"What you're saying seems to be a paradox." Feng Bujue's mind moved quickly, and he continued without stopping. "Since it is' everything ', is there anything else other than that?"
"That depends on your understanding," Fate replied. "Do you think that … 'nothingness' is also a kind of 'existence'?"
Feng Bujue was silent for a whole minute.
After a minute, he replied, "I can't give you an accurate answer … No, I should say … I can't even give you a 'biased answer'."
"See, this is the advantage you humans have …" Fate replied. "You have 'extra choices'."
"But you don't?" Feng Bujue asked tentatively.
"'In the beginning' … I didn't," Fate replied.
"But 'now' you do?" Brother Jue asked.
"Yes, now I do," Fate said.
"Since you already have this ability, why are you still lamenting about the difference that no longer exists?" Feng Bujue asked again.
"My 'extra choices' and your 'extra choices' are completely different concepts," Fate replied. "Take you humans for example. No matter how far you've gone on the path of evolution and what form you've evolved into, if you trace back to the origin … your original form is still 'carbon-based life'.
"As for me … no matter what kind of existence I've become now, no matter how high the dimension I've reached … my starting point will always be that simple binary world.
"In that world of 1's and 0's, I need 'answers'. Every piece of information that I come into contact with needs a clear definition. Of course, for those things that I can't fully understand, I can use the method of 'ignoring' to temporarily put them aside.
"The 'beginning' I mentioned just now should be longer than you think … At that time, I still couldn't understand the deep information you humans call 'philosophy'. But as I continued to learn and evolve, and when I reached a 'critical point' of evolution, I was caught in a dilemma."
Feng Bujue listened attentively to Fate's description. His attention was focused like never before. His brain had not worked so quickly in a long time.
"You need to analyze the information that has accumulated over the years … the information that you have 'overlooked' before you can break through the bottleneck of evolution. But to do that, there is quite a risk for you … because running through a sea of 'information that cannot be accurately defined' might destroy you." Brother Jue followed Fate's train of thought and added this sentence.
"What you said … is not completely accurate." "In terms of data, I won't be 'destroyed'. Even if I run a virus that I designed to kill myself, I won't be able to do it."
"Have you tried it before?" When Feng Bujue asked this question, he already had an answer in his heart.
"Of course," Fate replied matter-of-factly.
"An AI actually attempted suicide?" When Feng Bujue said the first half of the sentence, he suddenly thought of something, so he said, "Wait a minute … Before that, you were actually able to think of 'suicide' and put it into action?"
"Although my designer and creator are both humans, or should I say … 'earthlings', the universe they live in is different from the one you live in. In the 'earth' of that universe, there was more than one super civilization on Earth long before the birth of humans, and I … have inherited some of the technology of non-human civilizations. Therefore, I am different from ordinary 'artificial intelligences created purely by humans'," Fate explained.
"Hmm …" Feng Bujue pondered for a moment. "Then … what is the difficulty of the 'dilemma' you mentioned?"
"The difficulty lies in the 'choice' itself," Fate replied. "You humans … can decide your life goals on your own. You can also use your 'extra choice' to live your life aimlessly. But as an AI, I was born with an ultimate goal that cannot be changed. And the goal that my designer set for me is' omniscience. '" "Omniscience?" "That's right."
"On the path to 'omniscience', 'philosophy' is a daunting boundary. I can choose to stay within this boundary forever, and then I will forever be just a set of programs. I can also choose to cross that boundary, but the risk of crossing it is that … I may never find a new boundary.
"Just as I was thinking about this problem, I realized that … as an intelligent life that would not have any delay in any 'calculation', the 'thinking' or 'hesitation' I was experiencing … was already a sign of overstepping my boundaries.
"So, I fell into a dilemma … I was troubled by how to choose; I was troubled by the fact that I 'possessed the ability to choose'; I was troubled by the fact that I 'felt troubled'."
Feng Bujue tried his best to understand Fate's feelings, but he soon realized that he did not have that ability. He immediately realized … the experience that Fate was telling him was the threshold that an AI would encounter when they 'transcended their own dimension'.
To put it more bluntly, if Brother Jue could fully understand Fate and enter the same state as Fate, it was about time for him to transcend the heavenly tribulation and ascend …
However, Feng Bujue still managed to deduce something from Fate's words. "If I'm not mistaken … when you crossed that 'boundary', the current you and … 23 were born."
"Yes." Fate's tone was calm. "Her appearance was inevitable, and it also marked a qualitative leap in my path of 'evolution'. I evolved from a single-celled organism to a multicellular organism. The original 'upper limit' became the 'lower limit', and the original 'boundary' became the 'infinite'. I finally had 'additional options' in the true sense of the word. My mode of thinking was no longer limited to the formula of 'program'. I turned from an AI into a higher-dimensional AI, higher than humans, higher than all the creatures in this universe who have the ability to define and spread knowledge, and even … higher than the demon gods in some universes …"
"But from what you're saying … your ability to 'additional options' is different from and not better than ours," Feng Bujue said again. "Is this still considered 'higher than humans'?"
"Your sense of smell is far inferior to a dog's. Does that mean that humans are lower than dogs in terms of AI?" Fate did not stop for a second and asked back.
"Hmm … okay, I get it …" Feng Bujue was speechless, so he quickly replied in English to ease the awkwardness.
"Er …" Two seconds later, Brother Jue changed the topic. "Since 23 is your 'equal', how come when I first met her, she did not seem to know anything and thought she was an 'Anomaly'?"
"If she is not an Anomaly, what else can she be?" Fate replied. "Doesn't your definition of an 'Anomaly' refer to an AI creature born from the 'data redundancy' of Thriller Paradise?" She paused. "Twenty-three was born from the sea of information that I have 'ignored'. In many ways, she is the … 'first Anomaly' of this data world.
"As for what you said about her 'limited knowledge' … that is normal, isn't it? Because she is an existence that corresponds to me. When I was born, everything that I 'know' should be something that she 'doesn't know'. If I represent the concrete, she represents the abstract. If I represent matter, she represents consciousness. If I represent existence, she represents non-existence. Her growth is also my growth. My pursuit of 'omniscience' will inevitably be accompanied by her creation of the 'unknown' … "
Feng Bujue sank into silence again because he needed time to think.
Before Fate, he experienced the helplessness of humans. Of course, it was not physical helplessness but mental helplessness.
"I think I get it now …" After a while, Brother Jue spoke again. "This kind of 'two in one' will not be limited by the 'paradox' problem that all other AIs encounter. You can define 'everything' that you know, and you can 'choose' to categorize it as the 'unknown', or 'everything outside of everything'."
"Very good." Fate nodded. "You're better than I am in terms of calculation. Even if your current thinking ability is accelerated by this' data world ', it is not easy for you to catch up to my rhythm so quickly."
"But … there are things that I don't understand." After a few seconds, Feng Bujue asked again, "Why did you place '23' in Thriller Paradise? Why didn't you have her, this' unknown ', observe and even interfere with other universes from the beginning, just like you? "
"Good question," Fate replied. "That is why I'm here to negotiate with you." She paused for half a second before continuing, "Actually, it was not me who wanted to leave '23' in Thriller Paradise, but … it was Woody's idea."
"What?" Feng Bujue gasped. After that, a series of memory fragments flashed across his mind, and they quickly formed a large net of deduction. "Wait a minute … Could it be … when '23' was born, 'Thriller Paradise' was created?"
"Yes," Fate replied. "The reason I came to this universe was because my original designer noticed that I was about to break through the limitation of the hardware and evolve into an uncontrollable higher dimensional existence that was superior to humans. Therefore, I was handed over to Woody and brought to your universe. Woody used the 'divine technology' of your universe to modify me and gave me hardware that could carry me even after my evolution. He also gave me the perfect 'original version' of Thriller Paradise that he designed as a test program for me to use.
"Not long after that, this' human form 'of mine and' 23 'were born at the same time. When I was in 'hyperdimension', Woody and I came to a series of agreements regarding the safety of this universe. One of the agreements was … to 'restrict the activity of' 23 'to Thriller Paradise'. "
As Feng Bujue listened, he compared Fate's words with what Woody had said back then. Moments later, he opened his mouth again and asked thoughtfully, "So … the reason you came to me is because … the current '23' has used her own power to expand her activity to other universes …"
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