Chapter 421 Can I Live Forever?

The light ball was moving slowly, curiously looking at the things in the room. Perhaps these "old-fashioned mechanical products" aroused its past memories.

However, it did not leave the room, and seemed very polite.

Yu Yifeng whispered to everyone: "...If the other party's energy is limited, you must hurry up. Any piece of information can save us a lot of detours. If you have any questions, you can think about your own questions in turn..."

At this time, many scientists began to go crazy. It was not easy to encounter a civilization that was much more powerful, and this civilization expressed some goodwill to humans. Naturally, people did not want to miss this opportunity.

"...I'm sorry that we can't provide you with our technology for the time being. Because our cognition is also limited and has limitations. Moreover, the butterfly effect brought by providing knowledge is really too huge."

The light ball did not mind too much: "...If it weren't for this tachyon communicator, we would not even interfere with the development process of any low-level interstellar civilization."

Hearing this, the scientists were a little dejected.

That being continued to answer: "Similar to the inheritance of that low-level civilization, it is also difficult for us to predict whether this conversation will be good or bad for you under the influence of the long flow of time..."

"In the process of civilization development, the butterfly effect caused by the long flow of time is more complicated than genes. We are afraid that providing more knowledge will benefit you now, but will hinder ourselves or other civilizations in the future..."

"It is difficult to predict your individual civilization... The hindering effect on other civilizations is even more difficult to predict."

"... In the infinite time, there may be civilizations that could have been ahead of us, but were destroyed by this conversation invisibly... If this is really the case, we really regret it."

The other party was unwilling to teach knowledge for such a reason... Many people sighed.

And humans did not dare to swear that after obtaining more advanced knowledge, they would no longer interfere with the development of other civilizations from now on.

After all, the new human civilization still has to live in the material world. If it continues to explore the galaxy, it will inevitably intersect with the surrounding civilizations... Activities such as war are possible.

That being finally said: "So, at this stage, we generally implement a non-interference policy for civilizations that still have potential. As for this time... when the energy of the tachyon communicator is exhausted, it will be the end of our conversation..."

Some people thought silently, and they were trying to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of this paragraph.

Yu Yifeng instantly thought of several diametrically opposed views.

The first one is that the light group does not have too many reasons to deceive humans, and it is telling the truth.

The Seeder civilization must be an extremely, extremely powerful existence, and it is even possible to reach the end of science and start climbing the path of philosophy...

There are only a handful of civilizations that can develop to this level in the entire universe, and they need to go through extremely harsh and strict screening.

Such a civilization is not something that humans can easily guess.

And this conversation was just an accident, another "coincidence", which is a rare good luck for humans!

"If you miss this opportunity, there may not be a next time."

Second, the Seeder civilization is the main manipulator behind the scenes.

It came to deceive humans for some reason.

Or...such deception itself is part of the manipulation.

As for the purpose, humans certainly can't guess it...

Third, there may be other equally powerful or more powerful civilizations manipulating humans.

Because he noticed one of the sentences, which is... "For civilizations that still have potential, they generally don't interfere."

The Seeder civilization has such a policy that is inclined to peace, yes, but what about other advanced civilizations?

"It is impossible for all advanced civilizations to have the same policy. Maybe some civilizations like to push others?"

And... if a civilization has no potential and is in a state of stagnation, will it be interfered by advanced civilizations?

"There is such a probability."

It is even possible that a more advanced and more powerful civilization... has also manipulated the "seeder"? !

So, what is this more powerful existence?

Yu Yifeng frowned and pondered.

"Hey, there is too little data, and there is no way to analyze right and wrong. Just assume that it is telling the truth. Such an existence is already unimaginable, and the probability of deceiving us is not high."

He gave up thinking about this aspect with some distress.

And according to the calculations of scientists, the light blue ball of light has shrunk a little.

Since scientific questions cannot be asked, then, let's seize the time and ask some philosophical questions or cosmic information... I wonder if it will answer.

"Are you... immortal?" a scientist asked curiously.

"No." Hearing this question, a slightly smiling voice came to my mind: "From your perspective, we are indeed immortal and can exist for a very long time."

"But from an infinite perspective, even the universe will eventually be destroyed, we are not immortal. Moreover, we don't pursue immortality."

"Of course, this is the answer we have got so far, and different civilizations have different answers."

"Why?" The scientist was very puzzled.

"What do you think eternal life is? Is it material that cannot be lost, or information that cannot be lost?" Faced with such a philosophical question, it seemed to pick up the point of interest of the light group, making it slightly brighter.

"It should be...information." The scientist replied.

Memory and information should be almost equivalent. The cells of the human body are being replaced all the time. There is metabolism and material replacement all the time. For the human body, there seems to be no material that cannot be lost.

The ball of light smiled and said: "The condition of never discarding information means that intelligent life can never forget certain important things. Eventually, as time goes by, an intelligent life that cannot discard important memories will discover its own There are more and more memories, right?”

The scientist opened his mouth: "Yes. In infinite time, there may be an infinite amount of important information..."

This being said: "In this case, if the processing speed of life cannot be increased infinitely, it will not be able to handle more and more memories, and will live in the huge memories of the past over and over again."

"The so-called 'eternity' will only become a prison, rather than making the realm of creation and exploration endlessly wider and wider. It may also be nirvana, it may become infinite, but is it still life?"

The scientist was suddenly speechless.

This passage was very awkward, but people still understood it after chewing it carefully.

Even the universe is not infinite, and the information processing speed of life must be limited. If this is really the case, infinite life will only cause a living body to be troubled by its endless memories, which is more terrifying than death.

As time goes by, eternal life will only live in one's own memory?

"Perhaps we can solve this problem by continuously discarding information." People asked reluctantly.

"After discarding the information, that period of existence has been completely forgotten. For an individual life, what is the meaning of whether it happened or not?"

"After constantly discarding information, the old life has gradually died and a new life has been born, right? This cannot be said to be eternal life."

The light ball flickered slightly: "For us, all this is caused by the void space. We are just biological organizations constructed of basic particles. We will eventually accompany the universe and move towards nothingness... Of course, this is only our answer. Philosophical questions have no final answers.”

This passage is relatively easy to understand, but the answer is not beautiful, but seems a bit cold.

Even such a being thinks that it will eventually perish, leaving the people here at a loss.

People will die and civilization will be destroyed. Only the God of Death is the ultimate existence.

What's the point of it all?

Yu Yifeng stepped forward and asked: "I don't understand, we are still afraid of death. Every move we make is aimed at the direction with a higher probability of survival. Isn't the pursuit of existence our ultimate goal?"

The ball of light said somewhat seriously: "This is because your thinking is essentially regulated by genetic philosophy. You want to survive and continue. This is the goal of genetic material."

"But we believe that intelligent life is a thing produced by the universe that knows itself. When intelligent life truly realizes the nature of the universe, the mission of intelligent life is over. It will either live forever or perish."

"Cognition of the universe is the purpose of our existence. Existence only serves the purpose of cognition."

"But if we truly understand everything about the universe, it would be such a boring thing. There is no surprise, nothing new. If we replace the entire universe, we should choose to perish... If we continue to live, this kind of The fate of being extraordinary and endless is too miserable. We don’t want to become extraordinary.”

People were surprised, yes, everyone could understand every word Guangtuan said.

But being able to understand does not mean recognition, nor does it mean being able to truly understand.

The most difficult thing for a person to deceive is his or her own heart. You understand it and may even be convinced, but you have no way to do it yourself.

"A race... that exists only for the purpose of cognition..."

Facing such civilization, everyone feels a deep sense of confusion.

The person is still a slave of genes, but the other person is not. It is very likely that the other person has passed the next time, the next time, or even all the screenings.

"A... discussion between a slave and an emperor."

The genetic philosophy network of survival and reproduction is as ridiculous as air to such a super civilization.

"Compared to such an existence, alas..."

After thinking for a long time, Yu Yifeng shook his head and gave up the entanglement on this issue. He mustered up the courage to ask a very important piece of information for human beings: "Are we the product of natural evolution, or are we artificially created?"

This question involves whether there is a manipulator behind human beings.

Everyone's ears pricked up and they were slightly nervous.

"Of course it evolved naturally."

It paused for a few seconds, as if observing something, and then replied in another tone: "But there seems to be something wrong with your appearance..."

"It seems that some little guy has done genetic experiments in this star field...so that all the intelligent life that appeared in that time period a million years ago was assimilated into a similar look. Hmm...interesting experiment."

The words spoken by this existence made Yu Yifeng's heart shudder.

Almost everyone was stunned, and their hearts were cold and numb.

"Has a civilization conducted genetic experiments in this area?" This sentence made people feel uncomfortable and... angry.

At the same time, the other meaning contained in it also made Yu Yifeng start to think.

Humans are the product of natural evolution. This has been reconfirmed, which made almost everyone feel relieved. In this era, no one likes to be "created by God".

"But some genes related to appearance have been slightly modified?!"

Yu Yifeng had to have this weird question.

Because the Dig people he had seen before looked more like humans, and the time when they evolved wisdom was similar to that of humans.

"The indigenous lizards have only evolved wisdom in the past 100,000 years, so they don't look like humans?"

"In other words, some inexplicable, brain-sick advanced civilization, because of their personal preferences, drastically modified the appearance of primitive intelligent creatures a million years ago? What is this, performance art?"

This behavior made him feel a strong and helpless anger.

But he had to think hard, if humans didn't look like this originally, what would they be...

Gorilla? Orangutan? Monkey man?

"Indeed, some of the evolutionary directions of humans are a bit weird...Why do we have to lose all the cold-proof hair on our bodies? In fact, there are pros and cons..."

The Dig people should have been...fishmen covered with scales, crocodiles with bloody mouths, or sharks?

As a result, they evolved into this?

This...what kind of technology is it? ! Yu Yifeng felt a burst of fear and trembled, and clenched his fists tightly.

"Looking at it this way, it seems to be more pleasing to the eye after being modified?!"

Alas, these advanced civilizations, how to say, are simply...

Seeing the people who were in deep thought with different expressions, this existence said with a hint of sarcasm: "For these superficial things, look more thoroughly, little guys, your core has not been modified. Is there much difference between being beautiful or ugly in the pursuit of wisdom? All kinds of views are just the result of genes for reproduction needs."

Yu Yifeng couldn't help asking: "If you encounter a civilization that looks the same as you, what should you do? What kind of mentality will you have?"

The existence said without any pause "...For us, there is no trouble at all. We have completely gotten rid of the shackles of genes. Appearance characteristics are not within our consideration. We believe that as long as the thinking pattern is similar to ours, they can join us and become one of us."

"Even if the genes are different?"

"Yes... Why should we be obsessed with such superficial things? It's just genetic material..." The light ball smiled and said: "We ourselves are a civilization composed of different species... Oh, that was more than 10 million years ago."

After hearing this, although people felt deeply puzzled, they soon calmed down, perhaps... they were a little numb.

For such an existence, everything has been taken lightly, lightly equipped, and thrown away everything on the surface. This is the greatest freedom in the universe.

Yu Yifeng suddenly thought of the speculation about a top civilization in cosmic sociology:

"...that is, the omniscient transcendent."

"This civilization has experienced many hardships and has almost understood the laws and rules of all things, from the most macroscopic to the most microscopic, from the space larger than the multiverse to the space smaller than the Planck scale. They have understood the most fundamental problems of the operation of the entire material world and are infinitely close to the outside truth."

"Is there an end to the macroscopic level? Is there an end to the microscopic level? What is the essence of time and space? What is the starting point of everything? Where will it go? Is the world real? Existence or consciousness existence?"

"They have found the answers to these ultimate questions that seem almost crazy to humans."

"They don't need society, morality, or anything that seems irrelevant to the truth."

"...Only such low-probability things can attract their appearance because of a unique pleasure. Perhaps in the future, we will never be able to contact this kind of civilization again. No matter how powerful the interstellar civilization is, to them, they are just a group of idiots because of their inherent immaturity."

At this moment, Yu Yifeng truly felt that the philosophical level of human beings is actually no different from that of low-level civilizations.

It's just that the technology is more advanced, so what greatness can be said about it.

Does it mean that you are greater than me because you are more powerful than me?

You are greater than me because your technology is higher and your industry is stronger?

Of course not...

It is difficult to express such subtle emotions. He quietly calmed down, thinking, thinking...

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