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Chapter 319 What is an NPC

Xiao Huang's guess makes sense, but Lu Yang always feels that this is not the case.

From his observation, the indigenous people named scientific knights and wizards in this virtual world have no worse intelligence than those on Earth.

As for those ordinary people, they just look lifeless, which does not necessarily mean that they are low-level npcs without IQ.

Let me give you the most direct evidence:

This arbitrary door is now placed behind a bookcase in an ordinary house. If ordinary people in this world really have low-level NPCs that only have instinctive reactions, why do they still place so many serious popular science books in their study? And they are books involving worldviews and scientific views?

In addition, the NPC girl named Aisha also had to go to school, and someone even wrote textbooks specifically for these children.

Do low-level NPCs also need to receive nine years of compulsory education?

What knowledge does the system need to teach low-level NPCs? Isn’t it better to copy and paste them directly? Isn’t it just a waste of time to let them read and go to school?

You can't just decorate the pseudoscience books and school textbooks in the study room, just decorate!

There are many masterpieces on Earth, but they often put some books at NPC homes, specifically used to improve the game world view.

But that is just to enhance the realism of the game and the sense of player immersion, and in the final analysis, it is also to the game.

The virtual reality world where Lu Yang is now in, it feels like he doesn't consider the feelings of "human players" at all. Its uniform, serious and depressing atmosphere can even be said to be designed to make people feel uncomfortable.

The most typical point is that this virtual world is too lazy to even do the most basic art work such as starry sky maps. At night, the top of your head is covered in turbulent darkness.

In this case, it set the collection of an ordinary house so rigorously that it even specially invented a set of pseudoscientific theories, which is logically completely unreasonable.

What's more, judging from the conversation between Aisha's family, it seems that there is no evidence to say that this is a conversation between low-level NPCs.

After listening to Lu Yang's story about what he saw in this private house, Xiao Huang also felt that something was wrong with his reasoning.

He thought hard, but finally he could only frown in distress: "It's impossible that every indigenous person in this world can be realized with advanced virtual personality, right?"

“What is a high-level virtual personality?”

"You can understand it as a kind of advanced NPC, used to simulate real humans as much as possible in the projection space of the mind. When I designed the cultivation paradise, I used a large number of advanced virtual personalities to conduct social experiments, and simulated and deduced the development of the cultivation world in the virtual space. If there weren't billions of advanced virtual personalities that helped me perform millions of simulations in a very short period of time, the cultivation paradise would probably never have seen the day when it was put into use. Even a top galaxy aristocrat like Earl Clovie could not afford the consumption of using real people for social experiments. Only the version of the cultivation paradise that has been supported in simulated social experiments for more than 5 years would be put into actual testing by me."

Xiao Huang explained a few words, and then denied his guess just now: "But the problem now is that the computing power foundation of this illegal network server is very weak. Not to mention comparing with the main server of the Cultivation Paradise, even if it is compared with the little guy Chenxi, it has a million-fold gap in computing power. In theory, it cannot afford the huge computing power consumption of 20 million advanced virtual personalities at the same time..."

Chenxi is a personal computer host for jumping through the 54-star high-ranking Galaxy nobles, and is definitely not the same as the general personal computer host for Galaxy Federal low-income households with pocket money.

So Xiao Huang continued to reason: "...even the Galaxy main network will not place a large amount of advanced virtual personality without necessity to waste computing power. In most cases, medium and low-level NPCs are enough to undertake most of the daily work. Even the top virtual reality games in Galaxy Federation, each NPC will not be a high-level virtual personality. After all, the fantasy world in most games is like the Kyushu Cultivation Paradise. Its existence is unreasonable. Forcing a bunch of logically advanced NPCs will lead to accelerated collapse of the game society and even reduce the gaming experience in turn. In my impression, it is probably the scenes such as "virtual reality girlfriend" and "virtual reality boyfriend", and the demand for advanced virtual personality is slightly greater...."

Is the demand for Galaxy Federation's "virtual reality girlfriend" so strong?

But Lu Yang thought about it carefully and felt it was quite reasonable.

The website with the most views on the earth is also a website led by a certain p!

Looking at Xiao Huang scratching his head and unable to understand, Xue Feng next to him made another creepy guess: "Do you think it can, there is no npc in this virtual world at all. Everyone we saw before is actually real human consciousness."

Lu Yang was also shocked by Xue Feng's bold idea.

There are often such scenes in Earth's science fiction novels!

However, Xiao Huang looked dissatisfied: "There is no difference between them or not!"

Seeing that Lu Yang and Xue Feng were both puzzled, he continued to explain: "The difference between advanced virtual personality and real human consciousness is nothing more than the difference between computing power and resource investment. If the computing power resources are invested enough, the difference between advanced virtual personality and real humans will even be smaller than the difference between humans. If all the reactions of a high virtual personality can perfectly simulate humans, his computing power consumption in the virtual world will be no different from that of real humans. This is why I say that there is no essential difference between whether the npc in this virtual world is a real person."

Xiao Huang's words are reasonable and well-founded.

Despite this, Lu Yang still finds it difficult to accept that there is actually no difference between advanced NPC and ordinary humans, and continues to ask: "Is there really no difference between advanced virtual personality and ordinary human consciousness?"

Xiao Huang curled his lips and said, "If you have to find a difference, there must be some. In a virtual reality space, no matter how many advanced virtual personality exists, its computing power is provided by the main server of the virtual space. It only takes one instruction from the administrator to delete and modify it. And the computing power consumed by you human consciousness connected through the brain-computer interface is essentially provided by your respective bodies. Of course, strictly speaking, this is not a difference, it can only be said that the computing carrier is different."

Obviously, Xiao Huang had not fully adapted to the identity of human beings. As he spoke, he began to use the term "you humans", without realizing that he was actually a human being now.

Seeing Lu Yang silent, Xiao Huang struck while the iron was hot and raised another philosophical question: "If you really can't accept that there is no difference between humans and machines, you might as well put the virtual reality world aside and think about the matter of the Cultivation Paradise. All the mortals and cultivators in the entire Cultivation Paradise have their memories and personalities written by me personally. So, is Ye Lun, the head of the Shenxiao Sect more than 6,000 years ago, an NPC? Or a real human?"
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