Superbase Evolution

Chapter 378 How to be sure that you are alive?
"Do you have any tricks?" Lin Shen couldn't think of any way to escape from the ancient underwater city, so he could only look at Ouyang Yudu.

Ouyang Yudu shook his head seriously, and then comforted Lin Shen: "Since we are here, we should make the best of it. The Thinker must have his own intentions for keeping us here. We might as well go and ask him."

"Is this okay?" Lin Shen was doubtful.

"Do you have a better idea?" Ouyang Yudu asked back.

"Then let's ask him." Lin Shen turned around and went to open the door.

The thinker on the top of the tower must have seen them. He didn't have to wait until now to kill them. Ouyang Yu was so sincere in his move, which was not unreasonable.

"We have no intention of offending you, and we broke into the ancient city unintentionally. If there is anything you need us to do, both of us will do our best." Lin Shen shouted to the statue of the Thinker while standing inside the door.

It's not that he was afraid to go out, but the place was full of fiery liquid and he couldn't make a sound.

After shouting, Lin Shen stared at the statue of the Thinker on the top of the tower and waited for a long time, but the statue of the Thinker did not react at all.

"Is it possible that he can't hear us if we shout in this room?" Lin Shen looked at Ouyang Yudu and said.

"I think you should be more sincere." Ouyang Yudu said.

"How am I insincere? I am obviously very sincere. Why don't you come here and let me see how you are sincere." Lin Shen made way for the door.

Ouyang Yudu walked to the door and shouted outside: "We want to leave here, how can we leave here alive?"

Lin Shen didn't think that Ouyang Yudu was any more sincere than him, but after Ouyang Yudu finished speaking, the thinker statue on the top of the tower actually opened its eyes again and looked towards the small building where they were.

"It's very simple to leave here alive. I have a question that I can't figure out. If you can answer this question, you can leave alive." The statue actually spoke.

"Ouyang, you can do it!" Lin Shen was overjoyed and gave Ouyang Yu a thumbs up.

But he still couldn't understand why he was not sincere.

"Can you tell us what the problem is?" Ouyang Yudu continued to shout.

"Can you tell me whether I am alive or dead?" the statue said slowly.

Lin Shen and Ouyang Yu were both stunned when they heard this question. What kind of question is this?
"Of course it's alive, otherwise how can you communicate with me?" Ouyang Yudu said.

"If I am just a programmed intelligent program with a huge database, I will naturally be able to communicate with you and know many things that you don't know. But this does not mean that I am alive. Maybe I am just a cold intelligent machine that is doing things according to the program. This cannot tell whether I am alive or dead." said the statue.

"Do you feel happy, angry, sad or happy?" Ouyang Yudu asked again.

"Yes." The statue gave an affirmative answer.

"Having emotions means being alive, but intelligent programs don't have emotions," said Ouyang Yudu.

"Emotions are just a reaction mechanism. How do you know that your emotions are not a set reaction mechanism?" The statue continued, "When you encounter happy things, you will be happy and laugh; when you encounter sad things, you will feel uncomfortable. These are mechanisms that are easy to set. How can you judge that your emotions are not controlled by the mechanism?" Ouyang Yu was speechless for a while. What the statue said seemed to make sense. How did he know that his emotional reaction was his own reaction? Rather than a reaction controlled by the mechanism?

"When you receive external signals, such as tension, fear, excitement, etc., your body will secrete adrenaline. This mechanism will make your heart beat faster, your breathing quicken, your blood flow speed up, and your pupils dilate. These reactions are your body's reaction mechanism. What is the difference between them and a machine?"

"When you eat delicious food, you feel happy; when you achieve something, you feel a sense of accomplishment; when you successfully confess your love, you feel happy; but after you do these things, it is dopamine that affects your body and makes you feel these pleasures, which is also the reward given to you by the reaction mechanism."

"So all your emotions are just reaction mechanisms. Why do you think you are a living creature? Rather than a machine with intelligent programs?"

What the statue said made Ouyang Yu fall into deep thought.

He thought for a long time, then shook his head helplessly and said, "I really have no way to prove that I am a living creature, but I feel that I am alive."

"Feelings are not an answer," the statue said calmly.

"He sits on the top of the tower all day, is he just thinking about these questions? Where can he get the answers to such questions? Isn't he deliberately making things difficult for us?" Lin Shen was secretly depressed.

He also couldn't figure out how to determine whether the thinker was a living creature or not. The definition of being alive by ordinary people is to be physically alive.

But if you think about it carefully, the human body may also be a very sophisticated biochemical machine, it just has a different structure from ordinary machines, and it cannot prove that humans are not intelligent machines.

The two people thought about it for a long time in the room. The more they thought about it, the more they felt that this problem had no solution. They really couldn't think of how to prove what was incompetent between them and the intelligent machines.

Can the sense of touch prove that you are alive? According to the theory of the meditator, this is just a feedback mechanism.

Can past life memories prove that you are alive? Of course not. Memories can be implanted. Even if they are not implanted, having past memories cannot prove that you are not an intelligent machine.

Does the fact that artificial intelligence can remember more things mean that it is not an intelligent machine? Obviously not.

"Living creatures can reproduce and continue their bloodline." Lin Shen thought for a while and said.

"Once intelligent machines have developed to a certain level, as long as they are equipped with a manufacturing system or a system similar to gene cloning, they can also achieve the reproduction and bloodline inheritance you mentioned. This is not a difficult task. As long as there is sufficiently advanced technology, it can be done."

The Thinker continued, "You just put your genetic information into a machine that makes a body. How can you be sure that your so-called reproduction is not a process of making a new intelligent machine?"

Lin Shen was speechless when asked, who can prove this?

"Life can make mistakes, but intelligent machines can only operate according to mechanisms and will not make mistakes." After Ouyang Yudu pondered for a while, he finally spoke again.

"Is there a possibility that if you are an intelligent machine, the intelligent program running in your body is a program with a lot of bugs left by a jerk? There are a lot of junk and useless codes in it that seem to be useless. The program can barely run, but errors often occur. If you are lucky, it can keep running. If you are unlucky, some errors will occur. Some errors that do not affect the continued use of the program can be self-repaired, that is, they are corrected after making a mistake, or they are cured after being sick. Those errors that cannot be self-repaired will manifest as your bad habits that cannot be changed or terminal illnesses. If an error occurs that affects the operation of the program and makes the program completely unable to function, then your life is over, which is what you understand as death."

Lin Shen and Ouyang Yuyang were stunned. The more they listened, the more they felt that they were really like an intelligent machine.

(End of this chapter)