Chapter 431 Second Screening

Around this point, everyone was full of curiosity and worry, and two extremely contradictory emotions appeared in people's minds.

On the one hand, it was extremely good, and on the other hand, it was extremely bad!

This feeling is a bit like primitive people talking about various modern medicines. They don't know their principles and can only guess blindly. People can't tell whether Perfectin is a "stimulant" or a real "tonic", and they don't know whether they will kill themselves after large-scale use...

In a quarter of an hour, the scientists present discussed many different results. These results made Yu Yifeng in a dilemma and kept wavering...

First, genetic screening is certainly not a good thing!

This is a conjecture with the greatest malice.

Just like the genetic modification broadcast of a certain advanced civilization, Perfection is just a biological experiment. If it is screened generation after generation, humans may be screened into other civilizations...

"Yes, the human species has changed like this!"

"Genetic modification broadcast only changes your appearance. But Perfection may change the entire race! What changes is your next generation and the next generation... Intelligence and longevity are just a cover to lure you to use it!"

"It's impossible. No matter how much human genetic material is screened, it is still human genes! It is impossible to become another species! Our experimental examples did not find changes at the gene level and chromosome level... There are still 46 chromosomes, which is absolutely correct!"

"And... Superhumans and ordinary humans have no reproductive isolation!"

"No! It's not safe! Our understanding of the gene level is still shallow, and you can't guarantee what will happen in a few generations..."

Several experts expressed their opinions, and no one could convince anyone, and the atmosphere in the venue became tense.

In short, this change looks good, but in fact, its disadvantages may not appear until dozens of generations later.

"After dozens of generations, humans have become another civilization, or become beasts without wisdom and eating raw meat and drinking blood?"

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 a biggest problem: if you want to change one species into another, why do you have to go through so much trouble?

Is there any benefit to be gained?

It is really unfounded to just attribute it to "experiment".

The second statement, gene screening, is of course a good thing!

This conjecture does not mention the messy conspiracy theory, but believes that: Perfection itself is a super civilization used to transform itself, and somehow it was spread out, and then became an expensive trading item between interstellar civilizations.

Just the life span bonus, your own intelligence, plus the intelligence of your offspring, these two points are enough!

Why is Perfection an important and expensive trading target? That is because it is something that has been passed down from advanced civilizations, and it also has a certain use value...

"Among star civilizations, there are many ancient civilizations that have existed for millions of years. If there are any side effects of perfectionism, they would have known it long ago! Maybe someday, we can find a friendlier interstellar civilization to consult. Alas, why is the sower civilization unwilling to tell us..."

"Okay, okay, don't blame the sower..."

The second statement is extremely beneficial to humans, because humans have a lot of perfectionism.

Compared with the first one, it is simply going to two opposite extremes.

Psychologically, people prefer the second statement.

Of course, there is a third conjecture that perfectionism is related to "intellectual barriers", so 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 difficult to improve the intelligence of civilized individuals...

"Humans 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 abilities, but it is a pipe dream to want to improve abstract thinking ability on a large scale... At least our technology is far from enough!"

"Unless we can fully understand the operating mechanism of the brain."

"This difficulty may not only be for us, but also for other civilizations whose racial values ​​are not high. If a civilization encounters its own intelligence ceiling after long-term development and cannot improve its intelligence, then what should they do?"

"How should they overcome it?"

"Perhaps... we should ask ourselves, how should we overcome the intelligence ceiling?" A scientist raised such a question.

Intelligence certainly has a ceiling. The average intelligence of humans is only 100, and there are many things that cannot be understood.

Good education and long-term and 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.

With an IQ of 120, one can handle regular courses like mathematical analysis and advanced algebra. However, when encountering subjects like topology, abstract algebra, partial differentials, etc., they become quite difficult and require very long thinking.

With the in-depth development of various technologies, simple things have been almost explored, and the difficulty of expansion has risen sharply, and it has become increasingly dependent on geniuses.

In the Newton era, the top mathematics was calculus, and the top physics was Newton's three laws of motion. For these courses, ordinary people can barely pass through learning, and their intelligence is just enough.

What about now? Any cutting-edge mathematics is no longer understandable to 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 science and technology is slowing down...

One day, when even geniuses find it difficult to understand higher-level science, this civilization will touch its intellectual ceiling.

"How to solve it?"

"When even geniuses can't do it!"

People feel deeply confused.

Screening again and again is not set by a supreme being, but a natural law.

This barrier, which originates from physiology, is more difficult to solve than the first big filter caused by "nuclear fusion".

Silence, silence.

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. Rambo jumped up, his face was ferocious, and he spit out a string of horrifying words: "If you want to break through this ceiling, the first way is of course genetic screening! Directly deprive mediocre people of their reproductive rights, and only smart people can give birth..."

"Through artificial screening, let our descendants be smarter than the previous generation!"

"This is the way to pass the intellectual barrier!"

Hearing his every word, everyone took a breath of cold air.

This sensational anti-human method was quickly refuted by a large number of biologists: "Dr. Rambo, you are wrong. Intelligence is not something that can be determined by one or two genes... Maybe a combination of mediocre people can also give birth to smart children.

"Moreover, for highly developed interstellar civilizations... This method will immediately cause social unrest... Although we don't know the social system of other interstellar civilizations, fertility screening greatly violates the genetic philosophy of "survival and reproduction", and it is very difficult to do. "

Rambo shook his head: "What you said is indeed correct, but this method is the best choice under the all-round intellectual barrier... You can't deny that it is wrong! The offspring of smart people are indeed smarter on average. This is a statistical law. "

"Relying on the self-evolutionary ability of life, through artificial selection, each generation is smarter than the previous one... It may take tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to break through this bottleneck. "

"Besides this, are there any better methods?"

The expert was speechless and silent.

Technology is not good, use the power of nature.

If the civilization that really uses this solution... how cruel and powerful is it?!

Yu Yifeng felt that his heart was tightly grasped by a big hand. This method can be understood, but it is unacceptable...

But in the vast universe and the bright starry sky, there is a high probability that such a cruel and crazy civilization exists. In order to progress, they abandoned low-energy individuals and adopted the method of a small number of people giving birth...

If humans encounter this cruel bottleneck, what should they do?

Should we also adopt this solution?

Dr. Rambo's face was ashen, and he continued: "The second method I thought of is, of course, to use advanced civilization creations such as Perfect Element. It is difficult for a civilization like ours, with such a social system, to make up our minds to adopt the first method, alas..."

"Perhaps, there is an advanced civilization that provides us with the second option."

"So the perfect element will be even more expensive... It is not impossible that it will even cause a war."