Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 154 Collective Electric Field
Returning to the headquarters building of the Thirteenth Division of the Planetary Security Bureau, the three of Lu Ming and Lu Qingliang got together again.

After meeting Li Wenhua, the four of them came to the Planetary Security Research Office together.

After each team performs a mission, regardless of whether the mission succeeds or fails, they must come here after the mission is over, and tell the story of the incident, their own decision-making and decision-making basis, etc., and then keep the files for research.

The rule that the details of the missions performed between the various teams are strictly confidential is only valid for the team members, and it does not take effect for the researchers behind the scenes who do not directly perform the missions.

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

This was the first time for Lu Ming.

In the previous Mountain God case, because he was not an official member of the second action team at that time, he did not participate in this last procedure.

"At that time, my thinking was that the ghosts in the Binhai Building must not be ghosts. Even if there were ghosts, they couldn't be the kind of things that ignore the laws of physics, so I..."

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

It took a long time, a full three days, before Lu Ming fully explained the whole thing.

Because during this process, the researchers will ask many questions, asking the task performers from various angles, that is, the basis for the judgment of the field personnel of the action team in the situation at that time.

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

Based on these materials, they may research many things, such as the most basic and most 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 can't know too many mission details so as not to interfere with their own judgment. These researchers who are not on the field and only undertake research missions don't have to worry about these.They can study these paranormal events from a more transcendent angle and a more comprehensive perspective.

During this sorting process, Lu Ming also came up with many new ideas, recalled more details, and took the initiative to examine his decision, whether 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 little inspiration suddenly appeared, which made him fall into deep thought.

Sensing that Lu Ming seemed to have thought of something, Professor Ning who came to collect the information took the initiative to shut his mouth.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Ming said: "Professor Ning, as you know, until the end of the whole case, we still have no answer about what the 'Louishen' is. However, with the destruction of the underground cave environment, the Loushen God also seems to disappear. Uh, I mean, we tried to organize some people into a state of concentration and concentration with the help of drugs and tried to communicate with Lou God many times, but failed. Before, this way was There are precedents for success.

It seems that when the horror bacteria are dead, the Loushen is also dead.There should be some kind of special connection between the two.

Now, I have a new idea.Well, just thoughts, guesses, no evidence. "

The wrinkles on Professor Ning's face spread out, 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 write it down."

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

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

Lu Ming let go of his worries: "I think so. Could the so-called Loushen actually be a brand new form of life?"

"Oh?"

"What is our consciousness, or wisdom, thinking?"

Professor Ning was startled.

This question is not easy to answer.

"Can you find out where your consciousness is?"

Professor Ning shook his head.

This obviously cannot.Even if a person's head is sliced ​​in the most detailed way, it is impossible to find a certain tissue or cell, so that people can clearly point to it and say that it is consciousness.

But this world is materialistic, and there can be no such things as souls and ghosts.

So where is consciousness?
"My guess is that consciousness, or thinking, wisdom, is actually a description of the state of a certain overall system."

Lu Ming considered his words and sorted out his conjectures: "Among the billions of neurons in the brain, not a single neuron is human consciousness. But so many brain neurons are gathered together, and they are active differently. It shows the existence of 'consciousness'.

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

Professor Ning nodded with a smile: "Interesting conjecture. 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..."

"Hehe, your conjecture, in essence, is somewhat similar to some cutting-edge theories. However, there are quite a lot of conjectures of this nature. But most of them can neither be proven nor falsified."

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

Professor Ning said with a smile: "You mean, a single phobia is like a single neuron in our human brain? When countless phobias gather together, they will have consciousness, wisdom, and building gods?"

"Yes."

"Interesting conjecture. What is your basis?"

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

"Bioelectricity..."

Professor Ning nodded slowly, while pondering: "From this point of view, any change in a single bacterium 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 Another phobia that is thousands of meters away can also instantly sense this change. At least from the point of view of mutual communication, there is no obstacle to the formation of 'collective intelligence'."

"Yes. Thousands of billions of phobias, each phobia is affecting this electric field, and is also affected by this electric field at the same time. The influence of bacteria. I think the complexity of the mutual influence and the change of this collective electric field should meet the requirements for the birth of a collective intelligence."

"Then, this 'collective electric field' is Loushen?"

"This is how I conjecture. The second basis is that Loushen can command the bacterium. However, the bacterium is just a simple single-celled life. Apart from this kind of collective wisdom, or the collective electric field, I really can't imagine Is there any other way to direct this single-celled life."

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

"You mean to say that individual terrorists 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 relying on instinct alone. For example, when the electric field changes to a certain level, the fear bacteria will secrete poisonous toxins, and when the electric field changes to another level, it will Secrete corrosive substances, or move forward, backward or something."

"Many very simple individuals, combined, become a conscious body with higher intelligence? This is really amazing."

Lu Ming said with a smile: "It's not so magical. The computers in our human world, some of the more advanced artificial intelligence can even pretend to be human beings. But no matter how complicated 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.

The computer program acts as this kind of logic, making the simple combination of 0 and 1 into a complex artificial intelligence program, and the collective electric field that terrifies bacteria also acts as this logic, making the simple combination of terrifying bacteria into a complex Loushen . "

"It's really a miraculous life."

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

Lu Ming was silent for a long time before he said uncertainly: "I don't know. But if Loushen is really the collective wisdom of fear of germs, then I guess Loushen...may have his own worldview, right?"

"Worldview?"

"Yes. It is similar to the worldview of ancient human beings, like the sky is round, or the earth is carried by a huge turtle."

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

"The world view gave birth to primitive religion. The ancients in the savage age tried to explain some phenomena in the world with myths, such as the god of thunder, the god of rain, and the god of fire. Then, as intelligent life, Loushen should also have its own Worldview, you should have your own primitive religious worship."

"You mean, the stone sculpture of the King of Fungus may be the object of religious worship of Loushen? 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? Because of this, Lou Shen was so angry after your teammate He Wei destroyed the stone sculpture of the King of Fungus?"

If the statues of gods of belief and worship are destroyed and put on humans, they will still be angry.

"That's my guess. But what the truth is, we may never know."

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

"temporarily unavailable."

"Well, thank you. I hope you can sit here after the next mission and tell me how you managed to solve another trouble."

"Thank you."

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

Back in the exclusive conference room of the second action team, 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 reduced version of the Zhenlongzhuang Experimental Base."

"Oh?"

Several people immediately raised their spirits.

"They found a difference in the environment inside and outside the Zhenlong pile formation. They found that because of the special building structure arranged according to the Zhenlong pile formation, when the air flow flows through the outer layer of the building, a kind of A relatively rare phenomenon of friction. This will add a very weak electrostatic field to the structure. It is not yet known whether this is the kind of 'greenhouse effect' that allows the fungus to survive, and they are conducting further research on this."

"Static field?"

Lu Ming was startled.

"I think this possibility should not be small."

Lu Ming shared his conjectures about collective intelligence and collective electric field.The combination of the two makes people feel in a trance that this is really possible.

Maybe it is precisely because of the existence of this electrostatic field that the "collective electric field" that fears bacteria can exist, which in turn leads to the existence of "collective wisdom", that is, the existence of Loushen?

The specific truth is no longer possible to explore at this moment.At this moment, what people can do is only rely on some clues to make speculations and conjectures.

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

"It should be a coincidence, right? Hmm...it must be a coincidence. I can't imagine that this so-called dragon-suppressing pile formation, which originated from ancient inheritance and based on illusory things such as Fengshui and gossip, can be exactly matched with a certain A kind of strange microorganism that broke away from the mainstream biosphere hundreds of millions of years ago and evolved alone in a closed environment to today. The wonder of the world is nothing more than this."

Lu Ming's heart was full of emotion.

It was this coincidence that triggered the subsequent series of 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 some other people to die innocently in the Binhai Building.

The underground karst caves where the fungus and Loushen reproduced for generations were also completely destroyed by the garbage and sewage from the human world.

——If the poison-phobic toxin secreted by the fungus doesn’t just happen to react with the human body and cause extreme fear in humans, maybe Loushen won’t be discovered by people even if he survives until now.

A chemical that is poisonous to one life may be delicious to another.

Just like chocolate, which is a delicacy for humans, is highly poisonous for dogs.

If the fear of toxins 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 another completely different fate.

But things have already happened, and they can never be changed.For all this, Lu Ming could only sigh in return.

This incident is completely over.Next, several people will usher in a rather long vacation.But unexpectedly, Li Wenhua called Zhang Dingshan to the office again.

When Zhang Dingshan arrived, he was surprised to see that Wang Zheng, the captain of the [-]th Action Team, was also there.

Li Wenhua looked a little unkind: "Wang Zheng, did you tell Dingshan that you wanted to bet? The bet is a one-month treatment for your sixteenth team as the only first-level team? Now that Dingshan's second team has successfully completed the task, how do you look?"

Wang Zheng's face was full of smiles: "But Li Chu, Team Zhang didn't agree to bet with me at the beginning."

"I agree."

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

Wang Zheng made a bitter face, while a little smile appeared on Zhang Dingshan's 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 have a good time.

The second volume of Paranormal Investigation Notes "Haunted House" is over.

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

(End of this chapter)