After Bubble told all the abnormalities she discovered, I still felt a little confused. After all, this seems to be a rather abstract concept. Although I have been in contact with the spiritual network of the empire every day, how do I feel about this powerful data network? How it works and how it is architected is still poorly understood. Of course, in any case, I have been taught by Sandora all day long, so I am not completely confused by what Bubble said. After analyzing it for a while, I still have my own understanding.
"That is to say, she is a combination of the spare computing power of all Xiling apostles...a virtual person?" I looked at the blonde woman who called herself Xiling, and said this in amazement, and then suddenly felt that this seemed a bit impolite: It is obviously disrespectful to talk about this kind of thing in front of the person concerned, but this girl named Xi Ling seems to lack common sense, or is slow to respond. He chatted with his elder sister in a low voice, and it seemed that the two of them had a lot to talk about.
"It can't be considered a virtual person, because she already exists and has created her own body," Sandora's eyes also fell on Xi Ling. She is an expert in mind and soul, and she quickly figured it out at this time The other party's way of existence, "In addition, the statement of spare computing power...should be wrong. If she is a personality put together with the spare computing power of each Xiling apostle, it will not cause the actual installed capacity of the spiritual network to be one more out of thin air. Come on, the computing power is transferred from one process to another, just like a drop of water is transferred from the center of the lake to the edge of the lake, it will not have any effect on the water level itself. She is extra out of thin air, so it appears... It should not be The idle computing power on the network..."
"Hey, I suddenly thought of something..." Bubble suddenly said, seeing that everyone's attention was focused on herself, she coughed twice to clear her throat, "First of all, I want to rule out the theory of spare computing power, because I I felt that I was wrong at the beginning. If you want to generate a consciousness, you need a stable environment, just like a program to run, at least the idle system memory must be maintained to a certain extent and will not be emptied casually. The free computing power on the network has never been stable. There will be apostles who will continue to invest computing power in new collective tasks, and the personal resources they invest in each time are very random. As I said just now, this... Xiling's Consciousness is distributed throughout the network, and each Xiling apostle may provide her with a certain number of 'neurons', so will these Xiling apostles guarantee that they will not use that 1KB of memory when they contribute computing power to the network? There is no guarantee at all. I have counted the current spiritual network, and each node will refresh once every 24 hours on average. That is to say, every Xiling apostle who provides system resources will complete a short cycle on average 24 hours Computational tasks, and they are often refreshed at the same time on a large scale: this is because the host array will assign a team task to a considerable number of nodes. After the task is completed, these nodes will of course refresh the system memory at the same time to free resources. In this case , the environment of spare computing power is quite unstable. What’s more, we are talking about the situation of the new empire, and the birth of the “Xiling” in front of us is the old empire period. At that time, the whole empire was busy studying a lot of castles in the air. For the project, the ultra-large-scale network refresh is carried out almost every minute and every second. In this case, it is even more impossible to rely on each Xiling apostle to provide 1KB of reserved space to generate a ghost individual. Don’t forget, No one knows the existence of 'Xiling', the apostles of Xiling on the Internet will not consciously reserve the 1KB space, and there is no conscious system or network protocol to maintain this virtual space... "
"But there's one thing that's stable about the mental connection network."
When Bubble paused for a while, Sandora suddenly answered, it seemed that she had already thought of something.
Bubbles looked at Sandora tacitly: "Well, that's it, the access amount. The access amount of the spiritual network is basically stable and will increase steadily with the increase in the number of apostles. As long as A Xiling apostle is still alive and has the conditions to connect to the spiritual network, he will always be online. Of course, soldiers who died on the battlefield will be offline, but compared with the entire race, the loss of this node has an impact on the stability of the network It is negligible, and the continuous increase of access points also makes the mental network very robust in terms of its ability to resist offline shocks. Even if the amount of access to the spiritual network fluctuates, it is infinitely more stable than something like "spare computing power" Therefore, we may have thought too much at the beginning, what produced Xiling was not the existing resources on the spiritual network at all, but the structure of this network at all... She was produced from the network itself!"
"Are you... talking about me?" The blond girl heard her name being mentioned many times, and finally noticed this, she showed a troubled smile, "I don't know anything."
Me: "Eh... you can just continue chatting with my sister. Sister, you can just hold her steady. Okay, Bubble, you continue, I don't understand now, the access point of the network... this access point is related to the generation of consciousness What does it matter? Just an access point, just a simple number... It is nothing, no capacity, no computing power, not even a physical entity, this is a node... "
"As long as it is a node, as long as it exists, it is enough. In the Xiling network, an access point expresses three items of data: upload, download, and wait for listening. These three modes take three channels respectively, and there is a logical relationship , we can therefore regard it as a simple logic gate," Bubble slowly sat opposite Xi Ling, looking into the other's eyes, "the number of this logic gate is multiplied by the apostle group in trillions, and every There is no delay in the connection speed of each logic gate. When this group devotes itself to one thing for long enough, there will be a high probability that a suitable environment will be created, and a new individual will be created like this... This individual is nothing else , but our spiritual network itself, the nodes of the spiritual network are your body and soul, you are not the apostle of Xiling... you are Xiling, right?"
"Oh, I'm Xiling." The blond girl smiled inexplicably, then nodded.
"It seems that this individual is still immature, but if the speculation is correct, she should be the consciousness produced after the spiritual network of the old empire reached a certain level." Bubble looked at the stunned group of people around him, and said slowly, "Well, this It's just my guess, lacking the necessary evidence, so it may be necessary for the research center to do a series of experiments to prove this conjecture. But according to the anomalies found on the data network, this should be indistinguishable—the spirit of the old empire The web mutated without anyone knowing, and we produced a… ”
"Racial consciousness? Or a super spiritual community?" The expression on Sandora's face was changing, and the most element was shock.
Bubble thought for a while, and shook her head regretfully: "It's similar to racial consciousness, but unfortunately, from the perspective of the formation mechanism, she is still just an ordinary intelligent individual in essence, without any special power, otherwise we are likely to have to There is one more emperor-level combat power. Think about the basis of her generation: the individual created by using the access point of each Xiling apostle to access the spiritual network as a "neuron". On the one hand, she can be regarded as a member of the spiritual network. Incarnation, but on the other hand, she is formed by the accumulation of redundant resources of this network, as if thousands of screens are arranged, and each screen is used as a pixel to play a video, it looks gorgeous, yes, But what's the point?"
"Meaning? What if she can control the mental network?" Sandora bent her index finger and tapped on the table lightly, "For example—to make certain nodes offline from the network, or to allocate unlimited system resources to specific nodes. She is the embodiment of the spiritual network. If she matures to a certain level, she should learn how to control her body, then she will also have the ability to control the network... It can be said that this child will be the most powerful unit in the spiritual network, She could make our network stronger, or she could... destroy it."
Sandora mentioned a huge hidden danger, which surprised most of the people present. I felt that the temperature in the store suddenly dropped by at least ten degrees: This is really a possible situation!
However, after calming down, I suddenly felt that there was something wrong with Sandora's worry, so I brought it up.
"Of course there is something wrong, destroying the network is destroying herself," Bubble was one of the people who didn't show any worry after hearing Sandora's doubts, "And I have a guess, Xiling should not Ways to destroy the network. The spiritual network is a virtual space, and it relies on some underlying protocols to operate. These protocols can only be changed in three ways authorized by the highest host, the world arbitration agency, and the emperor. The role of these basic protocols is to maintain the integrity and stability of the network. Do everything possible to eliminate the danger of accidental offline. These protocols are written in the underlying data, and their effective range even includes the logical state of each access point. Therefore, Xiling, as the embodiment of this network, one of her cornerstones is these protocols. In other words, her actions must be in accordance with the agreement, and she cannot violate it, otherwise her operation will go wrong. Of course, if the three factors mentioned above authorize her to destroy a part of the network, it is still possible, but... I guess we No one present here will take this trend, right? From my point of view, if these guesses are correct, then the most direct value of Xiling is to improve the stability of the spiritual network. Before she appeared, the spiritual network could not be grown The time is uniformly monitored, which is beyond the performance of any Xiling host, so we can only monitor the network in segments, relying on the pyramid-style host architecture to control it level by level, but now, we should be able to find more efficient High monitoring means."
"Is that so..." Sandora breathed a sigh of relief. Bubbles is an expert in this field, and what the latter said certainly has the highest credibility, "I'm used to imagining things in the worst direction, but now Come on, this is too tense."
I also breathed a sigh of relief. Although I didn't understand it well, it seems that Xiling is harmless to the spiritual network. There is a reason why everyone is worried about this. It is not that we have any prejudice against this child who has done nothing, but that she is obviously too immature now and lacks the ability to be an apostle of the spirit, and a strategic apostle of the spirit. Consciously, but she just holds the highest level of authority in the spiritual network, which is really disturbing. If she really has the hidden danger of accidentally destroying the spiritual network, it is better to prepare in advance—of course, no one It will hurt this seemingly innocent guy, maybe we will put a collar on her like controlling the power of the little crow.
Speaking of the little crow, that silly bird is still planning to hatch eggs every day, although she can't hatch anything now...
"Although the safety can be confirmed temporarily, we still have to be cautious," Sandora thought for a while, and waved her hand in front of Xi Ling to attract the other party's attention, "Can you help me with a few inspections?"
"Check?" Xi Ling looked over in confusion, "I just want to sleep, oh, and eat, where is the manager?"
"... She might be thinking about going home soon." Sylvia's slow and silly face flashed in my mind, and I shook my head quickly, "Ahem, don't be nervous, we won't hurt you, we just want to Check what's going on with you, this should be the first time you 'come out' to live, you have to register or something... Forget it, I guess you don't know what registration is... "
"I don't know what you're talking about," Xi Ling fiddled with her hair, "but it seems that I should listen to you. Well, how to check? Can I eat and sleep after the inspection?"
"Okay, okay, we can send you the food." The other party was very cooperative, which made people very happy. I pulled Xi Ling up and said to my elder sister, "Sister, it seems that you two get along very well, you Take her there. First, take her to Tavel for a full body scan to find out how she has a physical body, and then check what other permissions she has besides access permissions, and whether there is any way to control it. "
My sister took Xiling to the research center, and the rest of us fell silent for a while. Bingtis first felt that there was nothing wrong with me, and waved his hand to signal to Ilsen and the others that they were going to withdraw, and complained in a whisper: "Damn, this seems to have witnessed a miracle again... My mother was born to be a heroine..."
It is also a kind of relaxation to listen to this female hooligan brag about the power of a few literary and artistic styles in my spare time, but now we don't have that leisure time. After the protoss left, Lin Xue still looked at Bubble worriedly: "That hope Is the spirit really all right? The incarnation of the imperial spiritual network—this name sounds like a fortress!"
"Is there any problem you can see more clearly than us?" Bubbles lay down on the table with a listless look, "I can only speak based on science and judge that she should have the instinct to maintain network stability and will be subject to security protocols." It depends on the inspection results of the research center. It’s a pity to say that the particularity of the Xiling Apostle on the void ladder determines that we can’t produce a race higher than the current race baseline. Consciousness: Because only void creatures can sit in this position, we can only produce 'substitutes' such as 'Xi Ling'. If there is no restriction of the void ladder, now we will definitely increase the combat power of an emperor... Well, I don’t want to, now I’m thinking about how to make her work as much as possible, if such a special unit can only do network management work, it would be a waste.”
Well, to maximize the interests of the race at all times, Bubble is a very dedicated Xiling apostle.
"Ajun, Ajun," Qianqian suddenly tugged on my sleeve with great interest, "There is an immature..."
Almost everyone in the room yelled in unison: "Hold it!"
"Ahem, just tell me, don't pay attention to these guys." I saw that Qianqian's face turned from cloudy to cloudy in an instant, and quickly comforted this cute girl, "I will pick the more reliable ones and listen to them."
Shallow curled her lips, but soon the "immature thoughts" in her heart dilute this depression: "Ah Jun, do you think something like that in the disaster movie will happen? Xiling, as the embodiment of the spiritual network , suddenly lost control and rebelled, and then controlled all the Xiling apostles, conquering the world or something... "
... Do you think her threat value is not high enough
But Qianqian's nonsensical thoughts really made me feel a little creepy, because I have watched too many sci-fi disaster movies of this kind, isn't that what Skynet did back then? And the Microflux incident...
But this time Bubble once again denied this bluffing hidden danger: "She can't control anyone, she doesn't have this authority. According to the information currently available, her composition is not based on the computing power of the Apostles of Xiling. Or the system resources on the spiritual network, but the "structure" of this network. You can think that she has connected the network cable plugs of a trillion computers to produce her own consciousness. Through the network cable plugs, she can control the programs in the computer How does it work? Obviously impossible, that’s something only the data in the network cable can do. So she can’t control anyone through a node. Well, at least she can’t do it before she surpasses her own life form .”
Bubble started to explain the principle of Xiling Apostle Spiritual Network to everyone again, and tried to make Qianqian understand the difference between the connection point state and the connection point data. I was drowsy under the impact of these dizzying knowledge, and other thoughts gradually emerged in my mind... Xiling seems to be just an extra personality accidentally generated in the spiritual network, she is the most special The apostle of Xiling is not a powerful individual. She is limited by her own underlying agreement and cannot destroy the network. So how can she bypass this agreement
Perhaps it was Sandora's usual habit of "imagining the worst" that infected me, and I couldn't help but start to imagine how this newly acquainted special apostle could produce enough destructive power to threaten the stability of the empire if it got out of control.
Of course, this kind of worry is a bit too much. We should not doubt a Xiling apostle at will just because the other party has some special abilities and is relatively unfamiliar. assumption.
If Sandora is out of control, if Qianqian is out of control, if Bubble is out of control...if Xiling is out of control...these existences may all be out of control, but I don't know why, but Xiling alone makes me feel a strange sense of disobedience.
Fallen apostle.
A lightning idea flashed through my mind.
Xiling's... abyss version...
(Oh also, surely no one guessed this time, right? Surely no one guessed Xiling, right
Another thing, everyone knows about Qidian show channel on the 15th of this month, right? Is anyone going to watch me? ) RS