Voyage of the Stars

“Is memory hereditary?”

Understanding Yue Yuan's purpose, Yi Kai called an assistant to take over his work, then turned and walked out of the research institute to the corridor with Yue Yuan.

"This problem is very complicated! From a biological perspective, memory is billions of nerve cells in the brain. They interact with each other through synapses, forming extremely complex interconnections." Yi Kai continued: “Memory is the mutual calls between brain nerve cells. Some of these calls are short-lived, some are long-lasting, and some are somewhere in between.

We believe that the process of new cognition being learned and remembered is a process in which the brain produces new synapses or dormant synapses re-activate specific signal circuits. This signal circuit is not the circuit of our ordinary cognition, but a kind of circuit that exists in Phenomena at the quantum level. "

Yi Kai glanced at Yue Yuan, who was listening carefully next to him, and continued: "So whether the Kuntai people have the ability to inherit memory, we cannot get the answer directly from the brain structure of the Kuntai people or from research on their brain areas, because based on our The current level of science and technology is simply unable to unlock the secrets of the brain and consciousness.

From another perspective, molecular biology research shows that there are three basic neural circuits. Monosynaptic connections, polysynaptic connections, and cell clusters.

The so-called cell cluster refers to the simultaneous activity of a large number of cells due to simultaneous activation or close relationship in time. This is an organizational method of neurons that is closely related to a variety of learning and memory.

The encoding of neuronal clusters also relies on synaptic plasticity, which is how neuronal clusters encode different forms of memory. Learning and memory will be accompanied by changes in synaptic plasticity between neurons, including changes in the strength of synaptic connections, changes in the number of synapses, and changes in neuron morphology."

"Professor Yikai, just tell me the research progress on the memory inheritance of Kuntai people." Yue Yuan interrupted Yi Kai who was starting to tell him from beginning to end.

"Okay!" Yi Kai thought for a while and nodded: "What I want to tell the chief is that from a biological point of view, there is no possibility of memory inheritance in Kuntai civilization, unless..."

"Unless?" Yue Yuan asked.

Yi Kai put his hands on the railing in front of him: "Yes, unless the Kuntai people completely copy the current state information of their brains when they give birth to offspring, and bury it deeply in their offspring, and then let their offspring After growing to a certain stage, it will have the same neural information circuits as its mother."

"This is possible." Yue Yuan frowned.

"This possibility is very small." Yi Kai took over the conversation, pulled out his personal terminal from behind, and then opened it directly to show Yue Yuan the contents.

Yue Yuan turned around and saw that Yi Kai's personal terminal was playing a scene of a Kuntai man being brought to the laboratory to connect various equipment for research.

At this time, Yi Kai continued: "We have done many related brain scans and research on Kuntai people, including stress response, memory blocks, motor blocks, etc. So far, all biological-based research shows that Kuntai people do not have the genetic ability to remember.

However, the reason for our technological backwardness cannot be ruled out, because many things in the universe are not as we imagine. Liu Miyan has been here before. He believes that the biological memory mechanism is essentially a certain law of the quantum world. In this regard, he has some research reports, which can be retrieved in the "Light of the Galaxy". "

Some scholars believe that it may be passed on through some illusory soul relationship, but I think that is alarmist. The spirit must rely on matter to exist. How can there be spiritual inheritance directly separated from matter.

To take a step back, even if there were, it would not be a technology that a civilization at the level of Kuntai Civilization could master. As for racial talent, I think it can be verified in another direction. "

What suddenly occurred to Yue Yuan's mind, he asked: "Directly conduct research on the new generation of Kuntai civilization?"

"Yes, Chief." Yi Kai put away his terminal and said slowly: "We are currently screening the Kuntai people. In about three days, we will be able to select the first batch of Kuntai people who have entered metamorphosis. Let’s gather together and conduct experimental comparisons between the original body and newborns.”

"Well, hurry up and let me know the results immediately." Yue Yuan nodded slightly.

"Commander, this is what I want."

"Before, you said that 10,000 Kuntai people would be left behind for research." Yue Yuan did not hide anything. He roughly repeated the point of view that Man Yuemei said not long ago. And at the end, he added: "Maybe we can go a step further and only keep the embryos of the Kuntai people."

"Embryos?" Yi Kai was stunned. When he heard these two words, he realized that Yue Yuan probably did not fully understand the reproductive mechanism of the Kuntai people, so he explained: "Chief, the fertility of the Kuntai people is not the same as that of humans. Ordinary 'embryos' do not have reproductive cells such as fertilized eggs.

Their reproductive differentiation is entirely a type of self-differentiation during metamorphosis. We have not even been able to complete our own artificial womb. There is no way to preserve the cells of the Kuntai people who have just differentiated into their offspring during their metamorphosis. "

"Okay." Yue Yuan sighed.

The development of human biotechnology is still somewhat uneven. We have already developed two life potions, and have made impressive achievements in gene expression, gene tailoring, and gene editing, but we do not even have the technology for artificial wombs.

I hope that these relatively lagging branches of science can slowly catch up with the mainstream progress in the future. Yue Yuan muttered in his heart, then talked with Yi Kai for a while, then turned and left.

It was already seven o'clock in the evening when he left. After a hasty dinner, Yue Yuan had nothing to do today.

After the victory of the war, he was no longer as busy as before.

During his relatively free time, Yue Yuan did not let himself be idle. He did not go back to his accommodation. Instead, he came to his office again, and then directly called 'Taihu Light' to bring up the research report that Yi Kai mentioned earlier. Read carefully.

After finishing, Yue Yuan continued to search some books in the field of biology from the database. I didn't look at anything on the cutting edge of human science, but some basic textbooks.

In fact, he has read many books, but after a long time, he has forgotten many, so he often takes them out to review them again when he has nothing to do. The same goes for other subjects.

Yue Yuan's memory is still good, but it is far from reaching the point of photographic memory. Therefore, study and review cannot stop.

"It would be great if one day there is technology to enhance memory. In that case, the cost of human learning will be much smaller." Yue Yuan shook his head and sighed secretly.