Around this point, everyone is full of curiosity and worry, and two extremely contradictory emotions appear in people's minds.
On the one hand it is excellent, on the other hand it is extremely bad!
This feeling is a bit like primitive people talking about various modern medicines. They don’t know their principles and can only blindly guess. People can’t tell whether Perfection is a “stimulant” or a real “supplement”, and they don’t know how to use it.
After using it on a large scale, will you kill yourself...
For a quarter of an hour, the scientists present discussed many different results. These results left Yu Yifeng in a dilemma and kept swinging...
First, genetic screening is certainly not a good thing!
This is a conjecture with the most malicious intentions.
Just like the genetic modification broadcast of an advanced civilization, perfectionism is just a biological experiment. If this selection continues from generation to generation, humans may be screened into other civilizations...
"Yes, the human species has changed like this!"
"Genetic modification broadcasts only change your appearance. But perfect genes may change the entire race! What changes is your next generation, and the next generation... Intelligence and longevity are just a trick to tempt you to use it.
Pretense!"
"Impossible, no matter how much human genetic material is screened, it is still human genes! It is impossible to transform into other species! Our experimental examples did not find changes at the genetic level and chromosome level... There are still 46 chromosomes.
You can’t go wrong with that!”
"And... there is no reproductive isolation between superhumans and ordinary humans!"
"No! It's not safe! Our understanding of the genetic level is still shallow. You can't guarantee what will happen in a few generations..."
Several experts expressed their opinions, but no one could convince anyone, and the atmosphere in the venue became tense.
All in all, this change seems to be good, but in fact, its disadvantages may not appear until dozens of generations later.
"After dozens of generations, human beings will become another civilization, or will they become unintelligent beasts that drink blood from their hair?"
Yu Yifeng himself was very uncomfortable with this statement, as if it was referring to him.
But he did not directly reject this view...Things whose mechanism of action is unknown always seem unsafe.
However, this "conspiracy theory" always has one biggest problem: If you want to change one species to another species, why do you have to go to such trouble?
Are there any benefits to be gained?
To just attribute it to an "experiment" is really unfounded.
The second statement, genetic screening, is of course a good thing!
This conjecture does not mention messy conspiracy theories, but believes that the perfect element itself was used by a certain super civilization to transform itself, and somehow it spread out, and then became an expensive trading item among interstellar civilizations.
Just the lifespan bonus, your own intelligence, and the intelligence of your offspring are enough!
Why is perfect element an important and expensive trading target? It’s because it itself is something that has been circulated in advanced civilizations, and it also has certain use value...
"Among the star civilizations, there are many ancient civilizations that have existed for millions of years. If Perfection had any side effects, they would have known about it already! Maybe sometime, we can find a friendlier star civilization for consultation. Alas, the Sower
Why doesn’t civilization want to tell us..."
"Okay, okay, don't blame the sower..."
The second statement is extremely beneficial to human beings, because human beings have many perfect qualities.
Compared with the first one, it goes to two opposite extremes.
Psychologically, people prefer the second statement.
Of course, there is a third conjecture: Perfection is related to "intellectual barriers", which is why it seems so expensive.
This statement is an extension of the second conjecture.
Judging from the current level of science and technology, it seems to be very, very difficult to improve the intelligence of civilized individuals...
"Human beings may be able to create a cell out of thin air, but... they cannot improve their intelligence."
"Using technical means, such as brain chips, can only improve certain aspects of ability, but trying to improve abstract thinking ability on a large scale is tantamount to wishful thinking... At least our technology is far from it!"
"Unless we can fully understand how the brain works."
"This kind of difficulty may not only be for us, but also for other civilizations whose own racial values are not high. If a civilization encounters the ceiling of its own intelligence after long-term development and cannot improve its intelligence, then they should
How to do it?"
"How do they overcome it?"
"Perhaps... we should ask ourselves, what is the intellectual ceiling we should overcome in this way?" A scientist asked this question.
Of course, there is a ceiling to intelligence. The average human intelligence is only 100, and there are many things that we cannot understand.
Good education and long-term effective logical training can indeed improve human intelligence. For example, hard-working college students can increase their intelligence to about 120 through long-term thinking training, but this acquired improvement is still limited and cannot reach 180 or 200.
An intelligence of 120 can accept regular courses such as mathematical analysis and advanced algebra. However, when it comes to subjects such as topology, abstract algebra, and partial differential calculus, it becomes quite difficult and requires very long-term thinking.
With the in-depth development of various technologies, simple things have been explored to a large extent, the difficulty of expansion has skyrocketed, and it is increasingly driven by genius.
In Newton's time, the top mathematics, namely calculus, and the top physics were Newton's three laws of motion. For these courses, ordinary people could barely pass through study, and their intelligence was not enough.
What now? Any cutting-edge mathematics is no longer understandable by ordinary people. This is true for ordinary people, and it is also true for geniuses. They still have things they cannot understand, but their limits are higher.
Information is exploding, but the development of technology is slowing down...
One day, when even geniuses find it difficult to understand higher-level science, this civilization will hit its own intellectual ceiling.
"How to deal with it?"
"When even a genius can't do it!"
People were deeply confused.
The screening again and again is not set by some supreme being, but a natural law.
This physiological barrier is more difficult to solve than the first big filter caused by "nuclear fusion".
Silent, silent.
If humans encounter this situation, how should they solve it?
Since there is a civilization that has passed this barrier, there must be a solution.
At this moment, Dr. Rimbaud jumped up, his face was ferocious, and he spat out a series of shocking words: "If you want to break through this ceiling, the first way is, of course, genetic screening! Directly depriving mediocre people of their reproductive rights, only smart people can
Only people can give birth…”
"Through artificial screening, our descendants will become smarter every generation!"
"This is the way to pass the intellectual barrier!"
After hearing every word he said, everyone suddenly took a breath of cold air.
This sensational anti-humanity method was quickly refuted by biologists: "Dr. Rimbaud, you are wrong. Intelligence cannot be determined by one or two genes... Maybe a combination of mediocre people can...
You can also give birth to smart children.
"Moreover, for highly developed interstellar civilizations... this method will immediately cause social unrest... Although we do not know the social systems of other interstellar civilizations, fertility screening greatly violates the genetic philosophy of 'survival and reproduction'.
It’s very, very difficult to do.”
Rimbaud shook his head: "You are indeed right, but this method is the best choice under all-round intellectual barriers... You can't deny that it is wrong! The descendants of smart people are indeed better on average.
Smart, this is a statistical law."
"Relying on the self-evolution ability of life, each generation becomes smarter than each generation through artificial selection... It may take tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to break through this bottleneck."
"Besides, is there any other better way?"
The expert was immediately speechless and silent.
If technology is not enough, use the power of nature.
If a civilization that really uses this solution... how cold and powerful is it?!
Yu Yifeng felt that his heart was being grasped tightly by a big hand. This method was understandable, but unacceptable...
But in the vast universe and the bright starry sky, there is a high probability that this kind of cruel and crazy civilization exists. In order to progress, they abandoned low-energy individuals and adopted the method of giving birth to a small number of people...
What should humans do if they encounter this cruel bottleneck?
Is this solution also necessary?
Dr. Rimbaud's face was ashen and he continued: "The second method I thought of was, of course, to use advanced civilization creations like Perfection. With a civilization like ours and a social system like ours, it is difficult to make up our mind to adopt the first method.
Method, alas..."
"Maybe there is an advanced civilization that provides us with a second option."
"So perfection is even more expensive... and even starting a war over it is not impossible."