What is the nature of reproduction?

To pass on your genes?

Why pass it on?

Because the genes themselves have a driving force to pass them on?

Is there a rule on completeness?

Does passing on a part of it count as an inheritance?

How much is passed down as a legacy?

Is there a change considered a legacy?

In the end, compared with the original, there is only 1% of the original left, and there is not even a trace of the original, is it considered genetic inheritance?

Free will, obedience or disobedience to instinct?

Philosophically, about consciousness and the ego, about the ship of Theseus, the earth doesn't care.

At least, in his eyes, the inheritance of genes should also serve him, and the only thing he should have is to pass on his obedience and gradually strengthen it.

Other than that, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if there is a group of nest dragons who think about how to rebel against him every day.

Even, he was thinking about creating some rebels manually.

The competition for survival is an arms race.

His goal is to select the best and best samples from among the nest dragons.

From the perspective of social Darwinism, a race without a fierce struggle will gradually retain some genotypes that would have been eliminated by natural selection, or even intensify them, resulting in the self-destruction of the race.

As far as the Earth Walk is concerned, he doesn't even care if the nest dragon will be destroyed.

All he needed was the best and most suitable sample of the ultimate creature.

As for maintaining the existence and scale of the nesting dragon group, it is just to serve him better and provide him with excellent experimental samples and templates.

It is because the existence of the nest dragon group is beneficial to him, and he will maintain the survival of the nest dragon group.

And not the other way around, to exist in order for it to exist.

Think of the process as an end.

He is a "tyrant", a "creator".

This, Di Xing knew very well, he would not be like the founder of the Elemental Empire mentioned by the Beast Emperor.

And from this point of view, there are actually very few genotypes that he needs to "reproduce".

And, in this world of "supernatural" energy and matter, genes don't even need flesh and blood as a form of survival.

In the world of the past life, there was a concept called "meme".

It is to describe language, beliefs, concepts, etc., and the transmission of information and the inheritance of analogous genes are used as descriptions, and these "genes" that are transmitted at the information level are called memes.

Surrender, fear, and cognition are all ways of spreading.

It's just that it's still far from the earth.

What he's trying now is genetic survival on the flesh and blood level.

In previous lives, many people would have cared about the concept of "purebred".

The source of this is not known to the earth.

But he can be sure that the concept of "purebred", because the standards set up by people for convenience, are gradually formed for the convenience of classification, differentiation, and classification.

Because it is difficult for people to distinguish between kernels, it is often the other way around, where the similarity of appearance is used as a standard for the logo.

From an individual point of view, sexual reproduction will only transmit half or even less of the genes.

So, here's the problem......

Why choose the same kind?

From the perspective of "optimal reproduction", being able to reproduce with any race is the most conducive to genetic inheritance.

From this point of view, the "dragon" race is undoubtedly a powerful race.

However, at present, from the various materials available in the Mountain Kingdom, the Dragon Empire is still limited to the framework of appearance and form.

In the world of past lives, gender strategies were excellent strategies for biological reproduction.

But in another world, from the perspective of optimal reproduction, "gender" is undoubtedly just a compromise strategy chosen by the tallest of the shorter people because they cannot reproduce with creatures with too much difference.

Whether it is one sex, two sexes, or three sexes, even if there are 11,000 sexes, they are backward and inferior reproductive strategies.

As long as you can leave the genes in other species and pass them on, then it is a good strategy.

There are many options for divisive reproduction, polysexual reproduction, parasitism, and symbiosis.

He doesn't need a "stable population".

It is a failure to be confined to the world of a previous life, which is limited by circumstances and means, and is eventually reversely enveloped by the gradual formation of a steady state.

Moreover, this is not his ultimate goal.

"Death", what is it?

Is it the death and extinction of flesh and blood?

- No flesh and blood body, but a flesh and blood body, is it still "me"?

Is it a continuous rupture of individual consciousness?

- After amnesia, even if a new individual has all the memories of "me", is it still "me"?

Is it a loss of complete memory?

- Is the "me" who is missing a memory still me?

Is it a unique special being?

- Two individuals with the same memory, is the other "me"?

Or is it the disillusionment of consciousness?

INTERVIEWER Is the "me" who has changed my mind still "me"?

At this time, when he had preliminarily reached the neurogenization of the blood, from the perspective of origin and genealogy, he had four major directions to choose from.

The first is to choose the same and unique origin – no matter how much it has changed, as long as it is a continuous process and unique, it is "me".

It must be a continuous and direct change in the genes.

The second is to choose the same and not the only one - all "me" is "me", "me" is the race, and the race is "me".

The genetic continuity of the ethnic group, that is

The third is to choose the same merit and the only one - those who do not have any direct flesh and blood relationship with "me", but are the same as "me", know the same things as "me", and have similar concepts to "me", that is, "me", those who imitate "me", and those who converge with "me" are all "me" races.

Convergence evolution is reproduction.

Fourth, choose the same merit and not the only one - the individuals and ethnic groups that converge on the "me" are all "me".

Convergent evolution of the race is the change of the individual.

Obviously, the first is the naïve concept that most past-life beings can identify.

But for an ultimate creature, even the death of the flesh should never be the end.

To become the "ultimate creature", the goal of the Terracotta will not be limited to this, but at least he needs to do the first, this first step, before he can take the rest of the road.

And the first step to this first step, that is......

Solve the problem of nest dragon breeding.

In previous lives, mammals had the least reproductive diversity, even within the framework of the sexes.

It can be said that in the previous life, it was the "gender" that killed the reproduction frame of genes in the framework of the same species and genus origin and similar genes.

Therefore, it has laid the cognitive foundation of "similar appearance is the same".

However, to continue to trace the origin, the framework of gender is still derived from "division and reproduction", which is the specialized differentiation of schizon.

Even if we continue to patch and expand on this basis, it will only turn two genders into multiple genders.

From an evolutionary point of view, gender is a strategy to ensure that the dominant traits of the species are passed down stably and that risks are reduced.

But the earth line doesn't need this.

What he needs is "variety", what he needs is a large number of experimental samples.

He doesn't even need to "combine" the process if he can.

A life that can freely manipulate its own genes is what the ultimate creature should be.

Must it be combined with other beings?

Why should it be combined with other beings?

However, the earth line is also very clear -

Whether it's out of the framework of genes......

Or take a step back and let the nest dragon freely control the genetic changes......

Or take a step back and be able to combine the core genes of the nest dragon with any species through parasitic symbiosis.......

Or take a step back and allow the nest dragon to reproduce with any species of hermaphroditism, exchanging most of its genes.

Or take a step back and allow the nest dragon to adapt to other species to a certain extent......

I don't have enough power to control these things completely.

Therefore, he did not directly take too big a step to transform all the nest dragons.

However, he can try each one.

PS: Well, from a biological point of view, the differentiation of sex, the efficiency of reproduction and the diversity of genes are too low, which is the product of the reconciliation and compromise of "diversity" and "stability".

But it's also normal, biological evolution, to put it mildly, there is only one rule - "just make do with it".

If there really is another world, the gender and species should probably be inferior from the beginning.

From the perspective of the individual, if you can not grow old and die, why reproduce? - In order to help yourself from the perspective of power growth, the choice is to create a bunch of symbiotic creatures that serve you.

From the perspective of the population, even if it is not possible to live old and immortal, why can genes only be selected from similar organisms? - It's too conservative for the sake of a relatively stable guarantee.

Right, guys?