Chapter 639: Destiny Pact
Zhou Donglai spent three whole months thinking about "how to do it".
But this is very different from the military level, and even from the regular management of government affairs.
Zhou Donglai failed to think of a clear direction on this matter.
Fortunately, in the past few months, the scattered starry fleet clerks have not been idle.
Nearly 100,000 professional and non-professional social science genius scholars scattered in different teams in the fields of political philosophy, historical analysis, psychology, sociology, economics, economics of science and technology, civilization studies, and spatio-temporal topology, after intensive discussions and almost "life and death" debates, put forward a very groundbreaking, but very return-to-basics plan -- formulating conventions to replace the functions of great leaders with agreements between individuals and civilizations as a whole.
This ideal convention can bind the organization in a big way and be specific to the individual in a small way.
The Convention has both a binding effect similar to law and a set of voluntary norms applicable to all.
The source of the convention is not only based on the life philosophy of the sage Chen Feng, but also traces back and extends backwards, and comprehensively analyzes the many "conventions", "covenants", "agreements", "famous quotes", "philosophical speculations" and "famous golden sentences" that have played an important role in the history of human civilization throughout the ages.
The Convention will, to some extent, inherit the function of a leader, both as a guide to human behaviour and as a reminder to all of humanity for what it is and what role the individual should play in civilization.
This principle will form a strong dialectical mindset in the human mind, which will guide everyone to always make decisions that are beneficial to the collective when faced with major life decisions.
If such a miraculous convention can really be completed, the crisis that Qin Guang and other people of insight are worried about will be easily solved.
But the convention itself is not a reasonable thing.
Assuming that human beings are not threatened by extraterrestrials, nor have they received scientific and technological assistance from extraterrestrial civilizations, and that no one can repeatedly bring scientific knowledge back to modern times from the future, in the normal process of civilization, human beings can promote the development of science and technology and productive forces in a way that conforms to basic logic, relying only on their own capabilities, and then step out of the earth and set foot on the extraterrestrials.
In this process, the time required for the construction and development of various colonies and human galaxies, and the time required for the incubation and formation of various key technologies will inevitably be extended by as little as ten times and as much as dozens of times.
Then, for humans to become a stellar civilization, it will theoretically take at least 10,000 years from 2000.
To develop to the current size of the Morrowind Empire, it is likely to take a cycle of 20,000 years.
If it takes longer, the population base from birth to death will also be proportionally larger.
It takes more people to pile up in order to pile up the size of the empire that appears little by little.
In the process of development, the earthlings may also need to go through large-scale galaxial-level civil wars again and again, constantly splitting and reunifying, and some galaxies may be able to be strong for a short time, and then make some contributions, and then be eliminated.
Humanity will experience more internal wars and peaces, and there will be struggles between systems, between ideas, and more confrontations at all levels.
The normal path to civilization cannot be a logical step-by-step rapid ascent in today's history, but a more tortuous spiral that takes longer and has more participants.
The relationship between the small collectives under the big collectives is both competitive with each other and at some level of mutual cooperation, and the alternating evolution of war and peace, development and retrogression, will make human beings think about the universe and themselves more and more deeply, and will bring a more complex and comprehensive process of ideological evolution to human civilization as a whole.
In this process, the development of human spiritual civilization and material civilization will form a relationship that not only competes with each other, but also complements each other, forms the two legs of civilization, and the ability of the huge civilization itself to correct errors provides a reconciling role in these two legs.
To take the simplest example, in several Renaissance, Renaissance, and Literary and Artistic Explosion activities, the wealth of human beings at the level of spiritual civilization first came to the front of material civilization, and the longer-term vision and precious positive literary and artistic resources brought more widely disseminated knowledge, and gave birth to more scientific talents with advanced vision and ability, and then in turn drove the material civilization to move forward rapidly, and then formed the first, second, and third ...... The Nth Industrial Revolution and the Technological Revolution.
However, during the outbreak of the industrial revolution and the scientific and technological revolution, the rapidly expanding demand for material civilization put forward an obvious tendency to the employment demand of human beings, as well as the overall social atmosphere that focuses more on pragmatism.
Therefore, in this stage, the speed of development of spiritual civilization has in turn been suppressed by the rapid development of material civilization.
Until one day, the collective consciousness of civilization will naturally realize that the too backward spiritual civilization has in turn dragged down the material civilization, caused some turmoil, caused some wars of greater or smaller scales, and made the material civilization stagnate or regress for a short time.
It is likely that some regions will be left behind, and small-scale wars will break out within the galaxy, and there may even be large-scale wars between different star fields, and many people will definitely die.
But that is not a big problem, because as long as there is no foreign enemy, once the human race out of the solar system, it will never be completely destroyed, and the civilization as a whole will naturally be able to eliminate the backward parts like a tumor, and what is left behind will definitely become the essence and bring about a new round of rapid progress.
In turbulent times, spiritual civilization is bound to catch up quickly, until the gap is bridged, or a fundamental change in the social system is caused.
Subsequently, civilization will enter the next period of rapid growth of material civilization and shake off spiritual civilization again.
And so on and so forth.
Theoretically, there can never be a perfect balance between the material and the spiritual.
Then, in the normal history of the development of human civilization, it will take one to twenty thousand years for mankind to complete the process of exploding the productive forces from expansion to the present day, and after one or another ideological change and repeated ideological conflicts, with the help of constantly absorbing lessons and lessons, human society can naturally obtain a reasonable spiritual civilization suitable for contemporary needs.
But the current situation is that it only took 900 years for the earthlings to complete the process of material civilization that would normally take 1 to 20,000 years, or even more than 10,000 years.
The earthlings have been rushing forward on the road of the explosion of science and technology created by Chen Feng, and they have no time to stop and look back and think about themselves and the universe from a philosophical perspective.
The earth's civilization is like an overdeveloped child, lame again, and his physical strength has gone up, but the three views have fallen behind.
This lame child still has to hold the sword in his hand at this time, and fight with the toothy and grinning wolf bayonet in front of him, and behind the evil wolf, there is a terrifying shadow that does not see the real body and does not know the depth of its strength.
The child is 6,000 years old this year, and in his 6,000-year-old lifespan, he has never faced such a strange and harsh living environment, and his past survival experience and survival philosophy are no longer applicable.
Under the threat of such a terrible internal and external environment, after the death of the most active, thoughtful, and comprehensive brain region in children's brains (the sage Chen Feng), there is still no time to think about questions such as "who am I", "what am I doing", "what kind of person do I want to be in the future", and so on, which are both metaphysical and humanistic.
Due to the inadequacy of knowledge and spiritual civilization, in the process of dealing with the enemy, it is difficult for him to even think about the question of "what should I do to defeat the enemy in front of me", let alone think about dealing with the shadow behind the enemy, and can only leave everything to instinct, and these problems that Zhou Donglai saw will inevitably appear.
The small-scale civil strife that occurred in the Nameless Fleet could still be suppressed by the invincible Tong Ling.
But if the scale of this civil strife is magnified to the entire empire, it is impossible for a hundred more Tong Ling to control the scene.
Things can get completely out of control.
But at present, human beings are great enemies, and behind the great enemy's compound eye, there is also a mastermind behind the scenes who has been proven to be inevitable, but it is still impossible to guess its ability, human civilization can definitely not withstand the toss, and the pace of progress cannot be stopped.
The earth's civilization seems to be winning, but in fact, it is still in danger.
That's when the significance of the convention comes into play.
The convention can be thought of as the 24th pair of chromosomes in addition to the basic 23 pairs of chromosomes in the child's body cells.
The extra chromosomes will give each cell (each person) some new characteristics.
The essence of this new characteristic is thought.
Assuming that the depth of information carrying these characteristics is the same as the original 23 pairs of chromosomes, then all cells in the confused child can be provided with some instinct-like behavioral norms to correct the direction of cell division and growth as much as possible, so that each cell can become as useful as possible, stronger, and more in line with the overall needs of the child's body, rather than cancerous.
Qin Guang approved the proposal of his colleagues in the fleet, sorted it out, and sent it to the Imperial Headquarters with his own title, which was soon widely recognized.
The compilation of the Convention on a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind has since been put on the agenda.
Once the direction is determined, all that remains is to achieve it through practice.
In the next two months, tens of billions of scholars came up with hundreds of millions of solutions from different fields and perspectives.
After a series of research and simulation experiments for half a year, the final plan is as follows.
By absorbing the research on human body and genetic information from the core projects of Chen Feng, such as frozen embryo synthesis, primitive gene synthesis, cryonics technology, and the Nuwa Project, a set of deep genetic improvement technologies with real energy level with accuracy are designed.
Through this genetic improvement technology, the DNA double-stranded structure in human cells can be engraved with real precision to engrave a basic law involving each pair of chromosomes and each pair of base pairs.
This new basic law will give the human brain a new vitality, and the quantum thinking storm of the human brain will have a strong resonance with the external environment, and will be able to listen to the "wisdom of the universe" like Chen Feng, who took the lead in breaking through 50% of the genetic arousal.
Subsequently, those who have accepted the reform can carve into a life principle that cannot be violated, resisted, or forgotten at the bottom of their thinking, that is, the Convention on a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.
The content of the convention is a "symbol" compiled by many artists, philosophers, thinkers, writers, scientists and others in the current era, which are all the essences of the long history of "Song of the World", "Never Walk Alone", "Morning Wind", "Song of Righteousness", countless classic national anthems, international anthems, countless classic literary and artistic works and philosophical discourses, countless games, movies, TV series, etc.
The concept of this "symbol" comes from the ultra-complex stacked memory symbols created by the sage Chen Feng when he stored his memories, and the amount of information carried is not inferior to the imprint of his ninth memory that Chen Feng created himself.
It is not only a song, but also a poem, a lingering speech, and a long, long picture full of vicissitudes.
It will make use of all the cultural essences left over from the 6,000-year history of human civilization.
In the past, there have always been two distinct and conflicting ideas.
Some people believe that civilization has inertia and the ability to self-correct, and when the society is huge to a certain extent and the scientific and technological productive forces expand to a certain extent, the value of any individual to the collective will become dispensable.
Others believe that civilization needs leaders and heroes.
At this stage, the vast majority of people such as Zhou Donglai and Tang Xiaao hold the second concept.
Ingeniously, however, these two notions corroborate each other in the "symbols" of the Convention.
The Convention brings these two contradictory ideas together from the ground up.
As for right and wrong, there is only one criterion, "whether human civilization will still exist in a million years." ”
Year 2929.
In March, the genetic information improvement technology, named "Ultimate Genetic Modification", was successfully developed.
At the end of December, in the small detachments of the Nameless Fleet and the human settlements of countless galaxies, the astronomical order of magnitude of modified equipment was fully popularized, and everything was ready, only the east wind was missing.
In August 2930, after ten years of painstaking efforts, the earth's civilization finally completed the "Convention on a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind", referred to as the "Convention on Destiny", a pyramid-shaped three-dimensional symbol printed out that is both infinitely large and infinitely small.