The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 540 Luo Ji's Last Words
The so-called "evolutionary theory of machine organisms" first refers to the evolutionary theory of natural organisms.

Taking humans as an example, somatic cells have diverse functions and are a combination of cells and bacteria.

This huge combination evolved step by step. A long time ago, cells linked together to strengthen their competitiveness.

So multicellular organisms appeared, and then with the superposition of cells, the cells showed a diversified division of labor.

Some are responsible for hunting other single-celled organisms, while others are responsible for digesting prey.

After that, with the needs of survival, the functions of the cells increased, gradually forming the complex machine of the human body.

Modern civilization seems to be repeating this process.

The scholar who proposed the "machine biological evolution theory" did a thought experiment.

Take a large spaceship as an example, assuming that this spaceship has a high degree of intelligence, it will conduct a long space flight, and the passengers will not have contact with the outside world for a long time.

In such an environment, the daily maintenance of the spacecraft by passengers is like the repair function of cells to the body.

On the other hand, in order to have a long lifespan, the spaceship will try to provide passengers with a stable and harmonious living environment, allowing the passengers to reproduce on their own, and the new generation will continue to maintain the spaceship.

Suppose thousands of years later, what would this spaceship look like again?

Passengers are becoming more and more accustomed to the comfortable environment and leave more things to the artificial intelligence of the spacecraft to make decisions. After a few generations, they may forget the original intention of the spacecraft when it set off.

At this time, the spacecraft has already mastered the course, and it has the final say on how to fly and where to fly.

And the passenger becomes like a somatic cell in the human body, which only has a single function of maintenance.

Passengers have become a bit like body cells. Their appeal is a stable and comfortable living environment, just like body cells will make appeals to the nervous system after their own energy is consumed, and then the human body will feel tired or hungry.

But somatic cells have long been unable to affect a person's subjective thoughts, at most they can affect a person's emotions.

As time goes on, the spaceship needs more energy and resources to produce and replace its own parts.

Then, in order to collect these resources and energy, the spacecraft will make some modifications to itself, and have the ability to collect energy and resources by itself.

Can the change of passenger status be regarded as the beginning of cell division?
Is the transformation of the spacecraft to make itself more adaptable to the current environment a kind of evolution?
At this time, should the spaceship be regarded as a machine life?

Jiang Yu also glanced out the porthole. This idea is very interesting, but for now, it can only be regarded as a thought experiment.

He remembered that when he was young, someone compared a city or a nation to a living body.

But Jiang Yu's study in college made him realize something.

Such a metaphor is inappropriate. The formation of human society is closely related to nature, but the more it develops, the more it breaks away from nature, and it is currently running on a dark road that no one can clearly see.

After reading these two reports, the subsequent travel became boring for Jiang Yu.

Fortunately, the time of this trip is very short, only 2 days and 22 hours.

Jiang Yu and others raised their spirits and escaped from the speed of light flight as planned.

At this time, more than 40 years have passed outside the curvature of the flight.

The last time Jiang Yu flew away from the speed of light, he left a psychological shadow, so during this time, he stayed in the central control room.

Fortunately, everything was normal during this flight at the speed of light. Starship Earth's planetary system was at the position calculated more than 40 years ago, and there was no sudden attack.

Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to contact the young actress, the video call request from No. [-] was sent first.

After the call was connected, the unchanging No. [-] said anxiously: "I will report to you later on the progress of these years. Teacher Luo Ji is critically ill and is waiting for the last call with you."

Jiang Yu's heart tightened, but when he thought about it carefully, Luo Ji was already over 200 years old this year. He was from the Yuan Dynasty and had only undergone simple genetic modification. It was already a miracle that he could live to this age.

He said, "Help me connect to Teacher Luo Ji!"

The screen turned, and Jiang Yu saw Luo Ji, who was already skinny and out of shape, and Zhuang Yue, who already had wrinkles on his face, sitting in front of the hospital bed with a sad face.

Luo Ji lay on the hospital bed with his eyes tightly closed, because his heart and lung function had already failed, and he could no longer see his breathing.

Currently, an artificial heart and an artificial lung are being used to maintain Luo Ji's vital signs.

As soon as the call was connected, Jiang Yu heard Luo Ji's voice: "Finally, it's finally you!"

Lying on the hospital bed, Luo Ji didn't open his mouth. It was Luo Ji's consciousness that was talking to Jiang Yu.

Although his body is already old and out of shape, his consciousness has been sticking to it, waiting for Jiang Yu.

As soon as Jiang Yu heard Luo Ji's voice, his vision blurred: "Teacher Luo Ji, I've kept you waiting."

"Benefits, I want to tell you, interests, a very important thing..."

Luo Ji's words were a little confused, and his consciousness was also a little confused at this time.

Jiang Yu listened carefully to him and continued: "I seem to have discovered the key, I have discovered that interests are the key!
Because Luo Ji communicated with Jiang Yu with his consciousness, he sounded full of air, but his words were a little out of order: "Remember, profit is the key!"

For a moment, Jiang Yu didn't know what to think about: "I will keep it in mind, do you have any instructions?"

"Bury me, bury me on the ground, preferably in Teacher Ye's cemetery, and wait for the day when the earth will be bathed in sunlight again so that I can bask in the sun."

Jiang Yu nodded: "Okay."

"Hey, you are tired too, but human beings need to be strong..."

"Don't worry, one day, humans will dominate the entire universe!"

"I seem to see a light," Luo Ji's words suddenly became clear: "My wife has come to pick me up."

Zhuang Yan passed away more than 20 years ago.

Luo Ji's voice disappeared, and the instrument showed that Luo Ji's consciousness could no longer be detected.

Jiang Yu stood in the central control room for a long time without saying a word. After a while, he found a seat and sat down.

A series of memories appeared in Jiang Yu's mind. It was a sunny afternoon.

Twenty-seven and eight years old, the youthful Luo Ji stood in front of him: "Sorry, I still have classes in the afternoon, so I don't have time to tutor you or answer your questions. If you have any questions, go to the library and read more books." .”

At that time, Luo Ji was full of energy, but his eyes were numb and frustrated.

Also in the hall of the United Nations, Secretary-General Say announced: "No.5 Wallfacer, Luo Ji."

Like a puppet, Luo Ji walked up to the rostrum in a daze.

After sitting quietly for a long time, Jiang Yu's sadness finally subsided. He said, "Teacher Luo Ji was originally an ordinary person. It was the whole human race who pushed him to the front. We owe him a life of his own!"

(End of this chapter)