Daming 1805

Chapter 625 “Bitter and Weak Flesh”

The research on transferring the human consciousness field to the mechanical body continued for another 20 years.

By February 1960, 100, in the Gregorian calendar, the total population of the earth finally officially exceeded the [-] billion mark.

The population carrying capacity of the earth has reached tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

The most important reason is that controllable nuclear fusion has been popularized and nearly unlimited clean energy has been truly obtained.

Coupled with the widespread popularity of complex and intelligent machines, the efficiency of three-dimensional factory farms exceeds that of traditional ground farms.

Nowadays, the grain and main food of Ming people are directly produced in factories.

This directly led to a result: a large number of large-scale farms developed in the previous era are now generally abandoned on a large scale.

Many areas in the interior of Mozhou have not yet been developed, and the era of land reclamation and farming is over.

Instead, a large number of manpower is now needed to command simple intelligent machines to plant trees on former farmland.

Now the earth is comprehensively promoting the major projects of returning farmland to forests, returning farmland to grassland, and returning farmland to lakes.

Most of the daily necessities and most of the social security of the people of Ming Dynasty have been basically supplied on demand.

For most ordinary people, money is declining into something like membership points.

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

As a by-product of consciousness research, the virtual world technology imagined in previous lives has finally fully matured.

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

Human beings are omnipotent in their own virtual world.

In reality, the most complex administrative decisions and scientific research work are handled by complex intelligent machines to assist humans.

In reality, most of the work that requires manual labor, including the simplest service tasks, has been taken over by simple intelligent machines.

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

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

These tasks, which still require direct human participation, are now defined as "social obligations" by the court.

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

The imperial court issued special regulations requiring all adults in society to serve in compulsory social positions for a period of time every year.

You can be at your disposal at any time and do some work that requires people at any time, and you will receive extra financial subsidies.

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

However, any kind of artistic work, any serious scientific research work, and anyone who has something to do in the first place does not need to pay attention to this social obligation.

As long as there are any actual results, as long as it can be recognized by the public, even if it is likes on the Internet, you can directly make "money".

In today's Ming Dynasty society, people who have their own things to do do not need to be specifically asked by the court to do anything.

There are only people who don't know what they want to do, people who only want to eat, drink and have fun, and people who want to get some money points for emergencies.

You need to report to the Yamen on time every year, indicating when you have more time and can assume basic "social obligations."

The imperial court also required everyone to go to college, and of course all expenses for everyone were free.

Nowadays, the new generation of Ming Dynasty people have already undergone genetic reshaping, coupled with the abilities and knowledge reserves they can acquire after attending college.

It is enough to undertake most of the "social obligation" tasks. After all, most of them are assisted by simple intelligent machines.

Humans mainly come up with ideas and usable ideas.

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

Nearly unlimited energy, extremely convenient transportation, coupled with social and cultural development, are catalyzed by the pursuit of living standards.

Nowadays, the houses where most people live have returned to the traditional single-family houses.

In multi-storey apartments in the city center, only people who are taking on special social obligations can live temporarily for the convenience of work.

The urban area is also becoming larger and larger along with this trend, and the pie is constantly being spread around the original urban suburbs.

People inside and outside the city are transported through public electromagnetic rails, household electric vehicles, and small flying equipment.

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

The boundaries between the core provincial capitals and prefectures, the surrounding state towns and county towns, and the marginal townships and towns have all basically disappeared.

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

These false moons are no longer the small satellites of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life. Many false moons have reached the size of the space station.

These fake moons are basically launched from the surface of the "real moon".

The original space base on the moon's surface has now become several truly large cities connected together.

The lunar city can complete most of the production of industrial and agricultural industries on its own.

Including the production and launch of various fake moons.

Since there is no thick atmosphere on the surface of the moon, the gravity of the moon is much lower than that of the earth's surface.

A large amount of payload can be easily sent into space on the moon.

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

Ordinary people have been allowed to live and entertain directly in the space station.

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

Of course, ordinary people have to spend "money" to play like this. If ordinary people want to make money, they must participate in social obligations regularly.

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

This also gives greater convenience to people exploring the surfaces of the earth and moon.

Don't worry about finding the way.

Humanity also used the moon as a base and began to penetrate into other areas of the solar system.

A large number of false moons and probes were launched to areas where other planets, satellites, and asteroids are located.

Now Neptune and all the planets within it, as well as most of the large satellites, already have artificial false moons that are fixedly orbiting for observation.

The more important asteroids also have dedicated false moons for observation.

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

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

Astronomy-related craftsmen are considering building a small artificial sun to thaw the large moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

See what's in the ocean beneath the ice.

Just at this time.

In the second half of 1960, February [-]st of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar.

The technology for transferring human consciousness fields to mechanical bodies has finally matured.

The final implementation process seems relatively simple.

First, the available mechanical body is specially prepared according to the situation of the party to be transferred.

Special cables are used to connect the client's nerves to the mechanical body.

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

Let the consciousness field expand to cover the mechanical body, and let the mechanical body become part of the body of the person concerned at the level of consciousness.

After completion, let the human body enter a dormant state, and then activate the mechanical body.

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

Disconnect the connection between the human body and the mechanical body, and 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 state.

But now you can connect the lines back again, allowing the consciousness field to return to the state of covering both bodies.

Let the two bodies enter the dormant state at the same time, and then wake up the human body alone, and 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 Ming's top craftsmen.

The design and production of the mechanical body used for transfer is the first major difficulty of the entire project.

During the entire transfer process, 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 identify and control the auxiliary equipment of the mechanical body is another new and difficult point. Cables that allow human consciousness to penetrate and cover, and connect human nerves and mechanical bodies, are also difficult.

All these technical equipment and achievements were not developed overnight.

Each transfer process of the consciousness field also involves certain risks and losses, so the craftsman does not recommend repeated transfer of the consciousness field.

Transferring back and forth between the machine and the human body is particularly not recommended.

The first human being to undergo a complete transfer of consciousness was an old craftsman who had participated in complex mechanical intelligence projects.

He had been retired for many years when he was transferred, and his body was over 120 years old.

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

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

By directly transferring it to a specially manufactured mechanical body, one can get rid of the fragile and sickly aging body.

Today's latest complex intelligent machines, quantum components have reached the trillion level.

In other words, there are one trillion quantum originals in the brain.

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

The overall ability is several orders of magnitude beyond that of genetically reshaped humans.

The final completed mechanical body looks the same as a real person, except that the interior is mechanical.

In the eyes of the craftsmen working on complex intelligent machine projects, this is the real “ascension of life.”

It's really like the legendary ascension into immortality.

The relevant craftsmen will basically not refuse.

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

Zhu Youdong is the first generation Ming emperor 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 20s.

With a theoretically long life span of nearly a thousand years, it is obvious that he will no longer be emperor for only 30 years.

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

Even humans after genetic remodeling will not have unlimited energy, and they will also get tired.

So the current plan is to compromise a little bit.

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

The new emperor would succeed to the throne between one hundred and two hundred years old, and would also abdicate before he was three hundred years old.

Each emperor reigned for about 100 years.

The inspection period for all future princes has also changed from more than twenty 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 Zhu Xianzhan's reign, various anti-aging drugs and cell repair surgery technologies were basically mature.

Now at the age of 90, he still looks like a man who is less than 60 years old.

Zhu Xianzhan's father, Zhui Lan, is 110 years old this year and has begun to sleep for a long time with his father Zhu Jingyuan.

With the help of cell surgery and anti-aging technology, Judy Lan now behaves like a person in her 70s.

Zhu Jingyuan is now 150 years old, but his body looks younger than 30 years ago.

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

Just to prevent any possible accidents, Zhu Jingyuan's nervous system remained still.

Now even with the energy supplied by the reshaped and rejuvenated internal organs, Zhu Jingyuan's nervous system is inevitably getting closer and closer to its limit.

Zhu Jingyuan's thinking speed also became slower and slower.

Zhu Jingyuan, his son Zhudi Lan, and grandson Zhu Xianzhan listened to the detailed explanation of his great-grandson Zhu Youdong.

After Zhu Youdong finished speaking, Zhu Youdong pretended to be with his children and grandchildren and looked at his father.

The oldest emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty the Grand Duke and Emperor has been called the Great Emperor while he was alive.

Zhu Jingyuan was silent for a few seconds and asked a few questions intermittently:
“Can we guarantee [-]% that the consciousness field after transfer will still be the same as before?

"Will the mechanical body you prepared definitely not give birth to its own consciousness during the activation process?

“Will the transferred human consciousness field be affected by the possible consciousness of the mechanical body?
"Are you sure that the person with the mechanical body after the transfer is still the same person as before?"

After hearing what her father said, Judy Lan said with some surprise:
"So... Dad, what do you think? Do you want to continue using cell surgery instead of consciousness transfer?"

Zhu Jingyuan closed his eyes and waved his hands and said:
“Given the choice between the two, of course I would choose consciousness transfer.

“The old and rotten flesh and blood of human beings is always fragile no matter how repaired and reshaped it is.

"If placed in the universe, it would be as fragile and crude a container as a soap bubble.

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

“So I will still choose to transfer to the mechanical body.

"However, in order to prevent the worst of the worst, everyone who has been transferred to the mechanical body, including me, must leave the 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 to the orbit around Jupiter, and build a space residential station to live.

“Then, when the speed of the spacecraft continues to increase and can truly reach sub-light speed, it will completely leave the solar system.

"To explore other star systems, the initial targets are Tiancang V, Tianyuan IV, Persia VII, Tianjin Zeng[-]...

"All the old people in the world, now and in the future, if their health is really bad, I still don't want to die completely.

"Anyone who decides to accept consciousness transfer and continue living in a mechanical body will be sent to me.

"From now on, the earth and the solar system will be left to the flesh and blood Ming people to live, Zhuo Wei, our Ming people's original home and reservation.

"I took all the old things, people who were supposed to be dead, to explore the more distant stars.

"Do you guys have any objections to my arrangement?"

The children and grandchildren were obviously stunned, thinking that their ancestors were really too cautious, but this kind of caution was really unreasonable.

Even if the human life span is a thousand years, there will eventually come a time when death is imminent, 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 today. The old people before genetic reshaping are all on the verge of death.

They must be willing to accept this plan and continue living in the mechanized body of the transformed city.

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 stay on earth and enjoy it, but the Ming Dynasty is still there.

The leader of this matter is still the ancestor.

Most of the old people who are about to die are in their prime years.

Weak people do not 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 ministers and generals.

Now that everyone is really on the verge of death, they will follow the old emperor on the galaxy.

Maybe it can also inspire the pride of their youth.

Zhu Youdong's three generations of emperors considered this, and finally nodded one after another.

"We have no objection..."

So the matter was settled.

Having completed the overall genetic remodeling, completed the sublimation of the nature of life, and completely integrated into one, the people of Ming Dynasty will be divided into two parts again.

Living bodies and mechanical bodies.

Life forms continue to center on their home planet Earth and continue to live within the solar system for the time being.

When there is another large-scale breakthrough in technology, and sub-light or even super-light spacecraft technology is obtained, only then will they consider leaving their home galaxy and going elsewhere.

The mechanical body must first leave the home star, and then leave the home star system as soon as possible to start exploring the boundless starry sky.

In the future, when the living beings living in the parent galaxy are completely too old to be cured, their consciousness will be transferred to the mechanical body.

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

(End of this chapter)