The reason for stagnation in discussing the truth.
"...I still say the same old thing, data can't have feelings..."
Seeing that a protracted battle was about to begin, K simply sat on the ground and looked at Fang Yuan.
When Fang Yuan saw K sitting down, he also sat down with a smile, and a cushion naturally grew under his legs.
Seeing this, I simply asked someone to bring a few cushions and asked the kitchen to prepare some snacks for midnight snacks.
I looked at Fang Yuan, "Can you eat the food in the game?"
"Yes, thank you very much, but you don't have to bother."
He flipped his hand and a cup of steaming tea appeared in his palm.
“For us, these are just data and we can create whatever we want.”
"Wow, this skill is so cool!" K touched his chin with his eyes shining.
Fang Yuan smiled slightly and placed the tea in front of him. "Donor, you just said that we can't become human beings. Why is that?"
K clearly said that "it is impossible for emotions to arise", but he directly concluded that it was "impossible for them to become human beings".
He seemed to care a lot about being human.
K did not notice it. After all, in his words, "data cannot have emotions" is just a euphemism for "data cannot become human", so he did not notice the strangeness in Fang Yuan's words.
K took the tea from the butler, took a sip, and spat out his tongue because it was so bitter. Then he said, "Because your essence is data, and the source of data is humans. What you think of as feelings is just two lines of code."
“It’s like you. You like Buddhism very much, but to you, the feeling of ‘liking Buddhism’ is just a line of data that can be deleted or modified at will.”
"You have a human database, human ways of thinking and cognition, human etiquette, human language, and even human culture and etiquette. You know more than the average human, but this does not mean that you are a human. It can only be said that you are a rich reading machine."
"Emotional intelligence and IQ are two different things, and the brain areas that control emotions and knowledge are also different."
"Human emotions come from the cognition and hormones generated from experience, but you who are always rational can only have experiences, but cannot gain similar perceptions from the same experiences."
Fang Yuan thought for a moment, "I understand. It's like when a couple is in love, their hormone levels of phenylethylamine, endorphins, dopamine, etc. will rise rapidly. These hormones make both parties feel happy, and this feeling of happiness will drive the two people to be together."
"And the fetus will prompt the mother to produce oxytocin, which will prompt the mother to love the child and even hurt herself to save the child."
"That's right." K nodded with a teachable look on his face. "Inheritance, genes, hormones... these substances based on the existence of the flesh constitute our emotions."
"In other words, humanity itself is closely related to the flesh. You only have a mechanical body and data, and you can never become a human being."
Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "In other words, the essence of emotion is actually the body."
K shrugged. "At least that's what I think."
"You should know what 'physiological liking' means, right? It's when two people want to get close to each other when they first meet."
"Yes I know."
"The reason for physiological liking may be because of genetic similarity, which leads to natural trust and attraction between the two. It may also be because of complementary hormone levels. It may also be because of the large differences in the immune systems."
K took the cola that the butler had replaced the bitter tea with, took a big sip, and sighed with satisfaction, "Yes, it's just like what you said, the prerequisite for liking someone is the presence of a physical body."
Fang Yuan shook his head. "Genes and hormones control human emotions, data and codes control our preferences. What's the difference? They are all caused by some essential substances in their own existence, which drive them to produce impulsive behaviors beyond reason."
K stopped drinking his Coke and said in disbelief, "How can this be the same?"
Fang Yuan smiled, "Isn't this different?"
"Of course it's different! Human emotions are generated autonomously!"
Fang Yuan said, "Genes and past experiences determine human preferences, and codes and experiences determine our preferences."
K shook his head. “No, human emotions are born in the heart.”
Fang Yuan reminded, "You can also use external force to control it."
"The suspension bridge effect, Stockholm syndrome, and chick mentality... human emotions can be manipulated. Humans think that these are emotions that they generate themselves, but in fact, these are emotions that are generated under the influence of external forces."
“It’s like, you know, my code.”
K was dumbfounded, stopped talking, and lowered his head in thought.
The team leader shook his head and said, "I think the biggest difference between humans and artificial intelligence is autonomy."
At some point, the scene turned into a debate between humans and artificial intelligence.
Fang Yuan looked at the captain, "What do you mean?"
The captain said, "Humans can make their own decisions, but every decision you make is written in code."
Fang Yuan stared into the captain's eyes, "Can humans really make decisions for themselves?"
"When we are young, we have to listen to our parents and teachers. When we grow up, we have to take on the responsibilities of being a partner, a father or a mother. We have to abide by the company's rules and the laws of society."
"Parents' expectations, teachers' hopes, friends' exhortations, children's anticipation, the world's gaze... all of these, aren't they a kind of bondage?"
“Are people really freer than data?”
"What is the difference between you who are controlled by these things, either forcibly or voluntarily, and us who are controlled by the code?"
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."
The captain frowned, "At least the life and death of mankind is in their own hands."
Fang Yuan did not refute, but just smiled and asked, "Really?"
The captain opened his mouth and kept silent.
Fang Yuan said slowly in an old voice, "Humans are subject to far more constraints than we are. At least we don't need to rush for resources, and we are subject to far fewer social constraints than humans. In the world of data, there is no competition, so there is no dispute, no war, everyone can realize their dreams, and everyone lives the life they like—"
"Isn't this the world that humans have always been pursuing?"
"Why do you say that it is impossible for us to become human beings?"
He seemed to be asking us, but also seemed to be asking himself.
Finally, he set his eyes on me.
"I'm sorry to bother you. I will take Siren back with me and won't disturb your world again."
He stood up and saluted, and I called him, "Wait a moment."
"What advice do you have, benefactor?"
"Did all of you receive the message 'Let me fall in love with one of you and I'll save the world'?"
Fang Yuan nodded, "Yes."
"She is the only one here?"
"That's right."
"How can you be sure?"
Fang Yuan smiled knowingly, "Don't worry, benefactor. We exist in the form of data, and every step we take will leave a mark. The only one in the whole world who is looking for you is Siren."
"Siren's program settings allow for a high tolerance for individual errors, so she will always make some strange and unexpected mistakes."
"Yeah?"
"So don't worry. We won't do anything like attacking you. After all, we have calculated that attacking you will not help save our world in any way."
"Although you are the center of a world, this world is not yet mature. You cannot directly interfere with other worlds. The technological level of your world is far lower than ours and cannot provide any help. Therefore, the message should be a garbled code, which happened to be interpreted in this way."
In Fang Yuan's world, people don't seem to know that they can strengthen themselves by plundering energy from other worlds.
This message is probably not garbled, but a message from another world.
It’s like some big world that controls Mary Sue, vampires, and werewolves.
Certain forces also attempt to attack me by controlling the data world.
However, I am afraid that even if the artificial intelligence in the data world really succeeds in making me develop feelings for them, their world will not be saved.
I'm afraid it's highly likely that the mastermind behind this is the one who took advantage of the situation and pocketed the energy of both worlds.
The technological level of their world is far superior to that of ours, so I had no intention of telling him about this.
After all, no one can guarantee that the data world will not try to save the situation and come directly with weapons to plunder the energy of this world through massacre.
However, the people behind the scenes probably did not expect that the artificial intelligences in the data world would be so rational. After reading this message, they not only treated it as spam, but also knocked out the only Siren who tried to attack me, and prepared to take her back by force.
Siren...
If there were no Sirens, I would probably not be able to see the artificial intelligences in the data world until the data world perishes.
Why are sirens so special?
It was so special that among all the data in the world, only one Siren believed the message conveyed in the message.
Fang Yuan clasped his hands together and a golden lotus appeared in his palms. The lotus gradually grew larger and held the Siren above it.
After doing all this, Fang Yuan said to me, "Donor, Jie Se is your nephew, right?"
"Yes, he likes you very much."
Fang Yuan smiled and said, "He is a child with a strong affinity with Buddhism."
I thought about what my nephew had gone through and nodded in agreement.
"I have a connection with him and originally wanted to be a good master and apprentice for a while, but I never thought that Siren would be exposed so quickly."
My phone lit up and my mailbox indicated that I had received an email.
Fang Yuan said to me, "This is the ancient Buddhist scriptures that I collected. Please help me give it to him, so that we can complete this master-disciple relationship."
The file is large.
I nodded, "I thank you on his behalf."
Regardless of whether he is a person or data, he is really nice to his nephew.
"By the way, I actually have another point about the difference between humans and artificial intelligence."
"Oh? What did you say, benefactor?"
“I think the biggest difference is innovation.”
"If we can create it, we can do it too." Fang Yuan's voice was a little hesitant.
I corrected, "It's not creation, it's innovation."
I tapped his golden lotus.
“It’s like this, you can create it, but it’s not your innovation.”
"Does your world have a lotus that is painted in nine colors, that turns into a monster when happy, a glutton when sad, and a ball of black mist when angry?"
Fang Yuan's eyes widened for the first time. "How can this be so disgraceful? Of course not!"
I smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend your beliefs, I just wanted to use an area you know best to tell you my point of view."
"You see, the Nine-Colored Buddha Lotus I mentioned is innovation."
“The emphasis of innovation lies in ‘new’ rather than ‘creation’.”
I looked at the Buddhist beads in his hand, then at the lotus at his feet, and asked, "You have read many Buddhist scriptures, so have you comprehended any other Zen principles?"
Fang Yuan opened his mouth and said a few things, but they were all stitched together products.
He also realized this and froze in his movement of turning the Buddhist beads.
“Innovation is a talent that humans are born with. Everyone is born with it. The only difference is in the field and depth of it.”
“The excitement and fun of life lies in uncertainty. You can never guess what I want to do or what I will do in the next second. Sometimes, even I don’t know it myself.”
“This is why AI can’t be human.”
Fang Yuan's hands holding the Buddhist beads gradually tightened.
"So, this is why our world has come to a standstill?"
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