Chapter 166: Am I Me or My Son?
[Goal (3/4): Evolve, complete.] 】
[New Goal (4/4): Reproduction]
The kind of simple combination that can only be formed after countless collisions is precious.
And the last mission wanted to tell him...... Perhaps it is how to pass on this preciousness without limits.
Multiply.
Forming a new life.
It is easy to think of the process of human life formation...... The process of childbirth is the most fortunate human ...... Painful times. Some scientists once divided the pain level into ten levels, if the pain of childbirth is ten levels, then the amputation of the waist and bone scraping to cure poison without anesthetics is about seven or eight levels. And our common stomach upset finger is about 2-3 magnitude, and like earthquakes and tsunamis, this level is also increasing exponentially. This pain of giving birth to life is known to anyone who has given birth to a child......
In other words, Xu Liang thought with emotion in his heart, I, Lao Xu, are also going to have a child.
As for how to give birth, according to the experience of human beings in giving birth, it should be how it hurts and how to give birth.
What hurts the most right now probably doesn't hurt more than splitting yourself in half, right?
The general pain of being torn apart...... And suddenly I remembered that if cells want to replicate themselves, aren't they all divided into two? Seems like this method, workable?
Then give it a try?
It will hurt a lot later, so let's not talk about that. The key is to ensure that both parts are survived, and if one is born but dies, then needless to say, the task will definitely not be completed. If there is another mother and son who die, phew, father and son die, phew, in short, it is not a question of keeping the big and abandoning the small, but a question of not being able to die, no...... Anyway, I haven't given birth to a child, I don't know! It's really tangled.
Hard-headed raw!
First desperately find all kinds of basic materials and basic resources, and then, accordingly, copy the corresponding organelles according to their own appearance. What it was, is what it is now. As for the process of replication, it is done by nucleic acid molecules.
Lao Xu, who was a father for the first time, naturally didn't know anything about this, and the mitochondria he tried to split into were strangely shaped and not at all like his mother. Tried N times, all failed.
Xu Liang was angry and didn't care, love can be copied into whatever it is! However, I didn't expect that the mitochondria formed by the complete non-intervention policy would have a good effect! The discovery lifted his spirits. In other words, this so-called process of reproduction is actually left to itself to be completed spontaneously, but is it the right way?
It's like most people don't notice their breathing, and if you forcibly adjust your breathing, not only will you not feel comfortable physically and mentally, but you will feel breathless. Unless you are a legendary martial arts master, or a professional athlete who has been trained for a long time, it is actually best to let the body do this kind of thing by breathing. The same is similar to changing the sleep pattern, listening to chicken soup texts, forcibly waking up early, being sleepy for a day, and other ear and nose behaviors that violate the laws of one's biological clock......
Xu Liang tasted the sweetness and continued to implement his reproduction plan.
Once raw and twice cooked, I finally backed up everything in the cell body in two copies.
After this step is completed, the most critical tear is here.
Without much hesitation, Xu Liang took this step directly. The more you hesitate, the more scared you become. In fact, often the terrible truth ahead is not as terrible as imagined, and this is also an experience that he has successfully verified many times.
It's like covering a burning lighter with your fingers, and the first time you look at it, you will find it amazing and incredible, but when you actually try it, you will find that it is not hot at all.
But this time Xu Liang was wrong.
The process of tearing, pain.
It hurts a lot!
The pain is indescribable, as if the whole body has been torn apart! (I can't really think of any words)
Then, he really felt that he was being split in two!
Two cells of about the same size, containing the same organelles, are finally about to be generated!
At this time, the most critical question also arises, which side of Xu Liang's consciousness is now?
He had also conceived about this issue before the split. At that time, I found that the more I thought about it, the more unsolvable this problem became! It's like we often ask: if a ship is moving at sea and replaces 10% of its parts every other month, will it still be the same ship after 10 months?
This is an unsolvable problem. Because this is designed to the most fundamental question of "identity" in the universe, which is not a philosophical question, but a physical one. The problem of "identity" is described differently in a variety of different theories, and it will not be expanded here.
If the problem of sailing is not direct enough, then the human body can also be used as an example.
Among the various organs of the human body, the stomach is the organ with a relatively fast metabolism rate, and about every 3 days, the person will change to a new stomach. The rate of skin replacement is about 1-2 months (even if the windows are not opened, there is dust in the room, that is, the human skin will metabolize automatically and turn into dust floating in the air). Replace those that are metabolically slow, such as nerve cells, which gradually decrease from birth and never regenerate (but because there are enough of them, they are basically completely sufficient).
On average, a person will replace more than 90% of their cells in about 3 months.
So is the person who is 3 months later the same person who was 3 months old? (There are similar questions about consciousness, which will not be expanded here)
Following the above two questions, it is easier to ask some more pointed questions that are closer to Xu Liang's current situation.
For example, if one of Zhang San's thighs is chopped off, then Zhang San is Zhang San or is Zhang San's thigh? Well, this is not quite appropriate, but another one...... We know that the brains of the left and right hemispheres of people can work independently, so cut off half of Zhang San's brain and transfer it to another brainless Li Si, asking: Who is Zhang San now?
There are a lot of unsolvable problems like this.
The root of the incomprehension lies in the fact that the education we receive from childhood tells us that there is something called consciousness that lives in our heads.
But is that really the case?
No one said clearly.
In other words, in fact, many people can explain this problem very clearly, but the rest of those who do not explain it clearly do not believe it. Therefore, the question of who I am has become one of the most difficult questions in ancient and modern exchanges.
Xu Liang is now facing such a problem:
If I give birth to a son who looks exactly like me, am I me, or am I my son? Or even more outrageous, am I a father and a son at the same time?
Judging from the results of mothers giving birth, this question should be answerable? So, the ultimate conundrum of human consciousness "Who am I?" "It should also be able to be answered?
No matter how much it is, it's about to split in two anyway, and the answer will soon be revealed.