"Senior Feng was also a trailblazer for our Jiyin Valley." Ai Qinglan rarely showed such respect. "You and Turing were both pioneers who used mathematical thought to study the Path of Living Beings. Many of your theories have also been deeply enlightening to us."
Feng Luoyi nodded and accepted the compliment. It truly was his glory.
Beast Mechanisms—the things known on Earth as "Von Neumann machines"—had originally been a design proposed by him.
Furthermore, Cellular Automata were also his invention. Through the finite state changes of countless cells on a grid—or rather, the "elementary units" of a Cellular Automaton—such pixel patterns could simulate different concepts such as "self-replication," "reproduction," and "evolution."
The Hand of the Common People had also proven that if "self-replication" was the fundamental property of living beings, then this property could likewise be acquired by "mechanisms."
—This had been the original concept behind Beast Mechanisms.
The earliest Beast Mechanisms were extraordinarily enormous and exceedingly clumsy. Even equipped with advanced calculating devices, they could not make particularly nimble movements. They could only be placed in lands rich in minerals, where they mined resources and manufactured more of their own kind.
Burning Gold Valley's continual breakthroughs in the development of metal spiritual materials made improvements to Beast Mechanisms possible. Meanwhile, the efforts of several generations at Thousand Machines Pavilion steadily shrank them.
Yet at the same time, these mining Beast Mechanisms placed ever-higher demands on their command calculating devices.
The Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm allowed people to see the possibility of Beast Mechanisms bearing their own computational burden.
But it was not until Lord Suan successfully established a Beast Mechanism network using chaotic algorithms and geometric topology that this special magic artifact truly became practical.
Now, Beast Mechanisms had already become one of humanity's great killing weapons. Feng Luoyi