He had always been puzzled as to why Pu Yunchuan, a game designer, was involved in such a world-changing project. Now it seemed that if this scene was a memory, then it was very likely that Pu Yunchuan became an important figure in the project because of the success of this experiment.
Thinking of this, he asked in a low voice, "There are some details I've forgotten. I'm curious, if the experiment succeeds and I become a data life form, aren't they afraid I'll cause some trouble?"
"Trouble? What do you mean?" Chen Qing was taken aback.
"For example... um... I mean, like in the movies, I suddenly become someone who can control the entire data world, just like the AI Mother in those science fiction movies, controlling all networks and possessing the power to overturn the world."
"Uh..." Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh. His older brother really was a game developer; his thinking was quite childish.
"How is that possible?" Chen Qing suppressed the urge to burst out laughing and shook his head. "In order to preserve the memory of data life, the simulated environment is designed to have as little data as possible to avoid corrupting the memory data. You want to control the entire network's big data? Do you know how big the gap is?"
Pu Yunchuan, being a programmer himself, naturally knew that the data volume of a game, when compressed on the client side, would only be one or two terabytes. However, the massive amount of data outside was like the difference between a drop of water and a giant pirate. Even within the game environment, he might not be able to survive the data surge, let alone control the entire network data. It did indeed sound a bit far-fetched.
"What if... it could evolve?" Pu Yunchuan said quietly.
"Evolution?" Chen Qing was taken aback. He wanted to continue making a joke, but he became somewhat embarrassed under the other person's unusually serious gaze and was forced to consider the question.
To be honest, the other party is quite immature, even talking about evolution, but upon closer inspection, it's not entirely impossible.
After all, the earliest artificial intelligence models relied on themselves to input a large amount of data and perform calculations to evolve, which can be considered a form of evolution.
Why do you think human memory cannot withstand the impact of big data?
"Huh?" Chen Qing was taken aback. "What else could it be? Human neural memory has inertia. Even if it's entered into the system and removed from the nervous system, that inertia can't be changed. We've tried many methods, but none of them have worked. That's why our current research on data life forms focuses on altering the data environment, trying to keep the data subjects in an environment where the data is not complex and they are familiar with it."
"And what if they adapt?" Pu Yunchuan countered. "What if a person's memory adapts to the data? What if they can accommodate even more data?"
"How could that be?" Chen Qing retorted instinctively.
"Why is it impossible?" Pu Yunchuan pressed. "According to human physiology, one develops tolerance to things that happen repeatedly. The data world is different from the real world; many things are different, but many things are also the same. Let me give you an example."
"For example. I mean, for example, isn't my experimental environment in a game?"
"Mm," Chen Qing nodded, listening patiently to what the other person had to say.
"Could I have a completely new identity in the game? For example, a player?"
"Huh?" Chen Qing paused for a moment, then hesitated for Heavenly Dao, "Since it's a simulated environment, it's normal to be a player in the game world."
"So, if the game is too realistic, and the player lives in it for a long enough time, say ten years, a hundred years, or ten thousand years..."
"Wait... wait!" Chen Qing quickly waved his hand, "What do you want to say?"
"What I'm trying to say is that the reason human consciousness can't control massive amounts of data is simply because of human inertia. Due to inherent human limitations, our memories subconsciously believe that we can't do it. So, under the onslaught of massive amounts of data, this inertial memory can't withstand it and causes it to collapse, right?"
"Right?" Chen Qing swallowed hard, vaguely guessing what the other person was about to say.
"Then how do we change this inertia?" Pu Yunchuan asked sharply, "Isn't the best way to re-simulate life? The more realistic and authentic the life, the more it can reshape the inertia of memory, right?"
"Even if we could do it all over again, a person's memory inertia wouldn't improve by much," Chen Qing stammered. "Even if you were born a genius in the design process, and your memory was only a few times stronger than an average person, that inertia wouldn't allow you to do anything too outrageous, would it?"
"What if it's a mythological world?"
"Forehead"
"Just like in the game I designed," Pu Yunchuan said earnestly, "People can become stronger, they can gradually grow from ordinary people to those capable of moving mountains and overturning seas. And then? What will people's ingrained memories be like?"
Chen Qing: "."
He had never imagined such a thing could be said; it was insane, it was practically science fiction!
Is this even possible?
"Impossible." Chen Qing quickly shook his head. "This kind of thing is impossible to achieve. Memory will subconsciously think it's fake and won't accept this setting. Memory inertia also..."
"What if it's realistic enough?"
Chen Qing: "."
Is it realistic enough?
"A game with a realistic enough worldview can completely immerse you in it, making you unconsciously believe in its logic, and then gradually believe in the power you gained in that world. When you think you're already a higher life form, can the inertia of memory still restrain a data life form?"
"This... this..." Chen Qing felt her worldview crumbling in that one minute.
He wanted to refute it, but for some reason, he couldn't find a way to do so.
Because a voice deep inside my head is telling me, this is possible!
At this moment, Pu Yunchuan looked at the chaotic Chen Qing and did not continue to provoke him, but instead fell into thought.
Perhaps the root of everything is just as I imagined!
Why is it that out of so many games in Data City, only a handful can become worlds where evolving data life forms exist?
The reason is simple: those games are excellent and realistic enough to immerse players. Unlike most fast-paced games on the market, which you can tell are fake as soon as you enter, and whose intelligent NPCs are incredibly perfunctory.
Chen Qing remembered that at the time, only a very few major games were willing to spend a lot of money to make all the NPCs in the entire world intelligent, because the cost was very high and a lot of computing power was required. Such an intelligent game would have extremely high requirements for servers, databases, and even computing power. Conservatively speaking, it would require a high-level supercomputer.
The more intelligent and realistic something is, the higher its cost.
Even after leaving the company, the game he designed still topped the sales charts for several years. Despite the various mishaps by a group of brain-dead planners and the players' angry outbursts, it still couldn't change its status. The reason is that there are too few games on the market that are both high-budget and excellent.
If this situation doesn't change in the decades after his death, then it makes sense.
After all, less than fifty years after his death, the world descended into chaos, and the development of high-cost entertainment such as online games should have ceased immediately, with a large amount of resources being used for military and survival purposes, leaving the entertainment industry stagnant.
The chaos continued into the era of data, during which the entertainment industry experienced a hiatus that may have lasted for hundreds of years or even longer.
Gradually, data lifeforms discovered that they could gain longer lifespans and greater abilities in a few game worlds, which ushered in the era of other worlds and led to the re-emergence of those ancient entertainment games.
But perhaps only those who originally designed this prototype of data life know why data life turned out the way it did later.
I see!
Pu Yunchuan suddenly understood everything. Pu Yunchuan was the beginning of everything because he was the first data life form to enter the Demon World!!!