Age of the Mist

Chapter 1177 Debating Life, On Genes

Shi Tiexin and Chu Feihong looked at each other.

Now he is asking for something.

But after a second of contemplation, he made a decision and said seriously, "I don't think so."

Chu Feihong was neither happy nor angry, unable to see through his thoughts: "You mean biodiversity?"

"I'm not arrogant enough to talk about creatures in front of you." Shi Tiexin said firmly, "I don't think so, because what looks powerful may not be really strong."

This is a famous quote from a sage from the Tianbei.

Chu Feihong narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand: "I would like to hear more about it."

"Okay." Shi Tiexin took a breath, sorted out his thoughts, and said eloquently, "modulated genes, customized babies, and innate endowments, all of which look beautiful."

"But there is an extremely critical issue that is easily overlooked—the imbalance between endowment and motivation."

"All the advantages of gene modulation are endowments, that is, external hard conditions, and those factors are indeed great. But motivation, that is, the internal factors that drive a person to develop behaviors and make choices, has been greatly weakened gone."

"Among the six fundamental minds set by the sage, the two most important are mathematics and rhetoric. Mathematics pays attention to 'understanding', while rhetoric pays attention to 'feeling'. Mathematics derives natural science, and rhetoric derives social science."

"Natural science is so wonderful and great that it has brought mythical social development and material enjoyment, so many people pay more attention to natural science, understanding, and rationality."

"However, it is correct to use rationality to explore the laws of nature. But it is a big mistake to use rationality to plan the future of society."

"Natural science cannot take the place of others and take charge of social science."

"For example, the problem of customizing babies by means of gene modulation."

"Rationally speaking, the higher the efficiency, the better. Then we should use people as cells, set up a social division of labor, and subdivide and specialize as much as possible to maximize efficiency."

"Children born in this way are born with a predetermined mission. You are in charge of engineering, I am in charge of medical treatment, and he is in charge of combat. Only when some are strengthened, and most of them maintain low energy levels, low energy consumption, and low entropy increase, can resources not be wasted at all."

"But the key question is, do such children still have the intrinsic motivation to undertake the mission?"

Chu Feihong asked: "You mean, personal wishes?"

"That's right." Shi Tiexin said eloquently, "For the sake of explanation, I'll assume some scenarios."

"Suppose you are a prince of the imperial dynasty, without natural supernatural abilities, but the emperor loves you, the queen mother loves you, the princes and brothers love you with all sincerity, the princesses and sisters love you and love you, and there are strict but kind Taifu, the beautiful and strong princess. Now that the mountains and rivers are broken, and the enemy is around, the enemy wants to plunder the country, kill your father, brother, and rape your wife and sister, what will you do?"

Chu Feihong said calmly: "I will create a gene-targeted weapon. A flu can wipe out all the enemies."

Shi Tiexin slapped his hands: "That's right, it must be fighting with those bastards."

"If you can't fight, you will explode the seeds. If you can't explode the seeds, you will open it. If you can't open it, you will die in battle. Even if you die, you will have to bite off two pieces of the enemy's flesh."

"That's the effect of a strong motivation."

Chu Feihong nodded slightly: "It's interesting, you can continue."

Shi Tiexin said: "Okay, let me change the situation. Suppose, you are a concocted child of a certain family, your genes are very powerfully concocted, and you are born with a sacred body, blood fairy bone and marrow."

"But everything has a price. In order to obtain these talents, the family has invested heavily in you, so the expectation for the rate of return is also very high."

"You have plenty of physical strength and solid bones. The training intensity of ordinary people is nothing to you, but they will plan courses according to your upper limit and keep adding more."

"Seeing a doctor when you are sick and using electricity when you are tired are all for one purpose, which is to bring enough income to make this investment more cost-effective."

"You have been continuously trained and brainwashed since you can remember, and you have been engraved with the ideological stamp of loyalty to the family. There is no interpersonal communication, and there is no broadening of knowledge and horizons, because the family built you for a handy tool. Kill the Quartet."

"One day, you were sent to the arena of the inter-clan competition to give full play to your strengths."

"But you find similar families everywhere, sons of modulation everywhere."

"The sons of concoction are fighting, tearing apart the holy body, draining the hegemony's blood, shattering the bones, and pulling out the marrow."

"The elders of the family watch the battle from the audience, the weather is uncertain, and they are angry and laugh. Anger, it's not because you feel hurt, but because you lost and caused losses. Laughing, it's not because you rose up, but because you reached a private agreement with other families. Got the deal and stopped the loss.”

"You fell in a pool of blood, like a scrapped toy."

"Fortunately, you suddenly awakened the memory of your previous life, knowing that you are a reincarnated traveler."

"The family brought you back, but you who have already defeated you don't have the value of continuing to invest. You and several identical concoction sons were thrown together to evaluate which organs should be removed in order to piece together a complete concoction. "

"The anatomy doctor's knife is gesticulating on your body, ready to cut, what will you do at this time?"

Chu Feihong smiled: "I will still make gene-targeted weapons, and it will still be a flu, destroying all kinds of enemies."

Shi Tiexin spread his hands: "Look, this is the evil result of unbalanced motivation. Without the watering of love, without the closeness of the heart, why fight for some people and fight for life?"

Chu Feihong's face was calm: "You have to know that the adjuster will not be a time traveler."

Shi Tiexin confronted each other: "You have to know that Spartacus is not a time traveler."

Chu Feihong: "You have to know that I can suppress emotional fluctuations to an extremely low level by adjusting genes."

Shi Tiexin: "You have to know, I can build a few robots that don't have emotional fluctuations at all, and the cost is very low."

Chu Feihong shook her index finger: "Your example is too extreme. Parents who adjust people can also infuse emotions."

Shi Tiexin also shook his index finger: "It's not that simple. The act of modulation itself is utilitarian and purposeful."

"No matter how good the talent of the adjustment person is, it will inevitably be a business."

"When there is more business, there will be less favor."

Chu Feihong nodded: "Okay, what you said makes sense, so complete genetic adjustment is forbidden."

Shi Tiexin shook his head: "Dean Chu, to put it bluntly, not only adjust people, but also babies who choose traits now will face the same problem."

"If ordinary children don't behave as their parents think, when they quarrel, their parents will say--baby boy, follow your father to death! Although the tone is complaining, there is a bond of blood after all."

"Listen, the child knows that he has been scolded, but he also has a feeling of 'oh, so I follow my father more', which is dependent and warm."

"But if the selected child does not perform well, the parents will be more resentful and regretful about how carefully and entangled they were in the selection before. When quarreling, they will say: Oh, I regret it, I knew which one I chose at the time."

"What does it feel like for a child to hear it?"

"There is no family affection, only coldness, the coldness that goes deep into the bone marrow."

"Isn't such a child pathetic, isn't he pitiful?"

"When they grow up, will they really contribute to society and be filial to their parents?"

"I'm afraid that things will backfire instead, leading to many tragedies."

"Let's say one more thing, don't talk about selective traits, it's the same for surrogacy in ancient times."

"Rich people find a woman to be a surrogate either to avoid pain or to maintain their figure. They are pregnant in October and give birth in the morning, but again, this is a business."

"When there is more business, there will be less favor."

"Children are the crystallization of love. They are the surprises given to couples by God, and they are also the condensation of destiny. This surprise does not come out of thin air, nor does the love between father and son and mother and child come out of thin air, but the expectation and patience of each day. , every day's concern, every day's call, all gathered together."

"Except for people with congenital diseases and those who are unable to conceive by themselves, the only reason to find a surrogate is that they don't want to bear the discomfort of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth. In fact, it reduces their own efforts and weakens their responsibilities."

"The less you pay, the more trouble you will save. But saving trouble is not necessarily a good thing."

"In ancient times, the emperor had countless children, but he didn't need to bother to raise them himself. When he was hungry, he had a nanny, and when he was sick, he had an imperial doctor. It was so worry-free and trouble-free if he didn't pay attention, cared or accompanied him. But it was precisely because of this that Wuqing was the emperor's family."

"Now that workers are working remotely, children are left behind and thrown to the elderly, and they make a phone call to send some money to fulfill the responsibility of raising them. It is so troublesome in comparison. But it is also because of this that left-behind problems occur frequently."

"Choices and adjustments are all for peace of mind, but you don't know that worrying itself is the only way to temper your emotions."

"It's easy for a baby who can change diapers and make milk powder by himself, but on the other hand, parents and babies don't need each other and don't depend on each other. How can we establish an emotional link?"

"Without emotion, there will be less empowerment of the soul."

"If the motivation is out of balance, there will be endless troubles."

Chu Feihong raised her chin and narrowed her eyes: "If according to what you said, why does the current society allow trait screening?"

Shi Tiexin's expression was confident and forceful: "Because trait screening can indeed prevent many congenital diseases. After the popularity of humanitarianism, inferior genes cannot be naturally screened out, and every gene can continue to be passed on. This is not a good thing in itself. Shape screening , being able to replace natural selection with artificial selection and re-promote gene washing out is also considered a great achievement."

"But it's not the deciding factor."

"What really makes this society tolerant of trait selection is that our world has an evolutionary path."

"This path expands the extension of life, balances the weight of root and heart, and also screens out the real defective products."

"The trait discrimination you are worried about will not really become a trend, because traits are not the main reason for determining superiority and inferiority."

"Cultivation is the decisive factor."

"Adjusting people, choosing people to be stronger and stronger than natural babies, but on the road of cultivation, it is not certain who is stronger and who is weaker."

"After all, before the threshold where the bells are ringing and the drums are shaking, genes can't use their strength."

　Although there are many members in Qidian Orphanage, none of them look like orphans.I think a real orphan must have different traces. These traces go deep into the bottom of thinking and form the logic of doing things and speaking.This chapter is about Shi Tiexin's emotions and opinions, not mine.My thoughts are similar and different, but I can't explain it clearly in a chapter.If you want to read it, I will post a single chapter as an exposition when I have time.For now, let's try our best to keep it updated.

　　
　
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