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Chapter 171 The ethical issues of creating a human being and the arrival of the younger uncle

"Wow, brother, there are so many puppies, how come they are all exactly the same?" When Wang Jiankun arrived home, his sister saw the six little yellow dogs in the cage behind the motorcycle and said.

"They are from the same litter, so maybe their genes are purer!" Wang Jiankun chose to make up an excuse.

"Then leave them all at home for me to raise?"

"Can you raise them? You still have to go to school. Leave two at home. I will take the other four away."

"Leave two at home? That's great, brother. Do you think they will be able to catch rabbits when they grow up?" The sister watched him unload the cage from the motorcycle, and diligently helped to hold it by the side, asking questions all the time.

"It should be possible! These dogs were born to a hunting dog that is quite good at hunting. If they are trained well, they should be able to help catch rabbits, pheasants and the like." The original little yellow dog that Ye Wei found was born to a hunting dog. The ones he copied were made according to the exact same genes and cell structure, and should retain the hunting instinct of the female dog. It's just that they should need some training in the later stages, otherwise they may degenerate.

"That's great, bro. How long will it take for them to grow up and help catch rabbits?"

"About half a year. If they are fed well and trained regularly, they will be able to catch rabbits in half a year."

Dogs grow very fast. Generally, if a puppy is fed properly, it will grow to its adult size in about 6 to 8 months after weaning. However, if there is no special training, its hunting skills will not be very high if it only relies on the instincts left in its genes.

But my sister may only be enthusiastic for three minutes. This dog looks small and fluffy and cute now, but it will still be very tall and ferocious when it grows up. My sister may not have the ability to tame it.

"Kun Le, why did you bring so many puppies? Wow, they are all the same." At this time, my father came from the gate of the yard.

"I found one on the road and thought it was great. It seems our team doesn't have any dogs yet, so let's get two. You and Grandpa can take them with you when you go out on patrol at night."

"In the past, the team didn't have enough food to raise dogs. The people were barely fed. It's only been like this in the past two years. But it's true. No one raises dogs."

"Dad, my brother said that this puppy will grow up in half a year and can help catch rabbits." The younger sister said as she teased the puppy in the cage.

"This dog was born to a female dog that can hunt. I heard that the male dog that bred them was also a hunting dog. So I said that these dogs can help catch hares when they grow up. But they still need to be trained. If they can't be trained, they may not be able to do it."

"That's right. I'll try to raise them and take them out to the wild more often."

"Uncle sent a telegram saying he would be back during the Qingming Festival. Did he specify the exact date?"

"No, the telegram was very brief. Tomorrow is Qingming Festival, so it should be here before tomorrow!"

"Okay, Dad, what do you say about installing a telephone in our house?"

"Install a phone? Don't we already have a text messaging machine? There's no need to install it! Besides, installing a phone is difficult. It would be very expensive for us to install a phone here."

"We can only use this texting machine internally, and we dare not publicize it. Besides, it is better to use the phone when outsiders contact us or when we contact other people. It is more expensive to install it, so there is no need to save this money."

"Why don't we have the team install one? Then everyone in the team can use it, and they can pay for their own phone bills if they need it for personal matters. That would be better."

"Okay, then remember this and install it as soon as possible. It will be much more convenient if we can communicate over the phone when my uncle comes back like this."

"Okay, I'll go to the post office in Qinghua Town to find someone. It should be faster if we apply in the name of the team."

Wang Jiankun understands the difficulties in installing telephones nowadays. Only a few places in the country have begun to install programmable switches to replace manual transfers. Most places still rely on operators to transfer calls, which greatly limits the number of telephone terminals. After all, the processing speed of people on a line is limited. When multiple call requests arrive at the same time, the operators can only handle them one by one, and when they transfer, they must call the target line once to see if it is connected. If it is not connected, you have to wait, which will waste a lot of time.

He did want to start a programmable switching system project, but he was currently short of manpower, and the users of programmable switching systems could only be governments of various countries. China was now introducing equipment from many European and American communication giants, and Wang Jiankun's newly established company would certainly not be able to compete. It would also be difficult for local governments in China to trust the equipment of such a new company, so he did not put any effort into this area.

However, he has asked Zheng Tianming of Xingzhou Group to form a programmable switching R&D team to use the chips developed by Xingyao Group. At the same time, he has also actively registered patents. After the tests in Myanmar are mature, they will be promoted to some third world countries. After occupying a certain market and the equipment has been tested in actual use, it will be vigorously promoted domestically. I believe that by then, with first-class technology and low cost of domestic manufacturing, it will definitely have a place, just like the SMS machines that are now being built in Shenzhen.

"Xiangxiang, you stay here and watch over the puppies. Don't let them enter the house or run out of the yard. My dad and I will go get some wood to build a doghouse." Wang Jiankun unlocked the door of the cage and let the six puppies go into the yard to play for a while.

"Okay, I'll definitely take good care of it. Bro, what can a puppy eat?"

"Don't feed them yet, they are all full. I will teach you how to feed them later."

Wang Jiankun and his father came to the firewood room, took a few wooden boards from the overhead, then took a hand saw to cut the boards into different shapes. His father took nails and nailed the divided wooden boards together one by one. Because the puppy will be quite big when it grows up, the doghouse is made very large, about 80 centimeters high and about 1 meters wide. But the dog is still small now, so his father made a small wooden tray, which will be surrounded by cardboard and placed in the doghouse, so that the puppy can sleep on the wooden tray first.

"Grandpa, look, there are six puppies my brother brought, and they are all exactly the same." When the younger sister saw grandpa coming back, she grabbed a puppy and walked up to him like she was presenting a treasure.

After hearing what he said, the grandfather took the dog and touched its body, then said, "Kun Le, this dog is great. Where did you get it? There are six of them that are exactly the same."

So Wang Jiankun had no choice but to explain the origin again, and he began to believe it after he said it so many times.

"That's quite rare. I'll train this dog. Then he can help the team catch more rabbits. This year, the rapeseed we planted in the fields has been damaged by wild rabbits."

"Grandpa, can you do this?"

"I learned a little from a comrade in the army a long time ago. At that time, our team had several dogs. That man trained them very well. They could help with patrolling, guarding, and hunting. What a pity~"

"Grandpa, then you should train them well. Two will stay at home, and I will take the other four away."

After listening to this, grandpa nodded and put the puppy on the ground.

It's only because our family conditions are better now, otherwise grandpa wouldn't agree to keep the puppy. After all, this kind of hunting dog needs to eat meat regularly. If it doesn't eat meat, it won't grow well and won't have any wildness.

That day, grandpa personally prepared food for the puppies, and my sister watched very carefully. After eating, the puppies were lazy and wanted to sleep, so my sister took the initiative to carry them to the dog cage under the courtyard wall.

It was almost Qingming Festival, and the temperature was not low. Grandpa took out some rags from the house, cut them up, modified them, and put them in the doghouse for the puppy to cushion.

My uncle didn't come that day. My grandfather was originally planning to go to the grave to hang paper money for his ancestors, but seeing this, he postponed it to the next day and wait for my uncle.

Wang Jiankun was not idle at home either. He had been observing several puppies and found that as time went on, these puppies copied from the same entity slowly showed some differences. For example, one puppy was very brave and strolled around everywhere. When he met family members, he would wag his tail to please them. He also kept moving towards the courtyard gate and looked outside through the gap, as if he wanted to go out and have fun. However, one of them was already a little shy and when he saw his mother and grandmother coming back, he actually started to bark at them. The other puppies also had different characteristics. Some liked to bite things, and some liked to look at moving things.

While Wang Jiankun was observing the performance of these puppies, he was also trying to use his superpowers to observe the puppies' brain wave reactions at that time.

That night, he thought about it for a long time and decided to first understand the division of labor among different parts of the brain, and at the same time develop a brain-computer chip that could convert brain waves into readable signals and communicate with peripheral devices.

He hopes to be able to send instructions to the brain-computer chip so that the corresponding organism can complete the task according to the instructions.

He does not intend to create a complete human life form because that seems to raise ethical issues. For example, if he makes a copy of himself, how would he treat the copy?
Because according to the situation of the puppies he created before, these puppies seem to retain the complete memory and instincts of the original one, but as the scenes they encounter are different, the personalities of these puppies begin to change. Then the other Wang Jiankun he copied may also be in this situation. He will retain his previous memories completely, but as time goes by, a new Wang Jiankun will be created with the same appearance but different personality. If it is treated as a normal person, it will be uncontrollable, and family and friends will definitely not be able to accept it.

However, if we do not treat it as a normal person, but as an ordinary animal, the clone we create should have a smart brain and independent thoughts like Wang Jiankun's original body, and will definitely find ways to break free from the control of Wang Jiankun's original body.

Based on the above ethical and control issues, Wang Jiankun plans to castrate the brain when creating humanoid creatures, and use brain-computer chips to assist in control, using a double insurance method to mass-produce assistants and tools.

These people controlled by chips will perfectly execute Wang Jiankun's orders and live like normal people. They can perfectly integrate into human society and help Wang Jiankun control more and more entities.

He did it as soon as he thought of it. That night, he asked Zhizi to help him research brain-computer chips and peripheral devices. The brain-computer chip will be installed in the clone's brain, and the peripheral devices are mainly used to transfer signals. Wang Jiankun will issue commands through radio signals in the future, and the clones will be able to transmit information to Wang Jiankun through the brain-computer chip and peripheral devices. Of course, the clones can also communicate with each other in a controlled manner.

For this purpose, Wang Jiankun also adjusted his research plan and put communication satellites on the agenda. In the future, he will communicate with replicas around the world through the satellite network.

The next morning, a military green jeep arrived at the Wangjia Production Team and two people got out. One was Wang Jiankun's uncle and the other was either a comrade-in-arms or a driver.

"Hongbin, are you sure this is your hometown? It's very different from what you said before. Look at that big factory building. This whole team is made up of new houses, with only a few old houses here and there. The roads are also different, all cement roads. The section we came from was also cement road. Did you take the right road?"

"No, how could I have gone to the wrong house? My dad did tell me a little about the situation at home in his previous letter, but I thought he was bragging. I didn't expect it to be true. It was even better than what he said in the previous letter. When I left, many families in the team were still not getting enough to eat and were often hungry."

"Okay, I'm glad I didn't go the wrong way. I'm going back now. When I go back, come with me to the county!"

"You're already at the doorstep, you should go have some tea before leaving. There's nothing else for you to do when you go back."

Wang Hongbin took the luggage from the car and put it on his shoulders, then walked towards home with the person who was seeing him off, with the other person holding a small bag in his other hand.

Looking at his hometown that had completely changed, Wang Hongbin was filled with emotion and for a moment he didn't know how to get there. Although the road in the team had been paved with cement and many new houses had been built, he still knew the location of the old houses, and he also had some impressions of other people's old houses for reference.

There were almost no people on the road, only a few children playing. When they saw him in his green military uniform, they looked at him from afar and didn't dare to come over.

These children are not yet old enough to go to school. They were not even born when Wang Hongbin left home to join the army, so of course they could not recognize him.

Wang Hongbin, carrying his bag, slowly approached the door of his home. From a distance, he saw the familiar figures: his parents, brother and sister-in-law were standing at the door, looking anxiously. His two nephews and nieces were also there. Compared to what he remembered, they had grown up a lot taller.

Wang Hongbin's pace quickened, tears gradually welled up in his eyes. The moment his parents saw him, their faces immediately broke into smiles, and his mother excitedly shouted: "Hongbin, my son, you are finally back!" His father also nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of relief.

Wang Hongbin walked quickly to them, put down his bag, hugged his parents tightly, and said in a choked voice: "Dad, Mom, I'm back."

The elder brother came forward, patted Wang Hongbin on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Brother, welcome home. You have kept us waiting for so long."

Wang Hongbin looked at his nephew and niece, his eyes full of surprise: "Wow, you have grown so big, I almost didn't recognize you."

Wang Jiankun's sister smiled shyly and said, "Uncle, we miss you so much." Wang Jiankun also nodded and said, "Yes, uncle, how long can you stay at home this time?"

Wang Hongbin touched his sister's head, patted Wang Jiankun's shoulder, and said with a smile: "I can stay longer this time and spend more time with you." The family gathered together, talking and laughing. It was such a warm scene, as if time had stopped at this moment.

"Hongbin, is this your comrade?"

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce you. This is my comrade Qi Bing. I met him this year in the Hongdu Military Region. He happens to be from Wuyuan as well. He drove me here from the county."

"Then please come in and have some sweet water. We'll have lunch here before leaving."

"No, uncle and aunt, I'll just sit for a while and leave. I won't eat here. Don't bother."

"Let's go to the new house next door first. This house was just renovated at the end of last year, and we have all moved into the new house."

Wang Hongbin and Qi Bing came to the new house. Grandma and mother hurried to the kitchen to busy themselves. Qi Bing was pulled by his uncle to talk with grandpa, while his sister kept looking at his uncle, glancing at the army green package from time to time.

After a while, my mother brought two bowls of poached eggs in sugar water.

"Come, drink some sugar water. You must be very tired from the journey."

"Thank you, sister-in-law. Come on, Qibing, you're welcome. Eat everything."

When guests come to visit in Wuyuan, people will cook poached eggs with lots of sugar. Even though life was very difficult in the past, families would usually leave some eggs and honey to entertain relatives and guests.

Qi Bing finished a full bowl of sugar-water eggs, rested for a while and then asked to leave. His grandfather and father tried their best to keep him, but his uncle knew that he had things to do when he returned and he had very little vacation time.

Said: "Dad, I'll see him off. He hasn't been home for a long time. This time I took the time to see him off. His family must want him to go home earlier."

"Okay, next time you come, you must have a meal before you leave."

"Thank you, uncle. I'll definitely do it next time."

The family sent Qi Bing to the door of his home, and when his uncle sent him to the car and came back, they were still at the door.

"Dad, things have changed a lot at home. What you wrote in the letter is different from what I saw."

"The letter was sent in October last year. Our house was not yet built, and the road in the team had just been renovated and paved with cement. I only picked out some important things to tell you, and I am not good at describing them. "

"It seems that this change only occurred in the second half of last year? Jiankun, you are really amazing. You even made a lighter. I have seen people using it in the army. I didn't expect that it was you who led the team to make it."

"Uncle, did you see someone using it in the army? I didn't expect that someone would sell it to the army."

"Yes, they are sold at the military service centers in the military area. They are very expensive, 2 or 30 each. How about you tell me more about this lighter later?"

"Okay, uncle, I'll tell you what you want to hear."

"Hongbin, let's go hang paper money first. We can talk about this after we come back and have dinner. Your vacation should be quite long, right?"

"Okay, let's go hang paper money first. I can rest for half a month this time. I was supposed to rest for a month, but the army has a mission, so I can only wait until next time."

So they went home, brought some paper money and incense, and went to the mountain under the leadership of grandpa to hang paper money for their ancestors.

(End of this chapter)