Into the Immortal Cultivation - Chapter 2182

[Chapter 195: The Secret Before Knowing [3]]

“I was thinking just now… If you or His Majesty the Dragon Emperor interfered with the growth of this Relief Demon King, resulting in a fundamental difference between the future she and the current she, for example, the future she does not agree with the current her at all… ”

It’s very difficult for this kind of thing to happen.” His Majesty the Demon Emperor asserted: “Perhaps she can exert influence, but her own mind is always the most critical foreign thing, and it is difficult to change.”

“But in theory, it can still be changed. “Wang Qi said: “You will feel tired in this realm, don’t you?” The

demon emperor looked disappointed: “Yeah…this question…”

He paused, then asked: “Do you believe in destiny?”

Wang Qi said : “Originally, I was resolutely unbelieving, but since I saw the God of Beauty, it doesn’t matter whether I believe or not. The so-called ‘Destiny’ is just a vague concept created in natural language. We can only see a set of elements in a limited set. .” The

demon emperor supported his forehead: “Sorry, it’s my fault, I shouldn’t talk to you like this… Let’s put it this way. There is a young man who doesn’t believe in the destiny. He doesn’t believe that there is a destiny that dominates him. If this fate is the will of man, then let this man go to hell. If this fate is the will of heaven, then let this heaven change its appearance.”

“But after a long time, he realized that this will of God was actually him. His own will. It’s not the other self that he doesn’t recognize, but the whole of the past and future, including the present. This is his providence.” The

Demon Emperor spread his hand and looked at it: “Our consciousness , always in chronological order. Or… in your words, the direction of entropy, the direction of the expansion of the universe, and the direction of time in the mind, just coincide. The self we know, no matter who’s self , can only flow in the direction of time? But at the moment when the past and the future come together, the essence of our life has surpassed the sequence. Self-consciousness itself cannot be controlled. We naturally become a huge creature. part of the subconscious.”

“This problem, if you don’t think about it, you won’t even be aware of its existence, just as mortals can live without thinking about the thesis of what I am, we don’t need to think about it, we just need to enjoy the future and the past. Strength is good.”

“But occasionally I also think… We have cultivated ourselves into the will of God, right? Then, what is our current humble self in front of the great sage who designed the Nascent Soul Law?”

Wang Qi automatically filtered out His Majesty’s sadness, and thought: “That is to say, if a self in the distant future wants to convey a consonance to the self in the past, then it must be approved by all the self in the middle? Is every second necessary?”

“This is also a problem.” The Demon Emperor also pondered: “Although I personally feel that I, on the other side of the distant future, have a greater advantage in intelligence, and perhaps have a greater weight… And this process of reverse timing is also very difficult, but in the final analysis, it is an instinctive process.”

People don’t need to understand the ion channels of the cell membrane, the heart will beat naturally, and they don’t need to understand the central dogma, they naturally know how to reproduce.

This process does not require knowledge of the principle nor the details of the process.

In fact, the past-future-in-one instinct works the same way.

You don’t need to know the principle, and you don’t need to know the process.

You don’t even need to know how to make a decision.

The final result will inevitably lead to a decision that one can accept.

Because it must be a decision made by oneself.

The Relief Demon King doesn’t care about life and death. She doesn’t care about her own life all the time, so she can’t see her own death omens.

This is also benevolence.

Wang Qi couldn’t help but think.

“Could it be that… there is still a consensus algorithm problem?”

In other words, the powerhouses who belong to one body in the past and the future may have a consensus mechanism in their body.

The consensus algorithm must start with an “unsolvable two generals problem”.

Two generals are attacking the same enemy. General A is considered the head coach, and General B is the deputy general. Each general’s army cannot successfully defeat the enemy army alone, so they need to cooperate and attack at the same time. This seems to be a simple situation, but there is one thing to note:

in order to communicate between the two armies and decide the battle time, General A must send a messenger through the enemy’s camp to inform General B of the attack time. However, the courier may be caught by the enemy and the message cannot reach friendly forces. That would cause General B and his army to stay put when General A attacks.

Even if the first message arrives, General B needs to confirm that he has received the message, so he sends a courier back, thus repeating the previous situation where the courier might be caught. This situation would extend to infinity and the two generals would not be able to agree.

There is no way to guarantee the second requirement, which is that each general must ensure that the other agrees with the attack plan. Both generals will always wonder if their last messenger will arrive.

Because the probability of the messenger being unreachable is always greater than 0, the generals can never reach a consensus with 100% confidence.

On Earth, this problem is known as the “Byzantine Generals Problem”.

There is also an upgraded version of the Byzantine general problem, called the “two armies problem”.

In the “two armies problem”, two or more generals need to agree on the timing of the attack on their common enemy. And the scary thing is that one or several of the generals could be traitors, meaning they could lie about their choices.

After a series of detailed arguments, mathematicians came to a conclusion.

When the number of traitors is less than one-third, the algorithm can reach consensus.

This is the core of blockchain technology.

It does not need a center, a “command” commanding the generals. As long as more than two-thirds of the members approve an order, the entire system can reach consensus.

It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for the blockchain to penetrate it without fear of internal traitors. The mutiny of any one node is irrelevant. And if you want to hijack more than one-third of the nodes, the price to pay will be too high.

Idealists see it as a means of combating tyranny and centralization, and criminals see it as an outlaw.

Could it be that more than two-thirds of the “self” recognizes a certain foreknowledge that the future flows to the past, so the self of the current node does not recognize it, and can only accept it?

For a while, I didn’t understand.

So, Wang Qi asked the next question: “So, His Majesty the Demon Emperor, what was the battle of the former knower like?”

He knew how to seize this opportunity.

His Majesty the Dragon Emperor has always been a secrecy. He may not want the history he chose to limit the human race to the history he knows, but expects the human race to bring about changes that he does not know.

But he asked Wang Qi to fight against the Relief Demon King, who was a former knower. Can it be considered that… His Majesty the Dragon Emperor has acquiesced in such a thing to happen?

Of course, Wang Qi would never go directly to the Dragon Emperor to confirm this kind of thing. At least not before meeting the Dragon Emperor.

He will use this opportunity to ask the Demon Emperor a few questions.

The Demon King asked back: “What do you think?”

Wang Qi thought for a moment: “Complete information dynamic game?”

Complete game refers to the characteristics, strategy space and profit function of each participant to other participants in the game process. have accurate information. Incomplete information game means that at least one player does not know the information of other players accurately enough, or does not have accurate information about the characteristics, strategy space and profit function of all players.

A static game means that in the game, the participants choose at the same time or not at the same time, but the latter actor does not know what specific action the first actor has taken; dynamic game means that in the game, the actions of the participants have a sequence, and The latter actor can observe the action chosen by the first actor.

Because of this, the game can be divided into: complete information static game, complete information dynamic game, incomplete information static game, incomplete information dynamic game.

Complete information dynamic game, like playing chess. Both sides know all the information on the board. Of course, only Go and Gobang.

Military chess secret chess and flip chess play are all dynamic games with incomplete information.

That might be the case for the battle of the forerunners. Their battle is not just happening in the present, but in the past and in the future. In their view, these battles may even have occurred at the same time.

The ability to know before, does not look at distance, not time, only look at cause and effect.

Perhaps when the two forerunners decide to play a game, or even as long as they are likely to be hostile, they will start fighting.

To the former knower, the universe was just a chessboard. All elements, including past and future self, are pawns.

The demon emperor nodded: “It’s quite… a vivid metaphor. How did you come up with it?”

“You said just now that the rescue of the demon king might be in the game with the devil emperor, and he mistakenly thought that liberating the devil emperor could do anything. Yes.” Wang Qi said, “That’s it… I just thought about it myself.”

“So, I can’t say it wrong.” The demon emperor shook his head: “But I thought about it carefully, if my life really is with you. The description is almost the same, then I’d better erase my intelligence and create a ‘future where I don’t exist’.”

“First of all, limited foreknowledge is ‘limited’ after all. I can’t know too many things, only Knowing the information you care about, and often just a few words. This even has to happen in the foreseeable future. Sometimes it’s even just a little bit better than ‘intelligent insight’.”

“Secondly, as I said just now, sometimes, the game is not necessarily what we call ‘self’.”

[End of this Chapter]