I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 89: Exploring the Body and Spirit

"The function of this body and spirit feels a bit like organs having their own consciousness."

Lin Chen stroked his chin, lost in thought.

In his previous life, he had come across an interesting scientific speculation.

That is, within the human body, the brain and the skin may possess self-consciousness.

Here, "consciousness" refers to our normal cognition, our ability to perceive things. It's like when a person sees a circular line, they naturally come to the conclusion of "circle" or "hula hoop."

The consciousness that exists in the brain and the skin does not refer to the subjective perception of the human body, but rather the cognition that the brain and the skin themselves have, independent of the "human" subject.

For example, in an exam, the human subject may think that the answer to a question should be A.

But if you have trained extensively in this type of question, your brain has developed a thinking memory for this question type, and the calculated result is B.

In this case, the brain will use the subconscious to continuously suggest.

So even though you have clearly arrived at a result, you may exhibit a sense of "something is off" and "uncertainty" about the question. This is actually the brain's autonomous consciousness, negating the subjective consciousness of the human body.

The skin works in a similar way. When a person receives an injection or vaccine, the pain they feel when they watch the needle pierce their skin is different from when they don't watch it, both in terms of timing and intensity. If a person watches the needle pierce their body, their pain response will be faster and more intense.

In summary, organs with self-consciousness can collect and summarize information from the external world, and make their own judgments.

But this judgment cannot affect the subjective consciousness of the human, it can only influence the human body in a subconscious way.

In Lin Chen's view, the unexpected condensation of his body and spirit is similar to organs having their own self-consciousness. It can perceive and collect information about various parts of the body, and then provide feedback to the brain.

In this way, even the smallest pathological changes can be autonomously perceived and responded to by the organs of the human body, achieving the effects of treating hidden injuries, prolonging life, and autonomous evolution.

Lin Chen concluded that this should be the result of the influence of the power of the soul, using organs as carriers, giving rise to a body and spirit that resembles the existence of self-consciousness in organs.

And faced with something that can perceive and collect information, perform preliminary processing, upload to the central nervous system, and finally achieve unified regulation, Lin Chen's first reaction was a computer!

The body and spirit have consciousness, can perceive and collect information, and can also respond to instructions from the brain. They can be used as input devices for inputting raw data and processing the data, as well as output devices for outputting the results of computer processing.

The various organs of the human body interact and are interconnected. The body and spirit can store information from other organs and transmit information through the power of the soul along the meridians, so they can serve as the memory of a computer.

As for the central processor?

The brain itself can handle this responsibility!

The brain has basic units for storing and transmitting information, as well as neural signals for information transmission. And because of its parallel execution function, it can fully serve as the central processor!

In the previous world, there were also theories about creating neural computers using the human body, but due to the difficulty in understanding how neurons and synapses transmit information and perform calculations, the lack of neural computing algorithms and electronic technology to connect all neurons, as well as the complexity of connections between human neurons, it has been difficult to make a breakthrough.

But in this world, Lin Chen can use the research on the body and spirit to attempt to bypass this technological challenge and construct a soul computer.

"And once the soul computer is built, the body and spirit will have the ability to collect and process information.

If I can create several avatars that are connected and can sense with my original body, and use their body and spirit to upload information from different areas to me, achieving real-time sharing of information from different areas, then wouldn't this become the prototype of the internet? And..."

Lin Chen pondered for a moment, then took out a well-preserved corpse from the cultivation tank and implanted a blood parasite into it.

This blood parasite was made from his own flesh and blood, and it parasitized the corpse, producing fresh blood and promoting circulation, keeping the corpse alive.

As time passed, the whole corpse became lifelike, as if it were just a sleeping person.

The blood in the body of the corpse was produced by the blood parasite, which was controlled by Lin Chen, so he had a certain degree of control over it.

Then, under Lin Chen's control, the corpse closed its eyes and stood up unsteadily.

Following that, Lin Chen took out the soul power he had stored from last time and input it into the body of the corpse.

To his surprise, there was no reaction in the body of the corpse.

Hmm?

Lin Chen was slightly stunned. He had hoped to use this opportunity to give birth to a divine body, but now it seemed impossible?

"Could it be..." He hesitated for a moment, directly manipulating the corpse and reciting the "Yellow Court Scripture".

The mouth of the corpse twitched and made a hoarse sound.

However, after trying, Lin Chen found that it still didn't work. He couldn't give birth to a divine body at all.

"The birth of a divine body requires subjective meditation?" Lin Chen couldn't help but frown.

But the problem was, this was already a corpse, the soul had long dissipated, how could it meditate?

"In that case, I can only use my own divine body to control this corpse, but how can I do that..." Lin Chen fell into contemplation.

The divine body controls the organs within him, so how can it interfere with another person's body?

"The curse technique..." Lin Chen suddenly remembered the curse technique he had obtained last time.

The life in this world evolved from spiritual energy, and the human body moves with qi. Therefore, it is possible to remotely influence the human body using the residual qi left in the body, achieving purposes such as disease and death. This is also known as a curse.

At the same time as the curse, the caster and the cursed also establish a connection!

"Perhaps I can..." Lin Chen's gaze flickered.

He directly took a drop of blood from each organ of the corpse, and then the soul emitted fluctuations, using the divine body to curse each part.

Soon, the organs of the corpse established a connection with Lin Chen's divine body, and under the infusion of soul power, they gradually formed blurry light and shadows!

"Rise!" Lin Chen shouted coldly. The corpse in front of him suddenly stood up, opened its eyes abruptly, and at this moment, two different perspectives appeared in Lin Chen's perception.

One was the naked corpse in front of him, and the other was a young man in a feathered robe and star crown.

"Is this what they call a doppelganger?" both the person and the corpse spoke at the same time.

"No, it's not so much a doppelganger as it is..."

The naked corpse walked directly outside.

At the moment it stepped out of the door, the sunlight, the scent of grass, and the activities of all living things in nature were collected by the divine body within the corpse, and continuously transmitted to Lin Chen inside the house through the curse, achieving information sharing.

Two different bodies, but able to share and connect information, this was already the prototype of a network!

"Not only that..." Lin Chen controlled the corpse, and the soul power emitted by his divine body caused the spiritual blood born from the blood gu to burn and transform into True Qi, finally forming a fireball in front of him.

Whether it was a zombie or a puppet, because their bodies lacked a soul, they could only rely on their physical bodies or the formations and talismans left on their bodies to perform tricks and spiritual arts.

But Lin Chen could remotely control the corpse through his divine body, using spells and techniques, completely using it as a doppelganger.

By then, he could completely hide in the dark, or even stay at home, and still be able to fight against other cultivators, explore secret realms, and expand his territory.

Even if he encountered a crisis, Lin Chen could completely sever the connection with his divine body. Even if that doppelganger was destroyed, it would have no impact on Lin Chen.

Moreover, compared to the orthodox doppelganger technique in the Lingnan Immortal Cultivation World, as long as he made a breakthrough in flesh and blood cloning technology and had enough soul power, he could continuously create similar doppelgangers.

By then, he would use his true body as the root server, important bodies as Apex Level domain servers, and use curses as signal transmission, illusions as holographic projections, and bring the entire Lingnan Immortal Cultivation World into his perception range.

No matter what information occurred anywhere, he could descend upon that place based on the perception of the body in that location with just a thought, directly through the internet.

Real-time sharing of information, fearless and infinite cloned doppelgangers, freely descending upon various places, this was equivalent to a player in a game!

If he really achieved this, Lin Chen would have reduced the entire Lingnan world into a game world that belonged solely to him!

Originally, I was planning to release four chapters at once, but suddenly the team leader notified me that I had to work on the content for the internet competition. I'm really sorry, I can only release one chapter tonight, and I have an exam the day after tomorrow, so I have to study tomorrow, so I can only release one chapter. I'm really sorry.

As for the makeup chapters, it might have to wait until July, because in June, there's the internet competition and the Nine Gates exam. I don't have much time to write on weekends, and I'm already writing until midnight with two releases per day...

Dear readers, I'm really sorry, I'll make up for it in July, I'm sorry.

(End of this chapter)