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    Qiao Yiyu glanced at the two of them and hesitated to speak, but after thinking about it, she still said to Su Pei: "Can we talk alone for a while?" Su Pei was a little stunned, as if he didn't expect Qiao Yiyu to be there.  He said this to him at this time, but in the end he didn't say anything and just walked out of the door. He and Qiao Yiyu had never been friends. Qiao Yiyu would let him hibernate purely for Han Le's sake.  .  Han Le felt excited. Because of the huge psychological fluctuation just now, he had almost forgotten his previous hatred for Su Pei, but it was obvious that Qiao Yiyu had not forgotten it. Logically speaking, both of them were half separated from him.  It has been a century, but Qiao Yiyu has always maintained the relationship with each other appropriately.  "Do you think I'm a little unkind?" Han Le shook his head: "You didn't do anything wrongbut I thinkthere's no need to care about it so much, it's been so long." "Indeed, from my perspective, I  I haven¡¯t seen him for fifty or sixty years. If it weren¡¯t for you today, I might not even be able to remember his name.¡± Qiao Yiyu gently twirled his cup as he spoke, ¡°But in my time,  We all believe this. In an era of moral disparity, the best way to deal with interpersonal relationships is to treat others as others treat me. There is a famous moral survival strategy in game theory called retaliation.  "Tit-for-tat, have you ever heard of it?" Han Le nodded. Tit-for-tat means that during the communication process, you will treat yourself accordingly. Those who can cooperate will definitely retaliate.  .  "It may be hard for me to believe it. In the past ten years or so, I have used this theoretical morality to determine my behavior, and it can be said that its effect is good." Han Le looked at Qiao Yiyu in front of him.  , a little speechless - the meaning of her words was already very clear. If her original moral system was not applicable in this environment and she had experienced too many failures, there would be no need to find another one for herself.  A code of conduct.  "Let's talk about hibernation." Qiao Yiyu noticed that Han Le seemed to want to say something, waved her hand and continued indifferently.  "How to safely freeze a person and ensure that normal physiological activities can be resumed after thawing has always been a medical problem." Qiao Yiyu sat down and directly found a development process of hibernation technology from the Internet.  Explained, "But it was not an unexpected institution that initially tried to solve this problem but a famous meat processing company in China. At that time, they discovered that after long-term freezing of pork, it would have a great impact on the taste, because freezing  During the thawing process, the structure of muscle cells will inevitably be destroyed. At that time, they were trying to develop an antifreeze that could make long-term frozen meat taste like fresh meat. This kind of thing happened everywhere in the history of science.  All - I think you have guessed the result. The effect of their antifreeze on pork is very average, because this process will leave irremovable residues in the food, and this residue cannot be passed through the normal process.  But later, by chance - the developer of the antifreeze was terminally ill and injected a large amount of this antifreeze into his blood in an attempt to escape death - he failed.  , his body was discovered more than a month later. At that time, he made a homemade freezer at his home, which was not much different from the freezer you use for hibernation. When the autopsy personnel analyzed the cause of his death, they found that he was not suffering from low-temperature frostbite.  , the tissue was irreversibly destroyed and he died. The cause of his death was simply the blood toxicity caused by excessive antifreeze. He was poisoned. The medical examiner in charge of the autopsy immediately realized the importance of this discovery and informed him of the discovery.  One of his classmates who was a doctor rented a laboratory together and improved the antifreeze to reduce its toxicity. They also conducted many animal experiments to finally determine the appropriate dose. It is not difficult to imagine the results. One year  Later, when the paper was published, they won the Nobel Prize in Medicine that year, and the meat processing company also made a fortune from this freezing liquid. " Qiao Yiyu paused for a moment: "It was the same year that this result was published.  , I also joined this organization called Polar Bears. I joined purely out of interest - because I knew the importance of hibernation in history. In our history books, the importance of the hibernation organization Polar Bears is almost as important as that of our party.  'It's just as famous, but after I entered it, I discovered that at that time, this organization was just a very idle organization. A group of rich people had nothing to do and had whimsical ideas. They wanted to obtain immortality through hibernation technology. When I joined, the hibernation technology had already  Realized, the organization has almost ceased to exist in name only." Hearing this, Han Le was a little sensitive: "Wait a minuteyou don't mean to say that in your history, you are the one who carried forward this organization, right?""I remember I said that the theory of time is more inclined to the theory of parallel space." Qiao Yiyu shook his head, "I have never found the person in history who promoted polar bears. This is like throwing you into England in 1662. You  When I went to Cambridge University, I found that there was no student named Newton here, and this was not a butterfly effect - we just live in two universes. You can understand it this way, but they overlap a lot in time.  " "What happened next?  " "Later I made a suggestion, which is what you see now. The prototype of this company's business is to expand the functions of the organization and turn it into an institution that provides members with services during hibernation, including legal services.  Agency, property supervision, and deciding when they wake upthese concepts were something they had not been exposed to, because at that time, people had not yet realized the nature of hibernation, which is that the subjective consciousness breaks away from one era and instantly jumps to another.  , in their minds, the so-called hibernation is more like a long-term sleep, and most people view hibernation from a static perspective.  At the beginning, this kind of service was limited to within the organization and was a kind of mutual care between members. At the beginning, hibernation was used as a medical behavior, so the relationship between members within the organization was more like that of fellow patients, and  They were all terminally ill patients. This emotional factor of sympathy for the same illness created a strong centripetal force within the polar bears during that period.  But later on, hibernation, as a medical practice, was increasingly abused by various hospitals. This is the same as the abuse of antibiotics. No matter what the patient's disease is, the doctor will first take some antibiotics to see the result.  In the 1900s, a patient entered the hospital. No matter what the problem was, if there was no good solution, the doctor would suggest that the patient try "hibernation" - hibernation technology matured very quickly, and its risks were compared with the risks of surgery.  It can almost be said to be negligible.  And as this technology is understood by more and more people, more and more patients are beginning to choose this method. Some diseases that can be solved by surgery, such as general benign tumors, are also beginning to be rejected by patients.  Surgery, because no matter what kind of surgery, risks always exist objectively - and hibernation technology makes patients unwilling to bear this risk, and more willing to hibernate for a few years, waiting for the hospital to have a more mature solution.  At that time, the government was not aware of the consequences of this behavior. Although there was some discussion in the media, the focus of the discussion was more on the risks of hibernating behavior itself, and did not consider the social costs after this behavior spread on a large scale.  ¡ªBut soon, everyone began to realize this, but the situation was out of control.  In 2054, hibernation technology was officially accepted by major hospitals around the world as a formal and reliable alternative medical method. In just three months, more than 10 million patients underwent hibernation, including  More than three million people join polar bears before hibernating.  Although there were a lot of people hibernating at that time, considering the short-term behavior of all terminally ill patients around the world, everyone did not pay enough attention to this number.  But less than two years later, that is, in the second half of 1956, the cumulative number of people hibernating exceeded 700 million, and this number was still increasing. At that time, there were comments like this on the Internet - if you have a terminal illness, you don¡¯t need to hibernate.  Afraid, go to hibernate, and you will be gone when you wake up; if you can¡¯t find a job, go to hibernate, and you will be there when you wake up; if you are dumped by your girlfriend, go to hibernate, and you will change it when you wake up; if you have no money in the bank, it doesn¡¯t matter, go to hibernate, and wake up  I can¡¯t even spend all the interest You know, the world¡¯s population in 1956 was only just over 12 billion. This number is already a terrible proportion. In those few years, hibernation quickly changed from a medical practice to  , becomes a social behavior in which all the people are involved - this is the same as when opium appeared and spread rapidly to the whole society.  When the situation was at its most serious, there was even a case like this - at that time, a family had a quarrel just because of a meal problem. As a result, seven or eight members of the family, from grandfather to grandchildren, all went to the hospital the next day.  The reason for hibernating is that they feel too depressed and want a change of environment - they regard hibernation as a harmless way to escape, just like many people who are in a bad mood and go out to travel to relax.  " Han Le was dumbfounded. He had never thought before that hibernation, which has always been a very common element in science fiction, would have such a big side effect - but if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising. The reason why everyone had it before  Living like this is not because they want to, but because they have no choice. Now hibernation gives them this choice. It is inevitable to subconsciously escape from the present and pursue a better life! "Then the government doesn't care?  " "Many governments want to control it, especially the European and American governments. They realized this problem earlier than us but" Qiao Yiyu shook his head,"Let me give you an example. In 1959, the whole world realized that the problem of hibernation must be curbed because it was crazily devouring social vitality. At that time, the state of New York in the United States tried to pass a law to strictly limit the number of hibernating places, unless it was for personal use.  No one who suffers from several diseases specially specified in the law and reaches a certain degree of severity is allowed to hibernate. Those who have hibernated but do not meet the conditions must be forced to wake up after the law is passed. At that time, the governor of New York State just said in a public speech.  When this idea was mentioned, there was no time to make a formal proposal. As a result, a month later, the Polar Bears used the power of their members to awaken a group of people to protest on a large scale. It can be said that the scale of that protest exceeded any protest in American history.  And it formed a great influence in a short period of time, and quickly spread to the whole country, and even the world. At that time, there was a very famous open debate between the pros and cons. The side that supported hibernation put forward the most important point at the end of the debate.  , and the most critical question: 'Hibernation is our own decision, a correct decision made by our own thinking in a rational state. We have not harmed anyone, including ourselves. What rights do you have to do this?  What right does it have to stop us from hibernating? ' The opponents had almost nothing to say at the time, they could only play the emotional card: 'We just hope you can return to our lives, instead of lying like corpses in a freezer at dozens of degrees below zero. '  'That's your wishful thinking, and we have no obligation to accompany it.' The response from the hibernation camp was very ruthless. As a result, because the opposition was extremely strong, the law restricting hibernation was not passed. Instead, the president was forced to pledge his determination to the voters.  Defend the freedom of the American people" "In a society composed of a democratic system, a bottom-up government has no power to prevent hibernation, especially after it has spread Hibernation is different from drugs. Drugs  The consequences can be seen in just a few years, turning a normal person into a slave of desire. This fear is enough to prompt any normal country to prevent this change. But hibernation is different. After the hibernator wakes up, he will be the same as before.  There is almost no difference, and to a large extent it can save people from the pain of death - this kind of pain has been a heavy topic that almost everyone has to face in previous history, but now, it  It was easily solved - at that time, nuclear fusion power generation technology was already quite mature, and energy was almost free. Everyone believed that they could hibernate as long as they wanted, until human medical technology cracked the genetic code and allowed everyone to hibernate.  Everyone gets eternal life! " "What about us?" Han Le asked cautiously for some reason.  "Although China did this later than abroad, it is very effective." Perhaps because he talked too much and was a little tired, Qiao Yiyu sat back on the sofa, half-lying and looking out the window, "It was passed in 1961  The law restricting hibernation stipulates that hibernation can only be carried out in fixed hospitals, and only after doctors have completely determined the necessity of hibernation. However, the government has not taken measures to deal with people who have already hibernated.  There is a huge backlash, and the opposition mainly comes from two aspects - on the one hand, those who want to hibernate, and on the other hand, those who are firmly opposed to any form of hibernation. " "Is there anyone who doesn't want to hibernate? " " Yes, and there are many.  ," Qiao Yiyu said, "After the hibernation restriction law was implemented, the government began to consciously carry out anti-hibernation propaganda. At the beginning, people didn't really believe it. But later, with the first batch of short-term hibernators.  When they woke up, the problem of hibernation began to be taken seriously - these hibernators discovered that the short-term future was not as good as imagined. On the contrary, the problems that existed in society have become more serious, such as unemployment.  Since the advent of nuclear fusion technology, it has been a worldwide problem. Industrial robots have begun to gradually replace more and more jobs. However, in the early 21st century, the "highly developed service industry" that people imagined could solve the employment problem did not appear.  . Originally, some scholars thought that hibernating people without jobs would reduce the number of unemployed people, while hibernating people with jobs would give job opportunities to others, which would also increase the employment rate - but everyone soon discovered that  This is all unrealistic. The actual situation is that people who are capable of working escape from labor through hibernation, but it is difficult for companies to find qualified workers in a short period of time. Even after a few years, maybe just a few months, even companies  The family itself has also gone into hibernation, and before hibernation, he will inevitably convert his business into cash or other forms of wealth to prepare for what he needs after hibernation. In this way, a large amount of social wealth has stopped flowing with their owners.  Across the world, cash has increased significantly, but investment and production have become smaller and smaller. The interest pressure on banks has continued to increase, and deposit interest rates have continued to fall, even negative for a time Economists don't even call this situation an economic crisis.?, which is called economic hibernation!  Most of these lost awakeners wanted to hibernate again to avoid the bad reality, but they were told that there is now a method to restrict hibernation, while a small number of people began to firmly oppose hibernation and advocated returning to the previous life track  Around the world, many countries are even torn apart because of their different understandings of this issue. Some countries have also had small-scale conflicts and wars because of such issues In short, in addition to the various contradictions that originally existed in human beings,  , ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts, national conflicts, etc., now there is another one, the hibernation contradiction. This contradiction includes the contradiction between hibernators and awakeners, and the contradiction between awakeners, supporting hibernation and opposing hibernation.  , in short" Speaking of this, Qiao Yiyu seemed a little confused. She thought for a long time, but could not think of an accurate word to define this state, so she had no choice but to give up, and finally spread her hands.  He shrugged his shoulders and said, "What a mess!"  "
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