Chapter 593: Chapter 593

"Is this world truly the real world?!" Tang Yun immediately responded: "...Buddhism has a saying, a world in a grain of sand, a bodhi in a leaf; our Blue Star, our Milky Way, may just be a neuron point of some cosmic creature, our life is just a flashing neural signal of consciousness, right!"

The more Tang Yun spoke, the faster she got, as if her thoughts were becoming clearer; her bloodshot eyes began oozing fresh blood, and black-red blood was flowing from her nose, quickly staining the carpet in front of her.

Seeing Tang Yun’s current state, Lin Xian couldn’t help but be slightly startled, recalling the massive upheaval in the scientific community caused by the enactment of the Digital Life Prohibition Act many years ago, which triggered a tsunami-like ideological debate worldwide.

Regarding the concept of "alive," countless people held different views, and those who supported digital life had thoughts similar to Tang Yun at that moment, believing that the essence of human survival is ideological, and the body is merely a carrier. As long as consciousness can be maintained, replacing the body with a robot, a terminal computer, or entering the internet is essentially the same. The digital immortality party believes that consciousness uploading is the ultimate form of life extension, potentially even surpassing the limitations of the flesh.

However, the key to the prohibition act’s introduction lies in the philosophical dilemma of defining life, i.e., without being able to determine whether the consciousness of data simulation and the consciousness iteration of the human brain are the same and possess iterative capability, it cannot be regarded as true life but as AI, whose logic is completely contrary to human morality.

He originally thought this Deep Red World was just a gimmick to fool the wealthy who still controlled resources in the apocalypse, but unexpectedly, they combined digital life theory with the characteristics of the microbial network, having their own perspective on the apocalypse, and were unwavering in it.

"Alas, there’s no saving it." KIKI shook her head, her gaze speechlessly directed at Lin Xian.

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"No... no..." Tang Yun, now in a daze, kept trying to struggle up from the ground, but her limbs had been inactive for so long that she couldn’t stand up properly, saying, "I need to go back, I have to go back, my son, my husband, they are still in there, I can’t wake up now!"

"You still want to go in?! Seventy percent of the people in there are already dead; you’re lucky if you survived without having your brain devoured by the microbial network." Lin Xian looked at the microbial scraps on Tang Yun’s head, pondering the mystery of how the Deep Red World managed to physically isolate the microbial infiltration into the brain yet still connect to the microbial network, which seemed utterly bizarre.

"Her condition is quite rare among this group; her spiritual power is very strong, so her body has maintained its life force," Ding Junyi said, walking over with a mobile terminal, "Those with weaker resistance let their brains overload and can’t last long."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian said: "It seems this Deep Red World hasn’t informed them of this."

"They did say that." Shu Qin said with a complicated expression: "Death means consciousness is uploaded, becoming eternal life."

"Wow." Luo Yang adjusted his glasses: "They actually have a perfect logical loop, quite remarkable people."

KIKI stood with her arms crossed next to Lin Xian: "Of course, otherwise, how could they fool these wealthy people."

Tang Yun listened to the conversation, her face full of astonishment and disbelief: "Impossible!..." she suddenly seemed to think of something, got up, and rushed towards the glass partition, "My husband, my son are still in there!"

"What’s your husband and son’s names?" Luo Yang asked.

Tang Yun immediately responded: "My husband’s name is Wen Dong, my son’s name is Wen Jiacheng, 16 years old, the same year as Wen Qi." She said, looking at KIKI.

"Found... Wen Jiacheng, cabin 0912..."

Luo Yang, holding a mobile terminal, had already accessed the monitoring center here. At this moment, he frowned, looking at Lin Xian and the others, softly saying: "Life signs indicate he has been dead for a long time."

"What?!" Tang Yun was shocked: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! When I was in there, he was clearly there too; it’s impossible that he’s dead."

Tang Yun’s words left Lin Xian with some doubts, and he turned to Ding Junyi: "Director Ding, could it be that consciousness uploading was truly achieved?"

"Yes, yes, it must be like that, it must be!" Tang Yun shouted hysterically.

Ding Junyi, however, remained as calm as still water, responding in a flat tone

"The information I found at the Zero Element Center is insufficient to prove that this microbial network possesses properties of data transmission and storage similar to a distributed cloud network, so it’s uncertain; even if so, it doesn’t seem feasible from a logical standpoint."

Ding Junyi explained: "Firstly, this sky-mushroom microbial network, as a dark species, we currently do not understand its biological logic. For example, the original digital life plan simulated neural networks using quantum computers’ super computational power, compressing consciousness data into iterative quantum bits, achieving consciousness ’uploading’ and ’immortality,’ where the underlying computation logic is quantum bits, i.e., 0 or 1, whereas traditional computers use binary bits, i.e., 0 and 1. But regardless of which, these are computation logics designed by humans, so if such a microbial network is to be implemented, its computational logic must also be compatible with the human brain’s neuronal computational logic. Does this make sense to you?"