Chapter 3903 Trial and Error

Whether people accept or resist, time will continue to move forward, and technology will not stop exploring the soul.

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 idealistic discussion, we must determine who has and who does not. If we only look at the physical body, no matter what the skin color is, the human body composition is similar, with two eyes, a nose and a mouth, and it is difficult to distinguish people. We must discuss the inner, free will, scientific spirit, democratic spirit and other ideologies.

As the idealistic fields such as memory, feelings, and soul are also broken by scientists, consciousness can also be changed by technology, and these thoughts can gradually be quantified.

People can also easily change their own thoughts. No free will? Just install it. Then can we change our status immediately and be accepted by the free world?

The body and soul can be changed, and the gap between people seems to disappear. Everyone can become equal, right?

Obviously not. If everyone becomes a citizen, we can use annual income to distinguish.

When monarchs, nobles, citizens, freemen, and slaves cannot be clearly distinguished. Ancient Athens used annual income. When the decentralization of citizenship was completed after World War II, neoliberalism began.

On the surface, it seems that integration has been completed, but in the end, annual income is still used to distinguish.

So 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 people from each other.

Of course, the study of soul, memory, and emotion has also given rise to a new problem, that is, "cyber psychosis", an incurable disease with unknown cause but irreversible. After suffering from cyber psychosis, people will fall into hallucinations, become crazy, and finally cannot distinguish between friend and foe.

The first case of cyber psychosis appeared in the United States, but no one cared. They just thought it was a mechanical failure that caused the program to be confused. After everyone killed him, they didn't pay attention to it.

But similar situations appeared in other places, allowing relevant people to discover the connection between these symptoms. At first, they thought it was a quality problem of the electronic brain, or a design problem of the modified parts.

Repeated disassembly and dissection did not find the problem.

Finally, a researcher named this symptom "cyber psychosis", which is the inevitable result after 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 Corporation. It is a part with an "intelligent neural chip" implanted inside. This part is more powerful and magical than traditional modified parts, but more dangerous.

It doesn't matter if there are dangers. There are a large number of poor people who are willing to take risks. They are willing to be experimental subjects. They want to become legends in Night City. Night City is a city-state, which is very similar to ancient Athens and the Renaissance. The scope of a city-state is very small, and people can be distinguished by annual income. There are a large number of poor people as experimental materials, and they have the opportunity to become legends.

Of course, there are no living legends in Night City. Using new parts to gain power will eventually go crazy and collapse.

For new parts that can cause cyber psychosis, the island country has adopted a ban on sales. Because this kind of part will definitely increase the pressure on public security, it is better not to import it.

Not importing does not mean not smuggling.

One year after the emergence of cyber psychosis, the island country had the first case. A modified person went crazy and killed people everywhere, destroying the entire shopping mall, killing and injuring more than 100 people, causing extremely bad consequences.

This case has nothing to do with Section 9. They just saw the case report on the news and determined that it was a cyberpsychosis.

They didn't feel anything. After so many years of hard work, the situation in the island country has become worse and worse, and more and more chaotic. Section 9 has not reduced the crime rate at all, but has increased it a lot.

Section 9 is like pushing a stone to the top of the mountain, watching the stone roll down, and then pushing it up again.

Faced with an increasingly worse social environment, Section 9 only feels that its efforts are a drop in the bucket.

"Are cyberpsychosis starting to appear? With the first case, I think the second and third cases will appear soon. Just like the previous "soul stripping case", with the first case, there will be the second and third cases, and 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, it will be legal. What are we doing in Section 9?" Togusa looked haggard. He has been working hard for so many years, but the results are getting worse and worse.

The whole country is in decline. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is no way to change it.

"Don't worry, it's just a cyclical law. In the end, a civil war will break out, and the cost will be reduced." Duran was not surprised at all, because the final result of capital operation is like this.

"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 capital operation. I have said it before. It is difficult to make money, but it is even more difficult to maintain the value after making money. Land annexation leads to uprisings. Tulip and art speculation, and finally the bubble bursts. Investing in scientific and technological research and development? In the past, technology was simple and you could try it, but now technology is becoming more and more complex, and the investment is getting bigger and bigger. Rich people only dare to play with biotechnology, and dare not play with physics at all. The cost of making a particle collider in physics can build ten biological research laboratories. So in the end, the money still has to go into electricity, water conservancy, roads and other fields, increasing costs."

Durand has long said that the development of science and technology is a byproduct of capital appreciation. It is a way for landlords and businessmen to preserve their wealth after they have money, but it is not the only way.

Because in the West, after robbing money from the Crusades, they did not focus on science and technology at the beginning, but tried many other methods, and finally found science and technology among several methods of preserving value.

At the beginning, the Renaissance was about art, which increased the value of art. After the Age of Discovery, the first sun never sets was about religious expansion. Then the Sea Coachman was about tulip traps. Then the second sun never sets started to work on steam engines, mainly because they had coal, discovered rubber, and improved steam engines.

Moreover, after the second sun never sets formed an industrial advantage, it did not continue to invest. Instead, Germany and the United States continued to invest in the electric revolution and surpassed the second sun never sets.

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Many people always think that capitalism is equal to industry and science, which is a huge mistake. Because technology is just a container of capital, it is very useful at the beginning and can accumulate capital quickly. But soon the container will not make money fast enough and will be abandoned.

From a historical perspective, in addition to industry, capital also has other options such as art, tulips, and land. It does not have to be tied to industry.

So capital is not equal to industry, nor is it equal to science.

Science is just a path that capital has taken after repeated trial and error, not because capital has any superiority. It is because after plundering the resources of the New World, wealth has expanded unprecedentedly, the tolerance rate has increased, and it is the result of various attempts.

Just like the initial mu tax of Lu, the county system of Chu, the official mountains and seas of Qi, and the military merit titles of Wei in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period. It was hundreds of countries that continued to annex and strengthen, and finally a new system different from Zhou Li was born, all of which were tried out through continuous trial and error.

For example, the official mountains and seas, King Li of Zhou also tried, but his means were not as good as Guan Zhong's, so he failed.

In short, it was all explored through continuous trial and error, not a miracle directly sent down by a certain nation with the blessing of God. And trial and error must cost money, who spends the money?

In the past, the costs were borne by the indigenous people of the New World and the late-developing agricultural countries. When capital needs to bear the costs itself, promoting technology is no longer the only option. Land, tulips, artworks, food and other commodities are more suitable for the needs of capital.

Technology is not the best choice for capital.

Technology has costs. Now the island countries bear the costs of technology themselves. Capital has flowed into assets such as land, tulips, artworks, and food, further increasing the cost of trial and error, weakening everyone's tolerance for error, leading to a continuous increase in crime rates and increasing chaos in the island countries.