High Above

   Chapter 266 Reverberation, Echo and Mirror (410)

  Eternal life is the highest desire of almost all life.

Because eternal life itself represents almost endless time, he can do almost all things and seek almost all meanings—as long as he has a goal, he will not think that eternal life is a bad thing, because it is the demonstration of all meanings, it is A collection of all desires and dreams.

  In Terra Continent, even sublimated people have a short lifespan, and there are not many people who can't help but yearn for eternal life.

  The stronger the person, the more the person who holds the wealth, the more the person who owns everything and wants to have everything forever, the more he cannot help but desire.

  Don't desire, chase eternal life.

but…

  Now Ian just wants to laugh.

   "The law of eternal life?"

His face is very weird, like the kind of expression that wants to laugh but feels disgusting, mixed with a little bit of sympathy and disgust—it's probably like seeing a young man who deliberately ran a red light to make a short video, but was caught by everyone Trucks rolled up trash that required shoveling.

  He is like this, he wants to laugh, but also feels sad, feels disdainful, but feels pity for him and his family from the bottom of his heart.

  The white-haired boy repeated with mixed feelings: "That's it? You call this eternal life?"

"yes."

  As if infected by Ian's emotions, Patrick sighed and his face remained expressionless.

  He closed his eyes and sneered after a while: "They think this is eternal life."

  Ian was speechless for a while.

Learning machines can instill knowledge through the subconscious mind. This is based on the fact that the Terrans have the technology of 'Xungu', a data interaction organ that can directly communicate with electronic devices, and must be matched with a brain that is adapted to the transmission of data-based information... Terrans The structure of their brains has also apparently been modified to fit their electronic creations.

  Learning machines not only allow people to learn professional knowledge, but also can learn "aesthetics" and "etiquette sentiments"-except for the thinking mode that cannot be learned, it can basically learn almost all knowledge.

  It can even help people who have lost part of their memory to re-‘learn’ their backed-up memories in the past!

  Back then, there was such a thing as a "memory and knowledge bank" on Earth. After all, thinking patterns also have an adaptation rate. The higher the adaptation rate, the higher the efficiency and stability of learning, and it is easier to master it thoroughly.

   So, here comes the problem.

  If a person with a blank brain and no self-thinking at all learns another person's 'memory' in its entirety.

   Can it be said that the learner and the learner are one person?

  Can the learner use this method to achieve 'eternal life'?

  The answer is obviously no.

Leaving aside that learning is only about memory, the structure of the brain is different, and the structure of the nerves is also different. Even if a blank person learns a person's memory, he will not regard himself as a "learnee"—may produce identity recognition disorder, but the learner and the learner do not necessarily have the same 'choice'.

   This is obviously just another person with the same memory, not to mention eternal life, and even having the same goal is impossible, let alone taking things away.

   The most, the most, can only be regarded as 'reverberation'.

but…

   "It's not a dead end."

Although it looks very contemptuous on the surface, Ian has already sounded the alarm in his heart: "The learning machine is only the instillation of the most elementary 'memory' and 'knowledge'-however, if the 'cyberified' consciousness uploading machine is rewritten, its input and output logic, but can achieve 'consciousness copying' and 'thinking algorithm copying'!"

  "A blank body, after consciousness copying and thinking algorithm copying, after some kind of operation and drug catalysis, resets its neural structure, then it can basically be regarded as the 'second me in the world'!"

   "And this can already be regarded as an 'echo'!"

  The thinking logic of Echo and Ontology is completely consistent. They will make exactly the same judgment when they encounter the same thing, and they will make different choices only because of the difference in intelligence.

  If all the conditions are met, such as the exact same neural network, and then accept the consciousness algorithm, instill memory, and reconstruct the nervous system, it is true that one person's will and thinking can be revived in another person.

   Even, like echoes, you can create as many as you want.

At this point, it can basically be said to be 'eternal life'... For those who don't care about self-identity, but just want to fulfill their 'goals' and 'dreams', regardless of who they are, there is a reconciliation I am exactly the same, can make the same choices, and will never betray my "other me" can live on my behalf and complete my goals.

  How is that different from living on your own?

   But the problem is.

   "It is impossible for them to accept only the level of 'echo'."

Ian turned his head slightly, looked behind him, in the direction where Isengard left, and said solemnly: "How can these ascendants with great strength and authority accept another 'weak self' to accept everything about themselves? "

   "What they need is not an echo, but a 'mirror'!"

  —What they need is not a consciousness replica, but a 'complete consciousness transfer'!

  —Upload one's own thoughts completely to another person's brain, and then achieve the result equivalent to "seize the house"!

   "Are you so smart?"

   This time, Patrick was really surprised. The blond nobleman thought he needed to roughly explain the difference between the echo and the mirror, but he didn't expect that Ian could understand the difference so easily.

   But this is better.

So he smiled and shook his head and said, "Of course, what the 'Mirror Surface' needs is not only the simple transmission of thoughts, but also the 'transfer of soul'... After the third energy level of 'Heart Light', the body and soul are entangled with each other. Certainly, even at the fifth energy level, there is no way to separate the intact spirit from one's body while one's own body is intact."

  “Although there is no essential technical difference between the mirror and the echo in theory, it adds a lot of difficulty because of the existence of the soul.”

really.

  Ian thought thoughtfully...Consciousness copying and thinking algorithm copying are not fundamentally different from uploading and downloading consciousness, but because this is the continent of Terra, a world with the self-certification of "soul".

  So the difficulty of uploading consciousness is far greater than that of the earth.

  People on earth have no soul, and only thinking algorithms and memory can prove that they are themselves. After uploading, it is equivalent to transferring themselves.

   But it’s not enough on Terra—in addition to memory and algorithms, the soul must also be transferred!

   Reverb, Echo and Mirror.

  Pure memory; memory and algorithm; memory, algorithm and soul.

   This is indeed a way to achieve eternal life through continuous transfer of self.

  The only flaw may be that even if the soul of the memory algorithm is completely transferred, the original sublimated power cannot be left in the new body.

   But it is not impossible to solve.

The young man now fully understands why it is Isengard - he has the blood of the royal family, and he has the blood of the "Erosion of Light and Refining Dragons"... If nothing else, the purpose of that landkeeper Axel should be to occupy Isengard's body, and then use the transformed light-eroding dragon refining blood to 'swallow' or 'symbiosis' his past body in turn!

In this way, he can directly possess the strength of the fifth energy level again without even needing to re-cultivate... The next thing to do is to gradually cut off the blood of the eclipsed dragon and the old body. When he is the old self, he is equivalent to living out the second life!

   And in the process, he could even grasp all the wealth and power that annexed the entire Ellen family by the way, further strengthening the power of the royal family!

  —Play like a real flower!

  Ian can't be sure, this is Axel's complete plan, but according to the current intelligence speculation, this is probably the purpose of the keeper, and it is logical and can explain Patrick's actions.

As an experimental material and a future transfer target, Isengard must have at least the strength of the fourth energy level before he can try to possess the fifth energy level of the "Emperor's Corpse". It can erode the light of the dragon's blood.

   "It's...evil."

  At this moment, even Ian, who doesn't care much about these things, can't help but understand why Inaiga II... would denounce his family ancestors as 'extremely evil'.

  Especially, the ancestors who obtained this technology may have used this technology in private, or even been eroded by the "ancient echo" left in the civilization machinery of the previous era.

  Ian didn't intend to find out who was right and who was wrong between Inaiga II and his ancestors, since they were all dead anyway.

  As for now, he completely understands why the people at Sequoia Base denounced the Great Elder as a devil.

  Because, whether it is reverberation, echo or mirror, people need to be used as materials.

  In the absence of human cloning, this usually means obliterating a person's mind and retaining his body as a carrier of another life.

  This is much more immoral than simple destruction.

  Most of the doubts have been answered, and now Ian has almost only one question left.

"And you?"

  He raised his head and looked at Patrick. Ian squinted his eyes to cover the silver-blue light in his eyes: "Why didn't you tell Isengard about this?"

   "Patrick...what is your purpose?"

  (end of this chapter)