In an orbit more than 10,000 kilometers away from the earth, the space ranch is flying rapidly in orbit. Under the leadership of their colleagues, the five of them flew quickly in the space ranch. Their goal was the space ranch breeding center.
In just a short while, five people appeared in front of the gate of the breeding center. Looking at the door in front of him, Zuo Dajun sighed: "It's troublesome in the real world. It's a waste of time just rushing. But it's fine in the virtual universe. Just think of that teleport and you'll be there." After experiencing the convenience of being in the virtual universe Finally, he felt more and more troubled in the real world.
In the virtual universe, there is no need to rush like this. You can just teleport. Whatever you want can be transformed directly.
But in the real world, don’t even think about it.
"Army, it's pointless to compete like this." Fan Xiaoming smiled,
"Besides, you can do whatever you want. That's the free space of the virtual universe. There are certain rules for non-free spaces... I feel it's a bit dangerous for people like you. People like you will probably have to stay in the virtual universe in the future. The universe is no longer coming out. This is not a good sign." Xu Zhengping nodded and said: "When the Internet and computers first came out, there was talk of Internet addiction. Now the emergence of the virtual universe is the same. Look, many people will. People are obsessed with the virtual universe, and the relevant departments are cautiously afraid of this."
"The only ones who are most affected by the virtual universe are people in our time period. When the next generation is born with a virtual universe, they won't care." Bao Qizheng said with a smile,
"But this virtual universe is different from the past networks and computers. If you are used to life in the virtual universe, especially the highly free space, it will be difficult to adapt to life in the real world." Fan Xiaoming nodded and said: " Yes! So we need to supervise and restrict, so that everyone can slowly adapt to the virtual universe... That's almost it, let's enter the breeding center." The five people entered the breeding center's gate under the leadership of the commentator.
Before walking too far after entering, a few people saw a bunch of robots surrounding twenty or thirty cows, treating them.
These cattle were the ones that had been seriously injured in a scuffle between the two herds. Su Zhe and the other five stopped and watched the robots rescuing the cows.
These robots move very quickly. Whether they are cutting open a cow or sewing it together, they can do it all in one go.
Seeing this scene, Zuo Dajun was surprised.
"Are all current surgeries so awesome? This is a robot! It's so awesome." Fan Xiaoming said indifferently: "Is it weird? Did you see that there are so many tubes inserted into the cow's body to replace the injured part? For those who perform extracorporeal circulation, with the current medical technology, as long as the head is not fatally injured, that is, the brain is irreversibly damaged, you can save the others as long as they do not die on the spot. Besides, this cow is under the control of these robots. The eyes are transparent, and you can find any problems." This effect is ultimately due to the advancement of detection technology.
"I said, look now, as long as you don't suffer a serious brain injury or die on the spot, you won't die." Zuo Dajun smiled.
Fan Xiaoming nodded,
"It's like this. With the current technology, it is not impossible to transplant the brain, but many technologies are restricted by ethics. Even if the technology has matured, it still will not be used on humans." Over the past year , especially in the past six months, biotechnology has also ushered in explosive development. In contrast, the supervision of biotechnology is also extremely strict.
As far as humans are concerned, as long as there is no problem with the brain, other organs and other body parts can be replaced.
In the past, there were immune rejections and so on, but now these are no longer problems. This is just that now there is no need to use other people's organs for organ transplantation. With current technology, the patient's cells can be collected, and the required organs and tissues can be directly cultivated through cell differentiation and reverse differentiation.
In other words, the research on human genes has reached a very high level in the past six months, and it is already possible to initially control gene expression.
This is an organ transplant, which is relatively traditional. Using cell differentiation and reverse differentiation to culture organs and tissues does not take a certain amount of time, while the other method is more direct and faster.
It is the direct production of organs. Direct manufacturing is divided into two types due to different raw materials. One is to directly manufacture organs and tissues from macromolecules cultured from cells, and the other is to use industrial materials instead of industrial materials to manufacture organs and tissues.
For example, for human eyes, synthetic human eyes can be made using macromolecules cultured from the cells of the user.
This method is not much different from the eyes cultured through cell differentiation and reverse differentiation. It is no different in structure and function from the original human eyes.
Eyes made by using industrial materials are different. Their structures are completely different, but their functions are the same.
If allowed, a person can even leave only the brain, and all other parts will be replaced by organs and tissues made by replacing industrial materials.
This is what is called transforming people, and as of now, this is strictly prohibited. If this head opens, it will be chaos.
With today's technology, if transformation is allowed, a person who is transformed will be no different from the superman in science fiction.
Even if the transformation is successful now, the strength will not last long. That is because of the limitation of energy.
Transforming people is certainly powerful, but the energy it consumes is also staggering. The current super battery, even the super battery after iteration, can only sustain the high-intensity activities of a powerful modified human for two hours.
Speaking of which, there is also a scientific research team studying this kind of human transformation. Similarly, there are many research directions for transforming people, but the mainstream ones fall into two categories.
One is to retain all the functions of human beings and add more functions, and the other is to abandon those unnecessary functions of human beings.
For example, the absorption of biological energy. The way people obtain energy is bioenergy, which is obtained through eating.
If the former retains this ability and adds more energy acquisition methods on top of it, the latter will abandon this ability.
If the former is still a human being, then the latter just looks like a human being. Of course, I don’t dare to do the former or the latter, both while retaining my brain.
As far as current research is concerned, the brain is the carrier of consciousness. As for transforming the brain, to put it bluntly, the human brain is the bottom line as a human being and as a subject of consciousness. If the brain is replaced and transformed, even if the person’s memory, thinking, etc. Same, that's not the same person as before.
Research on modified humans is still in progress, but judging from the current situation, after controllable nuclear fusion technology is miniaturized, such modified talents can become truly powerful.
But the intensity of this kind of transformation of people is also limited. For this kind of modified person, his brain is the eternal Achilles heel. Under normal circumstances, this kind of modified person is no match for mechas and humanoid bionic robots.
This is also the reason why we dare to let go of research on transforming people. In fact, if you think about it, you can clearly see that transforming people is nothing more than adding a brain to a humanoid bionic robot. This is not fundamentally different from a standard manned mecha, and it has no advantage over a humanoid bionic robot.
Hearing what Fan Xiaoming said, Bao Qizheng nodded and said: "Some technical research can be done, but it cannot be promoted, and supervision must be strengthened, otherwise we don't know what it will become. But with the current medical technology, as long as the person is not brain dead on the spot, , basically they can be saved. By the way, I heard that the research on consciousness has made progress, and it is said that the area that dominates consciousness has been found in the brain. Does that mean that as long as the independence of the consciousness area is maintained, the rest of the brain Regions can also be replaced." Bao Qizheng looked at Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming at the end.
Fan Xiaoming nodded and said: "The area of dominant consciousness has been found, but it has not been completely analyzed. How it will work depends on the analysis of this area. To be honest, we are not sure yet, but what is certain is that we After completing the analysis of this area, digital life can almost take shape, and it is the kind of conscious digital life." Bao Qizheng said with a smile: "It will be really difficult to define human beings in the future. Can transforming people be considered human beings? , is it defined from the body or from the subjective consciousness? It is like a digital life. It has a human body in the virtual universe, receives a full set of human cultural education, and lives the same life as a human being. Is such a digital life considered a human being? , or we should define it early. Only in terms of body and subjective consciousness can we be considered human." Zuo Dajun shook his head and said: "Subjective consciousness will become, I think it would be better to just use the body to define it. The body is the human being. They are human beings. As for those who transform people, just define them as non-human beings."
"That's not right either. Subjective consciousness can indeed be changed, but now the body can also be changed." Bao Qizheng said.
Fan Xiaoming smiled and said: "We'd better not think about these headaches. It's useless to think about them anyway. What we have to do now is to increase our human population. As long as our current human population base is large enough, everything else will be fine." It’s not a threat, everything else is fictitious.” Xu Zhengping nodded and said: “As long as the existing human population is large enough, other things cannot become the climate, otherwise we will disappear in the long river of history.” Zuo Dajun looked at Looking at the cows being treated, he sighed and said: "In a thousand years or more, the universe will probably become extremely lively, and there will most likely be all kinds of weird intelligent life. It's better to get up early, anyway. The universe is big enough for all intelligent life to let go of this development, but in the later stages, wars between these intelligent life for resources and energy are unavoidable, and we don’t know what the scene will be like at that time. "With the current technological means, there is no problem at all in creating many strange carbon-based life forms.
There are so many animals and plants on the earth that it is possible to create new species based on them. If digital life could produce subjective consciousness, it would be another large category of intelligent life.
It is foreseeable that these intelligent life forms are bound to exist in the universe in the future, and they are unavoidable even if they want to.
Bao Qizheng said seriously: "What kind of scene is it still? Endless wars and massacres! Research in this area has been going on. Now we are waiting for digital life to develop subjective consciousness. Once digital life has subjective consciousness , we will build a new universe in the virtual universe to deduce these. We can’t see this day in the real world, but we can see it in the virtual universe.” Those who are most enthusiastic about research in this area are those who Social sciences, various models and simulations.
But having said that, now that there is a virtual universe, research in this area is indeed much more convenient. Zuo Dajun sighed: "Yes! It is nothing more than war and massacre. At that time, war would probably destroy a galaxy at every turn. It is unimaginable, completely unimaginable, but the more I think about it, the more I feel that we humans must speed up our development. We If we want to increase the population, we should increase it in an unlimited way, allowing us humans to spread throughout the entire universe. Only in this way can we humans be able to coexist with the universe forever. Otherwise, when the universe comes to a melee, it is still unknown whether humans can survive." Bao Bao. Qi Zheng nodded and said: "It's really hard to say something that is too far away. I don't know how the war will be fought. But what is certain is that such a war will come sooner or later. We cannot slow down our development. The faster the pace, the better. Even if we humans don’t create these weird intelligent life forms, there will naturally be other intelligent life forms in the universe, which we often call aliens.”
"Yes! There are aliens in the universe. Maybe these aliens are quietly developing in star fields that we don't know about. Maybe there are aliens who are already executing plans to occupy the universe." Zuo Dajun said,
"Maybe we may discover aliens tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We should be in danger. Or, as those experts say, whether we discover aliens or not, we should recognize the threat of aliens and let them Everyone knows the threat of aliens." Fan Xiaoming smiled and said: "Dajun, you mean to create an enemy for us humans so that we can have the motivation to develop."
"Yes! Otherwise, the virtue of us humans is to eat well and go to bed. As for other things, we have long forgotten them." Zuo Dajun said,
"I think it is necessary to establish a strong enemy for us humans, a strong enemy that can supervise the development of us humans." Bao Qi nodded,
"From the overall interests of mankind, this has practical significance, but from a personal point of view, this is just looking for trouble, and having a good life is just messing around." Fan Xiaoming thought for a while and said: "It depends on how you say it. , Personally speaking, it would be best to live in a virtual universe and have a free space to revolve around. But from the perspective of human beings as a whole, it cannot be like this. Without the stability of human beings as a whole, individuals will not be able to Such a life is possible.”
