Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1363: A Land of Abundant Grass and Water
They also eat steamed cakes. At least, this is good news. At least it can be confirmed that they still have the hobbies of Tianyi Guiren. But when they are officially activated and form a complete personality, the situation may not be the same.

Although the new personality emerges from the group behavior of the Tianyi nobles, it does not mean that this personality has the same will as every individual in the group.

For example, although human consciousness emerges from the human brain, a person may lose brain cells due to working overtime and staying up late. This obviously has nothing to do with the interests of the brain cells, but rather the interests of the person.

Shangluo doesn't know what the consciousness born from this will look like yet. But one thing is certain: he has the final say on what it will look like. He will choose a more reliable one.

And although the will of Tianyi Guiren can only be regarded as subconscious here, the influence of subconsciousness is often more deeply rooted. As long as he subconsciously likes to eat steamed cakes, he will not be a bad person - because loving to eat something means that he at least has the most basic good feelings towards the world, which can at least be educated.

[I'm so excited. Why am I so excited? I feel like I'm going to be a child.]

"Hey, don't be so outrageous."

[So what do you think it looks like? ]

"Just think of it as adopting a kitten or a puppy. Or a pony or something."

[This is your flesh and blood! ]

"I don't admit it. Anyway, I just want a familiar. So how do I make a familiar?"

[Well, the so-called familiar is essentially a kind of Homokuru (alchemical life). The more fundamentalist method of making it is quite against the will of heaven, so I won't talk about it. It really requires your own blood and bones to make it. The modern method generally believes that it is a bottled spirit, a wisdom in a container. ]

"You mean, like an automaton?"

[In fact, it is the same principle as the automaton. However, Tianyi Guiren is a more advanced and purer raw material than the automaton - but the nature is still similar. In other words, this process is not that humans make consciousness emerge on its own, but that they force nature to make consciousness emerge from the ritual. ]

"So how do we do this?"

[Simple. You just need to find an egg. I'm not talking about the dragon egg, I'm talking about a container. You just need to find a container that restricts the exchange of information and matter inside and outside the container, and then you repeatedly stimulate the container, and then consciousness will emerge from it. For example, you need to build a Gundam first, then load it with Tianyi Guiren, and finally train it repeatedly. ]

"What's the difference between that and the Jinyiwei's switchboard?"

[The difference is quite vague, but also quite clear - you can bring it into the history of the development of ancient organisms. Although those early single-celled organisms may form some clusters, the individuals that make up them can hardly be considered an organism in any sense, because the addition or departure of any part will not affect the whole, and any individual can complete the entire process of life activities on its own. But this is not the case with multicellular organisms, which have a division of labor. ] "Why does it sound like it's easier to starve the cells? After all, they could eat themselves before, but now they can't eat by themselves, and they need others to feed them?"

[This is a question of 'primitive abundance' - we assume that primitive tribes are in this state, and in fact, it is true. Even the ancestors of humans, even the savages who are still in a tribal state now, are still in an absolute advantage in their own ecosystem. Because throwing, spinning and fire are human magic, humans can be invincible with just these three magics. ]

"So, what happens after humans form a civilization?"

[Obviously, after humans formed civilization, their perception of "magic" gradually declined. Because people don't need to "throw" every day to survive, they need to settle down, farm, and work continuously to survive. In this way, the abundance that belonged to primitive people came to an end.]

"So." This is the key, and also the key to Tianyi Guiren's evolution: "Why did humans choose to leave the abundant natural world and enter civilization?"

This also involves the choice from single cells to multi-cells. Why do cells give up their free life and choose to gather together? This is actually a serious problem - single-celled organisms can come and go freely. But once they form multi-celled organisms, each cell cannot survive without the group.

As a result, cells that would have been difficult to starve to death in the original abundance may instead be actively degenerated after forming multicellular organisms.

Tianyi Guiren is faced with the same choice. Why don't they choose the free application system, but instead find a fixed position here?

[The answer is that this choice is not voluntary. In other words, it is difficult for primitive people to make the choice of settling down voluntarily. In fact, nomadic farming is more in line with human opportunistic instincts. It is natural to go wherever there is abundant water and grass and eat. But one thing is very important: not everyone wants to choose the opportunity of abundance. ]

"why?"

【Because abundance means endless labor. If you choose primitive abundance, you will have to hunt and gather like wild animals every day and night. You shuttle through the dense forest every day, doing the same thing day after day, but you can only avoid starvation - you have looked into the distance, but every resource in the rich land needs to be picked by your own hands. This is too tiring - so some people choose division of labor. Because division of labor, there is leisure. Because leisure is relative to work, if you only look for food all day, there is no leisure at all. 】

Although the development level of early agricultural society was difficult to form an absolute advantage over nomadic farming society, leisure time was always hard to refuse. Because only by forming a civilization can humans focus on a certain aspect of affairs, let some people protect themselves from direct threats from nature, and let themselves focus on their own work.

——More importantly, when the distinction is made between “main job” and “things outside main job” and when division of labor occurs, leisure time also arises.

[So no matter what, there are always people willing to work for some jobs, no matter how low the salary is. No need to think about the uncertain future, no need to think about the ups and downs of life, as long as there is leisure time, that's enough. Some people are willing to get it right the first time, save decades of detours, and go directly to work in a place where they have leisure time all day long.]

(End of this chapter)