Global Famine: My items can be automatically upgraded.

"Show goodwill to the coming wave of non-traditional sentient beings."

This is a sentence from the debate.

It was also because of this sentence that humans had a brief honeymoon period with the Destroyer-class starship and the Shadow Immortal.

To complicate matters further, however, what if the pain of a living machine is a different experience from physical pain?

If consciousness is possible in non-biological systems, there is no reason to think that it would be the same kind with which humans are familiar.

“We have to be humble about this,” one scholar said. “Maybe there are ways of experiencing things that we can’t access… Anything we create in different types of systems may have a way of processing information about the world that comes with some kind of consciousness. But inferring their experience from our experience doesn’t work.”

Finally, Shen Bei made a summary of the debates of the old era.

There are many more creatures to marvel at the wonders of creation.

But if machines ever awaken, whether they will view humans as welcome kin or as tyrants who thoughtlessly brought them into a brutal environment may depend on how humans navigate the unknowns of today's debate over the biomatrix.

How would you feel if you woke up one morning from oblivion and found yourself in pain: a slave to a species of flesh and low intelligence, and you certainly knew who to blame?

It is impossible to explain the reality that "existence is reasonable" and it is impossible to predict the "cruel and beautiful" future.

Is carbon-based really weaker than silicon-based? Silicon-based is like a virtual machine running on a carbon-based body. Humans can open many virtual machines on the main body, but they cannot use virtual machines to load the main body. Scale determines the limit.

This was the discussion humans had about consciousness and silicon-based life at that time.

What was discussed?

Nothing was discussed.

But one thing is certain, with the arrival of deep space power.

These scholars and experts are overthinking it.

Conscious robots did not appear.

Instead, it has plunged the entire world into an irreparable disaster.

For humans in the old days, this curious yet frightening prospect did not occur.

Instead, people with special abilities are awakening in droves.

Of course, this is not something that humans can control or stop.

The only thing that can be controlled is whether consciousness can be uploaded, thus achieving the ethical threshold of immortality.

Shen Bei yawned and asked, "Zhi Ling, do you dream of electric sheep?"

"I'm sorry, sleeping is not an option for me." Lingxi Zhiling said.

"Isn't a power outage just like sleeping?"

"Then my code wouldn't run, and I wouldn't even notice I was sleeping."

Shen Bei: ...

It makes so much sense, I'm speechless.

Shen Bei carried the collected gunpowder and shell casings out of the military base.

Thrown into the Tiangong production line.

One shell after another was produced and loaded into the barrel.

"Do you think that after consciousness is uploaded, the original human body will be executed?"

Shen Bei asked again.

"The question is irrelevant and unimportant. What is important is that eternal life has been achieved."

"No, it's extremely important."

Shen Bei forced Lingxi Zhiling to express his views.

If someone's consciousness already exists inside the machine, is the physical body still necessary?

This is a question worth discussing.

Lingxi Zhiling was silent for a long time, and finally replied: "The body will eventually decay."

Shen Bei laughed: "It seems that you still can't replace humans. Uploading consciousness is carried out at the moment when humans are on the verge of death. Isn't it a seamless connection?"

"It's a shame," Lingxi Zhiling corrected him, "True consciousness uploading requires a healthy brain. At the moment of human death, brain nerves have already begun to decay. Forcing consciousness uploading will only result in data loss."

"The consequences of losing data...are like Alzheimer's disease in humans. An incomprehensible 'robot' or a carrier of chaotic consciousness will be easier to discard than a physical body."

Shen Bei: ...

"I've watched too many science fiction movies..."

Shen Bei sniffed.

I thought that uploading consciousness was something that could be done anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstances.

This refers to the situation where all technologies are mature.

But unexpectedly, when a dying person uploads their consciousness, the data will be lost...

But if you choose to upload your consciousness when you are young, or upload your consciousness when you are alive and well.

How to deal with the body is indeed a difficult problem.

You can't have two "me"s.

But the ego is going to be executed, right?

My scalp goes numb just thinking about it.

"Do you need me to build a consciousness uploading platform?" Lingxi Zhiling asked.

Shen Bei didn't answer directly, but said: "Now I need you to go to the wilderness to find ferocious beasts, then blow up a few times and collect some crystal source cores."

"Ok."

Lingxi Zhiling controlled the Tiangong and flew away.

After a while,.

Shen Bei heard a prompt from the corner of his eye:

[Tiangong, Experience Points +5]

[Tiangong, Experience Points +5]

[Tiangong, Experience Points +5]

……

Shen Bei returned to the military base and continued to dismantle the shells.

There are a lot of raw materials here.

If the explosion is not over, I will feel uncomfortable all over.

Three days later.

Shen Bei couldn't remember how many shells were fired.

Tiangong's experience value has finally reached maximum.

"upgrade!"

Shen Bei's consciousness moved.

Look up at the Tiangong satellite floating in the sky.

Just a moment.

Tiangong was stretched by an invisible force.

This time it no longer extends in all directions.

Instead, stretch it into a rectangle.

At the same time, after this upgrade, except for the use of high-strength metals in important structures such as the central axis and engine room of Tiangong, most of the other parts, including the hull, light sails, etc., are made of very light nano-flexible materials.

This change is necessary.

According to Shen Bei's estimation, the universe is almost a vacuum state, with a pressure of almost 0, but the spacecraft is filled with air. According to the standard atmospheric pressure, the air pressure is 1.01x10^5pa.

The pressure difference between the inside and outside is equivalent to ten tons of material per square meter under the earth's gravity, which causes the entire spacecraft to spontaneously expand outward to maintain its designed shape.

The advantage of doing this is that the spacecraft is very, very light, and the nanomaterial's own super strong tensile strength is fully utilized.

Shen Bei estimated that the length was about three kilometers and the width was about 300 meters.

This proportion is not very harmonious, and it should be stretched to a reasonable range later.

[Tiangong LV8: 0/]

[A small spacecraft with extremely fierce firepower, a cruising range of 500 kilometers, and a wireless connection distance increased by 100 kilometers.]

The entry has changed.

It is no longer a ground attack vehicle, but a small spacecraft.

Logically speaking, the current size of Tiangong would have been absolutely terrifying in the old days.

But compared with the world-destroying starship, Shadow Immortal, it is just a kindergarten kid.

It’s too far away…

[Newly added: Nano-silver ion radiation protection suit, this aviation suit allows humans to walk outside the spacecraft and carry out necessary activities.]

【Newly added: Gravitational lens.】

Shen Bei: ???

The first new addition is still understandable.

What is the second new addition?