Research into the transfer of human consciousness fields to mechanical bodies continued for another twenty years.

By the year 2160 of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, the total population of the earth finally officially exceeded the 10 billion mark.

The carrying capacity of the earth's population has also reached the level of tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions.

The most important reason is that controlled nuclear fusion has become popular, and there is truly access to almost unlimited clean energy.

Coupled with the full popularization of complex and intelligent intelligent machines, the efficiency of three-dimensional factory farms exceeds that of traditional surface farms.

The current food and main food of the Ming people are already directly produced from the factory.

As a direct result of this, a large number of large-scale farms developed in the last era are now generally abandoned on a large scale.

Many areas in the inland of Mozhou have not been developed and completed, and the era of the earth's land reclamation and farming is over.

Instead, a large number of people are needed to direct simple intelligent machines to plant trees on what was once farmland.

At present, the earth is comprehensively promoting the large-scale project of returning farmland to forests, grasslands, and lakes.

Most of the living materials of the Ming people, most of the social security, have been basically supplied on demand.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, money is declining into something like loyalty points.

When you encounter something particularly urgent, you can spend money and ask the imperial court and the four major industrial groups to directly arrange manpower assistance.

As a by-product of consciousness research, the virtual world technology in the fantasy of the previous life has finally truly matured in an all-round way.

If ordinary people feel that the real world is too boring, they can try to enter the virtual world life.

Human beings are omnipotent in their own virtual worlds.

In reality, the top-level complex administrative decision-making and scientific research work are handled by complex intelligent machines with the assistance of humans.

In reality, most of the manual work and the simplest service work have been taken over by simple intelligent machines.

Humans only need to do simple task assignments and basic command and arrangement.

For example, the grassroots officials of the imperial court, the middle and low-level managers of the four major industrial groups, the technicians and stewards of factories and commercial houses.

These jobs, which still require direct human involvement, are now defined by the imperial court as "social obligations."

All urgent matters submitted by individuals and matters that require the direct assistance of other human beings are also "social obligations".

The imperial court issued a special regulation requiring all adults in society to hold a social duty position for a certain period of time each year.

Whenever you are at your disposal, you can do some work that requires people at any time, and you will have an additional financial subsidy.

This money can be used when you need help from others.

However, there is no need to bother with this social obligation to do any kind of artistic work, any serious scientific work, and anyone who is already doing something.

As long as there are any actual results, as long as they can be recognized by the public, even if they are liked on the Internet, they can directly earn "money".

In the current Ming society, people who already have their own things to do do not need to be specifically asked by the imperial court to do anything.

There are only people who don't know what they want to do, who just want to eat, drink and have fun, and those who want to get some money points in case they need it.

It is necessary to report to the yamen on time every year to explain when you have more time and can undertake basic "social obligations".

At the same time, the imperial court required everyone to complete college, and of course all expenses were free for all.

Now the new generation of Da Ming people has already done genetic remodeling, plus the ability and knowledge that can be obtained after going to university.

It is enough to undertake most of the "social obligation" work, after all, most of it is assisted by simple intelligent machines.

Human beings are mainly about coming up with ideas and ideas that can be used.

The scale of the major cities of the Ming Dynasty has also reached an unprecedented level.

Near-unlimited energy, exceptionally convenient means of transportation, coupled with socio-cultural development, catalysis for the pursuit of living standards.

The houses where most people now live have returned to the traditional form of detached houses.

Multi-storey apartments in the center of the city are made possible only for those who are undertaking special social obligations to live temporarily for the convenience of work.

The area of the city is also increasing in line with this trend, and the pie is constantly spread around the original suburbs of the city.

People inside and outside the city are transported by public electromagnetic tracks, household electric vehicles, and small flying devices.

In the southern half of the entire Jianghuai province, the built-up areas are basically connected.

The core provincial and government towns, the surrounding state and county seats, and the border towns and towns have basically disappeared.

At this time, there are hundreds of thousands of false moons running in space.

These false moons are not those small satellites in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and many of them have reached the scale of a space station.

Most of these false moons are launched from the surface of the "real moon".

What started out as a space base on the surface of the moon has now become several truly large cities connected together.

The Moon City is able to complete the vast majority of the production of industrial and agricultural industries on its own.

Including the production and launch of various false moons.

Since the surface of the Moon does not have a thick atmosphere, the gravitational pull of the Moon is also much lower than that of the Earth's surface.

On the Moon, it is easy to send a large number of payloads into space.

The earth's false moon has this scale, and Daming's current space station has reached the level of a small town.

Ordinary people have been allowed to live and play directly on the space station.

If the current Ming people have ideas, they can live in the space station for a long time.

Of course, ordinary people play like this, it costs "money", and if ordinary people want to earn money, they must regularly participate in social obligations.

A large number of large-size low-altitude satellites have achieved wireless Internet coverage without dead spots on the earth and the moon.

This also gives greater convenience to those who explore the surface of the Earth and the Moon.

Don't worry about finding your way.

Humans have also used the moon as a base and have begun to penetrate deep into other regions of the solar system.

A large number of false moons and probes have been launched into the regions where other planets, moons, and asteroids are located.

All the planets around Neptune and beyond, as well as most of the large moons, now have artificial false moons that are fixed for orbital observations.

The more important asteroids also have special observation false moons.

The Ming people have basically figured out the state of Neptune and the solar system within it.

A manned exploration base has been built on the surface of Mars.

Astronomy craftsmen are thinking about creating small artificial suns to thaw the great moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

See what's in the ocean beneath the ice.

It was at this time.

In the second half of the year 2160 of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar.

The technology for the transfer of human consciousness fields to mechanical bodies has finally matured.

The final implementation process seems relatively simple.

First of all, for the situation of the person to be transferred, a usable mechanical body is specially prepared.

A special cable is used to connect the nerves of the person to the mechanical body.

The person concerned takes special drugs and cooperates with special external equipment to enhance the human consciousness field.

Let the consciousness field expand to cover the mechanical body, so that the mechanical mechanical body becomes a part of the person's body at the level of consciousness.

Once completed, the human body is put into a dormant state, and then the mechanical body is activated.

With the cooperation of specialized equipment, the consciousness field of the human being will begin to shift at this time, and eventually wake up on the mechanical body.

Disconnecting the human body from the mechanical body, the transfer of the consciousness field from the human body to the mechanical body is completed.

The original human body can no longer be awakened alone at this time.

has become a de facto vegetative person.

However, it is now possible to reconnect the lines back and return the consciousness field to a state that covers both bodies.

If the two bodies are put into a dormant state at the same time, and then the human body is awakened separately, the consciousness field will be transferred back to the human body again.

This seemingly simple final realization process contains 20 years of hard work by the top craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty.

The design and fabrication of the mechanical body used for the transfer was the first major difficulty in the whole project.

In the whole process of transfer, the equipment responsible for enhancing the activity of the human consciousness field and maintaining the overall stability of the consciousness field is another major difficulty.

Regulating the frequency of the human consciousness field so that it can recognize and control the auxiliary equipment of the mechanical body is a new major difficulty.

The cables that allow human consciousness to penetrate and cover, and connect human nerves and mechanics, are also difficult.

All these technical equipment and achievements were not developed overnight.

Each transfer process of the consciousness field also has a certain risk and loss, so the craftsman does not recommend repeating the transfer of the consciousness field.

In particular, it is not recommended to transfer back and forth between the machine and the human body.

The first human to undergo a complete consciousness transfer surgery was a veteran craftsman who had worked on complex mechanical intelligence projects.

At the time of the transfer, he had been retired for many years, and his physical age was over one hundred and twenty years old.

Although with Daming's current medical technology, he can continue to survive for decades, but the aging of his body is irreversible.

Participating in the study of mechanical consciousness and directly turning the body into a complex intelligent machine is the ideal goal of many craftsmen in this life.

Transferring directly to a specially built mechanical body is able to get rid of the fragile and sick aging body.

Now the latest complex intelligent machine, quantum components have reached the trillion level.

That is, there are a trillion quantum primitives in the brain.

The physical fitness directly reaches the level of a robot, and the thinking ability exceeds that of the previous generation of supercomputers.

The overall ability is several orders of magnitude higher than that of genetically remodeled humans.

The final mechanical body looks like a real person on the outside, but the inside is mechanical.

In the eyes of the craftsmen of complex intelligent machine projects, this is the real "life soaring".

It's really like the kind of ascension that is like the legendary ascension to immortals.

The craftsmen involved will basically not refuse.

At the end of the year after the completion of the transfer experiment, Zhu Youdong, the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty, personally took the information and reported to his great-grandfather Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Youdong was the first generation of Ming emperors who underwent genetic remodeling.

Although he is 60 years old this year, his image, temperament and spirit still look like a young man in his twenties.

With a long lifespan of nearly a thousand years in theory, it is obvious that he will no longer be an emperor for only thirty years.

However, it will not be directly multiplied by ten, and sitting on the throne until he is more than 600 years old, the emperor's job is also very hard.

Even after genetic remodeling, human beings will not have unlimited energy, but will also get tired.

So the current plan is to make a slight compromise.

Before the emperor is two hundred years old, he must choose his own heir, assist him in handling affairs in advance, and pass on the throne before the age of three hundred.

The new emperor succeeded to the throne between the ages of 100 and 200, and also abdicated before the age of 300.

Each emperor reigned for about a hundred years.

The inspection period of all the princes in the future has also changed from more than 20 years to decades or even hundreds of years.

Zhu Youdong's father, Zhu Xianzhan, was the last generation of emperors without genetic remodeling.

However, during the reign of Zhu Xianzhan, various anti-aging drugs and cell repair surgery techniques have basically matured.

He is now ninety years old, and he still looks like a man who is not yet sixty years old.

Zhu Xianzhan's father, Zhu Dilan, is 115 years old this year and has begun to sleep with his father Zhu Jingyuan for a long time.

With the help of cell surgery and anti-aging technology, Judy Lanthanum now also behaves like a person in her seventies.

Zhu Jingyuan was one hundred and fifty years old at this time, but his body looked younger than thirty years ago.

Because the organs and limbs in Zhu Jingyuan's body have all been remodeled.

Just to prevent any possible accidents, Zhu Jingyuan's nervous system never moved.

Now, even with the remodeled supply of energy for the younger internal organs, Zhu Jingyuan's nervous system is inevitably getting closer and closer to the limit.

Zhu Jingyuan's thinking speed became slower and slower.

Zhu Jingyuan, together with his son Zhu Dilanan and grandson Zhu Xianzhan, listened to the detailed explanation of his great-grandson Zhu Youdong.

After Zhu Di Lan waited for Zhu Youdong to finish speaking, she looked at her father with her children and grandchildren.

The oldest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of the Great Ming Dynasty, was already known as His Majesty the Great Emperor when he was alive.

Zhu Jingyuan was silent for a few seconds, and asked a few questions intermittently:

"Can you guarantee 100% that the consciousness field after the turn will still be the same as before?

"Wouldn't your prepared mechanical body give birth to its own consciousness in the process of being activated?

"Will the transferred human consciousness field be affected by the possible consciousness of the mechanical body?

"After the transfer, is this person with a mechanical body still the same person?"

After listening to her father's words, Zhu Di Lan said with some surprise:

"So...... Dad, what's your idea? Do you want to continue using cellular surgery instead of consciousness transfer? ”

Zhu Jingyuan closed his eyes and waved his hand and said:

"Choosing between the two, I would certainly choose consciousness transfer.

"No matter how much we repair and reshape the old and decayed flesh and blood of human beings, we will always be fragile.

"If you put it in space, it is a fragile and rudimentary container like a soap bubble.

"Only a true body of steel can carry the future of human civilization.

"So I'm still going to move to the mech.

"However, just in case, all those who have transferred to the machine, including me, will have to leave Earth with me.

"It's not just about leaving the Earth, it's not about staying on the moon.

"At least go to Mars, or even the orbit around Jupiter, and build a space habitat station to live.

"Then, when the speed of the spaceship continues to increase and it can really reach sub-light speed, it will leave the solar system completely.

"Go to other star systems to explore, and the initial targets are Tiancang 5, Tianyuan 4, Persia 7, and Tianjin Zeng29......

"All over the world, all the old things now and in the future, but if the body really fails, I still don't want to die completely.

"Anyone who decides to accept the transfer of consciousness and continue to live with a mechanical body will be sent to me.

"In the future, the earth and the solar system will be left to the flesh and blood of the Ming people to live, Zhuo Wei, the original home and reserve of our Ming people.

"I took all the old things, the ones who were supposed to die, and went to explore the stars even farther away.

"Do you have any comments on my arrangement?"

Several children and grandchildren were obviously stunned, thinking that the ancestor was really too cautious, but this kind of caution was really speechless.

Even if human beings have a lifespan of 1,000 years, there will eventually come a time when death will come, and there will eventually be people who don't want to die completely.

What's more, there are still a large number of old people on the earth now, and the old people before genetic remodeling are on the verge of death.

They must be willing to accept this program and transform the mechanized body of the city to continue living.

In order to avoid uncontrollable risks, it is a very good arrangement to send all these people out of the solar system and follow their ancestors to explore the galaxy.

Maybe some people don't want to leave and want to continue to stay on the earth to enjoy, but the Ming court is still there.

The leader of this matter is still the ancestor.

Most of the old people who died were from the Grand Duke year.

Weak people don't have the courage to disobey Zhu Jingyuan.

Most of the strong people have a strong desire to fight, and many of them are Zhu Jingyuan's former courtiers and generals.

Now everyone is really dying, and then follow the old emperor to the galaxy.

Maybe it can also inspire the pride of their youth.

The three generations of emperors on Zhu Youdong's side thought about it like this, and finally nodded one after another.

"We have no ...... opinion"

So the matter was settled.

The Ming people, who have completed the overall genetic remodeling, completed the sublimation of the nature of life, and are completely integrated, will be divided into two parts again.

Lifeforms and machines.

Life continues to live in the solar system for the time being, centered on the home planet, Earth.

When there is another large-scale breakthrough in technology, and sub-light or even faster-than-light spaceship technology is obtained, it will consider leaving the home galaxy and going elsewhere.

The automaton will leave the home star first, and then leave the home system as soon as possible to explore the boundless starry sky.

In the future, the life forms living in the home galaxy will also transfer their consciousness to the mechanical body when they are completely old and cannot be cured.

Then they were sent into space in batches to live in the group of Ming people, a mechanical body led by Zhu Jingyuan.

(End of chapter)