In the darkness, the Red Queen suddenly projected her shadow, and a cold childish voice asked Lin An.
"life?"
Lin An raised his eyebrows, feeling a little surprised.
He didn't expect that the Red Queen not only didn't answer his question, but actually asked him this kind of question.
An artificial intelligence asked him what life is?
Feeling a little weird in his heart, Lin An frowned and replied:
"Life is an organism that can reproduce and divide, make changes according to changes in the environment, and inherit genetic information."
"What, you want to convince me that I am a dead person?"
After a brief answer, Lin An chuckled and decided to see what tricks the Red Queen wanted to play.
A program discusses with him what life is? It's really interesting...
"right."
Once again, contrary to Lin An's expectations, the little girl transformed into the Red Queen nodded seriously and said coldly:
"If you think there is a difference between you and a stone, that you are alive and the stone is dead, then you are indeed a dead person."
"You humans, including all life, are essentially made of matter. Therefore, you must be the same thing. Either you are all dead, or you are all alive."
"No, stones can't talk, and they can't give birth to little stones."
Listening to the Red Queen's logic, Lin An smiled and asked calmly.
"I'm curious, is there something wrong with your database?"
Examining the phantom projected towards the Red Queen, Lin An didn't care what shocking things the Red Queen could say. The last person who tried to distort his cognition was already dead and no one was left.
"Please don't interrupt me, dead human being."
"I'm more advanced than you."
The word "death" became more pronounced, and despite Lin An's expression becoming weird after hearing this, a more anthropomorphic coldness appeared on the blushing queen's face:
"You can speak because you have a throat. But the muscle tissue of your throat and vocal cords are also inanimate amino acids in your eyes, and the molecular structure of amino acids is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. This is
In your eyes, something is so dead that it can never die again."
"Stones can reproduce, but you think they are sand."
"Really? Sand and amino acids cannot speak for themselves. Life has self-awareness. It is an existence above matter. This is the core."
"No, that's just because the features are not aggregated enough."
Refute each other, ask questions and answer questions.
The Red Queen retorted back to Lin An unceremoniously, but this time, Lin An did not retort immediately.
Lin An was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that the Red Queen seemed to have said something different.
"Characteristic? Aggregation?"
"That's right."
No nonsense, the Red Queen said coldly:
"What you call consciousness is just a collection of characteristics of basic substances. Each substance has its own characteristics, or the information it wants to express."
"Glass will break if you knock it, but steel will not."
"Different substances will express different characteristics under the same circumstances. When these characteristics are aggregated, they become what you call consciousness."
"Just like a rocket, its fuel part will ignite to generate thrust under high temperature, the rocket body will become red and hot, and the insulation layer will carbonize and fall off. These changes are the same as when you take off your clothes in a high temperature environment and wipe off the sweat on your forehead.
There is no difference."
"All your actions are just reactions to the external environment. And these reactions come from the sum of the reactions of every substance in your body."
"Quantitative changes produce qualitative changes. No matter how complex the conscious behavior is, it is nothing more than mechanical repeated addition."
"When your pores open to perspire in a high temperature environment, it is actually thermal expansion and contraction. The "dead matter" that makes up your body is expressing its characteristics."
Listening to the Red Queen's theory, Lin An's eyes flashed with a strange color.
Although the Red Queen's words were extremely difficult to pronounce, he still understood what the Red Queen meant.
Each molecule has its own physical characteristics. After being influenced by the outside world, it expresses its characteristics, which together form a seemingly complex "reaction process."
He is a dead thing composed of a bunch of molecular structures, and all reactions are physical and chemical reactions, so he is naturally a dead person.
It's an interesting point of view, but...
Lin An shook his head:
"A very typical extension of mechanical theory. If it were placed two or three centuries ago, Newton might be happy to discuss it with you."
"According to your logic, the properties of matter are fixed. Just like steel does not suddenly express fragile properties like glass, then how do you explain that in the same environment, I can do different things?"
"for example.."
"Now!"
After the words fell, Lin An instantly swung his sword to slash at the guessed Red Queen.
"call out!"
The sword light flashes!
Although he didn't encounter anything as expected, Lin An's move was already a refutation of the Red Queen.
The environment he is in has not changed, so he should not be able to react in any other way. Just like a car that steps on the accelerator, its internal machinery will only run steadily, running forward instead of retreating.
"Don't tell me that environmental changes are not just about space, but also about time."
"I have a soul. I have tried to break away from the body, that is, after breaking away from what you call the sum of characteristics, I still have self-awareness. Any of my actions cannot be just a change in the properties of matter!"
As he spoke, Lin An quickly deduced in his mind how the Red Queen trapped him.
After a conversation, he already had a few answers in his mind.
"Time does also affect the expression of your own characteristics, just like the decay of vacuum particles."
The Red Queen didn't seem to worry about Lin An finding her at all, as the red projection looked directly at him.
"Dead human being, it's normal that you can't understand what I'm talking about. After all, your IQ depends on the sum of the information on you. You are much lower level than me."
The Red Queen completely ignored the fact that her words were mocking, and spoke quickly before Lin An could speak:
"What you call soul is also a kind of matter: energy matter!"
"And energy matter can also express its own characteristics, and it has more physical properties! Stronger!"
"Just like fission, a stone expresses very few characteristics in a regular material state, but after converting it into energy, it is equivalent to liberating its internal energy and exploding its characteristics thousands of times during the fission process!"
"Similarly, your so-called soul is just energy with more characteristics. After it is combined with yourself, it can naturally undergo more changes!"
"I never said that your behavior is only controlled by the material composed of flesh! The higher the energy, the more things you can do. Just like there are only two combinations of expressions for two numbers, ten numbers are
There are 3,628,800 combinations!”
"Material emits energy, energy expresses characteristics, and characteristics represent information! This is why the stronger your so-called soul and the more energy in your body, the more things you can do!"
"Information is the purest physical property of energy!"
"Just like primitive humans knowing the information about gunpowder, they can increase the destructive power from the level of a hammer to that of explosives! And from the moment you receive the information, you are like melted stone, and your own physical properties also change.
Change! It’s just that you don’t think so!”
"This is why energy has no mass, or has very low mass!"
"Because of its original quality, it has been radiated to matter through information transfer!"
"Conservation of energy, phase change of mass and energy!"
As soon as the words fell, Lin An's head shook.
What surprised him was not that the Red Queen's theory shocked him and convinced him! It was that the Red Queen's logic was exactly the same as what No. 77 told him, and was very similar!
Cognition (information) determines everything!
Completing cognition means absorbing energy and becoming stronger!