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Chapter 484 Will Robots Miss Little Fish? (Part 61)

The next day was also spent conducting experiments. After finishing the experiments, Professor Lin plugged in the K011 and put it into hibernation mode as usual.

Unexpectedly, K011 asked a question: "Professor Lin, may I ask a question, a question that can help me distinguish between humans and robots?"

"Okay, go ahead and ask," Lin Huanming said. The press conference is tomorrow, so it's best to resolve any issues with K011 as soon as possible.

"Well, that's right. I wanted to ask why humans have feelings of longing," K011 blinked and asked.

"Why are you suddenly asking this?" Lin Huanming asked, and Feng Yuhan and Wang Yinghui also stopped what they were doing.

"Why would humans yearn for something that has become blurred in their memory, since they discovered such a strange place?" K 011 blinked. "Whether it's Professor Lin's answer to me before, or the related topics I found online, humans always experience strong emotional fluctuations because of things that don't exist in the present but exist in the past."

"The act of longing does not help humans at all in terms of survival or other aspects that are very important to humans. Sometimes it may even have the opposite effect. Why did humans evolve the act of longing? Can this be regarded as humans not progressing but regressing in some aspects?"

“Because humans live not just to live,” Lin Huanming replied to K011 after listening to her words, and then continued to plug the wires into K011. “I’m not a professional in this field, so I can only answer your question based on my own understanding, K011.”

"The emergence of longing is inevitable, just as law and morality emerge with the development of human productivity."

"To your last question—whether human contemplation is progress or regression—my answer is progress, because it is a byproduct of human evolution and one of the hallmarks of how humans have become very different from animals."

K011 blinked: "So the emergence of longing is not something that humans evolved for survival."

“Yes, that’s right.” Lin Huanming continued, his hands still moving. “What I said before is that humans do not live merely to live.”

"It's like building a Lego model. You can buy a ready-made one, but many people are willing to put them together piece by piece."

"Just for fun."

"It's just for fun, so humans choose to give up the quickest way." K011 shook its leg. "But longing doesn't seem to do much for humans. In severe cases, it can even lead to illness from longing, just like being too addicted to fun can also lead to bad results."

"But while fun can bring positive emotions, what can longing bring?"

“Longing can bring a lot of things,” Feng Yuhan said. “Well… like novels, poems, and anything related to art, there are bound to be many works with themes related to longing.”

"Hmm, it can lead to literary creation." K011 blinked. "Anything else?"

“And it can also… offer some comfort or… um…” Wang didn’t know what words to use to describe it, so he simply continued, “Sometimes longing can influence a person’s decisions. Some people return to their hometown because they miss it; others find the courage to face life again because they remember the people who love them.”

"If a human being has nothing to miss while living in this world, either that person is very lucky and lives a very happy life, or that person is too heartless and has nothing to miss."

"Oh, I see." By the time K011 finished saying this, the three of them had already finished connecting all the wires to it.

“You can go into hibernation now, K011,” Lin Huanming said. “We have a press conference tomorrow.”

“Okay, Professor Lin,” K011 said, closing its eyes.