Life and Wisdom

Just like humans and the Nair People, even though humans are ahead of the Nair People in many technological fields, they cannot develop cable materials that meet the requirements of Space Elevator, nor can they develop Photon Computer.

Previously, humans might have thought this was because the number of individual humans was too small. Of course, the small total population size is certainly also a factor.

However, upon learning that the Nair People's computers actually followed the Photon Computer route, and considering what the Awakeners said, human scholars believed that perhaps the thoughts, ways of thinking, or wisdom of a single race alone could not break through the barriers that blocked the path of civilization's advancement.

Because the Cosmic Rules are so comprehensive, so vast, and so all-encompassing, an individual civilization, or even an entire civilization, is merely a life form with different modes of operation, composed of some of the matter found in a corner of the universe.

As the Awakeners said, wisdom has its limits.

To rely on individual Sentient Life forms to explore the numerous and all-encompassing fundamental laws of the universe, which are transformed into Technology Barrier, is akin to seeing only a part of the whole picture through a tube. Even if one could see clearly, one would only obtain formulas and theorems applicable to a specific field.

Therefore, if we want to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the true nature of the various laws of the universe, the collective wisdom and efforts of individuals within this civilization may not be enough. We also need to encourage other races to think in their own way, from directions that our own race has never considered. Only in this way can we see the full picture of the 'leopard' from all angles.

This phenomenon of racial intelligence manifests itself in scientific research. If we apply it to people's daily lives, it might be like this: both people know how to solve a math problem. During an exam, one person solves it easily, while the other suddenly can't figure it out. However, after a while, the other person understands it on their own.

Well, that analogy might not be quite right, so let's use another way of describing it: it could be called Epistemic Obstacle, which is the phenomenon that hinders an individual's in-depth practice due to an overemphasis on deeper meanings and misunderstandings. This doesn't refer to cognitive impairment of specific events or things, but rather to an inherent flaw in the thought processes formed by a Sentient Life.

The universe endows life with wisdom, but also confines that wisdom to the ancient thought circuit from which it was born!

Perhaps this is why Racial Talent exists; after all, without differences, there would be no point in talking about talent.

If this conjecture is correct, then it's not hard to imagine that the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance, which frequently broadcasts across the Milky Way Galaxy and doesn't even spare Low-level Civilization, is probably doing just that.

Moreover, the current Nair People are clearly unwilling to trade their scientists, but Nair People have never even been to any Interstellar Transaction Market. This refusal is simply a form of self-protection by Sentient Life after civilization has developed to a certain level and established a certain social order.

No Sentient Life willingly turns itself into a commodity for trade, unless that Sentient Life has been instilled with certain forms of education from the moment its self-awareness develops, and thus considers such a thing to be natural. Another scenario is involuntary.

However, unless a civilization's own intelligence is perfectly natural and flawless, it will eventually need the help of the thought processes of other races, which leads to conflicts between civilizations.

While open and honest communication is undoubtedly the best solution, who can guarantee that you won't betray me, destroy my civilization, and use its individuals as stepping stones for your own? Thinking about it this way, the Awakeners might also be refining their own "wisdom" in their own way. Since the Awakeners are named for awakening Fallen Civilization, their method is highly likely related to those Fallen Civilization.

The Harvesters are probably doing the same thing, just in a different way.

Exchanges between civilizations are beneficial to the development of both sides, but they also carry huge risks. After all, no one knows whether, after you make progress through exchanges, you might stab me in the back and turn me into nourishment to complete your 'wisdom'.

This might explain why the Top Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy don't seem to communicate with each other!

Today, humanity's request for scientists from the Nair Civilization has been rejected, but through the related information, we have once again glimpsed the sordid affairs between Cosmic Civilizations, thus supplementing and improving our own Cosmic Sociology to some extent.

Of course, all these inferences are based on humanity's current understanding of the forms of civilizations composed of Sentient Life in the universe.

So, what is this foundation?

Without a doubt, it is a civilization composed of collective Sentient Life.

To date, humanity has not encountered any Individual Civilization. Indeed, while the Awakeners appeared as a warship, they were not Individual Civilization; it was merely one of their warships.

The top entities in the Milky Way Galaxy, apart from the Harvesters, such as the Milky Way Galaxy Axis Alliance, the Perseus Commonwealth, and the Silicon-Based Collective, don't seem like Individual Civilization just by their names.

Besides these, there are the civilizations that humans have directly or indirectly come into contact with, such as the Moke Star Civilization, the Kun-Tai Civilization, and the current Nair Civilization, which are undoubtedly technological civilizations composed of individuals.

Even the native Dog-Headed People are Sentient Life in a group.

If it weren't for self-awareness, knowing that we are merely a civilization that has only recently ventured into the universe, humanity would doubt that civilizations in the universe are limited to the form of Group Technological Civilization.

Not only that, but characters that frequently appear in science fiction movies, such as insectoids, Planet Consciousness, demons, and Starry Sky Behemoth, are things that humans have never even heard of.

If humanity knows that these things exist, then the current well-developed models of Cosmic Sociology either need to be further optimized or completely rebuilt.

Regarding the issue of encountering only Group Technological Civilization for the time being, anthropologists have several inferences.

First, the dominant life form in the universe is that of social species. Second, social species are more likely to overcome various barriers and form civilizations through collective wisdom and effort. Third, other forms of civilization have been wiped out. Fourth, humanity simply hasn't encountered other forms of civilization.

Of course, whichever it is, that's a matter for the future. What humans need to do now is wait for the Nair People to reply and then continue to trick them into trading.

Judging from the Nair People's reaction, it will be very difficult to buy their scientists, a fact that humans are well aware of.

But it doesn't matter. After all, humanity didn't have high hopes for this in its plans. If they couldn't buy scientists, they could settle for buying some ordinary or even criminal Nair People.