“I hadn’t heard of that term,” Juul said. “At the time, we called it the slicer hypothesis—and we didn’t have enough time to find a reliable solution. So we fell back and tried to More time. Imagine that every step we take, we always cross half the distance first, then the remaining half, and then the other half again. In theory, we can always split the remaining distance in two. , we are crossing infinite segments every step of the way.”
"I think you understand," Ji Xun responded, "This is because the behavior itself does not cause changes. But if you try to add meaningful arithmetic information to each segmentation point..."
"Then it will become an untouchable reality. We will never be able to take this step. Yes, this is in line with common sense. Let infinity be completed without cognition, and it will always be just a potential thought. But... in our We faced that moment when something strange happened. I can't describe it exactly because our existing measurement tools all... had some unexplained inaccuracies. We didn't think it was a design problem. It was obvious It’s one of the side effects of the big squeeze.”
"Your fine structure is no longer stable." Ji Xun said, "Where I come from, this is called the spiritual field effect."
"You even gave it a special name. Does that mean you observed it more than once? Even if it only appeared in the context of the Big Crunch?"
Ji Xun began to look at the immortal opposite him carefully, as if he was looking for some kind of evidence on her body. Without showing any sign of satisfaction or disappointment, he responded quickly: "No. The Big Squeeze is not the only condition. Since you created the city, that shouldn't be hard to find out."
"We failed to keep it, Mr. Ji Xun. After the Slicer was activated, we never saw its internal operation. Among all the immortals, I think I am the first one to witness our past achievements with my own eyes. Such as As I said earlier, this requires your participation."
"But why not?" Ji Xun asked, "Before I arrived, you already knew where the passage was and how to reach the resonance frequency. Before I arrived, you had countless opportunities to enter."
"Yes. But we don't know how to leave. At least, Weiss thinks we can't leave. Once we all get in here, all news about the outside world will be cut off."
Ji Xun spread his hands with an interesting expression, as if he wanted to hug the entire front hall.
"You can have it all," he said. "Why leave? If all you want is to escape the Big Crunch, I think this device does its job perfectly."
"What we want is not to escape the Great Squeeze, Mr. Ji Xun. What we want is a future."
"You can also create a future here, whatever you want. As long as you have a room here..."
"But it will never be followed by others." Jules said, "Everyone is ordinary and has no special meaning."
"Now this is about others again." Ji Xun asked, "What are we talking about? The future? Or power?"
The two foreigners in the front hall looked at each other, as if trying to penetrate each other's point of view with their eyes. But in the end, they didn't change anything - after all, this is the house number 3050, the room dedicated to the newly born Lunla. No guest's imagination can work in this room.
"Our topic has gone too far," Jules announced this time. She sat back down opposite Ji Xun.
"As I said before," she picked up the story that was lost halfway, "at the moment when the big squeeze happened, we found that the laws that were considered unquestionable failed. This was catastrophic for some disciplines, and for others Some are turned upside down. The worst news is that we find that most devices based on microphysics fail, and the best news is that we find someone who has crossed infinity with information."
"I guess," Ji Xun said, "it's thinking?"
"You are indeed very experienced, Mr. Ji Xun."
"So what happened to the Pioneers?"
"They have become incommunicable. It is not difficult to imagine, Mr. Ji Xun. Some people living in the edge colonial galaxies were the first to come into contact with the squeeze space, and some of them claimed to have heard voices from the universe. That made them lost in their minds. Most of them still came back, and the rest were lost beyond awakening. It took us a long time to figure out what these lost people were going through, and they had no detectable brain damage. Damage, it looks like mind wandering. But you can no longer communicate with them about anything, not even neuroelectrical readings. This phenomenon is named dissociation sickness."
Jules raised a hand. A gesture indicating a conclusion.
"I'll tell you the conclusion simply," she said. "The investigation showed that they had the deepest contact with that sound - the sound of the death of the universe - and then their minds crossed the line. In their consciousness, some kind of meaningful Infinite calculations occurred, and that prevented them from ever returning to an intelligible form of thought. It is not difficult to speculate that if some of them were thinking about how to escape from the Big Squeeze, they might have got the answer. And we, those in limited thinking, cannot get the answers from their thinking. Infinity has once again achieved information isolation - but we do not allow this. This may be the last chance, the last chance answers. We will do whatever it takes to cross the line.”
"To be more precise," Ji Xun corrected, "you have built an intelligent simulation system based on the neural network of dissociated disease patients."
"I think you know this part from Lunla's memory."
"This is an easy guess," Ji Xun said. "The part I don't know is, how many patients' neural network samples have you uploaded? How many people are left? Can they continue to receive wake-up treatments?"
"You are asking the question knowingly, Mr. Ji Xun. You know that we were in a very tight situation at that time. There was no choice. There were no conservative options here. We either won or had nothing. We used everything we could find to do this. . The computing center was established for this purpose. In order to find the answer within a limited time, we made the first-generation segmenter based on the patient's neural network. You will see what it looks like from Lunla, the endless calculator, which exists in An imaginary infinite city. But it falls far short of our expectations. Neurosimulations are riddled with errors and inconsistencies because we don't know which piece of structure is actually responsible for the infinite thoughts of dissociated patients. Can we All we can do is keep trying, and at the same time we have to keep debating with opponents. The Ethics Review Committee was born during those debates - it is hard to imagine that it was an organization that was originally against us. Mr. Ji Xun, in As the Big Crunch advances toward us, ethics review boards try to prevent us from accessing the ever-increasing number of free-living patients."
"I believe this." Ji Xun responded and said, "For a terminal disease that occurs randomly, your handling method will not make most people feel safe. However, judging from the information I have collected, you are very We quickly gained the support of the chief committee members. I speculate that this has something to do with your discovery of a method to prevent dissociated disease - as long as the ethics committee and researchers are safe, the rest is simple. You made a deal, and Weiss became Chief."
"You know a lot about us."
"I don't think so," Ji Xun said gently. "It's a technical idea to dissect patients with dissociated disease. But I don't understand why you sacrifice spiritualists."
