5 times and 200 times, a series of data comparisons left everyone present shocked. Thanks to the purchase of some natives from the Lenino Civilization, research into Thought Acceleration was successfully completed, so the progress of the entire Alliance in this area is far better than expected, leaving everyone a bit unprepared.

Originally, the Unreal Laboratory estimated that Thought Acceleration would be completed within several hundred years. But now, it's been completed in just fifty-two years. This also means that the Half-sphere Civilization can use cutting-edge technology, and will catch up with the New Human Civilization at a faster pace.

At this moment, however, nobody is thinking about how to hinder the progress of the Half-sphere Civilization; instead, the key is to quickly improve oneself. Because in helping the Half-sphere Civilization, it also means mastering the technology oneself.

The conditions are ripe, and this mountain has finally crashed over with force.

How to choose?

"Professor Zhang, is there really no other way to enhance Intelligence?" a female education expert asked, "For example, developing Extra Perception? Updating the auxiliary brain..."

She still finds it hard to accept completely abandoning human identity to upgrade to another species with more potential...

Transforming thought is harder to accept than transforming the body!

"It's possible, but it's very difficult," Zhang Yuan answered, "and such enhancement is just a drop in the bucket, with limited impact..."

He spread his hands, making a large and small gesture to illustrate the gap: "Let's put it this way, if the Intelligence limit of a Level 5 Civilization could reach one million, the Extra Perception or auxiliary brain of a Level 4 Civilization might only enhance it by two or three hundred, at most five hundred, that's the limit."

"No matter how much development occurs, even spending tens of thousands of years of effort will only increase it by so much...it does not align with our development strategy."

"This gap is like the difference between multicellular and single-celled organisms; it is insurmountable. No matter how much a paramecium evolves, it can't become a monkey."

"It's also like the difference between elementary mathematics and Advanced Mathematics. Elementary mathematics has many interesting research topics, but no matter how much you delve into it, the scenarios it can play a role in are still limited."

"Our brains have naturally evolved; they are intricate but a bit coarse in certain areas. Having developed to this point, they are no longer sufficient, and this is a fact. So a replacement is needed."

The conference room fell silent for a while; through so many years of summarizing and thinking, they actually all understand this matter.

Some had made up their minds long ago, but a small number still cling to a glimmer of hope... The thoughts of this type of person are so stubborn that it's difficult to change their values through discussion.

Among the government high-level officials, although the entire government is dominated by Deep Blue thinking, there aren't many such individuals, yet some still exist; among common people, the proportion of this type is greater. Various debates have been ongoing for many years, making the whole society seem almost divided.

In fact, Zhang Yuan can understand this mindset; to put it bluntly, "born human" is their highest political correct stance. In their view, abandoning human identity is a betrayal. If they cannot become Level 5 Civilization as "pure humans," whatever they do is wrong.

What is "highest political correctness"? It's simple: from any angle, using any rhetoric of philosophy, politics, law, sociology to attempt deconstruction, others will directly deny these deconstructions. The manner of denial is straightforward: they simply don't agree with the assumption at the root of the deconstruction logic chain, but view this "political" correctness as self-evident truth.

Political correctness is a war of positions, and this has been the meta-rule since the history of Human civilization... With a population of a billion, the New Human Civilization wants to unify positions, which is nearly impossible.

After a long pause, another Deputy Captain asked, "So what do you think? How should thoughts be modified? According to our previous discussions, some results should have been produced, right? After researching for so long..."

Zhang Yuan nodded, "After so many years of research, we've formed a comprehensive content, academically termed 'Modular Thought Construction System.'

"In this system, as the name implies, it adopts a modular thinking approach. The first part is the big framework, equivalent to the supporting structure of a house. In this big framework, we've outlined moralities most commonly recognized by humans, which we call basic virtues, somewhat similar to the memory templates of Half-sphere Civilization."

Upon hearing about Half-sphere Civilization's memory templates, a buzz of discussion erupted in the conference room.

Forcing the imprint into the Saint mode like the Half-sphere Civilization is not particularly favored.

However, listening to Zhang Yuan's introduction, this human template is relatively more flexible. The Half-sphere Civilization's system completely follows the Saint, while humans can self-assemble, akin to the difference between woodblock printing and movable type printing.

In the human's thought framework, besides the similar basic virtues, certain content can be freely selected to some extent, so there's a degree of freedom.

Zhang Yuan paused and said, "These basic morals haven't been widely discussed, only organized internally by the Unreal Laboratory, and if widespread implementation is desired, the whole society needs further discussion."

"Moreover, this is merely a big framework, and the details are very spacious. For instance, solidarity, mutual assistance, love for civilization, etc., all are generalized morals."

"I believe most people can accept this big framework."

"After memory infusion with basic virtues, a person's worldview will fundamentally change, their thoughts will become modular, enabling a series of divisions to withstand higher Thought Acceleration, 5 times, or 10 times, even hundreds of times can be possible!"

"It's equivalent to his work efficiency and perceived time being extended fivefold tenfold; but due to the presence of basic virtues, humanity will hardly produce Sinners."

"This is just the first step..."

"Professor Zhang, I have a question," the female Captain asked, "Our society isn't lacking moral people, why is it that one type of morality cannot withstand Thought Acceleration and another can?"

Zhang Yuan said, "It's a bit complicated to explain, let me give a few simple examples. Like houses, one is an earthen house filled with unreasonable parts and collapses after stacking five or six layers; the other is a house with a well-laid foundation of reinforced concrete, capable of stacking hundreds of layers."

"Similarly with programs, those written by experts and amateurs run with completely different efficiency."

"Similarly with morals, one is complex and contradictory, unreliable in determining what morality is, relying solely on emotional judgment; the other is well-organized, without significant conflicts."

This explanation helped those present mostly understand.

Yet, simultaneously a bit perplexing, they find it hard to imagine what nonconflictual moralities entail.

Zhang Yuan added another sentence, "That is to say, emotional thinking is greatly reduced, and rational thinking is greatly increased. Right is right, wrong is wrong, with less intermediary territory between more and wrong."

But is this rational morality really acceptable to humans?

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