This civilization is very strong, but the technology tree is a bit crooked.

Chapter 209 Artificial reproduction, the force of cosmic dimension ascending is coming

"Mr. Chen, it has nothing to do with material welfare."

"In the space age, our productivity has long since achieved universal welfare, prosperity for all, and equal housing.

Everyone can apply for a house for free as an adult, and after getting married and having a baby, they can also apply for a better improved housing.

Medical treatment has also been fully popularized, although after receiving the life-span drug injection, we no longer have any diseases except genetic and psychological aspects.

With the blessing of virtual technology and virtual learning, education is also based on balance, equality, and people-oriented. "

"It can be said that the people under Yifei no longer have any burden of pressure."

Facing Chen Yi's question, He Yu shook his head helplessly.

"Since it's not a welfare issue, and it's not a burden of pressure from previous concepts, there must be a reason for this."

Chen Yi knocked on the table with his fingers, raised the file and asked calmly: "It can't be because of the injection of longevity potion, the life expectancy exceeds 300 years, and with the birth of neuron modification potion, the real life span is expected to exceed a thousand years in the future.

These 20-year-old, 30-year-old, and 40-year-old young people suddenly become 300-month-old and 400-month-old babies. They feel that the matter of having a baby is too far away from them, and none of them have this idea? "

In the past, for a 300-month-old baby, this was just a kind of self-deprecating, a kind of self-spitting.

Now, with the promotion of Yifei's longevity medicine and the advent of neuron-modifying medicine, 300-month-old babies have become a reality.

Calculated in 300 years, 20 years old and 30 years old are about the same as the previous seven or eight years old.

If neuromodification drugs are included and the upper limit of neurons is increased, the life expectancy is expected to exceed a thousand years, and 30 years old is equivalent to two years old before. Calling a baby is definitely an appropriate name.

However, there is no law that prohibits a 30-year-old baby from having a baby.

Even understand the importance of population, entered the space age, after Yifei took over most of the areas, it also provided a series of welfare rewards and honor rewards for the birth of a baby.

However, judging from He Yu's report and the survey data in the documents, such benefits and honorary rewards have no actual effect at all.

Except for some areas that were relatively backward and conservative in the past, and it was difficult to make comprehensive changes in a short period of time, such as the Fed South, Camel, Camel East and other areas, the birth rate in other areas is almost zero.

The total birth rate of a few tenths per thousand is almost entirely driven by these backward areas.

But according to the Fed area, the situation in Yifei's home area.

Chen Yi can predict that as the living conditions in the Fed South, Luotuo, and Luotuo East areas catch up with Yifei's overall planning, conservative ideas will gradually open up, and the birth rate in these areas will definitely drop sharply.

"Director Lin has already done some research on this issue."

Regarding Chen Yi's continued questioning, He Yu did not answer, but stepped aside and handed over the stage to Lin Qian.

"Mr. Chen, this is the analysis report from our External Relations Department."

"With the development of the times and the advancement of science and technology, many social contradictions in the past will disappear, and many concepts and burdens will also dissipate, but new problems will also appear in the new era."

Lin Qian handed the report to Chen Yi, and reported calmly: "Aiming at the problem of the sharp drop in the birth rate this time, we conducted some investigation and analysis in the virtual second world.

With the full automation of production, the explosion of productivity, the coverage of universal welfare, housing, education, medical care, not giving children a good future, and even dowry gifts have disappeared.

Instead, another new kind of worry and worry is creeping up. "

"Concerns about the talent of future generations?"

Chen Yi probably guessed what Lin Qian was going to say.

"Yes."

"In the past, industrial development and production required a large number of workers and a large population. Coupled with the uneven wealth and education, many adults of the right age for marriage and childbearing, because they could not give their children a good future, gave themselves a better future. A good education for the child, and not wanting my child to become an assembly line worker in the future, a screw of the society, and the consideration of the bottom of the society, chose to lie flat and not marry and have children.”

"Now, none of the above problems exist."

"You don't need to worry about the education of your children's offspring, and you don't need to be a worker in fully automated production. The old social classes are all refreshed, the rich and the poor are balanced, and education is balanced."

"However, another social class is also forming, that is, a new class composed of researchers, scientists, and sociologists."

"In this class, education balance is only an aid. After all, everyone's education is the same, which means that there is no gap in education. The test is more about innate talent."

"As for talent, this is an inherent problem that makes people hopeless and uncontrollable."

"When having a baby becomes a bet with a high probability of losing, it will naturally make people feel worried."

"Most people of the right age for marriage and childbearing understand that the hope of their offspring entering this class is very slim, and they don't want their offspring to be like themselves, and they can only look up to a higher class for the rest of their lives."

"Such concerns, combined with the increase in lifespan brought about by lifespan potions, and the background that everyone is young and not in a hurry to have children, have become one of the main problems hindering fertility."

People do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequity.

This is the most essential social experience summed up by human beings for thousands of years.

If there is no higher class, everyone is the same, so naturally there will be no problem, but if there is a better class, there is a high probability that I will have no hope of entering, and this problem and anxiety will naturally appear.

After all, it is not the intention to eat and wait for death. If there is a better direction, people will instinctively pursue it.

But if there is something better, and you can't pursue better, lying flat will be unavoidable.

"There is no solution to this problem."

Chen Yi rubbed his head.

He understood Lin Qian's concerns.

It's just that this problem is temporarily unsolvable.

To ensure the stable and rapid development of Yifei and human civilization, scientific research is fundamental.

And to cultivate more scientific research talents, it is inevitable to give scientific research personnel better welfare conditions and social status.

Without better welfare and status, neuropathy will be a scientific research dog when everyone else is enjoying the welfare of the times.

Of course, unless the ideal person.

But ideals are, after all, a minority.

In such a minority group, if a very small number of talented researchers are screened out, this number cannot meet the needs of scientific research at all.

Although it is possible to increase the number of idealists through education, and even through the technique of thought stamping.

However, there are too many idealists, which is itself an unstable factor. If there is a little carelessness, human civilization and even Yifei will be blown to pieces.

After all, it is impossible for any decision or policy to satisfy everyone's ideas.

Mediocre people feel that their ideas are inconsistent, and they can still manage and suppress them, but idealists fight for their ideas, which is too fierce.

As for increasing the constraints of ideological seals and limiting the scope of ideals, the thinking potential of human beings will also be obliterated, and the problem will return to the original point, and it will not be possible to cultivate enough scientific research talents.

"Just now you said, talent concerns, the scientific research class, this is only one of the main reasons."

"What is the other reason?"

Thinking of this, Chen Yi didn't continue to scroll down the report, but asked about another reason for the collapse in the fertility rate.

"The people's knowledge level has improved, and the awakening of self-consciousness has suppressed the instinct to reproduce."

Lin Qian briefly explained the remaining reasons affecting the birth rate.

"Ok."

Chen Yi shook his head helplessly: "This is another unsolvable problem."

Briefly describe this problem.

That is, people began to pay attention to the pursuit of spiritual culture and values, thereby suppressing the instinct of biological reproduction.

From a biological, physiological point of view.

Reproduction is the pursuit of biological genes, not the pursuit of biological consciousness.

Looking at the history of human civilization development, it is not difficult to find that every progress of civilization is to get rid of the restraint of genes step by step and improve the existence of self-awareness little by little.

The more developed the region, the more people pay attention to spiritual and cultural resonance, rather than simple complementarity between men and women.

At the same time, the fertility rate in these areas is relatively lower.

Human beings exist because of the reproduction of genes.

But the development of human beings betrays the pursuit of genes step by step.

Perhaps, since human beings abandoned the evolutionary selection of genes and embarked on the road of independent intelligent evolution, the problem of fertility has already laid a scourge.

only.

In the past, the level of human civilization was too low, and the material conditions were not sufficient. This scourge has not yet been highlighted.

But now, civilization has entered the space age, and the material is extremely abundant, and this problem has completely emerged.

"Do you want to use artificial reproduction technology, enable social upbringing, and solve this birth rate problem?"

Chen Yi didn't read the analysis and suggestions at the end of the report, and directly and firmly stated the intentions of He Yu and Lin Qian.

"Yes."

"This is the only way to address fertility comprehensively right now."

"At the same time, according to the analysis of the think tank, this is also an inevitable choice for the development of civilization."

He Yu and Lin Qian nodded, acknowledging their reason for coming.

Anyway.

The current problem of the collapse of the birth rate of human civilization needs to be solved in a short time.

The longer it is delayed, the greater the impact on the future of mankind.

According to the analysis of Lin Qian and Yi Fei's external relations department and think tank.

The two main problems that hinder the birth rate today are problems that cannot be solved at the root.

Since the problem cannot be solved and people are unwilling to regenerate, then, simply do not need to regenerate.

It cannot be solved from the aspects of social structure and spiritual thinking, so, to put it simply, it can be solved from the technical level.

Whether it is artificial reproduction technology or social upbringing, Yifei now has sufficient technical foundation and productivity conditions.

However, the implementation of technologies and policies in this area requires consideration of ethical issues and concepts.

But ethics, in the face of the development of human civilization and the continuation of the human population, seem so insignificant.

"Tell me about the pros and cons of artificial reproduction and social upbringing that you think."

Chen Yi knocked on the table with his fingers, and didn't directly say no or agree, but asked He Yu and Lin Qian to talk about their specific views on this choice.

He Yu and Lin Qian looked at each other.

In the end, Lin Qian stood up and replied: "In terms of benefits, the first one is naturally to completely solve the problem of human fertility."

"With the use of artificial reproduction, there will be no need to worry about the continuation of population and future generations in the future, and at the same time, a comprehensive planning and coordination of population development will be realized."

"The second advantage is that Yifei's neuron transformation agent has already made a breakthrough, and it will be promoted to the outside world soon after the internal popularization is completed."

"At this time, artificial reproduction technology can be used to optimize and transform the next generation more conveniently."

"A human individual who has not undergone neuron transformation and implanted with a biological quantum brain chip will not be able to understand the Higgs field technology data model and complete documentation for decades or even a lifetime.

"Through this, we can foresee that in the future, with the continuous progress of human civilization, human individuals will also need to be continuously optimized and transformed to keep up with the needs of civilization development."

"Enabling artificial reproduction in this way will not only make it easier to complete transformation and optimization, but also collect various data more comprehensively and improve the technology of human transformation and evolution."

"As for the disadvantages of using artificial reproduction, there are three results of the current analysis."

"One is the impact of ethics, the other is safety considerations, and the last is the psychological growth and thinking talent of the fetus."

"Ethics needless to say."

"In terms of safety, just like human mothers are pregnant nowadays, pregnant women need to pay attention to the use of various drugs, virus infection, radiation contamination, etc. during the period. A little carelessness may affect the fetus, and even lead to premature death or deformity of the fetus. .”

"When artificial reproduction is enabled, the subject of pregnancy and reproduction changes from a human mother into a biological factory for reproduction."

"In addition to strict attention to factory hygiene management, radiation, and material contamination, the factory's control system, equipment, and instruments all have the risk of being controlled externally."

"The issue of the psychological growth of the fetus, this is to retrieve the files grown up in several orphanages, collect more than one million specimens of data, and then use the virtual second world to ensure that the privacy is not leaked. monthly actual tracking and analysis.”

"The final analysis results show that children who grow up in welfare institutions are 18.9 times more likely to have psychological problems than children who grow up in normal families."

"The ratio of low-level talent in art and scientific research is 8.9 times higher than that of children in normal families, and the proportion of high-level talent is also 4.2 times higher than that of children in normal families."

"However, according to further simulation predictions, improve the conditions of the orphanage, improve the various conditions of socialized rearing, and then change the external environment's perception and discrimination of socialized rearing children through education."

"The problem in this area can be fundamentally solved"

Lin Qian methodically explained the pros and cons of artificial reproduction and social upbringing.

After listening to Lin Qian's report, Chen Yi nodded, thought for a moment and said: "This matter is too important, let me think about it first, and you can complete the plan first."

"It's best, you can refer to the way of establishing economic development zones and special economic zones in the past when you were engaged in the economy, conduct a few pilot projects, and actually promote it for five or ten years. After confirming that there is no risk, you can gradually promote it comprehensively."

"Yes." Lin Qian replied respectfully.

"Boss, the artificial intelligence of the base detection command center suddenly fed back an urgent intelligence."

At this time, Xia Keke suddenly ran in from the outside with a report in hand, and said anxiously: "The tachyon space-time detector we released has detected abnormal space-time fluctuations with a speed exceeding the speed of light. track."

(End of this chapter)