Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 177 Brain-computer interface
The sky survey observation system and the asteroid early warning system are composed of more than a dozen telescopes built on the earth and in space.These telescopes are constantly scanning the entire sky.Once a new, previously undiscovered asteroid is discovered, it will be recorded in the asteroid library after measuring its orbit, speed, mass and other data.

And if there is a possibility that the orbit of this asteroid will intersect with the earth, even if there is only a one-thousandth, one-ten-thousandth probability, it will immediately attract the attention of many scientific researchers.Follow-up observation resources will immediately be invested on a large scale until the possibility is completely confirmed or completely ruled out.

Of course, there are situations that cannot always be ruled out or confirmed.In this case, the observation will continue forever.

But either way, the asteroid will be of high concern.Moreover, its information is public.However, Lu Ming did not find such an asteroid.

Judging by this logic, the prophecy seems false.

However, it is still the same sentence.

No one dares to take things lightly when it comes to the life and death of human civilization.

Especially when it involves obvious supernatural events, involving a secret organization with supernatural powers that can predict the future, this matter should not be taken lightly.

While thinking about it, He Wei said: "I also think this prophecy is false. The reason is very simple. You see, what the Doomsday organization claimed at the beginning was because the doomsday was coming. Only by entering the ark can you escape the doomsday. Those who were selected Or, because they believed this, they were willing to cooperate with them to complete the 'escape from suspended animation' plan, and then put on that helmet.

As a result, now, the suspended animation is fake, and it is basically a real death.The so-called teleportation and ark are all things that have no shadow.Since the results are all false, how can the cause be true? "

From a logical point of view, this inference has certain credibility.After all, the facts have proved that the so-called promises of the Doomsday organization are simply nonsense, and the reasons supporting all this, of course, have a high probability of being false.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Ming shook his head.

"There is no correlation between the two. The doomsday organization may have deceived those chosen, but the doomsday prophecy may be true."

Lu Qingliang said: "The doomsday organization has killed those people, and they have not absorbed them into the organization at all. This can also prove from the side that the doomsday organization does not need their professional knowledge and ability at all. If there is really a doomsday, They should need it."

There is a contradiction between the two.

Lu Ming said: "I was wondering, could that helmet be some kind of... um, a consciousness uploading device? Could it be that what the doomsday organization needs is only their consciousness, not their own?"

Ok?
Zhang Dingshan, Lu Qingliang, and He Wei all cast their eyes on Lu Ming.

Lu Ming pondered hard, but shook his head for a moment: "No, no, the so-called soul, the so-called consciousness, does not exist at all, and there is no such thing as 'consciousness uploading'."

Human beings have no soul at all, no so-called self, and no consciousness.This point, along with the in-depth research on the human brain, is basically certain.

The so-called self and the so-called consciousness are actually just an illusion formed by the interaction of many brain neurons.There is no such thing as a so-called soul or self that transcends the material world and exists alone.

Slice a person's head, and separate every cell structure for a thorough inspection. Can you find a certain cell or part, which is the so-called carrier of the soul?

Obviously not possible.

The so-called uploading a person's soul, self, consciousness, etc. into a certain container to make it exist alone is nonsense and impossible.

That being the case, how about consciousness uploading?
Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "Uploading consciousness is impossible, but uploading data is not necessarily impossible."

Lu Ming was shocked, and suddenly thought of something.

"Yes, that's right, it may be uploading data!"

"data?"

He Wei was a little puzzled.

"Yes, data." Lu Ming took a deep breath: "I doubt it is possible. Perhaps, that helmet is such a device: it can record all the neurons in the human brain, all the grooves of the cerebral cortex The state of all brain structures such as the gyrus, hippocampus, amygdala, brainstem, and cerebellum.

Then, send it back to the so-called Ark base, and the people of the doomsday organization, on a clone, use this data as a blueprint to re-construct it in the brain of the clone.

In this way, the so-called 'soul transfer' and 'consciousness transfer' effects are achieved in a sense.

However, because the brain of this clone is completely imitated according to the brains of those selected, theoretically speaking, this clone should also possess the knowledge and abilities possessed by those selected.Including learning ability, spatial perception, logical reasoning ability, etc.

Therefore, it is possible that the doomsday organization does not need their abilities to kill those chosen ones.Rather, the doomsday organization only needs their abilities, not them.

All the chosen ones were deceived by the Doomsday Organization.Their deaths are also real deaths, not fake deaths. "

He Wei gasped.

This explanation, at the current stage, is the most in line with the current logical system.

After all, the doomsday organization needs the abilities of those senior intellectuals, which is the basis for all subsequent reasoning.The subsequent development of things, in turn, proved its correctness.As a result, those high-ranking intellectuals have been killed again. There are too many contradictions in this.

However, after including the explanation proposed by Lu Ming at this moment, the whole set of logic is self-consistent and consistent with reality.There is also a reasonable explanation for why there is a helmet and why Wen Yuhe died.

"Then, is the cloned person... still the original person?"

For example, is the clone constructed based on Wen Yuhe's brain data still Wen Yuhe?

"There is no 'person' in the absolute sense, including you and me. A person cannot be precisely defined. Like, you point to a certain polymer composed of trillions of molecules, atoms, ions, etc. He said, you are Lu Qingliang, you can't do this.

Because the human body is constantly renewed.Studies have shown that, except for a few cells, most of the cells that make up the human body are completely renewed every once in a while.That is to say, in different time periods, the substances that make up the human body are fundamentally different.

So, which you are you? "

He Wei was a little dazed, as if she hadn't thought about this problem before.Lu Qingliang trembled unnaturally, quite uncomfortable.

"My opinion is that a person is a description of a continuous state, not a specific substance. From this point of view, Wenyuhe is dead, a clone constructed from Wenyuhe's head People live. The latter is not the same as the former."

He Wei nodded slowly: "I probably understand. Like copying programs?"

"Correct."

Lu Ming nodded: "It's like copying a program from one computer to another. The so-called consciousness of a person, or more precisely, brain data, is this program. People who can run this program The computer is the human body."

"Technically, can it be done?"

"At this stage, we humans definitely don't have this technology. But in theory, it is possible to do it. And..."

Lu Ming paused and looked at his teammates: "Among all the sciences developed in the human world, do you know which one has been suppressed the most by humans?"

"Oh? Why suppress? Which one?"

"Anthropology within the branch of biology."

He Wei was taken aback for a moment, but then she realized that she couldn't help but nodded silently.

This is indeed the case.

For all other research projects, relevant types of scientific research scholars can research without any scruples.But only human body, its research is subject to many restrictions.

For example, cloning technology.Humans have been able to clone cattle and sheep many years ago, but until now, there has been no progress in human cloning technology.

Is it because the technological strength cannot reach it?

No.

The real reason is that this challenges the human ethics and moral system.Therefore, this kind of research is banned and artificially suppressed.

The era of the most rapid progress in anthropology happened to be those years when the world was in chaos.Because during those years, there were no moral and ethical constraints.Existences that can no longer be called humans, but can only be called demons, can directly carry out human experiments without any scruples.

"Scholars in our human world are bound by morality and ethics and cannot conduct human experiments. However, I don't think people from the Doomsday Organization will have this scruple."

Lu Ming shook his head slowly: "Maybe this so-called 'consciousness data transfer' technology is actually not difficult at all? Maybe as long as there are enough samples and enough experimental subjects for them to carry out human experiments, the overall Technology is not more prominent than the human world, and they can also master this technology?"

Lu Qingliang looked serious.

The possibility does exist.And the possibility is not low.

However, he still has some doubts.

"Why do those people die?" He thought about it and said: "Since the doomsday organization only needs the knowledge and abilities of these people, upload the consciousness data as soon as it is uploaded, why do they still have to kill them after uploading? What gods and sons of God do those people believe in?"

"I do not know."

Lu Ming said: "Maybe it's for the sake of keeping secrets? Or some kind of side effect? ​​However, don't pay attention to these things for the time being. On the whole, at the current stage, there is still a certain possibility that the doomsday prophecy is true. With these current clues, we It cannot be denied."

Zhang Dingshan pondered, and slowly said: "From Wen Yuhe's body, we may be able to find some clues."

After Wen Yuhe's body was brought back, it was immediately frozen.His head remained as it was at the time of death.

Although it has been shattered, and the brain has flowed out, most of it still maintains a rough structure.Maybe you can find something from it.

If it can be confirmed that Wen Yuhe has indeed experienced a process similar to "brain data uploading", then "the doomsday organization needs the knowledge and ability of these senior intellectuals" can be thoroughly proved.And this, no doubt, can confirm the authenticity of the "doomsday prophecy".

Lu Qingliang thought for a moment, and said, "I know several teams that study brain-computer interfaces. I'll ask them to help."

The so-called brain-computer interface is not only envisaged to open a data interface on the head, and then directly connect with the computer, and the brain-computer interface will complete the data interaction between the human brain and the computer.In this way, some imagined technologies such as virtual reality and consciousness manipulation can be truly realized.

Of course, this kind of technology has not yet appeared at this stage, but it is clear that the so-called "consciousness data upload" is the most suitable for the research field of brain-computer interface.

"Okay, Qingliang, you go get in touch. Lu Ming, you and Qingliang are in charge of this matter. He Wei, you and I go and investigate to see how many people have been passed by the doomsday organization in the past few years. way to kill."

Lu Ming nodded slowly, agreeing to Zhang Dingshan's arrangement.

During this period of time, the second operation team only screened people who were suspected of being killed by the doomsday organization in the past year.

Now, Zhang Dingshan wants to screen out all the people suspected of being killed by the doomsday organization in all the time periods in the past, and then analyze their knowledge and professional background, and use this to analyze the true intentions of the doomsday organization.

After all, the doomsday organization's choice to implement the goal of "uploading consciousness data" will definitely not be blind, and there must be a certain tendency.And their real purpose can be glimpsed through this tendency.

Through these data, it may be possible to confirm or disprove the authenticity of the doomsday prophecy to some extent.

After the discussion reached a consensus, the four immediately dispersed and began to act.

Lu Qingliang first contacted the teams that researched the brain-computer interface, and mobilized them to the laboratory under the Planetary Security Bureau.

Lu Ming escorted Wen Yuhe's body to the laboratory.

"Professor Dong, Professor Wang, hello, hello. I'm Lu Ming from the Ministry of Public Security."

"Hello, Chief Lu."

After a short exchange of pleasantries, Lu Ming went straight to work.

"You are all experts in brain science. I invite you here this time mainly because there are some things that need your assistance. Well, first of all, I have a question for you. If you want to thoroughly scan the brain structure and record every nerve Yuan, the data of each cerebral cortical sulcus, in order to achieve the complete digitization of the brain structure, to achieve the purpose of completely reproducing its brain structure on another replica, what kind of technology is needed?"

Lu Ming's question surprised the dozen or so experts present.

To them, this question seemed like a trifle, a little whimsical.But thinking of the identity of the person in front of them, the experts corrected their attitude and began to seriously think about this issue.

(End of this chapter)