CHAPTER 957: CHAPTER 42: DIVINE COUNTRY–CALCULATOR INTERACTION PROTOCOL

Sometimes, the byproducts generated in the process of proving a mathematical problem can lead to a force even more significant than the problem itself.

Take Earth’s history as an example. Alan Turing, in order to prove the undecidability theorem, developed a magical machine, the Turing machine. To the mathematicians of that time, the significance of the Turing machine wasn’t as great as the undecidability theorem. It was merely a byproduct of the undecidability theorem.

However, this byproduct ultimately led to the later development of computers and the advent of the Information Age.

There are many other examples like this. Many mathematical tools were developed just to prove certain problems, but they eventually evolved to serve even more powerful functions.

The Cellular Automata is equivalent to the Turing machine; for the Mathematics Lord, it was just a temporary learning of an opponent’s skill for some banter, and a tool to make his theories easier to understand.

However, Master Turing’s words inspired him.

"Haha... Isn’t this just a case of being sleepy and having a pillow delivered to you?" Wang Qi read the paper back and forth, his expression full of excitement: "Isn’t this the bridge between the Turing machine and Cellular Automata?"

This system of Cellular Automata, its most distinctive feature, is its powerful simulation ability. It can mimic many complex things.

Pedestrian flow, airflow, cell clusters, celestial bodies...

As long as the rules are properly set, Cellular Automata can simulate everything.

And adding a few finite rules, it can become a computation machine equivalent to a Turing machine.

"My cultivation technique originates from the Von Structure, and the Turing machine is the mathematical abstraction of this structure. According to this paper by the Mathematics Lord, I can use some special calculators to transform my cultivation into a form of Cellular Automata expression."

"Whether it’s the Tai Chu Sword God Array of Luochen Sword Palace or the Divine Tao transition of the Holy Emperor Venerable, both are results of collective efforts plus cultivation technique. I can similarly use Cellular Automata to simulate."

"This way, it’s the interaction between two systems of Cellular Automata with different rules..."

"If that’s the case..."

Wang Qi felt that this idea seemed feasible.

It really is feasible!

Back in the Divine Capital, he had used similar methods to calculate the crowd.

Feng Luoyi had also used this method to demonstrate the ultimate picture of cosmic civilization to him.

Cellular Automata can calculate Divine Tao and Human Dao.

Similarly, it has the ability to simulate cultivation technique. Though Wang Qi hadn’t tried it, based on his understanding of Cellular Automata and cultivation technique, it’s also within the capacity of Cellular Automata.

In other words, he is now facing a system that uses Cellular Automata as the computation environment.

"This thing feels a bit unfamiliar..." Thinking this, Wang Qi began pondering how to use the perspective of Cellular Automata to analyze the Tai Chu Sword God Array of Luochen Sword Palace. His mind connected with the network within the Tai Chu Sword God Array, using the grand formation of this Sword Palace and several high-order calculators in his hand to deduce the mysteries within.

However, he quickly realized that this thing was really too unfamiliar.

Though Cellular Automata can be equivalent to the Turing machine, there aren’t many computers on Earth with Cellular Automata as their mathematical framework. Not to mention Cellular Automata, even other computation systems equivalent to Turing machines, like Lambda Calculus, Recursive Algorithms, are not the mathematical foundations of computers.

Because on Earth, only the Turing machine can be very simply converted into mechanical structure.

Perhaps some very niche biological cell computers and chemical computers are trying to find breakthroughs from Cellular Automata, but electronic computers remain Von Structure’s Turing machine. Cellular Automata, Lambda Calculus, and Recursive Algorithms are all hard to directly become mechanical structures.

Since there isn’t a completely Cellular Automata-based structure computer on Earth, naturally there is also a lack of relevant programming technologies.

Wang Qi can do bare-metal programming on the Turing machine, but that doesn’t mean he can tackle Cellular Automata with the same means.

Originally, he didn’t need such strange skills. Even though this programming skill requires only slight modifications to his existing programming skills. However, that "slight" might take a big chunk of his time.

The reason he encountered this situation is simply because, this is Shenzhou.

This is the Shenzhou Cosmic that allows for massive technology black boxes.

Here, a system inherently exists based on Cellular Automata structure.

"Must overcome this unfamiliar environment... must overcome this unfamiliar environment..."

Wang Qi’s mind was in turmoil. Back then, the illusory realm of the Holy Emperor Venerable’s Divine Country, in Wang Qi’s eyes now, was merely some algorithms adapted to this computational environment.

That’s all there is to it.

After deducing for a long time, Wang Qi finally began to scrutinize the Divine Country-calculator interaction protocol.

However, soon after, he felt somewhat at a loss again.

After a while, he suddenly slapped his forehead: "How foolish of me! Leaving such a vast resource unused... Leaving such an impressive group of people unused, and I was thinking of overcoming this on my own? Was I being silly?"

In the name of the public, rally the talents of the public, use the resources of the public, to perfect his own cultivation! This was Wang Qi’s style!

Of course, from the outcome, the "public" could also benefit, and with Wang Qi’s achievements in their hands, they could derive immense value.

"Didn’t Master Turing ask me what I thought? I’ll send him my most genuine thoughts right now."

"Oh, oh, right, right, I remember now, when I was initially sent here by my mentor, it was for this kind of technology... In other words, any technology related to the Human Dao, he cares about! I’ll tell him like this... Hmm, ’Teacher, this is a critical point in Human Dao technology! I need the technical support of the Immortal Alliance!’."

"Besides that... Let me think... What else do I need? Oh, right, back then the setup was devised by Chen Feng and me together. It would be better with him involved... So, I should just recommend him well..."

"And then... Also... Also..."

Wang Qi began to write some new things. These things were all related to his current work, along with some of his views and prospects on Chaos Theory. Additionally, he wrote a letter to Chen Feng, mainly discussing the calculus of biological communities in Chaos Theory, the principles of convergence in organisms like nerve cells. However, to complete the latter, they would have to wait until fields such as "synchronized chaos" at a more advanced stage showed some signs, only then could they see the dawn.

However, now, to fool someone like Chen Feng, a disciple from Tianling Ridge who was poor at mathematics into falling into this trap, there was still no problem at all... Ahem, it cannot be said like that, wasn’t Chen Feng’s aspiration to be a good person? Wasn’t it for everyone in the world to be virtuous? In a good society, even someone like me would choose to be a good person! And this technology is the key to that ideal world! I’m helping my brother achieve his dream!

Wang Qi thought to himself, almost admiring himself for this.

After finishing, he asked Mi to send these things up to Shenzhou.

Since the Holy Emperor Venerable was still around, Mi couldn’t make any big moves and could only transmit one character at a time, equivalent to an internet speed of just a few kb from a small pipe.

During the transmission process, Mi naturally also read what Wang Qi wrote. She was a bit curious: "Community... Is this a theory that can also modernize our cultivation technique?"

"Theoretically, it should be possible. But, after all, I’m not someone who exclusively seeks the Life Path." Wang Qi shook his head at this: "Actually, I think you, Senior Sister, could learn the relevant content on your own and then modify it yourself!"

Mi nodded: "Yes, indeed."

Wang Qi suddenly recalled a question: "By the way, Senior Sister, you don’t seem at all surprised by this ’the world is chaotic’ viewpoint..."

Mi nodded: "There’s nothing surprising about it. That’s how we’ve always viewed it."

Wang Qi was astonished: "Oh, you don’t have a concept of causality?"

"We don’t even have stable thoughts, so how could we believe the world is stable..." Mi’s young face showed a wisdom that did not belong to a child. Her eyes glittered as if traversing thousands of years: "In our eyes, everything is chaotic. The movement of the sea, the rising and falling of the Great Sun, the collisions of ice and rocks within the planet ring, and even ourselves, everything is uncertain."

The star of Sea Sky Star is a red giant star, and compared to Shenzhou’s sun, a main sequence star, its stability is indeed much poorer.

"However, in our concept, the higher something is, the more stable it is..." Mi’s eyes were bewildered: "The planet ring is higher than the sea, and the planet ring is more stable than the sea... The Great Sun is higher than the ice ring, and its changes are slower. As for stars... apart from individuals like me who have observed the starry sky for tens of thousands of years, no one else has noticed. The starry sky is actually more stable than the red sun. Its chaos would only manifest over hundreds of thousands of years..."

"So, back then, I proposed a concept — the nobler something is, the more stable it is. This belief is the driving force for me, Xi, and Chun to strive to maintain stable selves..."

"After learning about your causality theory, I thought I saw hope. But in my view, heaven and earth should be chaotic..."

Wang Qi was a bit surprised: "You didn’t say that before..."

"We envy your form of life, and naturally we think that some of your ideas make more sense..." Mi lowered her eyes: "That’s how I see it."

Wang Qi shook his head and laughed: "It always feels like many truths developed by our Human Clan in the Modern are self-evident to you... Really enviable, Chosen Race!"

Mi shook her head: "A world without determinism is indeed too hopeless... You wouldn’t want to try it."

"Tsk... We, the Human Clan, feel that a worldview where fate cannot be changed and everything is predestined is dark and hopeless."

"You and we are really quite different." Mi sighed: "Sometimes I feel that the fact that our two races can both exist in the same cosmic is a miracle."

Wang Qi laughed: "Well, it might not be so exaggerated. But... it is indeed a miracle."