Chapter 6: A Brief History of Evolution
The year 3008 of the evolutionary calendar is the year 3008 after the beginning of the evolutionary era.
In the past 3,000 years, people have studied evolution and improved their own quality, and now there have been extremely remarkable achievements. For example, the average life expectancy of a person has reached 300 years.
That's more than 200 years more than on Earth.
Don't underestimate the 200-year-old gap, you must know that there are nearly 2,000 years on the earth from the Qin Emperor and Han Wu period to the time when Liu Bei crossed, and in these 2,000 years, the life span of human beings has only increased by twenty or thirty years. If this time goes back further, even if there is 3,000 years, the increase in life expectancy is estimated to be only thirty or forty years.
Moreover, this is only the average life expectancy, which is not enough to objectively reflect the disparity. In today's world, some genes have reached a very high level of evolution, and their lifespan has exceeded 1,000 years.
What is this concept? Maybe people who have read a lot of fantasy novels have become a little numb to the description of time, because it is tens of thousands of years, or even millions of years, or even longer.
However, if you describe it in a different way, you may have a more intuitive understanding. If a person lives for 1,000 years, then it is equivalent to him living from the Song Dynasty to 2018!
In the past 1,000 years, things have not been human. The few antiques that survive for special reasons have been sold for exorbitant prices, and people can only study what happened at that time through some fragmentary and even contradictory accounts.
There are even many experts who have disagreed and debated because of this.
Of course, if someone really lived for 1000 years, then none of this would be a problem. Just ask him.
"It's really amazing...", and only such shoddy words can reflect Liu Bei's shocked mood at the moment.
After a whole day, he finally got a rough idea of the world.
The more he learned, the more excited he became. Most men have a fairy dream, or have had it, but as they grow older, they gradually understand that it is just a dream.
And the world turned that dream into reality.
"What is the essence of man?
As we all know, the human body is made up of about tens of trillions of cells, and each cell carries out a life movement. These cells can be divided into many broad categories according to their function. Some are to maintain energy supply, others are to guard the body's health...... These tens of trillions of cellular activity form the basis of human existence.
So, is it these cells that are the essence of human beings?
For a long time, this was one of the most important questions that people wanted to figure out. But at that time, there were no conditions to replicate the living system. At that time, it was widely believed that human thinking was the result of the activity of brain cells.
This continued until 500 years of evolutionary calendar. With the emergence of conceptual computing models, there has been a leap in geometric multiples in the field of computing. Humanity is finally in a position to test its conjectures.
At the time, it was an experiment that shook the whole world. The trial was initiated by the top beginner team, who spent a whole year finally replicating the human brain perfectly. The whole replicating brain and the volunteer's brain deviated in one part per million.
This is a remarkable achievement......"
Liu Bei was flipping through a book called "A Brief History of Evolution". Of course, the books here are a little different from the books on the earth, but they appear directly virtually, similar to 3D movies, but the effect is hundreds of times better, making people feel like they are there.
Reading this, Liu Bei's heart began to beat nervously. Because this question is a mystery on earth, how many scientists have spent their lives wondering about the answer.
In other words, it is not just a question, but the ultimate mystery of human origins.
"Copying the brain doesn't show thinking. ”
The conclusion was only a dozen words, but Liu Bei's mind was surging as if it had been blown up. He certainly knows what that means.
If the human mind is not produced by physical causes, then where does it come from?
Once upon a time, humans thought that thinking was produced by the combined activity of brain cells. Because human beings invented computers, they relied on a bunch of physical components to achieve logical judgments. At that time, it was generally assumed that thinking was also produced by active brain cells.
"The essence of human beings is clearly not those cells. If it's not a cell, what is it? Where does the thinking come from? Is it really the legendary god who created man? But for so many years, there has never been a god, so the question is still a mystery.
But even this does not hinder people's belief in God. Because beyond that, it's hard to explain. ”
Liu Bei said secretly: "Sure enough..."
It was the same as he had guessed. At this moment, the light and shadow emitted by the book changed.
"Pursuing a higher level of life and a higher truth is the instinct of all living beings. Evolution is the only way. This is not a conjecture, but an answer given by history.
Before the ancient evolutionary calendar, human beings understood the relationship between matter and energy and were able to use it in the first place. This is a force known as 'nuclear', which, through the decay of high-level radioactive elements, releases a huge amount of energy while the mass decays. In this way, mankind created the most powerful weapon of the time, the nuclear bomb. Humans have even taken it a step further and built nuclear power plants that can provide a stable supply of energy. For a long time, people thought that the world would not change dramatically.
However, even if nuclear energy is powerful, it is only an external force, not the power of human beings themselves.
Humanity is still small.
They can fly into the sky, but they have to use equipment;
They can dive into the deep sea, still with the help of equipment;
They even broke out of the planet, still relying on their weapons......
Human instinct is to pursue one's own strength. However, the power of device technology has reached its end.
Finally, people have entered the age of evolution. ”
Liu Bei looked at the virtual projections around him, and instinctively, he felt that something was missing from this history. How exactly human beings started to evolve is not described in this book, and it even seems to be deliberately concealed.
He thought about it and gave up on further researching the issue.
He had too little time. In a few days, he would need to go to the place of trial, and before that, he needed to learn as much as he could about the world.
Thinking of this, Liu Bei thought of the fat man again. He is clearly hiding something, and definitely not as friendly as he himself says.
It's a pity that Liu Bei doesn't have the memory of Liu Bei in the original world, and there is no way to know their original relationship and so on. Otherwise, it's going to be a pretty simple thing.
Liu Bei has read a lot of time-traveling novels, all of which are the protagonist's cross-travel and the fusion of the waste wood soul of another world, and then he has the memory of the other party, and since then he has started a general life .......