Voyage of the Stars

"Schrödinger pointed out in his famous book "What is Life" that 'the main question in biology and physics is not the question of whether organisms defy thermodynamics by producing energy.'" Yi Kai didn't care, he bowed, " Obviously, they are not like this. If life is determined by whether it can defy thermodynamics, then the sun can also be considered a living thing."

"Human cognition is always objective and limited, so it always satisfies the wonders of ignorance and inspires continuous exploration. The need to break through the limitations of objectivity has caused humans to generate and develop various desires that transcend animals. The pursuit of knowledge is one of them."

"The development of science has made people increasingly agree that living things are naturally generated, but how can inanimate energy systems in nature become living creatures? Why do inorganic substances evolve into life with information functions? The spirituality of living things Where does it come from? What is its motivation? Is it born just to die? Is it an instinctive drive to feed on negative entropy? What role does wisdom play in this process?"

Hearing this, Yue Yuan couldn't help but interrupt: "Wait, Dr. Yi, just tell me what you found."

What's all this? I'm asking you about your progress and why you started teaching. Yue Yuan complained in his heart.

"Isn't this to let the commander-in-chief understand more thoroughly?" Yi Kai said leisurely.

"Okay, okay, you say."

Yi Kai nodded, but did not continue to speak like a lecture, "That's it, we believe that life is guided by information and directed by instinct, through object-oriented input of information, processing of information, transmission of information, materialization of information and the outside world. Communicate holographic matter, energy, and information to obtain negative entropy and evolution.

In this way, life not only maintains the stability of reproduction through the transmission of information, but also changes it into genetic information through gradual changes and mutations through information feedback, absorption, and accumulation. "

"Introduced to us humans, that is, to reproduce the next generation. This is the instinctive imprint of hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This imprint is deeply engraved in our genetic information. It has only one purpose, and that is to continue its pattern. Information that has been stored for hundreds of millions or even billions of years, in layman’s terms, means that genetic factors must pursue eternal existence.”

"It will continue to exist forever from generation to generation, and there is no problem until it doesn't know which step it took was wrong or it inevitably led to the birth of wisdom."

Yue Yuan signaled Yi Kai to stop, and then expressed his question: "It has been no less than millions of years since the birth of human wisdom. Hasn't it been continued from generation to generation to this day? What's the problem with this?"

"Of course there is a problem." Yi Kai raised his hand and nodded his head, "The selfishness of life is inherited in DNA, or the information factors engraved in DNA, and the wisdom or consciousness that births life is more important than life. The instinct is more selfish.

Because the instinct of life only requires that genetic information can continue to exist, but intelligent consciousness does not. It requires itself to continue to exist.

However, the message of "birth to death" has been deeply engraved in our DNA, and has been perfected for billions of years. Even if the consciousness is unwilling to give up, it is just a young boy with only millions of years, generation after generation. They died in vain as the DNA of this generation withered.

Therefore, in the long years, wisdom and consciousness are always fighting against this process, so there are two ways in front of wisdom and consciousness. One is to let the genetic factors carry itself and transfer it to the next generation, and it will last forever. The other is to suppress the mechanism that has been used for billions of years to prevent genetic factors from withering due to inheritance. "

"Obviously, that red gas played a role in the second path. It helped the intelligent self-awareness successfully suppress the set of life instincts that had been passed down for billions of years. And what we know now is that it was a lie. Genetic factors.”

"What do you mean?" Yue Yuan frowned.

He probably heard what Yi Kai meant, so now he had an ominous premonition.

Yi Kai glanced at Yue Yuan and saw that he seemed to still have doubts, so he thought for a moment and continued: "Let's put it this way, we believe that the red gas is essentially to completely change the biological instinct mechanism so that the genetic factors no longer The purpose of perpetuating itself through the next generation is changed to the purpose of perpetuating itself by continuously renewing itself.”

"But judging from the serum research results, this purpose has not really been achieved, so I say 'cheat'. The consciousness is the mechanism that temporarily deceives the genetic factors. After a long time, the deception is seen through, and the mechanism will be used again. After being activated, the living body will return to its original path - allowing the next generation to continue the mission of genetic information. As for the original body, it will die together with the genetic factors of the older generation that have completed their mission. Well, it is inappropriate to say that they die together, because genetics Factors don’t even consider intelligent self-awareness.”

Having said this, Yi Kai raised his eyelids and looked at Yue Yuan, and then just stopped talking.

Yue Yuan was a little embarrassed by what he saw, so he coughed to interrupt the awkward atmosphere and said: "I understand, what Dr. Yi means is that the red gas is an inhibitor, a blind continuation of biological instincts. The next generation of inhibitors acts on life-sustaining information, so as long as the living body continues to ingest that gas, it can continue to be deceived and achieve the purpose of long-term existence of self-awareness."

"You can say that, but biological instinct is not blind, it's just that self-awareness determines that it is blind." Yi Kai corrected.

Yue Yuan thought about it: "If this is the case, then this alien spacecraft is probably not a transport ship, but just an ordinary detection spacecraft, and the red gas on the ship is just the alien civilization. A life-span-extension potion equipped to allow its crew to adapt to the long space voyage."

"Yes." Yi Kai nodded.

This can be considered a kind of progress, Yue Yuanxin said.

To be honest, he didn't expect that Yi Kai's biological research could actually unlock the secrets of the spacecraft. He could only say that science is all related.

The amount of information this development brings is really great.

Judging from the effect of the red gas and the fact that the spacecraft carries it to extend the life of the crew, it shows that the technology of this civilization has not reached the point of immortality.

Looking at it from another angle, we might be able to get a glimpse into the background of the universe.

Regardless of the distance, judging by normal thinking, this red gas or liquid must be a very important material in the universe, because intelligent life needs it.

At least it is still needed at the level of civilization to which this alien spacecraft belongs.

And humans now know this.

Just one serum research project can give humans such knowledge. This is the importance of scientific research.