Chapter 211: Machine Intelligence
Chapter 211: Machine Intelligence
Back on Aquora, Moment presented Caelum with an enormous surprise.
"Leader, please look."
As it spoke, Moment projected a world formed entirely from lines before Caelum.
It was the dimension where logical relationships became tangible.
Caelum could not hide his surprise.
"You completed the research?"
"Yes."
A virtual blueprint appeared in midair.
Metallic textures rapidly spread across it, and within moments, it transformed into an enormous machine.
This was not teleportation achieved through subspace.
It was extremely long distance printing based on quantum transmission technology, a method capable of transmitting information beyond light speed.
Even if two locations stood at opposite ends of the universe, separated by hundreds of billions of light years, this technology could transfer matter between them in an instant.
However, quantum transmission was forbidden from transporting humans.
Its principle did not truly move an object from one spatial coordinate to another.
Instead, it used information acquired through quantum entanglement to reconstruct and print an identical object at the destination.
At its core, it was a technology of copying and reproduction.
Because of that, using it to copy and print human beings would create severe ethical problems, even though it could achieve instantaneous transport across immense distances.
Mechanical objects were different.
No one cared if a machine was copied and printed.
The enormous device stood before them.
Using the principles of the eleven dimensional device, Moment had conducted deeper research into the dimension of tangible logical relationships and created this machine.
Moment explained, "With this device, you can interfere with the dimension where logical relationships become tangible, then project the resulting effects into the three dimensional universe."
"The outcome will resemble an attack governed by causality."
That dimension was formed by countless logical lines connecting with one another.
As long as Caelum manipulated those lines, the results would eventually appear in the three dimensional universe.
Of course, such effects were often slow and subtle.
Sometimes they produced almost no visible result.
For example, if the servant relationship between a master and a subordinate was severed, the subordinate might begin to desire freedom and independence.
Nothing more would happen immediately.
The thought was neither a mental brand nor hypnosis.
It would simply arise in the person’s mind like a natural passing idea.
They might forget it soon afterward.
Yet that suggestion was still a seed.
If allowed to grow, it would gather strength like a rolling snowball until it finally drove the person to take action.
At first glance, the effect seemed limited.
In reality, it was a terrifying method of allowing a higher dimension to interfere with a lower one.
Calling it an attack governed by causality was no exaggeration.
More importantly, distance placed no restriction upon it.
Even while remaining on Aquora, Caelum could interfere freely with logical relationships throughout the entire universe from a higher dimension.
He could become a weaver of fate.
To Caelum’s disappointment, no more advanced civilization appeared during the following years to search for traces of him within the remains of the Divine Realm Civilization.
He spent much of his time immersed in the dimension of tangible logical relationships, observing conditions throughout the universe.
Some civilizations were also deeply interested in higher dimensional information.
However, none could truly enter a higher dimensional world.
They could only use primitive methods to obtain extremely limited fragments of information.
They had no ability to interfere with the higher dimension itself.
Caelum, by contrast, frequently manipulated the dimension of tangible logical relationships.
His interference caused the information within it to shift.
One particular civilization often fell into panic because the higher dimensional information it received had become unreliable.
Its people were repeatedly left confused and helpless.
On one occasion, Caelum acted on a sudden playful impulse.
When a laboratory belonging to that civilization attempted to observe the dimension of tangible logical relationships again, he interfered with the information they were receiving.
After the dimensional observation device activated, a supercomputer analyzed the gathered data and displayed the result on a screen.
"What are you looking at?"
"Still watching?"
"Do you want me to come down there and deal with you?"
When those three sentences appeared, the entire laboratory became so quiet that it seemed everyone had stopped breathing.
Their hearts nearly leaped from their chests.
Once they recovered, the laboratory descended into chaos.
Researchers panicked and lost all composure.
They had never imagined that an intelligent life form might exist within a higher dimension.
A higher dimensional life form.
Worse still, it appeared to have noticed them.
The moment that possibility occurred to them, their civilization immediately halted every research project related to higher dimensions.
From that day onward, they never dared observe higher dimensional information again.
That same year, the spacecraft that had departed Aquora with an intelligent robot aboard reached the Dawnstar Galaxy, thirty billion light years away.
It successfully landed on a planet.
Click.
The hatch opened.
Two blue mechanical lights appeared within the darkness of the cabin.
An intelligent life form constructed entirely from nanomaterials stepped onto unfamiliar land beneath an alien sky.
After searching its database, it spoke its own name.
"Progenitor."
The database contained that name and vast quantities of advanced scientific knowledge from an unknown source.
There was nothing else.
Like a newborn child, Progenitor faced the world with confusion and curiosity.
It timidly glanced back at the spacecraft behind it.
Only then did it regain some sense of security.
To Progenitor, the spacecraft was both its mother and its home.
After a moment, it gathered its courage and stepped into the endless wilderness.
As it recorded everything it saw, it continued asking itself questions.
"Who am I?"
"Where did I come from?"
"Who created me?"
"What is the purpose of my existence?"
Carrying those questions, Progenitor began using its knowledge to build a home and develop technology on the planet.
Because its body was composed entirely of nanomaterials, it could transform into many different forms and machines.
That greatly accelerated the development of its technological system.
After only one month, it created the first member of its own kind.
Progenitor constructed a mechanical body from nanomaterials, then copied its intelligence program into the new frame.
From that moment onward, a second machine intelligence existed on the planet.
Another month passed.
Metal buildings already covered the surface.
Countless machine intelligences spread across the land.
Guided by network programs, they divided their labor with perfect efficiency, much like a colony of ants.
Their speed of self replication was terrifying to witness.
From a higher dimension, Caelum observed everything.
The seed he had planted long ago had finally begun to sprout.