MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 312 Eternal Battlefield (Main storyline complete)
This is because it is a hierarchical structure that can recursively descend indefinitely.

What constitutes Zhang Kun at this moment, when broken down further, are more fundamental biomolecules, cellular activities, nerve signals, and those spiritual forces.

In addition, there are complex social networks, information flows from personal memories, and some even more subtle anomalies...

However, at Zhang Kun's level, the more fundamental details were overlooked and integrated.

Countless tiny entities and details interfere with and oppose each other, forming a relatively stable structure at different levels, thus creating an individual that can be named "Zhang Kun".

But that's still not enough. Founder can continue to break it down further, recording the information at the original levels and resolving or intensifying the conflicts and intersections of the stable states that they form, to achieve an even more "stable" state.

Each layer of reality can be broken down into a more basic, complex, and diverse set at the next lower level, and then a simplified model emerges after their interaction—a dynamically changing, temporarily stable state.

"Yes, so I expected it, but the underlying structure is still a bit abstract."

Through this continuous recursion in the process of dismantling, at some point, the world in Fang Zheng's eyes had long since become completely indescribable.

Only by endlessly and completely replacing his own consciousness structure, thoroughly altering his consciousness algorithm and mathematical structure, deconstructing and reconstructing it in a more fundamental way, and using a more fundamental structure to perform abstract operations, can he barely manage to understand it.

In this process of dismantling, none of those seemingly strange tales and evil spirits, or seemingly stable things, have an absolutely independent essence.

Whether it's a normal phenomenon, an abnormal phenomenon, the observer himself, or even the process of dismantling itself—everything is a more fundamental and complex collection of infinite information that, under specific conditions and from a particular perspective, interacts, superimposes, and filters to create a temporary, relatively stable structure.

In that indescribable "reality," Fang Zheng was simultaneously experiencing endless falls and endless rises across those infinite levels.

"It does resemble fractals quite a bit."

Going downwards, it can be further subdivided into the indescribable "meta-foundation".

Looking upwards, it can encompass an unimaginable "meta-whole".

Each layer is a dynamic and stable set formed by the interweaving of different information sets from the next layer. All changes at each layer interweave at an abstract level, and in that dynamic change, a reality at the next higher level emerges once again.

However, everything that Fangzheng was once familiar with and the entire logical system it was accustomed to became fragmented in this constant dismantling and analysis.

A never-ending struggle originating from a more fundamental and macro-level perspective was perceived by Fangzheng.

Just like fractals, although different levels of reality are completely different and incompatible, their dynamic sets and their dynamic interactions share certain similarities.

At many different levels and in different sets, Founder noticed some similar “common divisor simplification models”.

Fang Zheng continued to dismantle the structure until, at a certain point, he reached the "bottom layer".

Those are 0 and 1, yes and no, existence and non-existence, being and not being...

Like an ocean of information bits, it resembles a binary computer. Zeros and ones interact to form different layers, and these different layers, in turn, form other, higher layers.

"No, we haven't reached the end yet."

In the midst of infinite tranquility, in the eternal stability of the ocean of information bits of 0 and 1, Fangzheng once again noticed the phenomenon of instability.

It is neither zero nor one, neither existent nor nonexistent, more ambiguous and more self-contradictory, something that cannot be fully understood by any existing logical system.

This means that the ocean of bits of 0 and 1 is just another simplified model that Founder can reach for the time being.

Founder further dissected the problem, revealing that what initially appeared to be the most basic 0 and 1 were infinitely expanded at deeper, more fundamental levels. The original 0 and 1 were merely simplified projections and dynamically stable patterns of more complex rules under specific conditions.

Everything is relative, and everything is just a dynamic set.

As this continuous dismantling and emergence of higher-level realities continues, even the process itself transforms into a dynamic set. This recursive process is infinite, but infinity, even within infinity, can still be reached.

Thus, Fangzheng reached both the infinite beginning and the infinite end of this emergent phenomenon.

He discovered something strange.

This is another logical system that also exists at the beginning and the end, at every level, and within the entire dynamic set.

Each system is self-consistent, complete, and flawless.

"A complete, self-consistent system constituted by process, or rather, time?"

"This is really interesting. What should we call it? Time? Or Process? Or let's give it a more fantastical name, like Arrow of Time."

Time is never a definite thing, but a general term for interactive change and evolution. There is no isolated time, only a never-ending flow of process, which is the so-called passage of time. Essentially, this describes the evolution of the interactive states between underlying sets themselves.

Time is relative. Particle oscillations, biological metabolic cycles, and the rise and fall of civilizations are all dynamic scales within a collection of different rules and perspectives. There is never a unified absolute time.

At this moment, having reached the beginning and end of this infinite realm, Fang Zheng noticed some entities that actively made him aware of themselves among the countless logical systems that make him who he was.

It was something perfectly self-consistent and complete, theoretically it should be in a closed state, something that Fangzheng could never possibly detect.

But it was discovered that this perfectly self-consistent and complete system seemed to have reserved a certain openness.

It is a system composed purely of "events, relationships, and transformations," which is completely self-consistent internally, and all transformation rules are completely consistent within the system.

It is closed; the emergence or demise of anything can be deduced from existing events within the system through transformation rules, thus requiring no external factors or a "first cause."

This system is complete; its own framework can cover all relevant fields. Based on this system, it can be expanded to include everything that Founder currently knows.

The reality itself, which consists of everything—whether it be all the rules, all life, or anything else—is a huge self-organizing system.

Yet, this very thing, this entirety of reality, is merely an insignificant process module within this self-consistent and complete logical system constituted by "process." In this entire system, time is the inherent rhythm of the process system, an observable effect of the irreversible evolution of the world flow. Events, relationships, and transformations constitute everything; everything is the steady-state mode of this process.

However, is this system alive?
Fang Zheng realized that this self-consistent and complete system, which in theory does not need anything from the outside world and is entirely composed of time and process, could actually rewrite itself.

This means that it is alive, and that it possesses a certain wisdom, a wisdom that even Fangzheng (the author) cannot fully comprehend at present.

Similarly, there is more than one such logical system.

At the same level, among those spanning the lowest and highest levels, Fangzheng discovered many more other systems.

They are both relatively isolated, yet both possess the self-consistency and completeness of two logical systems that cannot coexist in conventional logical systems.

They don't need anything; they are complete and self-consistent in themselves.

In theory, Fang Zheng should not have been able to detect them, but he still did.

They almost all set openness for themselves.

They themselves constitute the foundational building block of everything, a kind of underlying rule engine. Through their interaction, competition, cooperation, and nesting, all reality emerges, and "squareness" arises.

Fang Zheng realized that they were constantly being born and dying.

These perfect logical systems, though existing simultaneously, occupy different dominant positions on different scales and under different conditions.

Just as quantum rules dominate at the microscopic scale, classical physics rules dominate at the macroscopic, low-speed scale.

They together constitute reality, yet they each possess different levels of dominance.

However, this dominance is not static; they are constantly changing themselves.

Fang Zheng realized that new and more complex rules would be generated during the process of these logical systems interfering with each other.

They are like countless gluttonous snakes, translating and mapping themselves, turning other logical systems into part of themselves, and even when they are already self-consistent and complete, they continue to change themselves endlessly.

"Hehehe..." Fang Zheng chuckled. "It's quite interesting. If a logical system formed according to fixed rules is regarded as a lifeless, static world, then this place is a dynamic battlefield!"

"A dynamic ecosystem composed of countless self-consistent and complete logical systems with completely different rules."

At this level, the vast majority of logical system matrices can only be understood in a fuzzy way, using the most simplified model for understanding, with only a very small portion bordering on squareness.

Among them, some are based on continuous mathematics, some on discrete logic, some emphasize causal chains, some are full of probability, some are full of matter and energy, and some are based on information and concepts.

These constitute part of the logical system that makes up the Founder Group.

They engage in endless, complex interactions, vying for dominance, penetrating each other's boundaries, exchanging information, and in the midst of endless conflict, new and entirely new logical systems emerge.

"Speaking of which, it's quite similar to the mating of living beings."

"Different genes interbreed and produce offspring."

Fang Zheng smiled, because he realized that he himself was a product of this dynamic process.

Besides itself, there are infinitely many different sets that are also products of this kind.

"These are probably my brothers and sisters."

They are all different logical systems, but some are not self-consistent or complete. However, they are open, allowing for the input and influence of external information, and can be expanded and changed.

"Hmm, like a fetus?"

"It is still based on other logical systems and cannot be completely independent of itself."

Some are self-consistent but incomplete, which is what we now call Founder.

"As for me, I'd say I'm almost ready to be born."

Such a self-consistent yet incomplete logical system is already able to exist independently of other logical systems to a certain extent.

The Founder Group itself is logically consistent and without contradictions, but it is not yet able to integrate itself into a complete logical system that can cover all related fields.

However, Founder is open, allowing for the input and influence of external information, and therefore, it can continue to change.

It can continue to be born!

"Yes, the process of disassembling myself is itself a process of self-improvement, and now I am approaching perfection."

"So……"

Fang Zheng was feeling everything he had once possessed, everything he knew, and everything he was familiar with in reality.

Thus, he made it self-consistent and complete, while leaving room for openness.

"Let me participate in this dynamic change now..."

(The main storyline has ended)

(Side stories will be updated later; I'll try to keep the side stories lighthearted.)

(End of this chapter)