Chapter 109: I Am Me
-- Anything is possible. Here, in the mind-like universe. Simulation, reconstructed from your memory.
The thought swirled in Wang Qi's mind.
For a moment, he couldn't tell where these thoughts came from. Did Mi tell him? Did he speculate on it himself? Or did Mi's thoughts mix with his thoughts when his consciousness "came" here just now?
Completely clueless.
Mi quietly watched his junior brother thinking nonsense and wasting time. The speed of time passing at 6,000 times means that one second inside is one hour and forty minutes outside.
What they have is time.
In the end, Wang Qi still sorted out the clue: "In other words, virtual?"
Mi nodded: "Virtual." β
Wang Qi shook his head: "It's useless, it's not that there are illusions that are confused, and the attempt to use the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm to replace Hongchen to refine the heart has also been going on." Actually, there's nothing special about your idea, senior sister. β
A very important part of the study of the present Dharma is to reduce the difficulty of the practice and reduce the necessary steps. The ultimate goal should be to enable the foolish to embark on the path of immortality.
As long as the base goes up, there will always be geniuses who stand out.
Even if it is only about fighting, it can liberate the researcher from combat duty.
That's the philosophy of the Immortal Alliance, so they're very invested in this project.
Mi said, practicing in a dream, the Immortal League is already trying.
Tens of thousands of monks devoted themselves to this development, and countless resources were also smashed into itβthe dream enlightenment method in the ancient method, the sleeping Arhat body, the great dream prescient enlightenment and mystery, the various soul principles of the Yang God Pavilion, and the virtual ability of the Ten Thousand Immortal Fantasy Realm.
So many resources. It is for a technique that can realize or transcend the red dust in the Ten Thousand Immortal Fantasy Realm.
By the way. Wang Qi privately called this method the Internet addiction method.
But. There has been no substantial progress in this rule at present.
In this regard, Mi shook his head: "There is a difference in this. β
"Oh, what's the difference?"
Mi Dao: "First of all, the simulation of the Ten Thousand Immortals Fantasy Land is a pure calculation pile-up, and the participants also clearly understand this. No matter how fake and true the Ten Thousand Immortals Fantasy Realm is, they will realize this in their hearts......"
"Poof......" Mi's first sentence. It made Wang Qi happy: "Senior sister, this is as if you don't rely on calculation power to release the illusion - do you rely on love?"
"Love?" Mi tilted his head: "If you are specially crafting some kind of affection between fellow clans and comrades who care for each other, then this is indeed one of my motives. But that's not how it works. β
"Sorry, I didn't mean that. Wang Qi waved his hand: "I mean, doesn't your method still use the spirit rhino to simulate illusions? Isn't it still calculation? In this case, what is the essential difference between it and the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm?"
The reason why the current law regards the standard of three years of qi training, six years of foundation building, and nine years of knotting Dan as a red line is because the problem of mental changes caused by too rapid escalation is the most fundamental part of the physical and physiological aspects, rather than the psychological ones. The process of moving from the mundane to the extraordinary, from the short to the immortal, is the sublimation of life. It also includes the process of the transformation of the main thinking organ from the brain to the soul, and the process of the qualitative transformation and sublimation of the soul. This process will inevitably trigger and drive a change in thinking.
This shift. It's hard to control.
Therefore, even if you experience more things in the illusion, you will still have to face this problem of thinking change when you return to reality.
This is also the reason why Wang Qi is not optimistic about Mi's approach.
Even if Mi lets him experience more things, after returning to reality, the transformation of his soul when his cultivation grows will still have to be faced.
Mi smiled lightly, "It's not like that. Actually, didn't you find anything wrong with your previous research?"
"What?"
"The Immortal Fantasy can simulate the activity of every nerve, and it can also simulate the activity of the soul. However, its essence is still to instill a spirit rhino into the brains of your human race, and to create illusions. This prevents you from actually experiencing and thinking about the qualitative changes in your organoids in the illusion. β
The so-called infiltration into the illusion of ten thousand immortals is not the entry of consciousness, let alone the soul into the illusion, but the calculator puts the spirit rhino into the monk's mind to create illusions, and reads the monk's brain activity and soul activity. In this process, the monk's thinking organ is, of course, fixed.
Wang Qi's eyes widened: "Can you?"
Mi nodded: "Yes, indeed." Your current thinking apparatus has changed. β
Wang Qi looked at himself and became a little nervous: "Senior sister, didn't you take me out as a soul alone, did you?
Mi pointed to herself: "Me." β
Wang Qi didn't react at once: "What are you?"
"I mean, you're thinking with me - I've temporarily lent out part of my body to temporarily serve as your brain, and part of my divine body to temporarily serve as your soul. Mi said, wiping her hands in the air. The sea between the two reverberated violently, forming a small whirlpool. And the whirlpool recessed, gradually revealing a curious image.
It was a jade-colored "reservoir", and the color of the water inside was the same as that at the foot of Wang Qi. Wang Qi quickly understood that this was Mi's body, in the real world. In the midst of the emerald water, there was a mass of red, white organsβa brain!
Wang Qi was dumbfounded: "I'm ...... Inside that brain?"
Mi nodded: "Strictly speaking, you're using that brain right now. β
"That...... Brain ......" Wang Qi touched his head with a strange look.
"Also, the cells that make up that brain are my physical body. Therefore, that brain is also a part of me, and it can also mobilize my power through thinking. In other words, here, you can even simulate the exercises. β
Wang Qi raised his hand: "Senior Sister Mi, I have a question!"
"Huh?"
"Dare to ask about my physical body?"
Mi waved her hand again. The picture presented by the vortex between the two changed. It was the crypt of the West Sea, and Wang Qi's body was sleeping.
Wang Qi smiled: "I see, my calculator just now ran the road rank." It's mind-sync reading and hypnosis, right?"
These ranks need to be confirmed by the user. That's why Jarvis popped up a warning.
Mi nodded: "Suppress your own body and soul." And then finish thinking here. Your brain is not involved in this process, but in my body, so you don't have to worry about the negative effects of 6,000 times faster thinking. After that, I'll send your experience back to your brain. Even if something goes wrong and causes a bad change in your mind, I can delete that negative memory. β
This is the truth that "there will be absolutely no irreversible negative effects"!
Wang Qi breathed a long sigh of relief: "I understand." β
"It's good to understand. β
"But here's the bigger problem. Wang Qi pointed to his nose. asked: "The real 'me' is in the West Sea, staying with the moonfall glass." Then what is this 'me' here? Senior Sister Mi, the Wang Qi you dreamed of?"
"Dreams, my divine body doesn't have that kind of entertainment function. "At the end of the day, we don't have the concept of 'sleeping' at all. β
Wang Qi looked a little dissatisfied: "Then change the word, 'utopian'." Is this me here something you came up with?"
Mi was puzzled: "But you here are indeed 'Wang Qi'." β
"But this me, that is, you used your own redundancy to make it up. Wang Qi shook his head: "Then, you will instill your fictitious 'my' experience into that 'my' brain?"
Mi shook her head: "I still don't understand." You have to find the 'you' here. Did you react in any way that went against 'Wangqi' personality?"
"Not at the moment. I believe that if Wang Qi is here, he will also have this kind of reaction" Wang Qi shook his head: "But. What's the use of that? I don't even know if this 'belief' of mine is true -- the me here is a part of the 'Mi' dream after all, not the real me. β
Mi was even more confused: "I can guarantee that you here have exactly the same consciousness as you in the West Sea. Even the memories are. I'm still connected to your brain. Whatever you're thinking here, you can pull it from your own brain - and my subjective consciousness doesn't participate in the process, and I don't even steal your memories. What are you still dissatisfied with?"
Consciousness is nothing but a set of data, a program-like thing. Its function is to synthesize past experiences and make certain choices in a certain situation. From an evolutionary point of view, this is where the meaning of "self-awareness" lies. It is the brain's "manipulator" that allows intelligent beings to truly exert the power of "intelligence".
Since it's data, it must be a piece of information that can be edited.
It can be edited, which means that it can be copied.
Mi, copied Wang Qi's consciousness and put it in his own body to run!
Then, this Wang Qi here has exactly the same way of thinking and the same memory as Wang Qi. So how should he be counted?
Is he "Wang Qi", or "Wang Qi played by Mi"?
Mi shook her head: "I still don't understand what you're struggling with." β
Wang Qi scratched his head, and finally sighed: "Yes, I don't understand either. β
What exactly is "me" struggling with?
Bloodlines can be copied, memories can be instilled, and consciousness can be edited......
If Mi uses the supernatural power of transformation and separates part of his body to transform into Wang Qi's appearance, he has exactly the same self-awareness as Wang Qi, has complete and detailed memories, and has the same thoughts, the same personality, and the same hobbies, so the people around him and even himself believe that he is "Wang Qi", then is he "Wang Qi"?
Although the life and death of this individual are completely controlled by Mi, that is not the point. Many spells can achieve a similar effect, for example, evil spells that refine others into their own clones.
So, what exactly is "me"? Is Wang Qi's "experience" here his own experience? If he accepts this self, will he never be able to get rid of Mi's "fiction" in the rest of his life?
After Mi figured out what Wang Qi was thinking, he shook his head slightly: "Senior brother, haven't you understood it yet?"
"You're still limited by your own 'narrowness'. (To be continued.) )
PS: Senior Sister Mi will wash you three views!