Start a Subspace - Chapter 235

Next, the two sides also negotiated quite a few normal trade items.

Since the Blue and Gold Age Alliance is in the recovery stage, it needs a huge amount of productivity, and many of their factories were destroyed in the war, and many things have to be purchased from humans.

Especially for high-end raw materials, some industrial-level OEMs, etc., the other party produces drawings, and the universal factory on the human side is responsible for manufacturing, and the two parties form a buying and selling relationship.

For interstellar civilization, the most important thing is not productivity, but resources!

The Blue and Gold Era Alliance is a relatively wealthy type. Due to the significant drop in population, it will not need too many resources for a while.

Therefore, they are willing to use a lot of resources to buy human products.

The purchase price is about 1:10-1:100000. That is to say, if humans deliver 1 unit of finished product, they can earn at least 10 units of resources, or even 100,000 units of resources due to the different technological content of the goods. For example, high-tech products such as supercomputers are naturally more valuable.

This is definitely a win-win cooperation!

Humans make a lot of money here, and the other side also wins time!

In addition, scientific and technological exchanges and cultural exchanges are also in this negotiation. The two sides are considered deadly friendship, and they are very satisfied with each other’s “high morality”, so the more important technology trade is also in full swing.

On the human side… In vain, I picked up a lot of technical papers that I couldn’t understand from the “Casimirim” side. It turns out that the Blue and Gold Age Alliance was unaware of these papers. After the scientists on their side saw these things, they bought it with resources without saying a word.

The human side actually wants to make a little profit, but helpless… The other party has given too much.

In fact, for two civilizations of the same level, the technological level of learning from each other’s strengths and weaknesses has only advantages and almost no disadvantages…

Because information can be shared, even if the transaction goes out, there will be no loss. In particular, things at the theoretical level, such as mathematical theories and physical theories, have only positive effects and no negative effects.

In the dazed high-dimensional universe, a time-space turbulence will blow away each other, and once the two sides are separated, they may never see each other again.

In the absence of any hatred, the more you communicate, the greater the benefit.

But the premise is that the two sides need enough trust, and there is no hostility between each other, and this alone is not easy… This time, the war has sublimated the friendship of the study, and formed a rare and valuable opportunity for communication.

Therefore, Zhang Ran has issued an order to his think tanks: “Except for high-dimensional silicon crystals, small universes, and the Oriental Rock, as long as they are not too sensitive, they can be sold!”

“Even the database of the Universal Factory can be packaged and sold to them, and artificial intelligence technology can also be exchanged, these are nothing…”

“Don’t be afraid of technological advancement and the tear it brings to society!”

“We will eventually build a whole new society.”

Holding this thought, he closed his eyes and fell into a sweet dreamland.

He dreamed of his bodyguard, classmate Zero… Maybe, this time the transaction also involves biotechnology, especially the data related to the brain in the vat, which has a lot to do with the brain… When she is cured, from crystallizing Waking up from hibernation, human society has changed a lot.

Changed to the point where she was completely unfamiliar and even scared!

Changed to the fact that everything was novel, she could only follow Zhang Ran carefully, looking at everything in this human society with an overloaded pig brain. She was timid, she didn’t understand anything, she didn’t know anything, as if an ancient person had traveled through the modern age.

Finally, in front of the twin tails of classmate Zero, he slowly asked: “Your Highness, is everything a story that happened after I was in a coma?”

Thinking of this, even in his sleep, Zhang Ran showed a satisfied smile.

“Haha, yes, all this… It’s really a wonderful story.”

…

When I woke up, I found that I had slept for a full eight hours, yawned, and stretched hard.

“Jelly Simmons” is indeed a precious treasure. This sleep has a good rest and refreshed spirit!

After seeing Zhang Ran get up, the jelly slowly turned into a spherical shape and jumped on the ground.

It also has the special human warrior medal hanging on it. For some reason, the medal is polished and shiny, as smooth as a mirror.

Remember when you just sent it, it wasn’t that smooth and shiny, was it?

Jelly is extraordinarily happy these days. She grinds this gold medal all day long, and she doesn’t know what’s going on in her mind.

Zhang Ran didn’t understand its brain circuit, so he didn’t bother to worry about it. He turned his head and saw that Jelly started nibbling on the medal again, and said with a smile: “Sooner or later, this medal will become more and more worn out due to constant wear and tear. The smaller it gets, the more it disappears in the end!”

Jelly shook her body in confusion, why, why did the medal disappear?

You must be lying to me!

Do you want to grab my medal?

“Haven’t you heard the old saying, as long as you work hard, you can grind an iron pestle into a needle.” Zhang Ran said meaningfully.

“You’d better find an electronic scale to measure, has the quality of the medal shrunk? If it is really worn out by you, it is impossible for us to reissue it for you. This thing symbolizes your honor. Honor cannot be reissued. Yes, understand, Mr. Jelly?”

Hearing Zhang Ran’s ridicule, Mr. Jelly, the huge elephant, jumped up from the ground with a bang, shaking with a bang, looking very nervous.

It’s gold! The most beloved gold medal!

But let it not play with this medal, it really can’t do it… Playing with the medal brings it endless happiness!

In this contradictory mood, it reverted to its spherical shape and rolled around on the floor.

It’s just a kid the size of an elephant.

Zhang Ran seriously doubts that Jelly’s IQ has improved. In the past, he seemed unable to understand words such as “electronic scale”, right?

However, it doesn’t seem to have improved. How can a normal IQ be entangled in these inexplicable problems? How could it be possible to roll on the ground?

“Hahaha! I lied to you, then I will create another man to make you a gold medal”

He laughed a few times in a good mood. I don’t know if it was an illusion. The feeling of playing with jelly was a bit like playing with “Zero”, the former valet. It took another ten minutes to simply wash in the bathroom for a while, put on a special biochemical protective suit, and walked out of the room.

300 meters forward, then turn left, it is the main meeting room of both parties.

Since the main body of cooperation has been confirmed, relevant experts are discussing specific cooperation plans with each other almost 24 hours a day. Whether it is industrial assistance, scientific and technological exchanges, cultural exchanges, etc., all are being carried out simultaneously.

“Your Highness!”

“Well, hello, is there any major progress?”

Seeing Zhang Ran returning to the central conference room, several young negotiators soon provided the latest negotiation progress.

“The other party has provided a series of transaction lists. The first batch of resources purchased is 3 billion tons of metal raw materials, which are used to repair the shelter. All kinds of metal materials are available… Enough for us to be busy for a long time. .”

Zhang Ran did not express any objections. Anyway, in exchange for resources with productivity, human beings will make a lot of money, and it is impossible to lose money.

Next, another negotiator took out a stack of materials: “Oh, by the way, the other party also gave some information for free, what they have seen and heard in the past three thousand years. These three races come from the same galaxy, almost Collapsed at the same time, met each other in the higher dimensional universe, and fused together.”

“How?” Zhang Ran found a stool and sat down quietly.

He took a few glances at the transaction list, and when he saw that there were more than 500 pages of various transaction items, he suddenly became a little overwhelmed.

He really didn’t have the energy to check so many things one by one, so he could only take a cursory glance and leave it to professionals to deal with.

But having said that, human civilization has developed to the present, and the division of labor is quite clear, and Zhang Ran can’t control everything.

The ability of these negotiators is excellent, no matter what, they have no motive to betray human civilization.

“The Blue and Gold Era Alliance, in the process of trading with us, followed a trading plan called the ‘Amoeba’ race.”

“This strange race called ‘Amoeba’ is a combination of silicon-based life and carbon-based life, and their favorite thing to do is to trade with low-level civilization fairly and justly.”

“A thousand years ago, Amoeba and the Blue and Gold Age Alliance met with each other, and trading activities took place.”

“What is the meaning of the combination of silicon-based life and carbon-based life…” Zhang Ran opened the video on the screen and looked at it carefully.

But at this moment, his brows furrowed.

This amoeba race is like a huge round sea cucumber, and its long flagella is comparable to a void amoeba!

This means that these sea cucumber-like objects are able to use the microcosm inside their bodies to slowly glide through space.

But their size is larger than the void amoeba. The diameter of each “amoeba” is about 540 kilometers, and the largest is more than 1,300 kilometers, which is comparable to a small satellite.

In contrast, the void amoeba that humans have encountered is just a small shrimp.

He asked in surprise: “Wait, this amoeba is not the same race as the Void Amoeba we have encountered, right?”

A government official sighed: “It does look a bit like… but the amoeba is extremely large, and our void amoeba is relatively a juvenile.”

“After we compared the images, we found that the similarity is more than 80%, and there is a high probability that they are the same species.”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and some are speechless.

If the Void Amoeba is really a part of the “Amoeba”, why is it that what humans encounter is aggressive, but what the Blue Gold Age Alliance encounters is not aggressive, and there is even trade activity between the two sides…

There is a large screen in the conference room, and to prevent microbial contamination, most negotiations are conducted through remote conversations, with no face-to-face contact between the two parties.

In fact, this is also good, which means that there is sufficient time and space to discuss the whole process.

The negotiator spread his hands: “The way of thinking of silicon-based life is very strange, and it is completely an unsolved mystery. Like jelly, it has no aggressiveness, and it is also raised by us.”

“Amoebas are not aggressive.”

“The Devourer and the Ghost Body are aggressive.”

“The Blue and Gold Age Alliance has entered the high-dimensional universe for three thousand years. It has come into contact with many interstellar civilizations, and has also encountered six large and small crises. One of them was caused by carbon-based life, and a small-scale war broke out between the two sides; the rest Five times, they were all active attacks by silicon-based life.”

“After they communicated with other civilizations, they came to the conclusion that it was related to self-awareness.”

“Self-consciousness?” Zhang Ran frowned and asked suspiciously.

“Yes, this is also the first important information we have.”

“Their scientists believe that silicon-based life…may be self-conscious.”

The expert pointed to his own brain: “Most carbon-based intelligent life has self-awareness, which constitutes an essential difference between the two.”

“The brain structure of silicon-based life is similar to electronic computers. They have a very powerful set of software innately, which is equivalent to the existence of strong artificial intelligence. But their form has no way to give birth to self-consciousness.”

It does not sound difficult to understand. The birth of “self-awareness” is a mystery to human beings. As for how to make artificial intelligence generate self-awareness… that is the mystery in the mystery.

“Due to the difference in the core level, silicon-based species may be able to sense the existence of ‘self-awareness’ and accurately track carbon-based life forms.”

“Self-consciousness is a substance…” Zhang Ran frowned, “Isn’t it the so-called soul?”

“No, no, of course not. This is just a physical phenomenon. No matter what the self-consciousness is, the existence of ‘I’ is only a natural thing for human beings.”

“Most people can clearly feel ‘I’, only some mentally ill patients with brain lesions, such as depression, can’t feel ‘I’.”

“No matter how smart an electronic computer is, it can’t feel ‘I’. The same is true of silicon-based life, which should be certain.”

Zhang Ran was silent for a moment, remembering the term “quantum consciousness”.

Quantum consciousness does not belong to science because it is not repeatable and verifiable.

But it’s experiential…

The theory of quantum consciousness holds that classical mechanics cannot fully explain consciousness, and consciousness is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, such as quantum entanglement and superposition. Consciousness arises from the periodic collapse of the wave function of the massive quantum entangled electrons in the brain. This hypothesis plays an important role in explaining brain function and forms the basis for explaining the phenomenon of consciousness.

The next reasoning is even more inexplicable.

“We assume that this conjecture is correct. Silicon-based life is comparable to strong artificial intelligence. If they want to understand carbon-based life, they must imitate the brain structure of carbon-based life, that is, the neural network system, to generate a quantum consciousness. “

“But the existence of this ‘I’ is produced by imitation, so we have to accept the fate of assimilation of thinking.”

The young negotiator lowered his voice: “Jelly’s brain may have lost its aggression because its thinking was assimilated by humans.”

“And the so-called ‘Amoeba’ silicon-based race may have also been assimilated by a certain species!”

“So they became very fond of trading, and the void amoeba we encountered has not been assimilated, so it is very aggressive.”

Zhang Ran froze in place, holding his breath. This conjecture…

“Then what follows is our own speculation. Didn’t we get the news from the Green Stars… 500 million years ago, the silicon-based civilization first appeared in the ‘Jiangbo’ of our universe, and this silicon-based civilization was the first The civilization that comes into contact is a low-level civilization, and the low-level civilization is addicted to chemical bliss, which is a drug-addicting civilization.”

“Since the silicon-based civilization imitated the construction of self-consciousness, a large number of self-consciousness appeared, resulting in sinking individuals… So they simply destroyed the entire carbon universe.”

Zhang Ran’s eyes widened, and he almost couldn’t help but want to make a “quack” in his throat.

This speculation can be described as incredible!

That is, a low-level civilization that takes drugs, hastened the death of the universe!

But how can there be such a ridiculous thing in the world? How could a god-like silicon-based civilization be addicted to drugs like carbon-based ones?

It’s impossible. The structure of the brain is completely different, and it is impossible for carbon-based addictive drugs to have any effect on silicon-based species!

“Even if the brain structure is different, they can be imitated… Once they are in the computing system, by constructing a neural network system, and imitating self-consciousness, this ‘I’ will not easily disappear, which is certain.”

“‘I’ means the whole world. The existence of ‘I’ is everything in life. A world without ‘I’ is no different from the destruction of the world. This is the general desire of carbon-based species to fly.”

Zhang Ran nodded, yes, once self-awareness appears, it will not disappear easily.

“They imitated the ‘I’ of the low-level civilization, and they copied all the genetic philosophy and the like, so they learned all the vices of the low-level civilization.”

“The rest of the silicon-based species saw the same kind of thing become so inexplicable, and they simply blew up the entire carbon universe. It should be subconscious self-protection.”

“But…but…”

Zhang Ran felt a chill in his heart, and suddenly felt that Jelly and Zero had similar personalities…

They are all very quiet, they don’t like to use their brains, and they also like to act coquettishly and show cuteness. They are also very lazy. Is this his illusion, or is it an inevitable phenomenon?

Zhou Chengfeng was equally astonished in his heart, but his face was expressionless, wrinkling tightly every day: “So silicon-based life and carbon-based life, the two sides cannot understand each other! Can only assimilate and be assimilated?”

This conclusion sounds really bizarre, even inexplicable to describe.

There are things in the world that are completely logical, but incomprehensible!

“I” is incomprehensible to silicon-based classes unless assimilated.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that there are some truths, and Gödel’s law of incompleteness points out: in a system of axioms, there must be truths that cannot be proved.

If the other party really has no self-awareness, then “self-awareness” is really tired that the other party can never understand.

Unless the other party is born with self-awareness, they can understand the existence of “I”, but after “I” is born, it is no longer possible to “abandon” me, which is equivalent to assimilation of thinking.

Like that ghost body, which made 2 billion intelligent life into a brain in a vat, isn’t it just to study the generation of wisdom?

The ghost body obviously has a very high intelligence, so it is impossible for it to be without any intentions.

It is to understand the existence of “I”.

Zhang Ran really couldn’t figure out what happened to intelligent life without self-awareness. What’s it like?

This may also be a proposition that humans will never understand.

“In addition, the three races in the Blue Gold Age Alliance all have psionicists. According to them, they are called ‘Supermind’. Of course, it doesn’t matter what kind of statement, the probability of ‘Supermind’ being born is 15 About one in a billion, the cause of birth is unknown, and the number can only be increased by mass breeding the population.”

“But wandering in the high-dimensional universe for 3,000 years, there has not been any super-mind. One time, they returned to the carbon universe, and the baby was born, and a ‘super-mind’ appeared again.”

“That is, only infants born in our original carbon universe can appear psychic.”

What does this information mean? Zhang Ran’s brows were tightly wrinkled, he thought of classmate Zero who was still frozen in the crystal, and other unknown migrant workers…

He asked thoughtfully: “Isn’t the psionicist created by the higher civilization? In order to increase the development speed of the lower civilization?”

“Maybe that’s not the case…”

At this moment, the negotiation in a certain scientific conference room ended. Lin Qiuyue also held a lot of information. She heard the conversation of the group and said silently: “According to your discussion just now, the psionicist may be It is specially manufactured in a certain form to assimilate those silicon-based life.”

“For silicon-based life, self-awareness may be similar to the existence of viruses, and contact means transmission.”

“And the consciousness of the psionicist is particularly active, and the ability to assimilate may be stronger. For example, jelly may be assimilated by zero.”

“Why haven’t Void Amoeba been assimilated?”

“Void amoeba is too low-level, not smart enough to be assimilated.”

“And jelly is too smart and advanced, so it was assimilated. Don’t you think jelly’s performance is more advanced than the void amoeba… It should be the same level as the ghost body. It’s just that after ‘I’ was born, it became a mentally retarded.”

The meeting room fell into silence.

The appearance of the psionicists was actually because of a massive cosmic war!

A war caused by an incomprehensible crisis!

Zhang Ran had to sigh at the peculiarity and vastness of this method of warfare. A low-level life form such as human beings can actually assimilate a super-high-level silicon-based enemy… As long as it gives birth to self-consciousness, is it a victory for life in the carbon universe?

Thinking of this, he sighed again and decided to lie down on the jelly again this evening and sleep viciously.

Of course, these claims are just speculation, and the real facts are unknown.

There is no second way for human beings to develop and strengthen themselves.

He let out a deep breath, raised his head and asked, “Let’s not talk about these dubious conjectures. The war of advanced civilizations is too far away, and we humans can’t do anything about it. Is there any other information?”

The negotiator immediately said: “Of course, the second important information is that Amoeba once revealed that the second ‘ultimate’ war is about to break out. Of course, this is news from a thousand years ago, we don’t know it What is the specific time scale? Maybe for the amoeba, 10,000 years, 100,000 years is just a snap of a finger.”

“Ultimate” humans are not the first to hear the term, “Casimirim” once broadcast the results of the first ultimate war.

The advanced civilization of the carbon universe tried to create an unimaginable intelligent individual far beyond itself, but it seemed to fail in the end.

So the ‘ultimate’ wreckage has become the weird universe that humans are currently in. There are black holes everywhere, and the light in the distance has been distorted many times before being observed by humans.

“Amoeba claims that in order to create an ultimate unit with ‘I’, more civilized philosophical norm systems must be developed, from lower forms, self-evolution to higher ones. So the way to win the second ultimate war depends on Auxiliary of low-level civilization.”

“The Blue and Gold Age Alliance has been studying its own philosophical norm system for the past thousand years. However, due to its lack of technical strength, its achievements have not been great. This requires at least a fourth-level civilization to be able to study it.”

“Fortunately, with the brain in the vat, there may be breakthroughs in this regard.”

Zhang Ran was silent for a moment. The so-called “philosophical norm system” is a relatively cutting-edge discipline in artificial intelligence, which is equivalent to human “software” and is the internal driving force of all human behaviors.

Why do human beings eat and drink, why do they survive and reproduce, why do they have such and such ideas, all the answers are written in the “human philosophy norm system”.

In theory, the strong artificial intelligence created by this set of systems will have the same internal driving force as humans.

As long as the “normative system” is the same, all the ideas of the strong artificial intelligence can be mutually understood with humans. It won’t do something unexpected unless it changes its internal drive by rewriting the software.

“…Amoeba claims that at some point in the future there will be a space turbulence that will blow most of the carbon cosmic civilization into a particular universe.”

“At that time, the ultimate war may break out, but the intensity should be lower than the first war. If the war is defeated again, the carbon universe camp will be eliminated, and there will be no third chance.”

This piece of information made everyone in the meeting stunned for a while.

Because of the time period, it seems… just coincidental, human beings are really in a special universe…

At this moment, everyone is a little nervous and speechless, and some people are thinking, should they leave here as soon as possible?

“Should we also be forced to participate in the war?” He smiled bitterly, “I always feel that the advanced civilization is very far away from us. The ultimate war sounds incredible, but what can we do when we are so weak?”

“Do we have a lot of good things in our hands?” Lin Qiuyue said, “Perhaps other civilizations also picked up a lot of garbage? For example, in the Blue Gold Age Alliance, there is a Kasimilim handed down from an advanced civilization, or there are other ‘s heritage.”

“But a low-intensity war? What’s going on? Is the Amoeba from the Carbon Universe camp?”

At this point in the discussion, everyone is thinking hard, but there is no better way than developing themselves. People just expect the war to break out later…

The negotiator added: “In addition to this, there is a third piece of information, which can be regarded as relatively conventional news.”

“The small universe may be a relatively important trading unit between interstellar civilizations. For many civilizations, conventional resources are not lacking.”

“As long as you find an ordinary planet, you will be able to obtain survival resources for millions or even hundreds of millions of years. After all, there are a few lucky civilizations who have found a lot of resources in the high-dimensional universe. And the small universe is the universe. Variations of strings, but not very often.”

“Therefore, ‘Amoeba’ regards the small universe as an important trading unit, and the rest of the old interstellar civilizations are basically the same.”

“Calculate the value of the small universe according to the amount of strange matter on the surface of the small universe and the size of the space inside. The specific calculation formula is…”

He reported a series of formulas.

“Like the No. 16 microcosm we have, it is about 3.26 degrees of value; the No. 1 microcosm, which is the Garden of Eden microcosm, is about 112,536.4 degrees of value, a difference of 40,000 times.”

This is quite good news. There are quite a few small universes in the hands of human beings. The curvature engine of the Oriental Rock has more than a thousand small universes. Even if these are impossible to trade out.

“What is the purchasing power of 1 value degree?” Zhang Ran asked with interest.

“It can be converted into about 6 trillion tons of hydrogen. The higher the atomic weight of the element, the higher the price. For example, the price of iron is about 18 times that of hydrogen~www.mtlnovel.com~ Substances after iron, the price will be will go up significantly.”

The microcosm is indeed very valuable. As long as humans sell the cheapest microcosm No. 16, they can obtain 18 trillion tons of hydrogen!

If it is used for nuclear fusion, it really can’t be used up for millions of years.

But what should I say about resources… If you look carefully, you can always find them, especially hydrogen.

In the vast fourth-type universe, only hydrogen is allowed to exist in many areas. If there is technical strength to salvage substances in the fourth-type universe, the resources can be said to be endless!

And small universes are rare, except for a few lucky ones…

More advanced civilizations even use the small universe as energy, and ordinary matter can be directly created through the Casimir effect, that is, the “Casimir”, which is directly produced.

In this way, the value of the small universe is much higher than that of conventional resources.

Chapter two hundred and thirty-fifth three thousand years of seeing and hearing (8000 words)