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Next, the two sides also negotiated quite a few normal trade items.

Since the Blue Golden Age Alliance is in the recovery stage and needs a huge amount of productivity, and many of their factories were destroyed in the war, many things have to be purchased from humans.

Especially for high-tech raw materials, some industrial-level OEMs, etc., the other party will produce the drawings, and let the universal factory on the human side be responsible for the manufacturing, and the two parties have formed a buying and selling relationship.

For an interstellar civilization, the most important thing is not productivity, but resources!

The Blue Golden Age Alliance is considered a relatively wealthy type. Due to the sharp drop in population, it will not need too many resources for a while.

So they are willing to use a lot of resources to buy human products.

The purchase price is about 1:10-1:100000. That is to say, if humans deliver 1 unit of finished product, they can receive at least 10 units of resources, or even 100,000 units of resources due to the different technological content of the goods. For example, high-tech products such as supercomputers are naturally more valuable.

This is definitely a win-win cooperation!

Humans made a lot of money here, and the other side also won time!

In addition, scientific and technological exchanges and cultural exchanges are also in this negotiation. The two parties are also considered to have a fateful friendship, and are very satisfied with each other's high morality. Therefore, the more important technological trade is also in full swing.

The human side... picked up a lot of incomprehensible scientific papers from Kasimilim for nothing. Facts have proved that the Blue Gold Age Alliance is unaware of these papers. After seeing these papers, the scientists there bought them with resources without saying a word.

Humans actually want to give up a little bit, but they have no choice...the other party has given too much.

In fact, for two civilizations of the same level, learning from each other at the technological level has only advantages and almost no disadvantages...

Because information can be shared, even if the transaction goes out, you will not have any loss. Especially things at the theoretical level, mathematical theories and physical theories, are completely positive and have no negative effects.

In the dazed high-dimensional universe, a space-time turbulence will blow each other away. Once the two parties part, they may never see each other again.

In the absence of any hatred, the more exchanges, the greater the benefits.

But the premise is that the two sides need enough trust and no hostility between each other. This alone is not easy... This time the war has sublimated the friendship between the study and formed a rare and precious opportunity for communication.

Therefore, Zhang Ran has issued an order to his think tanks: Except for high-dimensional silicon crystals, small universes, and Dongfang Panshi, everything that is not too sensitive can be sold!

Even the database of Universal Factory can be packaged and sold to them, and artificial intelligence technology can also be exchanged, these are nothing...

Don't be afraid of technological advancement, tearing society apart!

We will eventually build a whole new society.

With this in mind, he closed his eyes and fell into a sweet dreamland.

He dreamed of his bodyguard, Classmate Zero...Maybe, this time the transaction also has biotechnology, especially the data related to the brain in a vat, which has a lot to do with the brain... When she is cured, she will be crystallized After waking up from hibernation, human society has changed drastically.

It changed to the point where she was completely unfamiliar and even scared!

Everything has changed so much that everything is novel, so she can only follow behind Zhang Ran cautiously, looking at everything in this human society with a pig's brain overload. She is timid, doesn't understand anything, doesn't know anything, as if an ancient person has traveled to modern times.

In the end, classmate Zero's double pony tails were in front of him, and he asked slowly: Your Highness, is everything a story that happened after I fell into a coma?

Thinking of this, even in his sleep, Zhang Ran still showed a satisfied smile.

Haha, yes, all of this...is indeed a wonderful story.

...

When I woke up, I found that I had slept for a full eight hours, yawned, and stretched vigorously.

Jelly brand Simmons is indeed a priceless treasure. This sleep is very restful and refreshed!

After seeing Zhang Ran get up, the jelly slowly turned into a ball again, jumping on the ground with slaps.

It still has the special human warrior medal hanging on it. For some unknown reason, the medal has been polished to a shiny surface, as smooth as a mirror.

Remember when you just sent it, it wasn't so smooth and shiny?

Jelly is very happy these days. She grinds on this gold medal all day long, not knowing what is going on in her mind.

Zhang Ran didn't understand its brain circuit, so he didn't bother to worry about it. He turned his head and saw that Jelly started to gnaw on the medal again, and said with a smile: Sooner or later, this medal will become more and more damaged due to constant wear and tear. The smaller it is, the final disappearance!

Jelly shook her body in doubt, why, why did the medal disappear?

You must be lying to me!

Do you want to grab my medal?

Haven't you heard an old saying, as long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle. Zhang Ran said meaningfully.

You'd better find an electronic scale to measure. Has the quality of the medal shrunk? If it is really worn out by you, it is impossible for us to reissue it for you. This thing symbolizes your honor. Honor cannot be reissued Yes, do you understand, Mister Jelly?

Hearing Zhang Ran's ridicule, Mr. Jelly, who was as huge as an elephant, jumped up from the ground with a snap, shaking with a slap, looking very nervous.

It's gold! The most beloved gold medal!

But let it not play with this medal, it is really impossible... Playing with the medal brings it endless happiness!

In this conflicted mood, it reverted to its spherical shape and rolled around on the floor.

It's just a kid the size of an elephant.

Zhang Ran seriously suspects that Jelly's IQ has increased. In the past, it seems that she couldn't understand words like electronic scale, right?

But it seems that it has not improved. How can a normal IQ be entangled in these inexplicable problems? How could it be rolling on the ground?

Hahaha! I lied to you, I will recreate a man and make you a gold medal when the time comes

He laughed a few times in a good mood, I don't know if it was an illusion, the feeling of playing with jelly is a bit like playing with the former little follower Zero. It took another ten minutes to simply wash up in the bathroom for a while, put on a special biochemical protective suit, and walk out of the room.

Go forward 300 meters, then turn left, and you will find the main conference room of both parties.

Since the subject of cooperation has been confirmed, relevant experts have been discussing specific cooperation plans with each other for almost 24 hours. Whether it is industrial assistance, scientific and technological exchanges, cultural exchanges, etc., they are all going on simultaneously.

Your Highness!

Well, hello, any major developments?

Seeing Zhang Ran return to the central conference room, several young negotiators soon provided the latest progress of the negotiations.

The other party provided a series of transaction lists. The first batch of purchased resources is 3 billion tons of metal raw materials, which are used to repair the shelter. There are all kinds of metal materials... enough for us to work for a long time .”

Zhang Ran did not express any objection. Anyway, human beings will make a lot of money by exchanging productivity for resources, and it is impossible to lose money.

Next, another negotiation expert took out a stack of materials: Oh, by the way, the other party also gave away some information for free, what they have seen and heard in the past three thousand years. These three races come from the same galaxy, almost They collapsed at the same time, met each other in the high-dimensional universe, and merged together.

How to say? Zhang Ran found a stool and sat down quietly.

He glanced at the transaction list, and when he saw that there were more than 500 pages of various transaction items, he suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

He really didn't have the energy to look through so many things one by one. He could only take a cursory glance and leave it to professionals to deal with.

But then again, with the development of human civilization, the division of labor is quite clear, and Zhang Ran can't manage everything.

These negotiators have excellent abilities, no matter what they do, they have no motive to betray human civilization.

The Blue Golden Age Alliance, in the process of trading with us, followed a trading plan called the 'Amoeba' race.

This strange race named 'Amoeba' is a combination of silicon-based life and carbon-based life. What they like to do most is to trade with low-level civilizations fairly and justly.

A thousand years ago, the Amoeba and the Blue-Golden Age Alliance met each other, and a transaction took place.

What do you mean by the combination of silicon-based life and carbon-based life... Zhang Ran turned on the video on the screen and took a closer look.

But just at this glance, his brows furrowed.

This amoeba race is like huge round sea cucumbers, and their long flagella are comparable to void amoebas!

This means that these sea cucumber-like objects can use the microcosm in their bodies to slowly glide through space.

But their body size is larger than the void amoeba. The diameter of each individual amoeba is about 540 kilometers, and the largest one is more than 1,300 kilometers, which is comparable to a small satellite.

In comparison, the void amoeba humans have encountered is just a small shrimp.

He was a little surprised and asked: Wait, this amoeba is not the same race as the void amoeba we have encountered, right?

A government official sighed: It does look a bit like... except that the amoeba is extremely large, and our void amoeba is only a juvenile body relatively speaking.

After we compared the images, we found that the similarity is over 80%, and there is a high probability that they are the same species.

Everyone look at me, I look at you, some are speechless.

If the Void Amoeba is really a member of the Amoeba, why are the ones encountered by humans aggressive, but the ones encountered by the Blue Gold Age Alliance are not aggressive, and there are even trade activities between the two sides...

There is a large screen in the conference room, and in order to prevent microbial infection, most negotiations are conducted through remote dialogues, and the two parties will not come into contact face to face.

In fact, this is also good, which means that there is sufficient time and space to discuss the whole process.

The negotiator spread his hands: The way of thinking of silicon-based life is very strange, and it is completely an unsolved mystery. Like jelly, there is no aggressiveness, and we feed it.

Amoebae are not aggressive.

The devourer and the ghost body are aggressive.

The Blue-Gold Age Alliance has been in the high-dimensional universe for three thousand years, has come into contact with many interstellar civilizations, and encountered six major and small crises. One of them was caused by carbon-based life, and a small-scale war broke out between the two sides; the rest Five times, all of which were active attacks by silicon-based life.

After discussing with other civilizations, they came to the conclusion that it has something to do with self-awareness.

Self-awareness? Zhang Ran frowned and asked suspiciously.

Yes, this is also the first important information we got.

Their scientists believe that silicon-based life ... may not be self-aware.

The expert pointed to his own brain: The majority of carbon-based intelligent life has self-awareness, which constitutes the essential difference between the two.

The brain structure of silicon-based life is similar to that of electronic computers. They are born with a very powerful set of software, which is equivalent to the existence of strong artificial intelligence. But their form cannot give birth to self-awareness.

It sounds not difficult to understand. The birth of self-awareness is a mystery to human beings. As for how to make artificial intelligence generate self-awareness...that is the mystery of the mystery.

Because of the difference in the core level, silicon-based species may be able to feel the existence of the substance 'self-awareness' and accurately trace carbon-based life forms.

Self-awareness is a kind of substance... Zhang Ran frowned, Isn't it the so-called soul?

No, no, of course not. This is just a physical phenomenon. No matter what self-awareness is, the existence of 'I' is just a natural thing for human beings.

Most people can clearly feel 'I', only some mentally ill patients with brain lesions, such as depression, can't feel 'I'.

No matter how smart an electronic computer is, it can't feel 'I'. The same is true for silicon-based life. This should be certain.

Zhang Ran was silent for a moment, remembering the term quantum consciousness.

Quantum consciousness does not belong to the category of science, because it is not repeatable and verifiable.

But it's experiential...

The theory of quantum consciousness holds that classical mechanics cannot completely explain consciousness, and consciousness is a phenomenon of quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement and superposition. There are a large number of electrons in the quantum entanglement state in the brain, and consciousness is generated from the periodic collapse of the wave function of these electrons. This hypothesis occupies an important place in explaining brain function and forms the basis for explaining the phenomenon of consciousness.

The reasoning that follows is even more inexplicable.

We assume that this conjecture is correct. Silicon-based life is comparable to strong artificial intelligence. If they want to understand carbon-based life, they must imitate the brain structure of carbon-based life, that is, the neural network system, to generate a quantum consciousness.

But the existence of this 'I' was produced by imitation, so I have to accept the fate of thinking assimilation.

The young negotiator lowered his voice: Jelly's brain may have been assimilated by human beings, so it lost its aggressiveness.

And the so-called 'amoeba' silicon-based race may have also been assimilated by a certain species!

So they became very fond of trading, and the void amoeba we encountered has not been assimilated, so it is very aggressive.

Zhang Ran froze in place, holding his breath. This conjecture...

Then the next step is our own speculation. Didn't we get the news from the green star people... 500 million years ago, silicon-based civilization first appeared in the 'Jianbo constellation' of our universe. This silicon-based civilization first appeared The first contacted civilization is a lower civilization, which is addicted to chemical bliss, that is, a drug-addicted civilization.

After the silicon-based civilization imitated the construction of self-awareness, a large number of self-awareness appeared, resulting in sinking individuals...so they simply destroyed the entire carbon universe.

Zhang Ran's eyes widened, and he almost couldn't help but want to let out a crack in his throat.

This speculation can be described as unbelievable!

That is, a low-level civilization taking drugs, which hastened the death of the universe!

But how could there be such an outrageous thing in the world? How can a silicon-based civilization like a god be addicted to drugs like a carbon-based civilization?

It is simply impossible, the structure of the brain is completely different, and carbon-based addictive drugs cannot have any effect on silicon-based species!

Even if the structure of the brain is different, they can imitate...Once they are in the computing system, through the construction of the neural network system, to imitate self-consciousness, this 'I' will not disappear easily, this is also certain.

'I' means the whole world. The existence of 'I' is the whole of life. A world without 'I' is no different from the destruction of the world. This is the general desire of carbon-based people.

Zhang Ran nodded, yes, once self-awareness appears, it will not disappear easily.

They imitated the 'I' of the low-level civilization, and copied all the genetic philosophy and the like, so they learned all the bad habits of the low-level civilization.

The remaining silicon-based species saw that the same kind became so inexplicable, they simply blew up the entire carbon universe. It should be subconscious self-protection.

But...but...

Zhang Ran felt a chill in his heart, and suddenly felt that Jelly and Zero had similar personalities...

They are all very quiet, they don't like to use their brains, and they also like to be coquettish and cute. They are also very lazy, and they can be in a daze as much as possible. Is this his illusion, or is it an inevitable phenomenon?

Zhou Chengfeng was also shocked in his heart, but his face was expressionless, and he frowned tightly: So silicon-based life and carbon-based life, the two sides cannot understand each other! They can only assimilate and be assimilated?

This conclusion sounds really unbelievable, even described as inexplicable.

There are still things in the world that are completely logical but incomprehensible!

I is incomprehensible to silicon-based species unless assimilated.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that there are some reasons. Gödel's incompleteness law points out that in a system of axioms, there must be truths that cannot be proved.

If the other party really has no self-awareness, then self-awareness is really tired that the other party will never understand.

Unless the other party is born with self-awareness, he can understand the existence of I, but after the birth of I, it is no longer possible to abandon me, which is equivalent to the assimilation of thinking.

Like that ghost body, making 2 billion intelligent beings into a brain in a vat, isn't it just to study the generation of wisdom?

The ghost body obviously has extremely high intelligence, so it is impossible to have no intention to go to war like this.

It is to understand the existence of I.

Zhang Ran really has no way to figure out what is going on with intelligent life without self-awareness? What is it like?

This may also be a proposition that humans will never understand.

In addition, there are psychics in the three races of the Blue-Golden Age Alliance. According to them, they are called 'super-psychic'. Of course, it doesn't matter what kind of saying, the probability of 'super-psychic' being born is 15% About one in a billion, the reason for the birth is unknown, and the number can only be increased by multiplying the population.

However, after wandering in the high-dimensional universe for 3,000 years, no super-spiritual person appeared. One time, they returned to the carbon universe, and the baby born again appeared a 'super-spiritual person'.

That is to say, only infants and young children born in our original carbon universe can appear superspiritual beings.

What does this message mean? Zhang Ran frowned tightly. He thought of Ling, who was still frozen in the crystal, and other unknown migrant workers...

He thought hard and asked: Could it be that psykers were created by higher civilizations? To increase the development speed of lower civilizations?

Maybe that's not the case...

At this moment, the negotiation in a certain scientific meeting room ended, and Lin Qiuyue was also holding a lot of materials. She heard the conversation of this group of people and said silently: According to your discussion just now, the psychic may be Specially manufactured in some form to assimilate those silicon-based life.

For silicon-based life, self-awareness may be similar to a virus, and contact means transmission.

The consciousness of psykers is particularly active, and their ability to assimilate may be stronger. For example, jelly may be assimilated by zero.

Why haven't the void amoebas been assimilated?

The Void Amoeba is too low-level, not smart enough, and not assimilated.

The jelly is too smart and advanced, so it was assimilated. Don't you think the performance of the jelly is more advanced than the void amoeba... It should be at the same level as the ghost body. It's just that after the birth of 'I', it became a Retarded.

The conference room fell into silence.

The appearance of psykers is actually because of a huge cosmic level war!

A war caused by an incomprehensible crisis!

Zhang Ran had to marvel at the strangeness and vastness of this method of warfare. Humans, a low-level life form, can actually assimilate super-high-level silicon-based enemies... As long as they are given self-awareness, is it considered a victory for life in the carbon universe?

Thinking of this, he sighed again, and decided to lie on the jelly again to sleep viciously tonight.

Of course, these statements are just speculations, and the real facts are unknown.

In addition to developing and strengthening ourselves, human beings have no other way.

He let out a deep breath, raised his head and asked, Let's not talk about these suspicious conjectures. The war of advanced civilization is too far away, and we humans can't do anything. Is there any other information?

The negotiator immediately said: Of course, the second important information is that the amoeba once revealed that the second 'ultimate' war is about to break out. Of course this is news from a thousand years ago, we don't know What is the specific time scale? Perhaps for amoebas, 10,000 years and 100,000 years are just a snap of the fingers.

Ultimate is not the first time humans have heard of this term. Kasimirim once broadcast the results of the first ultimate war.

The advanced civilization of the carbon universe tried to create an unimaginable intelligent individual that far surpassed itself, but it seemed to fail in the end.

So the wreckage of the 'Ultimate' became the weird universe that humans are currently in, where there are black holes everywhere, and the light in the distance has been distorted for countless times before being observed by humans.

Amoeba claims that in order to create an ultimate unit with 'I', it is necessary to have more civilized philosophical normative systems, from a lower form, self-evolution to a higher level. Therefore, the way to win the second ultimate war depends on Auxiliary for low-level civilization.

The Blue-Golden Age Alliance has been researching its own philosophical normative system for the past thousand years. However, due to the lack of technical strength, the achievements are not great. This requires at least a fourth-level civilization to be able to study it.

Fortunately, with the brain in a vat, there may be a breakthrough in this area.

Zhang Ran was silent for a moment. The so-called philosophical normative system is a relatively cutting-edge discipline in artificial intelligence. It is equivalent to human software and is the internal driving force of all human behaviors.

Why do human beings eat and drink, why do they survive and reproduce, why do they have such and such thoughts, all the answers are written in the Human Philosophy Norm System.

Theoretically, the strong artificial intelligence produced through this system will have the same internal driving force as human beings.

As long as the standard system is the same, all the ideas of the strong artificial intelligence can be mutually understood with humans. It will not have some actions beyond expectations, unless it changes its internal drive by rewriting the software.

...Amoeba claims that at some point in the future there will be a space turbulence, which will blow most of the carbon universe civilization into a special universe.

At that time, the ultimate war may break out, but the intensity should be lower than the first war. If it is defeated again, the Carbon Universe camp will be wiped out, and there will be no third chance.

This piece of information stunned everyone in the meeting for a while.

Because the time period, it seems... coincides exactly, and human beings are really in a special universe...

Now everyone was a little nervous and speechless. Some people were thinking, should they leave here as soon as possible?

Should we also be forced to participate in the war? He smiled wryly. I always feel that advanced civilization is very far away from us. What kind of ultimate war sounds incredible, but we are so weak, what can we do?

We have a lot of good things in our hands, right? Lin Qiuyue said, Maybe other civilizations also picked up a lot of rubbish? Like the Blue Gold Age Alliance, there is a Qasimilim handed down from a high-level civilization, or there are other background.

But low-intensity war? What's going on? Is the amoeba from the Carbon Universe camp?

At this point in the discussion, everyone is thinking hard, but there is no better way than to develop themselves. People just expect the war to break out later...

The negotiator added: In addition to this, there is a third piece of information, which can be considered relatively routine.

The small universe may be a relatively important trading unit among interstellar civilizations. For many civilizations, conventional resources are not lacking.

As long as you find an ordinary planet, you can get enough living resources for millions or even hundreds of millions of years. After all, there are a few lucky civilizations who find a lot of resources in the high-dimensional universe. And the small universe is the universe Variations of strings, but not often.

That's why the 'Amoeba' regards the small universe as an important trading unit, and the rest of the old interstellar civilizations basically do the same.

The value of the small universe is calculated according to the amount of strange matter on the surface of the small universe and the size of the interior space. The specific calculation formula is...

He reported a series of formulas.

For example, the No. 16 microcosm we have has a value of about 3.26; the No. 1 microcosm, also known as the Garden of Eden microcosm, has a value of about 112536.4, a difference of 40,000 times.

This is quite good news. There are many small universes in the hands of human beings. The curvature engine of the Dongfang Panshi has more than a thousand small universes. Even if these are impossible to take out and trade.

What is the purchasing power of 1 value degree? Zhang Ran asked with interest.

It can be converted into about 6 trillion tons of hydrogen. The higher the atomic weight, the higher the price. For example, the price of iron is about 18 times that of hydrogen. The price of substances after iron will rise significantly.

Cosmos are indeed very valuable. As long as human beings sell the cheapest Cosmos No. 16, they can get 18 trillion tons of hydrogen!

If it is used for nuclear fusion, it will really last for millions of years.

But resources, how should I put it...you can always find it if you look carefully, especially hydrogen.

In the vast fourth-type universe, many areas only allow hydrogen to exist. If you have the technical strength to salvage materials in the fourth-type universe, the resources can be said to be endless!

But small universes are not often found, except for a few lucky ones...

More advanced civilizations even use small universes as energy sources, and ordinary matter can be created directly through the Casimir effect, that is, the Casimirium directly produced it.

From this point of view, the value of the small universe is much higher than that of conventional resources.