Weirdness is coming: Chen Mu Nugui started with trillions of ghost coins

"What did he say to you?" Chen Mu joked, "He didn't say you were a function, did he?"

"Hahaha!" Ye Changsheng laughed and shook his head, "He said to me - you're finally here, I've been waiting for you here for five days.

It sounded very strange to me. I hadn't seen him for two or three months. We were both busy with our own things. You were doing scientific research and I was training new recruits. We had no intersection.

What are you waiting for me for?

I was curious, so I greeted him and sat next to him.

I said, "How are you, Dr. Shen? You've been waiting for me for so many days. Are you short of someone to drink with?"

Dr. Shen smiled and shook his head. He said:

"Your recruit camp has been closed recently, so I can't get in. I've been waiting for you at the food stall every night, and finally you're here. I heard you're planning a promotion soon?"

When I heard this, I thought this guy was quite kind and came to practice on my behalf.

Just at this time, the dishes were served and we ate and chatted.

I told him about the transfer, and I figured I'd be the next Chief. I heard there were two more Chief positions opening up in Storm Defense this time.

What I've said is an open secret. Dr. Shen, as the chief scientist, also knows this.

He asked me - there are two chiefs missing now, you are one of them, Chief Ye, what about the remaining one?

I can’t explain it clearly. I think they called me over this time to prepare for the election.

We just ate our food and chatted casually, just like we used to.

Halfway through the meal, Dr. Shen suddenly said, "Changsheng, I have a bold guess. Could that planet you mentioned have life? Or perhaps all planets are actually living organisms?"

I was stunned for a moment and asked him if he had discovered any signs of life on the planet.

He shook his head and said no, but he had some ideas. He asked me: Do you remember, a few months ago, I told you that life is actually a function?

I said of course I remember, you also said I was a function.

"Do you know why I have that perception?" Shen Hanmeng asked me, and I shook my head and said I didn't know.

So, I remember that a plate of peanuts was served, and while he was eating the peanuts, he told me about his research progress since the summer.

According to him, when studying the orbits and movement laws of planets, they used many mathematical methods and listed many complex functions.

This includes deep reinforcement learning, which, to put it simply, involves constantly adjusting parameters to achieve a perfect "function."

With this perfect function, you only need to input the data, and after the function processes it, you can get the result.

Input data, output results... As long as the function is complex enough, no matter what data is input, theoretically, you can get the desired result.

Dr. Shen said that he suddenly realized a truth from the vast number of functions - life is actually a complex function.

When people are hungry, they know to eat. "Hungry" is the input data, and "eating" is the output result.

When people are scolded, they know to scold back. 'Being scolded' is the input data, and 'swearing back' is the output result...

If we continue to generalize in this way, Dr. Shen thought that if there is an extremely complex function, when various data are input, the output of this function will be exactly the same as my reaction.

So can we say that this function is another me?

This is a bit abstract. The analogy Dr. Shen gave me at the time was:

There is a plate of peanuts on the table. I see the peanuts and want to eat five. The function takes a plate of peanuts as input and outputs the result of eating five.

There is a bottle of wine on the table, and I want to finish it. The output of the function is also 'drink it all';

When I saw Dr. Shen, my first reaction was surprise, and the result output by that function was also "surprise".

When encountering any situation, the result calculated by the function is exactly the same as my reaction, so that function is me.

When I heard it, I just thought it was interesting and asked him what the use of it was.

He told me that when he realized this, he felt that his previous understanding of life seemed a bit narrow.

Our search for extraterrestrial life, for other intelligent creatures, is based on ourselves and the life on the continent.

But what is the specific definition of life?

Can something that outputs a specific result when faced with a specific situation be called life?

From this perspective, we humans are an extremely complex function.

If we simplify this function, it becomes very simple and can only handle the simplest input.

For example, if it is blown by the wind, it will output an action of "floating away". So is this simplified function a living thing?

From this perspective, a piece of paper can also be called life?

If not, it means that when a function is too simple, it cannot be called a living thing.

A complex function is life, a simple function is not. Is there a clear boundary between the two?

When a function becomes complex enough, it can be called life.

To be honest, when I heard what he said, my first reaction was that this guy must have gone crazy doing experiments.

I asked him, what’s the point of studying this?

He said it was useful, very useful! This was related to whether that mysterious planet was actually a living organism.

"Is our understanding of life a bit too narrow? Why can't a planet be home to a life?" Dr. Shen asked me.

How can I, a martial artist, answer this?

Dr. Shen didn't intend for me to answer, he continued -

'I think our world may also be a living being, but we just can't understand it or communicate with it.

Longevity, think about it, our own human body is made up of countless cells and a lot of bones.

Do these countless cells look like a person? Do the bones in the body look like mountains and rivers?

If we look at it this way, we are actually planets. We are made up of countless cells, countless living things and bones and blood, forming a brand new living organism.

What about our world? The world is made up of us humans, countless animals, and mountains, rivers, and streams.

By analogy, is our planet also a new life?

From our human perspective, we cannot understand it, just like individual cells cannot understand our human activities.

The storm of thoughts in our minds is like a rainstorm and lightning to brain cells.

The cellular level of life cannot understand the human level of life.

Just like the human life level cannot understand the planetary life level.'

Dr. Shen told me that the universe is likely to be filled with various life forms.

It’s just that we are at different levels and cannot understand each other.”