Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 655 The Great Debate

And Qin Yuanqing naturally paid attention to this news.

"Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin are really strong enough to dare to use cryogenic technology in clinical trials. It seems that the power of capital is really strong and can break through various obstacles. If they don't break through obstacles, it can only be said that the capital invested Not enough, and the prospects are not big enough!" Qin Yuanqing looked at the news and shook his head.

The dormant cabin technology is essentially the human body cryogenic technology!
Human cryonics technology, also known as human body cold storage, is an experimental medical science and technology that stores human bodies or animals in cold storage at extremely low temperatures. The dream is that in the future, they can be revived and treated after thawing through advanced medical technology.

For a long time, the world's largest human body refrigeration companies are the American Alcor Life Extension Fund and the American Human Body Cryonics Institute.

People think that this technology has just been born, but in fact it is not. Many years ago, the fees for cryonics technology were announced. The fees range from US$9000 to US$20, depending on different companies, services, countries or countries. Depending on the region.Even the finance in this area is very complete, and the human body refrigerated person does not need to pay the fee in one lump sum, but can consider paying in the form of life insurance or paying in installments.

The reason why it has not caused too much disturbance is because human cryonics technology has been debated endlessly whether it is academic, religious, philosophical, moral, ethical, or other aspects.

For example, in terms of philosophy, morality and ethics, many religious people believe that the conflict between cryonics technology and religion is mainly because the human soul has already left, and this technology cannot freeze the human soul.As for this part of the concerns and considerations, the cryonics company gave some people. They think that the soul of the cryonics will not leave the body, just like sleeping or comatose for a long time, and the cryonics technology is the same as other medical technologies. Trying to heal and prolong the life of the freezer, the cryogenic company thinks that the freezer is just like a sick patient.Therefore, cryogenic companies do not believe that cryonics has any conflict with religion.

However, religious figures do not agree with cryonics companies and other institutions engaged in this research. They believe that birth, old age, sickness and death are common occurrences. If people are frozen and then awakened, the middle will be incomplete, and life will be unquestionable. .The beauty of life lies in its shortness and duration.

Not only religious figures strongly oppose this technology, but many scholars also expressed concerns about this technology. They said that this technology is not as good as imagined, and it will aggravate the solidification of class.If everyone dreamed of traveling to the future, no one would build the present.Especially when these 90.00% of people who dream of going to the future control [-]% of the social resources and wealth in this world, the resulting problems will not only be as simple as class solidification, but may even Push the global economy into the lane of reverse growth, and finally bring the global society to a dystopian ending
It can be said that the birth of this technology has faced a lot of controversy and resistance from the very beginning, except for those rich people who hope that they will not die of diseases under this technology and can wake up and get treatment in the future. The rich, even in another 100 years, unless something particularly bad happens, they will still be rich when they wake up.

In fact, Qin Yuanqing still admires Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin, who dared to take the lead in tearing off the veil. Of course, he also saw the figure of the human body refrigeration company behind this incident. There are no less than 30 human body refrigeration companies in the world. They are all engaged in the underground, and they dare not get it on the stage fairly, but they are not reconciled. After all, this is a large amount of wealth. Once the society approves, they can go public, and the market value will skyrocket quickly, and the wealth in their hands will skyrocket.

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, they followed up various orders, and there were hundreds of billionaires who had frozen human bodies, and some of them even chose the top-level package, and this top-level package cost 1 million US dollars cost.

However, Qin Yuanqing frowned immediately. Although the joint research between Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin has achieved great progress in human cryogenic technology, it is obvious that the side effects are still quite large. After all, the monkey obviously had multiple injuries. .

And there is a problem, that is, the monkey has only been refrigerated for 67 days, but if the refrigerated period is extended, such as 1 year, 10 years or even 20 years, what will happen?
Restricted by many public opinions, Huaxia has not carried out research on human cryogenic technology on the bright side, but in fact, human cryogenic technology has been researched in a secret base. After all, this technology is necessary in the interstellar era.

Even in terms of human body freezing technology, Huaxia has gone further. By studying the genes of turtles and snakes, as well as related research on hibernating animals, Huaxia is actually leading the world in human body freezing technology. In 2027, a frozen corpse was found in an ice cave in Kunlun Mountains. The human body was awakened by relevant research. At first, it looked fine. The other person was still from the Wanli world of the Ming Dynasty. The ancient people who were awakened died, without any injuries, and died inexplicably.

So the research is pointing to the soul. It is true that the metabolism of the human body hardly occurs under refrigeration, but the human soul will not be frozen. After that, the ancients were very simple, but in fact his soul was almost eroded by the years, and soon after he woke up, his soul dissipated.

It can be said that one of the bottlenecks that China has encountered in the dormant cabin technology is about the soul, and that is how to ensure the safety of the soul.

Otherwise, based on the current dormant cabin technology, it is actually only suitable for short-distance interstellar voyages, such as a year or two, and it is not suitable for further distances. It didn't take long for the astronaut's soul to collapse and die!

But the soul is a very mysterious field. Even though most scholars in the Chinese scientific community believe that the soul exists, there are still some scholars who think that the soul is nonsense, because there is no reliable evidence, and the truth is that the soul is existing.

Even if Qin Yuanqing believes that the soul exists, he still cannot convince everyone of this point of view.

Sure enough, as soon as the "New York Times" report came out, the stock prices of Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin skyrocketed, and the confidence of the human body refrigeration company was also encouraged, but it soon put them in the whirlpool of public opinion. Under NASA's upcoming manned landing project on Mars.

There are many opinions on the debate about human cryopreservation technology, but the attitude of most ordinary people is against it.

Even though it might provide a possibility of survival for terminally ill patients, the cost of keeping a cryogenic unit running for decades is, by any measure, unlikely to be affordable by the average person.

If such a technology is destined to only serve the upper class, and the resulting social costs have to be passed on to the "awake people", then the bottom people seem to have no reason to support its existence.

A certain Dutch performance art painter even drew a satirical oil painting about this, placing the mummy frozen in an ice coffin on the throne, and a group of servants in suits and ties knelt down to it, holding a group of servants in shackles. Ragged slaves.It means to satirize those rich people who try to enjoy the glory and wealth in the future, just like the pharaohs thousands of years ago.

A North American sci-fi writer even described a dystopian society ruled by a group of ice coffins who would never wake up, and servants who never wanted their master to wake up.

In that dystopian society, people live a life of extreme poverty, social development has stagnated, and classes have solidified to the point that it is almost impossible for a person to achieve class leapfrogging through his own efforts, because the vast majority of wealth is monopolized in those "immortals". lords” and their servants.

Although in a sense, these viewpoints are all one-sided, the problems caused by them have indeed attracted the attention of many insightful people.

The question of whether the technology is unethical is hotly debated both inside and outside academia.

However, the power of capital has been shown, and public opinion is constantly pouring money to explore the abyssal significance of this technology. It is the "controllable nuclear fusion" in the biological world and an indispensable key for human beings to enter the era of interstellar immigration. At the same time, in the face of ethics and various negative remarks, they talked about science and emphasized that science should be respected, and science is correct. Living walkers of Aristotle and Copernicus.

All the focus of public opinion is on Johnson & Johnson and Blue Origin. Pros and cons are engaged in heated debates, and even excitedly raised their hands in the debate competition. The society has launched a heated debate. At this time, NASA launched a BFR rocket, and this BFR rocket took the spacecraft on a long journey to Mars. They will make a long journey of 230 days to Mars.

NASA seems to be deliberately keeping a low profile. It just released an announcement on the official website. As a result, although there were media reports, it did not attract much attention at all. More and more rich people who are considered to be dead did not really die, but spent a high price to freeze their bodies, waiting to be awakened in the future. up.

Nima, I used to laugh at it, it doesn’t matter how rich the rich are, they won’t be as dead as us civilians if they get the trick, this is a manifestation of the equality of all beings.But now they are told that the rich are not really dead, and they will laugh at them in the future.

(End of this chapter)