Chapter 769: Chapter 767: Breakthrough in mory Implantation
Zhang Yuan kept dealing with these Half-sphere people, “Yes, yes, I will certainly try my best…”
“Don’t worry…”
“Today? Today just won’t do.”
Zhang Yuan truly had unspeakable woes; these crazy Half-sphere people even invited him to the laboratory to do data analysis, itching to clone their great ancestor at 100% today.
He sighed inwardly, “Big brother, it’s my day off today! There’s nobody in the lab, everyone’s on holiday, and even if we were to do the experint, I alone wouldn’t be enough!”
And as for this stone sculpture he had in his hand, he certainly couldn’t just abandon it halfway through…
If it really ca to that, he might as well continue shopping with Lin Xuanyuan; at least that might charm a beautiful smile from her.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan’s expression beca serious, “I’m very sorry, everyone, today, no. Today is a special day; there’s a very important matter I have to attend to. If I don’t take care of it, I might regret it for the rest of my life, forever haunted by remorse.”
“What matter?” Markov asked, sowhat puzzled.
“Personal matters… very important!”
Since that was said, the group of Half-sphere people dawdled for quite a while but eventually had to leave with disappointnt…
They knew that it was impolite to disturb soone on their holiday, and besides, they weren’t in a hurry for just one day. This, in fact, was very clear to them, but it was just that they couldn’t control their own surging primitive forces.
At the sa ti that Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly realized that his wife was hiding to the side, unable to suppress her laughter.
He shook his head and said self-mockingly, “It seems that shaking off those Half-sphere people to win a beautiful smile is quite worthwhile… However, one can’t laugh at them. This is the path to becoming a Level 5 Civilization, urgency is inevitable. Especially under the current interstellar conditions, it’s essential to quickly beco a Level 5 Civilization…”
On the way to the concert hall, Lin Xuanyuan quietly asked, “I heard that the highest mory restoration rate has advanced from 90% to 98%. Has the Half-sphere civilization undergone any fundantal changes?”
“To put it bluntly, there haven’t been any changes…”
Zhang Yuan said, “It’s just that their leaders have beco more Saint-like, working their guts out day and night, toiling hard and conscientiously… If you interact with them, you’ll find that they are the epito of being ‘chunibyo.'”
“Chunibyo?” Lin Xuanyuan was slightly puzzled.
Zhang Yuan nodded, “Yes, chunibyo… They talk about justice and progress all day long, nitpicking over etiquette and culture, and they’re fervently passionate, just like so characters in cartoons. But individual Saintification, for the entire civilization, doesn’t bring about any major qualitative change.”
“It’s a strange feeling, you know? This path isn’t necessarily wrong; the closer they get to Saints, the more they detach from the emotional responses of normal living beings, aning their way of thinking becos more purified, suitable for Thought Acceleration.”
“Acceleration?” Lin Xuanyuan asked, puzzled.
“Yes, that is after silicon-based transformation, being able to think about more things within the sa unit of ti.”
Zhang Yuan frowned, “The thinking speed of a Level 5 Civilization, is at least a hundred thousand tis faster than ours, at most the speed of light, which is three million tis faster… Can you imagine how smart they must be with that kind of rapid cognitive jumping?”
“Of course, the Half-sphere civilization hasn’t undergone any earth-shattering qualitative changes yet; this is still just the first step.”
“Only after a few more decades, when the population of B-grade and A-grade people increases on a large scale, or when so Half-sphere people reach 100% mory restoration, can a series of changes occur.”
“At present, we are using an entire drip-fed mory system that improves the success rate by infusing mories little by little…”
This experintal thod was obtained from the base of the Alef Civilization and after being transford by human scientists, was applied to the Half-sphere people.
For the human researchers, the psychological pressure is imnse, even though the subjects are rely Half-sphere Civilization people and not humans, so humans are not responsible for taking care of them if the experints fail and they turn into imbeciles.
However, as fellow intelligent beings, seeing soone who could think and speak normally one second beco an imbecile the next always leads to so psychological burden.
Therefore, every experint is carefully deliberated to ensure the highest success rate.
Even though the Half-sphere people are quite desperate, the queue of those waiting could already encircle the planet, humans still do not want to experint recklessly, piling up casualties. What’s the point of winning the lottery occasionally, if it’s just a fluke?
If this technology cannot be popularized, especially among humans, then this research is undoubtedly a failure.
Zhang Yuan sighed, “Experints with high mory restoration have a very high failure rate. We must take our ti and not rush…”
Lin Xuanyuan also sighed, “Hearing you say this, it really seems that only a perverse civilization could research such a perverse technology, taking such a perverse shortcut… If we hadn’t encountered this Half-sphere Civilization willing to volunteer for experints, we probably would never have tried this path.”
“You’re right… A Level 5 Civilization is just too hard. Crossing this threshold is like the difference between heaven and earth, intelligence of ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or even a million. Our current state is actually very hard to comprehend.”
“That’s why there are so many Fourth-level Civilizations stuck for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years. Don’t think they are all Sinners, maybe these Level 4 Civilizations have a Racial Value much higher than ours! Perhaps there are so huge difficulties that are holding them back.”
Scientists at the Unreal Laboratory are trying to develop more mature thods to increase the chances of success.
This old thod is almost at its limit, reaching the expected 99% upper limit.
After pondering for a while, Zhang Yuan continued, “We want to develop a self-awareness indicator. If mory infusion reaches a certain extent, an imminent consciousness collapse can be detected before it happens, and the indicator will imdiately signal to stop the mory infusion. There are so odd physiological premonitions before a collapse…”
“If this device could be completed, that would be great. The success rate could be increased significantly, and maybe humans could also use such mory infusion techniques. Babies could acquire much knowledge as soon as they are born, learn the principles of being human, and their morals could be even better… Of course, what kind of morals are universally recognized as virtuous is sothing society needs to discuss.”
“That’s simple, good morals are like honesty, friendship, unity, mutual aid…” Lin Xuanyuan listed a bunch at once, even ntioning the Eight Honors and Eight Shas from the Earth Civilization era.
“It’s not that simple…” Zhang Yuan smiled wryly, “Everything has a limit, and there can be too much of a good thing, you know? Take honesty, for example, I think human society still needs so white lies.”
Lin Xuanyuan had a sudden inspiration, “If the infusion fails and they turn into an imbecile, what if we delete the mory? Could they return to normal?”
“No,” Zhang Yuan shook his head. “Self-awareness changes dynamically. If it doesn’t match at one mont, it will be very hard to match again later on, just like a computer system crash. It’s easy to cause a crash, but very difficult to restore it. However, we are studying repair asures for this, but… it’s difficult, and there’s little hope in the short term.”
Lin Xuanyuan asked, “I have another question, after mory infusion, do the original mories disappear? Does one beco a completely different person, or is it just adding more mories?”
Actually she could also be considered high-level dical personnel, but her field was just different from Zhang Yuan’s. Since she had the clearance to know so secrets, that’s why Zhang Yuan would discuss these matters with her. If it really involved secrets, he wouldn’t casually divulge them, even to his own wife.
Zhang Yuan furrowed his brows and thought for a mont, then said, “Under normal circumstances, the original mories won’t disappear, but the conflict between two different sets of moral values can occur, which is the main reason for either a collapse in consciousness or a breakdown in personality.”
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