Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 22 Brain Mass
"Twenty-one..."

Li Qingsong muttered the number silently and sighed softly.

Although there is no internal friction and communication cost between clones under their own control, and they can work and think with full effort and the highest efficiency, but at most, 21,000 clones can only exert production and development capabilities ten times that of the ordinary human population.

By this calculation, my total production and development capacity at this moment is roughly equivalent to that of a group of 21 ordinary people.

21 people may seem like a large number, but compared to the huge scale of industrial society, it is still completely insufficient.

If the industrial system is perfect, such a small number of people can only take on the production requirements of specific products in a sub-sector of a large industrial category.

For example, in the automobile industry, with such a small number of people, it is good enough to be able to take on the glass industry.

This is still under the premise of high automation.

Now, our overall technological level is only roughly equivalent to that of the Second Industrial Revolution of human civilization.

As a result, the productivity of these 2.1 clones will be even lower.

A few years ago, after I first felt the existence of the "upper limit of consciousness", I have been thinking and experimenting in this regard, trying to understand and control this special ability that I possess more deeply.

Although there has not been much progress, there have been some peripheral gains.

For example, Li Qingsong has now realized that there is a speed limit for the consciousness connection between himself and his clone.

The speed of information transmission is the same as the speed of light, which is 30 kilometers per second.

When the distance increases, for example, for a clone located on the other side of Roselle, there will be a delay of about 6.7 milliseconds because the distance between the two is about 2000 kilometers.

But Li Qingsong doesn't know yet what the carrier of this information is.

However, at this stage, at least it is certain that it is not electromagnetic waves. Because if it were electromagnetic waves, some clones located in special areas, such as underground, should have lost contact with themselves long ago.

At the same time, this special ability of mine seems to be closely related to the "quality" of my brain.

Even if they are all clones of yourself, using the same gene editing plan and the same culture tank cultivation plan, there will always be slight differences in the cultivation process, which will lead to slight differences between different clones.

Some clones' brains may be smarter, that is, of higher "quality", with higher logical thinking ability, reasoning and association ability, data processing ability, etc., while some clones may be worse.

"Perhaps, the higher the quality of the brain, the more clones can be controlled simultaneously?"

With this guess in mind, Li Qingsong did not stop cultivating clones even though the number of connections was approaching the upper limit.

So half a year later, the latest batch of 2000 clones were cultivated.

After Li Qingsong tried to connect again, he found that the upper limit of his connection number had indeed been reached.

Including the main body where the consciousness resides, he can only connect to a maximum of 21155 clones.

The remaining thousand or so clones were unable to connect, just like a car that could no longer carry any more weight.

Li Qingsong decisively transferred his consciousness to another clone and began to try to connect again.

This time, the number of clones he could connect to had indeed changed, becoming 21159! That was 4 more than the previous body!
After changing his body again and trying to connect again, Li Qingsong found that the number of people he could connect to this time became 21006, which was 153 less than the previous one!
After a round of experiments, Li Qingsong found that the number of other clones that each clone could connect to was different, and there were slight differences among them.

The difference between the highest and lowest scores was over 800! Li Qingsong selected four representative clones, brought them to a room, and placed a set of extremely complex thinking ability tests in front of them.

Then, Li Qingsong first entered the body of the clone with the least number of connections, and without using the abilities of the other clones, began to do a set of 500 test questions, and then the second body, also without using the abilities of the other clones.

After all four body tests were completed, the final results were presented in front of Li Qingsong.

The body that controlled the least number of clones, relying solely on its own brain power, scored 85 points in the test, while the scores of the other three clones were 85.2, 85.5, and 85.9 respectively!

Sure enough!

At this moment, his previous guess was completely verified.

So, the solution to how to increase your connection limit is very clear.

Cultivate higher quality clones and you will be able to control more bodies and brains at the same time!
At the same time, it may not be enough to cultivate only one or two high-quality clones.

This is because if an accident happens and this high-quality clone dies, he will be forced to transfer to other clones. However, due to the reduction in quality, the clone that was originally controllable will suddenly become uncontrollable, which will be very funny.

The second is that the clone's brain is also your own brain. The higher the quality of each clone's brain, the greater their own abilities.

Overall, he still had to improve the brain quality of all the clones he cultivated as much as possible.

In this way, not only will your overall ability be higher, but if you are forced to transfer due to an accident, you will not suddenly lose too much control over the clones.

To cultivate high-quality clones... sufficient biotechnology is required.

Biotechnology is obviously related to one's overall technological level.

Chemistry, medicine, mathematics, physics, computational science, etc., every major subject is indispensable.

It is almost impossible to develop biotechnology alone without the overall scientific and technological foundation.

“But fortunately, at this stage, I don’t need to improve biotechnology through overall technological progress.

The Deep Spacecraft has sufficient basic biological theories and gene editing equipment. With these, it should be possible to optimize my genes and create a genetic plan for a clone with a higher-quality brain.

As long as the technical level of culture tanks catches up, there will be no problem in cultivating high-quality clones.

It’s just that at this stage, I can’t make such a sophisticated culture tank.”

Li Qingsong had a slight headache.

He did not forget that his first cloning culture tank was modified from the facilities for cloning livestock, and the second to fifth sets were assembled from those for breeding small animals. The culture tanks he made later were even more crude.

If you want to cultivate high-quality clones, you can't compromise like this.

"We have to make it even if we can't. For the next period of time, we'll prioritize developing culture tank technology."

He made up his mind.

(End of this chapter)