Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 610 Within this model

The doors to the Computing Center remained closed that day.It is the most boring and neglected building in the whole city.Unlike Ethics House, people never seem to want to come here.In terms of the number of city dwellers, that's an incredible thing, but that's also because it's inexplicably unlovable.People will always avoid here subconsciously, House Zero, a ghostly building with a weak sense of existence.

By the railing of the building, Ji Xun watched a moon-white insect flower grow out of the gap.It flaps its wings on the calyx, spreading scale powder and polypeptide toxoids.He has completely analyzed the components of the toxin and made the corresponding antidote, so he was able to watch the transformation of the petals up close.Jules stood further away, frowning and looking far away on the road.

"I'm still imagining the moment you all experienced." Ji Xun said, "That day, Bei saw a singing flower growing from her workbench, just like this one before my eyes. You also witnessed those What should have been inanimate came to life. At that moment, what was the first thing you felt?"

"Feelings are completely divorced from reality," Jules replied. "Those hallucinatory parts have no actual meaning. After stripping them, we can grasp the essence of things."

"I can't agree that everything created by the slicer is an illusion. As you can see, Jules, all the matter here exists. We can completely regard it as an independent and small special universe. If Reality is not the only criterion, how do you explain that they are more false than the old universe you used to live in?"

Drew was indeed thinking about the questions he had raised.After a while she said, "Everything lacks logical coherence here, Mr. Ji Xun. It's not an official term, but you get my point. A real universe has logical laws. Even the last drop A dry bead, every elementary particle of it has gone through the entire history of the universe. If you could watch everything, you would know every single event it went through before it dried up. It was these events that sent it to the final dry place."

"These are just feelings." Ji Xun said.

"Of course not. This is causation and law! The absence of matter does not contradict their objectivity. This question is a bit too elementary, Mr. Ji Xun, I think we should have passed the age of discussing such prerequisites. Same Things appear to us in a completely causal way, or are simply conjured up by our imagination. That's quite a difference. I don't need to explain the difference."

Ji Xun turned around, and the insect flower began to cocoon behind him.After he took two more steps, his physique began to change and his growth accelerated until he was a little longer than he should have been.That still wasn't enough to keep him at close eye level with Jules, but at least he didn't have to look up.

"We can simply divide exploration into two," he said. "Recognizing and finding things we have never seen is a random job. It depends on how far the new thing is from the boundary of our exploration." How far. But here's another kind of exploration, about things we think we know, but we actually know next to nothing about."

"Now is not the time to explore yourself, Mr. Ji Xun. The value of life is a topic that will not have a final conclusion, unless we are talking about a dead person."

"I'm not referring to a philosophical issue." Ji Xun still said, "In fact, this is a practical issue involving the applicability of technology. In the place where I was born, this issue almost destroyed all our achievements. Juul, a drop of water What is it?"

"A oxyhydroxide of a specific structure."

"Yes, but we can divide it into smaller ones. In the structure splitting of microscopic particles, most of the regional rules we know are consistent. I think you have also heard of our attempts, About making computational tools at the elementary particle level - but that's just an applied frontier. For theory, we don't have a real answer. If we have to explain 'what is a drop of water', it will be another infinite Task."

Jules stared at him silently, clearly not sure where their conversation was going.

“We are still talking about some theoretical issues,” she pointed out. “In my opinion, Mr. Ji Xun, these are generally philosophical issues. They are not applicable.”

"What is logic?" Ji Xun asked without heeding, "If we split logic like a drop of water, what would we get? Regarding those basic principles that we default to as 'self-evident', are they really inseparable?" Or, do they only hold true within the set of mental models we use? If we break down the 'self-evident' parts—in other words, the underlying layers of all theories we have—then What are we up against?"

He saw an indistinct look of bewilderment on Jules' face.For this simple topic, she failed to grasp the part worth discussing.And the result was exactly as he expected, Jules' answer was almost exactly as he estimated.

"It's an interesting mind game." She said rather reluctantly, "but I didn't see the applicability you mentioned, Mr. Ji Xun. You know, before the splitter appeared, our universe had never been questioned by anyone. The law of cause and effect collapses."

"So here? Inside a wishing machine environment, how do you think about this problem?"

"The slicer just makes it impossible for us to observe the process," reminds Juul. "That doesn't mean there isn't. It doesn't show 'something that never could have been'. And in any kind of history, Mr. Ji Xun, even the history with a very small probability, it has nothing to do with us in terms of the basic rules you mentioned, even the slicer will not really 'eliminate causality'. We, or the slicer All that unfolds in this city are but different leaves on the same branch."

"Yes," Ji Xun said, "For a first-level wishing machine, exhausting the physical display capabilities will not cause such a dilemma. No matter how the description is unfolded, we are still within this model."

"I don't know what you are implying, Mr. Ji Xun. The theoretical terms we use are obviously very different, so I hope that both of us can communicate in a colloquial way."

Ji Xun blinked.His gaze fell to the end of the road.Behind him, the membranous cocoons formed by insect flowers withered like dead leaves.A moth with dark, scaled wings took off from a flower stalk.Drew noticed it, but didn't see it as any meaningful sign.Really meaningful things happen at the end of the road.On the stretch away from the computing center, the people they were waiting for were approaching.Jing Juan and Cat Killer are separated by a distance, but neither seems to be injured.There is also a particularly majestic orange catman, with long hair as gorgeous and beautiful as flames.Neither Zhu Er nor Ji Xun knew this beautiful cat, but they both acted calmly and listened to the speech of this strange visitor.

Pretty Cat is talking loudly, in a nagging tone.Its eyes stared at Jing Huang, and its tail stood upright.

"You're in trouble, green cat!" it said bluntly. "Look at what you've done, green cat! The executor is on the way, and you've caused a lot of trouble! You asked for it, Veggie cat!"

"Shut up." Jing Huang said.

Jules stared at the absurd and chaotic scene.She didn't like this unexpected situation.But Ji Xun just smiled with interest.She heard him leave his last whispers before he walked towards the three people who were coming to meet him.

“With regards to terminology and communication,” he murmurs, “natural language doesn’t really do a good job of explaining our predicament—it’s a matter of math for now.”

(End of this chapter)