Beneath Deep Space

"So many airships, bombarding information 24 hours a day...is it too much?"

On this day, Yu Yifeng was inspecting a large workstation.

In front of him, there were rows and rows of monitoring screens, densely packed on several floors, recording the status of each airship. If you look carefully, they are basically playing the same video.

This situation was a bit like the TV store from more than a hundred years ago... which made him feel nostalgic.

"It's different, Captain. It is essentially a different creature from us. We cannot use our limits to measure it!" An education expert received Yu Yifeng at the door of the workstation.

He smiled and said: "We humans are single-process creatures. We can only do one thing at a time. If we do too many things, we will make mistakes. But this kind of multi-process thinking creature is different. They can analyze and process many things at the same time." , just like a multi-core CPU..."

"After such a period of contact, we have already understood its general characteristics. It looks very smart... It is like ten thousand heads integrated together. Although it can accept a lot of information, but in this way, it is hard to imagine It is even more difficult to form a perfect self-awareness, which must synchronize so many thoughts..."

Yu Yifeng nodded, "So, this process of rising self-awareness has become quite slow, right?"

"Yes, that's it! We believe that only by repeating it continuously and prolonging the process of repetition will it have a deeper impression! In fact, it is in this kind of repetition that babies build their own worldview..."

When children are young, they like to repeat certain actions. Many children like to throw things. When their mother picks them up, they continue to throw them. This action can give them endless fun.

The same is true for infant education. It requires constant repetition. When you are young, you must repeatedly accept all kinds of information you hear and see in order to build your own worldview.

For this kind of creature that looks smart but is actually a bit dull, it requires a lot of repeated training...

"This statement sounds... somewhat reasonable..."

Yu Yifeng nodded thoughtfully.

"3,000 videos played at the same time is not enough. We are planning to expand the scale... It is precisely because of the slow growth that we have been given the opportunity! Otherwise, it has already had its own ideas and it will be difficult to change... …”

"The hardest thing to change is the human heart... Just like the thoughts of adults, it is difficult to change once they are formed."

As the education expert spoke, he operated several commands one after another, and a series of data popped up on the screen: "These screened baby videos are not offensive in any way. They represent the innocence and simplicity of us humans and contain what we want to see." The friendliness and friendliness expressed... are also the concepts we want to instill in it, and are the objects it imitates! ”

"You see, this little baby's video has been played more than a thousand times, and it likes it very much. The concentration of seaweed nearby is increasing, and it is even forming different observation structures..."

"Keep playing, we must keep playing! Our thinking must be correct!" The education expert pointed at the screen very excitedly.

To reach his situation, he must really like children from the bottom of his heart. Cultivating this strange creature brings him an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

Yu Yifeng curiously went up to take a look: in the airship's observation instrument, it was clear that a large amount of seaweed formed various round things, which looked like grapes, maybe similar to eyes or ears...

Because the video was played too loudly, all the surrounding birds and fish were scared away, leaving only this pile of strange algae moving around in front of the video.

Yes, they are moving!

Although this amplitude is not large, there is no doubt that... it is not caused by waves!

This phenomenon aroused the curiosity of many biologists, but they could only observe it from a distance. They scratched their heads and ears anxiously, feeling itchy in their hearts.

What was playing on the big screen in the sky was a funny video of "baby playing with cat": a fat cat was teasing the baby with its tail.

As soon as the tail touched her face, she started to giggle wildly, but as soon as the tail moved away, she stopped laughing and just looked at the fat cat expectantly.

Then the cat moved its tail up again, and before it touched her face, she started laughing again...

The entire video is only a little over a minute long, and it starts playing over and over again after it ends.

Especially when the baby laughs wildly, the algae below are actually stimulated and start to move, as if they want to learn to express happy emotions.

Repeatedly, it is endlessly joyful, as if it will never get boring.

Watching people put so much effort into building so many airships, playing this kind of... video...

Well, Yu Yifeng no longer knows what to say. But it is undeniable that this kind of video playback does have a certain effect. At least, it is communicating with humans!

Humanity's current influence is far greater than that of any living creature, and that's enough!

According to education experts, this is instilling "human consciousness", starting from the infant stage, and no step can be skipped. Only when you get to the back can you watch "Teletubbies" and other high-end children's programs...

Yu Yifeng sighed. For someone like him who had never been a father, it was difficult for him to understand these details.

Since they can't think of a better way, let them just mess around...

He walked to another working group...

In this way, time passes day by day, half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and there are new discoveries and new progress every day.

More and more experts came to the surface, but nothing major happened during this period.

At the same time, the number of airships in the sky slowly increased to ten thousand groups, and the number was still increasing... But no matter how many groups there were, the algae below would become active at the same time. They were no longer as stupid as before, but It is closely interacting with the airship.

The relationship between the two parties gradually eased...

This also makes scientists increasingly look forward to the specific capabilities of "Gaia organisms", because the more processes that can be executed at the same time, the stronger its industrial capabilities will be.

"I don't know how much information it can accept at the same time... Its ability should have an upper limit, but this upper limit is very high... Is it a conservative estimate of 50,000 or 60,000?"

"The data is out! The data is out!"

"Based on literature, we calculated the peak of the Dige people's 'copying' frenzy...that is, more than ten years ago. At the beginning, its industrial capacity was only 0.02% of ours, but a few months after the birth of self-awareness By that time, industrial capacity had risen to 57% of ours!”

"This rate of rise is so fast, it's incredible!"

"Think about it, this is still the industrial capability in the initial situation. If it is well trained and educated, it can surpass us by a large margin... It is really powerful!"

The emergence of this news has made the top government officials more determined to "capture Gaia"... Because everything is developing in a good direction, this strange education plan is actually quite effective!

If it is really educated into human consciousness, it will naturally join the new human civilization!

As the relationship eased, this Gaia creature seemed to have gradually become familiar with the human spacecraft. Wherever the airship floats, the algae below follows it... It can't be said that it follows. The entire ocean is full of algae, but it is only temporarily "activated".

This allowed scientists to learn more about its properties, and a steady stream of reports were generated every day and then sent to Yu Yifeng's office.

"Normally, ordinary algae in the sea are not intelligent and are in an 'inactivated' state, but they can quickly activate and evolve at the cellular level when needed... This property is very strange!"

"In other words, it is likely to have one or more command cores... As long as it has a smaller core, our capture success rate will be greatly improved, and there is no need to pour a large amount of seawater into the Noah!"

Immediately afterwards, the submarine that people had lost contact with was reconnected! In other words, this Gaia creature no longer hinders people from exploring the ocean...

"A gesture of goodwill?"

This gradually dispelled the doubts in the minds of Yu Yifeng and the military personnel.

But on the other hand, Yu Yifeng's beating heart from time to time is reminding him that the crisis has not disappeared, but is getting closer and closer...

"If the crisis is not caused by Gaia's creatures, what could it be? Is there something else on this planet?"

He frowned and thought hard, but couldn't come up with any results. He could only ask Xu Yunjin and other military personnel to step up their vigilance, increase their search efforts on the planet, and at the same time search for more living natives in an attempt to find more information...

Today, March 14, 2018, scientist Stephen William Hawking passed away.

I pay tribute to this great soul and hope that he can find the ultimate truth in another dimension.