Zhang Zian sat up from the bed. His whole body was soaked in sweat, and his sweatshirt stuck to his body. It was very uncomfortable.
His eyes were dark, as if he could still see the image of falling off the cliff. His heart was beating so fast that it almost became a straight line. It seemed that people say that if you die in a dream, your body will die in reality. This may not be nonsense.
The brain can't distinguish between dream and reality, and it thinks that it is in danger. It will drive the body to respond to stress, releasing a lot of hormones, increasing the heart rate and blood pressure. When the limit is exceeded, the heart may stop.
He sat on the bed in a daze for a long time before he gradually recovered his breath.
If this continues, sooner or later, he will be scared by this horrible butterfly and have a heart attack.
The wind blew the curtains up and down, and there was a glimmer of light between the gaps of the curtains. The sky was still bright, and he got up earlier than usual. As the saying goes, spring dreams are too short, and nightmares are too long.
When he just sat up, it was very violent, and he might have even gnashed his teeth before waking up. Several sensitive elfins should have woken up. They probably saw that he just had a nightmare and went crazy, so they went back to sleep.
Fortunately, the morning of this season was neither cold nor hot. Otherwise, he would probably catch a cold if he sat on the bed with cold sweat.
After a nightmare, he should quickly shift his attention instead of recalling the nightmare. However, Zhang Zian could only do the opposite and try to recall the dream before he forgot it. Otherwise, this nightmare would definitely haunt him for the rest of his life.
Putting aside the previous excitement, the focus was on the two questions raised by Zhuang Xiaodie.
He quickly figured out why she had to threaten him. It was because he was an ordinary person, and he didn't care about free will. If she just mentioned it casually, he probably wouldn't take it to heart. Even if he met the junior high school girl again, he probably wouldn't ask. An adult uncle chatting up a junior high school girl and asking her if she knew about free will … This was too weird. It was better to just ask for money.
He wondered if Zhuang Xiaodie's hunch was wrong. Could such a little girl reveal the truth about free will in one sentence? What kind of joke was this? Kids at this age were either overwhelmed by schoolwork, or they were secretly growing feelings for each other. Every day, they would run to the basketball court to cheer for their tall, thin, handsome, and sunny male classmates. Who would think about free will or something like that?
However, he had already agreed. He had no choice but to ask. What the f * ck?
Of course, the premise of all this was that he had to meet that middle school girl again. If he couldn't meet her, there was no need to talk about anything else.
Now he was very glad that she did not leave her contact information in the teahouse in Hidden Fog, otherwise it would be troublesome. He just thought that the tea money was fed to the dogs, and he did not intend to ask for it back.
There were so many people here, and he had no way of contacting her. He didn't even know what she looked like or what her name was. How could he find her? Even if Binhai City was not a first-tier city, it had at least a few million permanent residents. Including the migrant workers, there were probably tens of millions of people.
Therefore, although this problem was related to his life, it was actually very vague and could be completely delayed.
But there was another problem …
Do robots dream of E-Goat?
This seemingly strange question was actually the name of a science fiction novel. Many people had never heard of it, let alone read it. After all, this novel was first published in 1968, which was not very suitable for the current reading tastes. Moreover, the author of this novel, Philip Dick, had always been known for his bold and imaginative writing. It was very difficult for non-hardcore science fiction fans to continue reading it.
Although this novel was niche, the movie that was adapted from it was well-known in the Western film industry. That was "Blade Runner," which was released in 1982, which was regarded by many science fiction fans and even scientists as the best science fiction film in film history.
Coincidentally, this movie, which was born in the last century, happened to describe a conflict that occurred in Los Angeles in 2019.
Zhuang Xiaodie said the name of the novel, not the name of the movie, so the part of the movie should be ignored. The content of the novel was actually not new today. Instead, the title of the book was more impressive.
"Do robots dream of E-Goat?" After Zhang Zian repeatedly thought about it, he felt that she should be asking about the literal meaning of this sentence, not whether he still remembered the content of the novel – he had read the novel, but he could not remember the content.
This sentence had two layers of meaning. Primary school students who were good at Chinese could analyze it. One was whether robots could dream, and the other was whether robots could dream of E-Goat.
Zhuang Xiaodie must have asked this question with a deeper meaning. She would not ask it for no reason. She was not so idle and in the mood.
The so-called robots were in the workshops of large factories. The dexterous robotic arms assembled parts neatly, and it looked quite shocking. However, the kind of robot that only worked according to the preset program was not in the same category as the robots that people usually imagined. When people talked about robots, they usually referred to the "human-like machine" in the real sense, or bionic robots. They had the appearance of a human, and from speaking to acting and even thinking, they were similar to humans.
This level of robot obviously did not exist in modern society. Otherwise, the next industrial revolution would have already erupted. The productivity of human society would have increased explosively, and material life would have been greatly enriched. Humans would no longer work for survival, and they would have entered the ideal society ahead of time … This was the case in the best case scenario. If one were to think about it in the worst case scenario, perhaps "The Terminator" would become a reality, and the robot uprising would change the lives of humans …
Bionic robots were still far from being realized. The current level of human science and technology had not even touched the door. Would Zhuang Xiaodie be interested in such a distant issue?
He continued to think deeply. The body of the bionic robot was not the key. Whether it looked like a human or not was a trivial matter. The level of technology in modern society was almost enough to use machines to make a human body that looked like a real human body. The decisive role was whether the robot's brain could think like a human. It was just like the key to determining whether humans could become the wisest of all things was the human brain, not the weak human body.
If the word "robot" was extended to artificial intelligence, it seemed to make sense.
Once artificial intelligence appeared in a real sense, bionic robots would naturally be successful.
Of course, modern society had not invented artificial intelligence that was no different from humans. Having said that …
Zhang Zian took out the phone from under the pillow and stared at the black screen without unlocking it. He just stared at it.
In his phone, there was an artificial intelligence that was real, or at least it claimed so.
Therefore, Zhuang Xiaodie's question was actually a subtle question to him. Could the navigation elf dream?
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