Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 178 [Everything that happens is good for me]

Chen Shuding, who had opened up his mouth, also began to speak freely: "In addition, the identity crisis cannot be ignored. For patients who receive cloned organ transplants, the genes of the organs in their bodies are the same as their own, which may induce identity confusion at the psychological level."

"Especially in some cultural concepts, bodily integrity and uniqueness are regarded as the cornerstones of personal dignity. After the implantation of cloned organs, patients may fall into self-doubt and become confused about 'who am I', which in turn breeds psychological disorders and affects postoperative recovery and quality of life."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu said calmly, "Postoperative health is a technical issue. As for psychological barriers, I think people with this problem are just too full. If you really give them the opportunity to live another 200 years, their biggest obstacle will be that 200 years is not enough and they want to live another 200 years."

After hearing these words, Chen Shuding was speechless, and Chu Jinmeng couldn't help but cover her mouth with a smile.

After this episode, Chen Shuding paused for a moment and then said, "Comparatively speaking, another issue is more prominent. From the perspective of human evolution, if single organ cloning technology is realized in the future and applied on a large scale, whether it will interfere with the natural evolution process is highly controversial."

"It allows individuals with genetic defects to survive for a long time, which may hinder the natural selection and elimination that is not conducive to genes, and affect the optimization of genetic diversity of human populations. Over-reliance on the replacement of cloned organs may gradually degenerate the evolutionary adaptability of human organs, thereby weakening the natural resilience of humans to cope with unknown diseases and environmental changes in the future, causing humans to deviate from nature on the road of evolution and fall into an ethical dilemma."

Chen Shuding couldn't help but sigh when he said this, because this problem cannot be avoided and it is cruel.

If we look at it from the perspective of the entire human population, it means that defective genes that should have been eliminated have avoided natural selection and are therefore preserved, which will objectively affect the optimization of the genetic diversity of the population.

But allowing natural selection to eliminate individuals is undoubtedly extremely cruel to them.

Moreover, once organ cloning and replacement becomes mainstream, it will objectively lead to the degradation of human's natural evolutionary adaptability.

Xiao Yu smiled when he heard this and said, "The continuous development of modern medicine can also be said to have caused the decline of the human body's ability to adapt to evolution. Individuals with genetic defects live longer and can even continue to give birth to offspring. If it were according to natural selection, these individuals should have been eliminated long ago, let alone have offspring. The same question, why is it not possible when it comes to organ cloning and transplantation?"

"There is a saying in the Book of Changes that 'what follows is good'. Everything that happens is good for me. Good things will turn bad, and bad things will turn good, but no matter whether it is good or bad, there will be gains."

"In other words, everything that happens has two sides. It all depends on how we turn it into everlasting good results. As the saying goes, 'People can promote the Way, but the Way cannot promote people.' In a certain situation, an event must be constrained by the environment. Before it happens, no one knows whether it is good or bad."

"Everything that happens in the world, especially your own affairs, is good, there is no bad thing. But that's not enough. If you treat anything as a good thing, it will really go in a good direction; if you treat it as a bad thing, it will also go in a bad direction. It's all caused by yourself."

"We often say that if you wish for something, it will come true, because everything has two sides. If you see the good side and actively respond to it, things will naturally turn to the good side. Otherwise, why do we say that we should think about things in a positive way and turn things to the positive side?"

Chen Shuding still dares not draw a conclusion on whether the single organ cloning technology is good or bad. He is also troubled by the gains and losses between individuals and groups, and is more or less entangled in self-spiritual internal consumption. However, Xiao Yu's understanding does not involve the so-called self-spiritual internal consumption. He examines this issue from the perspective of an "egoless" observer.

From this perspective, all things in the world are part of nature. The so-called self-selection can also be seen as a way of nature's selection, but it is realized through human "self-selection".

"What follows is good, and everything that happens will be beneficial to me..." Chen Shuding muttered these words to himself. After a while, he suddenly felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.

He had not expected that communicating with Xiao Yu like this could help him resolve the mental fatigue he had been suffering from for many years. He immediately felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Chen Shuding did not expect that Xiao Yu, a junior, would have such a high level of realm, but it also made him feel that joining Lingjing Technology would not be a wrong choice.

Afterwards, the two sides began to discuss technical issues of monomeric organ cloning.

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "My main research direction is new materials, but my interests and hobbies are quite broad. In recent years, I have also made up for my studies in the field of modern bioengineering. I think that the current single organ cloning technology has built a good foundation in terms of technical principles and processes. Through the coordinated efforts of somatic cell cloning, gene editing, and stem cell differentiation induction, organ customization has moved from theory to practice."

Hearing this, Chen Shuding could not help but nod his head: "This view coincides with mine. In addition, from the development history, landmark achievements such as Dolly the sheep are key nodes. In recent years, there have been some breakthroughs in the fields of liver, heart, and lung cloning. This has injected new impetus into clinical applications and has shown potential in delaying aging and conquering diseases. It is expected to renew cells, repair the body, and break the limit of life span."

Xiao Yu immediately added: "I always believe that to overcome this problem, we still need the collaboration of multiple fields. Biology, medicine, and materials science should work together to dig deep into the mechanism, optimize the plan, and develop materials; innovate research methods, use organoids, single-cell sequencing, and artificial intelligence to accurately empower; learn from the wisdom of biological regeneration, tame the immune system, and stimulate cell potential, etc."

Chen Shuding also nodded in agreement: "Only when all sectors work together can we have a better chance of overcoming the many obstacles."

After this exchange, Chen Shuding suddenly looked at Xiao Yu and smiled, "The outside media described Mr. Xiao as a genius that only appears once in a century. It really is worthy of the name. Not only is it not exaggerated, it may even be conservative. He focuses on the field of new materials, but he also has such outstanding insights in modern bioengineering, which is not his specialty."

At this point, Chen Shuding added: "If Mr. Xiao had chosen the modern bioengineering monomer organ cloning technology major, perhaps this field would have achieved a huge breakthrough."

Then, Chen Shuding said: "Although it is a pity that the field of modern bioengineering has lost a genius, the field of materials science has gained a genius, which has brought about the advent of room-temperature superconductivity. Perhaps this is what Mr. Xiao said, that those who succeed are good, and everything that happens is beneficial to me."

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(End of this chapter)