Have you ever thought that one day in the future, human emotions will be quantified into a series of cold numbers.
In a future where emotions can be quantified, are you willing to trade "painless" for eternal numbness?
In the 2040s, global empathy overload surged. "Emotional pollution" has become a new crisis sweeping the world.
Neuroscientist Yin Ao carried his late wife's last wish and swore with doctor Shen Zhiliang: "Use technology to build embankments for emotions." They launched the Heart Keeping Project in an attempt to draw safe boundaries for human empathy.
But eventually the dikes leak and the route begins to split.
Some people build a "painless utopia" and alienate humans into "battery people" tied to KPIs - "emotional stability" has become an efficiency standard.
Someone is guarding the charging station, in the underground air raid shelter, under the moss wall, guarding the last warmth of humanity.
When emotions are priced, when empathy becomes the original sin - how do we maintain the last line of defense of humanity in the flood of data?
Purpose: The true ethics of science and technology lies not in what we can do, but in what we know we should not do. The value of human beings does not lie in stability, efficiency, or collapse, but in having feelings, choices, and dignity.
