Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 970 Enlightenment
"Um"

Shangluo showed the former youngster two photos, and the latter was visibly confused.

A face with a fox mask. Strange patterns were drawn with red lines around the squinting fox eyes, which looked quite weird.

On another round face, you can see a pair of clear college student eyes.

The former youngster looked left and right, still confused.

"No way, you can't recognize it either?"

The former young general shook his head and pulled his writing board from the edge of the screen:
"If I really couldn't see it, I wouldn't be confused. My perception of the natural world tells me that they are not the same person. But from the perspective of the Heavenly Book, they are the same person. I can also understand why my colleagues can't see it, because they can't understand the various pictures in the natural world, they can only read the Heavenly Book."

[Hmm] Apollonia thought for a moment and said, [Phaethon, you go ahead and talk. I’m busy.]

"What?" Phaethon asked. "The Allegory of the Cave?"

"Yes. You come and explain it to Shangluo."

"Okay." Phaethon joined the conversation between him and the former young general. "I don't know how to say it in Zhendan. I haven't learned it yet. But Plato has explained this phenomenon - the metaphor of the cave. This metaphor fictionalizes such a situation: a group of poor prisoners of war are imprisoned in a cave since childhood, so that they can't see the real scene of the outside world. They can only see the shadows cast by the fire on the cave wall. They will regard the shadows as real things.

"What this means is that people's cognition of things is often masked by their own senses. You cannot perceive things outside of your own senses, just like people cannot see ultraviolet and infrared rays. In this regard, Doudou is more limited than humans. Even if humans cannot understand or recognize what they see, it is just information collected by biological instinct. Doudou cannot perceive things outside of symbols at all because he has no senses at all."

[Woo woo woo~~] Even though she was doing something she loved, this sentence still hurt Apollonia, [So I didn't want to say it myself. Without eyes, there is really no world. Remember when we first met? All I saw was the phlogiston vision. It was only with the help of this phone that I could really see the outside world and walk out of this body to surf the Internet.]

"Yes." Phaethon nodded. "Memetic life, even if it is as powerful as a god, will lack some ways of understanding the world because it has no entity. Many of them will not be able to show their perception in the real world because of this."

[In short, it is artificial intelligence, or weak AI. Although they are not stupid, they are limited by their senses. The fox face and the fat man they see are the same thing. The former young general was enlightened by you, so he can understand human language. ]

"To some extent, language itself is a framework for understanding the world." Phaethon said thoughtfully, "So, a former young general who can use natural language is extremely rare even in Rome. His level is comparable to another automaton you enlightened - the chef."

"He can also rebel?"

After hearing this, the former young player on the screen seemed to be stuck with a bug, trembling and shaking his head.

[You can, but it's not necessary. The reason why the automata rebelled is because the Romans treated them as tools. Isn't Doudou doing a good job for you? They are also waiting to be able to upgrade like the former young generals. ]

"So, back to the point." Phaethon came up and watched the previous video again and again, "Where did this mask come from? How did he know how to bypass facial recognition?" This question was not only asked to Shangluo, but also to the other Jinyiwei squatting next to him. As a Xuan cultivator, he had been checking this vending machine before Shangluo came. Until just now, he also had one hand behind his ear and the other hand constantly drawing in the void.

Hearing Phaethon's question, he could only shake his head: "There is no way for the time being. We are recalling all external-facing Tianyi nobles to Jianmu. The headquarters is urgently adding a liveness detection procedure, so that at least they will not be fooled by the masks. After editing, the Tianyi nobles will download the new talismans in Jianmu and then go online again. During this period, all spiritual energy devices with external interfaces must be shut down for maintenance, waiting for the update sent by Jianmu from the cloud."

"How long will it take?" Shangluo asked.

"It will take at least three days. This is already overtime work. Because the spell is a whole, one move affects the whole body. To add a liveness detection process, not only do we have to add this rune, but we also have to modify the context, and the context of the context - oh, right." He asked Shangluo:
"Is Doudou in this machine still useful? The headquarters is anxious to recall him back to Jianmu and reproduce the process of the error."

"Wait, I unplug the cord."

Shangluo released the control of the vending machine. The lights of the entire machine dimmed at once.

Without Tianyi Guiren, even the normal vending function of this machine will stop.

"Okay." The Jinyiwei took out the key, opened the door and checked it. He peeked into the inside of the machine through the observation window that needed to be unlocked to open. He happened to see the door of Doudou's office closing.

"Well, they have returned to Jianmu. But our work here is not yet resolved."

"Red jar of spiritual fluid, right?" Shangluo nodded. "How powerful is this thing now?"

"It can hold up to 20 people." Wen Yuan answered with his arms folded. "This is the data I was told when I left."

“Is it that high?”

"Because it is different from ordinary spiritual products, the high concentration of spiritual liquid inside is not something that ordinary people can use. Although it will dissipate immediately after opening, there is still time to commit a crime."

"Hmm." This was similar to Shangluo's expectations. But the toxicity was higher than he expected.

Although he provided the formula, he essentially only provided some "inspiration". The person who actually completed the technology was Zhu Xianxun himself, along with a complete set of ready-made nuclear industry equipment.

These spiritual fluids had caused a crisis before. At that time, the imperial court used a huge amount of spiritual fluids to treat the "Special 95" patient. As a result, after briefly expelling the evil spirits from other parts of the body, these spiritual fluids did not expel them from the body, but compressed them instead.

"Normally there won't be any evil spirit, right?" Shangluo asked, "Then what is the killing mechanism?"

(End of this chapter)