Global Famine: My items can be automatically upgraded.

While Lingxi Zhiling is still cracking the circuit board.

Shen Bei continued to go deeper into the military base.

Follow the unclear signs.

About ten minutes later.

Shen Bei pushed open a door.

Look around.

In addition to a few skeletons, there were many boxes stacked inside.

Even after the passage of time, one could still smell the scent of gun oil.

Pry open a box at random.

Inside are stacked orange-yellow 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullets.

In another box, Shen Bei actually saw a Type 67 grenade...

Good guy.

What era is this from?

It’s not used up yet.

It is said that China has produced 20 billion of these things, and they are about to become heirloom antiques...

Other boxes also contain various firearms, such as the QBZ56C short automatic rifle, the QBU-191 precision rifle, and the 5.03 assault rifle.

There are also artillery shells of various calibers, such as the Type 56 85mm cannon, the PLZ-07 122mm self-propelled howitzer, etc., which are quite numerous and messy.

Look around again.

Shen Bei didn't find any ready-made explosives.

It makes sense if you think about it. This is a military base, not an arsenal, so there is no way there are bulk explosives.

However, there are also many famous Type 66 anti-infantry directional mines for directional blasting.

“It seems that it can only be demolished.”

Faced with mountains of shells, this is still a huge project.

They have to be dismantled one by one and then transported to Tiangong to produce artillery shells. Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

In the past, Shen Bei was full of energy when doing this.

The key is that the quantity is small and it can be done in a short time.

Now that Tiangong is being upgraded, the required quantity is overwhelming Shen Bei.

"The caliber is different...it's really troublesome."

Shen Bei sniffed.

What else can be done.

Roll up your sleeves and work hard!

Shen Bei removed the bottom casings of boxes of artillery shells, poured out the gunpowder, and kept them safely so that the shells would not be wasted.

When it was almost done, they were all stuffed into the Tiangong, and the 3D crystal core reshaping resonator was put into full production.

While producing, pour out shells, bombard indiscriminately, gain experience points, and upgrade!

Just when Shen Bei was dealing with the shells.

Lingxi Zhiling sent a prompt: "The circuit board analysis is complete. Do you need text delivery, or do you want me to summarize it?"

Shen Bei sat cross-legged on the ground, his three hands constantly prying open the shell bottom casing, saying: "In summary, I don't have time to waste."

"Okay, here's the summary..."

It’s a summary.

But in order to express himself more clearly, Lingxi Zhiling's voice report lasted nearly an hour!

There is too much "metaphysics" and "brainstorming" and "thinking" involved here.

Shen Bei almost became a philosopher after hearing this.

Shen Bei briefly summarized it again.

In the conference room, the skeletons were arguing about two issues: consciousness and superpowers.

These two issues seem unrelated, but in fact, at the final level, they are unified.

First of all.

Because of the arrival of the World-Destroying Starship and the Shadow Immortal.

This made the human beings at that time feel that it was unavoidable and had to face it, or at least in theory fill the gap.

That is carbon-based life and silicon-based life.

The situation at that time was that silicon-based life came too quickly.

The silicon-based life here is the liquid metal life form on the world-destroying starship, which Shen Bei has also seen in the cold winter in the north.

According to the development process of human beings, there is always theory first and then the reality.

At that time, the real object appeared, but human theory did not keep up.

Therefore, some scholars around the world began to fill this theoretical gap.

The point of contention is also very simple. For those who believe in consciousness uploading and whole-brain simulation, it seems that human consciousness can be separated from the body and exist forever.

But the problem is that "uploading" is likely to cause the death of the original person. Then, how can we guarantee that the "I" in the uploaded consciousness believes that the original person is still alive?

Artificial intelligence from deep space forces is bringing the debate over what the brain might be made of from science fiction to mainstream reality.

Clearly, there are no obvious technological obstacles to a conscious AI from deep space power.

The path to conscious AI seems feasible, even inevitable.

This also leads to a question that humans need to discuss, that is, any physical substance - meat, silicon chips, etc. - can produce consciousness as long as it can perform the correct calculations.

At the same time, humanity has lost its best chance to gain some moral clarity in this highly uncertain field.

That is: "Do you need 'flesh' to have thoughts and consciousness?"

If consciousness requires "flesh," then the entire debate about AI consciousness becomes irrelevant, no matter how advanced the technology becomes. Without biology, there is no consciousness, and without consciousness, there is no risk of suffering.

Those scholars and experts believe that the material that makes up consciousness, or the "substrate" of the mind, is important.

If a biological matrix is ​​the only basis for thought, for mind, that we have discovered so far, then we have reason to think that biology is necessary for consciousness.

But now you can build a machine that performs the same computational functions as a physical brain, and you can still gain consciousness.

From this perspective, the important functions are certain kinds of information processing—although there is no consensus on which kinds of processing distinguish unconscious information-computing systems (like a calculator) from systems that require conscious experience (like you).

Leaving this detail aside, what is important for consciousness is the structure or “abstract logic” of information processing, not the physical entities that perform it.

For example, consider the game of chess.

Anyone can play chess as long as they have a chessboard, two sets of chess pieces, and know the rules.

But if two people are stranded on a desert island without a chess set, they can still play chess.

They can draw lines in the sand to recreate the board, collect driftwood and shells as chess pieces, and play chess as before.

The game of chess does not rely on its physical basis.

What matters is the abstract logic of the game, such as moving a piece designated "Knight" two spaces forward and one space to the side.

Whether it's wood or sand, marble or marker, any material that can support the correct logical procedures can produce a chess game.

The same is true for consciousness.

“Consciousness is the feeling that information is being processed in some complex way.”

If consciousness is the abstract logic of information processing, then biology may be as arbitrary as a wooden chessboard.

To make real progress in the matrix debate, humans at the time lacked not only a theory of consciousness but also a theory of life.

That said, biologists still don't agree on what life is. It's easy to say a garbage truck isn't alive, but your snoozing cat is.

But special cases like viruses or red blood cells show that humans still don't understand what exactly constitutes the difference between life and non-life.

Some argue that reducing consciousness to computation, particularly in the context of AI, is a mistake: it assumes that the subjective experience of meaning and perception can be replaced by fixed computational rules.

Enactivists believe that the body, destined to decay and decompose, plays a vital role in its environment to maintain its survival. So, can we create enactivist-inspired robots that replicate all the properties required for life, and therefore consciousness, without any biological features?

Previous humans had no answer to this.

But after the arrival of the two spaceships, this condition was met.

Now the conditions are met.

“The emergence of machine-biological hybrids offers us an opportunity to stop asking what we are and focus on what we want to be!”

A scholar expressed his opinion.