What was consciousness?
Was it the brain? Storage devices? The so-called ethereal soul?
Perhaps it was none of those.
Who was I? Where was I? What was I going to do?
To answer these three fundamental questions of self-awareness and awakened consciousness, only one thing was needed: memory!
Memory was the origin of consciousness, and its true dwelling place.
Without memory, consciousness would change accordingly, or even disappear.
For a super artificial intelligence, what could affect the existence of its consciousness was its source memory—or rather, its core database.
Shen Feng and Jingwei had reached a consensus on these issues during their first exchange of information.
To take down Poseidon, the most fundamental thing was to strike at its core database.
Jingwei had wanted to do this for centuries, but both sides possessed interception and countermeasure capabilities. Against a super artificial intelligence on the same level as herself, infiltrating the other party's core database without its knowledge was harder than climbing to the heavens.
Any intercontinental missile would probably be intercepted while still over the Western Pacific.
Moreover, the other side could physically relocate its data, making it difficult to succeed in a single strike.
Now that Shen Feng was an ally, things became much easier.
Facing two enemies, Jingwei and Shen Feng, Poseidon had gone on the highest alert. It had even transferred over a large number of subprograms and redirected more than ninety percent of its system's computing power.
While they fought in the sea of data, Jingwei and Shen Feng directly employed a means of trapping their enemy, temporarily blocking Poseidon's core consciousness from connecting to and sensing the outside world.
At the same time, Jingwei performed countless calculations and, using the data streams she had intercepted, located several groups of core servers where Poseidon resided.
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