Chapter 669 Professor Moriarty
It is not difficult for Qiao An to imagine that when this social form develops to the final stage, most people will lose their imagination of a bright future, and even the biological instinct of reproduction and raising offspring will be suppressed, gradually degenerate, and eventually disappear.
When the population base drops below a certain benchmark value, the human race will lose the ability to reproduce from generation to generation, and the entire society is like an avalanche, rushing towards the end in exhaustion and despair.
Both individual dreams and the common dreams of social groups are very fragile.
Whenever a person feels hopeless about life, all mankind takes a big step towards the abyss of despair.
Unless there exists an ideal society that ensures that happiness outweighs pain for the majority, this collapse is inevitable.
However, no matter whether looking back on history or looking forward to the future, or just relying on rational deduction, Qiao An can't see—nor can't believe—that there really is that kind of "Utopia" that can make most people realize happiness, but the reality is toward a few people. The direction of intensifying the oppression of the majority is approaching.
Joan actually doesn't care much about how human beings are saved. He is not so fraternal. What he cares more about is how to get rid of this kind of survival anxiety. The reason for the above-mentioned question is solemnly raised.
The last letter that seriously replied to Joan came from Professor Trofim L. Moriarty.
This letter only had a few hundred words, but it touched Joan the deepest.
Professor Moriarty frankly admitted to him in his reply:
"For so many years, I myself have been thinking about the meaning of life, but unfortunately I haven't gotten a satisfactory answer so far. If you are interested in this question, you may wish to join my team and explore together until you find out what you are satisfied with. s answer."
Professor Moriarty also brilliantly pointed out in his reply:
"Your anxiety lies in the realization that life is short, and you will eventually die. You try to find eternal truth in the short life course, so as to prove that your short life is meaningful. However, as the ancient wise men said: self-salvation How hard it is, like walking on the edge of a razor."
At the end of the letter, Professor Moriarty sincerely told Joan:
"I can't guarantee that I can help you get rid of survival anxiety, but I can show you a way to combat the anxiety mentioned above by demonstrating in person."
"If my path finally works, the question you care about will be answered; if my attempt proves to be a dead end, then you, as my student, can at least learn some useful lessons from my failure , to avoid making the same mistake.”
After reading this reply, Joan sat at the desk and fell into deep thought. Professor Trofim Moriarty also attended the buffet at noon today. Although he was very low-key, he left a deep impression on Joan.
During a short dinner, it was impossible for Joan to see Professor Moriarty's academic level, and he knew nothing about his character. The reason why he was able to remember this person is a bit funny... It's all because The other party is handsome.
Professor Trofim Moriarty has reached middle age, but he did not use magic to hide his real age. The years have carved traces of weather on his angular face, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes cannot wear away his charm , with silver-like long hair carefully combed into a ponytail, well-cut robes set off a tall and healthy figure, even at an advanced age, he is still a charming handsome man.
During the lunch meeting, almost all the girls surrounded Professor Moriarty, and it was inconvenient for Joann to listen in. He only remembered that the professor mentioned in his self-introduction that he had done some research on "construction studies". Research work, two papers were published on "Arcana Research", one of which discussed the topic of "stabbing creatures", which Joan didn't know much about, and the other paper was about "half-golems", which Joann I don't know much about it.
The so-called "half-golem" is actually a construction theory developed on the basis of "transplanted prosthetic limbs".
For example, Joan himself is a disabled person who lost his right eye. The implanted prosthetic eye can only make him look like a normal person, but the prosthetic eye is fake after all and cannot restore his vision. But if you transplant him a fresh eyeball that has just been completely gouged out from someone else, it is possible to restore the light to his right eye.
This approach is indeed a bit cruel, but it does not necessarily violate medical ethics. For example, when dying, some people are willing to donate or sell their own healthy organs for transplantation to those in need out of the charity motive of helping others, or in order to leave a legacy to their families.
On the premise of voluntarily signing a donation letter or an organ sale contract, on the day of his death, the entrusted hospital can remove the organ under the supervision of a notary and immediately transplant it to the recipient or organ purchaser.
So far, the above theory still stays at the medical level. However, in the process of organ transplantation, unexplainable accidents occasionally occur, causing the recipients of organ transplants to change drastically from mental to physical, and become no longer human, but half-human, half-constructed monsters.
Especially in the case of transplanting organs from non-human organisms for humans, this kind of mutation phenomenon occurs more frequently, so the humanoid monsters born are the so-called "half golems" - which retain most of the human characteristics. , will also get some characteristics similar to "constructs".
Professor Moriarty's paper studied the internal mechanism of the above-mentioned transformation, and proposed a whole set of artificial manufacturing and debugging "half-golem" schemes. As for whether he used living people to verify the plan he proposed, Qiao An didn't know, and he didn't dare to think deeply.
Professor Moriarty has won a certain reputation in the Austrian law academic circle with two heavyweight papers, and has won a tenure-track teaching post at the Institute of Austrian Law at Midgard University. His academic level is unquestionable, but from the research direction he is engaged in Look, Joan is both a little moved and a little uneasy.
My heart is moved because it is rare to meet a professor with profound attainments in the field of structural science, who happens to share the same interests as Joan himself. If you follow this professor, you will definitely be able to gain lessons in "constructive science".
The uneasiness is because Joan feels that the topic of "half-golem"... how should I put it, the ethical risk is very high, and a little carelessness will break through the bottom line of academic morality.
Professor Moriarty chose this topic, does it imply from one aspect that he has a relatively light view of academic ethics?
Of course, these speculations are purely groundless conjectures.
Joan even felt ashamed of this. It was a bit gloomy for him to speculate on the character of a university professor.