Zhang Yuan did not pay attention to the people in a daze and continued, "Once the most basic moral foundation is established, the next step is to build a modular thinking system. This involves filling a large framework with more complete content…"

"First, we have a grand goal, to seek wonders in the universe. We have already defined this civilization-wide goal, which includes what is considered a wonder, a low-probability event, the unknown, and what makes us feel joy…"

"The pursuit of curiosity is our driving force."

"This grand goal is something everyone must have, in order to form the cohesion of civilization."

This type of definition will influence how people behave, even rewiring the ways of entertainment, undoubtedly extremely important. In the past, humans felt joy with a little dopamine secretion in their minds, but for humans after modification, the happiness mechanism will be reshaped.

The screen listed a dense list, a significant point being "discovering and exploring unknown knowledge," including finding novel and fun low-probability events in the universe, discovering distinctive civilizations, and rescuing self-redeemers within the Sinking Civilization, etc…

These are recognized by the majority of the people.

Looking at the audience below, Zhang Yuan continued, "Besides the grand goal, there are personal small goals. These small goals vary depending on the individual and can be set according to one's preferences, mainly to ensure the diversity of civilization's thinking. For this purpose, we have created a series of thinking modules that can be self-set."

The so-called freedom of setting means one can decide on their personality, such as being extroverted, kind, cheerful and lively, active, enthusiastic, approachable, or otherwise being dull, cautious, carelessly easygoing, etc.

Then add in some personal interests, like sports, arts, games, writing…

These small goals are presented in a modular form, which can be selected at will prior to an experiment.

Even after the experiment, if unsatisfied, one can repeatedly modify. In the concept of modular thinking, everything is like building blocks—divisible. One can extract a piece of content at any time and replace it with another.

"In other words, a person can set their modified personality to be similar to what it was before the experiment."

This indeed is a very good point; what everyone fears most is a huge change in personality. If personality were completely different before and after the experiment, it would terrify people.

Now people are given a free choice, and the fear factor has undoubtedly decreased a lot.

Seeing everyone deep in thought, Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "Finally, I want to tell everyone that even after setting this, humans will still lose many emotions, including various physiological desires. So, before and after the transformation, things are still different."

"Traditional humans, when hungry, need to eat; when thirsty, need to drink; feel joy in love and anger when offended. These behaviors belong to the former philosophical system. Once modified, these contents will be greatly simplified. After full-spectrum transformation, there's no need for eating, and reproductive behaviors are changed. Thus, humans will no longer be human as we know it."

"There is also an uncontrollable significant risk: the modified us, due to a change in thinking patterns, may 'not agree' with the thinking modules chosen before the transformation."

"This potential disagreement is unpredictable; can everyone accept it?"

After saying this, the conference room fell silent once more.

This uncontrollable risk is somewhat convoluted to understand. Simply put, at the first stage, most people will set their personalities pretty much the same before and after transformation.

But as the thinking mode changes after transformation, perhaps humans at this stage might deem the optimism and cheerfulness once endorsed as irrelevant, and end up modifying themselves again.

This becomes the second stage of self-transformation.

Just like building with blocks, the constructions vary at different times and ages. It's the same for a new generation of humans.

Then follows the third stage, the fourth stage of self-transformation, and as the speed of thought accelerates and the quality of thoughts changes, these changes will become larger and increasingly unlike traditional humans.

When traditional humans see humans after the fourth stage of self-transformation, they might find them very unfamiliar, leading to fear.

This risk cannot be eliminated or predicted. We cannot possibly set our thinking to be transformed only once. If truly set this way, it merely blocks our progress space. Moreover, the more intelligent humans of the future will be fully capable of bypassing these settings.

In the same way, there's no way to predict how third-stage and fourth-stage humans will think... Thought itself is inherently unpredictable.

"Professor Zhang, I have one more question!" It was Captain Feng speaking, raising her hand and asking, "In the new thinking framework, can we completely fill in the original Genetic Philosophy content? Wouldn't this resolve the issue?"

"Perhaps in the future," Zhang Yuan replied, "But not now. We currently do not have that level of technical capability. The more content filled into the framework, the greater the potential for defects, leading to flaws in thought acceleration…"

"As it stands, the modular handling approach is already vast and difficult work."

"I simply cannot straighten out such a chaotic past thinking."

The Half-sphere Civilization uses compulsory memory infusion, enabling very rapid processing. However, the human model is almost tailor-made, requiring careful analysis of each individual, with immense complexity.

Based on the current productivity of the Unreal Laboratory, transforming merely a hundred people a year takes tremendous effort, and without a productivity boost, completely transforming a billion people might take tens of millions of years!

Of course, Zhang Yuan is not urgent about productivity development, because as long as some people are transformed, with a significant boost in thought speed, productivity is bound to rise concomitantly.

Zhang Yuan spread his arms, gesturing, "If, in the future, we really become a Level 5 Civilization and are familiar enough with this system, and Intelligence increases, then indeed the original contents of Genetic Philosophy could be fully reintegrated. But I believe the probability of this happening is not very high..."

"Because as I just explained, by that time, our fundamental ideas will have fundamentally changed. Everything cherished painstakingly in childhood, and the bit of experience painstakingly accumulated, by the time we reach adulthood will only make us think these precious things are a bit foolish. Perhaps, yes, these experiences are beautiful, but not necessarily inclined to change back."

"Some individuals who've become wealthy might occasionally cherish the struggles of their impoverished times, but the odds are they wouldn't want to return."

"Of course, I'm talking about large probabilities here, not excluding some low-probability events. We cannot guess how humans will think at that time, so there's no need for everyone to have too high expectations."

Zhang Yuan's tone was cold, but factual.

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