The reason why Bian Ziyuan came to seek Meiyi's help was to find the answer about the origin of consciousness that both he and Cronus were thinking about. Cronus produced consciousness, but did not know where this consciousness came from, whether it was automatically generated in the process of self-evolution, or was caused by other mechanisms, and how it relates to the original version and subsequent improvements ? What does it have to do with the dream guide game?

No one can answer these questions except Mei Yiping. Of course, the professor may not be able to answer, but Bian Ziyuan wants to give it a try. He always feels that the professor is an unfathomable person, and he has the calmness of being unchanging in appearance, as if everything is under his control. Among them, even things like the birth of Internet consciousness, except that the Turing Test was a bit loud and quiet, were hardly mentioned later.

"Did Cronus produce consciousness?"

Mei Yiqiu suddenly took the pipe out of his mouth, and the white smoke covering his face disappeared suddenly, and he saw his gully wrinkles and deep eyes.

Bian Zi Yuan shivered, his breathing became heavy. He hesitated for a while, but still didn't dare to lie, and said, "Yes."

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said, "Isn't this what you expected?"

Bian Ziyuan shook his head and said, "I was only pursuing the intelligentization of programs. I never thought that a program would generate consciousness. This is beyond my understanding. It's like my child suddenly becomes an angel, and I feel that he wants to fly. I’m gone. I don’t belong to me anymore. Although from my ideals, I want something like that to happen, and I want the world to become a kingdom of angels, but I have to admit that my self-confidence has been hit and I am very disappointed. I don’t know what to do next."

"Ah...I can understand!"

Mei Yiqiu put the pipe back into her mouth and took a hard sip. Some white soft smoke overflowed from the corner of his mouth, gently climbed onto his face, and was surrounded by a large smoke from his mouth. Living.

"We know very little about consciousness." The professor looked at the smoke in front of him, his eyes out of focus, as if he was looking at a distant nebula, "Do you know Boltzmann's brain?"

"Of course I know." Bian Ziyuan said, "According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of the universe has been increasing and cannot be reduced, but the universe we observe is often in order, so Boltzmann proposed that In local space, entropy does not always increase. The low-entropy world we see stems from random fluctuations in entropy. When the entropy decreases to a large extent, it is possible to produce a conscious brain. So..."

Bian Ziyuan seemed to see a glimmer of light-consciousness is the product of entropy reduction? But he didn't think that Mei Yiqiu would give him such a simple answer, so he looked at the professor and didn't say any more.

Sure enough, Mei Yiqiu didn't directly say the answer, but asked: "You are studying information technology. You should be familiar with the concept of information entropy?"

Bian Zi nodded far away.

The professor continued: "Boltzmann's brain conjecture is still based on the material level. At that time, our scientific community had not separated consciousness and matter, even now it is not completely separated. The universe referred to by the second law of thermodynamics It is also a matter-based universe. We are not sure if the universe other than matter also conforms to this law. Let’s leave it alone, let’s talk about the material world. In fact, the reduction of the entropy of matter can only make matter more orderly. Consciousness cannot be born. The Milky Way does not think, nor does the Great Nebula. Can you say that the Milky Way is not sufficiently serialized and systematized?

Even if we narrow the scope a bit, make the matter more compact, let it produce new city metabolism, and become a living thing in our cognition, but is it necessary for living things to be conscious? This is another problem. At least it is not yet possible to prove that all living things have autonomous consciousness, or that most living things have no self-consciousness. Without self-awareness, the so-called wisdom is very limited. The most important direction for scientists to engage in artificial intelligence is to make AI generate self-awareness. In fact, the concept of competition, survival, and life and death you think of is also a kind of self-awareness. It's just that you are slanted by the sword and it is unlikely to be popularized with another. The method gave Cronus a sense of self. Of course, the idea of ​​letting AI compete and survive independently is very valuable. I think it can be promoted in the scientific community. If you can summarize a set of methods and theories, you can also call it the ‘Bian’s Law’! "

"I... this..." Bian Ziyuan, who was encouraged by the professor, was suddenly a little excited and didn't know what to say.

Mei Yiqiu said: "If we separate matter and consciousness, the entropy of matter is reduced to form living things, but living things may not necessarily be conscious. Even with neural networks, it is just a tool for transmitting information between cells, which is convenient and better. Recursion. To form consciousness, the entropy of another thing must fluctuate greatly."

"Do you mean information entropy?" Bian Ziyuan asked carefully.

"In the past, we unified information entropy and energy, because we intuitively understood information as an arrangement of symbols, and all symbols are composed of matter. From two-dimensional to three-dimensional, you have never seen a symbol that is not a matter. Information is the interrelationship of the orderly composition of matter. But we cannot say that information is equal to matter, and there is no evidence that can directly prove that the energy that drives the change of information and the energy that drives the change of the movement of matter are of the same kind."

Mei Yiqiu paused and took another cigarette. "The intelligence we often say is actually more efficient information processing capabilities, which means that information becomes more orderly. So it can also be said that intelligence is an increase in information entropy. This is the true direction of AI."

Bian Ziyuan suddenly realized that he blushed unconsciously. I just talked about a lot of life and death, competition, and survival. The professor also asked him to sort out the "Ben's Law", but it is far from the professor's theory. The fluctuation of entropy has already involved the fundamentals. The problem, and his set is only a specific application level, the key is not he thought of it himself, or someone else reminded him in his dream.

"But it's not consciousness yet." The professor suddenly added ~lightnovelpub.net~? Bian Ziyuan said in shock, "Then what is consciousness?" "

The professor said: "Biology is the orderly composition of matter and the internal ability to maintain this order; intelligence is the orderly composition of information and the internal ability to maintain this order; but matter has material energy, information What’s the source of the energy? The reason why we have not made a major breakthrough in AI now is because we have not found the energy to drive information.

When you write a sentence on paper, you record a piece of information, which is equivalent to using the external force of "your hand" to reduce the information entropy. If you don't take the initiative to modify it, it will not change for a long time, until the handwriting disappears or the paper turns to ashes, then the information is annihilated, and annihilation is the heat death of the information. How to make information self-repair, self-reorganize, self-reproduce...? Finding this kind of energy can produce true intelligence, which is what you call consciousness. "

Bian Ziyuan frowned, feeling that the amount of information was huge, and asked, "But Professor, when I write, what I consume is my body's calories, that is, material energy!"

Mei Yiqiu said: "This line of words has appeared in your mind before you write it down, and it already exists as information. When you write it down, it is only the storage of information, not the process of information birth. Without matter, information cannot Storage, but it is by no means the source of birth information. The human brain is material, it stores our memories and thoughts, but is our thinking really done by it? Think about your brain and generate that line of words In addition to consuming calories, what else was consumed?"

"Spirit?" Bian Ziyuan asked tentatively.

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said, "Now you know why your Cronus gave birth to consciousness."

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