Chapter 496 Strong Barriers and Weak Barriers

"Perhaps because of its superiority on the evolutionary path, Hei's civilization inadvertently bypassed the norms of genetic philosophy and became an interstellar civilization in one fell swoop."

It's easy to say, but very, very difficult to do.

The ideology of the Metamos civilization is very good, but the inherently harsh environment has greatly increased the amount of aerospace projects.

They don't have a cheating artifact like "Noah". Coupled with the ubiquitous strong winds on the planet, it is very detrimental to the development of aerospace. Think about it, launching a rocket only to be blown away by the strong wind. How can this be fun?

Even the laying of a space elevator has become very difficult.

If the space elevator is blown down by strong winds, it will become a space-based weapon.

A large number of buildings and vehicles have to be placed below the surface of the earth. It is difficult for people on earth to imagine the difficulty of life.

In more than three hundred years, the clever octopuses have come up with one method after another, from adapting to nature to transforming it.

More sophisticated weather prediction technology, harder ground materials, more effective windproof designs...inventions emerged one after another.

The construction of giant wind energy generators has provided civilization with nearly unlimited energy; the establishment of Sky City has finally escaped the storm area at high altitude, making large-scale aerospace possible.

The entire civilization is struggling for the dream of the starry sky... struggling...

This is the rising sun of civilization...

When Yu Yifeng walked out of the discussion room, his mood was slightly heavy.

He does not think such "stories" are useless as a lesson for others.

In the current classification of cosmic sociology, more than 99% of low-level civilizations are "divided, divided and representative civilizations", including the former earth civilization.

Individuals of this type of civilization have similar intelligence and physical abilities to each other, and the individual differences are small. Through long-term development, they select some individuals through elections or wars to exercise the decision-making power of the entire civilization.

This kind of civilization can avoid excessive concentration of power, which may lead to deviations in social development, and it can also protect individual interests to a certain extent.

But generally speaking, this type of civilization will have a lot of internal conflicts due to problems with the selection method.

Such contradictions have led to the splitting of many large and small political powers on just one planet.

This is true for the Earthlings, the Nyx civilization, the indigenous lizards, the Dige civilization, and the Charioteer civilization.

Fierce internal fighting will cause them to waste a lot of social resources and energy on internal conflicts, making social efficiency very low.

Therefore, the probability of this type of civilization passing the large filter is very low.

The Metamos civilization and the new human civilization in Black can actually be classified as a "unified division of labor representative civilization."

This kind of civilization is an advancement of the "division of labor representative civilization".

They have achieved unification within civilization and established a more reasonable division of labor mechanism, which can basically avoid wars and violence among the same race, greatly improve social efficiency, and avoid unnecessary consumption of resources and energy.

At the same time, the direction of civilization's progress has been clarified, and the speed of scientific and technological advancement is much faster.

Only such a civilization has a certain probability of integrating the resources of the entire planet and becoming an interstellar civilization in one fell swoop.

Yuriko beside her said calmly: "Our two civilizations have the same classification and similar social effects, but their systems are completely different. I think our system is more reasonable, more resistant to interference, and has a certain assimilation power."

"...We can move to a higher level of 'social homogeneous civilization'...but they have always stayed at this level and it is difficult to progress."

"Or perhaps, most interstellar civilizations are similar to the Metamos civilization. They have their own innate superiority, which is why they crossed the threshold. But this innate advantage cannot be used in future development. Works permanently…

"Medamus civilization relies too much on its own collective consciousness..."

Listening to Yuriko's words, Yu Yifeng remained silent and did not speak.

The Metamos civilization has an IQ and body that far exceeds that of ordinary humans. It has such a powerful innate advantage, but it still has not overcome the intellectual barrier.

"Success is also a collective consciousness, failure is also a collective consciousness..."

Life will always move in the direction of optimal survival. But this "optimal" is often not the result that the entire civilization wants to achieve.

After it became clear that it had reached an intellectual bottleneck, a war broke out in the Metamos civilization. Under the leadership of various great men, the faction that agreed to fertility screening won with difficulty.

"It's amazing, isn't it? Civilization implemented such a policy, but it still failed."

Ninety thousand years after the birth screening policy was implemented, under the screening of generations...a group of beings who can block part of the "consciousness reading" were gradually born!

These individuals who have the ability to "block part of their mental activities" are at home in this spiritually clear society.

Because what they show is always good and excellent.

They are not outstanding talents, but they can disguise themselves as outstanding talents; they tell lies, but others believe them to be true.

Cunning individuals tend to survive better in a simplistic society.

The Metamos civilization, which relies too much on mind reading, has not established a better talent screening mechanism. At the beginning, they did not know the existence of this group of individuals.

Therefore, even in the case of fertility screening, the success rate of these mutants in reproducing offspring is greatly enhanced.

"The universe always plays such a joke!"

"The original purpose of reproductive selection was just to evolve more "intelligent" individuals, but the result... evolved individuals that can shield their minds. Moreover, such individuals are difficult to identify through technical means, and the characteristics of their offspring are also quite stable."

When there are more and more such lives, the original collective consciousness has deviated to a certain extent.

In particular...when such lives reach the upper levels of society and a series of incidents occur, a lot of suspicion arises between civilized individuals.

The clear society that lasted for 100,000 years was completely polluted.

At the end, Hei roared loudly in the discussion room, and soybean-like tears dripped from his eyes, "It is them, it is them who caused the degeneration of the entire civilization!"

"It is also them who caused the division of civilization!"

"The seeds of doubt are planted deep in our hearts, and it is impossible to recover..."

"I witnessed the most glorious era of civilization, and also experienced the time of rapid decline..."

At the end, Hei cried bitterly in the discussion room with snot and tears. He still finds it difficult to accept this strange and realistic truth.

The good times are gone forever. It is easy to climb up, but it is very easy to come down.

Others were worried and scattered.

Whenever he recalled his angry roar, Yu Yifeng was still secretly shocked.

When the fundamental system of a civilization is destroyed, even a powerful one like L4 will suddenly collapse, and its speed is astonishing.

Even if a large number of individuals survive, it is impossible to recover because of various doubts in their hearts.

It can only be like this, gradually declining and declining. Even if there are branches that still exist today, it is not the previous Medamos civilization.

"Medamos civilization was destroyed by the civil war caused by the collapse of the social system!"

Yu Yifeng asked unconsciously: "Then the question is, under the influence of perfection, what will we evolve into? Can our system bear more complex ideological shocks?"

"And... do you think we have passed this intellectual barrier? The current superhuman group."

People originally thought very optimistically that superhumans had higher IQs and greater potentials. With the rapid growth of technology, they can continue to improve their IQs in the future.

But now, after such a long period of development, I am a little skeptical.

Comprehensively improving IQ is, in theory... a very difficult thing.

Fundamentally speaking, leaving aside the original things and creating a stronger life, the difficulty is equivalent to... pulling yourself up to the sky by your hair!

Is this possible?

Therefore, infinite iteration of IQ, from the basic logic, seems to have a series of problems.

The smart Metamos civilization has been troubled by the intellectual barrier for a long time. They once proposed two conjectures: "strong intellectual barrier" and "weak intellectual barrier"!

They believe that the strong intellectual barrier is a natural chasm that is insurmountable.

Yes, insurmountable!

That is, no civilization can fundamentally create a species that is "more creative" and "smarter" than itself, including iterating itself.

The strong intellectual barrier directly denies the infinite self-iteration of intelligence, and also denies the existence of...strong artificial intelligence that transcends everything.