Human beings cannot predict the future and do not know what challenges they will encounter in the future. So how should we take the future?
Should I give up my body and ascend mechanically, or should I keep my physical body and let nature take its own course?
"If everyone is transformed into robots, and a sunspot crisis breaks out in the future and destroys the earth's electronic products, it will be completely ruined. If electronics are scrapped, they will need human bodies." Togusa looked at the anti-robot parade below and said something.
a possibility.
"That makes sense, but it's not enough to support your theory with a hypothetical future. You can assume that sunspots erupt, and I can also assume a future where sunspots don't occur, to prove that mechanical ascension is the way out for mankind.
"Dulan said: "So the best way is to accept mechanical ascension for humans, and for those who don't accept it, keep the physical body."
"After all, machines designed by humans cannot match the physical body designed by nature. The complexity of biological bodies far exceeds that of all robots. The thinking created by nature also surpasses the program of neural chips. Only natural and complex systems have more potential.
." Togusa believes that things created by nature are better than machines created by humans.
"Perhaps so, but human beings want to transform nature." Duran does not deny the complexity of the human body or the infinite possibilities of living things, but human beings consider solving the current problems, which requires transforming nature, including transforming the natural body.
Togusa also knows that it is impossible for humans to stop mechanization. This is the main direction for human beings to promote productivity. The natural body alone is indeed not enough.
This is the conflict between nature and human beings. The demonstrations against robots are very fierce, but they have no effect. Factories choosing robots and giving up labor are inevitable choices in competition. Rather than being eliminated because factories are good or evil and do not upgrade their productivity, this
It's a very real problem.
But robots have indeed taken away the jobs of ordinary people, and also taken away their electricity, fresh water and other resources. Although they maintain basic survival, they cannot see the future at all.
But will getting rid of robots solve the problem? Obviously not, we will lose competitiveness, factories will close, and workers will still be unemployed. This is a very difficult dilemma.
Section 9 does not need to worry at the moment. They still have work and they still have to continue investigating the case. Next is a spy case. There are foreign spies who have sneaked into the island country to carry out sabotage. Section 9 needs to arrest them.
The espionage case is not a big problem. After all, this is the territory of the Nine Sections. No matter how powerful the spy is, he can go deep alone.
"Our goal is not only to arrest spies, but also to investigate the spies' contacts in the island country, and to show no mercy to such scum who betray the country," Motoko said.
Du Lan thought that it must be another official who wanted to do business with foreign countries, so he contacted a spy.
The island country is now in a state of isolation, but isolation does not mean that there is no trade, but that it restricts a few people to trade and holds the power of trade in their own hands.
This is very important and can be said to be the core interest of the island country.
Dulan remembered a TV series that said that a small country needed a defense budget to build a navy. So someone asked why a small country like us wanted to build a navy. Do we want to go to war with Dongda? The general replied: No, we are not doing it for
The purpose of starting a war with Dongda is to prevent Dongda's fleet from hindering our trade with Dongda.
This country needs to trade with Dongda, and even if it builds a navy, it must ensure trade with Dongda.
The situation of the island countries is similar. It is not that they must trade with the East, but they must maintain trade with the world's largest market. In the past, it was the Sui, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, not long ago, it was to leave Asia and join Europe, and now it is to cling to the US empire.
The history of the island country is that whoever controls trade controls the island country. The samurai were able to suppress the nobles and complete a magnificent turn because they controlled the trade of the Song Dynasty, and the samurai had sufficient resources. In the Ming Dynasty, different samurai families competed for trade rights, even in
War in the Ming Dynasty.
The so-called Meiji Restoration was also due to the arrival of black ships that brought new trade objects. The overthrow movement was not about samurai swords fighting, but the Tibetan rulers buying foreign guns and cannons from abroad.
In the past, the shogunate controlled trade, which meant that the country was closed to the outside world. But after the arrival of the black ships, the local feudal lords also gained the ability to trade, and they were able to initiate the overthrow. After that, the island countries began to leave Asia and join Europe, just to control trade.
For island countries, obtaining funds from external trade is their core interest. Whoever controls trade controls the island country.
In the era of cyberpunk, this principle has not disappeared. Island countries are still closed to the outside world and control internal and external trade. Whoever controls trade is the boss.
If the spy wants to conduct smuggling or other transactions with the inside, that will definitely not work.
The boss doesn't want another black ship coming.
Section 9 took action to monitor the spies, follow the clues, and catch the traitors.
It's not a big problem. No matter how the spies hide, they are no match for the Nine Classes. The Nine Classes are professionals.
This time, the spies used a weird smuggling method, putting their electronic brains into other people's bodies, so that they could use other people's identities to enter the island country and hide their identity.
But if you use someone else's identity and do things that are inconsistent with your identity, you will easily be suspected.
Duran said: "This time it is a physical replacement of the brain, but there is no memory implantation or soul modification. It is very ordinary and has no mystery at all."
The previous cases were all related to memory and soul. This time it is too ordinary to just replace the electronic brain.
The puppet master directly changes the memory and completes the task without anyone noticing, leaving no physical traces.
And if you change your brain, it will leave many physical traces.
"A case is a case, no matter whether the criminal's methods are clever or crude, we will arrest him." Suzi seriously criticized Duran's picky behavior.
Killing someone with a high IQ is a crime, and killing someone with passion is also a crime. As long as it is a crime, Section 9 must investigate it.
Those who contact spies are people from the Self-Defense Forces. Now the Self-Defense Forces can also station troops abroad, so every time they go abroad and return home, they bring a large amount of smuggled items with them.
When you go abroad, you bring neural chips with you, and when you return home, you bring a large amount of illegal drugs. However, some problems occurred recently, and the spies had to enter the island country to discuss with the contact person of the Self-Defense Forces.
"I thought it was an assassination." When Togusa heard that it was a spy case, he suspected it was an assassination.
Duran said: "At first, I thought it was an assassination mission, but when I thought about the captain saying that the spies had contacts, I guessed that it must be an illegal transaction."
"Assassinations can also involve contact persons, who may be preparing weapons for spies." Togusa said.
"If you want to kill people, it is definitely more appropriate to use people lurking in the island country to do it. It would be too troublesome to find someone from abroad who is not familiar with the terrain and easy to be discovered. It is even easier to use a robot to assassinate directly. There is no need to find a person.
Killer. So I reasoned that it was illegal trade."
Dulan believes that there are many ways to assassinate someone, and there is no need to find a killer from abroad.
Togusa was right when he thought about it. It was indeed easy to find a killer. After all, the island country had a traitor, and the island country also planted spies abroad.
If a traitor in the island country takes action, the island country will be caught off guard. But by finding a killer, the island country's spies deployed abroad may obtain information, just like this time. It was the island country's spies abroad who obtained the information, and Section 9 was able to monitor it in time.
"Get ready to arrest! The opponent is an official of the Self-Defense Forces. He may mobilize troops. We must fight quickly."
Bart said: "Copy that. I didn't expect that when I returned to the army again, I would arrest my comrades. It's really infuriating!" He was a soldier in the special operations team and had participated in battles abroad. He had feelings for the army.
Illegal smuggling is a huge scandal, so Bart is very angry. These illegal elements are bringing trouble to self-defense.
During the arrest, the officer chose to escape and resist, and mobilized the military's smart tanks to attack Section 9.
The Nine Classes were not afraid of these things, and launched smart tanks to fight back. At the same time, they used hacking technology to paralyze army tanks, and finally arrested officers and spies.