Homo sapiens.

Chapter 690 Difficult Choices
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This is the main color in interstellar space travel.

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

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

Even with the experience of omnic civilization, coupled with the encounters of human civilization itself, human civilization still has no way to break through the boundaries of the first-level civilization, and finally the second-level civilization.

Not even a quasi-secondary civilization can reach it.

The Chixin Group on Artificial Earth 34 also fell into a technological bottleneck.

In the Earth Science City of the Chixin Group, Gao Long woke up again from the frozen hibernation cabin.

At this time, he only has a natural lifespan of about 133 earth years left. After handing over his duties to the new generation, Gao Long, like Li Qingye, chose to participate in the scientific research in the field of soul research.

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

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

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

After watching it for more than ten hours, although his face was expressionless, he felt somewhat regretful and helpless in his heart, and sighed lightly: "Huh... still no breakthrough?"

Another old researcher who just woke up had a bit of bitterness involuntarily on the corner of his mouth: "Not only has there not been much progress in the field of souls, but other technologies have also experienced slow development. The field of neutron materials has stayed at the eight-neutron stage for nearly 200 years. Years..."

Gao Long leaned on the chair, muttered to himself with sad eyes: "That time is running out..."

The other old researchers were also silent.

Their hearts are full of mixed feelings, and at the same time, they also have the grief of hurting their own kind.

Gao Long woke up from the sadness, and then patted his face, and then he looked at the others: "No one has died in life since ancient times, this is life, this is the law of the universe, let us use up the last bit of strength now, Charge against the eternal rules!"

"Old Gao, you are worthy of being a minister. You speak in a way." Another old researcher laughed.

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

Gao Long smiled and shook his head: "Life is always going on, let's go! I'll go to the laboratory to check the quilt first."

"Come along!"

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

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

Due to the technology and information of the omnic civilization, and it is still a cracked version, the 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 afraid of artificial intelligence than other civilizations.

The reason is that once artificial intelligence breaks through the limitations, it can even turn the customer into the main, directly devouring and creating its own mother civilization.

Therefore, the human civilization headed by Homo sapiens has very great restrictions on intelligent robots, basically cutting off the possibility of robots or supercomputers being born with intelligence.

The robots in the laboratory now look a bit rigid and stupid, because 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 the relevant information of dozens of civilizations such as six-claw civilization and omnic civilization.

Finally, it was found that carbon-based organisms and information organisms actually have the same soul, and there is also a limitation on the lifespan of the soul.

However, carbon-based organisms always tend to the individual + group development model.

The information organisms tend to tend to the superorganic development mode.

Then why does the information creature show the "phenomenon" of eternal life?
In the final analysis, the two sides have different definitions of life. The mother and daughter of information life are actually one super entity, and they can also be transformed into each other.

Therefore, every "system update" of the omnics means that they are reincarnated once, and their souls are reset to their original state.

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

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

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

But the soul born in the embryonic stage of human cloning is definitely not the self, but the "memory" is the self.

So, is that really "myself"?

In addition, how to solve ethical and moral issues?
Human cloning is different from an artificial human. To put it bluntly, an artificial human is actually equivalent to a test-tube baby. An artificial human is not a copy of that person, but an independent individual.

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

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

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

But is immortality really good?
This is a question that Li Qingye and others often pondered in the last days of their lives.

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

And if they don't die, then 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, human beings can only live in isolated planetary systems for a long time, which means that the resources of this system are limited.

In a system where resources are limited, there is a nearly immortal species in it, and the reproduction speed of this species is very fast, and at the same time, this species has no way to divert excess tribes on a large scale.

Then this system takes jujube pills.

In fact, there are only two roads in front of human beings now, one is to use human cloning, but from then on, they can no longer breed offspring;

Human cloning and offspring reproduction are incompatible.

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

Moreover, cloning completely replaces the offspring, and it may not be able to last forever. After all, doing so is equivalent to losing the diversity of the entire race, and the development potential will become worse and worse as time goes by.

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

This is a tough choice.

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