Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 195 - 196 Noah-Information
Chapter 195: Chapter 196 Noah-Information
Chapter 195: Chapter 196 Noah-Information
Seeing many people pondering, Zhang Yuan added, “Many problems are simply unnecessary worries. Take sleep, for example. Humans need to sleep every day. During those hours, can it be said that the old me has died and a new me has been born?”
“And then take hibernation, where consciousness is directly interrupted for hundreds of years! When humans wake up, how does that consciousness reappear? Are the pre- and post-hibernation ‘me’ different?”
“…Even if that device is used, the original me is dead in an instant, creating a new me, but the new me has no feelings, no relevant memories… In the new me’s cognition, consciousness still seems continuous, and that’s already enough.”
“If the ‘new me’ and the ‘old me’ are exactly the same, and the entire world hasn’t changed at all, and no one knows about it, then, according to Occam’s razor, there’s no need to worry about such trivial matters.”
Some scientists found this reasoning somewhat persuasive and nodded thoughtfully.
Others, upon hearing that the “old me” might vanish, turned pale with fear, sitting aside in silence.
These questions were extremely strange and bizarre. Those who could accept them did so easily; those who couldn’t, just couldn’t no matter what.
Of course, there were still many people eager to try, willing to continue volunteering.
Regardless of the outcome of the debate, humans would not stop eating for fear of choking; research had to continue.
As for… whether to accept this technology, that was a personal choice…
After the meeting, Zhang Yuan caught up with the bionics expert, Dr. Yamamoto Ichiro.
This Dr. Yamamoto was a contemporary of Zhang Yuan and a very quirky yet serious guy as the proponent of the bionics project.
“Yamamoto, what do you think of this issue?”
“Me?” Yamamoto looked around and said softly, “Of course, to abandon the frail body and embrace a stronger one! Initially, my transformation plan included preserving the human brain, but now it seems there’s no need… Direct consciousness upload and silicon-based transformation, that’s it! It’s kind of perfect!”
Zhang Yuan chuckled, “Do you dislike the human body that much? No wonder you don’t have a girlfriend yet.”
“No, I don’t dislike it. I still yearn for girls, but they don’t yearn for me.” Yamamoto scratched his already somewhat balding head and pulled out a few more hairs, “Inventing a real girlfriend from the 2D world is my dream.”
Zhang Yuan laughed heartily, “Do you really think that humans can crack this technology?”
“It involves more than just science, even philosophy and religion. It’s beyond what science can solve… I even think that until Bozeman self-awareness is proven, there’s no possibility of cracking it.”
“Even if… the technology is cracked and it really starts to be used, the opposition will be tremendous.”
Yamamoto sighed, “Zhang Yuan, you underestimate the human instinct to cling to life. When death is near, they will make choices, even if it might mean changing consciousness. They’ll still choose.”
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“This is… immortality!”
Zhang Yuan also shook his head.
In fact, what he was worried about was not the choice of the people but whether humanity was on a level to embrace true immortality. Was this truly a science that benefitted the entire civilization?
What kind of world would one without death be?
Zhang Yuan couldn’t imagine and shivered at the thought.
Immortality, a historical sample that had never appeared. Even the study of New Civilization History couldn’t provide much guidance… but Zhang Yuan vaguely felt that this was not as good as one might imagine.
A basin of water, if stagnant, quickly spoils. Immortality, undoubtedly, stopped this flow.
Three months flew by quickly, and the bustling first phase of decryption work came to a temporary halt.
As many scientists had predicted, apart from the smooth progress in decrypting the alien language, the rest of the work did not go too well. On one hand, there were simply not enough hands on deck, with the majority of scientists still in hibernation; on the other hand, the technological gap was too vast to bridge quickly through hard work alone.
In this hopeless situation, some scientists had already entered hibernation, with Zhang Yuan and others soon to follow.
…
Then, one day, a frenzied scream came from a small office.
“Ha-ha, look what I’ve found! Look at what I’ve discovered?”
“Ha-ha!”
“It’s so unexpected!”
This was the room of information science expert Li Zhendong, cluttered with all sorts of chaotic instruments. This guy was shouting excitedly, his face flushed like a balloon, as if he had made some incredible discovery.
Language and script, as the only part that made progress, were of course of paramount importance.
Without deciphering the language, there was no talking about anything that came after.
But the language of the Gaia Civilization was really difficult to comprehend, its vocabulary too extensive, containing many meanings that human languages did not possess. Therefore, in the span of three months, so many scientists could only develop a rudimentary translation machine, capable of translating some simple language.
But today, Li Zhendong made an incredible discovery!
“Old Zhang! Old Zhang! Look what I found!”
Li Zhendong shouted into the phone as he started sprinting.
Thousands of years ago, Earth Era had once encountered a planet-level alien spaceship, and even received signals from this spacecraft.
In a bout of thorough boredom, Li Zhendong tried a variety of information encoding methods. When he tried a more rudimentary error-correcting code, a miracle occurred…
This string of error-correcting codes could actually be deciphered using the language and script of the Gaia Civilization!
It was simply… unbelievable!
When he informed Zhang Yuan of this news, Zhang Yuan was simply dumbfounded, “What? The language sent by that passing alien civilization is the same as the Gaia Civilization?!”
This news was a bit too bizarre, and everyone was at a loss for words for a while. Even Captain Zhao’s neck seemed to sag.
Li Zhendong was very pleased with everyone’s expressions, his desire to show off fully satisfied.
“How about that, am I not awesome?”
“Hurry up and play it, play it!” Zhang Yuan gave him a punch.
Although this piece of information was very brief, it nevertheless piqued everyone’s strong curiosity.
Li Zhendong didn’t keep them in suspense and quickly played the deciphered content on the big screen.
“…Attention to all interstellar civilizations, this is the Noah Civilization-MA37UY Negative Energy Network Space construction spaceship. It is forbidden to approach within 102 astronomical units… Violators will bear the consequences…”
“Current Pan-Galaxy network system construction progress: 45.67%… Target Star Domain, MJKH66754…”
The rest was a jumble of gibberish.
“Wait a second!” Zhang Yuan swallowed hard, “Why is it the Noah Civilization, and not Gaia Civilization? Did you get it wrong?”
“No, it’s not the same word…” Li Zhendong replied with uncertainty: “As for the Noah Civilization… the name is arbitrary, just a code. It should not be Gaia, I’m not sure.”
People could extract two key points from this segment of information.
First, Negative Energy Network Space, another very bizarre term.
Anyhow, it must certainly be an incredibly huge project, because such a large planet-level spaceship was actually just a construction spaceship… It was as yet unknown whether it had any impact on humanity.
Second, this so-called “Noah Civilization” must be exceptionally powerful.
Zhang Yuan no longer knew what to say, a planet cruising at sub-light speed was merely a construction spaceship, well, he really didn’t know what to say anymore.
He was comparing the so-called “Gaia” and “Noah,” trying to determine which was stronger, or if the two could be the same, merely a problem of human translation.
…
This interesting interlude soon passed and did not interfere with the normal human itinerary, merely evolving into an unsolvable mystery.
Two months later, Zhang Yuan was going to enter normal cryosleep again.
He wrote in his journal: “The long journey of more than 3000 years will soon pass, and the next time we awaken, we will have reached our new Mother Star.”
Recalling the entire journey’s experiences, the joys and the hardships suddenly surged in his heart!
Throughout the process, he had learned a lot, grown a lot, and was no longer the student fresh out of university… but the person to carry forward the entire civilization.
“Enough stories have occurred along the way, but they are all in the past now, the future is what’s more important. We will eventually take a brand new step here!”
“If the Earth Civilization has perished, then let us… rise from the ashes on our future Mother Star!”
Gliese 518, we are coming!
