The man who had experienced everything sat in the chair. Didn't speak immediately. She seemed to be considering the angle from which to discuss this matter. After a while she became calm and haughty again.
"Thinking neural guidance simulation." She said, "It is just one of the necessary processes."
"In my opinion, that is a sacrificial activity." Ji Xun replied without pause, "concentrated blood sacrifice to a neural simulation system. In your knowledge system, that is meaningless. Kill spiritualism The researchers will not improve the structural flaws of the slicer. They are all sound people with limited thinking. You hope that the faulty part of the system is located in the limited structure, which lacks support."
Zhuer reminded: "But it does work, Mr. Ji Xun. You and I are sitting here. Our meeting is due to the operation of the slicer."
"You think this was done using a dissected mentalist neural simulation. In the final moments, that last victim, whose death precipitated the proper activation of the Slicer?"
"You saw Weiss' memories. I think the answer is clear enough."
"I saw some information. But that's not the answer."
Jules exhaled softly like a sigh, and seemed to be making a slight mocking sound.
"Let me tell you this in detail." She said, "Initially, we just wanted to find out where the structural errors of the segmenter were as soon as possible, and that required a lot of free disease neural networks as a reference... I don't think I have to Explain to you the complexity of the mind, Mr. Ji Xun. Even the neural structures of patients with dissociative disease are so different that trying to merge them analytically is almost impossible - we are almost guessing which part affects the infinity .Trial and error is part of the process, and we cannot guarantee how many samples are needed before success. At the same time, some people ask us to draw a line of control and promise that we will not use any patients with mild dissociation disease for analysis. Because 'they can still hope to recover'."
"I have also tried some simple things. For mild cases, it is possible to relieve symptoms. At least, it is easier to avoid worsening."
"What you are dealing with is not a real patient, Mr. Ji Xun. Compared with the situation we encountered, the people living here only have some mild delusions. Real wandering sickness is irreversible. No, they don't will recover again. What trapped them was a great concept, something we didn't understand yet. How could we treat it? They had become a building block for those who came after them, a ladder to the concept. That's what they could do A final contribution. If they were still able to communicate, I think they themselves would agree. There is no need to weigh: to be the cornerstone of saving civilization, or to face the end as unconsciously as a dead thing. A lot. People came to me before they got sick and expressed their willingness to participate in the Slicer Study."
"Many people," Ji Xun pointed out, "but not everyone."
“To accomplish something really important, you can’t expect everyone’s approval.”
"I don't disagree with that. However, I guess you haven't really counted the number of spiritualists."
"They are an unquestionable minority. Even among neutrals, their view is not supported - in dealing with the big squeeze, preserving the spirit of civilization is more important than any form of material escape. This is a very absurd opinion. , Mr. Ji Xun, I don’t think I need to point out how ridiculous it is. They are a group of righteous people who have made no achievements. No one really supports their views, just in this one incident - demanding the termination of segmenter research and Patient neurosimulation—they just happened to cater to the wishes of the rabble on this one."
"So, how to explain your mentor's objection?" Ji Xun asked, "I saw the news from several people's memories that she was taken away by the ethics review committee. In view of her reputation and contribution, I think she cannot be simply summed up as mediocre.”
"Wise men make mistakes," Jules said. The smile and arrogance on her face disappeared, but were replaced by a solemn look of mourning. Still, her interlocutor never saw guilt or doubt on her face.
"What we are undertaking is an unprecedented creation," her voice became softer. "In the entire history of our civilization, there has never been a moment so dangerous and so close to immortality. That makes those of us Many people are at a loss. In the eyes of people who are accustomed to mediocrity, things that are too great are always suspicious. At the same time, there is a price to pay - the price of change is unbearable for some individuals, because the fire Rebirth will inevitably take off the old body. But that is an objective law, Mr. Ji Xun, and the right things will always appear from subsequent history."
"I reserve my opinion." Ji Xun said, "But please continue. I still want to know how the conflict between you and the spiritualists intensified."
"The part I know is less dramatic, I'm afraid, very clear and simple. After all attempts to shut down the Slicer failed, the first Mentalist took violent measures. He tried to attack our core researchers. There were two Three people were seriously injured for this. Naturally, he was also caught by the ethics review committee. The crime of attacking citizens is unforgivable, so neutrals no longer support them. The fewer supporters there are, the fewer measures they can take. The more limited they are. As you can imagine, it will become more and more extreme, until they are recognized as a completely illegal organization. That process did not take long, and I only have a rough understanding of the changes in public opinion in the meantime - after all, My job was to get the slicers to fire up correctly. The mentalists were a tiny fraction of all the difficulties I encountered."
The solemnity that originally rested on the face of the immortal man has disappeared. When the subject left her mentor, she became a proud host again. "They helped me a lot on the other hand," she said sarcastically.
"As a sacrifice?"
"As I said before, our first generation system had a lot of structural flaws that were difficult to locate. We need to know what the problems are. And if we can't know, then at least we need to determine what the correct structure is. That's not specific to The Spiritualists...we were simply asking for felons to be used as experimental material. And at that moment, most of the material we had available was Spiritualist."
"And then you started hunting down spiritualists directly, even if there was no criminal conduct."
"Their entire organization has been deemed illegal. I won't get into the specific process with you, Mr. Ji Xun. There are many details in the establishment and implementation of social laws, especially since we are in a very turbulent society. Everything All for survival. But for me, I only care about whether the slicer can be completed. Before the big squeeze comes, even one second in advance, it will find the way to escape. And if it does have infinite thinking, Then it can independently use the resources we provide to solve tasks without any external communication and interference. As you can see, it did it. It created this city. I am proud of all the achievements of our era, But compared with this city, it is like a grain of sand facing the universe. We have created the last miracle in the history of the universe."
Ji Xun looked around the front hall again.
"This is the escape plan that the Slicer provides you with," he said thoughtfully. "It creates a final place for you to survive. Have you ever considered how this is accomplished? After all, this is no longer the case. It's just a mind game. It creates a reality for you."
"We had no time to think about it," Juul said. "In fact, we never knew exactly what the launcher was going to offer us until it was launched. What happened that day was a complete surprise."
"Then please go back to that day. I want to know the details of everything that happened then."
"You've seen it in the memories of my former colleagues."
"I would like to check the details with my own eyes." Ji Xun still said, "About how you killed the last spiritualist, maybe this is much more important than you think. That is the starting point of everything - it may also be the end of everything .”
