Original Chapter 7 Game Background Setting of Creation
Note: For the sake of smooth narration of the story, the original chapters 4 and 7 were deleted when publishing and placed in the related work. Readers who are more concerned about the seriousness of the story can refer to it to help understand "Segles"
world view, thank you!
The only arrangement for the second day of the conference was free questions for the special representatives of the Genesis Timing Committee and senior managers of Taihao Company. After answering more than a dozen complex questions about the evolution of the E.A.R.T.H engine on the timeline, GTC 12
One of the standing committee members and Chairman of the Annual Executive Committee, Dr. Mark Thompson (PhD), bowed deeply and took two steps back to step down. After experiencing the shock and turmoil caused by the announcement of the "World" plan yesterday, more than 500 elites from all walks of life who attended the meeting
After a night of buffering, he was obviously calm, and various questions followed. Dr. Thompson sat next to Bartholomew, looking at the thick stack of question papers on the podium with lingering fear, and wiping his sweaty thick neck with a blue checkered handkerchief.
Bartholomew handed over a glass of distilled water: "Manual work." Thompson took it and drank it in one gulp, taking a deep breath: "I am more nervous than receiving a notification letter from the Royal Society to co-opt a foreign academician."
Wu Tianlan straightened her collar and walked onto the podium. Today she was wearing a lake green silk stand-up collared short coat and a sun green jade bracelet. She had her hair tied up and no makeup was applied to her plump face. She covered her mouth with her hands and cleared her throat.
, said: "Thank you Dr. Thompson. Now I will answer some questions about the architecture and implementation of 'World'. Note: I am not a technical person, so purely technical questions are left to be solved by a speaker. Please submit questions in Chinese, thank you
.”
There was a buzz of discussion. Soon, the staff collected a pile of papers from all over the venue and handed them to the podium. Wu Tianlan picked up the above papers, quickly browsed them and pondered for a moment: "Well... you all asked one question
It will take some time to explain the fundamental issues of human-computer interaction in the 'world'. I tend to choose some questions that are easy to express. Please continue to ask."
A dark-skinned attendee sitting in the front row stood up and said loudly: "No, Tina, please answer the basic questions so we can trust you more easily."
Wu Tianlan glanced at him and made a gesture, "Indian friend, please sit down. I forgive your impoliteness, but it is difficult to forgive your bad breath. Okay, I will try to briefly introduce the concept of 'world'.
No questions until I finish."
"The 'absolute spirit' proposed by Hegel refers to the essence and causes of everything in the world, including nature, society and human thinking itself. Why is 'The World' not a stupid online game, but the ultimate way for us to reveal the truth?
Because the 'world' we create has its absolute spirit, it is not an inorganic combination of a physical game engine and NPCs, it is alive. It is real."
"Two aspects. First, you already know that the E.A.R.T.H engine has the ability to evolve itself, but this is not the starting point of the design. When designing the model, the only required description of the game environment is: create a world, but not create rules.
"How do you understand?" Wu Tianlan said, crumpled the paper in his hand into a small ball, raised it to signal to all directions, loosened his fingers slightly, and the paper ball fell on the carpet with the attention of the audience, rolled twice, and stopped.
"When you see this process, you will unconsciously use classical mechanics to explain the free fall motion of Vt^2=2gh. And in the game, we do this." Wu Tianlan bent down to pick up the paper ball and raised it high
, let go, and the paper ball fell to the ground again. "What's the difference? There's no difference. But in the 'world' environment, we only make the following description: the paper ball will fall to the ground. There are no formulas, no classical mechanics. We describe the 'world'
'All the phenomena, fire is burning, birds are flying, the sun is shining, and flowers are blooming, without any formula from the real world being implanted into it. The scientific system of reality has been completely stripped away."
"But this is not logical at all! How can we perform physical calculations without formulas? Movement, collision...even the model cannot be accurately defined!" The Indian stood up and shouted again, and there was a chorus of responses from all around.
Wu Tianlan stared at him expressionlessly. After a minute, the venue gradually became quiet. The Indian looked around at a loss and slowly sat down. As if nothing happened, Wu Tianlan continued: "Second
, the significance of the 'Genesis' terminal gradually replacing the traditional PC, Dr. Bartholomew did not expand yesterday. In fact, - the media please note that according to the agreement signed before the meeting, the following content is prohibited from being released - after the 2047 conference
, we obtained the behavioral characteristics of one billion independent users, and collected massive behavioral records through one billion Genesis terminals, networked street cameras, credit card data centers, public transportation databases, public safety databases, etc., and finally obtained one billion
A basic character. Let me say one more thing. Character refers to a relatively stable and core personality psychological characteristic that is expressed in a person's attitude towards reality and corresponding behavioral patterns. It expresses a person's attitude towards the world and is expressed in his behavior.
Behavior is reflected in the attitude towards oneself, towards others, towards things and the words and deeds adopted.”
There was a louder noise, but Wu Tianlan still ignored it.
"First, the world architect used the E.A.R.T.H engine to build a world, creating races, nations, countries, cities, simple history and simple art. I won't go into details about the world view. There will be detailed instructions in the manual. Note that it is
A blank world that is infinitely close to reality, and the truth is waiting to be explored; secondly, we inject one billion characters into it to form the resident group of the 'world'. One billion characters are in the basic social structure, law and morality of the 'world'
The concept evolves and gradually forms one billion independent personalities."
"On October 1, 2049, 'The World' completed the character injection and started running. The clock speed was ten times that of reality. After the start date, '0 Day', the Timing Committee and Taihao Company observed the evolution of the world at any time. In reality
In the past three years, 30 years have passed in the 'world', and everything has been out of our control. They - note, this may not be so obvious in Chinese, I am talking about them, not them - have supplemented history and improved society.
Structure, advanced civilization, launched wars, made great creations, and even carried out a vigorous Renaissance movement. Without scripts and prompters, we built the Globe Theater and they performed Hamlet themselves. Client development
After it was completed, the company's evaluation team entered it to experience it. Most of them developed serious mental illness after exiting and lost the ability to judge the real and virtual worlds. - I personally feel very sad about this - this proves that the client has a fatal flaw.
, at the same time, it also proves that the reality of the 'world' has become perfect."
"The nature created by the E.A.R.T.H engine, and the society created by real personalities, constitute the absolute spirit of the 'world'. Ladies and gentlemen, we have created a perfect Skinner box, and the 'world' is the vertical version of the world itself on Genesis
The projection also has beauty, ugliness, sunlight, night, blood and bones, an immortal soul, and there are sweet and delicious apples waiting to be picked, a devil's fruit called 'Unknown'. Observe the box
How the little people here search for the truth will be the faint hope we have when we encounter failure on the road to search for the truth. Some people will be lucky enough to participate in it, verifying the truth as observers, and observing the world as seekers of knowledge.
’, which is why the ‘world’ is revealed to the world in the form of a game.”
"That's right, on October 6, that is, yesterday, the clock frequency of 'World' was slowed down to 1:1 and the interface was officially opened. In order not to affect the normal operation of the virtual world, Taihao launched a total of 1 million clients.
A small part of them are scientific observers who know the details, and a large part are random samples who were told to participate in the game. Everyone here will also get a client chip later and log into the 'world' at any time."
After speaking, the Science Hall of the University of Bern seemed eerily quiet. Wu Tianlan's eyes passed over the complicated expressions of the audience and landed on the Indian. "You must have a lot to ask." Wu Tianlan put his hands on the table and stretched his body.
explain.
The Indian frowned but did not speak. A Caucasian man in the sixth row wearing a neat suit said to himself: "I thought of the toy 'Ant Farm' when I was a child."
"If ants can create ant farms by themselves, there really will be no difference." Wu Tianlan replied.
"I am from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (USDHS). Mr. President has approved my attendance at the National Security Council meeting and instructed me to participate in this Bern Science Conference." Mr. Sui said, "The behavior of the Genesis Timing Committee over the past ten years has caused concern to the National Security Council.
Please pay close attention to Taihao Company, which is also on the CIA's strict monitoring list. Although we have not found out what tricks you are playing, we have reason to believe that your actions may disrupt the world's basic information order and even threaten the information security of the U.S. federal government.
.You mean...what you have done over the years is to create an 'ant farm'?"
"I believe that based on the several innocuous little espionage cases over the years, your country has already come to this conclusion." Wu Tianlan replied calmly.
"The fact that Genesis is in the hands of GTC is a potential threat to all mankind." Mr. Suit gritted his teeth.
"That's not what you said before terminals became popular. Your government has always been a supporter of quantum computer research and development," Wu Tianlan said.
"Until you control half of the Internet using terminals, new address encoding rules, and core routing in North America, Asia, and Europe." Mr. Suit stood up and said.
"The results of the antitrust investigation do not use the derogatory word 'control'." Wu Tianlan lowered his head to adjust the position of the Yang Jade bracelet, "Oh, Mr. Jason Williams. You have a very famous brother. In addition,
Please give me a compliment, your wife is very young, and her ex-husband is not as handsome as you."
"I wouldn't say monopoly, I would say this is terrorism." Mr. Suit said with a stern face.
"A middle school student using a terminal can easily break into your country's confidential database. This is not the fault of quantum computers, but your country's defense budget should increase the cost of hardware updates - or hide the server in a microwave oven."
Wu Tianlan said. There was a burst of laughter in the venue.
"Stealing the behavioral information of a billion unsuspecting people is not something a middle school student can do." Mr. Suit said loudly.
"Correction again, 'stealing' is a very irresponsible accusation. Our method of collecting information is completely legal and has not been used for any commercial purposes. If necessary, there is a 60-page legal text that you can take away. Our team of lawyers
Accept consultation at any time." Wu Tianlan said.
"Perhaps I can buy you a cup of coffee after dinner." The man in the suit said, putting his right hand into his arms. A slim black-haired woman next to him patted his arm and motioned him not to move.
"As a traditional Chinese woman, I reject your kind invitation on behalf of my husband. In addition, Mr. President of your country must not have given you the right to use violence outside the country, otherwise your colleagues in the CIA would not be so nervous.
Finally, the fingerprint recognition chips of the two pistols have been locked. I believe that after the meeting, the two of them are likely to go to Austria to voluntarily visit the quantum computer center with strong interest. Then they will stop in Wagram City, Glock Company (
GLOCKG.M.B.H) engineers will help you unlock it." Wu Tianlan gave a rare smile.
The man in the suit was stunned and took his right hand out of his arms. His female companion smiled and pulled him to sit down and said: "Please don't misunderstand, Ms. Wu, he just has jet lag. From a personal perspective, Butchett and I are
Mr. (Buchet) has a good personal relationship."
"Oh, of course, the Speaker is an open-minded person." Wu Tianlan nodded at her and ended the conversation. "So, are there any other questions?"
"A lot of questions!" The Indian organized his words and stood up impatiently. "As a computational physicist, it is my job to simulate experiments and draw conclusions through calculations based on theoretical principles. I can't understand what you are saying.
An irregular 'world' operating environment. This is simply unreasonable!"
Wu Tianlan put his hand on his head: "I told you not to ask too theoretical questions. I am not a scientist. Let Dr. Bartholomew answer it later. Next?"
"Okay. Will the NPCs in the 'world'... give birth to children?" The Indian thought for a while and asked in a low voice. No one laughed. They focused on Wu Tianlan.
"They are not NPCs, they are living people. So, of course, they will give birth to children. The absolute running time of the 'world' has been thirty years, the population has increased by 12%, and the mortality rate is still a bit high. That world is indeed more cruel.
.”
“Where does a child’s personality come from?”
"Please allow me to ask, where does a baby's personality come from in reality?"
The Indian lowered his head and thought for a moment, "You mean, to develop..."
"Of course, use your computational physicist brain. I have said many times that the 'world' is no different from the world."
"Wait a minute." The Indian was not angry and made a pause gesture. After thinking for a while, he asked carefully: "In other words, personality will die. After death, there will be nothing?"
"Yes, every personality is a thread of creation. Under the influence of external forces, internal factors and natural aging, it will eventually die. After death, the thread is eliminated and there is no backup. Sorry, there is no paradise."
"Then what happens after we enter the 'world'?"
"Genesis will assign you a body, that is, temporarily replace a personality, but retain his body, memory and world view."
"We are in the 'world',... where is death?" the Indian asked as if with some fear.
"You will disappear in the 'world', but don't worry, you are still alive. The 10% difference in fidelity is enough for your brain to make a 'survival' judgment. But you will not be able to enter the 'world' again in the future, and Genesis will not give you any more