"I heard that you were looking for me?"
Estisa put down her work and rushed over. Then, she saw that Tang En, Jean, Klotto, Angus, and the others were all present.
After she sat down, she asked directly, "What do you want to discuss again? I'm busy right now … "
"A very important matter that might be related to the future of this world."
Tang En's words shocked everyone. "The Army of Chaos has been brought forward again?"
"No, no."
Tang En shook his head. "Don't be so sensitive. It's just that I suddenly thought of something. I didn't have the conditions before, but it seems that I can start working on it now."
The few of them were curious. "What is it?"
After a pause, Tang En said, "A computer."
"A computer?"
Klotto was stunned for a moment. Then, he took out a palm-sized gadget from his pocket. "This?"
What Klotto took out was not a product left behind by the prehistoric pygmy civilization, but a small calculator that they had designed and developed themselves. It did not have many functions and could only perform simple mathematical calculations.
They had unearthed prehistoric computers from the ruins. Unfortunately, those computers had been destroyed in the impact that destroyed the civilization. So far, they had not found a single one that was usable. Without a usable one, there was no way to study the principles behind it, let alone replicate something similar.
"You can say that it is, but you can also say that it isn't."
Tang En took a look at it, smiled, and returned it to Klotto. Then, he continued, "The computer I'm talking about is a professional computer, a large, high-efficiency computer."
Klotto said, "I know. We've seen similar records in the excavated materials. It's said that this thing can be used to simulate all kinds of data, but with our current technology, we can't restore it."
"What we want is not to restore it, but to develop it again and take another path."
Tang En pointed at Estisa and said, "The foundation is artificial soul technology."
"Why is it related to artificial souls again?"
The few of them were at a loss. Artificial souls were indeed very convenient, but they had nothing to do with computers.
Tang En smiled and said, "Let's start from the research foundation of Yu Sisi and the others. When the Einstein Behren family was researching artificial souls, they used instruction packaging technology to package some basic instructions and then infuse them into the artificial souls, right?"
"That's right. It can reduce a lot of work pressure and improve the production capacity and work efficiency of artificial souls."
Histisa said with a smile, "This is our proudest innovation while we were sealed."
"Based on this technology, I thought of something."
Tang En pointed to his head. "The principle of a computer is actually very simple. Define basic instructions, define various basic codes, and then input the instructions. The computer will perform calculations according to the input instructions and basic instructions, and then feedback the results."
"What if it's an artificial soul? Artificial souls were created by the Einstein Behren family. They're not biological at all, but their calculation speed is as fast as a human's. Moreover, their reactions are also created by humans. They only act according to instructions. Since that's the case, why can't we transfer this model to artificial souls? "
"Make a complete mathematical formula into an instruction set and then write it into the artificial soul. Then make a human-machine operation port for inputting instructions, and use magic energy projection as the display interface. Perhaps we can make a highly efficient computer."
Tang En's words made everyone's eyes light up. It seemed to be completely feasible.
"But what's the point of doing this?"
Jean asked. "It's just a simple calculation of the numerical results …"
Tang En and Klotto said at the same time, "What do you know!"
The two of them looked at each other, and Klotto smiled. "You really understand me!"
Jean was confused. "What do you mean?"
"Mathematics is the foundation of everything!"
Klotto said proudly. "Everything in this world is built on a perfect mathematical system. Everything can be described by mathematics!"
"Is that so?"
Angus said with a look of surprise. "Then describe to me how Fireball works?"
"…"
Klotto was stunned for a moment, and then he said a little awkwardly, "I don't know much about magic …"
Then he suddenly said in a hurry, "But I firmly believe that even if it's magic, there must be a principle. It can be analyzed, observed, and calculated!"
Tang En nodded in agreement. "That's right. Even if it's magic, there must be a basic principle. Magic can't appear out of thin air. We need to consume magic power and use magic power to interfere with the elements. Only then can we achieve the effect of the spell. The reason why it can't be calculated is because our current research methods are not yet at that level. I believe that one day, even legendary spells can be completely analyzed and their principles can be completely analyzed."
Jean wanted to scratch his head. "Why do I feel weird hearing you say that?"
Of course he felt weird. Although it was said that magic power could not be observed, every magician who had awakened their talent could clearly sense the magic power and elements in the air. Otherwise, it would be impossible to grasp their power.
"There's no need to pay too much attention to it. Mathematics is just a direction and method to study the world."
Tang En said with a smile, "More importantly, if we have a high-efficiency computer, we can even install it on the magic-powered armor and then assist our warriors in battle. Think about it, if we develop a high-efficiency computer, we can build all kinds of mathematical models according to our own strength, scan and record all kinds of battle skills and spells, and form a detailed, systematic database.
"Then, after installing this database on the computer, when the enemy raises his hand, our artificial soul computer will have already scanned all the enemy's characteristics and predicted the enemy's attack route by calculating its every subtle movement. Then, it will assist in dodging. The powerful Apocalypse can certainly dodge the enemy's attack in a very short time, but what about the ordinary warriors? They don't have this ability. With such an auxiliary system, the strength of our warriors will be improved more than just a little bit.
"Not only that, if the artificial soul computer can completely scan the process of us releasing spells, based on the characteristics of their artificial souls, if we can find a way to create an artificial mana pool for them, or connect it with the magic power between heaven and earth, or even let the artificial soul computer simulate us to release spells —"
Jean suddenly interrupted Tang En's words. "That's impossible! The process of releasing spells requires the participation of mental strength, and artificial souls don't have any mental strength. "
Tang En spread his hands. "So, I'm just talking about a possibility. The artificial soul computer doesn't have mental strength, but the operator does. Maybe in the future, the operator will only need to provide mental strength to be able to release spells freely.
"If that day comes and everyone becomes a magician, will we still have to worry about not having enough talent? And I also want to know if the spells released through artificial souls will trigger the characteristics of the creatures of Chaos. "
Upon hearing this, Gene and Angus immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. If what Tang En said was true, then the day when magic was completely popularized did not seem too far away.
More importantly, the high and mighty status of magicians would completely disappear on that day.
As magicians, they had enjoyed enough special treatment, and instinctively resisted this kind of development. But as Tang En said before, if everyone really became magicians, then there was no doubt that the whole Prandal would completely enter a new era, an era when the magic civilization exploded.
For the future of this world, and for their future …
Jean and Angus looked at each other, sighed, and silently accepted this possibility.
At this time, Histisa said a little awkwardly, "But, we don't know mathematics …"
"It's okay if you don't know, we do!"
Clotho laughed loudly. "Mathematics is the foundation of everything, how can we not study mathematics!"
The prehistoric civilization of the dwarves and goblins was based on the development of science and technology, and the foundation of science and technology was mathematics. Without mathematics, everything would be a castle in the air. The names of their mathematical formulas were not the same as the mathematical formulas on Earth that Tang En was familiar with, but as long as the foundation of 1 + 1 = 2 was there, the principles were actually the same. For example, the "Matz-Bolt formula" of the dwarves was actually the "trigonometric function" on Earth, and the "Dall cylinder ratio" was "pi" and so on …
From a literal point of view, these formulas were probably named after their inventors.
The names were not important, anyway, Tang En would not delve into those formulas. As long as Clotho and the others could provide the discovered and perfect mathematical formulas to Histisa, they could package these formulas into an instruction set. As for the various formulas and theorems that had not been discovered, they could be written in after they were discovered. It was very convenient.
"Since that's the case, let's give it a try. It won't take much time anyway. We can make a prototype in two or three days."
Clotho was more concerned about the computer that Tang En talked about than the others. If it could really be realized, the amount of calculation needed for anything they produced in the future would be reduced by a lot.
More importantly, Clotho was very relieved that Tang En valued mathematics so much. This kind of person was worthy of his full support.
In fact, making a computer was of course not that simple. The principles involved were very complicated. The storage of instructions, extraction, calculation, output, and so on, including the storage of data, the display of results, the input of the original instruction code, and so on, involved a lot of things.
However, Tang En pointed out the direction. Clotho had a certain technical foundation, Einz Baylon provided the "hardware" technical support, and Jean and Angus' magic assistance. It did not seem impossible to make it in two or three days …
Thus, three days later, Tang En really saw the first "experimental artificial soul computer" in Prandal.
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