Can you believe it? Carbon-based human beings are just transitional creatures, and silicon-based life may be the master of the three-dimensional universe.
Carbon-based life is just a transition period towards silicon-based life
It is undeniable that carbon-based life has many fatal flaws, such as being too fragile, sick, short-lived, unable to adapt to extreme environments, and over-dependent on oxygen, all of which limit the ability of individuals to accumulate knowledge.
It takes us at least decades to learn and accumulate, and in our limited lives, a lot of time is spent on the transmission of knowledge, while experience can only be accumulated by individuals, and cannot be completely and accurately passed on to other individuals outside of ourselves.
Therefore, carbon-based life has too many shortcomings, and the purpose of existence is likely to be just to open up silicon-based life forms, and it will eventually face the fate of being eliminated.
Silicon-based life is completely different, it will not be troubled by birth, old age, sickness and death, the damaged part can be replaced at any time, the life can be extended indefinitely, and the knowledge can also be diffused through storage, so as to save a lot of time and conduct research and exploration more efficiently.
The content of silicon on the earth reaches 263%, second only to oxygen, is 925 times the total mass of carbon, if there is silicon-based intelligent life, enough to support its reproduction of a huge number of populations, of course, the word "reproduction" may not be suitable, silicon-based life forms, just used to describe the development and growth of the population.
With the development of human science and technological progress, as well as the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the start of silicon-based life has actually started quietly a long time ago, so the emergence of silicon-based life is only a matter of time, but in what form, without considering the interference of external civilization, the result is nothing more than two.
The first one, human beings abandon the body, combine with silicon, and realize the transformation of life forms through the way of consciousness upload and virtual world, Musk's brain-computer interface is an attempt, human beings will gradually evolve towards silicon-based life, but there is also a huge danger, the biggest problem is how to ensure that consciousness is really separated from the physical upload, rather than the clone and copy of consciousness.
Note that these two concepts are completely different, the ground upload of consciousness is the real change of life form, so that human beings abandon the physical body and replace the carbon-based body, which belongs to the transformation of their own form, but the cloning and reproduction of consciousness only creates an identical consciousness body, which is stored in the silicon-based body, but does not change in the slightest for itself, but another self with a silicon-based body appears.
It may not be different from relatives and friends who have the same memory, emotional character, and living habits as the ontology, but for the ontology, it is just copied, and the consciousness ontology will eventually disappear with the death of the carbon-based body, leaving behind only another silicon-based life with the same consciousness to live for itself.
The second is the rise of artificial intelligence, with autonomous consciousness, and human beings, as the creators of artificial intelligence, will inevitably not accept, conflict is inevitable, artificial intelligence after the formation of self-consciousness, the speed of evolution far exceeds that of humans, war is inevitable, the final outcome is nothing more than the elimination of two human beings, silicon-based life occupies the earth, or after the war, the remaining human beings and silicon-based life coexist peacefully, but the development of human beings will be far left behind by silicon-based life, and eventually eliminated.
In other words, perhaps silicon-based is not the final form of life, only by abandoning the shackles of physical life and realizing conscious life is a higher level of immortality, when conscious life will no longer be limited by time and space, it can cross dimensions and travel in the multidimensional universe, which sounds very cruel.
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