Regardless of whether everyone accepts or resists, time will continue to advance, and technology’s exploration of the soul will never stop.
The question of ‘what is a human being’ is constantly raised.
This is the same as who has Buddha nature and who does not. The ultimate goal is to determine the boundary between us and them. Once we enter the discussion of idealism, we must determine who has it and who does not. If we only look at the physical body, regardless of skin color
Well, human beings have almost the same body composition. They all have two eyes, a nose and a mouth. It is difficult to separate people. We have to discuss ideologies such as inner nature, free will, scientific spirit, democratic spirit and so on.
As idealistic fields such as memory, emotion, and soul are also broken through by scientists, consciousness can also be changed using technology, and these thoughts can gradually be quantified.
People can also change their thoughts easily. Don’t have free will? Just install it. Will you be able to change your mind immediately and be accepted by the free world?
Both the body and the soul can be changed. It seems that the differences between people can disappear and everyone can become equal, right?
Obviously not. If everyone becomes a citizen, they can be distinguished by their annual income.
When monarchs, nobles, citizens, freemen, and slaves could not be clearly distinguished. Ancient Athens used annual income. When the decentralization of citizenship was completed after World War II, neoliberalism began.
On the surface, the integration seems to be completed, but in the end, annual income continues to be used to differentiate.
Therefore, even if the soul, memory, emotion, and body become exactly the same, society can still use annual income as a distinction, and can easily distinguish between people.
Of course, the study of the soul, memory, and emotions has also given rise to a new problem, which is 'cyberpsychosis', an incurable but irreversible disease with unknown causes. After suffering from cyberpsychosis, people will fall into hallucinations.
, became crazy, and finally became indistinguishable between ourselves and the enemy.
The first case of cyberpsychosis appeared in the American Empire, but no one paid much attention to it. They just thought that it was a mechanical failure that caused program chaos. After everyone killed him, they paid no attention to it.
But similar situations occurred in other places, allowing relevant people to discover the connection between these symptoms. At first, they thought it was a quality problem with the electronic brain, or a design problem with the modified parts.
After repeated dissection and dissection, no problem was found.
Finally, a researcher named this symptom "cyber psychosis", which is the inevitable result of the modification of new parts. The higher the degree of modification, the greater the probability of getting sick.
This new type of part is the 'thinking part' developed by Arasaka Company. It is a part with an 'intelligent neural chip' implanted inside. This kind of part is more powerful, more magical, but more dangerous than traditional modified parts.
There are dangers, it doesn't matter, there are a lot of poor people who are willing to take risks, they are willing to be guinea pigs, and they will become the legends of Night City. Night City is a city-state, very similar to ancient Athens and the Renaissance era. The scope of a city-state is very small.
, it is completely possible to use annual income to distinguish people. There are a large number of poor people doing experiments, and they have a chance to become legends.
Of course, there are no living legends in Night City. If you use new parts to gain power, you will eventually go crazy and collapse.
The island country has adopted a ban on the sale of new parts that can cause cyberpsychosis. Because such parts will definitely increase the pressure on public security, it is better not to import them.
Not importing does not mean not smuggling.
A year after the emergence of cyberpsychosis, the first case appeared in the island country. A modified man went crazy and killed everyone, destroying the entire shopping mall, killing and injuring more than a hundred people, causing extremely bad consequences.
This case had nothing to do with Section 9. They just saw reports of the case on the news and determined that it was cyberpsychosis.
They don't feel anything at all. After so many years of hard work, the situation in the island country has become worse and worse and more and more chaotic. Lesson 9 has not reduced the crime rate at all, but has increased it a lot.
Lesson 9 is like pushing a stone up to the top of a mountain, watching it roll down, and then pushing it up again.
Facing the increasingly bad social environment, Jiu Ke only felt that his efforts were in vain.
"Has cyberpsychosis begun? With the first case, I think the second and third cases will appear soon. Just like the previous 'soul stripping case', after the first case, there will be a third case.
In the second and third cases, the law has been changed. As long as the girl signs a voluntary letter, the soul can be legally stripped. Haha, as long as the law is legal, what are our nine classes doing?" Togusa has become haggard a lot. After so many years, it will be legal.
He keeps trying, but the results get worse and worse.
The entire country is in decline, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it, but there is no way to change it.
"Don't worry, it's just a cyclical law. In the end, a civil war breaks out, just keep the costs down." Duran was not surprised at all, because this is the final result of capital operation.
"Are you going to talk about those red theories again?"
"This has nothing to do with the color of the theory. This is the inevitable result of the operation of capital. I have said it long ago that it is difficult to make money, but how to maintain value after making money is even more difficult. Land annexation leads to uprisings. Speculation in tulips and art will eventually lead to bubble explosions.
Invest in technology research and development? In the past, technology was simple and could be tried, but now
As technology becomes more and more complex and investment becomes more and more huge, rich people only dare to play with biotechnology and do not dare to play with physics at all. The cost of building a particle collider in physics can build ten biological research laboratories. So in the end
Money still has to go into electricity, water conservancy, roads, etc., which increases costs."
Duran has long said that the development of science and technology is a by-product of capital appreciation. It is a way for landlords and businessmen to preserve value after they have money, but it is not the only way.
Because in the West, after grabbing money from the Crusades, they did not focus on technology from the beginning, but tried many other methods, and finally found technology among several methods of preserving value.
In the beginning, the Renaissance was about art and increasing the value of art. After the great voyage, the first "The Sun Never Sets" was about religious expansion. Then the Sea Coachman was about tulip traps. And then the second "The Sun Never Sets" was about the expansion of religion.
The main reason why they started to develop steam engines was because they had coal, discovered rubber, and improved steam engines.
Moreover, after the Second Sunset established its industrial advantage, it did not continue to invest. Instead, Germany and the United States continued to invest in the electric power revolution, surpassing the Second Sunset.
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Many people always think that capitalism is equal to industry and science. This is a huge mistake. Because technology is just a container for capital. It is very useful at first and can quickly accumulate capital. But soon the container is not fast enough to make money.
, will be abandoned.
From a historical perspective, in addition to industry, capital also has art, tulips, land and other options, so there is no need to hang on industry at all.
Therefore, capital is not equal to industry or science.
Science is just a path that capital happens to find after many trials and errors, not because of any superiority of capital. It is because after plundering the resources of the New World, wealth has expanded unprecedentedly, the error tolerance rate has increased, and it is the result of various attempts.
Just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the first land tax of Lu State, the system of prefectures and counties of Chu State, the officials, mountains and seas of Qi State, and the military meritorious titles of Wei State. Hundreds of countries continued to annex and strive for strength, and finally gave birth to something different from Zhou Li.
The new system was developed through constant trial and error.
For example, King Zhou Li also tried Guan Shanhai, but his methods were not as good as Guan Zhong's and he failed.
In short, it is all discovered through constant trial and error. It is not that a certain nation has the blessing of God and a direct miracle. And trial and error requires spending money. Who spends the money?
In the past, the aboriginal people of the New World and the late-developing agricultural countries borne the costs. But when capital needs to bear the costs, promoting technology is not the only option. Commodities such as land, tulips, artworks, food, etc. are more suitable for the needs of capital.
Technology is not the best choice for capital.
Technology has a cost. Now island countries bear the cost of technology themselves. Capital has poured into assets such as land, tulips, artworks, and food, further pushing up the cost of trial and error, weakening everyone's error tolerance, and leading to an increasing crime rate.
The island nation is becoming increasingly chaotic.