The normal half-sphere people on the other side could only pinch their noses and accept the situation. The others weren’t reproducing through normal ans anymore, they were entirely clones, so what more was there to say? They couldn’t really ddle excessively.
In the normal community, aside from saring the "Bionic group inventing a perverted practice" in the dia, they had no motivation to go to war. There wasn’t a particularly large gap in strength between the two sides, and war, after all, would lead to deaths. As long as the Bionic half-sphere people didn’t forcefully transform normal people, they wouldn’t interfere too much.
However, this approach still had many, many unresolved issues.
First and foremost, although war hadn’t broken out imdiately, the rift between the two was deepening rapidly. The gradual estrangent between them ant that ideological conflicts were growing larger.
One was a normal civilization, and the other was a Clone civilization; now even the ans of reproduction were different. It was only a matter of ti before the two sides would fight until one drove the other out of the planet system.
On the other hand, while cloning had no technical issues, perfecting the worldview and values of the children was an ongoing and unresolved challenge.
The current Bionic society was not a normal one. The original half-sphere people primarily reproduced sexually, with traditional family systems. With sudden switching to cloning, an upheaval had occurred in the entire civilization!
But the entire education system was still the old one. The children had no parents anymore, and a group of sowhat neurotic Bionic people had no idea how to write completely changed textbooks, naturally unable to nurture exceptional children.
Secondly, the half-sphere people with only a brain left had a way of thinking that was very different from that of normal people, and moreover, the Brain in a Vat Bionic technology of the half-sphere people was only in a state that was workable but not perfect.
The imperfection referred to the various electronic hormones still not being perfected, making it impossible to mimic all the dynamic changes from childhood to adulthood.
If it were adults with mature values, they might barely accept this state of affairs.
But for minors, being unable to experience their own growth process could easily result in antisocial personalities, with a plethora of ntal health issues. Among a couple of hundred cloned infants, it was very likely that only one could barely pass, just barely at that, far from reaching good or excellent, and all the rest failed, either insane or like animals, completely lacking in social skills.
It was precisely because of these various difficulties that cultivating a qualified next generation gradually evolved into the third major crisis of the Half-sphere Civilization, an overwhelming crisis...
It was a very, very difficult era where the older generation of Bionic half-sphere people was gradually withering away. Even though their lifespans were much longer than those of normal half-sphere people, they would still age and die.
The new generation of educators were mostly madn and ntal patients, with severe problems in their ntal states.
Whenever they saw the society of the normal half-sphere people on the neighboring planet flourishing, those from the older generation always felt a sense of resentnt.
They were facing extinction.
Perhaps the Duqiu Civilization of the First Epoch had this kind of ntality before their extinction.
But they were not willing to give in! They had turned the tide in the face of desperation, sacrificing their own generation and then enduring great hardships to raise the next, only to end up with such an outco, rearing nothing but ingrates!
At the Astronomical Observatory, they would often receive the mockery and ridicule from the neighboring planet, and the Bionic half-sphere community was very unwilling to accept this, yet they could only watch their entire society age day by day, as if it were a countdown to the end of life itself...
They were unable to cultivate a normal next generation.
Finally, during the third civilizational crisis, a peerless genius nad Kay Aiyintan conceived a plan for "Thought Imprint"!
This plan was the very mory implantation system that Zhang Yuan and others were currently visiting.
This genius believed that since the current society was incapable of raising a normal next generation, why not resort to mory implantation instead?
As long as they could instill the basic values in the minds of infants, wouldn’t that give rise to the next generation?
This wildly bold proposal quickly beca the lifesaving straw for the Bionic half-sphere people. One genius scientist after another joined the project, and although they were already of advanced age, they had enough ambition and determination to complete it.
great Sages sacrificed their mories and beca the founders of various professional templates.
...
After the completion of this program, Bionic Hemisphere People finally broke away from their original civilization, forming their own unique culture and institution, took a deep breath, and began to flourish.
However, there was a fourth civilization crisis, which was a major conflict between the normal group and the Clone group. The original normal group thought that the Clone group would not be able to solve the subsequent reproduction problem and would exterminate themselves, so they didn’t bother to intervene.
But now these Clones started to rise to prominence, how could that be tolerated?
Of course, the war that broke out between the two sides is a story for later... Anyway, in the end, the Bionic Hemisphere People were driven out of their Mother Star, becoming a nomadic civilization.
New hatreds and old grievances are already stories from tens of thousands of years ago, they have no intention to return even now.
And over tens of thousands of years, the Bionic Hemisphere People’s driving force greatly surpassed that of the normal Half-sphere Civilization. According to the principles of New Human Civilization, the normal Half-sphere people have long been a Sinking Civilization lacking the drive to progress.
After hearing the whole story, Zhang Yuan deeply sighed at the civilization’s madness and boldness at critical monts.
"What an alarming and thrilling story."
"The developnt of a civilization is truly a marathon. Many tis, you think you’ve taken the wrong path, but then you inadvertently touch an even more distant sky."
He heard Dr. Li, who was following him, quietly reflecting in his headset, "The final choice that bursts forth when on the brink of extinction cannot be judged by conventional ethics..."
"Yes."
"To understand that is truly remarkable."
There used to be such a question within Earth Civilization: if the world was ending and only three people were left, carrying all of Human civilization, but two of them must eat the third one to survive and give birth to a new Human Epoch.
The question is, should they eat the third person?
A famous science fiction writer thought they should; his answer was, "Shakespeare, Einstein, Goethe... If you don’t eat, these civilizations will completely perish with your irresponsible act. The Universe is very cruel; if we all disappear, it’s just darkness, and there will be nothing humane or inhumane about it. Only by choosing the inhumane now can humanity have the possibility to erge again in the future."
This answer quickly caused an uproar. Trolls said that the writer had lost his humanity, actually advocating cannibalism.
And another female host thought they should not eat; her reasoning was as follows: "If we eat her, we lose our humanity, and a Humanity without its humanity has already cut itself off from Shakespeare, Einstein, Goethe... What’s the point of salvation then?"
A lot of netizens also believed that if a new Epoch had to be built upon the unethical act of ’eating people’, then it was better not to have such an Epoch at all.
Zhang Yuan only comnted "Ha-ha" on this debate.
Many people may have forgotten what kind of Biological species Humans are, thinking that human nature is inherently good, kind, and beautiful, and that the world is full of goodness.
To find the answer, one only has to experience a Virtual World where real cannibalism occurs...
Humans have never been a beautiful species; at monts of life and death, it’s a big mistake to place hope on the shining points of human nature.
Therefore, with the developnt of Half-sphere Civilization up to now, he could understand all the choices made.
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