The Mystery of Self-Awareness

Just in time for the Spring Festival, Zhang Yuan was in the office, concentrating on reading a scientific research report.

In the past few years, he has been busy almost every day, especially during the period of communication with the Gliese civilization. All kinds of messy affairs and endless worries are simply exhausting. It is good to be able to sleep three or four hours a day.

However, after so many years, talents in all aspects have gradually been cultivated, and power can be gradually delegated to these professionals. Diplomatic issues, population issues, and education issues also have their own experts, so now he only needs to manage his own technology.

The importance of science and technology to human beings is self-evident, and it is also the foundation for a civilization to survive in the vast universe!

Thinking of the heavy pressure, Zhang Yuan would rather not take the Spring Festival holiday and go to work in the office. Anyway, reading this kind of scientific research report brings a high degree of happiness, which is not much different from rest.

As a result, looking at it, Zhang Yuan jumped up from the stool in shock!

According to this scientific research report, the elite scientists in UNREAL's illusory laboratory have initially deciphered the mystery of the "Boltzmann Quantum Consciousness Converter"!

It's just a preliminary, but it's exciting enough.

This instrument turned out to be a powerful "biological quantum computer"!

Its magic... not only can upload the "self-awareness" of human beings, but also the consciousness of other animals, such as mice, rabbits, dogs, cats and other creatures, and even the consciousness of insects and reptiles can be uploaded!

The whole process of grasping "self-awareness" is very strange. First, it uses the means of right-handed neutrino scanning to decipher the brain structure of life, read its core memory, and then send a series of complex electromagnetic waves.

This series of electromagnetic waves will gradually approach the brain waves, and then in an instant, self-consciousness will be inexplicably uploaded. Due to the different brain structures of various creatures, the electromagnetic waves sent will also be different, and people have not yet figured out the law.

This phenomenon is simply incredible, beyond human imagination!

"Scanning with right-handed neutrinos?" Zhang Yuan frowned. Humans don't know how long it will take to fully grasp this technology alone...

Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles that make up nature, and they don't participate in electromagnetic fields. Interact and have very, very strong penetrating power.

This penetrating power is many times stronger than that of traditional X-rays. X-rays can't even penetrate a lead plate of a few centimeters, but neutrinos can easily penetrate a planet!

Normally, natural neutrinos are left-handed, and right-handed neutrinos are actually the antiparticles of left-handed neutrinos, which can be used in the detection of matter in theory, and this detection will not destroy the properties of matter itself. Attributes.

Zhang Yuan shook his head, temporarily put aside these technical difficulties, and continued reading.

"...Only some higher life forms have 'self'."

Ichiro Yamamoto, the chief biologist in Unreal Labs, wrote in this scientific research report: "... life forms with underdeveloped brains, such as Speaking of insects and reptiles, every move is driven by instinct, not so much self-awareness, but a kind of biological robot!" "

After uploading the consciousness of these insects, most of the data streams that can be captured are visible. Only a small part is invisible. The more complex the life, the higher the invisibility of the data flow..." "

If this part of the invisible data is forcibly read, and then the consciousness is sent back, the creature will be directly paralyzed, there is no A way to resurrect..."

Paralyzed, not directly dead, but in a vegetative state. The brainstem is still working normally, and all the organs are working normally, but there is no way to wake up.

Scientists have no way to conduct experiments with living people for the time being. Most of the experimental individuals are cats, dogs, or monkeys cloned from artificial wombs, but it can also explain a large part of the problem!

This shows what?

Explain some of the assumptions in the "Boltzmann's self-awareness" theory, which is probably correct!

"A person's true self-awareness may be a series of quantum entangled states. They can only be transferred to the computer as a whole, but there is no way to forcibly read or copy them." "Once copied, read the specific information inside, the quantum entangled

state It will be destroyed, the wave function collapses, and the random number becomes a fixed value!"

Seeing this, with a "bang", Zhang Yuan knocked on the table very excitedly.

Even if humans still cannot understand the specific principles of this technology, a very important problem has been solved.

That is to say, whether the "I" before and after is consistent.

If it's just an overall quantum leap, instead of duplicating a memory for nothing, or if it's not a scary saying like "killing the old me and forming a new me", then… I believe many people will still be able to accept this new technology of.

This is just the first breaking point.

The second breakthrough is that an ordinary computer cannot carry the uploaded consciousness, so it is necessary to use a biological computer based on a neural network, coupled with a special quantum chaos algorithm.

After using the biological computer and the chaotic algorithm, human beings have no way of knowing what is being calculated inside, which ensures the "unreadable nature" of consciousness.

"Biological computer..." Zhang Yuan frowned, another problem appeared.

"If we must use biological computers...we want to imitate, it is very difficult."

Biological computers and photonic computers are two different directions. The main raw material of biocomputer is the protein molecule produced by bioengineering technology, which is used as biochip.

What the biological computer can carry, no matter there is arrangement data or folding data, so it can carry extremely huge amount of data.

The most important thing is that it is not like an electronic computer, the chip cannot be repaired automatically after damage, but has the ability of self-repair. Just like the human body, if the damage is not large, it will repair itself.

The reason why human beings have not vigorously developed is... because it is too difficult to realize. It is too difficult for a single gate element to realize complex biological logic pathways, which is far less simple and practical than photonic chips.

He sighed slightly: "However, with an alien biological computer as a reference, there should be some breakthroughs." "

Hey, there are still many difficulties..."

After reading the report, he quickly realized Get up and go to Unreal Unreal Labs. This information is too explosive, so I have to pay attention to it!

Hurrying to the door of the laboratory, Professor Yamamoto was already waiting outside, as if anticipating Zhang Yuan's arrival.

"Self-awareness is likely to be an algorithm based on memory! Quantum algorithm!" Yamamoto didn't write a word, and straight to the point said the biggest research result so far, and led Zhang Yuan to visit the latest research progress.

"Algorithm?" Zhang Yuan asked in confusion.

"Yeah, it's possible!" Yamamoto's old face was flushed, and he looked very excited.

The philosophical problem that plagued countless predecessors has turned into a scientific problem that can be solved inexplicably. Thinking of the possibility of conquering this previously unimaginable mountain made me tremble with excitement.