The Posthuman Era: the Jump from Carbon-Based to Silicon-Based

Carbon-based civilization has come to an end. In lunar orbit, biologist Lu Chen discovered an ancient signal from outside the Kuiper Belt—a beacon that had been suspended at the edge of the solar system for 7,500 years. There are nine lines engraved on the beacon, each of which is a way to leave the carbon-based body: becoming silicon-based, integrating into the field, becoming a probability, turning into language, becoming fragments... Nine paths, nine possibilities of "no longer being human". Humanity chose to leap. But Lu Chen didn't. Standing in the middle of all the marked paths, he chose a path that was not on the beacon - the ninth was only half-carved, and he finished it. He called that path "lost." Three thousand years later, the Echo Pavilion on the far side of the moon was pushed away. There are no answers in the museum, only a stone, a fingerprint, and an unsent letter. And there is a new line of words engraved on the door - "We don't know what you're asking. But we're starting to ask." ——From carbon-based to silicon-based, what we transition is not only the form, but also every new answer to "what is existence". --- Before you, there have been nine attempts. After you, there will be a tenth. But the ninth line is only half-engraved - you have to finish it.