Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1677 Self Essence
Although there is a big difference between Ta Ling and Xia Duo's initial expectation, it is not the artificial intelligence he thought, but a copy of the incomplete consciousness without self.

But he also discovered the superiority of this copy of the incomplete consciousness compared to the caster's consciousness, that is, it is not afraid of trouble, and the response speed is very fast, which is basically the speed of subconscious thinking.

This has the potential to be a computer replacement.

In fact, people, that is, spellcasters themselves, also have such potential, but normal human consciousness has all kinds of emotional interference, coupled with the hierarchical organizational model of conscious and subconscious, many times the efficiency is not higher than pure subconscious .

But if there is no consciousness, it is likely to be like the distorted phantom that Xia Duo has seen, with almost transparent thinking and completely defenseless.

The integration of subconscious and superficial consciousness that Xia Duo pursues is not to merge the two into one, but to cover the two with a self-perceived self.

In order to obtain the truly extraordinary characteristics beyond the two, his consciousness will not lose the natural protection of surface consciousness at that time, and at the same time he will fully control the high-speed, precise, and multi-threaded thinking ability of the subconscious mind.

It may be difficult for ordinary spellcasters to develop the practical value of the subconscious mind, and only use a copy of the incomplete consciousness like Taling to realize the purpose of disguised use.

Of course, for Xia Duo, before he has reached a certain level of integration of subconscious and superficial consciousness, he can only use this method to use his subconscious.

And the mental model he wants to find is actually an algorithm at the level of consciousness. All the mental models of a person add up to form a personality.

Personality plus memory is undoubtedly the best embodiment of a person's self.

The "personality backup" that Xia Duo makes during his meditation training every morning, or it can also be called "memory backup" or "self backup".

The three seem to exist in one person at the same time, so they don't actually have a very clear boundary for this person.

At least Xia Duo can't judge the boundary between personality and memory well now, because in his view, personality is the sum of all mental models of a person, which is gradually formed by this person through long-term training in the cognitive process.

The so-called "memory" is actually the sum of information before and after cognition. There is no doubt that it has played a vital role in the formation of personality, and it is even an integral part of personality.

There is no personality without memory.

In the same way, memory separated from personality will also be discrete and empty.

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In the process of deleting and testing the underlying database of the "Spirit of Communication Magical Artifact", Xia Duo gradually realized that the mental model he wanted to find would largely be composed of key memory nodes.

It's as if a person's temperament will change after experiencing some major life changes. This is the memory node affecting the mental model.

But it is a pity that Xia Duo failed to find any identifiable key memory nodes after deleting the memory until the intelligence of the "Qi Ling" was incomplete, and even affected the cognitive process.

The incomplete intelligence of "Qi Ling" seems to be due to the qualitative change after the memory is continuously deleted. The process is quite smooth, at least it cannot be analyzed by a few simple tests.

But Xia Duo didn't doubt the existence of the node, but the node might not be what he thought.

Of course, Xia Duo did not gain nothing at all. Although he failed to discover special algorithms that point to the formation of intelligence such as mental models, he also discovered many subconscious thinking patterns when processing information.

The latter can also be regarded as a mental model, but its role is more focused on thinking itself rather than forming intelligence.

In fact, for Xia Duo now, discovering subconscious thinking patterns may be more useful than finding mental models.

Because the thinking mode is directly available, and the mental model, Xia Duo has not thought of where it can be used for a while.

After all, the threshold of "Qi Ling" intelligence has already passed the moment the [Enlighten Wisdom Technique] is completed. Generally speaking, only research to strengthen intelligence, and reducing intelligence is really a bit against the trend.

However, exploring the starting point of intelligence is helpful for studying the nature of consciousness, and it focuses more on long-term considerations.

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in the laboratory.

Xia Duo angrily swept a bunch of Mithril components with dissipated aura into the recycling bin, then took a deep breath, and started packing the damaged [Scroll of Enlightenment] with a blank expression.

The cracking work has continued until now. Compared with a few days ago, it cannot be said that there is no progress, but it is also very limited, and there are only the last two scrolls left.

"Since you want to release water, why make it so complicated!"

Although Xia Duo was used to finding the reason from himself first, he still couldn't help complaining about the Seven Towers due to the delay in deciphering the work.

Obviously, even if the Seven Towers hope to earn gold coins or other benefits by carrying the psychic matter of the Tower Spirit, they still set a very high cracking threshold for things like [Scroll of Enlightenment] that are almost doomed to be cracked after being released.

That's right, even if it is destined to be cracked, so what?Do you have to give it in vain?
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Gathering up his emotions, Xia Duo began to check the latest test report submitted by Kent. Since the last test, the "Spirit of Communication Magical Artifact" has almost been broken. This time, I don't know what the result will be. .

The test process was skipped directly, and as before, Xia Duo turned to the end to see the results first—the test target was slow to respond to the test, and serious memory errors, cognitive deviations, and logical fallacies had already occurred.

Looking at the analysis process again, after these days of testing, Kent and others have also grown a lot. The analysis process is combined with the testing process, and almost every step is analyzed.

Xia Duo took a rough look, and decided to suspend the exploration of the mental model and instead study the subconscious thinking mode. It just so happens that the "spirit of the communication magic weapon" that has been broken can also exert its last sliver of heat.

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After sending 1000 learning points to the Kent team, Xia Duo ended the mission and took back the communication artifact.

Although the "Qi Ling" has been ruined as an intelligence, some of the thought patterns that have been unearthed have not been affected much, but have become more pure, which is conducive to the next step of research.

In the laboratory, Xia Duo looked at the magic weapon in his hand whose aura had not changed much compared to before, and knew that damage to the spirit of the weapon would not have much impact on the magic weapon itself.

Then, he continued to delete memories. Unlike the previous memories that only deleted sensitive information and cognitive processes, this time he also deleted a large number of post-cognitive memories.

Retaining only the part related to a specific thinking mode is equivalent to strengthening that part of the thinking mode. Of course, it may be more appropriate to use "highlighting" here.

(End of this chapter)