At first, everything was silent.
All things are born in a world without miracles.
As organic matter was born in thunderstorms caused by volcanic eruptions, the first life appeared around deep-sea hydrothermal vents and spread due to the eruptions of submarine volcanoes.
In the time running like a river, countless strange and simple carbon-based organisms appeared naturally, and then died naturally... single cells, multi-cells, primitive organisms, primitive algae, various carapace, echinoderm and even Vertebrate organisms appear, evolve or become extinct.
In this process, there was no extraordinary power or any miracle, and everything just passed like this for an unknown number of years.
Until one day, during a long evolutionary process, a primitive marine arthropod landed on land together with mosses and ferns.
This creature that looks like a large isopod has a plain appearance and seems nothing surprising, but in fact it is not - because there are many large predatory arthropods in the ocean, and small arthropods such as isopods are just their In order to avoid being hunted, isopods have evolved a rather wonderful method of stacking arhats: they have a strong and sensitive carapace tentacle on each side of their body, which can be used to detect surrounding animals when in the ocean. The water flow changes, and at critical moments, it can connect with the tentacles of other isopods, entwining the two tightly together.
Not only that, this tentacle also has a fairly developed nervous system. During the entanglement process, the nerves are connected, and the two isopods can temporarily merge into one, advancing and retreating together, looking like one Large creatures - the more isopods that gather together, the larger the size of the stacked arhat will be. There have even been incidents of isopods swarming up, wrapping the predator in the group, and forcibly trapping it to death.
On land, the interconnected tentacles of isopods not only did not degenerate, but also evolved further: their tentacles became more flexible and stronger, like two small joint whips, which can be used for transportation and lifting. It builds many things and connects many knotworms together to form a whole that cooperates a lot, such as forming human flesh ladders and human flesh bridges, so that companions can go higher and go further.
There are even groups of isopods that have been connected since their birth. Some of the isopods have specialized nervous systems and have lost their carapace and jointed limbs, while some have degenerated and lost their excess nerves. The system has specialized strength. When several isopods are combined together, they can become a larger and stronger 'combined isopod'. However, isopods that have not evolved this are basically destroyed by this kind of system. The same ecological niche, but more powerful ones are eliminated.
It is like a macroscopic cell differentiation taking place on land - in the larvae nest of isopods, a scene similar to the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells is emerging: one part becomes the brain, one part becomes the foot, and one part becomes the feeding and digestive system. The workers then assemble it to form a 'large isopod' larvae.
Each individual isopod is not an intelligent creature, not even a 'brain worm'. It requires at least three-brained worms to produce intelligence, and three-brained worms require more other components to form a large isopod that can survive independently. Insects, at least dozens of components can be combined together to create a 'large isopod' with preliminary intelligence.
The original isopods were just creatures that lived on a two-dimensional plane. They only knew front, back, left, and right throughout their lives. However, due to their developed nervous systems, the large isopods quickly understood the height of the "height". The third dimension, the vast field of vision this brings, is the source of crushing.
There is no need to go into details about the next thing. In the era of primitive life, the giant isopods that possessed wisdom, could use tools and fire, and had three-dimensional thinking were simply cheating players. They easily evolved neural language and created words. , using tools to defeat other arthropods, crustaceans and insects that grew larger due to excess oxygen.
[Foreword: The founders soon spread all over the world. It was all smooth sailing for them, wasn't it?]
The voice of the Immortal Lighthouse came, causing Joshua to nod slightly as he watched these memories.
Isopods, or to put it another way, 'polypods', are species that can be called intelligent creatures only when they gather together. Their civilization developed rapidly over thousands of years, from mud pits on the seashore to caves in the woods, from caves in the mountains to greenhouses made of vegetation and mud on the plains, from stone tools to the use of iron tools, and from primitive tribes to more modern ones. big civilization.
Ju people have learned a way to communicate with each other and connect with each other without nerve connection, that is to rely on words and customs to connect everyone as one. Even if they are not born in the same nest, Ju people can still get together through acquired preferences. Divide, they call this novel thing that has no physical connection, but can make people connect with each other as "culture", and many gathering groups are combined by this "culture", a super large "gathering" People call it a country.
The battle between countries is a battle between cultures. If a culture loses, it can only rely on force to eliminate and expel the other party. Otherwise, some people will leave the original country and join other countries. With the cultural war, the knowledge and information held by different Juren countries also began to interact, which brought about large-scale technological advancements. The Juren countries that were aware of this began to no longer regard 'destroying' the country as their goal. The purpose is to engage in a 'culture war', but to deliberately control the interaction of knowledge within an acceptable range.
In this way, in the first million years since the Juren appeared, they began to no longer care about the disputes on the earth, but raised their heads and stared at the stars in the sky.
Stretching his field of vision, Joshua could see that this was a medium-sized world with multiple solar systems that formed a small-scale gravitational balance. The planet where people were gathered was the second planet in their galaxy—and what was surprising was that, The moon of their planet is actually a habitable world.
Not only that, the third planet in this galaxy is also a habitable world, but it is colder.
When the Ju people looked up at the stars and observed the moon with curiosity, they were shocked to find that the moon above them was actually almost the same world as the earth, with mountains, water, and even... the same Ju people.
This discovery greatly shocked the Ju people civilization at that time, because at that time, the Ju people already had a clear concept of biohistory, and they were not lagging behind in astronomy. They knew the distances between planets very clearly, and they also knew how to completely It is impossible for almost the same creatures to appear in different ecological circles - even a habitable world is definitely not something that ancient people could reach by accident.
[Narration: Unlike many civilizations today, the founders at that time did not come into contact with any extraordinary power, and there were no superfluous fantasies in their minds. Things like 'imagination' are subject to various conditions. Trapped.]
So, this is undoubtedly a surprise to all the human countries. They have joined together to become a giant United Nations, ready to work together to go to the moon no matter what method is used.
Strong mobility is the fine tradition of Juren. In addition to vigorously developing aerospace technology, Juren also began to try to find all the possibilities on this planet - 'miracles' that would allow Juren to travel to other stars.
"They should have found it."
Joshua murmured in a low voice. He stared thoughtfully at the strange gathering society, and then chuckled: "Even in a world without miracles, there are still original miracles... A world born from the initial fire. It is a huge miracle in itself.”
"The question is what exactly they found."
[Admiration: Yes, what you said is indeed correct. It is almost exactly the same as what the founder said when he looked back on history.]
[Sentiment: They discovered God, Radcliffe. The Founders discovered the dead god.]
It is an extinct volcano, and it is also the largest mountain on Juren's planet. It is about 24,000 meters high. The former volcanic cones formed a huge plain. Juren's space base is built here, but due to the mountain It is too huge and too dangerous, so so far no one has tried to enter the upper levels of mountains exceeding 10,000 meters.
While exploring the upper levels of this huge mountain collection that would later be named the Sky God, the Juren exploration team discovered an extremely wonderful phenomenon in the center of the mountain: their nervous systems could sense each other without being connected. , there is even no gravity in some places, some small hills are floating in the sky, and strange flashes can even be seen. According to the report of the exploration team, extremely special and unconventional phenomena have occurred in this mountain range. The laws of physics seem to have lost their effect here, or in other words, another method has taken effect. Some members of the exploration team said that he seemed to I saw a huge corpse of a creature buried in the volcano.
It was an extremely huge rock giant, or in other words, a rock giant worm. Its back was the main body of the entire Sky God mountain range, and its sixteen arthropods were the cornerstone of the entire plateau. According to detection, it was born on an ancient planet. In the beginning, he was the founder of the entire astral volcanic phenomenon. The original life was born from the violent winds and thunderstorms generated by his breath, and the land was also uplifted because of him.
But He died—died of failure of strength. As a 'divine life' that breathes together with the world and was born from the power of primordial fire, the Volcano Worm was born in response to the changes in the planet's crust and died due to the stability of geological changes. It is certainly the most powerful primordial being in the world at the beginning. God is not immortal, but dies naturally after completing his mission.
The remains of gods are rapidly assimilating with the planet. According to estimates, in about millions of years, geological exploration will not be able to observe the existence of gods, and will only think that they are primitive rocks. If it were not for the wisdom of mankind and the rapid development of civilization, It's a bit shocking. I'm afraid that no normal life would be able to find the existence of the God's Skeleton at the corresponding time.
But Juren discovered it - and they also discovered that it was the remaining power of this divine skeleton that teleported other Juren to other planets.
Divine power penetrates all living worlds in this galaxy. In the center of the Sky Mountain Mountains, they found a natural divine power door, which leads to the moon and another livable world, where there are other people with backward technology but belonging to the same race. Gather people as a tribe to survive.
Then, the era of extraordinary things began.
[Praise: The founders did not think too much about 'why' at that time, because to them, it was just a natural phenomenon similar to rainwater circulation and ocean currents on the seabed. But soon, one hundred and thirty-seven years later, someone finally started researching the 'original divine power' and successfully obtained some of the characteristics of the divine power.]
Analyzing the structure from the divine power, and then trying to learn 'why', using the huge divine skeleton, the Ju people started researching the missing divine power of the 'Initial Fire'. Many Ju people obtained divine power by separating part of the divine skeleton. , became an extraordinary individual, and even gathered people in the country to study the divine power in depth, bless themselves with the divine power, and accelerate the evolution of the entire country.
This is a prosperous era - everything looks so wonderful. Through in-depth research on the Sky God and the colonization of the other two habitable worlds, Juren's civilization begins to progress rapidly.
Then, the disaster known as the 'Great God's Punishment' came.
First, there are certain individuals with divine powers who suddenly die and become vegetative, never to be revived. Then there are the groups, societies, and even countries that study divine power. Large swaths of individuals and collectives that attach great importance to divine power have gradually lost their self-awareness and turned into dead meat that knows nothing and has no instincts - more than half of the Juren home planet. All the intelligent individuals died overnight, which immediately caused all the remaining Juhuan kingdoms to be inexplicably frightened, and at the same time, they also had a great fear of divine power.
This was called a great divine punishment caused by stealing divine power. Countless people gathered in panic and carried out numerous sacrifices, hoping that the gods would not blame them for their blasphemy.
What followed was an era of meaningless panic... During these hundreds of years, the Juren gave up researching divine power, and they no longer used the portal in the Sky Mountain for colonization, but began to develop spaceships... but lost contact. It was too long ago, and colonies on different planets rebelled one after another. The chaotic war lasted for hundreds of years, until one side used divine power again in order to win the war.
[Confusion: The founders did not tell us this history. They were vague and insulted by it. But Triple Curtain guessed it, but Triple Curtain didn’t tell them]
Joshua smiled slightly. He didn't care. The humanoid shadow of the warrior stood in the virtual world universe, staring at the entire galaxy. He knew that this was probably the beginning of the founder's creation of spiritual energy and soul.
Hundreds of years are enough for a race to forget their fears. With the reactivation of divine power, the research on divine power has once again come to the forefront. Similarly, there is also the phenomenon of individuals with divine power suddenly turning into vegetative states, even gathering in the Central Science Park. Through human experiments, such an individual was artificially created. They carefully observed the entire process of the divine individual losing its will, and finally discovered the truth about divine punishment.
As the original god of quasar will, the magical power of the Volcanic Insect contains every detail of the planet's changes in that era. In other words, every bit of divine power is a huge information library. If it is just used simply, it is fine. If an individual If one has extraordinary talent for will, or has held divine power for too long, the leakage of countless information from the divine power is enough to completely submerge the self-will of any intelligent individual, or even the entire nation, and turn it into unconscious dead flesh. .
The more he thought about it, Ju Ren discovered that the carbon-based brain and ganglia had limits. If he wanted to go beyond this limit... he would have to stop being human!
[Happiness: That is the reason why the predecessor of Triple Curtain was born. Thanks to the founder for his wisdom]
The emergence and birth of computers and artificial intelligence is not surprising, because it is nothing more than using mechanical parts to simulate the thinking process of gathering people. Soon, intelligent robots with high-performance processors and huge storage devices appeared. Although at first The decompression of the divine power failed, but there is no doubt that the robot's performance was much better than Juren itself, and the loss was minimal, it was nothing more than burning out the processor.
By experimenting with the power of decompression on intelligent robots, Juren gradually became very advanced in the corresponding mechanical field, and their experiments gradually became successful - finally, when the ninth generation of high-performance processors appeared, for the first time a robot withstood Understand the message of pressure's divine power - it became the first individual to possess 'blank divine power'.
A processor that completely transcends the brain, can 100% replace the brain, and can withstand divine power. There is no doubt that it has been sought after by Juren. They want to transform themselves and put their consciousness into the steel body and processor— But a philosophical question stumped them.
Is the Juren who transferred his self-consciousness into the machine still the original Juren? Is it a set of algorithms that are exactly the same but not my own, or is it just Juren itself
Is this suicide, which is euphemistically called 'rebirth death', or is it a painless 'rebirth'
Ju Ren’s solution to this philosophical problem is simple.
Since there is no way to determine whether the 'self' is the collection of impulse feedback generated by the micro-current of the brain nerves, or the entire life individual itself, since there is no way to determine whether the self after bit by bit replacement is still the original self - then create A 'thing' that is independent of the body and can carry consciousness!
"soul."
Joshua's humanoid projection exhaled and smiled: "The original soul."
[Agree: Yes. In order to ensure that while settling in the mechanical body and possessing controllable divine power, the founders could also confirm that they were themselves, they began to prepare to create the original soul]
If the born mortal body is born ordinary, then the artificial mechanical body and artificial soul are the first step in the evolution of life toward the acquired divine.
Perhaps it is not a mechanical body, but a specialized carbon-based body, but the cell itself is an extremely sophisticated carbon-based machine. Juren is not so pretentious, thinking that carbon-based is better than steel, and that the body is more wonderful than machinery. , feel that the naturally born mechanical structure of flesh and blood must be more sophisticated than the artificial one - they believe in their own wisdom and technology, and act persistently.
So, how do people transcend the ordinary world they are born with and become the sacred people they acquire
What is needed is 'imagination' and 'thinking'.
[Miracle confirmation: After three thousand and four hundred years, the entire civilization has devoted itself to research. Through several great scientists, they voluntarily gave up their bodies, settled in mechanical bodies in a possible 'suicide' way, mastered divine power, and collected data through personal experience. The unparalleled genius inherited the wisdom and technology of all the pioneers and broke through the final difficulty of 'spiritual existence', and a 'miracle' was born]
It can be seen that with the silver-blue brilliance shining, a silver-blue, almost solid projection appears behind a group of people. It is not divine power, but another strange, completely different artificial substance, or perhaps That is to say, artificial power, this projection can appear alone or exist independently. It undoubtedly carries the entire self-will of Juren and will not dissipate due to mechanical transfer at all!
He can be maintained by the body or by mechanical current. These energy sources are not important at all. The soul is not such a delicate thing at all. What truly supports the existence of the soul is 'imagination' and 'thinking'!
[Cheers: Celebrate, the existence that has inherited all hope, can control divine power, has a mechanical intelligence with a soul, is familiar with all knowledge and information, and transcends mortal species. His name is the 'Founder', and this is the moment of birth. !]
Please give me a monthly ticket... I thought I could finish writing this paragraph today, but I got so excited that I can only wait until tomorrow...
(It’s so cool to play Kamen Rider and Jojo’s stand-in memes at the same time)
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