Lighting up super-god technology in the Three-Body World

Chapter 258 A New Understanding of Consciousness
Barnard Galaxy
Guo Zhe and his companions arrived, because there were no signs of life on other planets.

Several people, all clad in armored suits, hovered in mid-air, discussing how to intervene in the conflict between plant-based life forms.

Guo Zhe finally decided,
"Then cut off all the tentacles, find the core, and bring it back to Earth for Big Sister to study!"

After thinking it over, the others nodded in agreement and immediately began to take action.

For those vine-like creatures, the attack from the four armored warriors was truly a dimensional reduction attack; there was nothing that a high-energy laser beam with a temperature exceeding three thousand degrees Celsius could not cut through.

Within minutes, the ground was covered with plant debris, and the remaining vines contracted wildly, restlessly coiling around the core.

The two plant-like beings fought for a long time without suffering any losses, while the destructive power caused by the human intervention was clearly on a different level.

The four stood in front of the vine nest, and Guo Zhe said coldly.
"Keep cutting until you find the core!"

The armored fighting force was activated again, and no matter how the vines defended or fought back, it did not affect the sharp decline in their numbers.

Like a shaving of the head, as the outer plant limbs gradually diminish, the core of this life form is gradually revealed, its appearance exceeding everyone's expectations.

It is a plant that looks like a neuron magnified many times, similar to ginseng.

The reason it's described as resembling ginseng is entirely due to the dense network of tendrils covering its body, which connect to thick, long vines on the outside. This could reasonably be a novel method of signal transmission.
After Guo Zhe and the others severed all the tentacles, only the small body remained, scattered in the air. Judging from its struggling and swaying movements, it was easy to guess that this kind of life form could also be afraid.

Its roots extend deep into the ground, and it took Guo Zhe and others a long time to dig them all out. Compared to its exposed body, the root system is more than a hundred times longer and more complex.

Once the creature was uprooted, it immediately fell into a state of decay, ceasing all vigorous activity, as if it had died.

Soon, vines from other areas extended along the wreckage, not out of sympathy or to check on the battle, but to make use of the waste, just like absorbing fertilizer.

The four exchanged glances, then followed the same method to extract the body of another plant. This wave of life in the area could only be described as having suffered an undeserved disaster!

The powerful human scientific research capabilities quickly produced a detailed report.
Barnard's ginseng is indeed a plant life form that uses its vines to perform photosynthesis-like processes, absorbing stellar energy to nourish its core. Its body is equivalent to the human brain, possessing a certain degree of cognitive function.

It contains an internal neural network, which, although not as large as the human brain, does indeed exist.

This discovery suggests that the emergence of intelligence may be inseparable from corresponding neural structures, and that it is the special spatial combination of information sources that forms a higher level of intelligence.

Humanity has been somewhat silent about this, never before having so profoundly grasped the value of the saying "quantitative change leads to qualitative change".

It sounds ridiculous, like a pile of basic gravel being stacked according to a certain pattern to build a building, and then that building comes to possess subjective consciousness.

This is absurd. There must be some fundamental law that humanity has not yet discovered! Moreover, this law, like one plus one equals two, belongs to the fundamental laws of the universe. That is, as long as such a structure is formed, advanced intelligence, that is, subjective consciousness, will emerge.

When Jiang Fan saw the information, a wild guess popped into his head.

Humans can create many things, but intelligent life is not one of them!

If this structure can give birth to consciousness, then if we simulate this structure and nurture it, can we give birth to a completely new consciousness?

Similar to a brain in a vat, but this brain is not a human brain, but a special neuronal structure cultivated by humans. It can mimic the human brain or be other spatial structures.

For the first time, human civilization has such an intuitive understanding of consciousness. Before this, brain-computer interface technology was simply the capture and utilization of existing brain signals. No one could understand how these signals were generated or where human consciousness came from.

Some experiments have not been conducted due to humanitarian reasons. For example, if the brain structure is damaged and consciousness is lost, can a thought transplant be performed to reproduce the original, undamaged consciousness in a new body?
An experiment was conducted where consciousness was transplanted into two bodies simultaneously. The results were bizarre: consciousness would randomly revive in one body, without any pattern. Whether it was three or more bodies, only one body would revive at random.

This makes one ponder the relationship between them.

Jiang Fan sat in the chair, synthesizing the known information and constantly expanding his thinking, deducing various connections. As long as the universe itself is unified, then all things within the universe should be interconnected!
This characteristic is a fundamental rule of the universe, and the unification of the four fundamental forces is one aspect of it. Humanity has achieved this, but it still cannot explain quantum effects, consciousness effects, and the space wormhole effect.
The concept of unifying fundamental forces can only be used to clearly understand and modify the general physical world. Theories like antimatter go beyond the scope of fundamental forces; humanity only knows that this approach can produce antimatter.
I know that force matrices can be used to preserve antimatter, but the question is, why does this method produce antimatter? Why does matter separate into matter and antimatter? Is there any special significance to this?

This is a phenomenon that cannot be explained by fundamental forces. It's like asking why a specific structure can generate consciousness? Humans understand the formation and function of neurons, but they don't understand why a particular structure can produce consciousness.

There's also the confusion regarding dimensions. If simulating the Big Bang can elevate microscopic particles to nine dimensions, then why not four, five, or six?
Socrates once said: "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." This philosophical idea is still applicable today!

Lord Niu said something similar.

"I don't know what kind of person I am in other people's eyes,"

"But in my own eyes, I'm just like a child playing on the beach,"

"To take pride in occasionally finding a pebble that is smoother than usual or a shell that is more beautiful than usual,"

"But I found nothing of the vast ocean of truth that was presented before me."

Philosophers who have a profound understanding of the world will generally express the feeling of the world's vastness and their own insignificance. To others, they may seem erudite, but to them, endless questions have only just begun to emerge.

After much thought, a sudden inspiration struck.
If we link specific neural structures to the theory of spiritual matter, can we deduce a new rule?
For example, this special structure can attract spiritual matter or allow spiritual matter to possess it, thus elevating the birth of wisdom from ordinary physical matter to spiritual matter, thereby explaining its specialness.

As for why possessing spiritual matter means wisdom, that's beyond our current comprehension.

(End of this chapter)