Walking along the tree-lined path on campus, and hearing the clamor from the distant sports field, Zhao Yi lapsed into mories. He thought about exchanging mathematics with He Mingcheng, his guidance, his care for life, his concern for mathematical research.
Wait a minute.
Every bit, all mories.
That’s often how people are.
Normally, Zhao Yi wouldn’t think of He Mingcheng much, as their lives didn’t intersect often. But now that he had gone, Zhao Yi suddenly rembered so much, and his heart felt a touch of sadness.
Qian Zhijin slowly walked over, lightly patted his shoulder, and sighed, "Elder He lived his whole life, Zhao Yi, and he passed away with a smile, so don’t be too sad."
"I am not sad," Zhao Yi replied indifferently, turning his head.
"Is that so?"
Qian Zhijin responded with a phrase.
Zhao Yi nodded, "I was just thinking, why must people experience birth, aging, sickness, and death? Can’t we live forever?"
Qian Zhijin tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, "I’d like to live forever, too."
Zhao Yi said, "I was just considering thods for immortality, like, using science to turn the mories and knowledge in our mind into code, and then uploading it into a computer, allowing intelligent devices to express it, thus existing forever."
"That thod—"
Qian Zhijin thought for a long ti, unsure of how to evaluate it, and straightforwardly said a few words, "Not bad!"
"The thod may be achievable in the future."
Zhao Yi continued, "But the problem is, it’s still just code, just a machine, just a repository of knowledge and thinking patterns, infinitely close to the original person, but the original person is still dead."
Qian Zhijin nodded, "That’s right."
Zhao Yi walked up and sat down on a bench, then said, "Professor Qian, if this technology were realized, would you consider it?"
"No!"
Qian Zhijin imdiately shook his head, "You’ve said it, the person is still dead. Plus, I don’t want to be a guinea pig unless the technology truly matures one day."
Talking about it felt strange to him. How had the conversation turned to immortality?
Zhao Yi shook his head in regret, "What a pity."
"What’s there to pity?" Qian Zhijin countered, "Would you consider it? Putting your mories into a computer or transplanting your brain into a culture dish, placing the dish into a machine, maybe truly realizing the brain’s immortality."
"Of course I wouldn’t agree," Zhao Yi said.
"Why?" Qian Zhijin seed to catch the thread of the conversation, his speech becoming much more animated, as if to say, ’If you wouldn’t consider it, why ask ?’
Zhao Yi stated matter-of-factly, "I’m not even thirty years old yet, just at the age of standing firm on my own two feet. Professor Qian, if I rember correctly, you’re almost fifty-five, right? You’ll be retiring in a few years."
"—"
What a painful realization!
Qian Zhijin felt his heart stabbed sharply. He thought he shouldn’t have co to console Zhao Yi. It was entirely unnecessary.
Zhao Yi’s mood had actually improved quite a bit; he found that bantering with Qian Zhijin was a rather good way to relax.
In fact, he had indeed considered the problem of longevity just now, deciding the basic factors determining human lifespan are genetic inheritance.
This is the conclusion of science.
Many institutions conduct research on human lifespan, and the direct conclusion is that the length of human life is directly related to genetic inheritance.
The genetic inheritance of humans is "encoded" within chromosos. Every person, even every vertebrate, has different lengths at the ends of their chromosos, but what determines the length of a living being’s life is precisely the length of these chromosomal ends.
The longer the chromosomal ends, the healthier and longer-lived the organism is, while shorter chromosomal ends indicate poorer health and shorter lifespan.
The reason this happens isn’t as complex as one might imagine. It’s primarily because at the ends of chromosos, there’s a "substance" known as telores. Each ti a human cell divides, the telores shorten a bit. When they can no longer shorten, a human’s life cos to its end.
So, the longer the end of the chromoso, which ans longer telores, the more tis human cells can divide, resulting in greater longevity.
This research reflects a conclusion: a person’s basic lifespan is determined by their genetic inheritance, in other words, one’s lifespan is determined at birth.
However, extending life is possible.
Healthy living and a healthy diet are one aspect and belong to external factors.
Moreover, there are other thods internationally, so of which have been scientifically proven to be effective.
For instance, blood transfusion.
There are institutions abroad specializing in blood transfusion for people. Their clients are all wealthy, the most famous being the overseas mobile paynt innovator, Peter Thiel, a multimillionaire investor from Y, in layman’s terms, a super-wealthy man.
Peter Thiel’s wish is to live to 120 years old. It’s said that this has been his dream since he was young, which led him into the dical extension field early in life.
He consistently takes children’s hormones, and completes a blood transfusion every three months.
Blood transfusion, in fact, is a type of therapy. dical workers have experinted with it a long ti ago and found it to be effective in mammals. Among the most famous experints was the one conducted by Clive McKay in the 1950s.
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