Chapter 1060 — Breaking the Limit
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The "synthetic brains" that Bei Yila had produced... To be honest, even Gao Yang himself had been startled the first time he saw the things. After all, they had a strong whiff of the Church of the End of All Things about them—in both principle and appearance they were uncannily sinister, so much so that if one of them ever drifted onto a battlefield, both sides would readily assume it had been sent by the enemy...
Yet once he had grown used to the "style" of the synthetic brains, Gao Yang quickly began to consider their practical value.
Dark flesh-regeneration arts could also be used to heal the wounded; horrific nightmare spells could also be used to build neural networks. Technology has no inherent good or evil, and still less should one judge good and evil by its "style." Since Bei Yila had succeeded in creating something safe and reliable, it was worth considering whether it had a place in the present-day Cecil industrial system—and clearly, it did.
After carefully analyzing the nature of the "synthetic brain," Gao Yang soon discovered this: the technology could fill the largest remaining gap in Cecil's arcanotechnical tree—the fields of automation and intelligence.
In these fields Gao Yang had never found a breakthrough. He knew what earth-shaking changes automation and intelligence could bring to an industrial society, and he knew they would be indispensable to the future development of arcanotechnical industry; yet neither he himself nor the scholars of the Department of Magical Energy Technology had the faintest idea how to proceed.
The technicians had once considered the traditional mages' golems or tower-spirit technology, but that was even more of a black box than the early message spells had been, fiendishly difficult to crack, and the relevant projects had made no progress whatsoever to this day. What no one had expected was that the breakthrough would come from an entirely different direction—wetware mainframes.
Regarding those inconceivable "synthetic brains," Gao Yang's mind teemed with thrilling ideas. In his conception, the applications of those brains went far beyond controlling machines and directing factories.
His thinking was in fact quite simple: having accepted the wondrous style of those synthetic brains, he felt their essence was not so very different from the computers of Earth. True, the material basis of a "brain" was organic, but that did not mean it was more dangerous than a silicon-based chip. To assume broadly that data devices built from biomass must be more prone to running out of control than "chips" was a transmigrator's mental habit—and the Gao Yang of today could easily keep such habitual thinking in check.
Of course, getting ordinary people to accept those artificially synthesized "brains" was another difficulty, though perhaps not as hard as one might imagine: this was a world with supernatural forces, and the general public's capacity to accept certain things was likely greater than Gao Yang's own. In a sense, the "synthetic brains" from the Solin region were, to the common folk, on the same order as those water pumps that could draw water by themselves. Since they had already accepted the common knowledge that "there are no little devils inside machines" and "mana-net devices do not devour souls," they would likewise understand that the wetware mainframes in the factories were merely a part of the machinery.
Gao Yang shook his head and pulled his somewhat wandering thoughts back. He looked at Virodai, unable to keep a look of curiosity from showing: "I hear you've been shut away in the Defiance Laboratory lately, keeping company with those War God remains. Have you made some new discovery?"
"No new discoveries, actually," Virodai said with a gentle smile, shaking his head slightly. "It's just that I've been pondering a question lately..."
"Pondering a question?" Gao Yang raised an eyebrow. "In what area?"