Daming 1805

The overall animal gene editing experiment, which can also be said to be the animal gene reshaping experiment, is the most confidential research in the world.

Only a handful of people now know the details.

In addition to those directly involved in the experiment, the person in charge of the laboratory and the experiment itself was the third generation emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

After the experimental report came out, Zhudi Lan took his son Zhu Xianzhan to deliver it to his father in person and explained the specific situation in person.

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

The immediate plan is definitely clinical trials.

The completion of simple animal gene reshaping and editing cannot be guaranteed to be completely reliable for humans for the time being, and experiments on humans will definitely need to be conducted.

That is, gene editing is performed on fertilized eggs after artificial insemination.

What is more important is how these technologies can be applied in human society after successful human experiments.

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

It was really like the legendary immortal ascending to heaven.

The impact will inevitably be very significant, and it must be considered and planned in advance, and we cannot be caught blind when it comes.

In the world of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, gene editing technology had 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 technology that is shared by all human beings and is like ascending to immortality.

The imperial courts in Western countries are not parents, but associations and night watchmen, and have neither the obligation nor the ability to force the popularization of this technology.

Relevant technologies will only appear in private research institutions, and the technology itself is not controlled by their court.

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

Using gene editing to directly create species differentiation will naturally make money from people who already have money.

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

This is what ordinary people worry about the most.

The wealthy class have the opportunity to achieve genetic ascension and become a new super human that is superior to themselves.

I can only become an old human with all-round disadvantages.

The entire human species was truly divided and became two species with obvious advantages and disadvantages.

The channels for class mobility were completely cut off.

And then let society enter the weird world of cyberpunk.

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

The Ming court agencies and the four major industrial groups under them were already directly supporting the daily lives of most Ming people.

Industrial construction and upgrading have never 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 court.

The emperor and court of the Ming Dynasty were the emperor and father, the supreme patriarch of all the people.

In fact, if the emperor wants to have this technology exclusively, he will definitely be resisted or even hostile by his subordinate bureaucrats.

If the emperor wants to drag the bureaucrats along to enjoy it, it will divide the entire society.

Let the ranks of the bureaucracy be completely solidified.

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

Once the common people discovered that the ruling class was completely solidified, and the rulers had obtained technology that was close to immortality, they would not use it for themselves.

Then there may be uncontrollable civil unrest. If you can resist, you will try to resist. If you can't, you will be ruined.

The emperor is the emperor of mankind. If he is no longer a human being, he will become the public enemy of mankind.

Therefore, for the emperor's family, the best choice is to bring all the people to ascend together, so that the entire social structure remains the same.

The current Ming Dynasty has the ability and intention to achieve the common ascension of all mankind.

Comprehensive gene reshaping and editing technology can truly and completely integrate the 50 billion humans on the earth.

Let the hundreds of millions of foreigners and the billions of mixed-race people left now become Ming people along with the Ming people.

The direction of Ming's genetic reshaping must be based on the existing gene pool of Ming people as a template to carry out overall optimization and repair.

Genetic reshaping could make everyone look the same, but that's obviously not possible.

The original random factors must continue to be retained, but various genes that are obviously defective and pathological will be eliminated.

Adjusted various makeshift designs including the eye structure.

An overall slight increase in body size, allowing growth rates to remain constant during childhood and a rapid slowing of aging in adulthood.

The overall image of everyone in the future will be a typical Ming Dynasty style.

After other ethnic groups are genetically reshaped, they will also be directly transformed into optimized Ming people's genes.

From now on, all human beings will be completely indistinguishable from each other in terms of blood and genes.

The genes of other ethnic groups have also completely disappeared.

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

Now it can finally be realized once and for all.

The key is that you don't need to do anything harmful to the world, but it is some kind of redemption.

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

The imperial court began to make preparations now, raising and storing sufficient supplies, expanding common grassroots hospitals, and training specialized medical personnel.

We are preparing to launch gene editing projects around the world after successful human experiments.

In the future, all children will need to undergo in vitro fertilization, first artificial insemination, then gene editing, and finally implanted into the mother's body to develop normally.

All children who have undergone gene editing will not need to undergo in vitro fertilization when they grow up to have children.

The offspring they reproduce on their own will still have reshaped genes.

There will be complete reproductive isolation between the person who has completed the genetic remodeling and the original person, making it impossible to conceive offspring and avoid hybrid chaos.

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

After all, we are just dealing with fertilized eggs one by one.

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

However, the cost of comprehensive cell repair surgery for normal people is a bit too high, and it cannot be provided for free.

Moreover, this kind of surgery has certain risks, so it is not mandatory to perform it universally, but it is voluntary to pay for the surgery.

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

It is claimed that children after gene editing are expected to live to be two hundred to three hundred years old or even more in the future, but the exact upper limit cannot be determined for the time being.

This statement is indeed correct. Craftsmen really have no way to confirm the accurate upper age limit.

After gene editing, it is true that people can live for more than two to three hundred years.

When these new generations live to be [-] years old, they realize that they are far from only having a life span of [-] years.

The old people who have not undergone genetic remodeling are all 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.

Systemic cell repair surgery has risks, but the risks vary in different areas of the body.

The highest risks are in the reproductive system and nervous system, which involve special cell division control mechanisms and the scope of human consciousness and cognition.

The risk of repair in other parts of the body is significantly lower.

Therefore, after Zhu Jingyuan entered the dormant state again, he began repair operations on major internal organs at the same time.

Yingzhou Laboratory officially begins clinical trials of comprehensive genetic remodeling.

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

Including biological gene reshaping and editing technology, these important results obtained quickly with the participation of complex intelligent machines will completely change human society.

However, the core mission of Yingzhou Laboratory has always been to study complex intelligent machines themselves, and the consciousness itself of intelligent machines.

It has been 1980 years since the construction of the Yingzhou Laboratory began in 30, Emperor Calendar [-].

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

We are always exploring the operating logic and control methods of machine intelligence consciousness fields and human consciousness fields.

This most difficult research continued for another 30 years.

During these 30 years, Ming Dynasty completed clinical experiments on genetic remodeling, and then completed the genetic remodeling of the entire society.

The first children to undergo genetic reshaping are now adults.

Ordinary people still alive today, as long as they want to have offspring, need to undergo genetic reshaping.

The last naturally conceived child was ten years old this year.

According to the regulations and commitments of the imperial court, people who are currently alive and have not undergone genetic remodeling can receive free medical treatment for any disease throughout their life.

Ming Dynasty has also been able to achieve free medical care for all.

Directly for free, rather than through insurance, there is no book productivity of high payment and reimbursement.

The fertility rate has dropped further than it was a few decades ago, but it remains at the level of four children per family.

The total population of the world has grown to 80 billion.

In the year [-] of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, the most critical breakthrough was achieved in the research on machines and human consciousness.By this time, the tools and goals of Yingzhou Laboratory's experiments had become super-intelligent machines composed of hundreds of billions of quantum components.

The observation dimensions studied have exceeded the limits of the real three-dimensional world.

Craftsmen have finally figured out what is going on with human and machine intelligence.

They are indeed a kind of energy field lingering on the carrier.

Craftsmen call it the field of consciousness.

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

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

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

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

If the consciousness field simply collapses, the external manifestation may be shock or coma, but there is still a chance of recovery.

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

If the body cannot recover in the end, the consciousness field will eventually dissipate completely, and the person will die.

It is also possible that the body has recovered, but the consciousness field cannot recover, and the person becomes a vegetative state.

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

Various information in the initial memory will affect the operating frequency and even intensity of the consciousness field.

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

Whether it is a human being or a complex intelligent machine, sudden memory loss may occur.

It's just that the personality may change drastically after amnesia.

The most critical discovery is that there is no completely binding relationship between the consciousness field and its own carrier.

In the gestation and maturity stage of the consciousness field, the frequency is relatively fixed.

But after it is formed, there will be a floating range that is not too small and can withstand a certain intensity of vibration and interference.

Neither humans nor machines will die at the first touch, nor will they collapse when encountering any environmental changes.

However, if the environment changes too much, it will also cause confusion in the field of consciousness.

For an intelligent machine, after the consciousness is fully formed, an additional piece of hardware will be added.

This intelligent machine's system is able to identify and drive these hardware.

Then its self-awareness energy field will also expand simultaneously, eventually evenly covering the entire body including the newly added parts.

If you shut down and uninstall part of the hardware, the field of consciousness 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.

Disabled people will not die, but may experience 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 an intelligent machine, and then remove some of the old hardware after the energy field of the intelligent machine is evenly distributed.

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

For intelligent machines, maintaining this transfer would lead to immortality.

And it's not too difficult.

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

There are two direct research directions.

One is to migrate the human consciousness field from the original human body to another new human body.

Use the method of human cloning to cultivate a body that is identical to the original body.

The two bodies are surgically joined.

There is no need for a real physical direct connection, it can be achieved through a specially designed cable.

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

But as long as you think about it, you will know that this kind of 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.

The machine can directly close part of the structure while it is on.

It is obviously impossible for humans to do that. To directly disassemble the arms and legs while awake is basically murder.

Humans need anesthesia or even direct sleep.

As for the state of sleep and wakefulness, what impact will it have on the transfer of connection and awareness.

This is also another issue that needs to be studied.

There is also an obvious ethical crisis.

How to directly cultivate the replicator to maturity in a dormant state, so that the replicator is completely unconscious and does not form his own consciousness.

Otherwise, if the replicator becomes conscious, would it also be murder to occupy his body?

According to the experiments done on the machine, when two conscious bodies are connected together, many complicated situations will occur.

The two consciousness fields may merge, or they may remain schizophrenic.

If the consciousness of one body is newly born and the consciousness of another body is mature, the former may be absorbed by the latter.

But the latter may be affected by the former to a certain extent.

Replicants are not like machines. They can be manufactured without starting up at all. They can be divided into modules and tested before being assembled.

In the process of cultivating replicants, it is likely that their own consciousness fields will be nurtured.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to completely avoid the influence between the consciousness field of the original mature human being and the clone.

If this transfer is really successful, will the consciousness of the person after completely switching bodies still be the same person as before?
Another direction is to transfer the human consciousness field from the human body to the machine.

This direction is obviously safer.

Machines can be produced directly, and it is easier to avoid the consciousness field of machine birth.

The key is that there is no problem of replicating people, and the ethical obstacles are smaller.

Moreover, the transfer of consciousness from humans to replicants is still limited by the lifespan of the replicator's body, and the upper limit of 1000 years is also the upper limit.

Immortality can be approximated only after the consciousness field is directly transferred to the machine.

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

However, the transfer from people to machines, even if it is less problematic than the transfer between people, is only relatively less.

This transfer itself remains a very complex issue.

Humanity's original traditional nervous system and consciousness field only recognize the original fixed body structure.

Even if there are some mutations in the human body, and an extra arm or an extra finger appears, these extra parts are usually uncontrollable.

This is something that is just hard-wired in. There is no way to install the driver without a connection.

It is necessary to completely mutate an entire system at the same time, including bones, muscles, and nervous systems, before you can write your own driver to make it work.

Only a handful of people have mutated six fingers and can also operate these six fingers.

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

One is to directly replace the original parts of the body with machine parts, and directly let the driver regard this part as the original thing.

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

Another direction would be to add additional complete cables and program drivers through surgery and training.

No matter which direction it goes, it should be considered a very complex project.

Fortunately, Daming also has quite a wealth of technology accumulation in these two directions.

Research on preparing intelligent prostheses for disabled people has resulted in a large number of bionic limb technologies.

In the process of detecting and researching consciousness fields, many technologies have 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.

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

On the one hand, it continues to strengthen the technology of human consciousness fields and nerves to directly control devices, allowing humans to directly control more types of devices.

On the one hand, the mechanical structure is designed to be closer to the human body in order to be directly recognized by the existing nerve and consciousness fields of humans.

The convergence point of the two directions is to directly design a brand new mechanical body that is closer to humans.

In order to allow humans to directly control another mechanical body using nerves and consciousness fields
At the same time, we directly started conducting consciousness transfer experiments at the animal level.

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

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

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

Sheepdogs, monkeys, orangutans, dolphins, and whales are all common experimental subjects.

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

Designs that can be realized on chimpanzees are the easiest to translate into humans.