Hundreds of thousands of scientists from all walks of life, as well as one ten thousandth of the computing power of Fanxing, spent 24 years, spent countless precious resources, carefully cared for, and were on duty 24 hours a day to follow and observe the precious embryo. It died.
There was no warning, it came suddenly.
First, scholars and technicians within the Institute of Life Sciences traced the source and conducted in-depth investigations, but they only came to a very superficial conclusion.
The current synthetic embryo is approximately equivalent to an ordinary embryo between the third and fourth weeks of normal development. It is in a state where the heart structure has just formed, the facial features and organs are taking shape, and the number of brain cells continues to increase.
Analyzing from the level of quantum thinking, at this time the number of fetal brain cells has been stacked to the point where it is almost enough to sustain a tiny personality consciousness in its original state.
But at the moment when tiny consciousness was about to be born from scratch, something uncontrollable happened. The phosphorus atoms that make up the fetal brain cells did not successfully aggregate into Posner clusters.
The quantum spiral array that was supposed to stably construct individual consciousness suddenly collapsed. It was like the sun was suddenly stolen from the solar system, and the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and nebulae orbiting the sun dispersed under the action of centrifugal force.
Subsequently, the embryo loses its vitality and stops developing.
This is just the result of the incident. As for why it happened, scholars are at a loss.
Obviously all the details of the embryonic development process are under all-round observation with real-level monitoring means, and everything is normal.
According to the logic of modern science, under the observation of real energy level monitoring means, there should be no accidents in the universe that are truly without warning. All accidents should show more or less signs before they happen.
In order to find the cause of the accident, as many as hundreds of millions of people in the solar system were temporarily transferred to the accident investigation team by Fanxing. The tasks of more people in their spare time entertainment life have also become an algorithmic game where they first learn and then participate in joint deductions.
Thanks to the civilization task subdivision system established by Fanxing, in the vast empire territory, hundreds of billions of people from tens of thousands of different galaxies have jointly invested in the huge work of investigating the truth of the accident.
Many people don't know what kind of huge project they are involved in. They only know that there is another small detail in their personal taskbar, and then it will take anywhere from a few hours to a few days.
, to complete a small calculation and deduction.
These small workloads will become part of the core work in the unified integration of the many space-time topology masters under the Xingfeng Research Institute with the stars.
Under the new scientific and technological research model, the fog has finally been lifted layer by layer.
Sixty-three days after the embryo "died", an academic report was presented to Chen Feng.
The "cause" of embryonic death was found.
The culprit is none other than Chen Feng himself.
"I still live in the UV black hole of Cetus, and my mind is interacting with the universe all the time. This information will instantly cross infinite distances and reach anywhere in the universe. This is not unique to me.
Characteristics, every human being on earth has the same characteristics as me."
"At the moment when the tiny personality consciousness in the embryo is formed, there will be a huge exchange of information with the universe. But because my consciousness still exists, the embryo was impacted by my thinking and ultimately failed to take shape."
"No matter how far away I am from the embryo, or whether I am blocked by the subspace 'wall', this kind of information impact is unavoidable. To put it simply, at the same time, in the same universe, the universe cannot bear two bottom-level information
Exactly the same sense of personality.”
Chen Feng summed it up himself.
Fanxing: "Yes. In fact, this phenomenon has been described in science fiction movies and movies many years ago."
"Yeah, I know." Chen Feng nodded and shrugged.
As early as the 20th and 21st centuries, science fiction writers have created many literary and artistic works about time travel.
These works repeatedly interpret time paradoxes from different angles and in different ways, and draw a large number of conflicting conclusions.
"What will happen when the 'me' in the future travels through time and meets the 'me' in the past?" is the most easily imagined and curious picture for readers and viewers of film and television works.
Since there is no real possibility of realizing this hypothetical picture, people can only fantasize and speculate from different angles.
Some people believe that two "I's" or even more "I's" can coexist.
"You Resurrection Corpses" and its adapted film "Pre-Destination" have materialized this concept to the extreme, forming a closed-loop worldview that is full of loopholes and contradictions, but also very strange and logically self-consistent.
But the more common understanding is that there cannot be two "Is" in the same universe at the same time period.
If they exist, then these two "Is" must never meet.
As for what will happen when they meet, the best science fiction writers can only keep their descriptions in fantasies that cannot find theoretical basis, which is commonly known as making up.
In the past nine timelines, every time Chen Feng arrived a thousand years later, the grass on his grave was several feet tall, so he did not encounter this problem.
He has also imagined many times what would happen if he could live for a thousand years.
Can my future self still appear?
Now he has the answer.
The concept that two "I"s cannot meet must be infinitely enlarged to the point where two "Is" cannot exist in the same universe at the same time.
Suddenly, Chen Feng found that he had actually stepped on the edge of the cliff with one foot and was on the road to death.
His own "survival" led to the failure of embryonic pregnancy.
Even if you culture it again, there will be no difference in the result.
Without a body, he will not be able to find a body that can support his resurrection plan in the thirty-first century.
But now that he has survived until the twenty-eighth century, he cannot commit suicide and leave everything to the mysterious energy that supports his resurrection in the thirty-first century.
What if I can't be resurrected?
What if humans still lose in the end?
In the end, it wouldn't work even if he continued to watch it with his own eyes while lingering on his last breath.
According to the speed at which his emotions dissipated after his thinking was quantized in the previous timeline, combined with the carrying capacity gap caused by the size difference between the Cetus UV black hole and the shadow black hole, his emotions will return in about three hundred years at most.
Zero, completely losing his personality and becoming a pure artificial intelligence, is essentially dead.
"There is no retreat. The embryo must be restored to life."
Chen Feng sighed.
Since he transformed himself into quantum self-intelligence, he has not spoken in such an emotional tone for a long time.
Fanxing looked at him slightly anxiously, "So what are you going to do? I must emphasize to you that even if you commit suicide now, it is impossible to bring the dead embryo back to life. I suggest you not to gamble like this. This time we really
Can’t afford to lose.”
Chen Feng nodded, "I know."
He then looked at the technical report on the investigation of the embryonic death accident, and said: "Actually, many researchers have guessed the truth that I am not dead yet. It's just that we don't announce it, so others can only speculate based on thin air. In this case, then
Let’s advance the resurrection plan by three hundred years.”
"You plan to infuse your personality into the embryo?"
Chen Feng nodded, "Yes. Since the embryo dies due to lack of support from active consciousness, then I will put myself in it."
"There are two problems. First, the information you have is far beyond the limit of the human brain. Second, the number of brain cells in the embryo is very small. The success rate of instilling your thoughts into the embryo is too low."
Chen Feng shook his head, his virtual body's gaze focused. At the focus of his gaze, a complex symbol was slowly being generated.
Fanxing just took one look and whispered: "Did you combine the stacked memory code of the Fish Star people with the symbolic language of the Mi tribe?"
Chen Feng blinked, "Not only that, but also my mother tongue, the square character in Chinese."
Fanxing understood Chen Feng's plan.
He will "format" his memory, give up his entire life, and truly live his life again.
One day in the future, when the newly born him can bear all the memories he has now, he will give him this complicated symbol, and then he will have a chance to awaken his memory.
Fanxing asked: "What if it fails? What if you fail to fully read the memory information inside? Then you will forget a lot of things!"
Chen Feng smiled and shook his head, "Even if I forget everything, it doesn't matter. If I do it again, I will still be me."
Three hours later, Chen Feng's mind began to leave the UV Ceti star, and followed the huge bandwidth quantum network communication channel opened by the stars, traveling across vast distances and heading straight to the solar system.
At the same time, "Song of the Outer World" began to play in the embryonic breeding room of the Academy of Earth Life Sciences. This was a physical formatting of the embryo, with the purpose of removing the residue of the rules that had previously generated the tiny personality consciousness.
The fish planet in the Voyager galaxy was completely loaded into a huge flying space station. The space station began to accelerate gradually and headed straight for the solar system.
A few years later, the space station carrying the remains of the fish planet arrived in the solar system one after another, two months apart from Chen Feng's thoughts.
