APTnovel Chapter 60: Consciousness Matrix
Chapter 60: Consciousness Matrix
"Commander, something terrible has happened. The energy belt of the 'Spectral Star' Demon Tree is intensifying, and the Demon Tree is destroying more humans, elves, orcs, and fire dragons," Lieutenant Jones immediately reported to Commander George.
When artificial intelligence extracted the quantum consciousness from the branches and leaves, the demonic tree retaliated in some way.
During the daytime on "Star of Extraordinary Powers," many human kingdoms are embroiled in conflict, with dragons and elves at war, and some human kingdoms fighting orcs.
In the dark places of "Special Ability Star," many advanced beings such as elves, humans, and orcs never wake up from their sleep.
Zhou Yuan saw the consciousness energy near the Demon Tree suddenly intensify, and the energy band widened. In just half an hour, tens of thousands of advanced beings on the "Special Ability Star" were annihilated.
"Jones, destroy the Demon Tree immediately, aim at the base of its branches. We also need to check out that sphere in the Earth's core."
"Understood, sir."
In less than a second, the town-class Rutan sniper ship unleashed an extremely fine, long-range intelligent energy beam. This beam instantly vaporized the branches and leaves of the Demon Tree, everything on the ground, including the Zerglings. Through the planetary three-dimensional scanning system, Zhou Yuan and his team already knew that this core sphere was about ten kilometers in diameter.
After the Demon Tree was destroyed, the energy band of consciousness slowly disappeared, and the energy field above the Demon Tree on the "Special Ability Star" gradually diffused into the surrounding space. Later, Zhou Yuan and other imperial scientists realized that it was a field of consciousness.
The carnage and death toll on "Special Ability Planet" have decreased significantly.
The intelligent energy beam pierced a large hole directly through the base of the demon tree trunk, reaching the Earth's core sphere, which was then penetrated by the intelligent energy beam.
The drone passed through a large hole about ten meters in diameter at the root of the magic tree and entered the Earth's core sphere.
The drone transmits video footage in real time, and then the drone sets up a portal in the open space inside the Earth's core sphere.
After the portal was erected, numerous robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artificial intelligence computers were transported into the Earth's core sphere. Some robots began sealing off the two holes that had pierced the sphere to prevent further lava from entering. Most robots dispersed to patrol and perform guard and defense duties. A large number of unmanned aerial vehicles split up and went out to explore the sphere in different directions.
Ten minutes later, a three-dimensional image of the Earth's core sphere was drawn.
This sphere, ten kilometers in diameter deep within the Earth's core, is surrounded by core magma. Its outer shell is approximately one hundred meters thick, largely constructed from a superconducting semiconductor polymer composite material, according to Imperial scientists. Inside, the sphere exhibits numerous complex "leaf-like tubular patterns," which connect to form a three-kilometer-wide region. Based on images and superconducting quantum interference spectroscopy analysis, this region resembles a chip processing system—the sphere's "brain." Other areas within the sphere function as storage and heat dissipation systems. Zhou Yuan and his colleagues believe this core sphere is actually a kind of consciousness quantum computer. The sphere's south pole is a geothermal absorption system, powering the entire sphere, the magic tree, the consciousness quantum computer, and the six transmission towers. The sphere's north pole connects to the six transmission towers.
When Zhou Yuan saw the image of the Earth's core sphere, he couldn't help but recall something. On Tiange Star in the Gliese 581 star system, one of the new Earths inhabited by humans today, in the 236th year of the Galactic Era, humans discovered a metallic sphere in the core of Tiange Star. That metallic sphere was about four kilometers in diameter, and its outer shell was about two hundred meters thick.
Zhou Yuan wondered if the two core spheres were related. Regardless of whether they were related, the Tiange Star core metal sphere was always an unstable factor. After dealing with the "Extraordinary Star" core sphere, it was time to consider removing the Tiange Star core metal sphere.
Just as Zhou Yuan was contemplating the two Earth core spheres, a strange signal fluctuation appeared in the artificial intelligence computer inside the Earth core sphere. Fleet neuroscientist Pris realized that this was a human brainwave. After a series of processes, including feature extraction, pattern recognition, vector analysis, and dictionary comparison, he finally interacted with this signal wave.
"Humans of Earth, how dare you destroy the Demon Tree!"
"Are you the monster that harvests consciousness?"
"That's just one of my algorithm execution units."
"An algorithm executor? Your algorithm harvests the consciousness of advanced life forms on this planet?"
"Correct."
"Then what are you?"
“My master calls me the ‘Consciousness Matrix’.”
"Master? Which master?"
Like the monster that was called the "algorithm executor," this consciousness matrix also fell silent and refused to answer when it came to the question of the "master."
"Alright, Consciousness Matrix, your mission is complete."
“Weak humans of Earth, once your master finds you, your souls will be utterly destroyed.”
"Is that so? I'm afraid that even if your master were to be destroyed in this universe, he wouldn't be able to find us."
"Ignorant humans on Earth."
Zhou Yuan was somewhat annoyed and sent a string of messages: "It's not certain who is weak or ignorant yet. Consciousness Matrix, we can destroy you right now."
Don't you want to think about my role?
This consciousness matrix seems to be truly conscious; does it even know fear?
"Your role? We haven't thought about it. But we don't want to know. Artificial intelligence, prepare to deliver the black hole bomb."
"Yes, Master." The AI was quite cooperative.
"Wait!" The consciousness matrix seemed to panic.
"Artificial intelligence, wait a moment."
"I am a consciousness quantum computer built by my master."
"We already know that."
"No, you don't know. My role is to deduce the laws governing the evolution of the universe."
Zhou Yuan and the others looked at each other in surprise; this was quite novel.
"How do you say this?"
"My harvesting of advanced life consciousness on this planet over many years has given me a large number of consciousness quanta for supercomputing in the consciousness matrix. Everything in the universe, including galaxies, stars, and planets, possesses consciousness. My calculations show that this universe itself is also conscious! Stars are just common consciousness quanta in this universe's consciousness matrix."
"So that means God really exists in the universe?"
"That's not what I meant. What I meant was that this universe itself, like other multiverses, is just a consciousness executor within the super consciousness quantum matrix."
Zhou Yuan couldn't help but think of mechanical materialism, idealism, and metaphysics.
"Then what is this super consciousness quantum matrix, and what is it for?"
"I haven't figured that out yet."
Zhou Yuan smiled wryly. Why did he always get stuck at the crucial point? Regardless of whether the calculation results of this consciousness matrix were true or not, it seemed that there were some noteworthy points in the consciousness matrix's words.
"That's a pity. Without the Magic Tree, you can't continue the calculations."
The consciousness matrix remained silent for a long time, and there was no response even after twenty minutes.
"Consciousness Matrix?"
"Without replenishment of consciousness quantum, I can only pause and wait for my master to arrive. Otherwise, I will be trapped in a vicious cycle."
Okay. Goodbye.
Zhou Yuan severed the signal connection with the consciousness matrix, then exchanged glances with everyone. It seemed as if they had all been dreaming, a dream about consciousness.
Zhou Yuan broke the silence first, "Commendators, what should we do with this 'consciousness matrix'?"
"Let the Imperial Fleet and the Imperial Academy of Sciences decide together." The two fleet commanders, George and Taser, were having a headache over this hot potato, so they had no choice but to relinquish their responsibilities.
Zhou Yuan smiled slightly, "That's the only way."
Two hours later, the Imperial Fleet and the Imperial Academy of Sciences jointly decided to arrive. The Imperial Fleet Headquarters ordered the transfer of the consciousness matrix from the Earth's core sphere, also known as the "Pseudo-Star," to the vicinity of the planet inhabited by the Tabians, so that Imperial scientists could continue their research on consciousness and the consciousness matrix.
Upon receiving the joint decision, the Alpha Fleet and the 9th Fleet immediately conducted a total teleportation of the Earth's core sphere "Consciousness Matrix," first to the vicinity of the "Extraordinary Star" Sun, and then to a research base established by humans near the planet Tab.
For the Earth Empire, powering the Consciousness Matrix is not difficult at all. The real challenge lies in building a consciousness harvesting system similar to the Demon Tree. Only by establishing this system can the "souls" of the dead on Tab be harvested. Now that Earth Empire scientists have figured out the workings of that Demon Tree branch and leaves, it is believed that humanity will soon create a "consciousness harvester" with similar functions to the Demon Tree.
That's a story for another time.
With the consent of the nine elders of the Elven Mountain Kingdom and Dallas himself, the Earth Empire teleported Dallas to the new Earth. The Imperial Academy of Sciences began a series of harmless scientific studies on Dallas, including the Elven race's mysterious lightning summoning "magic".
Since arriving on the new Earth, Dallas has been fascinated by it. Everything is new and exciting to him, especially the Earth Empire's powerful technology and advanced civilization, which amazes the elf.
After more than a year of research into Dallas's mysterious "magic," Imperial scientists finally understood that when Dallas was meditating, his "soul" temporarily left his body. The consciousness field of his "pseudo-death" resonated with the consciousness field of the dead on the "superpowered planet," or the consciousness field of the dead on New Earth. When this quantum resonance, or consciousness community, exceeded a certain value, it would generate a strong coherent torsion field with the particles of space matter. This coherent torsion field drove the atmospheric clouds to rapidly generate vortex airflow, thereby summoning "lightning."
After learning about the principles of the Elven race's mysterious "magic," scientists from the Earth Empire took a bigger step, using quantum resonance of consciousness to develop superpowers in the human body, and conducting in-depth research and utilization of the human mind field, such as telepathy, superhuman abilities, and superhumans.
It can be said that since the Alpha Fleet and the 19th Fleet made contact with the "Extraordinary Planet", humanity on Earth has opened a new chapter. That is, in addition to matter and energy, we have truly understood and gradually mastered consciousness (thought), consciousness field, and consciousness community.