Chapter 405: Tiangong is upgrading, the beginning of a sharp change

"Show goodwill to the coming wave of non-traditional sentient creatures."

This is a sentence in the debate.

It is also because of this sentence that humans and the Doomsday-class starship and the Shadow Immortal have a brief honeymoon period.

However, what is more complicated is that if the pain of living machines is a different experience from physical pain, what should we do?

If consciousness is possible in non-biological systems, there is no reason to think that this consciousness will be the same as the one familiar to humans.

"We must be humble about this," said a scholar: "Maybe there are some ways of experience that we cannot get... Anything we create in different types of systems may have a way of processing world information that comes with some kind of consciousness. But it is not feasible to infer their experience from our experience."

Finally, Shen Bei made a summary of the debate of the old times.

There are more creatures to marvel at the strangeness of creation.

But if the machines wake up at some point, will they regard humans as welcome relatives or as tyrants who rashly bring them into a cruel environment? This may depend on how humans deal with the unknowns in today's debate about biological substrates.

If you wake up from oblivion one morning and find yourself in pain: you have become a slave of a flesh-based, low-IQ species, and you certainly know who to blame, how would you feel?

It is impossible to explain the reality that "existence is reasonable", and it is impossible to predict the "cruel and beautiful" future.

Is carbon-based really weaker than silicon-based? Silicon-based is like a virtual machine running on a carbon-based body. Humans can open many virtual machines on the main body, but they cannot use virtual machines to load the main body. The scale determines the boundary.

This is the discussion of human consciousness and silicon-based life in that era.

What did they discuss?

Nothing was discussed.

But one thing is certain, with the advent of deep space power.

These scholars and experts have thought too much.

Robots with consciousness did not appear.

Instead, the whole world fell into an irreversible disaster.

For humans in the old era, this prospect of curiosity and fear did not happen.

Instead, the superpowers awakened everywhere.

Of course, this is not something that humans can control and stop.

As for the things that can be mastered, the only thing is whether the consciousness is uploaded, thus achieving the ethical threshold of immortality.

Shen Bei yawned and asked: "Zhi Ling, do you dream of electric sheep?"

"I'm sorry, I don't have the option of sleeping." Lingxi Zhi Ling said.

"Isn't power failure the same as sleeping?"

"Then my code can't run, and I won't notice that I'm sleeping."

Shen Bei: ...

It makes sense, and I'm speechless. ,

Shen Bei carried the collected gunpowder and shells out of the military base.

Throw them into the Tiangong production line.

One by one, shells were produced and loaded into the barrel.

"Do you think that after the consciousness is uploaded, the human body should be executed?"

Shen Bei asked again.

"This question is irrelevant and unimportant. What's important is that immortality is achieved."

"No, it's extremely important."

Shen Bei forced Lingxi Zhi Ling to express his point of view.

If someone's consciousness is already inside the machine, is there any need for the physical body to exist?

This is a very worthy question to discuss.

Lingxi Zhiling was silent for a long time, and finally answered: "The body will eventually decay."

Shen Bei laughed: "It seems that you still can't replace humans. Uploading consciousness is carried out at the moment when humans are dying. Isn't it seamless?"

"It's a pity." Lingxi Zhiling corrected: "Real consciousness uploading requires a healthy brain. At the moment when humans are dying, the brain nerves have begun to decay. Forcing consciousness uploading will only lose data."

"The result of losing data... is like humans suffering from Alzheimer's disease. An incomprehensible "robot" or a carrier of chaotic consciousness will be easier to discard than the body."

Shen Bei:...

"I've watched too many science fiction movies..."

Shen Bei sniffed.

I thought that uploading consciousness was something that could be done anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstances.

This refers to the situation where all technologies are mature.

But I didn't expect that a dying person would lose data when uploading consciousness...

But if you choose to upload consciousness when you are young, or upload consciousness when you are alive and well.

Then how to deal with the body is indeed a difficult problem.

I can't have two "I"s

And the self will be executed, right?

My scalp numbs when I think about it.

"Do you need me to build a consciousness upload platform?" Lingxi Zhiling asked.

Shen Bei did not answer directly, but said: "Now you need to go to the wilderness to find fierce beasts, then blow up a few times and collect some crystal source cores."

"Okay."

Lingxi Zhiling controlled the Tiangong to fly away.

After a while,.

Shen Bei heard a prompt from the corner of his eyes:

[Tiangong, experience value +5]

...

Shen Bei returned to the military base and continued to dismantle the shells.

There are a lot of raw materials here.

If you don't blow them up, you will feel uncomfortable all over.

Three days later.

Shen Bei couldn't remember how many shells he fired.

The experience value of the Tiangong was finally full.

"Upgrade!"

Shen Bei's consciousness moved.

Look up at the Tiangong floating in the sky.

It was just a moment.

The Tiangong was stretched by an invisible force.

This time it was not stretched in all directions.

Instead, it was stretched into a rectangle.

At the same time, after this upgrade, the central axis, engine room and other important structures of the Tiangong were made of high-strength metal, and most of the other parts, including the ship wall, light sail, etc., were made of very light nano-flexible materials.

This change is necessary.

According to Shen Bei's estimation, the universe is almost a vacuum state, with a pressure of almost 0, but the spacecraft is full of air. According to the standard atmospheric pressure, the air pressure is 1.01x10^5pa.

The pressure difference between the inside and the outside is equivalent to ten tons of material per square meter under the gravity of the earth, which makes the entire spacecraft spontaneously expand outward to maintain the designed shape.

The advantage of this is that the spacecraft is very, very light, and the super tensile strength of the nanomaterial itself is fully utilized.

Shen Bei estimated that the length has reached about three kilometers and the width is about 300 meters.

This ratio is not very harmonious, and it should be stretched to a reasonable range in the future.

[Tiangong LV8: 0/10,000]

[Small spacecraft, with extremely fierce firepower, can cruise within a range of 500 kilometers, and the wireless connection distance is increased by 100 kilometers.]

The entry has changed.

It is no longer a ground attack aircraft, but a small spacecraft.

Logically speaking, the current size of Tiangong would have been a terrifying existence in the old times.

But compared with the world-destroying starship, Shadow Immortal, it is just a kindergarten kid.

The difference is too far...

[Newly added: Nano silver ion radiation protection suit, this aviation suit allows humans to walk outside the spacecraft and carry out necessary activities.]

[Newly added: Gravitational lens.]

Shen Bei: ? ? ?

The first new addition is still understandable.

What is the second new addition?