When depicting future in sci-fi works , intense conflicts, whether they occur between alien civilization and human civilization or between some variants of human civilization and traditional human civilization, are always these works. Perhaps state that science-fiction writing typically includes conflicts between humans and some alien life form. Some kind of main tone that the plot promotes. In " Hyperion", the conflict is the competition between humans and the "kernel" for the human central nervous system as a computing resource.
 
Such a description of the future of humanity seems to be fundamentally different from the more familiar human utopia based on sociological thinking . Taking the Marxist vision of the future that we know best as an example, with the highly refined social division of labor and the rapid development of science and technology, human productivity will be explosively improved, and the resulting wealth will be greatly enriched. As a result, it eliminates class antagonism. Accordingly, the future of human society will be a beautiful picture without exploitation, oppression, or large-scale ethnic confrontation. Of course, Marxism makes this judgment based on class antagonism as a kind of non-human subjective consciousness influence.  Still, it plays a catalytic instrumentalist role in stimulating social production. That is to say, at least from a sociological perspective, the class differentiation of human society is a passive and compelled collective unconscious choice to promote the development of production under the premise that the material is not yet abundant. However, the destruction and oppression of people caused by this class differentiation is a state of alienation beyond the original meaning of this social phenomenon. This kind of alienation will inevitably be revised to some extent in the future of human society with the great abundance of material.
 
Correspondingly, the future view of history in science fiction literature always emphasizes the more urgent thirst and competition for resources caused by the growth of science and technology. Unlike sociologists or at least Marxist sociologists, sci-fi writers tend to think that the development of science and technology will inevitably lead to more robust demand for resources. Therefore, technological development will inevitably lead to scarcity and brutal competition for resources. This setting is more clearly expressed in the domestic science fiction masterpiece "Three-Body Problem", which was widely praised by the media. Resources are always limited and scarce compared with the infinite possibilities of civilization types and civilization development prospects. The contention for the future is bound to the irreconcilable contradiction between the potential alien civilization and human civilization.
 
Is the future setting of science fiction based on a contradictory setting that literary works must make to promote the development of the plot? Maybe not. This setting of science fiction works is also confirmed by a certain aspect of the existing history of human development to a certain extent. Suppose all the resources consumed by the operation of human society are calculated based on heat energy. In that case, the heat energy consumed by a person in the process of life and production today will inevitably be hundreds of times or even thousands of times that required by people a thousand years ago. times. 
In the Stone Age, human beings only needed to satisfy individual biological functions' operation simply. In contrast, human beings already need to use the non-human animal husbandry power through animal husbandry in an agricultural society. In essence, today, an ordinary person uses electricity, oil, and other resources. It is even more challenging to measure. With the development of human technology, the human demand for energy also rises geometrically.

 The high development of human civilization is based on the increased dependence on resources.
 
Then, which of these two completely different assumptions about the future of humanity is more logical and factually reliable? This is my first thought after reading " Hyperion ", "In the face of artificial intelligence, how can human beings be proud?"
 
Humans once claimed to be "the essence of the universe, the primate of all things", but what is the capital we are proud of ? In terms of physical strength and energy, we have no obvious advantage over other creatures on the earth. So, what qualities are there that allow us to claim to be God's shepherds, that we are prouder than other beings? In this regard, sociologists believe that man is the only creature with a social organizational structure, science  and technology historians believe that man is the only creature that can use tools to make tools. Psychologists point out that man is the only one who can suppress today’s desires for tomorrow’s production. Whatever the answer, there is a trace of conceit based on material wealth and technological development. It is believed that in the distant Sunstone Age, the ancestors who fought with wild beasts with rough polished stone tools would not think that they were creations that the gods valued more than fierce beasts. Taking wild beasts as totems of hope is this kind of self-humility or self-esteem—the best proof of inferiority. Therefore, the capital we are proud of is the reinforced concrete we have constructed, and it is our achievement of "taking the moon in nine days and catching turtles in five oceans".
 
However, the emergence and development of artificial intelligence have surpassed human superiority in intelligence. Not to mention the "core" in " Hyperion ", which has far surpassed the level of human development in the same period in terms of technological development and industrial maintenance, and even the mysterious field that humans are proud of-poetry, in Simmons's work. The shrike under the pen also provides a source of inspiration for human poets. Humans use the Turing test to censor artificial intelligence to test whether it can be manipulated into an independent existence without the human body. In " Hyperion", the "core" not only completes the basic requirements of the Turing test but can even fall in love with people and can use various strategies to compete with humans for wisdom.
 
Such a picture is a dream of Simmons, but more than 20 years after the completion of the" Hyperion " ,the reality is gradually approaching the future written by the sci-fi author. Go was once a mysterious field that humans thought that artificial intelligence was unmatched. Go masters are always endowed with a particular mysterious color in Eastern culture. However, the DeepMind team relied on the perfection of the Monte Carlo algorithm to successfully surpass the most outstanding representatives of human beings in the field of the most mysterious and return-to-basics intellectual games. Simmons thought it would be the distant 27th century in the not-so-distant future, but it looks like the future won't be so far away. What else is artificial intelligence that cannot surpass humans soon? What is especially intriguing is that long before AlphaGo defeated Li Shishi and Ke Jie, the development of cloud computing and cloud storage technology seemed to have provided a relatively safe area of ​​existence for the "technical core" in " Hyperion ". Perhaps the sci-fi visions of the past will be realized in the lifetime of all of us here.

In " Hyperion ", the reason why the "core" of artificial intelligence can exist independently of the human world, the reason why it can be far ahead of the "overlord" of mankind in technology and industry is because they can peep into the "conclusion" The Mystery of the Void". The "concluded void" is an existence that transcends time and space, which can provide material for super-long distance, and even transcend time transmission. The "core" provides the technological basis for exploration across interstellar civilizations and across time. And the reason why the "core" has not been able to eliminate the existence of human beings after peeping into the mystery of "the void of conclusion" is because the key to exploring and using the "void of conclusion" is love and human emotion. And emotion and love are precisely what artificial intelligence does not have. The "core" still needs humans to be able to explore and utilize the "concluded void" more deeply. 
 
The setting of Simmons seems to be more fantasy  than sci-fi. After all, topics such as emotion and soul seem incompatible with cold science. But the mysteries of the soul and the unknown mysteries of the emotions seem to be the last reason human beings think of themselves as something unique from other beings. The development of science has undoubtedly eliminated some perceptual factors in human consciousness. The enhancement of humans' ability to control nature makes us no longer respect the unknown gods like our ancient ancestors. In the seriousness of biologists and chemists, even the human sensibility fascinated by existential philosophers is nothing more than the secretion of certain chemicals in the brain. At one time, we thought that some of the strong emotional qualities of a genius like Van Gogh were a mystical gift from the creator. Still, with the development of psychopathology, we have been able to accept brain lesions or some other objective standard. See madness and autism that we didn't understand before. Once, we thought that music was God's mystical game, indulging in inexplicable rhythms , but today we realize the objective correlation between syllables and human brain secretions. In the face of the development of science and technology, the world is no longer mysterious, and people themselves are no longer mysterious. Even if real scientists always feel that the more we know, the more we don't know, but at least everything we know makes our unknown less and less mysterious. The loss of mystique is the basis for the disappearance of all piety and sensibility.
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" Hyperion ", is an epic masterpiece created in the name of science fiction, left the greatest and most dreamy existence in the mysterious soul world. I think this is a wonderful setting. Perhaps, exploring the human soul will be the most challenging fortress for science to break. After all, everything we know today tells us how human beings are, not why they are such a being. People's exploration of the objective world only tells us why the world is, but fails to tell us why the world is ? Based on this, Simmons's distant world still has a belief in God and soul and based on this, I believe that we still have some expectations for God and soul.
Perhaps the main reason I like it is that many of its settings require me to discover it myself actively rather than passively absorb it. That is, it will have more fun in thinking.