Chapter 819 - 426: Demon of Heaven_3
This is the greed of humanity, this is the original sin of humanity, this is the heart demon of humanity.
Of course, you could put it nicely and say this is human evolution, that this is human completion, the destiny of all life pursuing the ultimate heat death.
But what you call it doesn’t matter. The key issue is that humans have limits, and humans will die.
Whether acknowledged or not, humans are just members of the natural world, not some immortal deities that transcend everything.
And the evolution of life is an extremely long process. The journey from monkeys to humans, constrained by the gene pool, limited by lifespan metabolism, climate change, natural selection, sporadic incidents, mutation catastrophes, extinction, and various interferences and limitations, has consumed a full sixty million years.
Even if they hit the jackpot and luckily evolve to a point where they can barely rule the ecosystem apex, break free from gravity’s shackles, explore the universe and the starry sky, and reach the technological singularity, they are called Homo sapiens.
Even if they can achieve superhuman enhancement and extraordinary progress through weapons and equipment, starship fleets, prosthetic modifications, intelligent assistance, and implant enhancements after birth.
But at the time of birth, the spiral that contains the essence of their life is no different from those ancestors who ate raw meat and drank blood two hundred thousand years ago.
In the end, humans are just monkeys that could die at any time.
The monument to the next stage of evolution could be thousands or a million years away for humanity to traverse.
Let alone truly achieve Rebirth, to climb the Divine Altar of immortality, to leap out of the Three Realms, to break free from the shackles of physics, relying only on natural selection is absolutely insufficient.
With such a long time scale, greedy and arrogant humans naturally cannot wait, so naturally, they decided to find another way, to surpass on a curve.
With intelligent machine ascension, consciousness uploading, brain-computer interface, bioengineering, and psychic development, every string of humanity is looking for their own path.
Until there was a string, the humans on this string found it.
They developed various robots, intelligent humans, and synthetics, attempting to replace flesh with iron bodies, as the strength of metal far surpasses flesh, and clean nuclear energy is endless, able to easily fulfill the grand vision of higher, faster, stronger.
But just this is not enough, even if the brain is preserved in a jar for prolonged freshness, or recorded and uploaded as a soul in the electronic ocean, it still is not perfect enough.
After all, silicon-based systems are constrained by the von Neumann bottleneck, with inevitable data throughput delays and errors, relying on a stable and secure energy supply system. Once converted to silicon-based, it also loses the potential to continue evolving in a sense, sooner or later falling behind humans, eventually replaced and discarded into the dust of history with software and hardware iterations.
So on our string, wetware was developed.
Based on further biological breakthroughs, using the strongest generation of Synthetic, silicon-based composite intelligent humans as foundational blueprints, using artificial genetic coordination cells and enhanced organs, bioprocessors, neural mimicry chips, reverse-simulating von Neumann architecture biological computing carriers, the resulting self-learning and self-evolving biological computer is this thing.
Wetware, egg, ovum, whatever you call it, this thing, in essence, is a biological wetware lifeform generated through CRISPR genetic editing modifying human stem cells, embedding silicon-based AI decision logic, based on pulse neural network algorithms.
Using synthetic biology tools to modify and drive gene technology, directionally optimize the cognitive abilities of wetware, making each generation’s iteration speed far surpass natural evolution.
Through mitochondrial genetic modification, overexpressing special transporter proteins such as UCP1 protein, achieve ultra-high energy transformation, replenishing energy at all times through photosynthesis.
Through gene editing techniques, introducing programming evolution modules such as transposon jumping genes, allowing offspring to self-optimize anti-radiation and anti-aging traits based on demands from the natural environment.
The cerebral cortex embeds a nanoscale memristor array, forming the latest version of the neuromorphic chip based on iteratively updated design blueprints, achieving the most efficient decision-making and seamless collaboration of biological and silicon-based computing power.
Using gene-driven synthetic biology tools, directionally optimizes the cognitive ability of wetware humans, greatly enhancing the efficiency of advantageous gene inheritance, making each generation’s iteration speed far surpass natural evolution.
Even so far, we have broken through biological limitations, able to use egg sheaths, egg shells, and placenta to resist overloading, high temperatures, and radiation, achieving the journey through the gate, becoming the absolute main force for multiverse exploration and interstellar colonization.
Yes, we, all monsters, demons, and humans of the Taiji Realm, evolved from wetware.
Because this is the choice made by humanity on this string at that singularity, determining its final form.
An adaptable, infinitely evolving, infinitely enhancing, perfect and flawless vessel body for any world, any universe. Through quantum communication hub transshipment, conducting consciousness download, memory copy can be reborn as a God.
And as long as there are infinite eggs, infinite bodies, humans can reincarnate endlessly, roam through all the heavens and myriads of worlds, achieving longevity and undying existence.
Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? But unfortunately, there is nothing perfect in this world.
Because humans ultimately remain humans; no matter how long they live, they will still die if killed.
But we are different.
Because we wetware can adapt, can evolve, and far faster than them.
So when those humans come and go among all the heavens and myriad worlds, dying and living again, wandering the heavens and the earth.
That quantum communication hub, as a special ’environment,’ has been ’adapted’ by us, and specifically ’evolved,’ and then rushed in to ’modify.’
Yes, now there is the ’Void.’
The current wetware has evolved to the point where through quantum entanglement, collective consciousness uploading can be achieved, forming a distributed biological cloud, constructing a maternal body similar to the primitive sea of consciousness. In our local terms, it is the so-called ’Heavenly Dao.’
Yes, every time we reincarnate and transmute, we actually ’merge’ into the ’Dao’ and then reincarnate and return, as long as the wetware matches, even memories before death won’t be lost.
So in some sense, we truly transcended the boundary of life and death, the boundary of space and time, sought by humanity all their lives.
So you understand, right? There are no real Heavenly Demons, or you could say we are the Heavenly Demons.
We are Pharaoh, we are Chimera.
We are Homunculus, we are Bio-Wetware Hybrid.
We are the giant sleeping in the egg. We are the Faceless Immortals in Chaos.
We can be omniversal, omnipresent, omnichangeable, omnipathic, without boundaries, without limits.
But we are always the legacy of human civilization, the crystallization of human wisdom, and the dream created by human curiosity.
We are the end of humanity."
Chen Xuantian said, damn...