Cyber Heroes

At the end of 2077, Yawgmoth stood among the exquisite models in the sky.

That's visualizing amino acids and modifying groups. There is a visual Markov process on the side of each bond and each group to reveal to Yawgmoth the possible collapse direction of this long chain.

According to the rules of the second law of thermodynamics such as the principle of energy variation, this unstable long polypeptide chain will eventually fold spontaneously until it reaches a stable state.

This "folding" process is magical. Polypeptide chains and simple modifying groups can fold into a wide variety of proteins. These proteins can even be regarded as molecular-sized mechanical parts. Countless mechanical parts snap together to perform less precise but complex mechanical operations. All life activities are based on this.

Complex eukaryotes even have specialized organelles to assist in the folding of polypeptide chains.

The order and folding methods of all polypeptide chains, including information on "structures that assist polypeptide chain folding," can all be transcoded into binary or quaternary information and recorded by DNA or RNA.

DNA naturally contains "the elements that establish its own existence."

Decades ago, this process was virtually invisible to humans. Nature encapsulates the entire process with a method called "tiny" and stuffs endless abandoned codes and BUGs into the source code.

Yawgmoth's work decades ago is equivalent to providing humans with the working principle of "life" - he is like an engineer at the beginning of the 20th century, disassembling the logic gates from an alien computer, and then Understand the working principle of this thing and deduce the operation process of the computer from a theoretical level.

Before this, humans were just using black boxes to test the functions of specific genes one by one.

And after that, the landscape of biology suddenly became complete. Human beings were surprised to find that they were not fighting alone, but were opening up their horizons on a complete map.

Now, the laws of life are further analyzed. Humans suddenly understood how this chemistry-based language worked. The rapid progress of biology seemed to be ignited overnight.

And when human beings "customized" neurons that are more suitable for electronic circuits, making the human brain and computers more closely integrated, human intelligence has been greatly improved.

This is how a new round of "cognitive revolution" begins.

Human beings before and after the "cognitive revolution" were completely different. The gap was as big as "being able to use fire" and "being unable to learn to use fire". A small number of ultraconservatives who resisted this change lived in reservations scattered around the world, and mankind ushered in a new round of rapid development.

Biology has received another round of improvement in this process.

For humans who have made cognitive leaps, the "huge and incomprehensible data" in the eyes of old humans suddenly become "simple laws." Hundreds or thousands of symbols, in their eyes, have the simplicity of seven notes. Any complex data instantly has the beauty of a "music".

In fact, these things have always been rhythmic, but the smallest unit that makes up this "rhythm" exceeds the upper limit of the intuitive memory of old humans, so humans cannot detect this beauty.

Just like a summer insect cannot speak of ice.

On this basis, some people started from the function of the genome and reversed the entire process of life from top to bottom. Some people try to reconstruct the blueprint of life from the bottom up.

And this huge success is gathering in front of Yawgmoth.

Yawgmoth had a feeling that he was transcending the "physical plane" of life. The "inner core layer" of the life process is being exposed to him.

——Soon, soon...

Yawgmoth felt dizzy. He unplugged the data cable behind his ears and rubbed his temples.

At this time, he suddenly felt in a trance.

——Is this year really... 2077...

Some parts of the memory became ambiguous at this moment. Yawgmoth suddenly wasn't so sure.

How strange. A mysterious sense of dissonance suddenly appeared.

Looking back on the history of the past ten years, Yawgmoth immediately felt a sense of confusion. To use an earlier historical analogy, this decade is equivalent to...Mendel and Morgan jointly published a paper on the first day, and then Darwin also published the theory of evolution on the same day. Hermann and Wundt discussed the physiological phenomena of nerves for several days. A week later, Watson and Crick discovered the double helix and three days later invented the Central Dogma. The addition to the Central Dogma was completed within five days. In the next week, humans invented optogenetic technology, which can directly interfere with some physiological activities of the brain.

Such a violent advance is simply like...

When he came to his senses, Yawgmoth was already sitting at the dining table.

Xiangshan slowly tore open a pork rib, and the gravy flowed across the meter-long wooden dinner plate. Xiang Shan put on insulated gloves and placed a piece of ribs with cartilage on the plate in front of Zhu Xinyu. At the same time, he said to Yawgmoth: "This is the magic of wisdom, Yorg."

Zhu Xinyu's eyelids drooped slightly, with a smile on her face. She picked up the chopsticks and ate the steak in small bites.

Only then did Yawgmoth remember. It should be time for an internal dinner at Superman Enterprises.

What did he just say... sighing to Xiang Shan about the rapid progress in biology recently?

Xiangshan then gave David a piece of steak. David also bowed slightly.

Xiang Shan continued: "You opened a door, remember? The alien spacecraft sent the key."

In the 1930s, an alien spacecraft brought some biological samples. What's even more amazing is that those biological samples are actually divided into eight different but connected systems.

On Earth, life only happened once - all life on Earth has only one common ancestor, the same primitive creature. But the civilization that created that extraterrestrial creation may have had eight different origins.

It's like a "Super Rosetta Stone" fell into human hands. On the eight sides of the stone tablet, eight applications with almost identical functions were written in eight high-level languages ​​that humans could not understand at all.

——Isn’t it right... Instead of guessing that the creatures on a planet have eight different origins and use eight different enzyme systems, it is better to guess that this is a scientific research ship that has collected species samples from eight planets...

——But, if a civilization’s unmanned spacecraft can collect species samples from eight living planets, shouldn’t the technology level of this civilization be far superior to humans... Why... back then, everyone agreed... that spacecraft’s technology The level is even more backward than that of humans back then...

…

Xiangshan then gave David a piece of steak. David also bowed slightly.

Xiang Shan continued: "The 'huge possibilities' are a sea of ​​suffering made up of probabilities. But the power of wisdom can enable us to survive this dark ocean. It is the compass and the North Star."

Yawgmoth had forgotten what he had just thought. He stared at Ingrid. Ingrid lowered her eyelids, raised the plate with both hands, and caught the steak that was being offered to the mountain.

Yawgmoth couldn't help but ask: "Why are you so respectful to him?"

A mysterious smile appeared on Ingrid's face: "This is a tribute to the 'Emperor of Liberation'..."

…

Xiangshan then gave David a piece of steak. David happily accepted it, then grabbed it with his hands and chewed it without any care. Zhu Xinyu and Ingrid were fooling around.

Xiang Shan smiled: "The 'huge possibilities' are a sea of ​​suffering made up of probabilities. But the power of wisdom can allow us to survive this dark ocean. It is the compass and the North Star. Do you know BB(n)?"