Animal gene editing experiments, which can also be said to be animal gene remodeling experiments, are the most confidential research in the world.

Only a very small number of people now know the specifics.

In addition to the personnel directly involved in the experiment, the person in charge of the laboratory and the experiment itself is the three generations of emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

After the experiment report came out, Zhu Dilan, with her son Zhu Xianzhan, personally sent it to her father, and explained the specific situation in person.

Then the three generations of emperors discussed together what to do next.

The direct plan is definitely a clinical trial.

The completion of simple animal gene remodeling and editing cannot guarantee that it will still be completely reliable for humans for the time being, and experiments on humans must be carried out.

That is, gene editing of fertilized eggs after artificial insemination.

What is more important is how these technologies will be applied in human society after the success of human experiments.

This level of genetic remodeling and reprogramming can no longer be regarded as evolution, but a comprehensive sublimation of the entire species from the inside out.

It's really like the legendary immortal has soared.

The impact will inevitably be significant, and it must be considered and planned in advance.

In the world of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, gene editing technology has just begun to emerge.

But at that time, there were already countless doubts, and there were countless social ethics and family concerns.

Because the underlying social rules of the Western world in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life did not support the realization of this kind of technology that is like the ascension of immortals to all mankind.

The imperial courts of Western countries were not parents, but associations and night watchmen, and had no obligation or ability to force the popularization of this technique.

The technology would only appear in private research institutes, and the technology itself was not controlled by their imperial court.

Private research institutions are unlikely to miss the opportunity to make money with this technology.

The use of gene editing directly causes species differentiation, and it is natural to make money from people who are already rich.

At the same time, the middle class is forced to pay all their lives to integrate into the new humanity.

This is what ordinary people are most worried about.

The wealthy class has the opportunity to complete the genetic level of immortal ascension and become a new super new human who is above themselves.

You can only become an old human who is inferior in all aspects.

As a result, the entire human species is truly fragmented, becoming a species with two distinct advantages and disadvantages.

The avenue of class mobility was completely disconnected.

And then let the society enter the eerie world of cyberpunk.

But in the Ming society of this world, there seems to be no problem in this regard.

The Ming court institutions and the four subordinate industrial groups have been directly maintaining the daily life of the vast majority of the Ming people.

Industrial construction and upgrading have not stopped, and the balance between productivity and purchasing power can still be maintained.

Technology was also born directly in the hands of the royal family and the imperial court.

The emperor and the court of the Ming Dynasty are the father of the monarch and the supreme patriarch of all the people.

In fact, if the emperor wanted to use this technology exclusively, he would definitely be resisted and even hostile to the bureaucrats under him.

If the emperor wants to pull the bureaucrats to enjoy it, then the whole society will be divided.

Let the ranks of the bureaucracy be completely solidified.

Moreover, the news that the emperor and the bureaucrats had "become immortals" could not be covered up forever.

Once the common people found out that the ruling class was completely solidified, and that the rulers had acquired the technology that was close to immortality, they did not use it for themselves.

Then there may be uncontrollable civil unrest, and if you can resist, you will try to resist, and if you can't resist, you will be rotten.

The emperor is the emperor of mankind, and if he is no longer human, he will become the public enemy of mankind.

Therefore, for the emperor's family, the best choice is to pull the whole people to soar together, so that the entire social pattern remains the same.

The current Ming court has the ability and intention to realize the common ascension of all mankind.

The comprehensive reshaping and editing technology of genes can make the five billion human beings on the earth truly and completely integrated.

Let the hundreds of millions of foreigners and more than a billion mixed-race children who are still left have become Ming people with the Ming people.

The direction of genetic remodeling of the Ming Dynasty must be based on the existing gene pool of the Ming people as the basic template for overall optimization and repair.

Genetic remodeling can make everyone look the same, but it's obviously not possible.

The original random factors must be retained, but all kinds of genes that are obviously defective and pathological will be eliminated.

I polish the design which made various improvisations including the eye structure.

In general, the body size is slightly increased, so that the growth rate remains the same in early childhood, and the rate of aging slows down rapidly in adulthood.

The overall image of all people in the future will be a typical Ming style.

After other ethnic groups are genetically remodeled, they will also be directly transformed into the genes of the optimized Ming people.

In the future, all human beings will be completely indistinguishable from each other in terms of blood and genes.

The genes of other ethnic groups have also disappeared completely.

This is something that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after the Renwu Dynasty have always been pursuing.

Now it can finally be achieved once and for all.

The point is that there is no need to do things that hurt nature, but rather some kind of redemption.

Therefore, the discussion process of the three generations of emperors of the Ming Dynasty was very brief, and a highly unanimous decision was made quickly.

The imperial court is now preparing to raise and stock up on sufficient supplies to expand the prevalent primary hospitals and train specialized medical personnel.

After the success of human experiments, we are ready to start gene editing projects all over the world.

In the future, all children will have to undergo IVF, first artificial insemination, then gene editing, and finally implantation into the mother's body for normal development.

All children who have been gene-edited do not need to have in vitro fertilization when they grow up and have children.

Their self-reproduced offspring will still be remodeled genes.

People who have completed genetic remodeling and the original human will have complete reproductive isolation, unable to conceive offspring, and avoid hybridization chaos.

With the current level of medical technology in Daming, the cost of this kind of gene editing is not very high.

After all, it's just dealing with fertilized eggs one by one.

Even if the imperial court directly provides services for free, it is completely affordable.

However, the cost of comprehensive cell repair surgery for existing normal people is a bit too high to provide it for free.

In addition, this type of surgery has a certain risk, so it is not mandatory to perform it universally, but to pay for it voluntarily.

In order to make the whole process as smooth as possible, the imperial court made some cooperation at the propaganda level.

It is claimed that gene-edited children are expected to live to be more than 200 to 300 years old in the future, but the exact upper limit cannot be determined for the time being.

This statement is indeed true, and the craftsmen really can't confirm the exact upper age limit.

After gene editing, they can indeed live for more than two or three hundred years.

When these new generations live to be 300 years old, they realize that they are far from only 300 years old.

The old people who did not undergo genetic remodeling are also gone.

As the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the person with the highest prestige and status in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan had the opportunity to enjoy some special services in advance.

There are risks associated with whole-body cell repair surgery, but the risks of repair are different in different areas of the body.

The highest risk is in the reproductive and nervous systems, which involve special mechanisms that control cell division, as well as the cognitive realm of human consciousness.

The rest of the body is significantly less risky to repair.

Therefore, after Zhu Jingyuan entered the dormant state again, he began the repair surgery of the main viscera organs at the same time.

Yingzhou Laboratory officially started the clinical trial of comprehensive gene remodeling.

Emperor Zhu Xianzhan of the Ming Dynasty personally participated in the experiment, directly using his own seeds and the eggs of his concubine as the direct targets of this experiment.

Including biological gene remodeling and editing technology, these important results quickly obtained by the participation of complex intelligent machines are about to completely change human society.

However, the core task of Yingzhou Laboratory has always been to study the complex intelligent machine itself, and it has always been the consciousness of the intelligent machine itself.

It has been 30 years since the construction of Yingzhou Laboratory began in 2080 in the imperial calendar.

The core research direction of the laboratory has never changed, and it has always revolved around the consciousness field of machine intelligence.

We have always been exploring the operation logic and control methods of the machine intelligence consciousness field and the human consciousness field.

This most difficult study lasted for another thirty years.

In the past 30 years, Daming has completed the clinical experiment of gene remodeling, and then completed the gene remodeling of the whole society.

The first children to undergo genetic remodeling are now adults.

Ordinary people who are still alive now, as long as they need to have offspring, need to undergo genetic remodeling.

The last child conceived naturally appeared at the age of 10 this year.

According to the regulations and promises of the imperial court, those who are alive now and have not undergone genetic remodeling can receive free medical treatment for any illness for life.

Daming also has the ability to achieve free medical care for all.

Directly free, not through insurance, without the high payment re-reimbursement of book productivity.

The fertility rate has been further reduced compared to a few decades ago, but it is still at the level of four children per family.

The world's population has grown to eight billion.

In the year 2140 of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, the most critical breakthrough was made in the study of machines and human consciousness.

By this time, the tools and targets of Yingzhou Laboratory's experiments had become super-intelligent machines composed of hundreds of billions of quantum components.

The observation dimension of the study has broken through to the limit of the real three-dimensional world.

The craftsmen have finally basically figured out what is really going on with the consciousness of human and machine intelligence.

They are indeed both a kind of energy field that lingers on the carrier.

The craftsmen call it the field of consciousness.

The carrier of the consciousness field is all the parts of the body, not simply fixed to the brain.

The complex machine body and the human body, all the energy and signal fluctuations, together form this complex consciousness field.

The consciousness field operates normally within a relatively determined frequency range.

When there is a major malfunction in the human body, the balance of energy and signals in the whole body is suddenly broken, which may lead to the collapse of the consciousness field.

If the pure consciousness field collapses, the external manifestations may be shock or coma, but there is still a chance to recover.

After the body recovers from the damaged state, the consciousness field also has a chance to recover.

If the body is unable to recover eventually, the field of consciousness will eventually dissipate completely, and the person will die.

It is also possible that the body recovered, but the consciousness field could not be restored, and it became a vegetative person.

According to observations made on complex intelligent machines, the formation of the consciousness field and self-consciousness has a certain relationship with the initial memory.

The various information in the initial memory will affect the frequency and even the intensity of the consciousness field.

But there is no forced binding relationship between memory and the field of consciousness.

Whether it is a human or a complex intelligent machine, sudden amnesia is possible.

It's just that there may be a big change in personality after amnesia.

The most crucial discovery is that there is no fully bound relationship between the consciousness field and its own carrier.

The consciousness field is conceived and matured, and the frequency is relatively fixed.

But after molding, there will be a floating range that is not too small, which can withstand a certain intensity of oscillation and interference.

Neither humans nor machines will die at the slightest touch, and they will not collapse when they encounter any environmental changes.

However, the environment changes too much, and it will also disturb the consciousness field.

If an intelligent machine is fully formed, after the consciousness is fully formed, an additional part of the hardware is added.

This intelligent machine's system is able to recognize and drive this hardware.

Its self-conscious energy field will also expand simultaneously, eventually covering the entire body evenly, including the new parts.

If you turn off and uninstall some of the hardware, the consciousness field will also retreat to the existing hardware.

As long as the remaining hardware is still large enough to keep the consciousness field within a relatively stable range.

People with disabilities don't die, they do have phantom pain.

Based on these two characteristics, craftsmen and intelligent machines cooperated to complete the machine consciousness field transfer experiment.

First, add new hardware to a smart machine, and then remove some of the old hardware after the energy field of the smart machine is evenly distributed.

After many additions and removals, the consciousness field of the intelligent machine was eventually migrated to completely new hardware.

For smart machines, keeping this shift alive is immortal.

And it's not too difficult.

The more important research question is how to apply this technology to humans.

There are two directions of direct research.

The first is to migrate the consciousness field of human beings from the original human body to the body of another new human being.

By using replicants (clones), they can cultivate a body that is identical to the original body.

The two bodies are surgically connected.

There is no need for a physical direct connection, it can be achieved with a special cable.

After the consciousness field covers the two bodies, it is equivalent to the two bodies merging into one, and then disconnecting the original body from the connection.

But just think about it, this connection and transfer is very dangerous.

After being connected and compatible, how to "remove" the original body like a machine is an equally complex problem.

When the machine can be turned on directly, a part of the structure is closed.

It is obviously impossible for humans to do that, and to directly remove arms and legs while awake is basically murder.

Humans require anesthesia and even direct dormancy.

As for the dormant and awake states, what are the effects on the transfer of connection and awareness?

This is another issue that needs to be studied.

At the same time, there is an obvious ethical crisis.

How to raise the replicant directly to maturity in a dormant state, so that the replicant is completely unconscious and does not form its own consciousness.

Otherwise, if the replicant is conscious, is it also murder to occupy his body?

According to the experiments done on the machine, when two bodies that are already conscious are connected together, there will be a lot of complications.

The two fields of consciousness may merge or remain schizophrenic.

If the consciousness of one body has just been born and the consciousness of another body has matured, the former may be absorbed by the latter.

However, the latter may be affected by the former.

Duplicants are not like machines, they can be made and completely unstarted, and they can be tested in modules and then combined.

In the process of cultivating replicants, it is likely to give birth to their own consciousness field.

In this case, it is difficult to completely avoid the influence between the consciousness field of the original mature human after connecting with this replicant.

If this transfer is really successful, and the person after the body is completely switched, will the consciousness still be the same person?

The other direction is to transfer the human consciousness field from the human body to the machine.

This direction is obviously a bit safer.

Machines can be produced directly, which can be more convenient to avoid the birth of the consciousness field of the machine.

The point is that there is no problem with replicants, and there are fewer ethical obstacles.

Moreover, the transfer of consciousness from humans to replicants is still subject to the lifespan of the replicant's body, and the upper limit of a thousand years is also the upper limit.

The field of consciousness can only be approximated after it is transferred directly to the machine.

Therefore, the transfer of consciousness field from human to machine consciousness field has always been a key research direction.

However, the transfer from man to machine, even if there are fewer problems with transfer between people, is only relatively less.

The transfer itself remains a very complex issue.

The original traditional nervous system and consciousness field of human beings only recognize the original fixed body structure.

Even if there is a mutation in the body, with the appearance of an additional arm or an extra finger, these many parts are usually uncontrolled.

It's just something that's hard strapped up, and there's no way to install drivers without a connection.

It takes a complete mutation of the whole system at the same time, including bones, muscles, and the nervous system, to write the drive itself to make it work.

Only a very small number of people can manipulate these six fingers while mutating into six fingers.

In order to make the human consciousness field and nervous system compatible with a bunch of additional complex machines and equipment, there are two directions to choose from.

The first is to directly replace the original parts on the body with machine parts, and directly let the drive treat this part as the original thing.

This requires that the machine-made parts be driven as much as possible in the same way as the original body parts.

The other direction is to additionally add complete cables and drive them through surgery and training programming.

Either way, it should be considered a very complex project.

A little fortunately, Daming also has a wealth of technical accumulation in these two directions.

Research into the preparation of intelligent prosthetics for people with disabilities has led to the development of a large number of bionic limb technologies.

In the process of detecting and researching the consciousness field, many technologies have also been developed that allow humans to directly control machines through the nervous system.

In the past few decades, Yingzhou Laboratory has also designed many types of humanoid complex intelligent machines.

Emperor Daming chose to continue to tackle key problems in these two general directions at the same time.

On the one hand, we will continue to strengthen the technology of human consciousness field and neural direct control devices, so that humans can directly control more types of devices.

On the one hand, the mechanical structure of the human body is designed to be more closely related to the human body, in order to be directly recognized by the existing neural and consciousness fields of human beings.

The confluence of the two directions is the direct design of a completely new, more human-like mechanical body.

In order to allow humans to directly control another mechanical body with their nerves and consciousness fields

At the same time, he directly began to do animal-level consciousness transfer experiments.

After the craftsmen figured out the nature of the consciousness field, they also determined that the more complex animals are also self-aware.

It's just that their self-awareness is relatively low, far from the level of human beings.

However, these self-conscious, relatively intelligent animals can be used for consciousness field experiments.

Shepherd dogs, monkeys, orangutans, dolphins, and whales are all common test subjects.

In order to shorten the overall experimental time, the craftsmen used chimpanzees directly.

The design that can be achieved on a chimpanzee is the easiest to translate into a human being.