Lighting up super-god technology in the Three-Body World

Chapter 194 'Spiritual Matter' and 'Stealing People'

Jiang Fan and Luo Ji's conversation in the starry sky was not recorded in any archives.
But it has significant practical implications.
These two pioneers of human civilization were able to see through the characteristics and weaknesses of data life with unparalleled insight, and their importance is no less than that of Copernicus in awakening the heliocentric theory in the era of geocentrism!

This is a breakthrough in thinking, and although only two people know about it for now, their high status makes it even more important.

To put it more vividly, making a monarch aware of the impact of materialism is far more effective than having a certain scholar or professor do it!

The era of goddesses is not the end, and Xiling is not an omniscient and omnipotent perfect being; human civilization will eventually realize this.

In the 44th year of the Xinyuan era,
The Trisolarans in the First Fleet of the Trisolaran civilization have all entered human bodies and come to live on Earth.
Furthermore, thanks to the quantum network equipment and mind transplant pod that Joseph brought back, the fleet's sophons did not detect any anomalies.

After all, switching bodies only requires a thought to communicate with Xiling, a clever operation that even the leader couldn't come up with no matter how hard he tried. Therefore, it's perfectly normal that everyone in the Trisolaran system was kept in the dark.

In just over a year or two, more than two million Trisolarans, including Joseph, were already so happy that they didn't want to leave!

The Trisolarans nowadays, even when transplanting their consciousness into the fleet to deal with the Sophons, adhere to a system of queuing and rotation.
Since no one wanted to go but had no choice but to, Sunken Ship could only adopt this relatively fair model.

This was tough on Joseph, because as the first captain, he often had to appear before Sophon.

same year,

The first couple, one from Earth and one from Trisolarans, has appeared. This only shows that in this respect, Western civilization is indeed more open than Eastern civilization.
The woman from Earth was named Mia Eska, and the man from the Trisolaran side named himself Nolanbeck Elser.

Shen Zhou attended the wedding without Zhi Zi. She had wanted to invite Jiang Fan, but Xi Ling declined, saying she had important matters to attend to.

A month later, the inexperienced Nolan Baker approached Chen Zhou and said his wife was pregnant and he needed to know what to do.
What the hell can we do?
Of course, you should give birth to it!
Shen Zhou contacted Xi Ling, thinking it was just a normal breeding activity, but unexpectedly Jiang Fan personally intervened and took care of it.

For Mia, who grew up hearing stories of leaders, the excitement she felt was unimaginable.

She was even allowed to contact Jiang Fan's private channel so that she could communicate with him at any time if she had any questions.

When she shared this treatment with the Second World, it immediately caused a stir, and more and more Earthlings began seeking out Trisolarans to form partnerships.

The power of leadership is terrifying.

Coincidentally,

The women in these couples, whether from the Earth or the Trisolaran side, became pregnant at an extremely rapid pace.
According to Xiling's statistics, these couples have a 94% chance of getting pregnant within three months! The probability of pregnancy is an astonishing 100%!
Once this data was released, those who wanted to have children pursued the Trisolarans even more diligently, further deepening the integration of the two civilizations.

At the end of the year,

Mia's child was born.
Jiang Fan made a rare personal appearance at the scene. This child was no different from the other children, but he meant something different to Jiang Fan.

The appearance of this child, and the fact that new life is easily born from the union of Earthlings and Trisolarans, all prove one thing.

'Spiritual matter' not only limits the amount of wisdom a civilization can possess, but it can also be 'stolen' from other civilizations!
As for how 'spiritual matter' is generated, distributed, and transferred, there are still no clues. However, one thing is certain.

Stealing people from other civilizations can increase the "spiritual matter" of one's own civilization, which is reflected in the increasing number of newborns.

Jiang Fan also noticed another thing,

Aside from the ease with which couples could produce offspring through mating with the Trisolarans, humanity's own reproduction rate seems to have remained largely unchanged.
It can't be said that there have been no changes.

Because the base population has increased, the total number of babies has increased even if the reproduction rate remains unchanged. This finding is quite encouraging!

With the current standard of living on Earth, there's no need to worry about raising children; Xiling has more experience than anyone else!

Under her care, the children received truly excellent education.
Although the new generation raised by Xiling only accounts for 17% of the total human population, each member is an elite among elites, such as those in the Physics Research Department, the Star Spectroscopy Department, and the Biotechnology Department.

Each department has more than a million, or even tens of millions, of people. The vast majority of them are children raised by Xiling. They are the true backbone of humanity and the most loyal believers of the goddess and leader.

Human beings can be roughly divided into three groups. The first is the elderly, who have lived from the old era to the present, and these people are between 120 and 180 years old.
Secondly, there are middle-aged people who have lived from the old era to the present, that is, Jiang Fan's peers, aged between 70 and 120.
Thirdly, people under 70 years old can be called the new generation. They are children who have experienced very little of the old era and were almost all raised by Xiling.

The elderly make up 33% of the total population, middle-aged people make up 50%, and the younger generation makes up only 17%.

This ratio is not good. Too few new generation members means too little fresh blood and too little potential for the development of civilization!
A way has now been found to increase the proportion of the new generation, which is a true blessing for the future of human civilization!
What Jiang Fan didn't know was that,

The Trisolaran system is experiencing a phenomenon where newborns lack intelligence.

The Trisolarans reproduce in a different way than humans. They are formed by the fusion of the bodies of two asexual Trisolarans, which then split into several parts. These parts inherit the memories of their parents from birth and then grow up.

It may look like a split, but the newborn does have its own thoughts and is not a clone of its parents.

When humanity learned this information from the sunken ship, their view of life was completely overturned, and the nature of thought and consciousness has remained a hot topic of discussion ever since.

They've been discussing it for decades, but haven't come to any conclusion.

However, one conclusion is generally accepted: the consciousness and thinking of life are absolutely not formed solely by postnatal factors, which distinguishes it from the Marxist-Leninist doctrine.

According to Jiang Fan and others who learned about the concept of 'spiritual matter' through bubbles, if life is born without 'spiritual matter,' then no matter what one does later in life, it will be impossible to develop intelligence.

This theory has been verified in practice!
Conversely, if a life is born with 'spiritual matter,' then even if it is initially confused and disoriented, it can still develop corresponding thoughts through certain methods.

For example, feral children can become normal people through a series of methods, including but not limited to sealing away previous memories, reactivating brain neurons, and normal education.

As for life forms that are not born with 'spiritual matter', there is currently no way for human civilization to endow them with intelligence.

(End of this chapter)