Soul of Burning Steel

At first, everything was silent.

Everything was born in a world without miracles.

As organic matter was born in thunderstorms caused by volcanic eruptions, the first life appeared around deep-sea hot springs and spread due to the eruption of submarine volcanoes.

In the time rushing like a river, countless strange and simple carbon-based organisms appeared naturally, and then died out...single-celled, multi-celled, primitive organisms, primitive algae, all kinds of carapace, echinoderma, and even When spine creatures appear, they may evolve or become extinct.

In this process, there is no extraordinary power, nor any miracle, and all this is how many years have passed.

Until one day, a primitive marine arthropod in the long evolutionary process, along with moss and ferns, landed on land.

This kind of creature that looks like a large isopod is flat in appearance. It does not seem surprising, but it is not because there are many large predatory arthropods in the ocean, and small arthropods such as isopods are just them. In order to avoid being hunted, isopods have evolved a rather strange method of stacking arhats: They have a strong and sensitive carapace tentacles on each side of their bodies, which can be used to detect their surroundings when they are in the ocean. The water flow changes, and at a critical moment, it can be connected with the tentacles of other isopods, entwining the two tightly.

Not only that, but the tentacles also have a well-developed nervous system. In the process of entanglement, the nerves are connected, and the two isopods can temporarily merge into one, moving forward and retreating together, looking like one. Large creatures-the more isopods gathered together, the larger the size of their arhats, and there have even been events where the isopods swarmed up to envelop the predators in a group and trapped them to death.

On land, the interconnected tentacles of the isopods not only did not degenerate, but evolved further: their tentacles became more flexible and stronger, like two small joint whips, which can be used to carry and lift. There are many things and many other worms connected together to form a whole for a lot of cooperation, such as forming a human flesh ladder and a human flesh bridge, so that companions can go higher and go farther.

There are even some groups of isopods that have been connected since the beginning of their birth. Some of them specialize in the nervous system and cut off the carapace and arthropods, while some of the isopods degenerate excess nerves. The system is specialized in power. When several isopods are combined together, they can become a bigger and stronger "synthetic isopod". But the isopods that have not evolved this point are basically affected by this. The same ecological niche, but the more powerful kind is eliminated.

It's almost like a macroscopic cell differentiation taking place on land-in the larval nest of the isopod, a scene similar to the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells is emerging: part becomes the brain, part becomes the foot, part becomes the feeding system, and the digestive system , And then the worker insects assemble it to form a larva of the isopod.

Each individual isopod is not an intelligent creature, even a "brainworm". It must be at least three brainworms to produce wisdom, and the three brainworms need more other components to form a large isopod that can survive independently. Insects, after at least dozens of components are put together, the'Isopod' with preliminary wisdom can be born.

The original isopod is just a creature that lives on a two-dimensional plane. It only knows the front, back, left, and right in life. However, due to the developed nervous system and the combined height of the isopod, it quickly understood the level of'high'. The three dimensions, the vast horizons that this brings, are the source of crushing.

The next thing, no need to repeat, in the primitive life era, they have wisdom, can use tools and fire, and have three-dimensional thinking. The big isopod is basically a cheating player. They easily evolved neural language and created words. , Use tools to defeat other arthropods, crustaceans and insects that have grown larger due to excess oxygen.

[Foreword: The founders soon spread all over the world. They are really smooth sailing, aren't they? 】

The sound of the Immortal Lighthouse made Qiao Xiuya nod slightly, who was watching these memories.

The big isopod, or another name, ‘gather people’ together, can be called a species of intelligent creatures. Their civilization has developed rapidly in the millennia-calculated time, from mud pits on the seashore to burrows in the woods, from caves in the mountains to large sheds made of wood and mud on the plain, from stone tools to the use of iron tools, from primitive tribes to more Great civilization.

Gathering people has learned a way to communicate with each other without neural connection, and that is to rely on words and customs to connect everyone as one. Even if they are not born in the same nest, gather people can gather through acquired preferences. To divide, they call this novel, something that has no physical link, but can connect people's minds, as a "culture", and they combine the many gathering groups of this "culture" into a super-large gathering. Gathering people is called a country.

The battle between the country and the country is the battle between culture and culture. If the culture is defeated, it can only be eliminated by force and expel the other party. Otherwise, some people will leave the original country and join other countries. And with the cultural war, the knowledge and information held by different nations of gatherings began to interact, which brought about large-scale technological advances, and the gathering nations that were aware of this began to stop using “destroying” the country as an example. The purpose is to conduct a'culture war', but to deliberately control the interaction of knowledge within an acceptable category.

In this way, in the first million years of gathering people, they began to no longer care about the disputes on the earth, but raised their heads and stared at the stars in the sky.

The vision stretched, and Joshua could see that this is a medium-sized world with multiple solar systems and a small-scale gravitational balance. The planet where people gather is the second planet in their galaxy—and what’s amazing is that , The moon of their planet is also a livable world.

Not only that, the third planet of this galaxy is also a habitable world, but it is colder.

When people gathered to look up at the starry sky and observe the moon with curiosity, they were shocked to find that the moon above their heads was actually almost the same world as the earth. There were mountains, water, and even...the same people. .

This discovery greatly shocked the Juren civilization at that time, because at that time, Juren had a clear concept of biological history, and they were not behind in astronomy. They clearly knew the distance between the planets, and they also knew that they wanted to fully understand the distance between the planets. It is impossible for almost the same creatures to appear in different ecosystems-even in a livable world, it is by no means an ancient gathering of people that could arrive accidentally.

[Narration: Unlike many civilizations today, the founders at that time did not come into contact with any supernatural powers, and there was no extra illusion in their thoughts. This kind of'imagination' was subject to various conditions. Tied up. 】

Therefore, this point undoubtedly surprised all the gathering nations. They united together to become a huge United Nations, ready to work together, no matter what method is used, they must go to the moon to take a look.

Strong mobility, this is the fine tradition of gathering people. In addition to vigorously developing space technology, gathering people also began to try to find all the possibilities on this planet-the ‘miracle’ that allows gathering people to go to other stars.

"They should have found it."

Qiao Xiu murmured, he watched the peculiar gathering society thoughtfully, and then laughed softly: "Even in a world without miracles, there are the first miracles... born from the initial fire. The world itself is a huge miracle."

"The question is, what exactly did they find."

[Admiration: Yes, what you said is true, almost exactly the same as when the founders looked back on history. 】

[Sigh: They found God, Radcliffe. The founders discovered the dead god. 】

It is an extinct volcano, and it is also the largest mountain on the planet Gathering. It is about 24,000 meters high. The volcanic ridges of the past formed a huge plain. The space base for gathering people was built here, but because of the mountain It is too large and too dangerous, so so far there has been no gathering of people to try to get into the high mountains of more than 10,000 meters.

While exploring the high-levels of this huge mountain complex, which was later named the "Kong Tian Shen", the gathering exploration team discovered an extremely strange phenomenon in the center of the mountain: their nervous systems can sense each other without being connected. , In some places, there is no gravity, some small hills are floating in the sky, and strange flashing phenomena can even be seen. According to the report of the expedition team, extremely special unconventional phenomena have appeared in this mountain range. The laws of physics seem to have no effect here. I saw a huge biological body buried in the volcanic mountain.

It is an extremely huge rock giant, or a rock giant, whose back is the main body of the entire "Kongtian God" mountain range. The sixteen arthropods are the cornerstones of the entire plateau. According to detection, it was born on an ancient planet. At the beginning, he was the originator of the entire astral volcanic phenomenon. The original life was born from the squally winds and thunderstorms produced by his breathing, and the land was also uplifted because of him.

But he died-died of exhaustion of power. As a "divine life" born by breathing with the world, the power of the original fire, the worm of the volcano was born in response to the changes in the planet's crust, and died due to the stability of geological changes. It is certainly the most powerful original in the world. God, but it is not immortal, but naturally perishes after completing his mission.

The remains of the gods are rapidly assimilating to the planet. According to estimates, after a few million years, geological exploration will not be able to observe the existence of the gods, and will only think that it is a primitive rock, if it is not for the wisdom of gathering people and the rapid development of civilization It's a bit shocking, I'm afraid that any normal life can't find the existence of the god's skeleton at the corresponding time.

But Juren found out—and they also discovered that it was the remaining power of this corpse that transmitted other Juren to other planets.

Divine power penetrates all life worlds in this galaxy. In the center of the mountain of Kongtian Shenshan Mountains, they found a natural divine power door, which leads to the moon and another livable world, where there are other technologically backward but belonging to the same family. Gathering tribes to survive.

Then, about the extraordinary age, began.

[Praise: At that time, the founders did not think too much about the ‘why’, because for them, it was just a natural phenomenon similar to the cycle of rain and ocean currents. But soon, 137 years later, someone finally started to study the ‘primitive divine power’ and successfully obtained some of the characteristics of the divine power. 】

Analyze the structure from the divine power, and then try to learn the'why', using the huge corpse of the gods, gather people to carry out the divine power research that is omitted from the "initial fire", and many gather people to obtain divine power by separating part of the corpse , To become a transcendent individual, and even a kingdom of gathering people to study divine power in depth, bless oneself with divine power, and accelerate the evolution of the entire country.

This is a thriving era—everything seems so beautiful. Through in-depth research on the Kongtian God, colonization of the other two livable worlds, the civilization of gathering people has begun to progress rapidly.

Then, the calamity called the ‘Great God’s Punishment’ came.

First of all, it is certain individuals who hold divine powers, they die suddenly, become vegetative, and can no longer wake up. Then there are groups, societies, and even countries that study divine power. In blockbuster movies, individuals and collectives who value divine power in turn lose their self-awareness and become dead flesh without knowing anything and having no instincts-more than half of the home planet of gatherings. All of the above intelligent individuals died overnight, which immediately made all the remaining gathering nations terrifying and inexplicable, and at the same time, they also had a great fear of divine power.

This is known as the great divine punishment caused by the theft of divine power. Numerous people gathered in panic and launched many sacrifices, hoping that the gods would not blame their own blasphemy.

Next, there is a meaningless age of panic...In these hundreds of years, Gathering has given up on the study of supernatural power, and they no longer use the portals in the Kongtian Mountain to colonize, but began to develop spacecraft...but The time to sever contact was too long. The colonies on different planets rebelled one after another. The chaotic war lasted for hundreds of years, until one party reactivated the power of God for the victory of the war.

[Confusion: In this history, the founders did not tell us that they were vague and used it as a shame. But the triple curtain guessed it, and the triple curtain didn’t tell them]

Qiao Xiuya smiled slightly. He didn't care. The warrior's humanoid phantom stood in the virtual universe, gazing at the entire galaxy. He knew that this was probably the beginning of the creator's creation of psychic energy and soul.

Hundreds of years are enough to make a race forget its fear. With the reactivation of divine power, the research on divine power has once again been brought to the fore. In the same way, an individual with divine power suddenly becomes a vegetative phenomenon, and even gathers in central science. Through human experiments, Yuan artificially created such an individual. They carefully observed the entire process of the divine power individual losing their will, and finally discovered the truth of divine punishment.

As the primordial **** of quasar will, the divine power of the volcanic insect contains every detail of the planetary changes in that era. In other words, every bit of divine power is a huge database of information. The talent of will is outstanding, or the time of holding divine power is too long. The leakage of countless information in divine power is enough to completely drown the self-will of any intelligent individual, or even the entire country, and turn it into unconscious dead flesh. .

The more you think about it, the more you find that carbon-based brains and ganglia have limits. If you want to surpass this limit...you have to stop being a human being!

[Rejoicing: That is the reason why the predecessor of the triple curtain was born, thanks to the brilliant wisdom of the founders]

The emergence and birth of computers and artificial intelligence is not surprising, because it is nothing more than the use of mechanical parts to simulate the thinking process of gathering people. Soon, intelligent robots with high-performance processors and huge savings devices appeared, although the first The decompression of the second supernatural power failed, but there is no doubt that the performance of the robot is much better than that of Gathering itself, and the loss is very small, it is nothing more than burning the processor.

By experimenting and decompressing supernatural power on intelligent robots, Gathering has gradually become very advanced in the corresponding mechanical field, and their experiments have gradually become successful. Finally, when the ninth-generation high-performance processor appears, the robot will bear it for the first time. Live and understand the divine power message of pressure-it became the first individual to hold the'blank divine power'.

A processor that completely surpasses the brain, can replace the brain 100%, and can withstand divine power. There is no doubt that it is sought after by people who want to transform themselves and put their consciousness into the steel body and processor— —But a philosophical question stumped them.

Is the gathering of people who transfer self-consciousness into the machine, or the original gathering of people? Is it a set of exactly the same algorithm but not my own, or is it just gathering people themselves?

Is this a suicide called the "death of a new birth" or a "rebirth" without pain?

The way to gather people to solve this philosophical problem is very simple.

Since there is no way to determine whether the'self' is a collection of impulse feedback generated by the microcurrents of the brain, or the entire life individual itself, since there is no way to determine, after a little bit of replacement, the self is not the original self-then Create a'thing' that is independent of the body and can carry consciousness!

"soul."

Joshua's humanoid projection exhaled, and he smiled: "The original soul."

[Agree: Yes. In order to ensure that the founders settled in the mechanical body and possessed controllable supernatural powers, they could also confirm that they were themselves, and they began to prepare for the creation of the initial soul]

If it is said that the natural mortal body is born mundane, then the man-made mechanical body and man-made soul are the first steps of life toward the acquired sacred evolution.

It may not be a mechanical body, but a specialized carbon-based body, but the cell itself, which is an extremely delicate carbon-based machine, is not so hypocritical to gather people. I think that carbon-based is better than steel, and that the body is better than machinery. , I feel that the natural-born flesh-and-blood mechanical structure must be more refined than the man-made ones—they believe in their own wisdom and technology, and act with persistence.

So, how can one transcend the mundane nature and become the sacredness of the acquired?

What is needed is ‘imagination’ and ‘thinking’.

[Miracle Confirmation: After three thousand and four hundred years ~www.novelmtl.com~ the whole civilization has studied with one heart, through several great scientists actively abandoning the body, settled in the mechanical body in a way that may be'suicide', mastered the divine power, and experienced it firsthand Collect data, inherit the wisdom and technology of all pioneers through an unparalleled genius, break through the last difficulty of'spiritual existence', and'miracle' is born]

It can be seen that, with the brilliance of silver-blue shining, behind a group of people, a silver-blue, almost physical projection emerges. It is not a divine power, but another strange, completely different man-made substance, or That is to say, man-made power, this projection can appear alone, can also exist independently, undoubtedly carries all the self-will of gathering people, and will not dissipate due to mechanical transfer at all!

It can be maintained by the body or by mechanical electric current. These energy sources are not important at all. The soul is not such a delicate thing at all. What really supports the soul's existence is ‘imagination’ and ‘thinking’!

[Cheers: Congratulations, the individual who has inherited all hope, is able to control the divine power, has the soul of the mechanical intelligence, knows all knowledge and information, and transcends the ordinary species, whose name is the'founder', and this moment is the moment of birth ! 】

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