Chapter 1181 Don’t Talk About Right and Wrong with Scientific Research

"Huh? Why does it sound like you can't eat the grapes and say the grapes are sour?" Huang Ling looked at the senior sister with a wicked smile. Qu Ping immediately understood what she meant and raised her hand to pat her.

"Don't fight! Don't fight! You are so angry! Senior sister!" Huang Ling was in a very good mood as she was having a fight with Qu Ping. Her nephew is growing up healthily and the project data is reliable. She is very satisfied.

Qu Ping patted her a few times and stopped making trouble. Instead, she became serious: "To be honest, marriage may no longer exist in the future. Think about it, now that the income of women in Xia Kingdom continues to increase, they no longer need to find someone. After living together, since there are no hard material needs and a woman is financially independent, she will not settle for the person she chooses. If she can't find the person she likes, she may not get married anymore! If she wants to have children, Then buy some sperm, or borrow some from the right person, it should be fine."

"Ahem!" Huang Ling was so frightened that she choked on her saliva, "Senior sister, I'm not suitable for you anymore, and you're asking for tadpoles from someone else. How is that person's wife feeling?"

"Keep it a secret. I won't ask him to admit my relationship."

"Why do I always feel like you're talking about your own situation? It's so immersive."

"Are you looking for another beating?"

"No……"

Qu Ping continued to express her point of view: "Don't make trouble. My point is that there are many ways for women to become mothers. The key is to educate their children, right? Your nephew is a good example.

Maybe in the future, the marriage system will no longer exist, and the reproductive system will naturally not operate as it does today. Then it will not seem so bizarre to find a tadpole for the person you love. "

Huang Ling thought about Qu Ping's words seriously, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. At least she had similar thoughts.

After thinking for a while, Huang Lin added: "Now that many people are starting to have children, the birth rate will definitely drop. Even if everyone has a higher income and more time, it will still drop. Some people no longer need to raise children for old age. Part of it is to transcend traditional concepts and pursue oneself. In this way, children will be even rarer. At that time, companies and countries will assume part of the responsibility for raising children. After all, population is always the greatest wealth. Without population, Civilization cannot continue.”

"What we have to do is make the process of virtual child-raising more scientific and controllable. What we have to wait for is the passage of external systems and regulations. That problem is left to Chen Xiao. Perhaps only he can solve this problem. matter."

"What's the matter? Give you a tadpole?"

"Pooh!"

The thesis on virtual child-raising has been completed, and Huang Ling and Qu Ping handed it over to Chen Xiao with trepidation. They really couldn't bear such a big burden, and they would be sprayed to death if they were not careful.

Chen Xiao did not hesitate at all. For the purpose of academic exchange, he published the paper in the scientific magazine of the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences and global mainstream media. As for foreign scientific magazines, these people will naturally reprint it, so there is no need to bother with them. greet.

The paper is written in great detail, giving a very comprehensive introduction to the project of raising children in the virtual world, and even announcing the impact on some specific factors.

“…We found that after transplanting a biochip into a baby, the environment built through the virtual world can effectively reduce the child’s insecurity.

Many children will subconsciously look for comfort from their parents when they rest at night. This is not because the children are spoiled, but because they are too young to accurately perceive the external environment.

That’s why we need to build a virtual environment to make them feel safe. Children who grow up in this way will be well restrained in their violent and anxious personalities.

...In view of children's interactive abilities, the virtual world can provide a variety of people and environments, allowing children to have the correct way to deal with different environments. This idea can be continued into childhood, allowing children to learn to communicate in unfamiliar environments, achieve their own ideas, or escape from danger.

…We are always worried that our children will not know how to deal with dangers. The virtual world can allow children to face a variety of dangerous conditions. Snowy mountains, deep forests, fires, waves, traffic, in these complex environments, children will learn the most knowledge the fastest.

...in terms of character building. The virtual world has highly intelligent AI and powerful algorithms so that children can live in a civilized and stable environment. If the people around you are civilized, your children will naturally become civilized as well. But it doesn’t mean that children don’t have vigilance and decisiveness. Those disaster trainings are not in vain.

...Finally, I would like to emphasize that the character shaping of babies and children will never be based on the virtual world. This is only a supplementary method. Children will eventually return to the real world, which involves issues of degree and requires more detailed consideration. . "

As soon as the paper was published, Qu Ping came to see Chen Xiao with a bottle of red wine.

Chen Xiao was surprised: "What are you doing? People who don't drink during working hours are specially looked at by the inspection department."

"Don't come here! I didn't ask you to drink right away, and it's almost time to get off work at noon. Why don't we have a meal?"

"Um, there's something else."

Qu Ping looked at the office next to her, disappointment flashed in her eyes: "I won't delay you and Shen Wei. I just want to say thank you. That paper was definitely going to cause an uproar, but you still published it for us. "

Chen Xiao waved his hand: "It's actually nothing. To be honest, I can't tell whether this project is wrong or right. It's not surprising that I was wrong this time."

"This is strange, then why do you insist on publishing it?"

"It is precisely because we don't know that we have to publish it for everyone to discuss and continue to implement it until more examples appear. If we want to verify it, we have to make it public. If it is done secretly, we will spend too much time. Also How about making it public all at once, looking for volunteers, and either moving forward or turning it into secret.”

"You're gambling."

"No, I am trying. Many new things were accompanied by controversy at the beginning. For example, in the Western Middle Ages, operating on people would be regarded as evil magic. Only with the development of the times today do we realize that this is a great thing. attempt.

In fact, Xia Guo began to perform shell surgeries on people thousands of years ago. Have you seen those instruments? The instruments of Western medicine are very similar to them. This means that the shell level of Xia's ancient medicine is not low. But why was it lost?

That's the difference between persisting and not persisting. People develop secretly in the name of witchcraft. We are controlled by our bodies, hair and skin and cannot be taken lightly by our parents, so we are falling further and further behind.

That’s why I want to make it public and insist on it, hoping to get confirmation in the end.

Of course, this cannot be ruled out as wrong. For example, the geocentric theory was thought to be right at first, but later we found out that it was wrong, but we still have to try.

New technology is bound to be accompanied by huge controversy. What we have to do is to prove ourselves and go through it according to our own ideas. Even if we are wrong in the end, we must at least know where we went wrong and not make it again. Even if everything fails in the end, let everyone know that this doesn't work. "

Qu Ping felt her blood boil when she heard that Chen Xiao had spent so much energy and money just for something that she was not sure whether it was right or not. But in Chen Xiao’s view, isn’t that the essence of science? What's so surprising about this.

"By the way, before you have lunch, I have a task to give you." Chen Xiao paused and forwarded a secret document to Qu Ping using a biochip.

"Are we... finally going to start?"

"Don't say such words that can easily be misunderstood. Go back and run this project properly. The massive data has kept you busy!" Chen Xiao suddenly felt helpless. When had Qu Ping been so mean-spirited? She He obviously said this because he heard the sound of high heels outside.

The door of Chen Xiao's company was not closed, for fear of not being able to tell clearly. Sure enough, the next moment, Shen Wei's face appeared, and she was stunned for a moment: "Let's talk."

"No, we're done talking. I won't disturb you anymore!" Qu Ping greeted Shen Wei with a smile. The moment they passed each other, she secretly swore in her heart: "I must ask him for tadpoles. I can't just be cheap. you!"

Shen Wei looked at Chen Xiao teasingly, and Chen Xiao was a little embarrassed: "We are really just talking about work..."

"Then why is there still a bottle of red wine?"

"..."

The project that Chen Xiao and Qu Ping explained is actually to use cell omnipotent technology to cultivate fertilized eggs and even somatic cells into complete human embryos.

The former technology is already very simple, while the latter is even more fantastic technology.

As we all know, the cell nucleus does have totipotent types, but the more differentiated the cell, the lower the totipotency. For example, during the fertilized egg period, the human body will regenerate cells on its own. To a certain extent, some cells will become the head and some cells will become the arms.

Once the prototype of a human being is formed, the cells throughout the body will be determined and have their own specific functions. Who has ever seen a skinned arm grow toes?

Therefore, the totipotency of germ cells is higher than that of somatic cells. If you want to turn somatic cells into human embryos, you have to reverse the transformation process and turn them into the stage of germ cells. Then, through environmental stimulation, genes make selections. Re-expressed into a complete human embryo.

On a small scale, this technology can make organs re-grow. Changtian Technology's organ mall is such an application. On a larger scale, it can also cultivate human limbs and grow arms, legs, etc. This time Chen Xiao played big, he wanted to have a complete life!

Qu Ping will have to conduct animal experiments in the next stage, find somatic cells from two animals, cut the chromosomes in half, and then synthesize the somatic cells with half the chromosomes together to simulate fertilization to form a complete, totipotent cell.

Cultivate this cell and see what kind of life you can get. One is to see whether the life form exceeds the characteristics of the original animal, and the other is to see whether the life form is capable of reproduction.

If this kind of experiment is in the animal experiment stage, it will conduct cross-species experiments to see what new species can be created. If it's in humans... Chen Xiao doesn't have a hobby of human-animal hybridization. He is very serious about the future reproduction of human beings.

After all, the fertility rate is too low now. Everyone is reluctant to have children because they think it takes time, costs a lot, delays life, and the upbringing of children is unknown. It is very possible that you have put in all your heart and soul and worked hard to teach an unsatisfactory child, and you feel like you are losing money just thinking about it.

This is why Chen Xiao openly raises children in a virtual world to reduce everyone's worries about raising children. The human cultivation program is started secretly because people are afraid that they will still not prepare to have children.

Chen Xiao is thinking about the future of mankind. If someone dares to scold Chen Xiao on this issue, Chen Xiao will say, you just get married and have children, so I don’t have to work so hard. I can just develop a virtual child-raising project, why bother to embark on the path of cultivating new human beings?

And this is why Qu Ping keeps teasing Chen Xiao. Since he knows that having children is important, why doesn't he take the lead in having children.

However, the project of cultivating new human beings should be kept secret for now, because the matter of raising children in the virtual world has caused an uproar. Even Chen Xiao has to weigh the acceptance of human beings.

Global academics and the global media have been blown away. Even those who support Changtian Technology will subconsciously feel that there is something wrong with Changtian Technology's approach. Many people criticize Changtian Technology for not mixing personal feelings. Those people or institutions that have always been at odds with Changtian Technology are openly scolding them.

"Changtian Technology has always mastered advanced technology, which inevitably makes them lose their respect for life. How inhumane is it to transplant biochips into infants and young children. It should be noted that such things are quite risky. And the virtual world raises Baby, it is a kind of deception." An expert from a domestic science weekly in Xia State commented.

"Scientific research should also be carried out within the legal framework. Currently, laws in Xia State and even around the world have certain regulations on the age of experimental subjects. Even if the regulations are vague, from the perspective of the simplest moral emotions, Changtian What Science and Technology did this time is also unacceptable." Even the biology guru from the Xia Academy of Sciences did not support it.

The hostile elements in foreign countries put it even more directly.

"This is an act against humanity. How can Changtian Technology have the heart to attack ignorant newborns?"

"Changtian Technology starts from infants and young children and starts collecting human data from here. The purpose behind this is chilling. Understanding human beings in all aspects does not mean completely benefiting human beings. It also has the possibility of destroying all human beings."

"This is an appalling humanitarian crisis. If we do nothing, it means that in the future, Changtian Technology can even directly control the thinking of our descendants, change their behavior, and become more in line with Changtian Technology's standards."

"No matter how big it is, no matter how advanced its technology is, we should not do whatever we want. Scientific research must be conducted within human nature. Changtian Technology is undoubtedly wrong this time! We should urge it to rein in its efforts!"

Amidst the scolding, some people supported Changtian Technology, and they also had their own reasons.