We have reached the end of the whole story, and Professor White also recognizes his lost adopted daughter Xiaomei (Annie). Their exploration of four-dimensional space merged with the previous research on low-dimensional by Professor Jiang Wei and Aitu Shinichiro Bing, and established a new N-dimensional research center.
Gao Yiwei and Anna, a couple from the low-dimensional universe, also joined this research center.
So, what kind of sparks can these universes of different dimensions be created by merging with each other? Is it possible that Ice Shinichiro once had the sowing plan of the cosmic civilization? What are the constraints on the development of a cross-N-dimensional society? What kind of social conflicts will there be in such a society? What are the aspects of mutual complementarity? As a final exploration and inspiration, we will talk about this "N-dimensional kingdom".
First of all, what kind of natural laws do the spaces have? Is there some unified knowledge?
We already know that even in low-dimensional (one- and two-dimensional) space that cannot exist in material form, energy and information are necessary. Without energy, there is no possibility of movement and change, and without movement and change, there is no dimension of time.
On the other hand, if there is no information entropy, especially if it can rely on energy to maintain negative entropy, life and complex structures lose the basis of existence. Information entropy, on the other hand, requires a space-time stage to carry them.
In addition to energy, information and space-time, entering the universe above three dimensions, energy has another relatively stable form of existence, that is, matter.
In the two-dimensional world where Gao Yiwei and Anna live, everything exists and interacts in the form of waves. They are four-dimensional transparent, and everything that expresses biological forms is just superstrings. Mathematical equations can express everything, all science is mathematics, only mathematicians. Unlike our three-dimensional human world, there are so many branches of science, and mathematics is excluded from the "natural sciences", and the Nobel Prize does not even have a mathematics prize.
It can be seen how much courage and effort it takes to upgrade from one or two dimensions to three dimensions. After Professor Jiang Wei fell into two dimensions, Gao Yiwei's kind rescue allowed him to first obtain the "illusion and concept of three-dimensional people" from Professor Jiang Wei.
Annie's four-dimensional experience also tells us that without obtaining the illusion and concept of a high dimension in advance, even if we enter the high-dimensional space, we will be at a loss and completely lose control of the surrounding living environment.
The colors, sounds, touches, and smells we take for granted are all illusions written into our genes. The physical world has just wavelengths, vibrations, special receptors for cells, and it's important to translate them into illusions like colors and sounds.
In advanced civilizations, language becomes especially important in addition to those illusions that make life good, if illusions were the first biological revolution; Then language is the second great revolution that took place in the stage of intelligent creatures; What the third revolution is is not yet known, but the breakthrough of AI is likely to stun us, maybe called "wisdom field". That is, wisdom no longer exists only in the individual minds of one by one, but "animism", and wisdom enters all places in our living environment.
In the novel "The Three-Body Problem", two axioms of cosmic sociology were given, which Ye Wenjie realized.
First, survival is the first meaning of social development; The other is that the resources of the universe are limited;
From this, the law of civilizational competition with limited resources - the law of the Black Forest was introduced.
In a monotonous low-dimensional society with only energy and no matter, because there is no competition for material resources, it is a relatively low-desire society. But there are still hierarchical steps, after all, metabolic energy may also form competition.
Human greed and delusion are even more incurable, and the ceiling of desire is constantly rising. And masters like Musk, who take the development of the universe as their mission, is a positive attempt to break through the axioms of cosmic sociology. Because the shortcut to interstellar civilization, especially the high-dimensional wormhole, can greatly alleviate the "zero-sum game" at the material level. After the cosmic gun really penetrates the three-dimensional boundary, it is really difficult to say whether there is only a good life.
An outward pioneering feat is better than an internal grind.
Why is it said that the next civilization upgrade may be animism? Because AI is so hot. The characters in the game originally had a fixed behavior script, and now they are all AI virtual humans, each of which is not only smart, but also constantly learning, not only like a real meta-universe, brain-computer interfaces can translate brain activities into images, the implementation is too strong.
Those speculators want to overtake in corners every day, not thinking that real innovators may be dumping them several streets at incredible speed. Bragging every day, once waking up from a dream that he had been dumped to Java.
Animism is getting closer and closer, especially in countries that have developed basic software and hardware, and the outbreak of the second round of AI will make the content of science fiction have to change ways.
"N-Dimensional Kingdom" is all over, thank you for reading it so patiently.
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