Chapter 457: Chapter 445: How to Create a Soul

Rhine was gone.

Allen leaned back in his chair, eyes closed. A tidal wave was crashing through his mind.

’Self-referential Spiritual Power oscillation...’

’Is this the code that separates life from non-life?’

But simply knowing what it was held little meaning for Allen.

What he wanted was to know how to replicate it, how to mass-produce it, how to optimize it!

"Jarvis."

Allen opened his eyes. Reflected in his pupils were the ten light screens before him, his gaze as placid as a bottomless, frigid pool.

"Elevate the Artificial Soul Project to the highest priority. Begin constructing the technical implementation pathway immediately."

[Constructing pathway framework... Please define the core theoretical model.]

"The core model..."

Allen’s fingertip tapped lightly in the air, calling up a familiar concept from his past life. "...A ’Large Rune Model’ that operates within a Magic Power field."

[Model concept is too broad. Requesting parameter refinement.]

"I can’t refine them right now."

Allen spoke as he thought. "This is a direction, an analogy. In my past life, large models relied on being fed massive amounts of data and supported by immense computational power to achieve an ’emergence’ of intelligence."

His gaze swept over the simulated structure representing Rhine’s Will Rune.

’I think an artificial soul is the same. To directly ’sculpt’ a soul with Witchcraft is too difficult. It’s far beyond my current capabilities.’

’So, we have to find another way. We’ll use my advantage—my knowledge from a past life—to construct a soul algorithm system complex enough for a soul to ’emerge’ on its own.’

’Therefore, the first step should be... to construct ’Rune Neurons’.’

Allen’s finger traced through the air, and a miniature Rune structure formed at his fingertip—a basic configuration composed of 16 foundational Runes and three closed-loop logic circuits.

This was the most fundamental unit of a runic neural network, similar in its lowest-level composition to a Will Rune, but simpler.

He injected a wisp of Spiritual Power into the model. The Rune lit up faintly, and then he wound a trace of simulated Magic Power around it.

The Rune structure instantly underwent a subtle, non-predefined change, and the path of its energy flow shifted accordingly.

’The will is the core, Spiritual Power is the driver, and Magic Power is the variable. When different Magic Power stimuli are input, the ’neuron’ will produce different responses. This is the most basic ’computational unit’.’

Allen watched the constantly self-adapting Rune. Though it was just a simple theoretical model, he knew he was on the right path!

’Then the second step is clear: build a ’Rune Neural Network’.’

On the light screen, a single "Rune Neuron" began to replicate and multiply exponentially.

Tens of thousands of "neurons" scattered like stars, connected to one another by faint blue lines.

’A Wizard’s Sea of Spirit is a gift, something they’re born with. We are going to create one artificially.’

Allen brought his hands together without touching. Countless Runes began to reconfigure and intertwine, forming a vast and complex, multi-layered network structure.

’The key is that the connections can’t be fixed.’

A sharp glint flashed in his eyes. ’It has to be chaotic and evolvable. Which peers each neuron connects to, and the strength of those connections, should all be determined by the algorithm itself as it runs. It must be able to grow and prune itself.’

’This should be a system filled with infinite possibilities.’

’Step three: Introduce a ’self-referential’ feedback mechanism.’

Allen zoomed in on the center of the display, where the core control hub of the entire network was located.

’The key to the realm of gods lies right here.’

’There should be a special group of Runes here.’

’This Rune group’s function is observation and feedback.’

’It will read the entire ’Rune Neural Network’s’ state at any given moment in real-time, encoding this torrent of hundreds of millions of constantly changing pieces of information into a perpetually shifting ’state vector’.’

This state vector would then be fed back into the network itself. This way, the entire Rune Neural Network could ’perceive’ its own current state and adjust its output accordingly.

[Warning: This operation will create a recursive loop. High probability of computational collapse.]

"No, Jarvis. You’re wrong."

"This is the beginning of thought." Allen’s voice was tinged with fanaticism.

’If a system can ’perceive’ its own existence, it is no longer a mere tool.’

’It will know of ’my’ existence and, based on the state of ’me’, adjust the behavior of ’me’.’

’I see myself, I think about myself, I change myself.’

’This... is the algorithmic prototype of self-awareness.’

Using the rules of the Wizarding World, he had forcibly cobbled together a magi-tech version of the "recurrent neural networks" and "self-attention mechanisms" from his past life!

’Step four: Learning and evolution.’

Allen didn’t pause. He knew a system that could only think would be nothing more than a philosopher living in its own world.

’It must interact with reality. It must learn to adapt.’

’We also need to design a reward and punishment mechanism.’

’When the network makes a successful output based on an input—for example, controlling a Golem to accurately strike a target—it will be given a positive Magic Power feedback as a reward.’

’If it fails, it will receive negative feedback as a punishment.’

’This reward-or-punishment signal will spread through the entire network instantaneously, like a virus, via a set of back-propagation Rune pathways. Every neuron that participated in the decision will slightly adjust its connection weights based on the signal’s strength.’

’If it does something right, the pathway is reinforced. If it does something wrong, it’s weakened.’

’I won’t need to teach it. With every interaction with the world, it will teach itself how to become ’better.’ Like a true living being, struggling to survive and iteratively evolving in a harsh environment.’

He spread his five fingers, then clenched them into a tight fist.

On the light screens, the theoretical modules of the four stages slammed together, forming an unprecedented, magnificent, and spectacular blueprint for creation.

"Step five..." Allen’s voice grew low, tinged with an awe he himself hadn’t noticed.

"...Wait for emergence."

This was the final step, and also the most uncertain one.

He had already built the stage and written the most fundamental rules.

Next, he just needed to build this massive runic network, capable of self-perception and self-learning. It would then continue to run ceaselessly under its own power.

A day, a month, a year...

After billions of self-referential cycles and learning evolutions, when the system’s total complexity crosses some incalculable critical point...

...a true miracle will be born.

It will no longer be a cold pile of Runes and algorithms.

It will "emerge" with the chaotic and grand characteristics that only a natural soul possesses:

—It will begin to actively modify its own "Sea of Spirit" in search of a more optimal structure.

—It will integrate all perception, memory, and computation into a unified, continuous "stream of experience."

—It will generate the most primitive, autonomous goals: "I must continue to exist," and "I must eliminate uncertainty."

—It will even be able to create entirely new patterns and ideas that never existed in its database.

That will be the day... the artificial soul is born.

He knew how to "write" a soul!

He even knew how to optimize the process!

Rhine’s self-awakening was a great miracle, but it was too inefficient, too full of uncertainty.

But he, Allen Wesren, could design a perfect "integrated development environment"!

He could guide, accelerate, and even customize the formation of a Will Rune!

Bloodline would no longer be the only way, talent no longer the threshold! Even for a Golem, he could put it on an assembly line to the path of the extraordinary!

No...

The fanaticism in Allen’s eyes instantly cooled, replaced by a bottomless, icy calm.

This technology had an even more important use.

He called up his own status panel.

[Current Humanity Value: 61.8%. In continuous slow decline.]

[Warning: Mechanical Mind modification Skill is deeply ingrained. Threshold for conventional emotional stimuli has been drastically raised.]

He was becoming more and more like a machine.

The anchors that once caused emotional fluctuations within him were becoming blurred.

But now, he had found the antidote.

’Since the essence of a soul is ’self-reference,’ ’recursion,’ and ’rewriting its own code’...’

’...then he could, within his own Sea of Spirit that was on the verge of complete digitization, artificially... construct a humanity operator!’

’A fundamental logic that operates directly on the soul level, unrestricted by physical hormones, to forcibly make him experience the full range of human emotions!’

’Using the most dispassionate ’code’ to protect the most precious humanity.’

’Using absolute rationality to forge an inextinguishable anchor of sentiment for himself!’

’This is true immortality!’

’The physical body can be replaced, power can be iterated upon, but as long as that unique algorithm of humanity representing ’Allen Wesren’ is still running, he will always be himself!’

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