Chapter 297 What to Do

After a long time, Yu Yifeng suddenly woke up.

He rubbed Yuriko's head, messed up her hair, and smiled bitterly: "Okay, don't worry about this God-like existence for now, this kind of life is too far away from us."

"We still have to focus on the present, and we have to conquer the hurdle in front of us first... nuclear fusion!"

Yuriko's face was very ugly. She wiped her eyes hard and just said "hmm" in a low voice.

Yu Yifeng's mind has been much clearer. He took a pen and scribbled on the paper: "It is impossible for us to overcome the problem of genetic philosophy at present... We can't improve our genes!"

"Then we should think more about social problems and avoid letting our society fall into this trap..."

Starting with social problems, the problem becomes a little simpler, unlike genetic philosophy, which is inexplicable and difficult to solve.

Yuriko still holds her chin, and she doesn't know what she is thinking.

From the perspective of human "survival", a huge main line is derived, for example: "good living conditions", which expresses the process of the germination and realization of species desires.

"Reproduction" also belongs to instinct, and it also derives a huge main line. For example, "family", "kinship" and so on all belong to the category of reproduction. At the same time, it interacts with the main line of "survival", thus generating more and more complex behavior patterns.

"From the results so far, such species have a common shortcoming in essence: short-sightedness. With desire as the driving force of behavior, as long as these two desires are temporarily satisfied, it is actually enough."

Generally speaking, they only focus on the satisfaction of the moment in front of them.

And the length of "this moment" depends on the level of the attribute of "wisdom".

This "short-sightedness" is based on facts. For example, a tiger will lie on the ground obediently when it is full. At this moment, it is happy, so it begins to want to reproduce. If it is not the season for reproduction, then it will sleep obediently to ensure physical strength.

Even if food is running around in front of it, it will not bother to catch it.

Because catching it will waste physical energy and reduce the probability of survival in the next moment.

They can only take care of this moment, not the next moment. Only a few species have the habit of storing food.

For example, humans on Earth have enough wisdom to calculate their "next moment", so... they are tirelessly pursuing money to make themselves more comfortable.

As a general equivalent, money can meet both survival needs and reproduction needs. Of course, the more the better, this is the simplest idea.

However, human wisdom is still not smart enough, or the wisdom of most people is not smart enough. The amount of money is intuitive and can be measured by numbers, but human pursuits are not just fully summarized by money.

The consequences of many behaviors and actions are not intuitive, so they are difficult to calculate.

Incandescent lamps are cheap per unit, but the subsequent electricity bills are high; energy-saving lamps are expensive per unit, but the subsequent electricity bills are cheap. From a long-term perspective, energy-saving lamps are more suitable.

But many people still choose incandescent lamps. It's not that they can't calculate, but because the first payment is less, they don't feel so bad. So incandescent lamps will not be eliminated by the market immediately.

In order to save energy, the government had to order a ban on the production of incandescent lamps.

"If we compare human thinking to a computer program, then most people use a 'greedy algorithm', always making the best choice at the moment, that is... taking one step at a time and getting the local optimal solution."

Yuriko said lightly: "Is that so? In fact, most animals are like this, eating when hungry and resting when full. Humans are just a little better."

"Only a few people will take long-term plans, planning for ten or twenty years of life... is that almost the limit?"

Yu Yifeng was stunned, and suddenly clapped his hands. It was comfortable to communicate with a smart girl.

"Yes, that's the truth!"

According to this statement, there are very few people who can plan their lives.

There are almost no people who plan for their afterlife!

Isn't there a saying like this, "I should enjoy myself in time when I am alive, and I don't care about the flood after I die!"

Of course, it's not so exaggerated in reality, it's just a more figurative statement. But there are indeed very few people who will pay for the world after their death.

Everyone knows that plastic bags are bad, but everyone is using them, which is actually the same reason.

If plastic bags can poison people to death tomorrow, then absolutely no one will use them. However, the pollution caused by them may take hundreds or thousands of years to affect humans, so everyone is using them.

"This is the limitation caused by short-sightedness."

"According to the discussion just now, we can continue to reason and come to the conclusion that everyone knows that scientific development is good and everyone knows its importance."

"But if we sacrifice immediate interests to pursue illusory future interests, many people are unwilling to do so."

"It's just like investing. Projects that can recover costs in a few months or years are visible, so people are willing to invest, even if they pay a certain risk of losing the principal..."

"If the benefits can only be realized after decades or even after death, even if there is no risk, few people will do it. People will only get benefits after they die, what does it have to do with me?"

"If a project requires the efforts of several or dozens of generations, then... hehe..." Yu Yifeng smiled and didn't say anything.

According to this statement, when the difficulty of scientific and technological development becomes greater and greater, the speed of research and development becomes slower and slower, and the benefits are realized later and later, people's investment in science and technology becomes less and less. Because people are unwilling to do this. The investment made during life is realized after death. Who will it be realized?

If it is realized to direct descendants, it seems understandable. But to realize it to the entire civilization... It sounds very strange, just like doing charity, and it is after death.

Then... the less money is invested, the slower the speed of research and development, forming a vicious circle.

Even the number of scientific and technological personnel involved will become fewer and fewer. No one is willing to do things that cannot produce results, which forms another vicious circle. After all, science still depends on genius to promote...

"So, it is too easy to satisfy just relying on survival and reproduction, so the vision is too short-sighted..."

A social problem caused by the problem of genetic philosophy has arisen in this way, forming a huge civilization trap! Almost all low-level civilizations are suppressed by it!

In fact, their discussion is only a small part of the broad social problem. If we really want to explain it in detail, it will take three days and three nights to finish, and it can be a thick book.

But from this small point, we can already feel the enormity and complexity of this social problem...

It is extremely difficult to solve it.

At the end, Yu Yifeng sighed: "Are you willing to work like a cow and a horse for your whole life, not spend a penny in your life, and then be determined in your goals, tired to death all day long, in exchange for endless wealth and glory for your descendants after your death?"

"Nuclear fusion engineering is even more terrifying. It requires ten or even twenty generations of tireless efforts! And it does not require one person, but the entire civilization! If any generation gives up, it will fail..."

There are billions of people in the Nix civilization, with different qualities, everyone has different ideas, and there are even disputes between countries.

So, how can the thoughts of the entire civilization be unified?

How to achieve this goal?

How to gather global power?

"It's really the so-called... big filter!"

"Almost no solution!" Yu Yifeng said, touching his forehead. He felt like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

At this time, he seemed to see most of the civilizations in the universe being caught, and even had a strange pleasure of gloating...