Minke's black technology

Chapter 336 The Brain in a Vat
Li Maoye's quantum computer work has been slow.

Relevant departments and the country originally hoped that they would focus on carbon nanomachines and stem cells, and strive to develop complete carbon nanoorgan technology as soon as possible to contribute to the health of the people.

But in fact, the bald man has been doing foreign work all the time, or he handed over all the work to his subordinates, and instead started to build a quantum computer himself, but no one knew what he was doing, and no one even noticed that he planned to use three A quantum computer controls intelligent robots all over the world.

"Queen Bee Network!"

Li Maoye thinks that quantum computers are more important. With the rapid increase in the number of intelligent robots, they will bear more pressure from humans, and the probability of problems will increase.

According to the data provided by Zhou Lin, the number of computer angels has exceeded 3 million, the number of smart assistants is more than 3000 million, and the number of robot bodyguards is relatively small, only about [-] million.

If intelligent machines such as Ghost Killer are added, the number of intelligent machines on Blue Star will be close to [-] million. Once the number exceeds one billion, there may be problems that Li Maoye is worried about.

"Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, will there be intelligent robots out of control?"

Li Maoye believes that if humans use them according to the instructions, there will definitely be no out of control problems, but accidents often happen, and I am afraid that someone will die and modify the underlying code of the smart machine.

He didn't know anything else, there must be someone working in this area on Bald Eagle's side, but the Meow Star Group has done an excellent job in anti-theft, so it hasn't been cracked and modified for the time being.

However, the research on carbon nanomachines and stem cells is also very important. After all, if this path goes well, it will be a broad road to mechanical ascension and even genetic ascension.

In the past, scientists believed that human brain cells cannot regenerate, but under the action of carbon nanomachines and stem cells, brain cell regeneration is no longer a problem.

But how the regenerated brain cells inherit the information of the dead cells involves matters at the level of the soul, which is very complicated and beyond the reach of human beings.

Even so, the regenerated brain cells will still age. At that time, the brain cells can be continuously regenerated and replaced by the same means, again and again, and over and over again. In a sense, human beings have gained a long life.

But there is still a problem here, whether the information content of the brain cells inherited repeatedly will be lost, if a little bit is lost, will the immortal human beings eventually degenerate into another person completely.

Anyone who has used a copier knows that if every time you make a copy, the reference object used for copying is not the original, but the document that was copied last time. Once the number of copies exceeds ten times, the copied image will be completely different from the original. difference.

So some people raised the question of "soul strength", thinking that there must be some differences in the inheritance of brain information through brain cell regeneration. If the regenerated person is originally determined, the missing information may be able to repair itself during the regeneration, otherwise with the number of regenerations If it increases, it will obliterate the characteristics of the original version, and finally become muddled like a person who has fallen into a dream.

"But it will also enhance the personality traits every time you regenerate, and eventually become an incurable paranoid!" Li Maoye said.

He believes that in the sci-fi movie "The Sixth Day", the big boss behind the scenes, after copying brain information many times, finally became so paranoid that even his predecessor could not tolerate it, so he simply killed his clone.

All in all, this is a very possible technology. Even if it seems that there are many unknowns and risks at present, it is the first time that humans have really seen the path to immortality.

In fact, there is another way, that is the cyborg technology that is currently being tested, a rhesus monkey whose whole body has been replaced with artificial organs. Although the brain has not been replaced, it is still possible to reach this step. It's shocking.

In the laboratory full of futuristic sci-fi colors, the monkey’s new body is fixed on a bracket, and its faux leather exterior is pulled away to reveal the snake-shaped bundle of muscles inside, and then the artificial skeleton inside. The joints are done very finely.

All kinds of artificial organs are similar to those used by humans. There is no difference except that they are smaller. They have all internal organs and organs, and they can even digest organic matter to provide energy.

In theory, it can provide monkeys with the ability to survive, and naturally it can also allow humans to survive with mechanical bodies.

As for the monkey's brain, which was completely taken out and soaked in a plexiglass bottle, the bottle contained white carbon nanomachine blood, and tiny air bubbles were continuously discharged from the thin tube pierced into the mouth of the bottle. There is a transparent membrane supporting the monkey's brain, and there are thinner wires connected to the brain nerves.

After the laboratory staff finished all the inspection work, let the surgical robot take out the monkey brain from the liquid, and then carefully put it into the prepared mechanical head. After the packaging was completed and passed the test, the monkey brain was installed on the cyber Gridded monkey body.

This process is actually very simple, but the people present focused on their respective responsible parts, carefully recorded any data changes, and then analyzed the small differences and effects, and finally summarized the experimental report to form a document.

Of course Li Maoye didn't pay attention to these details, he just came to ask every few days: "How is the situation?"

"The current condition is good, the survival time has exceeded the previous experimental subjects, and the experimental subjects themselves have returned to their past habits..." The young researcher clicked on the computer screen while talking, and manipulated the robot to send a banana to In front of the experimental subject.

I saw the rhesus monkey flexibly manipulated the bionic body, snatched the banana from the robot, ran back to its cage, hid and gnawed the bananas, as if it had eaten bananas the same way as before. There seems to be no difference.

"In fact, these are all electronic signals, including his sense of smell and taste, but we have simulated them very well. As for whether they are exactly the same as before in the experimental body, it is not clear."

The young project leader said so. Although he thinks that it cannot be 100% simulated, he can do better than the original five senses of monkeys. For example, by adjusting the chip parameters to make the sense of smell and taste more sensitive, or simply lock something, Make it more delicious, or make it more disgusting.

To put it simply, this monkey is similar to a brain living in a vat. If the experimenter is willing, he can change the smell of stool to banana, and vice versa.

It is not difficult to achieve this, as long as the reward and punishment center of the brain is stimulated, if eating feces can also secrete amine polyphenols, I am afraid that many people in the world will eat it.

"This is a bit scary!" Li Maoye touched his bald head and said.

If someone uses this technology, it can easily distort cyborgized humans, or psychologically manipulate their behavior, so as to achieve ulterior purposes.

"However, for rational human beings, they can distinguish various subtle differences, so as to judge whether the five senses are biased. After all, our data simulation is not real, or it will never be able to reach the reality of everyone!"

This young researcher obviously doesn't think about the good and evil of technology. He said with a fanatic expression: "Unless we can collect enough data and correct the deviation again and again, so that all the simulation parameters of the chip tend to be true, but We have to have an intermediate system language that can allow the brain to communicate with the chip and allow the chip to load the operating system..."

Li Maoye looked at the cyborg monkey, but he was thinking about safety.

In the end, he said after systematic deduction: "We can't develop this kind of technology that misleads the brain. We still have to develop it based on the nature of the biology itself. We can try to fuse and connect the carbon nanomachine with the biological brain, and then transfer part of the memory and calculation to the brain. Into the chip..."

In this way, the brain and the chip are integrated. If you want to mislead the brain, you have to crack the information code of the brain, and everyone's information code has its own differences. It is a unique coding method, even if you can crack someone's chip. Common to others.

For example, if a human being is a biological computer, then everyone uses a different operating system and encryption methods. If you want to prevent others from developing a way to control the brain, then set standards from the beginning so that research The cost was so high that it eventually turned out to be unacceptable.

The research on the brain is only in its infancy, and everything is still in the process of being explored, so Li Maoye's worries are just one of the possibilities, and no one knows what will happen in the end.

"But if this route continues, it will definitely lead to prosthesis, and eventually develop into Cybertron, so what is fire? Is it a collection of mechanical life information?" Li Maoye thought to himself.

Soon after the results of this experiment were known to the closed doors, they immediately allocated a sum of money for research and development, and prepared to improve the work of the human experiment, and strive to complete the relevant research and development work as soon as possible.

The fastest progress is the rapid regeneration of human tissue. This experiment is also being carried out on rhesus monkeys. If there is something wrong with the body organ in the future, but you don't want to replace it with an artificial organ, you can use this technology to restore it.

Regenerative technology is even more popular than organ cloning. In fact, the technologies used in both are carbon nanomachines and stem cells, but the senses are completely different.

It's just that the regeneration technology is to quickly replicate and grow in the body, and the cloned organs are firstly differentiated and grown into organ tissues in the culture medium, and then transplanted into the human body as a whole.

(End of this chapter)