Chapter 1107: Technological Involution and Leap

What Palmien actually told Frey was an idea that Knight Frey had no ability to verify.

How to say this research direction...

Inspiration is very cheap, but it costs a lot of money. (Assuming that there is still a general equivalent of "money" in this era.)

The whole process is simply to use this kind of scientific research inspiration at the level of "mixing graphene with bird shit and then writing a paper".

In the early 21st century, "graphene" was once a research hotspot in the field of chemistry. Since graphene was discovered in 2004, it has been widely used in various fields, including sensors, transistors, flexible displays, seawater desalination, aerospace, new energy materials, and electrocatalysts. Taking the direction of "graphene doping as an electrocatalyst" as an example, different graphene synthesis methods are combined with various element single doping, mixed doping, SEM, XPS and even synchrotron radiation characterization, plus the improvement of electrochemical performance, and finally the value of the research is sublimated at the end of the article, it is a high-level paper.

Until 2020, a chemist from the University of Toronto mixed bird shit with graphene and published a paper titled "Can any shit improve the performance of graphene?" As written in the article, considering that there are 84 reasonable and stable elements (excluding inert gases and carbon), 84 graphene articles doped with one element can be written; doping with two elements can find 3486 combinations, doping with three elements we can publish 95284 articles, and doping with four elements this number can be close to 2×10^6.

There is a poem: If the idea is not clear, add some graphene; if the submission is not smooth, apply some perovskite.

You can't say that this is not a meaningful direction, but in terms of the "technical content" of "inspiration", this is really... not very smart.

In a sense, it is just to transform mental labor into physical labor.

But this kind of physical labor also has a high threshold in a sense.

You have to really find so many cutting-edge transformation technologies, and you have to have the conditions to realize them one by one.

Just the former, which of the cutting-edge cell-level transformation technologies is not confidential? Before being open sourced by the knight, these technologies will be locked and will never be transferred to the grassroots.

And Nia Guti has been active in the vicinity for these years, and is also looking for an opportunity to open source.

As one of the deputy leaders of the Life Furnace, Palmien can really obtain relevant technical information and implement it one by one.

To be honest, this is simply the best result expected by Xiangshan.

In fact, Xiangshan has also thought about taking out some of his own cells in the knight's base and then testing the compatibility of these cells with existing transformation technologies. One test after another, the correct solution can always be found.

This can bypass the most complex research.

Humans have not yet fully mastered life.

However, first, this requires a huge amount of materials, second, this requires a huge amount of materials, and third, this requires a huge amount of materials.

In short, Nia Guti did not consider this possibility at the beginning.

Palmien is equivalent to using his own resources to directly solve the problem that Xiangshan is most concerned about.

And Xiangshan is more concerned about another problem.

"This... Is the number of special samples A-RG-13 really enough?"

This involves another problem.

Xiangshan has not yet found the synthesis path of the mysterious cytoskeleton, nor does he know the conditions for its activation.

The only thing that has been confirmed is that the synthesis path and decomposition path of this substance are closed under normal conditions. Under normal conditions, the cells of the special sample A-RG-13/Xiangshan will neither generate it nor decompose it. Moreover, the activation conditions of these paths are also "unknown".

Perhaps cells can synthesize it under certain conditions. Perhaps it is the result of another artificial synthetic substance injected from the outside and decomposed in the cell. There are many technical achievements in both directions.

In other words, even if the special sample A-RG-13 is cloned, the cloned neural cell sample will not carry that special cytoskeleton. Xiangshan's cells that proliferate abnormally due to some strange genetic disease do not contain this type of cytoskeleton.

Xiangshan cannot pull neurons from his brain all day long. Even if modern biotechnology can already culture neural stem cells in vitro and fill them in a targeted manner, it cannot withstand such pulling.

This leads to a limited total number of special samples A-RG-13.

Of course, after implanting the artificial neural circuit, it is also necessary to adjust the neural network and remove a small number of nerve cells to achieve the optimization of the neural network and release the pressure inside the brain.

After absorbing the legacy of the Eighth and Ninth Martial Gods, Xiangshan himself had this need, so he took the initiative to remove a small number of inactive neural circuits. In the following period of time, the brain's compensation mechanism will make the use of this part of the circuit as much as possible to concentrate on the more efficient artificial neural circuit.

Which part needs to be removed and which part needs to be retained, all need to be determined through long-term monitoring and recording.

All are accurate to the cellular level.

Xiangshan handed over less than a thousand neurons this time, and there is no way to increase it in the short term.

If they found a way to synthesize this cytoskeleton, they would have been kicked out long ago.

"Don't you know?" Palmien said with a smile, "The most sophisticated instruments can test 'coexistence or not' on a single cell. As long as the cell has not died after the new transformation technology is implanted, it can be proved that the technology can indeed coexist. And special enzymes can also reverse this process."

This is not necessarily Huandan enzyme. The function of Huandan enzyme is to restore the growth state and repair damage. However, Huandan enzyme is powerless for things like special special protection skeletons and artificial organelles whose decomposition paths do not necessarily exist in cells.

The decomposition paths of some artificial objects in cells do not exist at all. They need external input of corresponding enzymes to complete the decomposition.

And in this process, a single neuron can be used repeatedly.

Most mature cell-level transformation technologies will develop reduction methods at the same time as developing transformation methods. Of course, these are two projects.

Just like boiled water can significantly inhibit cancer cells in vitro, but cancer cannot be cured so simply and crudely in vivo.

The reaction paths of many substances in cells, drawn on a graph, are a complex network, and a single hair can move the whole body. Although enzymes have high specificity, how do you know whether the enzyme you designed has only absolute specificity, relative specificity or stereoisomer specificity?

Even from the design principle, an enzyme can indeed target only one substance. But this enzyme itself should be able to be decomposed by other enzymes in the cell - this is a safety requirement. The enzyme used for reverse surgery must have a decomposition path in the cell, otherwise it may go wrong.

In fact, it is the knight's technology that is not very standardized, which is easy to leave hidden dangers in related aspects. Too many enzymes designed without decomposition paths are a burden to cells.

"Although I have heard that you have abundant resources on the 'shore'..." Xiangshan tried to synthesize a "jealous" tone, "but this is too abundant. I never thought that it could be this... this..."

"You will have it in the future." Palmien was very ambitious. He patted Frey's arm to encourage him.

According to the fashion among scientific knights, since Knight Frey shared so much with him, he Palmien should give back. Palmien deliberately threw out a direction that Knight Frey absolutely couldn't afford to advance at this stage.

In fact, this can only be regarded as part of Palmien's project.

- You see, Knight Frey is also very satisfied, right?

Palmien thought so, and the guilt in his heart subsided a little.

Perhaps out of a "compensation" mentality, he even introduced many technical details to Frey in detail.

The kind that the knight can't get.

Yes, according to the regulations, this kind of thing cannot be made public at will. However, that is a taboo set by the Gene Bank Defense Armed United Temple.

Who are they? Six Dragon Sect members!

Six Dragon Sect members communicate with each other, do they still need to abide by these things?

And Xiangshan was more and more emotional.

If everyone in the Six Dragon Sect and even the scientific research knights were like Lord Palmien, the situation of the knight might be greatly different.

And following Palmien, Xiangshan also had a deeper understanding of the appearance of "cell-level transformation technology" today.

Compared with what Palmien is showing now, Yogmoth three hundred years ago was just putting together blocks.

Or it should be described this way, Yogmoth just figured out the operating rules of the machine, then found a few available instructions, merged the databases, and then "It just works".

Perhaps before Yogmoth happily showed that cell, thousands of cells had died in his culture dish.

And to this day, humans still don't understand every line of code in the two merged databases - the Earth Biology Database and the Olorun Biology Database. This is a huge pile of shit for billions of years.

But they can already accurately type in a few lines of code, and then use injected drugs as instructions to activate it.

There are also some modifications, even using magnetic particles to physically change the electromagnetic properties of local cells.

It's really like building a temple in a snail shell.

How to say it...

It's very involuted. And the meaning of the involution is unclear.

Countless R&D costs have been spent just to improve a single performance a little bit.

And this improved brain performance may not be controlled by consciousness.

Brain modification is obviously a preparation for a new round of "cognitive revolution", just a means.

But now, even Xiangshan has to keep up with this trend and continue to pile up materials in his brain.

"No, think about it carefully, we have other directions." "Fanatical" said, "We can explore the cognitive revolution while improving performance, so that consciousness can fully control the improved performance."

"Benchmark" Xiangshan was very melancholy: "Again, sigh, these two hundred years..."