"What is the significance of being an intelligent life that you have continued to this day?"

Xiaoguang flickered slightly, and asked Yang Meng this question:

"The meaning of life?"

Yang Meng didn't expect Xiaoguang to ask such a question,

He looked at this small light as an energy body, shook his head lightly and said:

"Please don't change the subject and answer my question?"

And this time, Xiaoguang continued to talk about Yang Meng's topic, but continued the question just now:

"I should have told you that our civilization has existed for 1.5 billion years,

But I probably didn't tell you how long I existed! ”

Seeing that Xiaoguang was still entangled in this issue, Yang Meng asked Xiaoguang to prepare an electromagnetic catapult pry,

While staring at Xiaoguang, thinking in his heart, Xiaoguang shifted the topic to the meaning here,

It is indeed as Xiaoguang said,

This point of light once told him how long the Rutan civilization existed,

But he never described to him how long he had existed.

"Could it be that the time it says is running out because it has lost the meaning of life?"

There is still a certain reason why Yang Meng thinks like this,

Before leaving the earth,

In order to avoid mental health problems in astronauts who are far away from the human society on Earth,

I have been trained in psychology for a long time,

In order to allow astronauts to have the ability to self-regulate,

The first lesson of the training in psychology is to discuss the meaning of life.

In terms of the nature of geobiology,

From viruses, to bacteria, to plants, to animals,

For life on Earth,

There is only one meaning of existence, inherit your own genes, let your offspring reproduce indefinitely, and occupy your own ecological niche resources as much as possible.

Even after human beings enter the age of civilization, this genetic impulse engraved in genes,

So that both men and women, after seeing handsome men and beautiful women, produce some special behaviors for this,

For example, rewarding the female anchor who scratches her head and poses through the screen,

For the sake of handsome male stars, become crazy female fans,

And after starting a family, they will do everything to nurture their offspring......

The essential driving force of all kinds of behaviors is to inherit their "excellent" genes.

Regardless of whether this gene is inherited normally or not,

Whether it's to the wall, or somewhere else,

For human beings, the essence of this behavior is one of the driving forces of human life.

Of course, the main driving force for breeding offspring,

After entering the era of technology, this demand has been diluted into various electronic products,

Human beings don't even need actual concrete objects,

In the world of consciousness networking, it is possible to complete the mental impulse brought about by genetic inheritance.

Thinking of this, Yang Meng's gaze at Xiaoguang was a little different,

In the process of communicating with Xiaoguang, he also understood,

The Rutans also had the form of a living form,

Judging from the microbial state of "Red Haze", the Rutans also seem to have the ability to reproduce genetically.

Only because of the scarcity of heavy elements,

They didn't leave their planet after all,

In order to ensure that they can continue and reduce energy loss,

The Rutans abandoned the life ladder and developed towards the state of machines and energy bodies.

But the so-called gains and losses,

What do they lose while becoming energy bodies and gaining endless lifespan?

Yang Meng didn't know,

But he knows what happens after some extreme human beings abandon their bodies and try to exist in the virtual world of consciousness in a state of consciousness,

Although the virtual technology of consciousness has developed for a long time since he left the earth,

But few human beings abandon the physical object of physical dependence, and exist in this world only by virtue of the state of consciousness.

At the beginning, when humans broke through the asteroid belt, they found that the asteroid belt had such an experimental record.

But unfortunately, most of these experiments ended in failure.

Although human consciousness can be exported,

But it can't leave the human body for a long time,

This has to do with the process of consciousness formation,

Human consciousness does not arise in a vacuum,

When the embryonic stage of humans, the first production of the fetal heartbeat,

The human neural network began to be built.

From this moment on, like the consciousness of a blank piece of paper, under the touch of the neural network, began to construct the world of human consciousness stroke by stroke.

From the first rays of light seen when leaving the mother,

The first breath of air,

The first person you see with your eyes,

This is the beginning of a human life,

As we grow older, our bodies continue to perceive things around us.

Taste to a different taste,

Learn the language, and then learn the word,

Build a worldview through books and communication with others.

The first thing I feel is the urge to inherit my genes,

Touching the body of the opposite sex for the first time......

The world of consciousness constructed by human beings is all from the feelings of various parts of the body.

It would be a very dangerous thing for human consciousness to completely detach itself from such a foundation.

When there is no body, only consciousness,

There are no hormones such as hormones and dopamine secreted by the body.

Empty consciousness will not be able to experience the joy of genetics, so what difference does it make for eunuchs,

Even a eunuch is not as good as a eunuch,

After all, the eunuch's body will still secrete some hormones to obtain other pleasures.

But when consciousness is completely out of the human body, there is nothing.

It is for this reason that

Experiments on the human body, which are completely detached from consciousness, are almost impossible to succeed.

Human consciousness without a body can no longer be called human.

……

And Xiaoguang's state at this time obviously has nothing to do with the living body,

Therefore, after thinking of these things, although Yang Meng guessed something in his heart,

But it wasn't said either,

After all, Xiaoguang had a previous conviction to guide his consciousness,

He waited for Xiaoguang's answer:

"I was born 600 million years ago, when our technology had reached this point!"

"6 years ago!"

Although Yang Meng guessed that Xiaoguang might have been born very early, he never thought that Xiaoguang was born so early.

And Yang Meng also learned an important thing from this sentence,

"600 million years ago, the technology of the Rutans developed to this extent,

In other words, their technology has been stagnant for 600 million years! ”

Thinking of this, Yang Meng felt a little incredible,

He Xiaoguang said before that their scientific and technological development has stagnated, but he didn't expect it to stagnate for such a long time.

"Could it be that it is because they can't leave the Rutan Star, and the scarcity of the heavy elements has finally caused the Rutan Star people to fall into internal friction?"

Yang Meng secretly guessed something in his heart,

And Xiaoguang's next answer overturned his guess,

"I once told you that because of the scarcity of heavy elements, our development has stagnated,

But I'll tell you, it's our mechanization that went wrong......"