A leisurely life that begins with the possession of a game character

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"I think you are fooling people? You are telling people a story in a serious manner." Tian Qingyong couldn't help but complain as Zhang Lan's words became more and more outrageous.

Looking at Tian Qingyong who was listening to him seriously at the beginning, then gradually became confused, then looked doubtful, and finally complained, Zhang Lan laughed.

"Brother Yong, what are you thinking about? If you want to know if there are any strange people or inexplicable things in this world, there must be, but they must be impossible to replicate or very difficult to replicate." Zhang Lan said casually.

If the method of prolonging life was simply known or used by people, there would not be so many people pursuing it from ancient times to the present.

If facts are based on science, if a person wants to pursue immortality, the problem that needs to be solved in the short term is the economic foundation: where to get the money and manpower and material resources to invest.

Humans’ biological basis is so unsuitable for immortality that they don’t even have the ability to overcome the natural lifespan limit. If we want to study immortality-related issues through life sciences, we can only make slow and uncertain progress by continuously investing human and material resources.

The money to purchase these manpower and material resources cannot be expected to be earned by the organization that studies immortality while conducting research; other sources of income are needed.

In reality, there are indeed many people who are interested in extending life and immortality and are investing in related industries. Many large pharmaceutical companies also have their own financial resources and can allocate funds for related research. But if you want to see immortality achieved within your expected life span now, I am afraid these investments are far from enough.

Perhaps a more effective approach is to study computers and artificial intelligence in the hope that the technological singularity will solve all problems. This requires even greater investment, and no one can guarantee that super artificial intelligence can be created.

In reality, weak artificial intelligence has made great progress, but the road to strong artificial intelligence has not yet been paved. In short, some technological optimists believe that it will be possible to achieve technological singularity and thus human immortality in a few decades, while some pessimists worry that technological singularity will lead to the complete extinction of mankind.

What needs to be solved in the near future is the problem of means: how to remove the natural limit of human life span and withstand its impact on society and make continuous progress.

If we want to remove the lifespan limit to the same extent as the green hydra, humans may have enough technology to imitate them within a few decades. In the near future, people may obtain nanomachines that can automatically proliferate, remove pathogens, and repair cells and genomes after being simply injected into the human body, as well as artificial organs that perform various organ functions or expand new functions. Today's smartphones are artificial organs that are loosely connected to the human body and expand long-distance communication and information acquisition and search capabilities.

The above-mentioned machines should be able to be upgraded an unlimited number of times, and new components should be continuously applied. Various connectors and ports involved in body modification should be able to adapt to technological changes and be used for a long time.

When the time is right, the boundaries between people's biological parts and machines should be blurred, allowing people to manipulate their own mutations and perform evolution.

The proportion of deaths not caused by aging or disease, such as accidents and homicides, will not decrease simply because there is no natural limit to lifespan, because many tools, industrial machines, and weapons will become more dangerous and deadly as human technology advances.

Therefore, with this technology, there is no need to use policies to restrict fertility. Based on the insurance demand of not putting all eggs in one basket, humans will not transform everyone at once. There will be some people who voluntarily or involuntarily refuse to be transformed, in case this technology has unknown serious defects or is targeted by malicious nanomachines.

Compared with non-technological species that already exist on Earth and have no natural lifespan limit, humans have the advantage of being able to expand their living space to underground buildings, offshore buildings, other celestial bodies and space buildings. Concerns about environmental carrying capacity are more based on the energy crisis. Recent energy problems can be solved by technologies that can be imagined now, such as orbital solar power stations and reflector Dyson clouds, but they also require continued progress by humans.

In the long term, the physical problem to be solved is how to overcome the laws of physics and make humans immortal.

When a person aims to last forever, he must first consider that all low-probability events will occur over a long period of time.

For example: no matter what celestial body or space building people live on, they may be hit by a sudden gamma-ray burst, there may be a black hole or even a Q-ball rushing towards them, or there may be violent criminals who indiscriminately attack others.

There may be attacks from other technological civilizations, there may be random dangers brought by quantum tunneling and fluctuations, human civilization may fall into civil war and collapse, dark energy may begin to disintegrate the universe, and other universes may interact catastrophically with this universe.

If one wants the immortality technology to continue to be used under all circumstances, it means that it is an immortality that cannot die, has no life limit and cannot be killed. This is much more difficult than the low-level immortality described above.

Biomechanics based on brain-computer interfaces or the injection of nanomachines can make the human body indestructible, but such technology cannot resist weapons created by the same level of science and technology and violent celestial activities.

As far as modern physics knows, immortal creatures have bodies at least as strong as black holes, have no Hawking radiation, and can exist forever on their own.

At present, it seems that humans are not particularly attached to the physical body, and if possible, it is also possible to convert it into energy or space-time structure.

Even if all black holes evaporated many years from now, humans could still be suspended in the cold, empty space-time with only gradually fading radiation, and create their own matter and energy.

Just like what happened during cosmic inflation, the method used could be a first-class perpetual motion machine or any technology that puts spacetime into a state of eternal inflation. Of course, the chances of humanity ever reaching this stage are extremely small. If we have this level of technology, and wait for the universe to enter the radiation era much later and then slowly develop to a new universe emerging, humanity will be responsible for intervening in the future fate of the universe or any number of universes in the multiverse. The laws of physics will become obstacles that need to be overcome.

People in the world pursue eternal life, but they don’t realize that what they are pursuing is only the eternal life of the body. However, the eternal life of the body is difficult to achieve. The life of the universe is limited, let alone the tiny human beings.

The true and achievable immortality is the immortality of thought, and the immortality of thought is the immortality of the soul.

For example, Wu Cheng'en created Journey to the West, which is his thought, and has been passed down to this day to achieve immortality. Another example is Confucius' Analects and Newton's mechanics theory, which are the immortality of their thoughts.

Not only can ideas live forever, they can also continue to generate new ideas. For example, Journey to the West has become creative material that has produced a large number of excellent film works.

Thoughts can create huge value for the world, while physical immortality consumes more world resources. So instead of pursuing physical immortality, people should pursue intellectual immortality, which is the higher realm of immortality. (End of this chapter)