Chapter 690 A Difficult Choice
Dark.
open.
This is the main color in interstellar space travel.
Although there are billions of stars dotted in the background, the artificial earths at this moment still feel extremely lonely.
After more than 500 years of rapid development, the technological progress of human civilization has entered a bottleneck period, and the research and development of various technologies has begun to slow down.
Even with the experience of intelligent machine civilization and the circumstances of human civilization itself, human civilization still has no way to break through the boundaries of level one civilization and reach the level of level two civilization.
It can't even reach the quasi-second-level civilization.
The Chixin Group on artificial Earth No. 34 has also fallen into a technological bottleneck.
Inside the Earth Science City of the Chixin Group , Gao Long woke up again from the cryogenic hibernation chamber.
At this time, he only had about 133 Earth years left in his natural lifespan. After handing over his job to the new generation, Gao Long, like Li Qingye, chose to participate in scientific research in the field of soul.
At this time, 12 Earth years have passed since Li Qingye proposed the idea of finding the birth of the soul from the process of embryonic development.
However, various research institutes and researchers have conducted countless experiments on this key idea, but still have found nothing.
Gao Long had been dormant for five years. He came to the data center of Science City and looked through various papers and academic conferences on the field of soul in the past five years.
After watching for more than ten hours, although his face was expressionless, he actually felt a little regretful and helpless in his heart. He sighed softly: "Huh... Still no breakthrough progress?"
Another old researcher who had just woken up couldn't help but reveal a hint of bitterness at the corner of his mouth: "Not only has there not been much progress in the soul field, other technologies have also been developing slowly. The neutron material field has remained at the eight-neutron stage for nearly two hundred years..."
Gao Long leaned back in his chair, muttering to himself with a somewhat sad look in his eyes: "That person's time is running out..."
The other veteran researchers were also silent.
They have mixed feelings in their hearts, and at the same time they feel grief for their own kind.
Gao Long woke up from his sadness and patted his face. Then he looked at the others: "Everyone has to die since ancient times. This is life, this is the rule of the universe. Now let us use up our last bit of strength and charge towards the eternal rule!"
"Lao Gao, you are worthy of being a minister. You speak in a very unique way." Another old researcher teased.
Suddenly, the sad atmosphere at the scene was diluted a lot.
Gao Long smiled and shook his head: "Life must go on. Let's go! I'll go to the laboratory first."
"Let's go together!"
Soon the group arrived at .
There are also many researchers and auxiliary staff working here on a daily basis, and there are also a large number of intelligent robots.
Because we have the technology and information of the intelligent robot civilization, and it is a cracked version, human civilization actually has very strong technical reserves in the technology of intelligent robots.
But precisely because of this, human civilization is much more wary of artificial intelligence than other civilizations.
The reason is that once artificial intelligence breaks through its limitations, it can even turn the tables and directly devour the parent civilization that created it.
Therefore, human civilization, led by Homo sapiens, has imposed very strict restrictions on intelligent robots, basically cutting off the possibility of robots or supercomputers generating intelligence.
The robots in the laboratory now look a bit rigid and stupid. The reason is that the Chixin Group has imposed double restrictions on the robots in terms of physical hardware and virtual software.
As for why not learn the information immortality of the intelligent mechanical civilization.
In fact, after the outbreak of neurasthenia syndrome, many researchers have studied the relevant information of dozens of civilizations, including the six-clawed civilization and the intelligent mechanical civilization.
It was finally discovered that carbon-based organisms and information organisms actually have souls, and that there are also limits on the lifespan of the soul.
However, carbon -based organisms always tend to adopt the individual + group development model.
Information organisms tend to tend towards a super-individual development model.
Then why do information creatures exhibit the "phenomenon" of eternal life ?
What it all comes down to is the different definitions of life between the two sides. The mother and daughter of information life are actually one super-organism and can transform into each other.
Therefore, every "system update" of the intelligent robots represents their reincarnation, and their souls are reset back to their initial state.
But the new humans cannot use this method.
On the one hand, intelligent robots have no gender or relatives, so they do not have the ethical morals of carbon-based creatures.
On the other hand, if the human genetic memory inheritance model is cloned, it is indeed possible to become another "self".
The soul of a cloned person born in the embryonic stage is definitely not himself, but his "memory" is his own.
In this case, is that really "myself"?
How to solve ethical issues?
Clones are different from artificial humans. To put it simply, artificial humans are actually equivalent to test-tube babies. Artificial humans are not copies of that person, but independent individuals.
However, a clone is not an independent individual, but a copy of the original.
In fact, Li Qingye has frozen quite a few clones, but he has never made up his mind to activate the clones.
Because he knew very well that cloning could give people immortality in disguise.
But is eternal life really good?
This is a question that Li Qingye and others often thought about in the last moments of their lives.
If they don't die, they will permanently occupy a portion of the mass of the universe.
If they do not die, then their descendants will definitely choose not to die.
At this time, human civilization will face a desperate choice. In the absence of a way to break through the bottleneck of the speed of light, humans can only live in an isolated planetary system for a long time, which means that the resources of this system are limited.
When resources are limited in a system, there exists a nearly immortal species that reproduces very quickly, and this species has no way to divert its excess members on a large scale.
Then this system is doomed to failure.
In fact, there are only two paths available to human beings now: either use clones, but from then on, they can no longer reproduce offspring; or reproduce offspring, but clones cannot appear.
You cannot have both cloning humans and reproducing offspring.
Otherwise, it will destroy the ecological balance of the system and then expose itself.
Moreover, it is not certain that cloning can be maintained permanently if it completely replaces offspring. After all, doing so would be equivalent to the entire race losing its diversity, and its development potential would become increasingly worse as time goes on.
Choose your own eternal life, or the future of your race.
This is a difficult choice.
