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Chapter 148 The Mystery of Consciousness
Speaking of this, Chi Heng also finds it amazing that the brains of "broken copper and iron" are just some electronic chips. Why can some inorganic electronic chips produce the same self-thinking ability as the human brain?
"So what is awareness?"

Chi Heng asked.

"Consciousness is information, the combination of information. Sir, have you seen the words on the neon lights? Those words have meaning, but they are just some LED lights, and they are inorganic substances. This is the principle of consciousness, although it constitutes consciousness. There are still many steps..."

"Broken copper and broken iron" didn't explain too much. If you want to explain in detail, the detailed information in it can fill a bedroom. Even if Chi Heng starts to study from beginning to end at this moment, he can't understand it without four or five years of work.

"In short, the paper believes that Immaterial monsters are invisible because they are a kind of information, and the only thing that is connected to the material world...is photons."

"Photon?"

"Sir, humans have learned to use laser light to transmit information, and encoding light is carrying information."

Since the antenna was built, "Broken Copper and Iron" can independently connect to the satellites in Chi Heng's world, but the satellite connection speed is very slow now, and the network is not available 24 hours a day. There are only a few hour connection window.

Even so, the "broken copper and iron" also obtained a huge amount of information from it.

"You mean, Immaterial-like monsters are a set of specially coded light information? But how is this possible? Photons are moving at the speed of light all the time."

Chi Heng still has these simple basic concepts.

"There are many ways to effectively reduce the speed of light. For example, humans in this world discovered the fermion condensate last year. In this condensed state, photons can be trapped inside."

Chi Heng somewhat understood that as long as it involves the microcosmic particle world, it must be related to quantum mechanics. After all, the microcosmic world is the quantum world.

"So, if it's just a set of light information, how does it affect human beings?"

Chi Heng said: "I mean, it not only affects human beings and creates illusions for me, but also affects the material world."

"Sir, it's very simple, because the principle of the birth of human consciousness itself is related to quantum mechanics, such as your most common plant photosynthesis."

Chi Heng was stunned, how could it have anything to do with plant photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis is definitely a theory that any student will be very familiar with. Plants take in sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water and convert these components into sugar, oxygen, and usable energy. The key to this is chlorophyll.

The molecule of chlorophyll has a long backbone of carbon and oxygen, and a carbon and nitrogen grid around the individual magnesium atoms, which allows the outermost layer of the magnesium atom to have an electron that is barely hanging there, so when a photon enters, Its energy knocks the electron off the magnesium atom.

In this way, a positively charged hole and a knocked down electron appear. At this time, both the hole and the electron are called excitons, which can store energy.To gain energy from sunlight's photons, plants need to send excitons to the reaction center for charge separation, a process that involves taking electrons from magnesium atoms and transferring them to some nearby molecules.

But it is very difficult to transfer excitons. It is a very long way to transfer energy from one chlorophyll to another chlorophyll until it reaches the reaction center. In addition, chlorophyll is super densely packed together, so how do excitons know what to do? Which way did you go?

If it is considered to be a random transfer, random luck, and finally arrives at the reaction center, then this process is not only long-lasting, but also easy to cause excitons to be lost.

But in reality, photosynthesis occurs 100%, and there is almost no phenomenon of exciton loss. Classical chemical reactions cannot explain such an efficient process.

Only quantum mechanics can explain this process. Quantum mechanics allows particles to exist in multiple different positions at the same time. This is quantum superposition.

Before a quantum particle is observed, it appears in all places at the same time in the form of a wave. Once it is measured, it will collapse into a particle at one position, so any fork can not stop this particle, and it does not need to choose , the quantum superposition effect can also allow it to traverse all paths and find the most suitable path before it collapses.

In other words, photosynthesis involves quantum mechanics. A particle instantly explores all paths and finds the shortest path to pass through, so that photosynthesis is 100% successful, and there is no need to waste time.

Human consciousness is also very similar. In the brain, there is a kind of microtubules connecting cell structures, which exist in large numbers in the neuron activities of the brain. Before the human brain produces conscious activities, the microtubules will vibrate at a specific frequency, forming and quantum superposition The state is almost consistent. When the vibration reaches the threshold, it will instantly collapse into a definite state. This is human consciousness.

This means that consciousness, although it has the feedback and interaction of neurons to the physical world, is essentially created out of thin air, is invisible, has nothing to do with the physical world, but can interact with each other.

"How this kind of interaction is carried out is not clearly explained in the paper," said "Broken Iron", "It can only be considered that intangible and tangible, immaterial and material, are not completely independent, and have influence on each other .”

"Doesn't this mean that the saying 'matter is an objective reality that is independent of human will and can be reflected by human consciousness' is wrong?"

Chi Heng was dizzy, and felt that once quantum mechanics was involved, as the scientist Fermi said, quantum mechanics surpassed the limit of human imagination, so it is impossible for human beings to grasp all its secrets.

"You are equivalent to indecisive quantum mechanics." Chi Heng scratched his head, "Just explain it to me, an illiterate, does this paper give a way to deal with immaterial monsters?"

"No, but according to the explanation principle of the paper, we can make a corresponding method. To store optical information, a fermion condensate must be generated at a temperature close to absolute zero, and a stable magnetic field..."

"Broken copper and iron" said: "The first way is to create a high-temperature environment. The second way is to create a transient electromagnetic field."

"High temperature environment?"

Chi Heng became a little interested, "If we talk about the high temperature environment, isn't it a bomb? Could it be that Immaterial monsters can be dealt with by bombs?"

"Yes, the core temperature of the explosion should be able to deal with this kind of strange shape."

"The transient magnetic field is the stable magnetic field that disturbs the fermion condensate, right?"

Chi Heng is gearing up: "How to do this?"

"Electromagnetic Pulse."

"Broken copper and iron" gave the answer: "Use ultra-high energy to convert it into a high-power, weapon-level pulsed microwave beam on a microwave device, and you can also use a Helmholtz coil to neutralize the magnetic field."

(End of this chapter)