Chapter 508

Dickinson and Mayer talked about some interesting things in Princeton when they were young, so they hid in the room and didn't know what to say.

Huang Liang had to sit in the living room with Hou Biao and wait.

Most of the decoration and furniture in the house are outdated goods of the last century, but the computer is new, and it is different from ordinary computers. It has a sense of science fiction in movies.

Huang Liang doesn't think there's anything wrong with this. After all, it's normal for people who can let Mei come to the door, even if they play some black technology, let alone just a computer.

He looked at Hou Biao sitting next to him and knew that the bald man was Mei's bodyguard. He didn't talk much, so he didn't plan to pick up a quarrel.

He got up bored, moved his muscles and bones, caught a glimpse of some magazines on the computer desk, went over to pick them up and turned them around.

There are three magazines in total, science, nature and cell. They are all authoritative magazines in the scientific community, and there is a thick Science Citation Index next to them.

Most of the articles in these magazines are difficult to understand. For Huang Liang, they are like heavenly books, so he just looked at the title and passed.

However, one of the articles "the possibility of spontaneous consciousness generated by mechanical IOT neural networks" attracted his attention, because the signature of the article was Charlie Dickinson.

The knowledge involved in this paper is wide, covering almost all fields of physics and life science. Fortunately, it only puts forward a hypothesis without any formula to prove it. The main idea is that when information flows in the Internet of things, with the increase of network nodes and the number of information, the chaos of information will increase, many information will be annihilated randomly, and corresponding new unknown information will be generated, which will cause information out of control, so as to generate initiative consciousness outside the program.

Huang Liang knows nothing about the theories of physics and Informatics, but it doesn't prevent him from understanding what the article is saying. It can be said that Dickinson's writing ability is very strong, simple and in place.

Huang Liang is very interested in the origin of consciousness. If the fluctuation of information itself can give birth to consciousness, are there many independent primitive consciousness in the world that human beings have not found and recognized? For example, a television or a computer, with its use, has already produced a very primitive consciousness, but because it is too low, so we can't see it?

Somehow, he suddenly thought of his mobile phone and took it out of his pocket. The folder named ghost lies quietly on the screen, as if it were just an ordinary app abandoned by users.

He thought of the time before the prison break. He thought that this thing might be connected to a computer somewhere in Wuzhong. Maybe there were many computers there, forming a LAN, leading to the WAN, and even entering the closed internal network of the prison.

In the past, he thought it was just an advanced virus program, similar to the legendary secret agent using encrypted communication technology, but now it's far from that simple.

Huang Liang turned over other articles. Except for several articles on medical breakthroughs published in cell, most of them had nothing to do with him and couldn't understand.

He finally opened the Science Citation Index, which is the most authoritative science citation database in the world. Its English name is science citation index, or SCI for short.

Huang Liang knew this when he was studying. Although he was not in line with the world at that time, he has paid great attention to international influence academically. Generally, at least one SCI thesis is required for doctoral degree in science. Now some schools have required more than two. Whether there are papers included in SCI is the most important or even the only evaluation standard for unit ranking and project evaluation in all scientific research fields.

But now it's all cloud databases, and only these old scientists will buy paper indexed documents and put them at home. What else can they do besides collecting them?

Huang Liang shook his head, closed the book and turned on his mobile phone. He originally planned to use the search engine to find Dickinson's paper, but when he saw ghost on the mobile desktop, he opened it and entered a line of text in it:

Help me find Charlie Dickinson's paper published in SCI.

He's not sure if he'll get a response, just a whim to try. In the past, he always regarded ghost as a special way to contact Aoki, but Aoki hasn't contacted him for a long time.

After inputting on the mobile phone, he sat back on the sofa, took a sip of tea and found that the tea was cold.

He saw Hou Biao still sitting there motionless, like a sculpture. He thought of the professor's beautiful assistant. If he were here at this time, the atmosphere would be much more harmonious. But I don't know why Mei Ziqing, who has always been inseparable from the professor, didn't come.

Just when Huang Liang felt bored, his mobile phone vibrated.

There is another message in ghost. He opened it and saw a long list of paper titles, publication time and publication name——

Fluctuation of information entropy and generation of consciousness

The relationship between the dividing line of infant intelligence and information input

Non equivalent relationship between intelligence and logical thinking

Misunderstanding of artificial intelligence and computer algorithm

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Dickinson's research field is very extensive, but the direction is still very clear, mainly focusing on the intersection of Informatics and life science. It can be seen from the titles of some articles that he has unique views on the generation of consciousness.

Huang Liang originally planned to ask ghost to send some more specific papers to have a look, but it must not be a pleasant experience to think about reading paper pictures on such a small screen or difficult articles that he doesn't understand.

The screen of this mobile phone is small and the style is old. Originally, he had to change it for a long time, and the organization had bought him the latest mobile phone, but he still insisted on using it because of Aoki and ghost.

He gave up the idea of sending ghost papers, but finally got ghost's response. He wanted to say something more, just like meeting an old friend.

He asked inside: where has Aoki gone?

About two seconds later, ghost responded: the South Pacific.

Huang Liang asked: can you contact him?

Ghost answer: No, it has been lost for one year.

Huang Liang was surprised. He also had a hunch that something had happened to Aoki before, and found some special channels to inquire. Of course, he couldn't ask Aoki openly. He could only ask from the side and heard some rumors. But the information from ghost is undoubtedly more accurate.

If the green wood disappears, it means that Huangliang can only fight alone and become more lonely from then on.

Another thing he was very worried about was that last time, he cheated Aoki into the closed Dream Corridor. As a result, when Aoki came out, his whole life disappeared like a dream. He was pulled back to the moment before he put Aoki into the dream corridor.

The true and false life was always indelible in his memory, which almost made him schizophrenic. He spent a lot of time making his memory distinguish reality from that life.

Now, the green wood has disappeared again. Will it pull the world back to a certain time node in the past when it comes back? The key is that this time Qingmu's disappearance has nothing to do with Huangliang, and it has nothing to do with Huangliang when he comes back. Even if Huangliang goes back to the past time, he can't bring back the memory of this life. For him, when Aoki returned, the world collapsed and destroyed. Just like that time, when he came back, the rest of the world didn't realize it.

Huang Liang prayed in his heart not to happen again.

He asked Ghost: so who are you?

Ghost said: I'm ghost.

Huang Liang asked: are you a spontaneous consciousness on the Internet?

He waited for a long time and ghost didn't reply.