Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 133 The Birth of Consciousness

The aftershocks have not subsided yet, and Yuanze is still staying in the makeshift laboratory, staring at the screen in front of him.

A complex seismic wave pattern was displayed on the screen, but in Yuanze's eyes, these waveforms became active and kept beating, like a brain wave.

"how is this possible?"

Yuanze whispered, his fingers tapping on the console subconsciously following the rhythm of the seismic waves.

He felt a pulse of information; these chaotic signals were becoming regular on some level.

Suddenly, a strange idea popped into his mind: If seismic waves are the "brain waves" of the blue planet, does it mean that the planet itself is a huge living organism?
This idea shocked Yuanze himself. He began to imagine that the "neurons" of the blue planet were the structures inside the earth, and the seismic waves were the signal transmission of his strong emotions.

But this idea is too advanced, too crazy, and even has a bit of theological flavor.

But in the world after the catastrophe, many things have become different, and we cannot use conventional methods to understand the unconventional.

The science that humans can understand is just a drop in the ocean of the universe. Relying too much on existing science is also a kind of superstition.

"What are you doing?" A man walked into the laboratory, saw Yuanze lost in thought, and patted him on the shoulder gently.

"It's you, Wang Ruipeng."

Yuanze saw the person clearly. He was a researcher sent by Li Haisheng to assist him in his work.

He also studied in the elite class of JA District No. 1 Middle School. Due to his poor family conditions, he failed to enter the training camp, so he gave up the path of a source warrior and finally entered the S Province University of Science and Technology.

Later, he was discovered by Li Haisheng and entered the martial arts school at the same time as Ni Minghao to continue his training. He showed excellent scientific research talent while in school and was hired by Haisheng Group after graduation.

"Have you ever thought about the question that the blue planet itself is a huge living organism?"

Out of respect for Li Haisheng, Wang Ruipeng did not immediately refute Yuan Ze's idea, which sounded absurd.

However, after thinking about it seriously for a while, he shook his head and found it difficult to agree.

"Then take a look at this. This is the seismic wave data I just processed using AI."

Yuanze used Astra to analyze this string of data, and after removing all the interference from the seismic waves, he found that the two actually had a 95% similarity in the analysis of a certain coordinate transformation.

"Isn't your coordinate transformation a bit too tricky?" Wang Ruipeng still found it difficult to break the cage of his thoughts and was a little skeptical.

"So, is it possible that this world is telling us something, but we humans cannot interpret it? As you know, humans still cannot explain the appearance of the source beast."

Wang Ruipeng fell into deep thought again, because he also knew how these source beasts were explained in the books.

In the middle of the catastrophe, countless abnormal life forms occurred around the world, but humans could not explain them. They could only attribute them to the "source of mutation", so these creatures were called source beasts by humans.

The one before us is the most difficult to explain. Life is born for no reason from an extremely harsh environment, and it has a consciousness that is no less intelligent than that of humans.

“This is truly an unsolved mystery!”

Wang Ruipeng didn't say anything more. He dragged out a stool and began to analyze the data.

The two of them finally reached a consensus: this emerging source beast was expressing its consciousness through seismic waves, and eliminating its consciousness would kill it in its infancy. So a difficult problem was placed before them again: how to eliminate its emerging self-consciousness.

Genze said that consciousness can travel through the quantum world, thus using the spiritual power of the Genbu fighter to kill his emerging self-awareness at the quantum level.

He recalled reading a view that the computer in the human brain is a quantum computer.

His basis is also very strange, relying on the "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem", which is extremely influential in the mathematics world.

“In both natural language and mathematics, there are propositions that the logical system itself cannot prove true or false.”

In layman's terms, it means "certain propositions cannot be proved, but the logic that can prove these propositions exists outside the logical system that produces them."

Traditional computers generate propositions and provide answers according to a unified and definite logical system.

According to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, computers must be able to infer propositions that they cannot prove true or false.

But humans can deduce and prove propositions that computers cannot prove true or false.

So, this view holds that the brain is superior to a computer because it is able to perform a non-computational process.

This ability, the view goes, requires a special explanation, one that only quantum mechanics can provide.

This view was put forward long before the catastrophe, but was quickly refuted by other scientists.

However, after the mutation occurred, except for basic macroscopic physics, most situations still apply, and no one dares to easily deny the possibility of any event.

Especially during this period, Yuanze's consciousness fell from the dream world to the quantum world, and then entered the even more incredible "string" world.

This made him more certain of the possibility of this conjecture.

Hearing this bold guess, Wang Ruipeng was completely stunned. He couldn't imagine what kind of world Yuanze was talking about, but looking at his expression, it didn't seem fake.

Then, there is only one way to verify their conjecture, which is to design a precise quantum consciousness experiment. If the experiment is successful, this method should be possible.

The two of them also called on other staff members who were sent with them to see if they could construct such an experiment using existing technology and equipment.

If the experiment fails, it will be of no consequence; if it succeeds, they will surely be remembered for all eternity.

All the people sent by Li Haisheng began to take action under this encouragement, and everyone offered suggestions.

With the wisdom of everyone and the assistance of Astra, Yuanze also came up with a plan.

You can use the dream talent of the dream tapir, and then observe a quantum in a superposition state with pure consciousness in the dream tunnel, and judge it by another quantum entangled with it.

If another quantum collapses to a specified range, it means that consciousness behaves consistently in the real world and in the quantum domain.

On the contrary, it means that consciousness is another special existence in the quantum domain that does not impose "observation", which proves that consciousness is a special quantum system.

Without further ado, Yuanze hid the existence of the nightmare tapir and, based on his "gene lock" ability, let everyone start the action.

I will polish it later
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(End of this chapter)