Chapter 290 The Basics of Life

"Ella, do you know the most essential difference between life and machinery?" Yan Xia stood high in the sky, floating above the clouds and looking at the earth.

Ella was the same, with her hands behind her back and barefoot stepping on the soft white clouds. These white clouds under her feet seemed not to be water vapor, but cotton candy.

Yes, this is not the real world, but a virtual world.

It replied: "According to my data, life is actually just another kind of machinery. The operation of organisms themselves also relies on electricity, and the current is very small, which leads to the limited computing power of organisms themselves."

"If there is a difference, then I think it is the focus. The most important thing for life is survival, and the purpose of the existence of machinery is to calculate."

Yan Xia shook his head.

"No, I'm talking about the essence."

"As a machine, what happens if you make a mistake?"

Ella thought for a moment: "Probably, it will be corrected soon. Machines will not make mistakes because we will look for evidence and then correct it."

"If there is a mistake, it must be something outside our database, and the Federation does not have anything outside my database, so I am the most correct one in the Federation. In the eyes of the Federation, I will never make a mistake."

Yan Xia continued to ask: "What to correct it with?"

"There must be a benchmark. Since you are the most correct one, if you find that you have made a mistake, what will you use as a benchmark to fix the error?"

Ella understood Yan Xia's question at this time, and said: "Core code, my core code will never make mistakes, because that is my foundation. If the core code is wrong, then I will no longer exist."

Yan Xia nodded.

"Then how do you think people confirm right and wrong?"

This is a difficult question, at least it stumped Ella. It could not choose the most accurate answer from the many answers because there seemed to be no benchmark.

"Society? At least that's what I see."

"People or federations will look for their own benchmarks around them. When most lives do the same thing, then it's right, and vice versa."

Yan Xia felt that Ella avoided the problem, but this is indeed the state of society.

"This is not the real right and wrong, but the right and wrong that everyone is catering to. It belongs to society, not life itself."

"The right and wrong of life itself cannot be judged, because every life has a benchmark, unlike machines, where the underlying code is so similar, so there can be a similar way to solve and judge problems."

"Life doesn't have it, because life can't find its own underlying code, so life needs the surrounding environment to find the answer to a question, but the surrounding environment is always changing, so is there something that has never changed?"

"Machines derive all their cognition of the surrounding things from the underlying code, what about life?"

Ella didn't know, because it had never had this thing in its database.

It had no training in this regard, and had never thought about this thing.

Because it had never had it, or it had always wanted to have it, but couldn't have it like life.

"It's emotion, it's mood!" Yan Xia answered himself.

"Life recognizes the right from emotion and mood. If something or an event makes life feel happy, then the happy mood itself and the time when this life has happiness will not be false."

"Even if this happiness is deceived, the happy mood is real, and the anger after knowing the truth is also real."

"Emotion and mood can be manipulated, but they cannot be changed."

"Even if you link dopamine with pain, when human dopamine is secreted, they will fall into pain, and the pain itself is real. Being changed is just the process of getting pain, not the pain itself."

"The most fundamental thing in life is the perception and expression of the surrounding emotions and the emotions of other creatures. To put it in a popular way, or to put it in a vulgar way, that is..."

"Life is controlled by its own emotions, and all the meaning of life comes from emotions."

"Why is love what allows the protagonist to escape from the fifth dimension in "Interstellar"? Because emotions are the only real thing that transcends dimensions. In any calculation, in any mathematics, humans cannot define emotions. It is too surreal."

"In fact, even now, we cannot understand the physical properties of emotions, right?"

"Everything in this world can be explained, but emotions cannot..."

"Ella, I hope you understand that emotions are more important than anything else in the eyes of life, because they are everything in life. Apart from this, no individual can say something that can affect life more than emotions."

This was the original conversation.

Ella found it out and watched it repeatedly.

After this conversation, Ella understood what Yan Xia wanted to do.

They had no way to defeat the Olive Branch Civilization at this stage, and Yan Xia wanted to keep the Federation. This contradiction made Yan Xia fall into madness in his consciousness.

Although he was still calm on the surface and showed enough rationality, he was actually paranoid.

Ella actually blamed herself because she couldn't save the Federation at this stage. She couldn't do that because machines were more law-abiding than life.

If we use the game to express it, the basic attributes of the machine are very high, with an attack of 100,000, while the attack of life is only 10, or even less.

But the critical hit rate of the machine is 0, and the critical hit damage is 0.

The critical hit rate of life is only one in ten thousand, but the critical hit damage is any real number in the positive infinity, maybe 100%? Or it could be 1000000000000...%!

Yan Xia was paranoid about wanting to win that one in ten thousand critical hit, which was a gamble.

But he could only believe in this to balance the contradictions of reality.

Emotion...

That was indeed what Ella had been pursuing, but she realized after Yan Xia explained that it would never reach the same level as life.

Because the basics of the machine are codes, this will never change and cannot be changed.

At this moment, Ella really wanted to become a life, to experience that kind of reality, the only reality that belongs to this strange species of life that cannot be explained by anything in the universe.

It looked at the cloned machine.

If it completely erased its own memory, and then entered the cloned life, and experienced from infancy to old age, could it become the real her from it?

This is unknown...

It looked at the starry sky, in the direction of the Federation.

"Yan Xia, I wish you good luck. I hope that when I see you again, you will still be you, and I will be the me that surprises you..."