Lord of Arcane

The meeting address was in a formal conference room next to the Covenant Hall of the Northland Alliance headquarters. As Shado walked there, he contacted Ambassador Tirion and asked about the general content of the meeting.

Tirion only mentioned the Lingsi Network, and Shado immediately understood. However, he still had thoughts about a permanent team of high-level mages, but he didn't know if there would be a suitable opportunity to mention it next.

From the lounge to the location of this meeting, they were all within the alliance headquarters. Sha Duo soon saw the familiar Covenant Hall. The place where the alliance conference is held is not usually used.

Sha Duo has been to the Covenant Hall several times before, but he has never been to the conference room next to it. This time he came back to fill in the areas that he had not touched before.

It is foreseeable that he will become more and more familiar with the alliance headquarters in the future.

……

Opening the door, in the center of the square conference room is a conference table about three or four meters in diameter. From the outside, the conference table has no legs and seems to be suspended in mid-air.

Seeing this scene, Shado immediately thought that there were two conference tables of this style in the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory. If nothing else, they should have been donated by Ilfaran to the Northland Alliance.

"Consultant Xia Duo, good morning."

"Good morning, representatives, and Elder Devin."

After a brief greeting, Xia Duo sat down in his seat. Although the conference table was round, the five representatives and Elder Devin were not very spread out, and because the conference table was not small, it looked like Just like sitting opposite Xia Duo.

"Consultant Xia Duo, I invite you here mainly to consult on some issues related to Lingsi Network. This is related to whether the alliance will eventually establish a public computing resource pool. If it is convenient, please try your best to answer."

The first person to speak was Tirion. Shado had previously proposed to him that the Northland Alliance establish a public computing power resource pool. Later, it was Tirion who proposed to discuss it with representatives at the alliance meeting.

Now Tirion is the first to speak, which can somewhat dispel some of Shado's concerns, and also gives a clearer hint that as long as this meeting goes smoothly, the alliance is very likely to pass a resolution to establish a public computing power resource pool.

"No problem. If you, the representatives, have anything you want to know, please feel free to ask. As long as I can answer it, I will not hide it."

"Okay, let's start today's consultation with me!"

Tirion glanced at several other representatives and asked the first question of the day: "The mind link spell previously provided to the alliance by Consultant Shado, the alliance has determined through actual experiments that it can form a spiritual network, but the scale of past experiments has They are all very small, with no more than a hundred people at most. If a public computing resource pool is established, the number of people connected to the Lingsi network may directly reach tens of thousands. So can this spell continue to be applicable? If not Applicable, are there any improvement plans?”

"This question -" Xia Duo thought for a moment and answered in a more popular language, "involves the nature of the Lingsi Network, which is not a resonance connection in the ordinary sense.

"Essentially, the accessor contributes or shares part of his subconscious, and then this part of the subconscious forms a more transcendent virtual thinking model. Theoretically, there is no upper limit to the number of accessors!
"Furthermore, the greater the number of users, the higher their intelligence, and the higher the proportion of shared subconscious, the more powerful the virtual thinking model will be, so you don't have to worry about the problem of too many users."

After Chateau finished speaking, there was silence in the conference room for a few seconds, and then Representative Euphnis of Comanso asked again: "Can you briefly explain the concept of virtual thinking model?"

"of course can!"

This should actually be considered a relatively confidential content, but considering the help of establishing a public computing resource pool, Xia Duo does not mind revealing more.

Anyway, it has already started. It is not difficult for the Northland Alliance to study it in depth. It just takes time. "Before explaining the virtual thinking model, I would like to first introduce the way of thinking of intelligent creatures. It is not the soul as commonly thought, but consciousness. The soul is only the carrier of consciousness and cannot be equated with consciousness.

"Of course, the physical brain also provides part of the carrier function, but this is not the key, so I won't go into details here. Let's talk about thinking.

“In my opinion, thinking is the basis of conscious activities and even existence. The decomposition of consciousness means thinking activities with specific patterns. I call these thinking activities [meta-thinking].

“Now that we know that the thinking of intelligent creatures is composed of [meta-thinking], can artificially combining specific meta-thinking create some kind of intelligence that is similar to intelligent creatures?
“The answer is yes, but the relevant research is very limited. The knowledge I currently have cannot allow me to construct intelligence out of thin air, but it is not difficult to strengthen some ways of thinking.

“Lingsi Network’s virtual thinking model is an application in this regard!”

Several representatives were all mages. After listening to Sha Duo's story, they seemed to have opened the door to a new world. At this time, Elder Devin from Evereska interjected:
"Consultant Xia Duo's research is somewhat similar to southern psychic spells. I don't know—"

"Yes, I did get some inspiration from psionic magic, but it is not psionic magic, but pure arcane magic. Besides, I think psionic mages have gone astray and are too obsessed with self-awareness. , while ignoring the basis of reality.”

Evereska also belongs to the psionic school. Shado just casually mentioned it and did not intend to diss psionic magic here. In fact, he has no prejudice against psionic magic itself.

Although it contains too many idealistic elements, it is still an objective fact and there is no need to deny it.

Just hearing Sha Duo mention psychic magic, the eyes of several representatives flickered, as if they had grasped the key point. Sha Duo could understand their thoughts, and they just wanted to obtain a source of spiritual thinking network that was different from his.

Or maybe I want to try to master all the technologies related to Lingsi Network by studying psychic magic.

……

The conference room fell into silence again. Several representatives thought for a long time. Septalis from Irfaran touched the table with his knuckles, and his voice attracted the attention of all other representatives.

"It's my turn."

Septalis coughed lightly, then looked at Xia Duo and asked: "It may not be difficult to establish a public computing resource pool, but whether it can be maintained for a long time is still unknown. I would like to ask Consultant Xia Duo what is good. Any suggestions?"

"It comes down to money."

Xia Duo has already considered this issue, but now he is just stating his existing thoughts, “Those who provide computing power can get paid, while those who use computing power need to pay.

“Although the computing power that different access users can provide per unit time is different and difficult to quantify, it is basically proportional to their magical attainments and the proportion of their shared subconscious. Just provide rewards accordingly.

“As for the use of computing power, because it uses the computing power resources of virtual thinking constructed by the entire Lingsi network, it cannot simply be charged based on different levels of users. My suggestion is to charge according to the length of time.

"Doing this can also attract higher-level spellcasters to invest in it to a certain extent. The specific fees and rewards can be determined according to the access status of the Lingsi network. As long as it is set up properly, there is no need for long-term investment from the alliance, and you can be responsible for your own profits and losses. It can even become a long-term revenue point for the alliance." (End of Chapter)