Chapter 403: Can “Meat” think and speak?

Cold concrete floor, dim light.

The rusty steel railings formed a depressing and cramped steel cell. Through the gaps between the railings, you could see that the dark space was occupied by dozens of such cages.

In the cage, there were corpses one after another.

Shen Bei stood at the entrance of the military base. Perhaps time was passing faster and all the time loops here were broken.

The air is still filled with the unpleasant smell of decay, blood, sweat, excrement, all kinds of mixed smells, which fully stimulate people's sense of smell.

Shen Bei felt in a trance. If the evil species of the golden tree had not died, he would have seen another scene.

This cage is full of lively "people"

But now, time has passed and they have all turned into withered bones.

"Did I make a mistake in the order? I should enter this military base first. Maybe I can torture the humans here about what they are doing."

Shen Bei was thinking as he went deeper.

After all, why would a military base have such a prison?

Moreover, the evil species cannot move and does not pose any great threat to itself.

But after thinking about it carefully, Shen Bei felt relieved again.

"If I don't break the time loop, I, an outsider, want to come in, but I have to fight."

Shen Bei shrugged.

Shen Bei doesn't hate fighting. Shen Bei really likes the moment when bullets are fired into the human body and flesh and blood fly.

This will make Shen Bei feel the joy of "being alive".

Prove your own worth through the death of others.

Hiss~~

This is as addictive as taking drugs.

This is also the reason why in the old days, there were many serial killers who liked to kill people.

Such a wonderful feeling can only be imagined but cannot be expressed in words. ,

But now that there is no fighting, Shen Bei naturally feels relaxed and forgets unnecessary fighting.

"Maybe there is some information that can help me understand something."

At this time, Shen Bei had crossed the prison area and arrived at the crossroads of the military base.

Glancing to the right.

Just step inside.

Walking silently through the steel corridor.

"Experimental areas, restaurants, rest areas for researchers and guards, storage areas, and rooms of unknown purpose. There are cameras in every passage..."

Shen Bei was observing and talking to himself.

Skeletons are everywhere in these rooms.

It's like a computer program that was running normally suddenly crashed.

There are slogans hanging from the walls and nameplates on the room doors.

Shen Bei roughly understood that this is a military base that integrates research on the human body and intelligence.

"High temperature, high pressure, low temperature, low pressure, various frequencies of bioelectric stimulation, sleep deprivation for seven consecutive days or even longer."

Shen Bei flipped through the human experiment records in a certain room to summarize and summarize.

Researchers will subject prisoners to a long period of sensory deprivation without hearing a sound, absolute darkness, and a sealed space... As the laboratory is used to study the potential of life and explore the mysteries of human awakening, the pain experienced during the experiment is normal for ordinary people. Unthinkable.

"The timing is very coincidental. It happens to be the transition point before the old era ends and the new world is formed."

Shen Bei licked his lips: "There is a strong curiosity between the lines..."

All the prisoners in this military base are like white mice who are unable to resist. Most of the prisoners who enter the laboratory either die on the spot, or suffer from neurological necrosis or complete mental breakdown and become madmen, fools, and dementia. After losing their After recognizing the research value, he was directly placed on the dissecting table.

For many people, being able to die completely during the experiment is a relief.

The entire underground experimental base is half the size of a football field and is filled with a rough industrial style. It is more like a large prison than a base.

Shen Bei made many twists and turns, passing through electronic door controls one after another, and finally came to an empty hall that was fairly well-decorated.

Shen Bei raised his head and glanced at the nameplate on the door: Comprehensive Ethical Argumentation Room.

Shen Bei looked at the nameplate and was a little confused.

Argument?

It is obviously a human experiment base, is there any moral ethics that needs to be demonstrated?

This is not taking off your pants and farting.

If you do it all, if you hesitate, you will lose.

Shen Bei is not encouraging this kind of behavior, but at that point in time when the old era and the new world are handing over.

If you don’t do research, other countries will do the same.

Human body’s superpowers, applications of intelligent AI, etc.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. The Chinese people have never forgotten this and it is engraved in their bones.

At this critical moment, we are still trying to demonstrate the ethics of a hammer.

Shen Bei pushed open the door.

It was already a dilapidated scene inside.

Several more skeletons fell to the ground.

If it is within a time loop, there should be a "cognitive" argument going on here.

Shen Bei glanced around the huge conference table.

Each of these skeletons holds a piece of information in their hands.

On the title page are a few big words: Are they made of meat? !

These words stunned Shen Bei.

Obviously, this is an aggravated question about the composition of living things.

"Isn't this nonsense?"

Shen Bei grabbed a piece of information: "If humans are not made of meat, what else can they be made of?"

Shen Bei became interested.

I want to see what these people are discussing and demonstrating.

The information in hand has been corroded by time and has become dilapidated.

Paper is like the ashes of burned paper money.

Shen Bei carefully turned to the first page, but the other pages were all in pieces.

Shen Bei raised his head and glanced at the main seat of the conference room. There was also a computer there.

"There should be an electronic version of the arguments from this meeting."

Shen Bei felt a little relieved.

Looking down at his hand again, he saw the only text on the page that could still be seen clearly.

At the beginning of the text, nothing is said.

Instead, an excerpt from a science fiction novel was shown.

Shen Bei read it briefly, his whole body felt numb, and he suddenly felt that his thinking had risen to a new level.

It tells a little story at the beginning.

Said two shocked aliens.

They disguised themselves as humans and sat in a roadside snack bar, holding cigarettes in their mouths and trying to observe the creatures around them.

These two aliens had a very strange view, that is: they were surprised that "human beings seem to be made entirely of meat."

They were incredulous that the body could think independently of machines.

"Thinking meat! Do you want me to believe that there is thinking meat!" an alien mocked.

"Yes," replied the other: "Thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat! Dreaming meat! Meat is everything! Do you understand?"

A few short words almost made Shen Bei doubt his life.

Isn't it normal for humans to think?

It's surprising that Shitou spoke.

But from the perspective of aliens, "meat" can think and speak, so there is indeed a problem!

What humans cannot believe is the opposite concept.

The idea that consciousness could exist outside of the physical body—for example, in the silicon and metal hardware of an AI system like ChatGPT or Dr. Batuu, the SP module—sounds like an alien thought.

Can a mind really be made of metal and silicon?

Conscious silicon! Silicon can dream!

Shen Bei took a breath of cold air.

"No wonder it's called the Demonstration Room. This topic is really interesting!"

Shen Bei was trying to read other information, but the paper had been completely shattered and turned into dry powder.

He took a few steps to the main seat of the conference room and turned the computer over.

Directly remove the hard drive circuit board, etc.

He threw it out the window and shouted: "Zhiling, suck it away, analyze and summarize the contents, and report it to me!"

"Received, parsing..."

Lingxi Zhiling responded.

Shen Bei rummaged through the conference room again. After finding nothing of value, he left and went to the arsenal to collect explosives.