The Secret History of Mars.

Chapter 23 Martian Ivory Tower

Bao Xi and Elder Yan watched off, and Ye Qinghe led Cui Xingmeng and Yuan Yizhou to the second floor of the Xuanhu Pagoda.The two began to discuss their views on Yuan Yizhou.

"He is indeed different from Ying Zheng," Elder Bao Xi said first, "Ying Zheng had a certain answer to every question back then, and even held debates in order to convince others."

"Yes, Yuan Yizhou's eyes don't have that kind of sharpness," Elder Yan nodded, "His self-confidence is modest and prudent, and he explores and fears the unknown."

"Cui Xingmeng is not just his lover," Bao Xi continued to analyze, "I think he has regarded her as his belief."

"I also feel the same way. His appreciation for Cui Xingmeng may be more than his love for her." Elder Yan responded, "This actually brings a risk."

"What risk?"

"Since he thinks that Cui Xingmeng is his common life, if one day Cui Xingmeng is gone, will he still have common people in his heart?" Elder Yan seemed to be asking, but also seemed to be stating.

"This is indeed an unknown quantity." Bao Xi nodded in agreement.

"However, since you agree with Qinghe to take them upstairs, it means that you have acquiesced to Elder Cang Xi's words. No matter whether the compassion in his heart is for her or for the common people, we have to try again."

"To be more precise, we have no choice, he is our last hope." Elder Bao Xi said sadly, "There are still 135 years left in the countdown, and we can't wait for the earth seeds of the next life to come here. "

Cui Xingmeng and Yuan Yizhou followed Ye Qinghe, along the spiral staircase on the side of Jishi Hall, to the second floor of the Xuanhu Pagoda, and there were rows of bookshelves towering above the sky, but the bookshelves were not filled with books, but Densely packed hard drive-sized, glowing boxes.

"This is the intelligence library of Mars," Ye Qinghe explained, "it stores all the information of Martian civilization since it was recorded."

"What do the different colors mean?" Cui Xingmeng carefully discovered that the light emitted by the box here is similar to the color of the progress bar on the circular floating screen downstairs, and it is mainly white, yellow and purple.

"Different colors represent different intelligence levels," Ye Qinghe explained, "to match different biological carriers."

Seeing that Cui Xingmeng was still thinking, Ye Qinghe picked up a white smart memory on the next shelf, and gave her an example, saying, "White is the most basic information, corresponding to the ultimate intelligence, which is suitable for brain neurons. Connected, less than 10% of biological carriers, such as human cloning, have a self-learning ability similar to artificial intelligence."

"This is the situation of the No. 285 receptionist in the Seed Hotel, what do you mean by bio-cloning AI?" Yuan Yizhou asked.

"That's right, he is the product of white's final intelligence loaded into the cloned body. It can reliably and perfectly complete standard operation tasks, but it is incapable of handling slightly complicated character interactions." Ye Qinghe affirmed, "In In the early matrilineal society of the Shiyi period, most of the human beings were at this level of intelligence."

"But group interaction in a matrilineal society is not simple." Yuan Yizhou recalled that the receptionist ignored Cui Xingmeng's complaints during breakfast, and felt that something was missing. "Humans at that time did not have task standards to perform. .”

"I'm just saying that the intelligence level of human beings at that time was similar to that of the receptionist in the seed hotel, not that the carrier was also the same." Ye Qinghe clarified, "The people on Earth at that time were natural bodies, except for the initial genetic compilation, In addition to adding the seed information of the Martians, it is completely in a state of spontaneous evolution, and this evolution is the self-learning ability that the elders of the Pioneering School value most. This is not available in cloned AI, not only cloned AI, but also the entire Martian civilization. They all lost this ability." Ye Qinghe said sadly.

"The entire Martian civilization has lost the ability to evolve?!" Cui Xingmeng sighed.

"Because you chose asexual reproduction, which is easier to control and more reliable, and abandoned sexual reproduction, which is highly uncertain and expensive." Yuan Yizhou explained, "You want to choose your own destiny instead of nature, It also loses the evolutionary ability that nature gives life."

Ye Qinghe was noncommittal to Yuan Yizhou's statement, "Let the civilization of Mars regain the ability of natural evolution, which is the ultimate goal of the Earth experiment, and it is also the main reason why you two will be censored by the elders' house." Memory, put back on the shelf.

"What level of wisdom do yellow and purple represent?" Cui Xingmeng continued to ask.

"Yellow is intermediate intelligence, which can match brain neuron connections. It is the most widely used type of carrier at 10% to 90% at present," Ye Qinghe said. "There are many types of carriers in this range. The current natural body of people on earth , has also reached the entry level of connecting to this level of wisdom."

"There are many types of carriers? How do you say it?" Yuan Yizhou asked.

"You can see it when you go upstairs. To put it simply, it is a combination of various biotechnologies. For example, my seed recruiter Jia Liang is a combination of intermediate intelligence with a certain level of confidentiality loaded into the natural body." Ye Qinghe For example, "Shui Zaitian, the seed custodian of Xingmeng, is the mid-level intelligence carried by clones after genetic coding and silicification; and my own carrier is the natural body after genetic coding."

"What a chaotic human race... Oh, no, the carrier." Cui Xingmeng said, "Why do you make yourself so complicated?"

"You think we want to do this," Ye Qinghe smiled wryly, "In those centuries, as the atmosphere of Mars was gradually peeled off and the radiation on the surface became stronger and stronger, our genetic engineering was no longer satisfied with simple tinkering. Instead, we started to recompile. In Yizhou’s words, the Martians themselves played the role of the gods of their own lives. And the first magic we got was the greatly improved genetic coding technology.”

"But no matter how you reprogram your genes, carbon-based life is vulnerable to radiation. As the Martians gradually mastered nuclear energy, siliconization occupied the history of Mars technology development for the next few centuries. This is our The second piece of magic, the nuclear-inspired transformation of the silicon base, frees us from radiation altogether."

"Before we had time to celebrate the birth of our own species, we discovered that frequent genetic modification and silicon-based transformation to resist radiation have completely destroyed the fertility of Martians. From the very beginning, newborns The deformity rate increased, and finally the birth rate plummeted, so we had to accept the third magic in Pandora's box, cloning to maintain the continuation of the species."

"But human clones have only one body and no intelligence. It is impossible for us to deliver our civilization to such artificial people. So there is the fourth magic, the popularity of human-computer interconnection. This technology completely subverts The social structure of the Martians has been destroyed, and the birth rate has been reduced to zero, so we have to artificially reduce the death rate to zero."

"The death rate is artificially zero, you mean Martians have achieved immortality?" Cui Xingmeng asked.

(End of this chapter)