could be preserved forever so that more civilizations could see and inherit it.
However, it was something that a civilization would only do when it was exhausted or even perished. Right now, the civilization of mankind was still vigorous and vigorous. To build a tombstone at such an early age, and the tombstone even turned into a spirit and was trying to deprive its owner of the resources and hope, was it not preposterous and absurd?
"I estimate that the guy's head is truly broken," the mental devil said.
"Come to think of it, it's not very strange. The guy was controlled by the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan respectively during the primeval war. They even forced it to attack each other in violation of all the logic and sacred laws. Who could've endured the bombardment of countless logic bombs?
"Also, when the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan perished one after another, they must've stored tremendous information in its database. They also reiterated time and time again that the precious data was the most important thing for the legacy of the civilization and asked it to preserve it at any cost. As time went by, it was not surprising that it regarded the data as the civilization itself!"
While Li Yao and the mental devil were whispering to each other, Lu Qingchen's soul was frozen for a long time, too. He was somewhat at a loss about the 'poem of civilization' that Fuxi proposed.
"I thought you could understand. After all, we all agree that information technology is the future of civilization, and the virtual space is as important as the material world."
The light spots of Fuxi turned into glittering tentacles and tied up Lu Qingchen's face and body, trying to touch his face and chest. "To be honest, I do appreciate you very much. I have the enormous database and computational ability of the 'Fuxi system', and I only reached such a conclusion after hundreds of thousands of years of consideration. But you, on the other hand, have completely grasped the truth of civilization with the wisdom of a mortal after only a hundred years of life. Impressive. Truly impressive.
"This is also the biggest reason why I am willing to give you a chance and take the trouble to enlighten you!"
"Wait, wait, wait. Don't confuse your beliefs with mine. Even if they are similar on the surface, they are two entirely different things!"
Lu Qingchen shuddered hard and got rid of Fuxi's tentacles of light in embarrassment. He said angrily, "In my 'Phantom Plan', no matter how many splendid and ever-changing Spiriters' Realms are to be established, and even if all human beings are to be relocated to the virtual world, everybody's brain and reproductive system will be preserved at the very least. Those people, those individuals of civilization, those compatriots of mine, they are still alive! They are still living people!
"However, in your plan, even if you can collect all the data of a person and create a 100% realistic virtual human in the virtual space, it will still be fake after all!
"No matter how marvelous your virtual space is and how vivid the virtual human is, it will still be an empty playground if there are no living people inside. What's the point of it?"
Fuxi thought for a moment.
"Is there any difference between the 'real human beings' that boast brains and reproductive systems and the 'dummies' that are simulated by pure data?"
It asked solemnly.
"Of course there is a difference. A huge difference!"
Lu Qingchen was almost driven crazy by it. "When I implemented the 'Phantom Plan', in order to make the human beings who moved to the Spiriters' Realm feel at home, I also created countless virtual humans with the technology of data collection and emotional simulation. In our terminology, they are 'non-player characters'. But no matter how detailed the data we collected and how advanced the algorithms we used to support them, the fake ones will always be fake. There will always be flaws, and they cannot replace real human beings!"
"No. I think it is because your crystal processors are too underdeveloped and the raw data collection is insufficient. That's why you cannot create a 100% realistic virtual human," Fuxi said matter-of-factly.
Fuxi said matter-of-factly, "At the end of the day, the core is computational ability. There is no problem in the universe that cannot be solved by increasing the computational ability by a hundred times. If there is, then find a way to increase the computational ability by two hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times. I believe that when a certain 'critical point' is broken through, the false will become true."
"It's absolutely impossible!"
Lu Qingchen gnashed his teeth. "Even if the computational ability of the entire universe is exhausted, it is impossible to simulate the soul of a human being!"
"Oh?"
Fuxi said, "Then, where does the soul come from?"
"From the brain, from the genes, and from the bloodline that we are born with!"
Lu Qingchen said firmly.
"Is that so? Then, what do you say right now? You don't have a brain, a body, or a bloodline to speak of, but you still think that something named 'soul' exists deep inside your database and your logical algorithms?"
The waves that Fuxi released were mixed with vague mockery.
"Of course. Right now, I have gotten rid of the low-level life and marched toward the peak of information life. Of course, I don't need the restraint of a fleshly body anymore."
Lu Qingchen was unmoved. He said solemnly, "However, I used to have a brain, a body, and genes. It was exactly because of something mysterious and inexplicable deep inside my bloodline and genes that my soul was conceived!
"It is exactly because my compatriots and I all boasted souls that the civilization of mankind boasted a brilliant past and a promising future. This is what a living civilization is all about!
"My 'Virtualization Plan', on the other hand, is to establish billions of splendid stages in virtual space so that all human beings can fully unleash the infinite possibilities of their soul with the minimum consumption of resources!
"If there are no living human beings at all, and there are only puppets supported by big data and logical algorithms in the countless virtual spaces and on the countless glamorous stages, such lifeless, unchangeable things are not qualified to be crowned with the noble name of 'civilization' at all!
"Therefore, you are completely wrong. Fuxi, our beliefs only overlap in the aspect of 'creating countless virtual worlds', but the core of our beliefs is the opposite of each other!"
"Got it. What a shame."
Fuxi listened quietly. He even manipulated the light spot to spread out ripples of regret. "I didn't expect that you would still be a 'genetic fundamentalist' deep down in your bones when you have already jumped out of the limitations of human beings and even carbon-based lives and embarked on the path of evolution of information lives. You still cannot get rid of the myth that carbon-based lives have about genes. You still naively believe that certain indecipherable mysteries are hidden deep inside 'genes' and that such mysteries will be transformed into 'souls' in certain mysterious ways.
"I can understand the admiration of carbon-based intelligent lives for genes, but the cruel truth is that the so-called genes are nothing more than a relatively advanced model and carrier for storing information. As long as one's computational ability is enough, the mysteries of every gene segment can be parsed. Genes can be combined and mutated at will. Then, things like 'souls' can be produced on a large scale, too.
"This is exactly what I am doing right now. Don't simply understand my mission as building tombstones and preserving specimens of civilizations. No. My mission is to store one, or countless, living, changing civilizations of mankind that boast infinite possibilities in virtual space."
Lu Qingchen put on an expression of confusion.
"I don't understand," Lu Qingchen said.
Lu Qingchen said, "How are you going to get a living, evolving civilization of mankind when no living people are involved and the system is purely virtualized?"
"As long as one's computational ability is high enough and the raw data is abundant enough, all the processes of human society can be deduced. Don't the Xing Yao Federation's game 'Civilization' often run similar deductions?"
Fuxi unintentionally showed his ability to invade and search Lu Qingchen's soul again. "Although the deductions of the game 'Civilization' are usually participated in by a lot of players, even if there are no players, the deductions can still be carried out with only the super crystal processors controlling the 'non-player characters', can't they?"
"Yes, but only very simple deductions can be performed."
Lu Qingchen frowned. "Also, the results of the deductions are often inaccurate and barely worth referencing."
"It's still the same two conditions, computational ability and raw data!"
Fuxi said, "Your computational ability is too low, and your storage of raw data is seriously insufficient. How can you perform real deductions?
"My computational ability is far higher than any of the super crystal processors of the Federation or the Imperium. Also, as I excavate more and more computational centers from the primeval era and repair and produce more and more computational units, which are added to my thinking array, my computational ability will be improved exponentially. When I am strong enough to crack the 'shady technology' and the 'Flood technology', I believe that my computational ability will soar like an explosion. By then, my computational ability will be … infinite!
"The accumulation of raw data is the real purpose that I created the Holy League.
"What do you think the Holy League is exactly? The 'soldier bees' and the 'worker bees', the five tribes of water, wood, metal, fire, and earth, and the special professions such as the Purgers, the Sweepers, the Lurkers, and the Ultimate Benevolence Masters?
"They are just tools.
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