Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1508: New Window in the Canteen
What kind of place is a miniature simulation of society? School can be considered one. And especially universities, which are deliberately built into "miniature simulations of society" in various places.

As far as simulation is concerned, a truly good simulation should simulate both aspects of society indiscriminately - that is, allowing students to experience the sweetness of society on one side and to accept the torture of society on the other.

From this point of view, the Imperial College’s simulation of both “honey” and “beating” is very accurate.

Shangluo and Zhu Xianxun were both inspecting the campus of the Imperial College.

Although school had been open for 20 days, the campus was still empty. Because the higher-ups, the higher-ups, and the highest level of the entire empire needed them to show some of the new life that could be, so the whole school was mobilized and dragged into the snow and ice to get machine guns and explosive packs to prepare for a fight.

Maybe in the first few days, everyone would find this interesting. But when this kind of life continued for the 20th day, everyone was numb. Water began to accumulate in the trenches, and the supply of materials became monotonous. When sleeping, there would be scouts at any time, and when awake, there would be emergencies at any time.

A few days ago, the Imperial Army General Hospital sent a medical team to the scene for an assessment. The conclusion was that although everyone was physically fine, if the drill continued, someone might develop psychological problems such as "post-traumatic stress disorder" during this long exercise, or even induce organic lesions in physiological organs due to psychological problems.

So the drill was terminated early. The school gave full marks to both sides. Everyone was a hero and no one was a loser. Because after more than 20 days, no one chose to report back and go home.

Although he might be influenced by the surrounding environment and feel that he cannot retreat; it may also be that he really wants to win this game; or he may have wanted to run away a long time ago, but was persuaded to come back by others.

In short, the attitude of the Imperial College and the court is to judge by deeds rather than intentions. No matter what, as long as you don't quit, you will get points, and everyone can get full marks.

Of course, for an evaluation system, full marks are not the key point. Because when everyone gets full marks, it means that no one gets full marks. Everyone's words and deeds in this competition are recorded, and some people who perform particularly well receive special attention.

For example, the overall performance of the Northern Imperial College this time is a level higher than that of the Southern Imperial College - because in terms of the composition of the students, the children of the Northern Imperial College, who grew up in an industrialized environment, are as tough as the Qi Family Army selected by Qi Jiguang back then.

In theory, this "torture" has exceeded the standard. Because even for Master Wang, being dragged into the snow for 20 days of training is already a large-scale training. For other people living in the mainland, this kind of hardship may not happen many times in their lifetime. In order to show the latest achievements of Reiki technology in front of their parents, the school, the court, and the emperor himself, they were still tied up and stayed there, and they were not tortured to run away.

On the other hand, the performance of the Southern Imperial Academy was actually quite good.

First of all, among the four colleges of the Southern Imperial Academy, two of them grew up in a high-intensity collective environment. Especially the Lan Fang students from Nanyang. Although Lan Fang is a giant corporate country, the civic education it implements is much stricter than that in Kinai, because everyone is trained as a soldier and everyone is regarded as a potential recruit for the Lan Fang Iron Man Army.

After such training, even the Class D personnel who were judged to be unable to participate in combat were very durable. Because at least they were all Lan Fang citizens, and all the students selected to the Imperial Academy were sent as representatives of Lan Fang.

The second group was the natives of the Imperial College—that is, the students of Guayuan, including Shangluo.

Jinyiwei, Xiaolingwei, and various nobles were admitted to the Imperial College with high scores with a suicidal mentality, just to inherit their parents' traditions in the school, and even to inherit their bed numbers and peer relationships. Everyone in Guayuan showed an extraordinary sense of honor, similar to "locals of the Imperial College." Many people in Guayuan were not actually graduates of military academies, but they pretended to be graduates of military academies, and then really crossed the line of fire with military academy students to throw explosive packs.

On this basis, the other two colleges, although they had no foundation at all, still met everyone's expectations.

"So, I learned two things." Shangluo said to Zhu Xianxi next to him, "People are very adaptable. I saw everyone was excited on the first day, and began to suffer on the second day. Then they kept adapting to the environment and accepted it, and finally began to adapt to it. The second point is that people are easily affected by the environment. According to common sense, half of the people in the Southern Imperial College would not have been able to survive, but because the other half survived, they also survived."

"It's a pity that Zhu Ling didn't go."

"I think it's a good thing that Zhu Ling didn't go. Otherwise, she might have turned the competition into a cross-country obstacle race."

"." Zhu Xianxun thought about it.

He nodded.

Zhu Ling is not a delicate princess. She is a person who wrestles with wild pandas in the wild. This kind of survival in the wild just falls into her comfort zone.

If Zhu Ling also participated in this exercise, then with her rich experience in wild survival, which is as rich as that of a panda, and her appeal as the eldest princess, she might lead other people in Guayuan over the mountains and across the ridges to hide behind the Northern Army for a night, and then suddenly emerge in the middle of the night to launch a night attack.

That would become the ultimate torture for everyone on both sides.

Thinking about it carefully, the current situation is already very good, there is no need for Zhu Ling to add additional questions for them. If Zhu Ling really went, the entire drill would probably have ended 5 days ago.

"By the way, is there any news about Zhu Ling?" Shangluo asked, "When I went to see Longlong yesterday, he was still on the phone with her sister."

"Oh, that idiot." Zhu Xianxi cursed, "That guy didn't even realize before he went to Shaanxi that he was a Sichuan panda and couldn't speak Shaanxi's panda language at all. As a result, after arriving in Shaanxi, he was surrounded and beaten by the local bears, and he didn't get anything out of him."

This is not surprising. The Shaanxi pandas and the Sichuan pandas have not met for 30 years, but Long Long, as a panda, did not notice this, which is really a dereliction of duty for a full-time panda.

So halfway through, Longlong had to come back dejectedly, and then called his sister to replace him - unlike the full-time panda Longlong, she was a part-time panda.

However, Longlong's sister was not at the level of a spirit beast. She knew that she needed Zhu Ling's help to complete the long journey, so Zhu Ling also went. "Zhu Ling said she would be back soon. In fact, she found a reddish-brown panda three days ago, but they are negotiating. Because they want to hire people to work, the panda must agree to bring it back to pull the cart. But like other pandas, they just like to lie still and don't like to do anything."

"I remember that some pandas seem to be particularly hardworking?"

"Yeah, Longlong's sister is like that. She likes to show off in front of people and is an old actress when it comes to being cute. But we didn't find the kind of hardworking panda that shines. Most of them are lazy bears like Longlong, who can lie down all day without moving. It's really difficult to find one who is willing to work. However, the one Zhu Ling found now is indeed interested in working, so it's not bad."

"Eh? Isn't that lazy?"

"No. Zhu Ling said that because her brother patrolled too diligently, no other pandas dared to come during the breeding season. So she was planning to move to another place and happened to run into our people at this time."

"There is such a situation with pandas?"

"Yes. The more advanced a species is, the more strange individuals it will differentiate into. Bears are sometimes surprisingly smart. A few years ago, I heard that somewhere in Hokkaido, Japan, there was a village called Sanmaobie that was hit by a bear disaster. A brown bear was determined to fight guerrilla warfare with the villagers. In the face of a large number of hunters, it killed 7 people. Pandas are much smarter than brown bears, but pandas use their brains in different ways. For example, some pandas will act according to the person they are dealing with. They will be very obedient in front of a strict breeder, but will lie on the ground and act like a spoiled brat in front of a novice breeder who can be manipulated. But having said that."

Zhu Xianxin paused.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"In fact, social engineering has conducted some research on where wisdom comes from. A popular view is that: "The gap between the senses and reality forces the system to create a virtual layer, which generates internal consistency through the system's own recursive mapping, and ultimately promotes the emergence of a group consciousness with unified intentions, thereby opening up a recognizable part in reality."

"ha?"

【ha? 】

What is this? Not only Shangluo couldn't understand it, Apollonia also couldn't understand it.

"You don't understand, right? That's true. After all, you don't have so many Tianyi nobles to study. Then I'll start with bears. From observing the behavior of bears, you can find that bears like to act. Many bears will pretend to look at the scenery as if nothing has happened, slowly approach, and then suddenly pounce on you - the reason why bears seem smarter is that they will imagine a 'virtual bear' in their minds. They will imagine the decision-making of this virtual bear interacting directly with the world, and then modify their own behavior through the imagination of the virtual bear.

"For example, black bears and brown bears will create a virtual image and act as a harmless 'cute bear'. They realize that this image can make people relax their vigilance, and then reveal their true form when they are close enough. This is different from the stealth of tigers, because tigers are just hiding their presence, while bears are imagining a 'virtual bear' interacting with each other."

"What does this have to do with group consciousness?"

"Because we realize that there is such a fundamental problem - perception, after all, cannot recognize the true reality. Color is emptiness, emptiness is color. The worldly phenomena you see are just an illusory feeling formed by the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin. There must be an insurmountable gap between the true reality and human cognition. This gap was not obvious to the simple life in ancient times, but after the emergence of multicellular life, the feelings of different cells were mixed together, and there was even a delay between the nervous systems. How did the primitive multicellular life produce the initial wisdom?"

"Through a virtual layer?"

"That's right. This view holds that in order to cope with the external environment that they cannot directly perceive, individual cells create an imaginary community - a 'self'. In other words, although each cell cannot directly perceive the real world, they are all imagining, and the imagination layers of all cells come together to form the self. It is this imaginary self that operates the entire body across the cognitive gap and even the delay of the nervous system. This view is simple and harmonious, and can be extended to families and nations.

"Based on this view, a nation can also be an imagined community created by individuals in response to changes in the outside world. Individuals maintain the commonality of the nation by giving up part of their individuality, forming a collective subconsciousness to better adapt to changes in the environment."

"Ah," Shangluo pondered for a moment, "According to this view, this is how Tianyi Guiren's self-awareness is generated?"

"That's exactly the reason. So this view holds that we should treat Tianyi Guiren as individuals and groups separately, and only deal with Tianyi Guiren who present a group - such as a telephone switchboard. Therefore, we believe that Tianyi Guiren should be stabilized to play a personality, so as to solidify it into an efficient and unified model. The current Tianyi Guiren is still too weak in work ability. If the model can be trained, then the work ability of Tianyi Guiren may get a huge leap."

“This is what we are going to do now, right?”

"That's right. When you make a vending machine, you have to install a set of models inside. We used to let the Tianyi nobles work separately, but now we plan to train the Tianyi nobles as a whole."

"Come to think of it, I do have a fellow called 'Former Youngster' here, and it seems to be like that."

"Eh? If you had a good idea, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"How would I know this principle if you don't tell me? I'm not a social engineer."

"Anyway, let's give it a try. As long as we can train our strength, we will be able to create high-computing virtual life forms in large quantities after we ascend. Because by regulating the number of Tianyi nobles participating in the training, we can regulate the scale of their computing power. This is a goal that has not been achieved before, and perhaps we can achieve it here. In order to achieve it, we need a path."

"What path?"

"Through symbols - disordered consciousness cannot be restrained, we need to establish channels of communication through specific boundaries. In fact, through symbols, you can even teach Bornean orangutans to have simple conversations with humans. Here, we should use the behavior of vending machines to constrain the imagination of collective consciousness. This is real social engineering that can create computing power. We are standing on the cusp of divinity."

(End of this chapter)