Smelting everything from pirates

Chapter 646 The Brain in a Vat
The great race of Is is a kind of creature in the myth of Cthulhu. According to the records on the Nacket manuscript and the Elterton pottery, 4 million years ago, the Is family crossed the galaxy universe , came to Earth from the destroyed world known as Yith.

They exchanged the consciousness of the entire race with the original races on the earth, and obtained the physical body for action on the earth. The image of the flesh used by the Yisi family before coming to the earth is no longer available for inspection.

This cone-shaped creature, chosen as a parasitic flesh by the Great Race, was about 10 feet tall and lived in a location equivalent to the continent of Australia today.

They use the contraction and expansion movement of the adhesive layer structure at the bottom of the body to move forward, and the sensory organs grow at the ends of the four long branches at the top of the cone, two of which have giant claws at the end.

Individuals use this kind of claws to collide and rub each other to communicate with each other, and they can also operate the machinery they made. The third gravy end has a funnel-shaped appendage attached, and the fourth is connected to a total of three The eyes are fleshy balls about two feet in diameter.

This shape is the most well-known image of the great race. These creatures do not reproduce sexually, but use seeds or buns gathered at the bottom of the body to reproduce. This kind of seed can only develop in water, so they use very shallow A large water tank for cultivating juvenile individuals.

However, due to their long life cycles, typically four to 5000 years, they usually raise very few offspring.

Individuals with obvious defects in this population will be quickly disposed of as soon as they are discovered. Due to the lack of touch and pain, they can only use visual symptoms to distinguish signs of disease and morbidity.

They will hold a solemn funeral to cremate the dead individual. As mentioned before, occasionally there will be a sharp mind that projects itself into the future and escapes the fate of death, but such things are rare. Once it happens, the great race Will treat this spirit sent from the future as kindly as possible, until it finally dies in this strange skin.

And now following behind Barrett are several great races of Is. Unfortunately, they projected their souls into the consciousness of humans and a few dogs, but the entire city of Arkham was suddenly teleported to the Dreamland. Inside.

Although they want to investigate the powerful creatures living in the dreamland, the problem is that their strength is too weak now.

Although the Great Race is the most technologically advanced of all known alien races in the Cthulhu Mythos, they have conquered time, which is why they are called the Great Race.

Similar to the hounds of Tindalos, they can freely shuttle back and forth in the long river of time. With appropriate mechanical assistance, they can project their own spirits into the river of time, looking for vague passages that cannot be detected by ordinary senses, and travel to the place where they want to go. the times gone.

But the problem is that this group of great races can no longer use the senses and organs of their souls to travel through time.

Already existing in the unknown dreamland, where there is not even the concept of death or life.

After Barrett left Miskatonic University, the people he killed would instantly be revived in the room they were in.

It's just that Iss didn't tell Barrett about these things, and they thought in their hearts that Barrett had already known about this matter.

"I know that your race has very powerful technology, so I want to know what knowledge you can provide me, or what method you can use to get me out of this world."

Hearing Barrett's question, those people looked at each other and said: "In the future of you humans, we learned about a hypothesis called Brain in a Vat. If you want, we can give you Tell me about this brain-in-a-vat hypothesis."

When Barrett heard this, he was obviously a little surprised. Could it be that this group of Yisi race wanted to take Barrett's own consciousness directly through the dreamland?

The so-called brain in a vat is a hypothesis formulated by Hilary Putnam in 1981.

"A person was operated on by an evil scientist. His brain was cut off from his body and put into a tank with nutrient solution to keep the brain alive. The nerve endings of the brain are connected to a computer. Sending information so that the brain maintains the illusion that everything is perfectly normal, for that person, it seems that everything around, people, objects, the sky still has its own movement, bodily sensations can be input into this brain, and can be input Or intercept the memory, or even enter the code, feeling like he has read an interesting and absurd text here."

The question then is, how do you guarantee that you are not in this kind of predicament.

Could it be that the solution to this group of great races in front of Yis is to cut off Barrett's brain and put it in a so-called brain in a vat, and then let Barrett spend his life in it.

Looking at these great races in front of him, Barrett waited quietly for them to explain the brain in a vat and what they wanted to do.

After they finished talking about this hypothesis of the brain in a vat, they looked up at Barrett.

But found that the human being in front of him didn't seem to feel any surprise because of this.

I haven't even asked what a computer is, after all, the current time period is the era of computers in the 20s, but it is the 20s.

Seeing Barrett like this, this group of great races also understand that the human being in front of them must have knowledge beyond their understanding, or the way of receiving knowledge, and can even directly predict certain future development trajectories .

"I have already understood the hypothesis you mentioned, so what I want to ask is, do you want to use this method to let me spend my life in the illusion?"

These people looked at each other, but a dog came out at this time, looked at Barrett and said: "I am a scientist among the great race, what we want to say is that this world is not a real substance The world is an abstract world similar to the mind, even if we want to dig out your brain, we can't make you a brain in a vat, but we can do the opposite."

Hearing the explanation from the dog scientist in front of him, Barrett was a little confused. What did he mean by doing the opposite?
The brain in a vat in reality is to dig out the human brain and put it in a computer.

Let them in turn put a computer inside a human brain?But certainly not like this.

At this time, the scientist looked at Barrett and continued to explain: "Our so-called opposite is very simple, sir, you think that the earth world you lived in in the past is the real real world, we just need to change your Think of this world as the so-called real world, and the earth you once lived on is just a brain in a vat."

Hearing this, Barrett frowned. He didn't expect that the group of guys in front of him didn't want to solve practical problems at all, but simply changed people's opinions directly through a certain powerful technology.

"What you're doing is just a paradox, and it doesn't solve the actual problem at all. And I won't approve of this matter."

But the dog scientist smiled slightly at this time. Anyway, Barrett didn't know why dogs could make such complicated expressions on their faces.

"Sir, you have to know that there are two ways to solve problems in this world. What you said is the first way, which is to solve all the problems in reality, but actually there is the second way, which is to make all the problems People think that the problem has been solved, and whether it is solved or not is not important at all.”

Looking at the dog in front of him really surprised Barrett, he didn't expect this guy to be so disgusting.

But Barrett also knew in his heart that relying on his own power, it was impossible to teleport the entire city of Arkham to the earth again.

Perhaps these so-called great races in front of them can only rely on the methods they said to calm the mad human beings slowly.

"Let's talk about some things later. First, send the technological knowledge you want to give me to my heart. I don't believe that you don't even have these technologies."

Those great races of Yis heard Barrett, but they were a little surprised when they said this. You must know that once they have a mind connection with them, they may swallow or teleport Barrett's mind at any time.

"Are you sure you want to do this, sir."

(End of this chapter)