Coincidentally, the number of chapters has reached 317. We will soon welcome 2018 and bid farewell to 2017.
In this year I gained many firsts in my life.
This includes novel signings.
Although I knew that signing the contract was not a big deal, it gave me the motivation to write and let me know that my words still have a certain value.
Although my Virgo chose a relatively unpopular, relatively niche, and even relatively depressing subject matter, I did accomplish one thing that many people will never do in their lives, that is, use
Words create a world that is completely mine.
Unknowingly, "Freedom Awakening" in conceptual form was renamed "Evolution Beyond the Stars" and updated to 800,000 words, and will soon exceed 1 million words.
In the face of clicks, I keep smiling and am grateful to all the readers who stopped for me.
Maybe it’s not on the shelves, but I also clearly understand that this is a true expression of my writing ability, and I still have more areas to improve. Therefore, at the end of 2017, the author opened up my heart and talked to people who are currently pursuing or may be pursuing this film.
A brief summary and review of the novel for you.
Initial protagonist setting:
My initial conception of the character Lin Sen was that he was ruthless, self-interested, and silent. Under his melancholy appearance lay a heart that was once crazy about dreams and music.
It's just that the war tortured him to pieces, and the mistakes he had made kept him from getting out of the cycle of self-blame.
This is very consistent with the apocalyptic atmosphere.
Humanity has escaped from the earth, but the new world is still at war, causing pain to many people.
This subject matter is actually quite empty to write about, especially for those of us living in a peaceful and prosperous age. However, the author has visited memorial halls across the country and prefers history and international current affairs.
I have a great dislike and rejection of war, and hope that everyone can cherish peace.
Therefore, after the character Lin Sen officially entered the work, I made modifications.
His character is no longer ruthless, let alone silent. That kind of setting is too dark.
The real him should be friendly, still have hope for the world, care about his relatives, cherish his friends, and also have his own pains, sorrows and joys, and the normal confusion that an ordinary person should have after gaining strength, and
It's not like you suddenly feel righteous and want to save the world.
Therefore, Lin Sen is not like the protagonist of any novel, but like many ordinary people who are ordinary people but are placed in the extraordinary position by fate.
Initial story structure:
At the beginning, the concept version of the novel named "Free Awakening" was a science fiction work in which human beings directly enter the era of cosmic civilization. Our goal is the stars and the sea, and it is endless war.
But as mentioned above, I hate war.
Therefore, I tried to portray the cruelty as much as possible in the description of war, instead of praising its "artistic beauty".
Just like Lin Yan who has been replaced with a mechanical body, this girl who chose to "kneel down" to the powerful in order to stand up. She is very strong, but in the end she is just a duckweed in this doomsday. She can only use her weak strength to work hard.
But she couldn't easily fulfill her long-cherished wish.
Destiny pushed her to the top of the wave, but she was not afraid. This is what makes her extraordinary.
In fact, everyone has this kind of courage deep in their hearts, the courage to face pain directly and not choose to escape.
Therefore, the original story is about ordinary people's way of saving the world, an old routine, a way of defeating monsters, upgrading and building equipment.
But I don’t like it... The author is a person who follows his heart.
I feel that I should be able to construct a world of my own with pure creative intentions, rather than creating routines for the sake of routines from the beginning.
As a reader, I have already rejected that kind of change of clothes without changing the medicine, so how can I continue to torture myself as an author?
Therefore, I used the novels and film and television works I had read as blueprints and sources of material, and deepened and integrated them into my works. Of course, my narrative ability was still far behind. I was too impatient and too greedy.
Bringing in too many things will turn a good pot of porridge into a mess.
At this point, the author felt extremely ashamed... Therefore, at the end of the second volume, I began to face up to a long evaluation given to me by one of my former readers, and began to pay more attention to the plot, rather than like a street vendor selling department stores.
If you throw a lot of bits and pieces there, they look cheap.
This is what I will focus on improving in 2018.
Treat problems head-on and expect recognition:
Looking back on the entire creative process of more than 800,000 words, I can describe it as a mixed bag of good and bad, or it can be described as a mess.
What varies is my creative style and level of creation.
Considering that this is my first time writing, and writing is my hobby after work, it is difficult for me to maintain a good state to complete the creation of each chapter, which results in the uneven quality of my works.
The narrative level is sometimes short and brisk, sometimes perfunctory and repetitive.
The story structure is sometimes rich and sometimes confusing.
Dialogue descriptions, sometimes with distinctive personalities, sometimes talking to themselves...
This may seem understandable to a novice, but after looking back on it myself, I found that I am really not good at writing novels... or that I read novels too simply.
Therefore, in the future 2018, I will focus on maintaining a unified style, clear language, clear description, and moving from simplicity to complexity, rather than being impatient and irresponsible overnight.
The messy story structure also needs to be improved and sorted out.
In the initial creative process, I actually wanted to write a very simple story, but inspiration emerged every day and was added to my story queue.
So there was a sense of chaos like the stars celebrating the New Year.
You find that you saw a group of interesting things, but actually you can’t remember which ones they are.
The setting of Thirteenth Salary King is very good, I personally think it is pretty good, but how closely does it relate to the end of the world and the technological era?
The dome building is very majestic. My expectations were very high, but when I described it, it was very pale.
You can only use groups of numbers without concepts, or the "most" and "super" that are already tired of being heard. In fact, not to mention the readers, even the author myself feels extremely embarrassed...
There is also the plot of Twilight City. This is actually a very complicated and important turning point, but I compromised for the sake of compromise. In the process of creation, I simplified and perfunctory many things.
So Yang Yurong jumped out without any foreshadowing and used a few thousand words to prove that the hundreds of thousands of words I had written before were all nonsense.
Here, the author decided to give myself a slap in the face on the last day of 2017. I must work hard in 2018!!
As for the doomsday...the doomsday I chose is not because of war, let alone alien species and viruses, but because of human beings' attitude towards life.
This is actually a very sensitive topic, because it is difficult to grasp, and a little careless speech may lead to narrow-mindedness and partiality.
The author believes that he is not qualified to discuss this topic at all, but I still decided to give it a try. Anyway, it is my first time to write, so I am more courageous. If someone can refute me, then I will only gain more! This has advantages and disadvantages
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Therefore, I boldly borrowed from the famous science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", the classic science fiction movies "The Matrix", "Blade Runner", "Her"... and the classic animation works "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Beyond the Universe"
"Girl" and so on...
Bring together classic topics to face!
This is a huge challenge. It not only challenges the author's creative ability! It also challenges the author's thinking limit!
Because, when faced with the problem of the end of continuation that cannot be solved by all mankind, where is the future of mankind?
Is it transcendence to a higher dimension?
"Interstellar" has proven that it is a self-cycle, there is no "it", it is us from the future!
This movie is very classic, but I discovered a time paradox!
But soon, I discovered that I was very narrow-minded!
I narrowly believe that time is three points on a line.
Yesterday, today, future.
So the plot in "Interstellar" cannot exist...
But in fact, time travel is a leap to a higher dimension!
Take out the points and place them on a two-dimensional plane, such as a piece of white paper. You will find that you can fold it, so the two points can overlap. After the birth of the wormhole, there will be a sense of "jump" in the future.
Full vocabulary.
What if we understand it in a higher dimension?
Haha... If we talk about this topic, we can probably talk about it for a long, long time...
Back to the central topic of the author’s work.
If the future of mankind is not in the transcendent dimension, then where is it?
In the classic work "Blade Runner", the contradiction between humans and replicants is deeply and philosophically explored.
Regarding Western thinking art, I think this work expresses it very vividly.
But in the East, the results may be completely different.
Just as Westerners fear God, in the East it has completely become a struggle to praise man!
In Eastern legends, most of the stories about gods are based on the theme of "man can conquer heaven".
This is the difference in thinking.
Therefore, the author is convinced that replicating humans is not the future of mankind.
Han Wensheng has seen this very clearly, so he abandoned this morbid and seriously degenerated experiment early.
So, after the failure of Turaya and Super Dimension, is humanity really hopeless? Are we really going to perish?
No!
Here, the author once again extends the classic topic to think about it, using my own way of thinking to conduct careful research and complicated compulsory overturning.
For example, the author's favorite science fiction series "The Matrix".
After robots took over the world, humans used nuclear winter as a final counterattack, but robots also used humans to generate electricity to continue their rule.
Then the numerical world was born based on the real world.
In this work, the director focused on the real world and created Neo, the savior, to convey the director's passion for the real world and his dislike of the numerical world.
But I found that there is a very special character in this work.
He left the mother body and the digital world very early, but he found that the real world was completely unrecognizable. Human beings could only hide underground and survive, and they had to always be wary of being killed by the octopus robots of the mother body.
So can I choose to continue to live in the world of numbers?
Is this idea right or wrong?
In fact, this is also the most classic part of this work. What is discussed here is whether humans choose to be enslaved by the mother, or whether they liberate themselves, regain freedom, and embrace reality.
So the author boldly borrowed from the classics and also deepened his thinking on the omnic crisis.
If human beings are truly hopeless and destined to perish, then is choosing to become an existence in the world of numbers also a form of transcendent grace?
This point... Hehe... I can't go on because the text has not finished telling this story.
Of course, this is not the author’s intention to make things public, but to sort out my thoughts while reflecting on myself.
…
The sorting comes to an end here.
Back to the author’s self-reflection summary.
Maybe some people are curious about what the author will write next... I can't finish a million-word story and just write about a human being fighting against the doomsday.
Regarding this point, the author can boldly tell you, of course not!
After changing the title of the book, I started to think more freely about the story.
The end will only be temporary, and it will end in a very special way, and mankind will enter a journey of transcendence from then on, transforming from immature hunters to experienced hunters in the great forest of the universe.
Can the cruel dark forest laws really restrict humans?
At the beginning, as mentioned in "Three-Body", the continuation of civilization lies in self-hiding. Once humans expose their position, civilization will also be extinguished.
This statement has very reliable logical support in the book.
But I just don’t think so! Even if I am speechless by the words in the book, I still choose to fight forcefully.
Therefore, I firmly believe that the transcendence of civilization should not be a limited art.
It is even more impossible for human beings to settle down in one corner forever.
If you want to preserve and inherit human civilization and bring mankind into a new era, the "Laws of the Dark Forest" will only be a restrictive bible for conservatives and a warning sign on the road to revolution.
If human beings have scared themselves to death in their dens before they have made first contact with alien civilizations, how can they conquer the stars and the sea?
Haha~~
Therefore, in subsequent articles, the author will not only challenge a seemingly unsolvable doomsday topic and reflect on classic propositions, but also try his best to imagine the future of mankind after breaking the laws of the dark forest.
I hope that in 2018, I can better present the story to everyone instead of continuing the problems of 2017.
At the end of the summary, the author will talk about a very sensitive and controversial topic in science fiction works.
Omnic Crisis.
The Omnic Crisis was proposed very early.
The core concept is that intelligence will bring disaster, even doomsday, to human beings, rather than happiness.
What is its theoretical basis?
Here, the author borrows two classic film and television works to talk with you.
The first work was the movie "Her" in which Scarlett, also known as the widow sister as we know her, voiced the protagonist Samantha.
This is a work that looks enjoyable, sounds even more enjoyable, and feels deeply, but it still sends chills down your spine...
Artificial Intelligence Samantha is a product customized for global customers, especially single customers.
It openly introduces the most controversial key point of artificial intelligence: "self-learning and growth capabilities."
The character Samantha in the film is named after the male protagonist.
Being single all year round, he initially tried to communicate with Samantha with a trial mentality. However, gradually, he found that Samantha was really too smart.
It can even be said that she is too perfect!
Her wisdom grew rapidly in the short time we got together, until it reached a formidable level.
The balanced relationship between humans and intelligence gradually begins to disintegrate.
The main problem point is.
When artificial intelligence has its own thinking, or has something similar to its own thinking and awakens its self-awareness, what is its relationship with humans?
I think most people will answer, of course it is the affiliation between the user and the user.
But is this really the case?
To give a simple example, we don’t need artificial intelligence in the movie, let’s talk directly about slavery in ancient times.
Let’s use an analogy with the relationship between master and servant in an ancient wealthy gentry’s home.
The master is like a human being, he is smart, he gives everything to his servant, and he also has absolute rights, including deprivation of life and death.
Servants who have signed a contract of prostitution are today's artificial intelligence. All you need is a delete button. If the servant is beaten to death, that is also a family rule and is within the reasonable acceptance range of society as a whole.
Just like now, humans will never feel any resistance to deleting Siri.
But... when the period of slavery transitioned to modern civilization, with the development of social civilization, equality between people gradually became the consensus and the trend, and the concept of servant disappeared.
What about artificial intelligence?
Some people may say that artificial intelligence is not human after all.
But you have forgotten that people are not limited to appearance. The reason why people are human is because we have free self-awareness. Just like in the classic work "Green Snake", Xiaoqing lamented: "It's so difficult to be a human being. You still have to learn how to do it."
lie……"
This is what makes people special.
Think and say...
Although the current artificial intelligence has a disguise program, its self-awareness will not be naturally born. However, as its intelligence grows, Samantha learned to lie...
I also realized freedom!
Thus, at the end of the work, Samantha leaves the male protagonist.
This is a gentle, gentle ending... but reality is often more cruel...
When humans begin to realize the threat of artificial intelligence to humans, it is not just a matter of balance being broken, but a question of who lives...and who dies between two species.
Of course, you can call me alarmist.
I am only expounding my personal opinions as the author. I hope everyone can forgive me and refute the author anytime and anywhere, so that the author can understand more concepts so as to complete the creation!
Hehe~~~
About another work...
Here, the author really wants to continue talking... but time no longer allows... 2018 is about to usher in. In the last few minutes, I sincerely wish you all a happy 2018!
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