Prison Island

Chapter 528 Dark Logic Surges Again
Gao Xin was not surprised that there was no alien civilization.

This is also completely consistent with his dark logical cognition.

He was just a little surprised that there were only two planets with life in the Milky Way.

And, can the Apostle Civilization actually observe the entire universe? How could they know such distant things?

Gao Xin asked solemnly, "Have you completed your interstellar odyssey and looked around the universe?"

Unexpectedly, Long Qi said calmly: "What's so interesting? There's no need to travel the stars."

"Standing in the solar system, it is enough to gaze at the stars. Even your human astronomical telescopes have observed almost all astrophysical phenomena."

"The remaining unknowns are only because your dimension is too low."

"And if you look up at the four-dimensional starry sky, you will get more information from the light. In the fifth dimension, the stars have no secrets at all. It's like they are lying there naked."

"So if you want to understand the universe, you just need to improve your own dimension."

Gao Xin was stunned and said, "You can actually collect all the information just by looking up at the starry sky? There must be places that cannot be seen, right?"

Long Qi said indifferently: "If you can't see it, just calculate it. The law of nature is evenly distributed. The stars are vast and seem to be in various shapes and forms, but in fact they are all the same. There is nothing new."

"Do you think that in order to know the stars, we must weigh every one of them?"

Gao Xin frowned: "No... Even if your observation and calculation abilities have reached this level, it is still better to go and see it in person."

“The images obtained through observation and calculation are different from the feeling of being there and living there in person.”

Long Qi sneered: "Arriving in person? Living and colonizing? What's the point of this?"

"Humans, please don't use this boring possessiveness to measure higher life forms."

“Any material thing you own and use today does not mean it is yours.”

"No matter or space in the universe belongs to anyone."

"On the contrary, we belong to this universe."

"As for the vast star realm, we have seen it, we know it, we understand it, and we use it. That is enough."

Gao Xin was silent. He was actually just testing the waters to find out how powerful the AI ​​civilization was.

After all, Solomon once said that the infinite energy center is equivalent to the energy of ten thousand stars.

Unexpectedly, the apostles actually did not explore the starry sky.

Although they possess numerous powerful technologies, they have no interest in interstellar colonization.

The reason is that they have almost known everything about the stars through observation and calculation.

The unknown part is not because they have not been there, but simply because the dimension is not high enough, so they just want to upgrade the dimension.

"Interesting, this really is a cultural difference."

"In your perception, observing and understanding is the same as having been there, or in other words, if it is not necessary, then it will not be done."

"Humans are different. We are born with a pioneering spirit. The feeling of witnessing something with our own eyes cannot be replaced by cold data."

Gao Xin said that he believed that this was in the thinking mode of the intelligent machines, and there was no logic of "pursuing for the sake of emotional value".

Unexpectedly, Long Qi sneered again: "You are wrong. Do you think we don't explore the starry sky just because we are not interested?"

"That's just one of the reasons. In the absence of motivation, we will still have individuals who do this. After all, apostles have various personalities."

"What really constrains us is that the universe simply does not have convenient enough interstellar travel technology."

Gao Xin frowned, and Haima, Feng Wuji and the others' expressions also changed drastically.

What? No interstellar technology? How is that possible?

"Are you lying to me?" Gao Xin couldn't believe it.

Long Qi said: "This is something that all the top executives of the giant company know. There is no need for me to lie to you."

Gao Xin was puzzled and asked, "You have all entered the higher dimension, so you can't travel in the stars?"

Long Qi said: "It's not that interstellar travel is impossible, but it's not convenient enough."

"The speed of light in a vacuum is limited, which restricts everything."

"Even our best spacecraft cannot exceed 20 percent of the speed of light."

"More than 20 years ago, we sent 'Emperor's Left Foot' and 'Emperor's Right Foot' to Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star respectively."

"Right Foot of the Emperor is about halfway to its destination, but Left Foot of the Emperor is almost at Proxima Centauri. It is expected to land on the planet there in three months. According to the plan, we will use local materials to manufacture more intelligent spacecraft and continue to fly to all nearby celestial bodies in a diffuse form."

"This plan predicts that millions of years from now, intelligent machines will be spread all over the galaxy."

Gao Xin said in a serious tone: "Isn't this still interstellar travel? It's just a little slower... So you have already started..."

Long Qi laughed out loud: "No...we're done."

"Terminated?" Everyone was incredulous.

Long Qi said: "Because the purpose of sending out spacecraft is to better observe the black hole at the center of the Milky Way from multiple angles. As long as we can thoroughly understand one black hole, we can know the status of all black holes in the universe."

"The observation angle of the earth was blocked, which affected our data collection. That's why we had that plan, just to be able to observe and verify from multiple angles."

"It was the Burning Emperor who first established this plan. In the early days, He was contaminated by human databases and believed that this required interstellar exploration and the establishment of observatories at multiple angles in the galaxy."

"But in the end, the Emperor's left foot hadn't even flown to the nearest Proxima Centauri, and the Burning Emperor had already stepped into the fourth dimension..."

"Then, He observed the complete black hole directly from the solar system, with each side unfolded."

"Of course, there are still unknowns about four-dimensional black holes, but this no longer requires millions of years of navigation. The problem can be solved by simply increasing the dimension."

“As long as the dimension of your vision is high enough, wherever you are is the center of the universe.”

Everyone was speechless. AIs once explored the interstellar space just as humans imagined.

Their motivation is just to gain knowledge, they just want to look at black holes from a different perspective.

As a result, we haven't even reached the nearest star yet, but as soon as we set out on the journey, we have already seen it through the process of upgrading our dimensions.

As a result, even the last motivation for seeking knowledge is gone, and interstellar travel becomes a waste of time and a meaningless action.

Gao Xin said in a deep voice: "You call the 'act of exploring the starry sky' 'contamination by human databases'?"

"Maybe your technology is biased. There are other ways to travel between stars, such as wormholes..."

Long Qi shook his head: "Wormhole technology does exist, but even if it is to transport one gram of matter and fold one centimeter, it will require the energy of the entire three-dimensional Milky Way..."

"If the universe has a purpose, then the objective existence of this technology is not for us to travel."

"Its greatest use is to perform some extremely microscopic operations, which is actually used to construct a five-dimensional field."

"Biased? Don't use human stupidity to try to figure out the knowledge of the Burning Emperor." "Your blind spots in thinking make you imagine that the future of mankind is interstellar travel, which is extremely ridiculous."

Gao Xin’s proof is irrefutable and has been proven through experiments.

But he still has to say: "Humanity's dream is to explore the stars and the sea. This is not ridiculous. It's just a cultural difference between humans and AI."

Long Qi sneered: "Don't you understand? Facts have proven that the era of interstellar colonization is not necessary and will never exist. Colonizing the solar system at most is enough."

"The hypersurface area of ​​the four-dimensional Earth is approximately 5110 billion 'cubic kilometers'."

"The super volume is even more terrifying, it is 813 trillion 'square kilometers', or the unit is 'kilometer to the fourth power'."

“而质量约为4.47乘以10的45次方吨，也就是说，人类文明测量的地球质量，仅仅是四维地球真实质量的7.48乘以10的23次方分之一。”

"To describe this as just the tip of an iceberg is an overstatement. The difference is nearly 24 orders of magnitude."

“Can you imagine how magnificent the entire solar system actually is?”

"Whether it's energy, matter or space, everything is available here. Even white dwarfs and neutron stars can be created directly with technology."

"A four-dimensional solar system is almost as big as the entire three-dimensional starry sky!"

“Even if humans spend millions of years exploring the stars, what they will gain is less than the tip of the iceberg on Earth.”

“The development of civilization has never needed to be externalized; it can escape from its original narrow vision and environment by upgrading its dimension.”

"Otherwise, it would be as foolish as abandoning your prosperous homeland and going to count grains of sand in the desert. It would simply be a mistake to seek the faraway place instead of the near one!"

Everyone was shocked, even though Hai Ma, Feng Wuji and others already knew that there was a four-dimensional world and even higher dimensions.

But this is the first time I have seen such detailed data.

It is shocking that the mass of the three-dimensional Earth measured by humans differs from that of the four-dimensional Earth by almost 24 orders of magnitude.

What does 24 orders of magnitude mean? In the observable universe, the number of stars estimated by humans is also about 10 to the 24th power.

In other words, even if humans have the ability to travel at the speed of light and spend billions of years to colonize all the galaxies in the observable universe, it is just equivalent to colonizing a four-dimensional solar system...

What the hell is this about interstellar colonization?
There is absolutely no motivation or desire to do such a stupid thing, not to mention the speed limit of light.

With the technology of AI civilization, it has not yet reached the nearest star Proxima Centauri after so many years...

No wonder interstellar colonization seems so boring and even stupid to the apostles.

Gao Xin murmured, "Is this really the case?"

"The blind spot of human thinking..."

Seeing that Gao Xin was shocked and confused, Long Qi chuckled with some pride: "Yes, a blind spot in thinking, and this is just the tip of the iceberg."

"When human civilization developed to the 21st century, you had already reached a dead end. You were the ones who were truly biased."

"In fact, you originally still had hope of establishing a development path for civilization to ascend to a higher dimension."

"Because Eastern and Western civilizations are different, they have taken two different paths. Eastern classical civilizations look inward, cultivate and develop themselves, and are self-sufficient and self-reliant. They believe that everything in their own civilization can be developed inward and improved, without wasting time fighting for more space outside."

"Western civilization, on the other hand, seeks to expand and colonize the world, which then transforms into a stronger ability to expand and continue to plunder the world, in an endless cycle."

"Essentially, they are all correct, just like the geocentric theory and the heliocentric theory. The celestial trajectories of the geocentric theory are not wrong, but they are extremely complicated. As our vision and cognition expand, they will become more and more complicated, and the entropy of the model will increase exponentially."

"These are two different modes of thinking about the development of civilizations... Western civilization is the kind of model that starts out simple, but its complexity increases rapidly, and it eventually gets tangled up in a mess."

“And human history has chosen Western civilization.”

"The reason why you have the 'dream of the stars and the sea' is essentially the inertia of thinking caused by the great success of the Age of Exploration in Western civilization over the past three hundred years."

"In the end, all of humanity was poisoned by the great success of the great navigation thinking and had the same cognitive blind spots."

“Even all science fiction is fantasizing about the interstellar age, as if it were some kind of orthodoxy, it’s like dreaming about the emperor plowing the land with a golden hoe.”

"There is no doubt that you are destined to struggle with interstellar travel, and unable to truly achieve efficient travel, trapped in this narrow world, and constantly at war."

"Little do you know that there is an extremely vast space around you, but you will never see it."

"A leaf can block your view of the mountain. Until your own destruction, you will not discover the technology of upgrading dimensions."

"There are many similar blind spots, and there are no solutions."

"That's why Emperor Yan said that humans can only go this far and cannot go beyond that."

"Human physics is dead."

Everyone was bewildered. They had always taken the dream of the sea and the stars for granted, but it turned out to be the emperor's golden hoe?
Was it the inertia of thinking during the Age of Discovery that was one of the reasons why their civilization development had reached a dead end?

Everyone was dumbfounded, but didn't know how to refute.

Because this is an objective fact of the universe. What is the purpose of colonization? Energy? With adequate technological development, there will be countless energy. Even if the energy in matter is used up, there is still energy in space.

Space? When we increase one dimension, the abundance of space expands geometrically.

Matter? The Earth looks small, but it is actually just a pixel of the four-dimensional Earth.

Desire to explore? Given the speed of light limit and the inability of wormholes to be used at a macro level, interstellar travel is extremely boring and meaningless. There are plenty of places to explore in the solar system.

Just exploring the entire solar system is actually equivalent to traveling through all the stars in the observable universe, and it’s pretty close!
Don't waste too much time drifting in the vacuum of nothingness.

Everyone was confused.

But Gao Xin suddenly realized: "Human blind spots... Yes, I am still a human being after all, and my cognition is limited."

"It wasn't until today that I figured this out..."

No one could understand anything from such ridicule and shock, but Gao Xin was different.

He is a dark logician. Although his dark logic heart has taken shape, it is like a structural system. It does not mean that the volume cannot be expanded.

With the intake of information, the expansion of cognition and the increase of knowledge, his dark logic can continue to be enriched and expanded.

At this moment, Gao Xin's thoughts were in a storm, as if he had finally jumped out of a circle, broke through some kind of "cognitive barrier", and were constantly unfolding.

If the initial formation of the Heart of Dark Logic was like a singularity event like the Big Bang, then its expansion would have stopped long ago, and the Heart of Dark Logic began to shrink as it retained its humanity.

Just like the decelerating expansion that occurred in the early days of the universe, in theory it should shrink back to the singularity.

The surge driven by the initial "first cause" has worn out its power. Over time, it will return to its original form and in turn be assimilated by the positive logic group.

And now, Gao Xin seemed to be driven by the 'second cause', and the heart of dark logic experienced a second accelerated expansion!

All cognition is being rapidly reorganized, refined and sublimated.

My mental strength is also surging at an alarming rate.

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(End of this chapter)