Chapter 154 Collective Electric Field

Returning to the headquarters building of the 13th Division of the Planetary Security Bureau, Lu Ming and Lu Qingliang gathered together again.

After meeting Li Wenhua, the four of them came to the Planet Security Research Laboratory together.

After each team performs a mission, no matter whether the mission succeeds or fails, they must come here after completing the mission to tell the story of the incident, their own decision-making and the basis for the decision, etc., and then keep the files for research.

The rule of keeping the details of the tasks performed by each team strictly confidential is only effective for the team members and does not take effect for the researchers behind the scenes who do not directly perform the tasks.

The four people were separated, and each told the researchers in the laboratory about their experience of this incident with their own understanding.

This is the first time for Lu Ming.

In the previous Shan Shen case, because he was not a formal member of the Second Action Team at the time, he did not participate in the final procedure.

"At that time, my thought was that the person in Binhai Building must not be a ghost. Even if there is a ghost, it cannot be something that ignores the laws of physics, so I..."

Along with the narration and conversation, Lu Ming seemed to have returned to that time again, reliving his mental journey at that time, and sorting out the murder case again.

It took a long time, three full days, before Lu Ming could tell the whole story.

Because during this process, researchers will ask many questions and ask the task executors, that is, the field personnel of the action team, from various angles about their judgments based on the situation at that time.

Lu Ming took the trouble to explain all the issues as clearly as possible in great detail. Because he knows that these issues are the most valuable first-hand information for these researchers.

Based on this information, they may be able to study many things, such as the most basic and important rules for field personnel, some rules of conduct, and even what kind of situation is the safest way to deal with it.

This has the potential to save many lives.

The action teams cannot know too many details of the mission so as not to interfere with their judgment. These researchers who do not go out in the field and only undertake research tasks do not have to worry about these. They can study these supernatural events from a more transcendent perspective and from a more comprehensive perspective.

During the process of sorting out, Lu Ming also had many new ideas, recalled more details, and took the initiative to review his decision to see if there were any omissions in the environment at that time, and whether it could still be done. better.

But most of these are irrelevant details. Only a sudden inspiration made him fall into deep thought.

Realizing that Lu Ming seemed to be thinking of something, Professor Ning, who came to collect information, took the initiative to shut his mouth.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Mingcai said: "Professor Ning, you know, until the end of the entire case, we still have no answer as to what the 'Lower God' is. However, with the destruction of the underground cave environment, the building God seems to have disappeared. Well, I mean, we tried to organize some people to enter a state of concentration and concentration with the help of drugs. We tried to communicate with the God of the building many times, but failed. Before, this method was There are successful precedents.

It seems that when the fear bacteria are dead, the God of the Tower is also dead. There should be some special connection between the two.

Now, I have a new idea. Well, it's just an idea, a guess, without any evidence. "

The wrinkles on Professor Ning's face relaxed and he smiled: "I'm very interested in the speculation from the frontline field staff. Can you tell me?"

He turned around again and looked at the recorder next to him: "This is very valuable, please take note of it."

Lu Ming was a little embarrassed: "It's just a guess. Do you want to write it down? Will it mislead you?"

"Maybe your guess is true? Even if it's not true, it might also be inspiring to us. How can it be considered misleading?"

Lu Ming put aside his worries: "That's what I think. Could the so-called Lou Shen actually be a brand new life form?"

"oh?"

“What exactly is our consciousness, or wisdom, and thinking?”

Professor Ning was stunned.

This question is difficult to answer.

"Can you find where your consciousness is?"

Professor Ning shook his head.

This obviously cannot be the case. Even if a person's brain is sliced ​​into the most detailed slices, it is impossible to find a certain tissue or cell that people can clearly point to and say that it is consciousness.

But this world is materialistic, and there cannot be such things as souls and ghosts.

So where exactly is consciousness?

"My guess is that consciousness, or thinking, and wisdom are actually descriptions of the state of a certain overall system."

Lu Ming considered the words and sorted out his conjecture: "Among the trillions of brain neurons, not a single neuron is human consciousness. But when so many brain neurons are gathered together and each of them acts differently, the whole It shows the existence of 'consciousness'.

The so-called consciousness, or wisdom, is just an external manifestation of the collective activity of many neurons. When we look at it as a whole and judge its activities and movements as a whole, it looks like wisdom. But if you look at it separately, then consciousness doesn't exist at all. "

Professor Ning smiled and nodded: "That's an interesting guess. Lu Ming, do you have a background in brain science?"

"No." Lu Ming shook his head: "This is just my own imagination. You may not know that I used to be a science fiction writer..."

"Haha, your conjecture is essentially similar to some cutting-edge theories. However, there are quite a few conjectures of this nature. But most of them cannot be confirmed or falsified."

"Yes, I have heard of it." Lu Ming said: "My guess about the Lou Shen comes from this conjecture. My idea is that the Lou Shen is just the collective consciousness under the collective activities and movements of hundreds of millions of fungi. .Uh, that is to say, the Lou Shen itself does not exist, just like our human consciousness."

Professor Ning smiled and said: "Are you saying that a single fear bacteria is just like a single neuron in our human brain? When countless fear bacteria gather together, they will have consciousness, wisdom, and a building god?"

"yes."

"It's an interesting conjecture. What's your basis?"

"There is no solid basis, only some evidence that I don't know whether to count as evidence. The first point is the physiological structure of the fungus itself. You should have read the information. The survival of the fungus must rely on some kind of weak structure created by the collective. Bioelectric field, and this electric field comes from the contribution of each Dreadbacterium."

"Bioelectricity..."

Professor Ning nodded slowly while pondering: "From this perspective, any change in a single fungus can have a certain impact on this 'collective electric field', and as long as it is within the coverage of this collective electric field, even if Another Dreadbacterium located thousands of meters away can also sense this change instantly. At least from the perspective of mutual communication, the barriers that constitute 'collective intelligence' do not exist."

"Yes. There are trillions of phobias. Each phobia is affecting this electric field and is also affected by this electric field. Each phobia is affecting the other phobias and is also affected by all the others. The influence of fungi. The complexity of the interaction and the changes in the collective electric field, I think, should meet the requirements for the birth of a collective intelligence."

"So, this 'collective electric field' is the building god?"

"That's what I guessed. The second basis is that the god of the building can command the fungus. However, the fungus is just a simple single-cell life. Apart from this collective intelligence, or collective electric field, I really can't imagine Is there any other way to direct this kind of single-celled life?"

This thing doesn't even have a brain, how can it possibly accept orders and obey them?

"You mean that individual Dreadbacteria receive instructions from this collective electric field?"

"Yes. This kind of instruction should be very simple, so simple that it can be understood and executed by instinct alone. For example, when the electric field changes to a certain level, the fungus will secrete phobia toxins, and when the electric field changes to another level, it will Secrete corrosive substances, or move forward, backward, etc.”

"A large number of very simple individuals, when aggregated, become a conscious body with higher intelligence? This is really amazing."

Lu Ming smiled and said: "It's not magical. Some of the more advanced artificial intelligence computers in our human world can even pretend to be human beings. But no matter how complex the program is, isn't its essence still just 0 and 1? For this For a holistic thing, what is complicated is its combination logic, not a single individual.

Computer programs act as this logic, allowing simple 0s and 1s to be combined into complex artificial intelligence programs. The collective electric field of the fungi also acts as this logic, allowing simple fungi to be combined into complex buildings. . "

"It's really a magical life."

Professor Ning sighed, and then said: "Do you have any guesses or speculations about the King of Bacteria stone sculpture?"

Lu Ming was silent for a long time, and then said with full uncertainty: "I don't know. But if the God of the Tower is really the collective wisdom of the fungi, then I guess, the God of the Tower...may also have his own worldview, right?"

"World view?"

"Yes. It's similar to the world view of ancient human beings, like the sky being round and the earth being round, or the earth being lifted up by a giant turtle."

Explaining the current environment, explaining the world, and understanding the world are the basic needs of intelligent life.

"The worldview gave birth to primitive religion. The ancients in the savage era tried to use mythology to explain some phenomena in the world, such as the God of Thunder, the God of Rain, the God of Fire, etc. Then, as intelligent beings, the God of Towers should also have his own The only way to view the world is to have your own primitive religious worship.”

"Are you saying that the stone sculpture of the Fungus King could be the object of religious worship of the Tower God? It used the image of the fungus as the image of the god, commanded the fungus to 'carve' the statue, and then worshiped it as a god? Is that why the Tower God was so angry after your teammate He Wei destroyed the Stone Sculpture of the Fungus King?"

If the statues of the gods that you believe in and worship are destroyed and placed on humans, they will still be angry.

"That's my guess. But what the facts are, we may never know."

Professor Ning smiled: "Yes. Well, do you have anything else to add?"

"temporarily unavailable."

"Okay, thank you. I hope that after the next mission, you can still sit here and tell me how you successfully solved another trouble."

"Thanks."

The two shook hands, and then Lu Ming stood up and left.

Returning to the exclusive conference room of Operation Team 2, before Lu Ming could tell Lu Qingliang, He Wei, and Zhang Dingshan about his new conjecture, Zhang Dingshan announced an important news.

"The latest discovery has been made at the scaled-down Zhenlongzhuang Experimental Base."

"oh?"

Several people immediately cheered up.

"They discovered a difference in the environment inside and outside the dragon-suppressing pile formation. They found that because of the special building structure laid out according to the dragon-suppressing pile formation, when the airflow flows through the outer layer of the building, a certain A relatively rare friction phenomenon. This will add a very weak electrostatic field to the building. It is not yet certain whether this is the kind of 'greenhouse effect' that allows fungi to survive, and they are conducting further research on this."

"Static electric field?"

Lu Ming was stunned.

"I think this possibility is not small."

Lu Ming shared his conjectures about collective intelligence and collective electric fields. When the two are combined, people suddenly feel that this is indeed a possibility.

Maybe it is precisely because of the existence of this electrostatic field that the "collective electric field" of the fungus can exist, which in turn leads to the "collective intelligence", that is, the existence of the building god?

The specific truth cannot be explored at this moment. At this moment, all people can do is make some speculations and conjectures based on some clues.

But no matter what others think, at least Lu Ming has accepted this speculation at this moment.

"This must be a coincidence, right? Well... it must be a coincidence. I can't believe that this so-called dragon-suppressing pile formation, which is derived from ancient inheritance and based on the principle of illusory things like Feng Shui and Bagua, can actually match a certain There is a connection with a strange microorganism that broke away from the mainstream biosphere hundreds of millions of years ago and evolved alone in a closed environment to this day. The wonders of the world's creation are nothing more than this."

Lu Ming was filled with emotion.

It was this coincidence that triggered a series of subsequent events. It not only caused Wu Qingfu's sudden wealth, but also caused his bankruptcy and tragic death. It also caused his daughter Wu Xiuzhu and others to die innocently in the Binhai Building.

The underground caves where the fungi and floor gods have thrived for generations have also been completely destroyed by the garbage and sewage from the human world.

——If the fear toxin secreted by the fungus does not happen to react with the human body and cause extreme fear in humans, maybe Lou Shen will not be discovered by people even if he survives until now.

A chemical substance that is highly toxic to one kind of life may be delicious to another kind of life.

Just like chocolate, it is a delicacy to humans but a poison to dogs.

If the toxin is a substance that can stimulate creativity and boost the spirit for the human body, then the case that happened in Yangyuan City may be a completely different story. Maybe everyone involved in this incident will have a completely different fate.

But what has happened can never be changed. Regarding all this, Lu Ming could only sigh.

This incident is finally over. Next, several people will have a very long vacation. But unexpectedly, Li Wenhua actually called Zhang Dingshan to the office again.

When Zhang Dingshan arrived, he was surprised to see Wang Zheng, the captain of Operation Team 16, also there.

Li Wenhua looked a little unkind: "Wang Zheng, you told Dingshan that you wanted to make a bet? The bet is your sixteenth team's treatment for one month as the only Class A team? Now that Dingshan's second team has successfully completed the mission, what do you do? look?"

Wang Zheng's face was full of smiles: "But Li Chu, Captain Zhang didn't agree to bet with me in the first place."

"I just agree."

Li Wenhua's face darkened: "From now on, your sixteenth team's salary will be deprived for one month and given to the second team."

Wang Zheng grimaced, while Zhang Dingshan had a smile on his face.

He didn't care about the deep meaning behind Li Wenhua's move. He only knew that in this month, he and the others could finally enjoy themselves.

The second volume of "Haunted House" of paranormal incident investigation notes ends.

Please look forward to the third volume of "Prophecy".