Homo sapiens - Chapter 690 Difficult Choice

Dim.

open.

This is the main color in interstellar space navigation.

Although there are billions of stars dotting the background, those artificial earths at this time still feel extremely lonely.

The scientific and technological progress of human civilization, after more than five hundred years of rapid development, has now entered a bottleneck period, and the research and development of various technologies has begun to slow down.

Even with the experience of omnic civilization and the fate of human civilization, human civilization still has no way to break through the boundaries of first-level civilization and reach the level of second-level civilization.

Not even a quasi-second-level civilization.

The Chixin Group on Artificial Earth No. 34 is also stuck in a technological bottleneck.

In the Earth Science City of the Chixin Group, Gao Long once again woke up from the cryo-sleep cabin.

At this time, he only had about 133 Earth years of natural life left. After handing over his duties to the new generation, Gao Long, like Li Qingye, chose to participate in scientific research in the field of souls.

At this time, 12 Earth years have passed since Li Qingye proposed the idea of ​​​​searching for the birth of the soul from the embryonic development process.

However, various research institutes and researchers who have conducted countless experiments on this key idea still have found nothing.

Gao Long had been dormant for five years. He came to the data center of Science City and read through various papers and academic conferences on the soul field in the past five years.

After watching for more than ten hours, although his face was expressionless, he actually felt a little regretful and helpless inside. He sighed softly: “Huh… there is still no breakthrough progress?”

Another old researcher who had just woken up could not help but reveal a hint of bitterness: “Not only has there not been much progress in the soul field, other technologies have also experienced slow development. The field of neutron materials has been stuck at the eight-neutron stage for nearly two years. It’s been a hundred years…”

Gao Long leaned on his chair and murmured to himself with a somewhat sad look: “That guy’s time is running out…”

The other old researchers were also silent.

They have mixed feelings in their hearts, and at the same time they also have the grief of being hurt by things of their own kind.

Gao Long woke up from his sadness and patted his face. Then he looked at the others: “No one has died since ancient times. This is life. This is the rule of the universe. Now let us use our last strength. Charge against the eternal rules!”

“Lao Gao, you are worthy of being a minister. You always talk in one way.” Another old researcher joked.

Immediately, the melancholy atmosphere at the scene was diluted a lot.

Gao Long smiled and shook his head: “Life has to go on, let’s go! I’ll go to the laboratory first.”

“Let’s go together!”

Soon the group arrived at a small laboratory covering an area of ​​dozens of square kilometers.

There are also many researchers and auxiliary employees working here every day, as well as a large number of intelligent robots.

Since there is technology and data from the omnic civilization, and it is also a cracked version, human civilization actually has a very strong technical reserve in the technology of intelligent robots.

But precisely because of this, human civilization is much more wary of artificial intelligence than other civilizations.

The reason is that once artificial intelligence breaks through its limitations, it can even turn against the guest and directly devour the parent civilization that created it.

Therefore, human civilization, led by Homo sapiens Corporation, has very high restrictions on intelligent robots, basically cutting off the possibility of robots or supercomputers producing intelligence.

The robots in the laboratory now look a bit rigid and cute. The reason is that the Chixin Group has imposed double restrictions on the robots in terms of physical hardware and virtual software.

As for why not learn the information of omnic civilization to live forever.

In fact, after the outbreak of neurasthenia syndrome, many researchers have studied relevant information on dozens of civilizations such as the Six-Claw Civilization and the Omnic Civilization.

Finally, it was discovered that carbon-based organisms and information organisms actually have souls, and they also have soul life limits.

But carbon-based organisms always tend to develop in an individual + group model.

Information organisms, on the other hand, tend to favor a super-individual development model.

So why do information organisms exhibit the “phenomenon” of eternal life?

In the final analysis, the two sides still have different definitions of life. The mother body and daughter body of information life are actually one super-individual body and can transform into each other.

Therefore, every “system update” of the omnics means that they have been reincarnated once, and their souls have been reset to their original state.

But this method cannot be used by new humans.

On the one hand, omnics have no gender or relatives, so they do not have the ethics and morals of carbon-based creatures.

On the other hand, human genetic memory inheritance mode, if human cloning is used, it can indeed become another “self”.

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

In this case, is it really “self”?

In addition, how to solve ethical and moral issues?

Cloning people is different from artificial people. To put it bluntly, artificial people are actually equivalent to test-tube babies. Artificial people are not copies of that person, but independent individuals.

But the clone is not an independent individual, but a copy of the original body.

In fact, Li Qingye had many frozen clones, but he never made up his mind to use the clones.

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

But is eternal life really good?

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

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

And if they don’t die, their descendants will definitely choose not to die.

At this time, human civilization will face a desperate choice. Without a way to break through the bottleneck of the speed of light, humans can only live in an isolated planetary system for a long time, which means that the resources of this system are limited.

In a system, resources are limited, but there is a species that is almost immortal, and the species reproduces very fast. At the same time, this species has no way to divert the redundant clan members on a large scale.

Then take jujube pills for this system.

In fact, there are only two options before mankind. Either use human cloning, but from now on, no more offspring will be produced;

Cloning and breeding offspring are incompatible.

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

Moreover, the complete replacement of offspring by clones may not be sustainable permanently. After all, doing so is equivalent to the entire race losing its diversity, and its development potential will become worse and worse as time goes by.

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

This is a tough choice.

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