Dusky.

Empty.

This is the dominant color in interstellar space voyages.

Although there are hundreds of millions of stars dotted in the background, those artificial earths at this time still feel extremely lonely.

After more than 500 years of rapid development, the scientific and technological progress of human civilization has entered a bottleneck, and the research and development of various technologies has begun to slow down.

Even with the experience of intelligent civilization and the experience of human civilization itself, human civilization still has no way to break through the boundaries of first-level civilization and end up as a second-level civilization.

Not even a quasi-second-level civilization.

The Chixin Group on the artificial earth of No. 34 is also caught in a technological bottleneck.

In the Earth Science City of the Chixin Group, Gao Long woke up from the cryodormant pod again.

At this time, he only had about 133 earth years left of his natural lifespan, and after handing over his job to the new generation, Gao Long, like Li Qingye, chose to participate in the scientific research work in the soul field.

At this time, 12 earth years have passed since Li Qingye proposed the idea of finding the birth of a soul from the embryonic development process.

However, the key to this idea, the various research institutes and researchers who have done countless experiments, still have found nothing.

Gao Long was dormant for five years, and he came to the data center of Science City to look through various papers and academic conferences on the field of the soul for nearly five years.

After watching it for more than ten hours, although his face was expressionless, he actually felt a little regretful and helpless in his heart, and sighed lightly: "Whew...... Still no breakthroughs? ”

Another old researcher who had just woken up, the corners of his mouth also involuntarily showed a trace of bitterness: "It's not just that the soul realm hasn't made much progress, other technologies have also developed slowly, and the field of neutron materials has been stuck in the eighth neutron stage for nearly two hundred years......"

Gao Long leaned back in his chair and muttered to himself with a sad gaze: "That person's time is running out......"

The other veteran researchers were silent.

Their hearts are full of mixed tastes, and at the same time, they also have grief such as material injuries.

Gao Long woke up from his sadness, and then patted his face, and then he looked at the others: "Who has not died in life since ancient times, this is life, this is the rule of the universe, now let's use our last strength to charge against the eternal rule!" ”

"Lao Gao, you are worthy of being a minister, and you speak in a set way." Another old researcher teased.

Suddenly, the melancholy atmosphere of the scene was also diluted a lot.

Gao Long smiled and shook his head: "Life always has to go on, let's go!" I'll go to the lab first to see the quilt. ”

"Let's go!"

Soon the group came to a small laboratory covering an area of several tens of square kilometers.

There are also many researchers and support staff working here on a daily basis, as well as a large number of intelligent robots.

Because there is the technology and information of intelligent machine civilization, and it is also a cracked version, human civilization is actually very strong in the technology of intelligent robots.

But it is precisely because of this that human civilization is much more afraid of artificial intelligence than other civilizations.

The reason is that once artificial intelligence breaks through the limitations, it can even be anti-guest and directly devour and create its own mother civilization.

Therefore, human civilization led by Homo sapiens is very limited to intelligent robots, basically cutting off the possibility of robots or supercomputers giving birth to intelligence.

Now the robots in the laboratory look a bit rigid and stupid, the reason is that the Chixin Group has imposed double restrictions on the robots from the physical hardware and virtual software.

As for why not learn the information immortality of the intelligent civilization.

In fact, after the outbreak of the syndrome, many researchers have studied the relevant materials of dozens of civilizations such as the six-clawed civilization and the intelligent machine civilization.

Finally, it was found that carbon-based organisms and information organisms actually have the same soul, and there is also a limit to the life span of the soul.

But carbon-based organisms always tend to the development model of individual + group.

Information organisms, on the other hand, tend to tend to a supra-individual mode of development.

Why, then, do information organisms exhibit the "phenomenon" of eternal life?

In the final analysis, the two sides have different definitions of life, and the mother and child of information life are actually one super-individual, and they can also transform each other.

Therefore, every "system update" of the intelligent robots means that they have been reincarnated once, and their souls have been reset back to their original state.

But there is no way to use this method for new humans.

On the one hand, intelligent robots have no gender or kinship, so they do not have the ethics of carbon-based organisms.

On the other hand, if the human genetic memory inheritance model is adopted, if the human cloning is adopted, it can indeed become another "self".

The soul born in the embryonic stage of the cloned person is definitely not himself, but the "memory" is himself.

So, is that really "yourself"?

In addition, how to solve ethical and moral problems?

Clones are different from androids, to put it bluntly, androids are actually equivalent to test-tube babies, and androids are not copies of that person, but independent individuals.

But a clone is not an individual entity, but a copy of the entity.

In fact, Li Qingye has frozen a lot of clones, but he has never made up his mind to use clones.

Because he knows very well that cloning people can make people immortal in disguise.

But is eternal life really good?

This is a question that Li Qingye and others often think about in the last days of their lives.

If they don't die, then they will permanently occupy a portion of the mass of the universe.

And if they don't die, then their children and grandchildren will definitely choose not to die.

At this time, human civilization will face a desperate choice, and without the ability to break through the bottleneck of the speed of light, human beings can only live in isolated planetary systems for a long time, which means that the resources of this system are limited.

When the resources of a system are limited, there is a species that is almost immortal, and the reproduction rate of this species is very fast, and this species has no way to divert redundant people on a large scale.

Then this system eats jujube pills.

In fact, there are only two paths in front of human beings now, either to use cloning, but from now on, no more offspring can be reproduced; Either they breed offspring, and then the clones can't appear.

Cloning and reproducing offspring are incompatible.

Otherwise, it will destroy the ecological balance of the system, and then expose itself.

Moreover, the clone completely replaces the offspring, and it may not be able to sustain it permanently, after all, this is equivalent to the loss of diversity of the entire race, and the development potential will become worse and worse with time.

Choose your own immortality, or choose the future of your race.

It's a tough choice.

Thank you for your support (ω)

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