Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 25 Takeoff
"What happens if it ends up replicating itself?"
"If the self-replication process ends, the protobody will spread faster and become more uncontrollable. Theoretically, if there is enough energy and raw materials, its self-replication can continue indefinitely until it covers the entire surface of your planet."
The T-800 seemed to like talking to Ai Bishui very much. Every time she asked a question, the bracelet would answer with a lot of words.
"So...what is the motivation for this replication?"
This problem seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation, but this puzzled point had been bothering her for a long time.
Before, Ai Bishui had specifically sought out professors in the biology department to discuss the issue, but in the end they had not reached any conclusion. They either smoothly changed the topic to their own areas of expertise or directly recommended some books to her. No one had ever directly told her their own guesses or thoughts.
The professors are all veterans who have been working in the scientific research circle. They have been tortured in various ways since they were in group meetings with graduate students, and they already know how to deal with questions that they do not understand but must answer.
"Do organisms need motivation to replicate themselves? Isn't this a basic requirement for them to be complex systems?"
It seemed that this answer could not satisfy her.
"Emmmm, can this feature be understood as the manifestation of the inherent self-similar nature of organisms as complex systems with fractal characteristics in the time dimension?"
"That's partly true, but not all organisms have a strict fractal structure. Only fractals in dynamics are relatively common."
For example, when the human brain is thinking, it self-organizes criticality, which is a typical self-similar dynamic process.
In addition, there is also a lot of evidence of static fractal structures, ranging from the curling of proteins to the distribution of blood vessels in the human body, the structure of alveoli, and the divergence of the nervous system, all of which can be seen as self-similar patterns.
"Instead of dwelling on this... let's just get it over with. Keats told me earlier that we're running out of time."
Fang Cheng broke away from her arms. He had been feeling extremely embarrassed. But he was attracted by the soft touch on his face and the strong smell, so he did not dodge immediately. In fact, when he was hugged, he was stunned. At that moment, his brain went blank. It took a few seconds for him to react rationally.
"Ah, who is Keats?"
Fang Cheng did not answer this question. He grabbed Ai Bishui's hand and said loudly to the bracelet or to her:
"Go to that coordinate location now!"
Just like last time, a large area of green fluorescence suddenly appeared in front of their eyes at the same time. The sudden bright color made people feel a little uncomfortable, but it looked much softer than last time. This was probably because it was night time and their eyes had not yet adapted to the darkness.
Unlike the previous two unfoldings, what was presented to the two this time was neither a light spot nor a completely transparent inner wall, but a dynamic distorted picture.
The entire field of vision is filled with dense halos and ripples, but the area directly in front of the view has always been clearly outlined. This clear exterior scene will also move along the entire inner wall as the field of vision moves.
Fang Cheng felt a little dizzy. He took off his glasses and wanted to rub his eyes, only to find that a very thin metal wire had been connected to the back of his brain at some point. The end of the wire unfolded into a thin curved surface, firmly attached to his scalp.
This should be a device for reading my brain signals. Its shape reminded him of a cap used for EEG detection.
The reason he knew the structure of these instruments was because Ning Yu'an had previously sent him a picture of them doing an EEG test experiment. The so-called EEG is the abbreviation of electroencephalogram. He remembered that the person being tested in the picture was sitting on a medical chair, wearing a hat with densely packed wires on his head, and the ends of the wires were connected to oscilloscopes and various analyzers.
After being processed by the software, multiple panes can be displayed on the screen, and each pane contains brain wave signals of different channels. After filtering and decomposing the frequency bands that researchers want, they can input them into the existing analysis model according to the previous classification standards to obtain the total data of multiple neurons.
Thinking of this, Fang Cheng suddenly began to worry about Ning Yu'an's safety again. Based on his previous experience, he thought that the other party would definitely contact him actively, but now he has not received any message.
But she is in the south now, very far away from here, so she shouldn't encounter any danger for the time being.
"Now it's driving mode." The air was speaking.
“So how should we proceed…”
"What is displayed in front of you is compressed signals from different electromagnetic wave bands, which have all been converted into visible light information that your eyes can directly read."
Fang Cheng stared at the object in front of him for a while before he realized that the double images were actually the microscopic texture of the object in front of him. When he thought of the word "enlarge" in his mind, the object in front of him would be automatically enlarged.
He looked into the distance again and found that his vision could penetrate relatively thin obstructions. If he stared at the scenery in the distance for a while, it would be automatically pulled in and rush towards him.
It was only then that he noticed that the red light appeared in front of him again, exactly the same as the first time he saw it.
The light spot was completely still in the center of my visual field, but it was completely invisible , so it probably wasn't hitting my retina directly.
In fact, if you really want to make people "see" something strange through some special operation, it is obviously a more efficient method to operate directly on the optic nerve or the visual processing center in the cerebral cortex. There is no need to make the information go through the visual conduction circuit again.
"The red dot of light in the center of your field of vision is called the operating point. Only when you focus on that red dot will the movement instructions in your mind be read. Otherwise, they will be invalid."
Fang Cheng remembered that he was staring at the red dot in the egg and was distracted for a moment, and was dragged directly to the ground.
"You can use any unit system when giving instructions, but you must clearly state the direction and acceleration of movement, otherwise it will not be considered a valid instruction."
Hey, didn’t you say before what speed you wanted and just came up directly?
"This is a restriction made to protect you. I don't have a clear understanding of the strength of your body structure yet, and I don't know how much force a creature like you can withstand."
It is normal for the T-800 to feel something is wrong. According to the data, the highest acceleration that humans can withstand is 30 g-forces, but why can't it withstand only 4 or 5 Gs? Is there something wrong with the data?
