MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 250 The Meaningless Universe

Fang Zheng stared at Madoka Kaname, then turned his gaze to Kyubey. After a moment's pause, he slowly said, "So, the essence of the universe is self-creation and self-evolution."

"This seemingly chaotic universe is actually undergoing a grand self-selection."

“Every magical girl is a carefully chosen observer. And every witch is a personification of the unknown and unsolvable collection of things, with these observers as anchor points in the universe.”

"The process of these unsolvable sets being gradually analyzed and understood is the process by which the universe, like a wild beast, devours the unknown and grows continuously with the unknown as nourishment."

"Just like my former World Sea Battleship, after it was killed as a witch, everything about it began to be absorbed and assimilated by the universe, turning into nourishment and becoming a new member of this vast universe."

"From the perspective of something that is not a subjective observer, on that truly objective macroscopic cosmic scale, everything related to it arises and extends naturally and unintentionally."

"Right before your eyes, before you were born, after you died, in the unknown realms you have never observed or touched, the information structure related to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths world that I witnessed exists silently."

"It silently interacts and evolves with existing information structures, giving rise to infinite possibilities, which are ultimately encompassed within a broader, infinite set..."

Entropy always tends to move from order to disorder.

Similarly, the universe itself, or any system, follows the pattern of moving from order to disorder.

The information evolution of the universe, the countless parallel evolutionary paths, and the causal network that does not exist in itself, will also produce changes similar to "heat death".

Perhaps, this change could also be called "logical heat death".

Logical heat death is like a singular state formed by superimposing an infinite repeating decimal and a non-repeating decimal.

Even an infinite set of mathematical universes will eventually fall into such logical heat death.

Because the infinite set of mathematical universes can generate an infinite number of variations, but at the same time, for mathematical entities like Fangzheng and the incubator, infinity itself can be calculated, or rather, infinity also contains regularity.

When one mathematical structure begins to interact with another, no matter how many permutations and combinations they may generate, once the interaction begins, the infinite information graph is already completely determined.

Whether it's Fangzheng or the incubator, they can traverse this infinite range of outcomes and possess absolute predictive power over everything within it.

The logical evolution of the universe itself, despite its infinite amount of information, appears to Fangzheng like an infinitely repeating decimal.

No matter how large the digits after the decimal point are, it is essentially a cyclical pattern, existing in a stable and unchanging fixed form.

Like a seemingly complex formula, no matter how complex it is, its answer is completely predetermined from the beginning.

Information that is already predetermined, even if it is infinite, has lost its distinctiveness and has fallen into "logical heat death" from the very beginning.

Similarly, the evolution of information is infinite, but does such information really have any meaning?
Just like in the mathematical universe described by the wave function, from the perspective of intelligent life, most of the combinations are just simple permutations and have no meaning at all.

In the continuous interaction of information, and in the interaction between the original set of the universe and the new unsolvable set, a brand-new "information body" begins to evolve.

Once this evolution begins and reaches a certain critical point, it will also fall into "logical heat death".

A set that might have had meaning from the perspective of intelligent life will become like an irrational number, such as pi.

Perhaps some fragments of numbers contain highly ordered information that can encode a complete and ordered universe, or even a vast collection of universes that can expand infinitely.

However, when the evolution of this information body, the arrangement of these irrational numbers, reaches a certain critical point, the structure that once seemed meaningful will lose its logical connection that does not actually exist, and become a string of meaningless "noise", thus leading to "logical heat death".

Such demise is a loss of meaning.

All events will cease to possess any discernible meaning; everything will descend into indistinguishable chaos. Ultimately, whether it is complete order or complete disorder, it is simply something predetermined from the beginning—an unchanging rock and a cacophony of noise.

Fang Zheng reached out and gently stroked Kyubey on the table, gazing into its ruby-like sparkling eyes, and said, "Kyubey, in the process of interacting with magical girls, you call yourselves incubators, right?"

"In the eyes of magical girls, you may just be a mascot, or even an evil alien in animal skin."

"But what are you really pursuing? In the end, in the information you gave me, the civilization or life form that can truly be called an incubator never existed from the very beginning, right?"

Cupid tilted his head and said in a calm voice, "We call ourselves incubators, probably to incubate the unknown."

It stretched and continued, "The universe is both extremely vast and extremely small."

"For any civilization or individual that has mastered the Super Turing Machine and possesses infinite computing power, the universe is just an unchanging rock, a boring thing."

"No matter how information evolves, no matter how large the set of mathematical structures is, it is like trying to find the number 3 no matter how exhaustively you search for the numbers between 1 and 2. It is a known cage."

"For any civilization that has mastered the level of the super-Turing machine, as long as it is observable, it can interfere; as long as it can interfere, it can control."

"Whether it's manipulating physical constants or rewriting mathematical structures, any technology or operation that may exist can be directly controlled, as long as the universe itself allows it to exist."

"But does it really make any sense?"

Ultimately, all technology and information are merely a part of the universe itself.

"The very structure of the bow and arrow was already permitted to exist at the moment the universe was born, before primitive humans invented it."

"It's not that primitive people invented a completely new structure, but rather that they discovered something that already existed."

"Whether it's the computing power that humans pursue for scientific research or various other purposes, the computers they develop, and the various high technologies they pursue, they have all been part of the universe as a super Turing machine from the very beginning."

"The answer to any formula exists before it is written down; the answer to any question exists before the question is asked."

"Like genetic code, everything about it is predetermined before it starts running and self-replicating."

"However, when DNA begins to function, when life begins to move, and comes into contact with unknown information from the outside world, the originally fixed genetic code will gradually make mistakes during self-replication, and thus evolve little by little."

"The mathematical structure of the universe, as the genetic code of the universe, is predetermined before it even begins to function. But similarly, it grows and changes in its interaction with unsolvable sets."

"A fixed and unchanging stone is meaningless, and so is exploring all possibilities."

"Only change itself has meaning."

Kyubey's clear, childlike voice calmly addressed Fangzheng and Kaname Madoka, explaining the meaning behind the title "Incubator."

In such an incredibly vast and infinite mathematical structure, where infinite information exists in parallel, the traditional desire for survival, or the need for continuation like that of intelligent life, is meaningless to the incubator.

Because in a universe where all information exists in parallel, "survival" is never something to be pursued; it is merely a default output of the system's state.

Death and life never existed.

So, since they don't need to pursue the continuation of their bodies or consciousness like ordinary creatures, what else do they, the incubators, need to pursue?

The answer is: to pursue the unknown.

(End of this chapter)