Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1772

Chapter 1772: Barrier of Coordination

"The first Omni Barrier is known as the Barrier of Complexity. The second is known as the Barrier of Coordination. The third is known as the Barrier of Noise. The fourth is known as the Barrier of Causality. The fifth is known as the Barrier of Identity. The sixth is known as the Barrier of Meaning. The final is known as the Barrier of Existence.

"The first is as you know: Moore's Law, transistor density, heat dissipation, problems of quantum tunneling. But it is, most importantly and functionally, a problem that better engineering and energy can fix.

"The second barrier is the same. It requires larger scales, but the fix is identical. This touches onto concepts you know as Distributed Systems Theory, the problem of coordinating large-scale projects across many nodes and distances.

"Fundamentally, this is a problem of the speed of light, and the issue of latency.

"The third barrier is when the problems truly become more complex. Systems operate on such a small scale that quantum noise, thermal randomness, and even the most minor of measurement uncertainties on the level of the smallest unit in existence become issues.

"The fourth problem arises when issues with the speed of light are resolved and quantum noise takes a back seat. You begin to deal with issues in your Relativity theory. Causality becomes an issue, and breaking the laws of the speed of light creates contradictions and can destroy a technology before it is even fully fledged.

"The fifth problem comes when the fourth Barrier is overcome. It is mainly a problem with the philosophical method you've thought of not long ago... the Ship of Theseus."

Sylas' eyes narrowed. The Omnimous reading his thoughts in real time was one thing. It reading thoughts he had already had was another.

The Ship of Theseus referred to the repaired ship contemplated paradox he had thought of when Germaine was practically losing her mind. How much of a ship could you repair until it was considered an entirely new ship?

On the quantum level, things were always changing. Even if you stood in the same spot, you weren't always breathing in the same oxygen molecules. They were morphing, changing, becoming something new.

When you were crafting something that relied on the smallest segments of the universe to remain constant and true, but the laws of the universe itself required constant change and constant chaos, how could you ensure consistency?

This was the essence of the Barrier of Identity.

What would you do as photons constantly crashed into your system? What if a particle wanted to randomly tunnel or swap places with its partner of opposite spin? How could you account for all of these things?

"The sixth Barrier, the Barrier of Meaning... this is already approaching the limits of the Omnimous before you must make a decision. This is no longer a raw limitation of technology itself, but rather the universe and the creator. When you are creating things on this scale, they are so close to becoming their own ecosystems that you must try to define things that cannot be properly designed.

"Your people know this as the Gödel-like incompleteness, a theorem that states that any consistent, formal axiomatic system powerful enough to describe basic arithmetic will always contain true statements that cannot be proven within the system, and conversely, false statements likewise cannot be disproven.

"Systems on this level are so large that they can only rely on themselves, but because of that, they require definitions that only the universe has-truths so real and basic that they can only be understood by crafting entire worlds.

"And once you've reached that level, only the seventh barrier remains... the Barrier of Existence.

"At this level, your system has grown so large that it must face what all levels of existence must: entropy. Chaos. The end of all things and their tendency toward destruction."

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