Son of the Stars

Chapter 52 Wenger Cheklavski
The coalition government’s definition of human beings is: “a creature born from the combination of two and only two human genetic factors through normal reproductive behavior or legal assisted reproductive methods.” Moreover, the coalition government strictly prohibits the creation of “humanoids”— That is, a "person" that does not fit the definition of a human being.

The ancient philosophical question of "what is a human being" has a serious legal definition under the coalition government system.

According to the specific provisions of this law, it is not difficult to see that the coalition government did not think "ah, we still need to define what is considered a human being".When they published this definition, they aimed at "people" born "by using illegal assisted reproductive methods and using less than or more than two genetic factors combined".

That is, cloned humans, gene-edited humans, and "assembled babies" of polygenetic parents.

In addition to "ethical" risks, the coalition government has also included genetic pollution in the scope of prevention - limiting the occurrence of these situations by defining "human beings" can greatly avoid problems in the entire human population from the genetic level .

As an organization deeply rooted in saving mankind and responding to the crisis of extinction, the coalition government suddenly used a one-size-fits-all approach to directly prohibit any type of human cloning, gene editing, or recombination research.Then among these projects, there must be some risky projects that are enough to cause the extinction of human beings.

Before the Great Crash, Mr. Wenger Cheklavsky’s main research fields were brain-computer interface and consciousness digitization.The mainstream social atmosphere at that time believed that the number of human beings on the earth was too large, and it had reached the point where the earth could not support it.

In order to avoid serious humanitarian tragedies caused by insufficient resources, brain-computer interface and consciousness data became very popular research projects at that time.After all, digitalization of consciousness is easier to accept than providing euthanasia to the poor. After uploading the consciousness of these people to the server, it is better to use sleeping chambers and nutritional medicines to maintain life, or directly "utilize" the body, it is better than making them poor And living with nothing to do is more efficient.

After five years of devastation by the Great Crash, human civilization has almost completely disintegrated.After losing 45 billion people, human beings don't need to worry much about the issue of "living space" in a short period of time.

But just after the crash, almost every survivor was in a state of panic.People at the time would not hesitate to use all the means they could think of to "prevent" a repeat of the Great Crash.

Among them, the group headed by Wenger Cheklavsky is the most radical. They advocate that human beings should completely abandon their fragile and sick bodies, and completely enter the virtual space to survive through the digitalization of consciousness.The maintenance of equipment can use robots that can carry human consciousness-this can completely avoid the recurrence of the big crash, and even directly bring immortality.

However, this suggestion was directly banned by the coalition government and the newly established academic committee.The reason why the academic committee prohibits this research is very direct and simple-the most powerful human computer cannot completely simulate all the neuron activities of the ordinary human brain.Whether the digital personality is a copy of the independent personality of a person, or an AI technology that uses certain characteristics of human beings as a sample... It is difficult to directly distinguish.

Moreover, this general plan of escapism does not conform to the aesthetic concept of these old people in the academic committee.Human beings have evolved to where they are today by fighting against and transforming nature.Now abandon the reality and go directly to the digital world, the risk is too uncontrollable.

As a result, Mr. Wenger Cheklavski's two main areas of research were made illegal.

Then, Wenger Cheklavsky and his team started working on cloning technology.Their purpose is to create clones without brains by inducing differentiation, and then extract organs from them for use by patients.There is no question of "humanitarianism" in the absence of a brain during the induced differentiation process.

When Lu Chen and others treated Estella, the "directed stem cell proliferation device" used was the result of Wenger's research in the field of cloning during this period.

Then...the Human Definition Act came along, and Wenger's research was once again completely abolished.
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"If it were me, then I would have to rebel." Lu Chen, who had finished listening to Yang Weimin's history class before dinner, suddenly realized, "This person is really strange, why does he like to choose such risky subjects to study? ?”

"There are many theories." Watanabe interjected, "We think from his profile and psychoanalysis that Wenger himself may have gone crazy during the collapse. It's just that his madness has moved towards a comparison. Strange ending - he chose religion."

"It makes sense." Director Li Xiaohui nodded, "Having suffered so many major blows in a row, he would attribute everything to a transcendent existence beyond human cognition. This situation is actually very common."

Watanabe shook his head and said, "We think that what drove him crazy was not the fact that his research content was banned twice. It was his experience of losing his wife, parents and three children in one day - six family members committed suicide on the same day , this situation is quite extreme even during the Great Crash.”

"Although there is no direct evidence, we believe that Wenger had already started to form his religious group before the collapse was fully under control. 'The collapse is God's will, and after death you can be reunited with your family in heaven'" The doctrine is what he made up." Watanabe bent down, picked up a bottle of Coke from the table and poured it into his mouth, "Hi...and...beh!"

Watanabe put down the Coca-Cola, hiccupped a few times before continuing, "We believe that Wenger consciously chose cloning as his research direction, especially in the later research. Wenger is very clear that this field His research will pose a serious threat to the entire human society, and his purpose is to make this threat come true."

"After his conspiracy was discovered, Wenger managed to escape under the cover of those crazy believers. We think he entered the Mediterranean region." Watanabe said, "But it is clear that this evil scientist did not just stay there. He really accepted his fate and was radiated to death. According to Estella, a few months ago...he also met Wenger. This old man who should be 76 years old has hardly changed from more than 30 years ago."

Yang Weimin suddenly asked, "You judge Estella is not human based on this?"

"The possibility is very high, and now we have to look at the results of the genetic comparison." Watanabe replied, "After all, I want to properly organize a village in the Mediterranean region, and at the same time bypass so many cleanups organized by the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau... ...This judgment is more reliable."

Mu Zhiran, who had just arrived at the restaurant and ordered himself a small octopus ball, asked curiously, "What judgment?"

"They think that Estella is a clone or a gene editor, and that the village chief Wenger Cheklavsky that Estella met is also a clone." Lu Chen explained, "It's just that Wenger It is not certain whether Cheklavsky is an ordinary clone, or whether he has been digitally uploaded and re-implanted."

(End of this chapter)