The coalition government’s definition of human is: “a creature that is born from the combination of two and only two human genetic factors through normal reproductive behavior or legal reproductive assistance.” Moreover, the coalition government rigorously creates “humanoids”,
A "person" that neither meets the definition of human being.
The ancient philosophical question "what is a human being" has a serious legal definition under the coalition government system.
Based on the specific provisions of this law, it is not difficult to see that the coalition government did not suddenly think, "Ah, we still need to define what kind of person is a person." When they announced this definition, they aimed at "adopting
"Illegal reproductive assistance methods, and "persons" born using a combination of genetic factors of less than or more than two people.
That is, cloned people, gene-edited people, and "assembly babies" of polygenetic parents.
In addition to "ethical" risks, the coalition government has also included genetic pollution in the scope of prevention - limiting the occurrence of these situations by defining "people" can greatly avoid problems at the genetic level for the entire human population.
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As an organization whose mission is to save humanity and respond to the crisis of extinction, the coalition government suddenly used a blanket approach to directly ban any type of human cloning, gene editing, and recombination research. Then there must be some of these projects that can lead to the demise of humanity.
risk projects.
Before the Great Collapse, Mr. Winger Czekrawski’s main research areas were brain-computer interfaces and the digitization of consciousness. The mainstream social atmosphere at that time believed that there were too many humans on the earth and that the earth could no longer support it. In order to avoid serious humanitarian tragedies caused by insufficient resources, brain-computer interfaces and digitization of consciousness became very popular research projects at the time. After all, digitization of consciousness was more acceptable than providing euthanasia to the poor - uploading the consciousness of these people to the server
Finally, whether it is to use sleeping chambers and nutritional medicines to maintain life, or to directly "use" the body's waste, it is always more efficient than letting them live in poverty and doing nothing.
After five years of devastation caused by the Great Collapse, human civilization has almost completely disintegrated. After losing 4.5 billion people, humans no longer need to worry about the issue of "living space" in a short period of time.
But just after the Great Collapse, almost every survivor was in a state of panic. People at that time would not hesitate to use all the methods they could think of to "prevent" the Great Collapse from happening again.
Among them, the most radical group is the group headed by Wenger Czekrawski. They advocate that human beings should completely abandon their fragile and sick bodies and completely enter the virtual space to survive through the digitization of consciousness. For equipment maintenance, robots that can carry human consciousness can be used.
—In this way, the recurrence of the Great Collapse can be completely avoided, and it can even directly bring about eternal life.
However, this proposal was directly banned by the coalition government and the newly established academic committee as a "permanent ban". The academic committee's reason for banning this research is very direct and simple - the most powerful computer in mankind cannot completely simulate the performance of ordinary people.
All the neuron activities in the brain. Whether the digital personality is a copy of a person's independent personality, or an AI technology that uses certain human characteristics as samples... It is difficult to tell directly.
Moreover, this kind of escapist plan does not conform to the aesthetic concepts of these old people in the academic committee. Human beings have evolved to this point by fighting nature and transforming nature. Now abandon reality and turn directly into the digital world
There, the risk is too uncontrollable.
As a result, Mr. Wenger Czekrawski's two main research fields were outlawed.
Then, Wenger Czekrawski and his team began to study cloning technology. Their purpose was to create clones without brains by inducing differentiation, and then remove organs from their bodies for use by patients. Induced Differentiation
No brain is produced during the process, so there is no "humanitarian" issue.
The "stem cell directional induction proliferation equipment" used by Lu Chen and others when treating Estella was the result of Wenger's research in the field of cloning during this period.
Then... the Human Definition Act appeared, and Wenger's research was completely abolished again.
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"If it were me, I would have to rebel." Before the dinner started, Lu Chen suddenly realized after listening to Yang Weimin's small history class, "This person is really strange, why does he like to choose such risky topics to study?
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"There are many ways to say this." Watanabe interjected, "Our profile and psychological analysis of him suggest that Wenger himself may have gone crazy during the collapse. It's just that his madness became a comparison.
Strange ending - he chose religion."
"It makes sense." Director Li Xiaohui nodded, "After suffering so many major blows in a row, he will attribute everything to a transcendent existence beyond human cognition. This situation is actually very common."<
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Watanabe shook his head and said, "We believe that what drove him crazy was not the two bans on his research content. It was his experience of losing his wife, parents and three children in one day - six family members committed suicide on the same day.
, this situation is quite extreme even during the Great Collapse."
"Although there is no direct evidence, we believe that Wenger had already begun to form his religious group before the Great Collapse was under full control. 'The Great Collapse is God's will, and you can reunite with your family in heaven after death.'
The doctrine is something he made up." Watanabe bent down, picked up a bottle of Coke from the table and poured it into his mouth, "burp...then...burp!"
Watanabe put down the Coke and burped several times with difficulty before continuing, "We believe that Wenger was conscious, especially in the subsequent research, and deliberately chose cloning as a research direction. Wenger knew very well that in this field
His research will bring serious threats to the entire human society, and his purpose is to make this threat come true."
"After his conspiracy was discovered, Wenger successfully escaped under the cover of those crazy believers. We think he entered the Mediterranean area." Watanabe said, spreading his hands, "But obviously, this evil scientist did not remain honest.
He truly accepted his fate and was radiated to death. According to Estella, a few months ago... he also met Wenger. This old man who was supposed to be seventy-six years old was almost the same as more than thirty years ago.
Any changes."
Yang Jianmin suddenly asked, "Based on this, you judge that Estella is not a human being?"
"The possibility is very high. Now it depends on the results of the genetic comparison." Watanabe replied, "After all, I want to organize a village in the Mediterranean area just right, and at the same time, I want to bypass so many sweeps organized by the General Investigation Bureau...
…This judgment is more reliable.”
Mu Zhiran, who had just arrived at the restaurant and ordered an octopus dumpling for himself, asked curiously, "What judgment?"
"They think Estella is a clone or a gene editor, and they think that the village chief Wenger Czekrawski whom Estella met is also a clone." Lu Chen explained, "It's just that Wenger
·It is not certain whether Cheklavsky is an ordinary clone or one whose consciousness was digitally uploaded and then implanted."