As the previous generation of overlords of the earth, dinosaurs have existed on the earth for more than 100 million years, relatively speaking, humans can be much more powerful than dinosaurs, so if anyone asks, will there still be humans on the earth 100 million years later? We usually give an optimistic answer in the affirmative, but some researchers believe that we may think too much, maybe in a few thousand years human beings will disappear, let's take a look at how this is going.
Looking back at the history of mankind, we can clearly see that human civilization has been constantly developing and growing, so we can fully believe that in the days to come, human civilization will also continue to develop and progress, and one day, human beings will truly enter the vast sea of stars, and then become a powerful interstellar civilization.
But the problem is that human beings' own conditions have limitations, which can become an obstacle to the development of civilization. On the one hand, with the limited life span of human beings, it is not suitable for long-term navigation in cosmic space, and the fragile body of human beings, even many areas of the earth, cannot adapt, let alone survive in the cosmic space outside the earth.
On the other hand, with the continuous development of civilization, human knowledge will become more and more complex and larger, while the energy of the human brain to process information is limited, and in the face of increasing knowledge base, the human brain will become more and more "powerless".
Fortunately, humans have invented a variety of machines, which can replace humans to work in various harsh environments, and can also help humans efficiently analyze and process massive amounts of information, and in theory, if there is enough energy supply, as well as the updated iteration of spare parts, then the life of the machine can be extended indefinitely.
Because the characteristics of machines can make up for the limitations of human beings themselves, it is not difficult to imagine that future humans will try their best to make themselves have the advantages of machines.
In the beginning, humans may simply use machines as an extension of the body, making themselves "cyborgs", and thus have higher intelligence, longer lifespan, greater strength, and the ability to adapt to the environment.
To know that the brain is the material basis of the existence of human self-consciousness, as long as human technology is developed enough, it can eventually solve the mystery of human consciousness, so it can be said that with the continuous progress of human technology, human beings can even transfer their consciousness to machines, thus completely freeing themselves from the shackles of carbon-based life forms.
Researchers believe that from the perspective of the speed of human technology development, it only takes a few thousand years at most for humans to complete the above process.
Obviously, if such a thing really happens in the future, then the human being at that time can no longer be regarded as a human being in the true sense of the word, but should be classified as a "machine with higher intelligence".
It can be seen that according to the above, there will be no human existence on The Earth in 100 million years, because just a few thousand years later, when the last human being on the earth with carbon-based life has completed the consciousness transfer, the "human" species will disappear from the earth. Of course, this is a good ending for human beings, because although human beings have disappeared, the earth civilization created by human beings will continue forever.
It is conceivable that the "machines with higher intelligence" evolved by humans have a very long lifespan, their powerful information processing capabilities, and they can efficiently receive huge amounts of knowledge and constantly innovate, in addition, they do not have to consider water, oxygen, food at all... As long as there is energy, they can survive in the vast space of the universe, and it is conceivable that there will be a huge leap in the development of the Earth civilization at that time, and soon become a powerful interstellar civilization.
It is worth mentioning that some scientists also agree with the above views, such as Martin Rees, an astrophysicist at cambridge university, who pointed out that human intelligence based on carbon-based life will only be a short episode in the "history of the development of Earth civilization".
He also made an interesting guess, that is, because intelligence based on organic life has existed for too short a time in the "history of civilization development", if one day in the future, the Earth civilization does come into contact with an alien intelligent civilization, then this alien intelligent civilization is likely to be also a "machine with higher intelligence".
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