Chapter 465 Information Simulation, History of Civilization (4k)
"However, these contents are not the focus of our discussion today... Specifically, I have another view on the evolution of human civilization, which can better reflect the impact of various factors."
Mr. Turing looked around and knocked on the table with the elder's silver ring. A translucent field expanded, bringing up several strings of static electricity. It was activated from the air. It was covered by indoor statues, columns, hanging silks, ancient paintings and other objects.
Live micro projection equipment.
The lights in the hall dimmed, and the 3D projector began to operate, illuminating a three-dimensional and hazy blue light area among everyone, as well as a corresponding control screen, decorated with various data streams.
What's going on? A dinner turned into an academic seminar? Zhao Qing was thoughtful and realized that Fengel's communication with several other people might have added a lot of information and made a big round of deception. No wonder
Hidden again.
Shi Yiguang obviously noticed this. He moved his chair towards Zhao Qing and handed her a piece of date toffee cake. At the same time, he opened a new recorder and prepared to write down the speeches of everyone in the audience.
for detailed analysis in the future.
Angers and Elisabeth looked like they had known each other for a long time. The former put down his wine glass and crossed his legs, while the latter gracefully held the napkin with his hand and gently wiped his mouth, both looking at the speaker.
"Everyone," Mr. Turing began. Although his voice was not loud, he was full of confidence: "We are gathered here today to witness an epoch-making theory - a new neural network model based on cellular automata.
, used to simulate the development process of civilization.”
"The world we live in is like a huge neural network. Everyone is a node in this network. Our thoughts, emotions, and knowledge are all intertwined and transmitted in this network... This means that we can
Start with information theory and conduct in-depth research on it.”
As Mr. Turing narrated, he took out a laser pointer and pointed towards the 3D holographic projection area, causing it to begin to reveal colorful and intricate neural network images, as bright as a galaxy, slowly moving in
It flows in the air, as if a huge living body is breathing and beating.
"In this sea of stars, every bright spot is like a bright star, representing highly educated individuals. They are the elite of society and the bright stars of civilization. And the connections between them are like stars.
The links between them transmit the light of information, knowledge and ideas. We cleverly compare the efficiency of this transmission to the density of synapses in biological neural networks, which is the spark where wisdom and inspiration collide."
Mr. Turing touched the projection lightly, and one of the bright spots instantly enlarged and turned into an extremely fine neuron structure: "Look, this is the neural network model of our social elite. Their knowledge structure and way of thinking are just like the neuron structure.
Dendrites and axons are intricate and orderly. Their innovation and learning abilities are like the synapses of neurons, receiving and transmitting new information and nurturing new ideas all the time."
He pointed to those connections again: "These connections are the information transmission channels of our society. They may be as vast as the Milky Way, or as long as a trickle. They can be the ocean of books, the veins of the network, or meetings.
The gathering of information can also be daily communication. The efficiency of information transmission is a booster for the development of civilization, and our system explores the mysteries of civilization development by simulating the transmission process of this information."
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Turing touched a button on the holographic projection, and the image began to change, showing different levels of neural network structures.
"In this model, I introduced the concept of cellular automata." Turing explained, "Cellular automata is a discrete mathematical model that can be used to simulate dynamic systems in space and time. I will
The social system is divided into several cells, and each cell represents a social group or community. These cells interact with each other through information transmission, forming a large and complex network system."
As Mr. Turing explained, the neural network image on the holographic projection began to dynamically display the information transmission process between these cells. Like cells, they are constantly dividing, growing, and connecting, forming one nerve after another.
Meta cluster, the whole picture seems to have become a living life form.
Turling paused and continued: "In addition, in order to more accurately simulate the dynamic changes of the social system, we added variables such as politics, culture, war and other factors to the model, and used evolutionary algorithms to fit and fit the model.
Optimization, through repeated iterations, makes the model closer to reality."
"So, how can we use this model to calculate the development speed of civilization? There must be an index to measure the level of civilization!" Angers asked curiously: "I remember reading it in a book,
What is it called 'Kashov Index'..."
"The Kardashov Civilization Index." Mr. Turing corrected: "This is a concept proposed by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. Later, in Carl Sagan's logarithmic formula, it was completely based on the total number of the entire civilization.
To calculate the power, the standard of type 1 civilization is 1E16 watts, and the power of type 2 civilization is 1E26 watts... According to this algorithm, the current human civilization is around level 0.71."
"The difference is 10 billion times for each level?" Angers turned to look at the other party: "In other words, we are now far from the lower limit of type 1 civilization, and we still need to increase the total power by seven to eight hundred times? This sounds really exaggerated."
"This is roughly equivalent to the multiple increase in the total power of human civilization since the Industrial Revolution. The gap is indeed quite large." Mr. Turing nodded: "But we all know that only considering a single power value is not comprehensive enough in this regard.
of."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "If we take the situation of various countries into account, countries that have developed large-scale middle and low-end industries will easily outperform countries that mainly develop high-tech industries on this index.
The country... This actually ignores important factors such as scientific and technological development, culture and art, and needs to be revised to a certain extent."
Mr. Turing smiled slightly and pointed to another interface in the holographic projection. This interface displayed a set of exquisite data charts, including information storage capacity, technological development level, cultural diversity and other indicators.
"This is the 'civilization development index' I derived." Mr. Turing explained: "It combines various factors in the social system and is calculated through complex algorithms. Among them, the 'information storage index' is our
The most important sign. It represents the total amount and complexity of information in the social system. When the amount of information storage increases exponentially, it means that the information processing capabilities of the social system are increasing and the level of civilization is also improving."
At this time, a series of dynamic charts and simulation animations appeared on the holographic projection screen. Mr. Turing pointed to the data on the screen and said: "These charts show the development trajectories of different civilizations in different historical periods. By comparing and analyzing these data,
We can find some interesting patterns. For example, in certain historical periods, the development of civilization suddenly accelerates, which is often closely related to the improvement of the efficiency of information transmission. In other periods, the development of civilization has stagnated or even regressed.
situation, which is usually due to interference from factors such as political unrest, cultural conflict or war..."
After watching it for a long time, Zhao Qing had to admit that there is indeed a profound truth in using information transmission and storage to analyze the development and changes of civilization. Mr. Turing is worthy of being a master in the field of computers and theoretical biology. He has faked his death and lived more.
In these years, such amazing innovations have been made.
In her understanding, the circulation and gathering of information are indeed the most important factors in the development of civilization. Civilizations in different regions absorb and integrate with each other in the blend, creating new cultural forms. However, the policy of "closing the country apart" has
This is an obvious counterexample.
Although there are some shortcomings in measuring the level of civilization using the information storage index, at least it will not lead to the outrageous result of the power theory of "a large modern power station > the sum of all ancient human beings". The latter is in terms of resource abundance and sustainable development.
Much higher than the former.
"This reminds me of Seldon's psychohistory in Asimov's "Galactic Empire"." Elizabeth Laurent asked softly: "Does it have something in common with the neural network model you developed?"
"A very good question, but you may have remembered wrongly. 'Psychohistory' is mainly a concept developed in the "Foundation" series."
Mr. Turing's eyes were bright and he replied: "Essentially, 'psychohistory' uses psychological theories to explain group behavior. In reality, it is also called 'historical dynamics', 'social physics' and so on.
, it is more of an analogy of individuals to particles in thermodynamics, applying the method of statistical thermodynamics to group society, and requires an extremely huge order of magnitude to achieve a more accurate prediction. For example, in the book, the Galactic Empire is huge in the trillions.
population."
"In my theoretical model, there are no additional factors of psychological state at all. Everything is calculated and deduced only by means of information transmission, exchange, and storage. The data is much clearer and more accurate, and can be used to analyze hundreds or thousands of
Long-term simulations of small human communities do not need to be on the order of trillions."
"By the way, neither the mythical psychohistory nor my 'Civilization Development-Information Reserve Index-Neural Network System Mathematical Model' can make reliable predictions about the future, or in other words, they can only roughly predict technology.
The future without major breakthroughs."
"If you think about it, how can a backward civilization simulate the specific form and development trend of an advanced civilization?"
"If you can't predict the future, what is it used for? To test Norma's computing performance?" Angers took a deep breath and felt like he was being cheated: "Mr. Turing, you want to ask Cassel
The academy and the Laurent family must be more sincere when requesting research funding!"
So this is what this meeting was about? Zhao Qing felt speechless and suspected that he was being regarded as a wealthy investor, representing a certain mixed-race organization. He came here to decide whether to fund the plan based on the situation.
Spiritual research project.
However, since several people have already met and arrived at this dinner venue, it is not too late to talk about cooperation and other matters.
"It's a shame that you teach history in college, but you can't even see this..." Mr. Turing wiped his sweat and complained in a low voice: "Although it is impossible to predict the development of more advanced civilizations, it is possible to predict the development of backward civilizations.
Yes! You can probably imagine the meaning of the ability to look back on the past!"
"You mean..." Angers said in a deep voice: "Uncover the ancient history that has been buried for thousands of years and use it to study human society and dragon civilization in ancient times?"
"Not bad." The light pen in Turing's hand drew an elegant arc in the air, leading everyone's attention to focus on the 3D holographic projection again: "By introducing data such as historical events, major climate changes, and geological environment changes, we can reflect
The play goes back to the development process of human civilization from ancient times to the present. The research of the former head of the Laurent family has made a lot of contributions to this."
"Some historical events may be forgotten or obscured for various reasons. They may be tampered with by rulers, misunderstood by historians, or forgotten by time. But in this model, they are all recorded in the form of data, and some
The missing parts can be treated as code cracking. By analyzing these data, we can restore the historical truth."
At the same time, the vast history automatically appeared on the projection. From the ancient barbaric era, to the dawn of civilization, to the current era of technological prosperity, each stage is like a bright star field, dotted in time.
In the long river.
Turing randomly clicked a point, and one of the time periods was expanded, and the European area inside was enlarged. It was covered with dense information transmission nodes, representing the remains of ancient human settlements. However, the light was quite dim, indicating the amount of information reserves at that time.
not tall.
"This was more than 8,000 years ago, at the end of the reign of Black King Nidhogg, and the ancient human civilization had entered the Neolithic Age."
Mr. Turing waved his hand, and nearly a thousand bright light spots appeared in the projection. In contrast, on the edge of the extremely huge light spot, there were some thin lines connected to the light spots: "This is the dragon clan inferred based on current relevant records.
Civilization picture, the authenticity of the data is unknown, and a lower estimate of the information storage capacity is temporarily adopted."
"After a lot of analysis and calculations, I have come to some conclusions that are not consistent with the current college textbooks: dragons did not regard humans as slaves at that time. On the contrary, they also spread a lot of technology and culture to humans, and even helped
They founded early civilizations."
Angers coughed twice and reminded: "The textbooks have been changed in the past two years, and new content in this area has been added. It is clearly pointed out that dragons taught humans to use tools and fire, which is intended to illustrate that dragons may use benefits to seduce
Half-breeds, don't be fooled by their promises."
"...Is there any archaeological evidence for this statement?" Mr. Turing questioned: "Except for the Sui people in China who drilled wood to make fire, other places seem to hold the saying that 'the gods originally gave mankind fire', such as in ancient Greek mythology
Prometheus Steals Fire.”
"However, this can only reflect the early civilization's worship of natural gods, and it does not necessarily mean that dragons taught this technology. There are no reliable historical records of things that happened tens of thousands of years ago that have survived to this day."
"It is obvious that the author of this textbook is selectively using unreliable 'historical materials' and using this ingenious means to reach the conclusion he needs."
"Textbooks don't have to be so rigorous..." Remembering that he was the editor-in-chief of the new version of the dragon history textbook, Angers pretended to lower his head and took a sip of wine, choosing to skip the topic: "Besides this, what new discoveries have you made?
?"
"Well... I also have a more accurate estimate of the total number of ancient humans at that time, which was roughly around 18 million, of which the dragon civilization coverage area was about 16 million."
Mr. Turing explained: "There is no doubt that this number of humans, even if they are enslaved by dragons, is not enough to produce considerable value. The dragon nobles mainly exploit the vast majority of civilian dragons - it is estimated that
, the number of civilian dragons is at least tens of millions."
"For the dragon civilization, which can build many transoceanic bridges and whose Kardashov civilization index may be between 0.9 and 1.2, the productivity of human civilization during the same period is only about 0.25, which is insignificant, and the total amount of information storage is also far away.
It is not enough to affect the economic and cultural level of the former."
"Theoretically speaking, for dragons, humans should be completely a burden and almost useless, just like Country M is unwilling to accept immigrants from the third world. Their power is also impossible to be as powerful as the mysterious ones.
As the Party has said publicly, it will overthrow the Black King on its own."
Mr. Turing added: "In fact, I tend to believe that there is probably a force in the dragon civilization that treats humans preferentially, and even protects and cultivates human civilization. Otherwise, it will be possible for the White King to win over humans to launch a rebellion.
Given the situation, the cruel Black King should have killed them all long ago."
"Kill them all? Can dragons do it?" Angers didn't seem to recognize the existence of friendly dragons: "In my opinion, human beings' resilience and survivability far exceed imagination, and new ideas will always be inspired in desperate situations.
potential..."
"In any case, as a large animal, the survival ability of human beings is limited after all." Turing shook his head: "In today's human society, if we go all out, we may not be able to eliminate all rats and cockroaches, but we will definitely be able to eliminate humans.
Except for all apes."
"In the face of a powerful civilization that unified the world, humans in ancient times were probably not much different from apes in terms of survivability - in many cases, it was the miniaturized creatures that were better able to withstand those huge disasters.
.”
"Therefore, there must be some reason why humans can survive to this day. A large amount of explicit or implicit evidence points to the man who originally protected and taught the ancient humans, and was most likely the force behind the main force that killed the Black King."
"If we can carefully examine the data model of ancient history from beginning to end, we should be able to find more relevant evidence and unearth evidence of the other party's true existence - this group of dragons may have been hidden among us all along.
"
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but think deeply and began to re-examine their past perceptions.
Zhao Qing, who had already guessed this, thought about it and asked a question of his own: "Mr. Turing, have you done any research on the seemingly slow development speed of dragon civilization? Information transmission and storage