Ways

Is memory hereditary?

Understanding Yue Yuan's purpose, Yi Kai summoned an assistant to take over his work, then turned and walked out of the research institute with Yue Yuan into the corridor.

"This is a very complex issue! From a biological perspective, memory is made up of billions of nerve cells in the brain, which influence each other through synapses, forming extremely complex interconnections." Yi Kai continued, "Memory is the mutual calling between brain nerve cells. Some of these calls are short-lived, some are long-lasting, and some are somewhere in between."

We believe that the process of learning and memorizing new knowledge involves the brain producing new synapses or reactivating dormant synapses into specific signaling circuits. These signaling circuits are not the circuits we normally understand, but rather a phenomenon existing at the quantum level.

Yi Kai glanced at Yue Yuan, who was listening attentively beside him, and continued, "So whether the Kuntai People have the ability to inherit memory, we cannot get the answer directly from the Kuntai People's brain structure or from research on their brain regions, because with our current level of technology, we simply cannot unlock the secrets of the brain and consciousness."

From another perspective, molecular biology research indicates that there are three basic neural circuits: monosynaptic connections, polysynaptic connections, and cell clusters.

Cell clusters refer to a large number of cells that are activated simultaneously or in close temporal relation, which is a way of organizing neurons that is closely related to various learning and memory processes.

The encoding of neuronal clusters also depends on synaptic plasticity; in this way, neuronal clusters encode different forms of memory. Learning and memory are accompanied by changes in synaptic plasticity between neurons, including changes in synaptic connection strength, synaptic number, and neuronal morphology.

"Professor Yi Kai, just tell me the research progress on memory inheritance in the Kuntai People." Yue Yuan interrupted Yi Kai, who was starting to explain to him from beginning to end.

"Alright!" Yi Kai thought for a moment and nodded. "What I want to tell the Chief is that, from a biological perspective, the Kun-Tai Civilization has absolutely no possibility of memory inheritance, unless..."

"Unless?" Yue Yuan pressed.

Yi Kai placed his hands on the railing in front of him. "Yes, unless the Kuntai People completely replicate the current state of their brains when they give birth and bury it deep into their offspring, so that their offspring will have the same neural circuits as the Mother Body after they grow to a certain stage."

"That's a possibility." Yue Yuan frowned.

"That's very unlikely." Yi Kai took over the conversation, pulled out his Personal Terminal from behind him, and then showed its contents to Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan turned his head and saw that Yi Kai's Personal Terminal was playing a video of a Kuntai People being brought to a laboratory and connected to various devices for research.

At this point, Yi Kai continued, "We have conducted numerous Brain Scan and studies on the Kuntai People, including stress response, memory areas, motor areas, and so on. To date, all biological research indicates that the Kuntai People do not possess the ability to inherit memory."

However, we cannot rule out the possibility that our technology is lagging behind, because many things in the universe are not as we imagine. Liu Miyan visited before and believes that the biological memory mechanism is essentially a kind of law of the Quantum World. He has some research reports on this topic, which can be found in 'Tianhe Light' (a database/resource).

Some scholars believe that it may be passed down through some kind of ethereal soul relationship, but I think that's alarmist. The spirit must rely on matter to exist; how can the spirit be passed down directly apart from matter?

Even if such technology existed, it couldn't possibly be technology possessed by a civilization of the Kun-Tai Civilization level. As for the theory of Racial Talent, I think it can be verified through another approach.

Yue Yuan suddenly realized something and asked, "Should we directly study the new generation of the Kun-Tai Civilization?"

"Yes, Chief." Yi Kai put away his terminal and said slowly, "We are currently screening the Kuntai People. In about three days, we will be able to gather the first batch of Kuntai People who have entered abnormal development and conduct experiments comparing them with newborns."

"Yes, expedite this matter and let me know as soon as you have any results." Yue Yuan nodded slightly.

"Chief, what do you want?"

"You mentioned before about leaving 10,000 Kuntai People for research," Yue Yuan didn't hide anything, and he roughly repeated the points that Man Yuemei had made not long ago. And at the end, he added, "Or we could go a step further and only leave behind the Kuntai People embryos."

"Embryo?" Yi Kai was taken aback. Hearing these two words, he realized that Yue Yuan might not fully understand the reproductive mechanism of the Kuntai People, so he explained, "Chief, the Kuntai People do not have 'embryos' like humans, nor do they have fertilized eggs as reproductive cells. Their reproductive differentiation takes place entirely during metamorphosis and is a form of self-differentiation. We haven't even been able to complete our own artificial womb. If we take cells from the Kuntai People during their metamorphosis period when they have just differentiated into offspring, there is simply no way to preserve them."

"Alright," Yue Yuan sighed.

Human Biotechnology is still developing unevenly. Despite having developed two Life Elixir and made remarkable achievements in gene expression, gene trimming, and gene editing, we still lack the technology for artificial wombs.

Hopefully, these relatively lagging Credits will gradually catch up with the mainstream progress in the future. Yue Yuan muttered to himself, then talked with Yi Kai for a while before turning to leave.

He left at 7 p. m., ate a quick dinner, and that was the end of Yue Yuan's day.

After the war was won, he was no longer as busy as before.

During his relatively free time, Yue Yuan didn't let himself be idle. Instead of returning to his residence, he went back to his office and directly called 'Taihu Light' to retrieve the research report that Yi Kai had mentioned earlier and read it carefully.

After finishing, Yue Yuan continued searching through the database for books in the field of biology. He didn't look at anything at the forefront of human science, but rather some basic textbooks.

He had actually read many books, but after a long time, he had forgotten a lot of them. So he often took them out to review them whenever he had free time, and the same went for other subjects.

Yue Yuan's memory is quite good, but it's far from being able to Photographic Memory. Therefore, he can't stop learning and reviewing.

"If only we had a technology to enhance memory someday, the cost of learning for humans would be much lower." Yue Yuan shook his head and sighed inwardly.