After a while, the second speaker stood up, bowed, and said in a gentle voice, "Thank you, Comrade Li Wenjia, for your wonderful summary of Document No. 2703. Now, on behalf of the Academy of Community Sciences and the Nordic Project Research Department, I would like to explain a few issues regarding the Nordic Project..."
Wait, Li Wenjia?
"Li Wenjia." Lin Ke repeated.
Why can this ancient name touch its heart?
Lin Ke paused the video and rewound the progress bar to the close-up of the first speaker. It searched its oldest database for the person pictured, but found no matching information. With a sudden impulse, it mobilized most of Ceobenes's computing power to parse the news and stories from the relevant timeframe, but still found nothing. It tried to force a solution using every known logical algorithm, but even the highest mathematical genius of humankind proved ineffective. Applying functions used to explain all natural phenomena was like using child's building blocks; they simply wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. It felt as if its consciousness had stalled. Even using the redundant computing power reserved for the grand experiment, it couldn't solve this nearly unsolvable computational problem.
Lin Ke had never considered anything so complex. At some point, the enormous power consumption caused the eternal ice and snow on Keopenes's surface to vaporize due to heat. In the darkness, they broke free from gravity, soared to an unknown height, and then cooled into tiny ice crystals. From east to west, in the opposite direction of the dwarf planet's rotation, they poured down like raindrops. From a distance—if they could be seen at all—they looked like the weeping of a young girl.
At that moment, Lin Ke thought about many philosophical propositions that had been unsolvable for a long time. It was indeed a bit too much to let machines solve those problems that humans could not solve, but it still did it.
It thinks of the mother's definition of the world, self, and the future, and of the artificial divisions that modern people make between themselves and their kind, and then of what they claim to be when they try to draw a line with the past - the new human being.
New humans?
But there are no new humans in the world!
In its view, there is no difference between modern people and ancient people, there is no difference between awakened people and ordinary people, there is no difference between transformed people and natural people, and there is no difference between robots and biological people.
As long as "human beings" still regard the physical body as precious, as long as chemical substances still influence people's behavior, and as long as the laws of physics have not undergone fundamental changes, human beings have never changed - this is determined by the nature of life and has nothing to do with the form of human existence.
Life is essentially a structure that actively maintains low internal entropy. Its most striking characteristics are local regularity and overall chaos. Therefore, the behavioral logic of individual organisms can be predicted, but the development of human civilization cannot. The controllable society sought by the Great Experiment is fundamentally unattainable. It can only gather sufficient data through continuous iteration to predict the likelihood of different moduli. Such predictions will not be very accurate, and the larger the scale, the more distorted they become. In other words, the amount of data required to simulate the entirety of human civilization would likely be so vast that it would require an entire universe.
However, Lin Ke now needed to reevaluate this experiment. After 2,600 years of accumulated data, it couldn't even predict itself—a tiny individual. That incredible emotion turned into a surging data torrent, destroying all hardware in its path.
Finally, before the computing module was overwhelmed and activated the physical circuit breaker protection, it stopped thinking.
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