Doomsday Live: I kidnapped all mankind

As soon as the words fell, Su Ye's heart sank suddenly.

He knew this. Archaeologists had said that traces of five civilizations had been found on Earth.

Five mass extinctions of civilization!

It turned out that they all failed the assessment!

Of course, Su Ye still didn't quite believe it.

"I'm 46.5 billion years old this year. If you fail the assessment this time, I won't be able to give birth to a new civilization."

"You can only wait for your lifespan to run out, and then die."

After listening, Su Ye fell into deep thought.

Everything the old man said subverted his cognition a bit.

There are currently many hypotheses about the origin of life in human civilization.

For example: Darwinian evolution, theological creation, alien life, autogenesis, chemical origin...

But the closest thing to the old man category is theological creationism.

In other words, the old man is equal to God, he created human beings!

But is that really the case?

Su Ye raised the question in his heart and wanted to hear the old man's detailed answer.

The old man smiled, "I will tell you the true side of the universe, and reveal its secrets before your eyes!"

"Let me popularize science with you first, what is 'emergence'!"

"When a certain number of things operate according to the same set of rules, they will 'emerge' with some new properties out of thin air on a larger scale. This is emergence!"

"The most amazing thing about emergence is that you can't find any clues of these hidden properties by analyzing these small factors one by one."

"For example, no matter how much you study brain cells, you can't find the door to 'self-awareness'!"

Seeing Su Ye's bewildered expression, the old man thought for a while, "I'll use the creature ant as an example to explain it. It's the most vivid. I think you can understand it right away."

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Chapter 417 Earth's Miserable Experience (1/4)

"When the number of ants reaches a certain level, it will emerge with ant colony consciousness."

"The ant queen?" Su Ye still knew about this, "According to what you said, the ant queen was born?"

"No, the queen is just a reproductive tool selected by the ant colony consciousness. All the decisions of the entire ant colony are made by the emerging ant colony consciousness."

Su Ye frowned, "According to you, ants still play the democratic voting system?"

"That's right!" The old man continued: "A lot of ants are actually playing multiple queens, for example, when the living environment deteriorates and the food crisis is faced, all the ants start to vote to kill the queens with low fecundity, referred to as 'selecting queens'. "

"This is the most direct proof of ant colony consciousness."

"If you regard the whole ant colony as an animal, each ant is the cell that makes it up."

"The queen ants are the reproductive organs, the soldier ants are the body's defense tissues, and the worker ants are all cells, mouths, and hands, which are used to find food and deliver food."

"When the worker ants gather together for transportation, the blood is actually transporting nutrients, and the worker ants have to cultivate new cells."

"This is a form of life called loose life."

"And all the cells gather together, just like human brain cells, 'emerge' out of consciousness. Ants are called ant colony consciousness, and humans are called self-consciousness!"

The old man waved his hand, and two pictures appeared in front of them.

The one on the left is a map of the universe and the starry sky, and the one on the right is a map of human brain cells.

Pointing to the picture on the left, the old man said, "If you regard all the planets and celestial bodies in the universe as brain cells, what will happen according to what I just said?"

Su Ye said subconsciously: "The 'emergence' of consciousness!"

"Yes, this is cosmic consciousness."

The old man continued: "After the consciousness of the universe emerges, the planet serves as a 'cell' in it, just like an ant colony has different divisions of labor."

"I will follow the direction it gives and move forward slowly."

"That is to say, the evolution of all creatures and the evolution of all civilizations are regulated and arranged by the consciousness of the universe."

Su Ye quickly thought of an appropriate adjective, "To put it bluntly, you are also a worker!"

"Haha, your description is a bit interesting, but it doesn't quite apply." The old man smiled.

When he said this, Su Ye quickly realized that something was wrong.

"The earth, as a cell, is like an ant in an ant colony. Can a single ant give birth to consciousness?"

"It's as if my brain cells have emerged with consciousness, but how can my hands and feet also be born with consciousness?"

"In this way, wouldn't it contradict what you just said?"

"There is no contradiction!" The old man said again: "Because the cell of the earth constitutes the basic condition for the emergence of consciousness, I was born."

"Countless me, countless 'living' planets, constitute the brain, and the consciousness of the universe emerges."

Su Ye rubbed his chin, "According to what you said, wouldn't there be super cosmic consciousness emerging from countless universes?"

The old man nodded, "You can say that!"

"Just like you humans, individuals have individual self-awareness, and countless individuals will emerge with human consciousness."

Su Ye was thinking.

The earth is equal to individual human beings with self-awareness.

Countless earths constitute the brain, and the consciousness of the universe emerges.

What about human consciousness?

"So, what about human consciousness!?" Su Ye asked, "Why haven't I seen it before?"

"It hasn't emerged yet!" The old man explained: "The time since you humans were born and existed is too short!"

"Then what is the purpose of cosmic consciousness? Why do you want to evolve, why do you want us to accept the assessment?"