Although Professor Nakatamura explained, there were still a few people who were skeptical. The brain chip transformation is indeed only a little bit, and it will not involve the fundamentals, auxiliary brain, but all-round!

For this kind of self-awareness issue, everyone discussed it for a long time, and there was no good result, so it could only be put on hold for the time being.

Yu Yifeng understood the overall opinion of this group of people. Except for a small number of concerns, the vast majority of high-level executives still believe that the ethical problems brought by this technology are acceptable for the time being.

In other words: siliconized adapters are still citizens of the new humanity.

After a while, another opponent stood up, thinking on a different level: "Listen to me. The first-generation auxiliary brain technology for Li Ran is not mature and has not yet achieved exponential iteration of intelligence......"

"It can dramatically speed up thinking, turn an ordinary person into a peerless genius, and increase intelligence from 100 to 200. We can think that there is no huge difference between the way of thinking of 100 intelligence and 200 intelligence, so it will not cause a large social change in the whole. ”

But I don't think this conclusion is entirely correct, because in a low-level civilized society, ordinary people make up the vast majority. Even if Li Ran can stand out from the crowd, no matter how powerful he is, he can only follow the chickens. ”

"So...... In this video, it seems that his personality has not changed drastically. This is most likely because his personal attributes have been assimilated by the surrounding society. ”

"But what about us? If the vast majority of the population becomes silicon-based transformers, what kind of impact will be caused by the sudden increase in intelligence, and whether the whole society will change, this is unknown and unpredictable for us......"

Yu Yifeng frowned and thought, it is true that if the siliconization transformers occupy the majority of the population, it is still unclear what will happen to the entire society.

But there is no doubt that society as a whole will inevitably change even more.

I only heard the middle-aged man continue: "...... With the accumulation of technology, this auxiliary brain will become more and more powerful, gradually suppressing the instinct of the flesh. After installing the auxiliary brain, we have enough ability to study the next generation of auxiliary brain and realize the repeated iteration of intelligence......"

"I now have two questions: whether the long-term use of the auxiliary brain will cause a series of negative benefits, whether it will cause brain degeneration, physiological desire degradation, and so on. Will it cause people to become robots? This change, in terms of our lifespan, may be long, slow, and may take centuries to manifest itself...... So that's the first bit of risk. ”

"The second question, if you keep iterating like this, will you improve your intelligence to ...... 100,000 or 1,000,000! Will we become, who we expected us to be? ”

"Will our society remain as stable as it is now? Will it become a swarm of robots, or will there be a more drastic change in the form of thinking? ”

The speaker's voice suddenly became louder: "Everyone, 100 intelligence and 100,000 intelligence, the way of thinking is absolutely different!" ”

"If this series of technologies is universally adopted, can we still be considered new humans? Are our desires, mental activities, and ways of thinking still there? Will 100,000 intellects still succumb to the current legal constraints, and will they succumb to the hormones and desires of the flesh? ”

"At that time, will we still have the desire to reproduce and eat?"

"This technology could be devastating for our entire civilization. The consequences are incalculable, and they can be good or bad...... Be careful! ”

These words made everyone present lively again.

The expert believes that if this technology is used, the future me may not be within the expectations of the current "me".

This kind of unexpectedness has brought a very terrible result: the current "I", everything I care about now, including family, friendship, love, and the social system that I have worked so hard to build, etc., are just a bunch of stumbling blocks in front of the stronger "me", and maybe I will be abandoned in an instant!

When intelligence is greatly boosted and all hormones no longer work, it is difficult to imagine what the future holds.

Then Dr. Rimbaud stood up, and instead of speaking impassionedly, he was very calm.

But the calm words contained a firm determination: "So, everyone. I chose to be a god instead of a little ant and live like this all the time......"

"Are we free now? Yes, we are free, we have unlimited scientific resources, and we can do whatever we want within the law. ”

"But are we really free? We are still only slaves to our genes, and our instinctive curiosity and desire are only part of what our genes give...... Most of what we do is limited to the bondage of the flesh. ”

"What an opportunity!"

His face flushed slightly, and his voice became high-pitched: "...... It is an opportunity that most interstellar civilizations dare not imagine! ”

"If my self-consciousness is overridden by the 'gods' of the future, my logic will not think like it does now, and the future me may think that the previous history was very boring and ridiculous, and the former me was very naïve...... I am also willing, no regrets! ”

"Maybe the weak barrier, the cruelest truth is like this, replace the old me with a new me......"

"We can make a real leap forward when we leave everything of the old days, including our thoughts as human beings! Because in its place, there will be a mind as God! ”

"When the intelligence iterates to the peak of the race, it is a truly free ...... A new civilization! ”

"It can be called a great existence in the universe!"

After saying this, he lowered his voice a little more: "Everyone, throughout the history of the universe, the facts have long been laid out in front of us, and it is basically impossible to understand the knowledge above L5 with the simple brain of carbon-based life alone. Either we're going to just cower and stagnate. Or, bravely cross the threshold and cross it...... Become one of the very few beings in the universe. ”

"Is it really so important whether we return to who we were? What if we could make everything greater, and our current existence would disappear? What if all the habits of behavior are abandoned? ”

Everyone was stunned, and there was almost silence in the conference room. With the development of the new human race to the present level, it can be said that a hundred flowers of thinking are blooming. People have generally become more charitable and have a broader mind to accept new things.

How do you say this kind of thinking...... Still a little bold, a little more advanced.

Dr. Rimbaud opened his hands and continued, "Guys, think about it. As the sower civilization says: what is our life? Is it something that is hard to part with, or is it some information that can't be discarded? Only by upgrading can we ensure a stronger driving force! ”

"Why should we be so afraid of the disappearance of this present being?"

"Wouldn't a group of 100,000, a million intellect gods build an even more powerful civilization that we can hardly imagine? Wouldn't there be a better society? Amusing...... Our group of ants here are here to think about whether it will cause chaos and collapse after becoming giants, which is simply unfounded!"

"It's just whether we're willing to give, whether we're willing to take risks, whether we're willing to throw away everything we have...... At least, I'm willing, brave enough to cross this threshold! ”

Two hours later, everyone walked out of the large conference room, some excited and some worried, and everyone's mood was a little different.

The whole meeting discussed the advantages of this technology, but also the risks involved.

For some of the more conservative, the mere fact that the future is unpredictable is enough to bring a sense of fear. Yes, if the current "me" is really dead, even if I inherit all the memories later, no matter how powerful and awesome I am, what's the use?

What does it have to do with "me"?

Or, my future self has changed dramatically, where has I been now? Is it overwritten just like a computer file?

In the future, I may think that this period of history is as ridiculous as a child.

However, taking out the philosophical risks posed by this problem, experts agree that the first generation of auxiliary brains is unlikely to bring about too obvious changes in thinking.

It does increase people's intelligence, but it does not change in essence, just like the Ge Yingsa people "Li Ran". The improvement brought by the first generation of assistive brains is limited and within a predictable range.

People are still human beings, and it is impossible to separate them from society as a whole.

If we want to make qualitative changes, we must update and iterate from generation to generation: use the auxiliary brain of the first generation to develop the second generation; Then with the second generation, the third generation is developed...... In this way, after the intelligence is getting higher and higher, a series of incredible changes in the logic of thinking will occur.

But there is no way to predict which boundary is the real qualitative red line, and perhaps it is a gradual process......

The pace of the times is coming too fast. Almost instantaneously, people seemed to touch that layer...... The threshold that I didn't dare to think about before! But this moment was exchanged for thousands of years and countless coincidences.

When all the new human beings worked hard and painstakingly to truly invent the "auxiliary brain", everyone was a little shrunken...... It's weird, it's really weird.

However, the progress of the times often cannot be stopped by human will. Compared to some philosophical and ethical issues, the benefits of assisting the brain are too great! A huge increase in IQ alone is enough. What's more, the physiological side effects of it have not been observed for the time being......

"As long as you increase your IQ significantly, even if there are side effects, you can solve them with a smarter brain, isn't it?"

"Yes, as long as you are smarter, what can't be solved now, maybe you can solve it later."

With this kind of thinking, the open-minded elite scientists, represented by Dr. Rimbaud, have long been eager to try. One by one, the volunteer petitions couldn't wait to be sent to Yu Yifeng's personal computer, which caught him off guard.

"There are so many people who think like Dr. Rimbaud!"

"At least a thousand scientists have signed up!"

Late that night, Yu Yifeng and his wife lay in the grass in the yard, looking at the huge and earthy yellow "moon" in the distance.

His mind was complicated, just like the original national transhuman project, which was actually a gamble.

If you bet right, the whole people have made great progress; If you make a mistake, the new humans may all become robots, or they may be divided by confusion......

There is a high probability of winning the bet, and the patient is slightly excited; There is a small probability of losing the bet, and it is difficult to choose.

Looking at the sky from the current perspective, the gaseous planet just hung quietly in the sky. It covers almost half of the sky, and it is more than a hundred times larger than the moon during the Earth period.

In order to reduce the panic of low-level civilizations and allow students to get an authentic experience of indigenous life, Pangu did not stop near the living planet, but stayed on a gaseous planet in the "Geingsa System". So this moon, it looks like that.

Since the Pangu was born, many new humans have moved out of the Noah to experience a new living environment. Of course, everyone's living area is still very concentrated, and there have been related exercises, and everyone can return to the Noah within an hour.

"Sometimes I think it's good to keep going like this. We're also willing to enjoy some beautiful scenery and do some stupid things. For example, lying on the ground and looking at the moon is actually a kind of laziness. ”

"It's a kind of fun that can only be felt with a low IQ, right?" Yu Yifeng suddenly smiled.

"You see, when we were children, we were so happy when we teased us; Getting a new toy and being able to play happily for days is something that only a low IQ can experience? When our brains are fully developed, we have experienced more things, and when we grow up, we will not have such inexplicable happy feelings as children. ”

Yu Yifeng sighed: "If a mechanical eye is installed, coupled with an auxiliary chip, maybe all kinds of infrared, ultraviolet rays, and all the spectrum can be seen, and it will not be beautiful." Maybe we're not going to be happy. ”

"Perhaps......" Yuriko said very quietly, "but I don't agree with you. You see, Rei is also very smart, smarter than us superhumans, but why is she so happy every day like a child? ”

"So I think whether we are happy or not has less to do with intelligence, but more to do with our desires, experiences, worldview, values, and dopamine secretion levels in our heads."

"Uh...... You have a point. ”

Yu Yifeng thought for a while and changed the topic: "Sometimes I wonder if this universe has a real self-will, and it is difficult for these intelligent beings ......"

"You see, the more we go up the way, the more we keep fighting against our genetic instincts."

"Starting with the big filter, we have to overcome the instinctive short-sightedness brought about by our genes; Later, in the national superhuman project, we abandoned the identity of earthlings that we once cherished; By now, even the identity of a human being has to be abandoned......"

"Is this progress, or evolution, or regression?"

Yuriko answered lightly: "Don't think too much about it for the time being. All this is caused by the laws of nature, and it is not deliberately set by a special will...... It's just that the way we think of solving it is this. I don't know what other civilizations that have broken through weak barriers are like. ”

"It's hard to say whether the national silicon-based transformation will make us lose a series of desires...... When the time comes, it is difficult to say whether the new human beings will be human or not. ”

"I don't think there's a need to be so pessimistic. The definition of human beings also needs to be broadened and put first. ”

"But I think this step has to be taken. Every progress represents a more open philosophical scale, which means that our hearts will be broader and vast...... As a human being, it is too small to overlook the height of the entire universe. That's why we need to constantly reinvent ourselves to fit the universe, don't we? ”

After saying this, the courtyard fell silent, and the insects that had been honking in the grass suddenly stopped making sounds.

yes, as a human being, it's still too small......

We have to let go of some of our burdens in order to understand more and gain more......

But at the same time, a lot will be lost.

"So, are you willing to accept such a transformation?" Yu Yifeng suddenly asked.

"Yes." A smile appeared on her face, and she turned her head to look at Yu Yifeng: "A smarter self, don't you want to experience it?" What kind of existence is it with millions of IQs, I really want to see it......"

"This curiosity is the biggest driving force for us today. If we lose even curiosity, wouldn't we become ...... Sunken civilization? ”

"And, I think, a high IQ is understandable for a low IQ logic. The sower civilization is so powerful, doesn't it still talk to us? We can also happily watch a colony of ants. ”

"As long as it's not extraordinary, it should still be in the realm of our understanding...... You shouldn't be so afraid. ”

She smiled as she recalled the conversation with the sower: "...... They may think that what we are doing is actually very boring and very naïve. But in every civilization, there is always such a period of history, we are naïve and weak, at forks in the road, hesitating......"

"Are we, who are smarter, really going to abandon these things? No, after all, these are history, and it is a beautiful process of step by step. ”

"That's right," Yu Yifeng said with a smile...... "You really want to open it." ”

……

The brilliant starry sky, the beautiful moon, and inadvertently, the last quiet day, slowly passed like this......