In addition to the technical limitations, an expert brought in specifically from U.S. intelligence explained in detail the strategic shortcomings of the rescue plan.

The person who spoke was already in his seventies, he was an intelligence officer when he was young, but fortunately he did not serve for a long time, and now he has passed the secrecy period, so he can speak now.

Like Yevgeny, this gentleman came to the consultation in order to earn a pension and money for his children and grandchildren when he was old.

The old man seemed to be sitting in his own home, still in a wheelchair, but when he spoke, the tone of his mouth was still sonorous: "For the time being, I don't consider the ethical issues of whether replicants are human beings, nor do I consider the impact they may have after they come to Earth, just say that the goal of this mission is set, there is no doubt that such a rescue is of no strategic significance." ”

Wu Xiaoqing listened very carefully, in fact, the search and rescue team had already told him these words, and he knew it in his heart, but ...... It's one thing to know something, and it's another thing to actually execute it.

Now Wu Xiaoqing has become smarter, but he has also become more hesitant, because the more he knows, the more he understands the complexity of this world - if he is just the same Wu Xiaoqing as before, he just needs to close his eyes and carry out the instructions of the collection team.

But now, Wu Xiaoqing feels that he needs to try to take responsibility for something independently, and try to use his own ideas to complete the task. - With Wu Xiaoqing's current IQ, it is easy to think that this is obviously the purpose of the search and rescue team's suggestion to have surgery.

But judging by the current situation, his ideas are not very optimistic.

In fact, Wu Xiaoqing knew from the beginning that it was difficult to bring Wu Qing and them back to Earth.

Just like the search and rescue team said, in fact, from the moment they were copied, they were no longer earthlings and did not belong to the earth's civilization.

They are nothing more than Federalists with memories of Earth.

"Even if we need to get them back, the best time is not now," the intelligence officer continued, "This is a time of war for the entire Federation, and this civilization is really facing great uncertainty, and some of the individuals created by this civilization are nothing compared to the life and death of a civilization. ”

"I think the most important core of the whole mission now is not how to save these people, or to pass on our opinions to them through the server channel, to persuade them to recognize their current situation, and to convince them that the first task to do now is not to think about how to return to Earth, but to make a more critical contribution in the Federation......"

Wu Xiaoqing put down the headphones, and he could guess the next words without listening.

Wu Xiaoqing was stunned in his seat for more than ten minutes, and after making sure that the intelligence officer had finished his speech, he put on his headphones again and returned to the venue.

Rao Xin is making a concluding remarks: "...... Nor am I a person who cares about morality, especially on such a huge proposition as the existence of civilization as a whole......"

“…… Because morality itself is nothing but a product of civilization, because morality ignores the safety of civilization itself, there is no doubt that cause and effect are reversed. ”

"But there is one thing I must remind everyone that in the setting of this event, the safety of morality and civilization, these two are not completely in conflict, we are now breaking through morality as the center of the issue, in fact, in my opinion, it is just a manifestation of our earthlings' self-righteousness - deliberately set up some kind of obstacle, and then deliberately overcome him, in the hope of a certain sense of solemnity of self-persuasion, just like the general asked the soldiers to accomplish their goals at all costs-but in fact we all know, There is no such thing as sparing no cost in the military, and if it is really sparing, it means that the risk of the entire army is highly uncontrollable, which is a strategic defeat for the general, not a reason for sacrificing soldiers. ”

"In this setting, we had a dilemma of several simulators that had been copied into the alien computer."

"With the morality of the people of the earth, we take it for granted that we must save them, and take it for granted that it is a kind of pain, but in fact, it is not necessary."

"According to the technical setting, in fact, these replicants have no basis for surviving on the earth, and even if they return to the earth, we will not be able to provide them with the corresponding living space and a reasonable way of life - even the simplest robot body cannot be completed. What is this feeling - they can still be normal people in the virtual world, but returning to the earth is basically equivalent to death, is this a kind of morality for them? ”

"But on the other hand, what if we look at all this in terms of the morality of the Federalists, and even, in terms of the morality of the intellect?"

"That's the environment in which they really live, that's the environment in which this problem happens."

"There are obviously two views within the Federation, one of course does not recognize the human rights of replicants, but we note that they do not recognize the digitized personality simply because it infringes on the natural rights of the original personality, and it is the natural person that their laws need to protect in the first place."

"But here, it is clear that these copied earthlings are not protected by federal law, that is, under the framework of federal law, they do not touch anyone's interests - legality or not, at least their existence is not illegal."

"This legal basis is also the reason why the federal government must find these three replicants, obviously the federal government is eager to quickly apply this technology in the military field, and the federal government is the legitimate government on behalf of their civilization - I want to say, at least, these three replicants can't find a job in the federation."

"No matter how miserable it is, they will still be able to live in the Federation in the future, maybe it is not the good life we expect, but at least they are alive, what if they return to Earth? Can our technology keep them 'alive'? ”

"You see, saving the earth is equivalent to death, and if you put it in the Federation, at least you can still live, this is the first priority, survival morality."

"Of course, we can imagine that if they really serve the federal government, then they will not be comfortable, someone mentioned before that this is a new type of slave army under advanced technological conditions, I basically agree with this judgment, in our moral audience of earthlings, this must be an evil, in fact, it is also largely in the Federation."

"But, now one of the biggest realities is that the Federation's opponents, the intellectuals, their armies are also in this pattern."

"Now we can basically understand why the intelligent army is not afraid of attrition, and in the Battle of Black Star, it has to fight several times, or even more than ten times the casualty ratio, but the Federation with more resources is afraid of such a war of attrition?"

"The reason is simple, the Federation is understaffed. Why doesn't the mind have this concern? Because they themselves are data, and they are the civilization that has emerged under the conditions of this new type of technology. ”

"If we are to use morality, we should not use our human morality to speculate about this new model of life, but to see how they see themselves."

"In fact, from a realistic point of view, the replicability clause has fully demonstrated that they don't care about being used."

"It seems to me that we humans, and indeed most creatures, fear death, fear slavery, in large part because our consciousness is imprisoned in the body, and we realize that our experience in this world is only one and only once."

"What if we were like in the mythical world, where life can be reincarnated infinitely and exist infinitely many times? Buddhism has a term called the six realms of reincarnation, this life is hard, it doesn't matter, as long as you get through it, you will have a better chance in the next life, just like buying a lottery ticket, you will be a beast in this life, and you may be able to be a person in the next life, or even a person with a good life. ”

And this kind of digital life obviously has more tension than reincarnation, what is a death to them? A life may be as valuable to them as a cell is to us, will you feel sad because of the withering of one of your own cells? Do you feel the dirt that comes off your body when you take a shower? They are all part of the human body, apoptotic cells, dead life. ”

"We won't, why? The reason is simple, on a larger scale, the macroscopic possibilities of the whole life still exist, because as long as we are alive, new cells will continue to be produced. ”

"It's the same for data life."

"We have no reason to think that they will be afraid of death, because they are not naturally dead, from the moment they are digitized, they have completely transcended the human mode of existence, they do not die, they do not grow old, by that definition, they are gods."

"The war between the Federation and the Mind is a war between man and God, in my opinion, so in the virtual war game of the Federation, there is no possibility of victory for humanity at all. And the Federation's attempt to find the three replicas is not in a sense not looking for slaves, but in an effort to find the possibility of God. ”

"We can even imagine the influence that these three clones will gain in this civilization when they fully join the Federation's fleet and ultimately help the Federation win! You still want to sympathize with them...... In my opinion, this is not necessary. ”

"We can understand that they want to come back, but we must also see rationally that from any point of view, continuing to stay in the Federation is the best way out for these people."

After Rao Xin's speech, he won a warm applause, and even Wu Xiaoqing in the office had to admit that Rao Xin's words really moved him - it can even be said that he completely changed his mind.

Compared with Rao Xin's perspective, his own thoughts seem so narrow and ridiculous, just because among them, there are their own clones?

The search and rescue team chose to keep Rao Xin, and I have to say that his vision is indeed very tricky, and Rao Xin does have a certain quality that they do not have.

After the meeting, Wu Xiaoqing also had a special phone call with Rao Xin - the other person is not in the company, he is still traveling in other places, when he said this just now, he is still in a hotel in the tourist area, which can be regarded as helping the company work remotely.

Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted to test whether his words were the result of communicating with the search and rescue team - if the search and rescue team had done similar communication with him first, then Wu Xiaoqing would not doubt it at all. But Rao Xin obviously didn't - in fact, many of the problems were improvised when he was in the venue and listened to others, which was improvised.

"We all write novels like this," Rao Xinman said indifferently, "Anyway, it's just blowing, do you know the grand narrative...... Just blow it in the big direction. ”

Wu Xiaoqing couldn't tell him that the content he blew was highly consistent with the meaning faintly revealed by the search and rescue team.

As soon as he put down the phone, Shen Changwen walked into his office, followed by Xu Yan, both of whom were full of red light: "I've been contacted!" Got in touch with them! ”

Wu Xiaoqing subconsciously stood up: "I'm sure it's him...... We? ”

"I'm pretty sure, I'm talking to myself...... Xu Yan is too, this feeling, you should really try, but it's a pity that you're not there. ”

Wu Xiaoqing turned his head to look at Xu Yan, and Xu Yan nodded again and again, proving that what Shen Changwen said was true: "They are also very excited...... But...... I cried. ”

"Are you crying?"

"It's another me," Xu Yan said, "and he didn't know until now that he had been copied." ”

Wu Xiaoqing could imagine what kind of blow this was to Xu Yan of that clone.

Xu Yan smiled bitterly: "He is still calculating the money I saved after returning to Earth!" ”

"What about me?" Wu Xiaoqing asked.

"You...... It's calm," Xu Yan looked at Shen Changwen hesitantly before continuing, "And the professor's replica...... You seem to have changed your mind, it seems...... I don't really want to come back. ”