Southern Cross. Fifty meters underground.
This once-abandoned laboratory has been reused by the college and has become an important stronghold of the college's mechanical faction after extensive renovations.
At this moment, there are more than a dozen scientific researchers in white coats in the laboratory busy in front of a bunch of precision instruments. On the experimental table in the center of them, there is a sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters. Inside, It is a bionic man whose whole body is made of metal, with a large number of precision bionic parts in the body, and the outer layer of skeletal fibers and muscles has not yet been sprayed with synthetic skin.
Dr. A, who had not been seen for a long time, also came to this secret base.
His expression was a little nervous and a little excited, and his eyes were fixed on the display screen in front of him, observing the various scan data.
a long time.
Dr. A took a deep breath, came to the center of the console, and said in a deep voice: "Prepare to upload consciousness!"
As his order was issued, the entire laboratory quickly became busy. A large number of staff came to their respective operating instruments to stand by. Then, one after another, extremely precise mechanical arms stretched out. They first opened a completely sealed soaking chamber. A complete human brain was carefully removed from the box in the strange liquid.
Then, silver-white needles were pierced into the brain. With the stimulation of bioelectricity, the brain immediately produced some slight fluctuations in thinking.
"Prepare for consciousness upload."
“Opening up brain structures.”
"Implanting an artificial brain."
Inside the sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters, three delicate mechanical arms stretched out and gently opened the head of the central bionic man. The superalloy skull was opened, revealing the internal cavities and densely packed sensors. Structure, a bionic human brain made entirely of unknown crystals was taken out by a robotic arm, and then carefully placed into the bionic man's head.
"Consciousness uploading begins!"
As the progress bar on the instrument appeared, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and stared at the instrument in front of them.
The mechanical faction of the college has begun researching bionic humans a long time ago. The bionic technology they master is hundreds of years ahead of the wasteland. The early bionic humans controlled by artificial intelligence can already do the same actions as ordinary people. But what they want to pursue is not to create a smart robot, but to completely replace the human body with bionic technology.
Therefore, this must involve a fairly black technology field, which is 'consciousness uploading'.
Most of the manpower and material resources of the college's mechanical faction were spent on overcoming this difficulty. They had achieved some results as early as twenty years ago, but the final results were not satisfactory. It wasn't until Dr. A cleaned up the inside of the college and integrated the resources of the entire college that they really made some key breakthroughs in this field.
They discovered a special silicon crystal synthetic material and created the first truly bionic human brain.
It is quite unrealistic to directly upload consciousness into a chip. The sophisticated and complex structure of the human brain cannot be replaced by a small chip. The same cannot be said for conventional artificial brains, because human consciousness will be lost after being uploaded. It disappears quickly and will soon be completely assimilated into the program and become part of the artificial intelligence.
From a mystical perspective, the soul disappears after the consciousness is uploaded, leaving only a basic human intelligence program in the artificial brain, which does not have the ability to think.
You can understand that he has become an intelligent android with the same behavioral habits as before.
He will do some things according to his previous habits and retain the way he acted in life, but he has no thought and cannot think. He will only generate intelligent action instincts based on the memory instinct left in his brain.
None of this is what the mechanical faction wants.
What they want is not a bionic human, but a further synthetic human, a body synthesized by bionic technology, but retaining human intelligence and thoughts.
The progress bar starts to increase slowly.
Dr. A stared at the thought waves on the display screen in front of him. This experimental opportunity for consciousness uploading is quite precious, because Leon is one of the few high-level bionic people in the world, and his brain itself is adaptable to bionic technology. It is also far superior to others.
Leon died less than 24 hours ago. He should be the most likely experimental material that can be found so far.
Thinking is the key to consciousness uploading.
The human brain is actually a carrier of consciousness. The mechanical faction of the academy has been able to extract the memories in the brain for a long time. They can even use instruments to read out some memory images stored in the brain. But memory is not the key to making synthetic humans, thinking is the foundation of everything.
Unable to retain human thinking, at best they just used the human brain as a chip to create a machine.
certainly.
This is also a development idea.
Because the STC modular system obtained by Su Ziyu is the oldest, most advanced, and most authentic version. The mother body of the STC modular system was made using the human brain as the core calculation. That is the top black technology of the ancient lost empire. The central core component in the STC mother body is a complete and powerful brain component, which is the most important component of the entire body.
Of course, this technology was eventually lost.
Because using the human brain as a tool to make an STC mother machine must involve the field of psychic energy, only in its heyday did the ancient lost empire have the ability to use the human brain to make an STC modular system.
The technologies Su Ziyu later obtained all used artificial intelligence as a substitute.
The progress bar runs out bit by bit.
Just when Leon's brain uploaded the last bit of consciousness, suddenly the thought wave signal on the display screen in front of him was interrupted.
Dr. A stood up almost instantly.
He stared nervously at the instrument in front of him, his face flushed, his expression quite complicated, and his eyes fixed on the sealed glass instrument in front of him.
One minute, two minutes.
There was a dead silence in the entire laboratory, everyone held their breath, and it was as if a pin dropped could be heard clearly.
"Did you fail?..." Someone muttered to himself.
But at this moment, the eyelids of the bionic man inside the glass instrument suddenly trembled, and then the active thought wave reappeared, which could even be said to be quite violent, just like a person's struggle before death, thinking in a flash It became dozens of times more active, and then the bionic man in the instrument opened his eyes. There was no emotion in his slightly glowing mechanical eyes, but the super fiber bionic muscles on his face made a puzzled expression.
Leon looked down at his alloy arm, moved his metal fingers, and murmured: "Am I still alive?..."
Success!
In an instant, the entire laboratory was boiling, and many staff members were crying with joy, because this meant that they had entered a new era, an era of synthetic humans.
"You are still alive." Dr. A stood up nervously, looked at Leon in front of him, and said solemnly: "When we found you, your brain was still well preserved."
"So we brought you back."
"We uploaded your consciousness, and now you are a real synthetic human."
"How do you feel now?"
Leon couldn't help but fell into silence after hearing the words. He closed his eyes as if he was remembering, but his expression gradually showed a trace of pain. This change in expression made many people nervous.
"I..." Leon moved his new body, seeming to feel something, and murmured: "I don't know..."
"I seem to have forgotten a lot of things."
"I only remember some scenes from previous battles..."
Memory loss
This discovery made many people look shocked and disappointed. Complete consciousness uploading should copy all life experiences into the artificial brain, including some of the forgotten scenes that are imprinted in the deepest memory.
A fully formed synthetic human is almost comparable to a supercomputer and can easily retrieve all the memories stored deep in the brain.
But Leon's current condition is not good.
He seemed to have lost a large part of his memory. Although he still retained his thinking consciousness during his lifetime, that part of the missing memory made his behavior at the moment enter a state of confusion.
"Calm down first." Dr. A said nervously: "At least you are still alive now."
"Isn't it?"
After Leon heard what he said, he paused, then smiled, an ugly smile, and the super-fiber muscles on his face squeezed out a bitter smile, and then said: "That's right."
“But can you spray me with a layer of artificial skin first?”
"My current state."
"Honestly, it's very uncomfortable."
Leon's words brought a smile back to Dr. A's face, because Leon's current thinking and his current needs undoubtedly showed that their consciousness uploading experiment was successful, at least mostly successful.
This is normal human thinking.
There are needs, desires, emotions, and preferences.
Although synthetic humans ultimately represent physiological desires that will gradually disappear with the mechanical evolution of the body, synthetic humans are not emotionless robots. On the contrary, synthetic humans' spiritual needs will be stronger than before.
"No problem." Dr. A said hurriedly: "We will put on the bionic skin for you now."
"What skin color do you like?"
"What are your needs in terms of looks? We can satisfy them all!"
Leon showed a serious thinking expression when he heard this, then he looked at his lower limbs, hesitated for a moment and said: "I think you should put it on for me first."
There was dead silence in the laboratory.
Dr. A's expression was a little shocked. As a pure scientific researcher, he didn't expect that Leon would care so much about it. He even saw a hint of vague anger on Leon's expression, so he hurriedly said: " It was our mistake.”
"Time is too tight."
"This body was originally genderless, and the specific gender characteristics were reshaped after the consciousness was uploaded."
"We can install it for you now."
"The latest bionic accessories can already transmit most of the body's touch sensations, and the sensor efficiency can reach about 75% of human limb senses."
"What model do you want?"
"We can arrange everything here."
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(End of chapter)