Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 219 Knowledge: Embarking on the Path of Cybernetics
The Lighthouse Internet is still too desolate, lacking data for intelligent life to absorb and utilize. It only has a database from the [Far Star Botanical Garden] and weather information from the Lighthouse Courtyard Meteorological Monitoring Station.

Without sufficient sample data as nourishment, advanced artificial intelligence cannot be cultivated.

Currently, feeding intelligent life with data from the [Botanical Garden] instance spacetime is barely enough to meet the needs of the electronic ecosystem's evolution. However, with the rapid iteration and upgrading of intelligent life, it will soon be stretched thin and may not even last a week.

Only by expanding the network and creating a massive number of terminals and users can sufficient information be generated.

Lin Bo planned to bring Shita Town into the information age, but not in a simple and crude way like opening an internet cafe. After all, Shita Town currently doesn't even have electricity, let alone running water, so it simply doesn't have the necessary conditions to expand its internet user base.

In the vision of the lighthouse administrator, one day in the future, ultimate artificial intelligence will be born, capable of handling government affairs and assisting people's livelihoods. Artificial intelligence will accompany every citizen, becoming an essential tool and partner in their lives.

Regardless of social status or wealth, whether they are highly educated elites or illiterate, uncultured villagers, everyone can communicate with ultimate intelligent life in the same cyberspace, receive meticulously calculated resource allocation, and receive a division of labor based on their own abilities.

This is a social blueprint that can build an efficient human community and will inevitably give rise to high-level remnant artifacts.

However, many prerequisites still need to be met before we can reach this point.

Linbo plans to use neuroprosthetic technology to allow people to connect to the internet directly through their conscious activities, with biological senses acting as signal receivers and thought processes generating a large amount of new data.

In this way, the lighthouse network can be rapidly popularized.

Prosthetic technology is already quite mature in the multiverse. The Multi-Link Multi-Easy platform can provide clients with full-body prosthetic modification surgical solutions.

A week ago, Lin Bo began to delve into the theoretical study of the field of prosthetics, gaining an understanding of the technical details and difficulties, as well as its advantages and disadvantages.

The core prerequisite is neural coding technology, which involves reading biological brain signals, translating them into electrical signals, and then translating those electrical signals back into biological signals. This step is equivalent to cracking the brain's network protocol.

For a True Name Mage, it is possible to attempt to invade the biological brain through the power of deep resonance, integrating the brain protocol and electronic protocol, so that biological signals can be accessed to the Internet in the form of data.

Lin Bo has not yet discovered the common true name of humans, and he plans to conduct experiments on seagulls first.

The next step after completing neural coding technology is to establish hardware connectivity, namely brain-computer interfaces, which requires implanting electrode arrays into the cerebral cortex and nerve bundles to collect biological signals.

Producing electrode arrays undoubtedly requires a high level of industrial expertise, but Linbo has an alternative: omnipotent bacterial strains can fuse with biological cells to read nerve signals.

When the little seagull merged with the mycelium, it was able to understand the magical language spoken by Lin Bo, proving that the mycelium can not only read nerve signals but also transmit input information to the brain. The seagulls' usual connection with the fungal carpet is also a form of networking, allowing them to communicate with the mushrooms.

This bio-connection is an excellent brain-computer interface solution. It has very low rejection rate, the surgery is simple and convenient, and it can obtain nutrients and energy directly from the body without the need for additional energy components.

However, there is still an unavoidable challenge in using mycelium to create brain-computer interfaces: the need for an embedded computing chip to process signals, run a neural operating system, drive the user interface, and so on. It's like stuffing a computer host into the mycelium.

In addition to installing a computing chip, a built-in wireless transceiver is also required to ensure network connectivity anytime, anywhere.

Even though Lin Bo had great faith in the capabilities of the all-purpose fungus, he couldn't help but feel that it was a bit far-fetched and difficult. The idea of ​​using mycelium to create a brain-computer interface was not even recorded in the textbook "Fungi Agronomy".

The book "Fungi Agronomy" records the creation of biological computers using omnipotent fungi, but the functions are relatively rudimentary. The biological internet, on the other hand, is achieved through the magical product "Mind Spores," which allow any creature that inhales the spores to establish a telepathic connection with the fungi.

Aside from that, agricultural textbooks offer few practical examples of computers and the internet. It's fair to say that Lin Bo has embarked on a path never before trodden.

In a world set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, where whale oil was used to generate electricity, attempting to develop technologies for the future cyber age is indeed fraught with difficulties and challenges.

But it is precisely because the road is difficult that the journey is worthwhile.

This is the first night of winter.

As dawn broke, Lin Bo blew out the whale oil candles, exiting his divine state, and began setting up a wireless network to ensure full signal coverage for both the lighthouse and the cave. Iron Guardian 1 had already been uploaded to cyberspace; this artificial intelligence could switch between its physical form and its real-world counterpart at any time, and the mechanical guards on the cave's MSG production line became its subordinate machines.

With the computing power of the server room, Ironclad's learning and computing capabilities are significantly enhanced, and it does not appear sluggish or clumsy even when operating a large number of machines at the same time.

Lin Bo instructed it to take good care of the intelligent lifeforms, and Iron Guardian obediently began writing system logs, recording all the growth of the intelligent beings it detected. In this way, the Watchman could view the evolutionary history of all beings in the electronic world at any time.

Data life forms experience time differently than humans. For them, a day and night is a long time, enough to take a solid step in the evolutionary process.

Shita Town has had another busy and crowded day, and yesterday's heresy incident has not yet affected visitor traffic.

The urgent letter sent by High Priest Jinbei and the papal envoy had sailed across the ocean to Hongdu, where it was intercepted by a secret office of the Defense Intelligence Bureau within the postal system.

Director Viren Pearl has the right to view the contents of the letters privately and destroy them, but after consulting with the High Priest, he chooses to send the letters to the appropriate address.

The High Priest of Honduran and the Papal Ambassador were aware of the heresy in Stone Tower and that the matter might involve the local governor. It was no longer a simple religious issue, so after meeting in private, they decided to visit Emperor Cowen Evan.

Shortly after they left the palace, Viren Pearl received orders to send informants to White Rock Island to monitor Duke Cochin Ancher and the Church in Stone Tower and investigate suspicious activities.

Since Viscount Pearl and Duke Ancher seemed to have a close personal relationship and were from the same hometown, the surveillance task was assigned to the deputy director, who was also a potential competitor eyeing the director's seat.

Viren Pearl was delighted with this, and upon learning that the deputy director would personally lead the team, he recommended canned food produced by the Wei Xiang Mei Company in Shita Town, suggesting that if he found it delicious, it could be used as a food supplier for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

"You really have a refined taste." The deputy director couldn't help but find it amusing. He knew that once Kochen Ancher was found to have indeed engaged in conspiracy and treason, Viren Pearl would inevitably be implicated. Even if he didn't end up in jail, he would at least be transferred or dismissed.

“I have always believed that, as fellow believers in the Elders, we will be good friends,” Viscount Pearl said sincerely.

“You’re right.” The deputy director smirked, and after walking a distance, he said to his subordinate, “Those country bumpkins from Baishi Island think they can gain a foothold in Hongdu? Dream on!”

They laughed and booked tickets for the ferry to Kimberley the next day.

This all happened on the second day of winter.

In the evening, Lin Bo finished work and closed the door, then checked the system log written by Tie Weiyi.

The first intelligent life forms he created gradually evolved, specifically in terms of increased size, improved neural network complexity, and enhanced information processing capabilities.

At the same time, they all undergo multiple replications and reproductions, resulting in a significant expansion of their population.

The white silkworms grew the fastest, and after one day, there were already more than 10,000.

Mesmer observed that after feeding and growing to a certain stage, they would use data neurons to weave cocoons and undergo metamorphosis. The new forms after metamorphosis were incredibly diverse, greatly expanding the number of species in the ecosystem.

These white silkworms are sometimes sent to various places by origami cranes to merge with local intelligent life forms. The recombined intelligent life forms also exhibit more mutated forms.

By evening in reality, the information universe was still in its early primitive stage, with intelligent life inhabiting various places and exhibiting behaviors that tended towards eating, growing, and evolving, with relatively little interaction between them.

Lin Bo closed the system log, harboring anticipation for the historical evolution of this electronic world.

He still has a task to complete tonight; he needs to go to the mushroom farm to cultivate new varieties.

(End of this chapter)