From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

The mechanical body carries the consciousness, memory and thinking logic of life, but lacks a soul. This is the Necron.

Moreover, only nobles and elite soldiers have consciousness. The undead souls transformed from civilians cannot think actively. Their former personalities no longer exist and become veritable... mechanical zombies.

How did they end up in such a situation? Sui Yang didn't want to recall too much. It was just the cloning experiment conducted by the Department of Biology using personnel such as D, which made Sui Yang involuntarily think of the appearance of a soulless but conscious "body".

Second is the consciousness of Eva on Pandora.

Jack Sully, the male protagonist of "Avatar" abandoned his human body and chose to completely transmit his consciousness into the body of Avatar through the spiritual tree.

So has the "soul" also completed the transmission?

In order to verify this, in May of this year (1996), after confirming that the general affairs of New Los Angeles were on track, Sui Yang returned to Pandora.

After stepping through the space gate, Sui Yang, who possesses stronger spiritual energy, clearly sensed various feedbacks outside the shielding range of the space gate.

Among them is the absolute "reason" and "indifference" from Eva.

The Na'vi people emphasize that they can reunite with their deceased relatives and friends through the spiritual tree, but the true face of those relatives and friends is actually just a bunch of "data".

Therefore, in Sui Yang's eyes, Eva is more like a super artificial intelligence than a planetary consciousness.

Since all biological consciousness and memories of Pandora are stored, Eva's thinking logic is more biased towards biological "instincts", such as stimulating reactions, avoiding danger, seeking food, reproduction, etc.

"Avoiding danger" and "reproducing" well explain Eva's behavior of assimilating the consciousness of the Avatar pilot, disintegrating the enemy's internal unity, and looking for opportunities to spread the seeds of the spiritual tree to other planets.

At the same time, Sui Yang's psychic feedback also confirmed that Eva did not have the ability to transmit "soul".

As for how to eliminate the super AI Eva, either "fire" the surface of Pandora's planet, or an absolute psychic shock.

It's true that Sui Yang's spiritual energy has skyrocketed, but right now, he is still unable to directly destroy Eva.

Back to consciousness transmission.

Wang Zhaofeng cannot accept a body that lacks a "soul". The current nanorobot project jointly developed by the Ministry of Scientific Research and the Ministry of Biology will completely reform the human medical system in the future, reducing cancer to the level of a "common cold".

This is also a way to extend life.

However, the progress of the nano project was extremely slow. Sui Yang was not sure whether Wang Zhaofeng, who was physically and mentally overworked, could survive the testing phase of the project.

But Sui Yang was already accustomed to death and separation, so he didn't try to persuade him too much. He mainly respected his old friend's choice.

Regarding the issue of copying consciousness and memory, Wang Zhaofeng also did not refute anything because it was just a "backup".

Not only Wang Zhaofeng, but also the biology department is also carrying out the copying task step by step.

The copy objects are the core members of the company, especially those who know the secrets of the ruins base and the space gate.

The current technical means of the Department of Biology are fully capable of cultivating a young and healthy exclusive body. The cost and materials required are "only" more expensive than the Tyrant.

The cost of storing and maintaining consciousness and memory is also within the range acceptable to the company.

However, no matter how mature this technology is and how low the cost is controlled, the company will never apply it on a large scale. This involves extremely serious "ethical" issues.

When copying, the biology department will make it clear that this technology is not "resurrection" and require employees to sign a new confidentiality agreement. After the original body dies unexpectedly, whether it is willing to let the clone inherit its previous position and benefits, or even abandon itself. Intention agreement of the original social network.

However, every employee who accepts a copy has the right to change the intention agreement once a year. After all, the complexity of this "ethical" question is difficult to answer accurately.

(Note: The consciousness and memory in the stored state do not have any "activity", and there will be no situation where you think you are trapped in the "hard drive". The consciousness and memory will only be officially activated after they are transferred to the body of the matching model, such as " The colonel in Avatar 2 wakes up for the first time.)

However, derivatives of this technology are biological weapons with "cannon fodder" properties specially developed for the company's armed departments, making "ethical" issues completely out of the scope of discussion.

Facing the needs of the armed sector, the Department of Biology must not only consider cost control to be cheap, but also ensure a considerable degree of practicality.

In addition, the Department of Biology is gradually shutting down the rebuilt warrior project for a simple and straightforward reason, that is, the cost of rebuilt warriors is not proportional to the actual combat power.

The individual combat power of the reconstructed warriors is indeed far stronger than that of normal humans, but they cannot compete with the cheaper tyrants.

What's more, Rebuilding Warriors was originally an experimental project used by Atlas for transition, and by the way, it also gained a lot of practical theory and experience.

Therefore, since the beginning of 1995, the biology department has conducted forced copies of consciousness and memory of personnel such as D who participated in the experiment whenever a biological weapon (BOW) confrontation test was conducted.

Through the actual confrontation test, it is judged which personnel such as D have excellent performance, and the corresponding consciousness and memory will be retained, and those who fail will be destroyed.

Then, the Biology Department used the tissue samples of outstanding personnel such as D to conduct batch cloning using the cheapest method, and used a robotic arm to perform brain surgery on the clones, removing designated tissues such as the amygdala, hypothalamus, and prefrontal lobes.

Then, the Department of Biology will use consciousness transmission means to also transmit consciousness and memory in batches into the clones that have completed the brain surgery.

However, the clones obtained by this operation seem to be in a vegetative state.

Because the removed tissue represents the brain's regulation of emotion, memory, social interaction and other behaviors, even if consciousness is transmitted, it is still a "suspended death" that maintains instinctive conditioned reflexes.

The brain in this state provides great convenience for reprogramming.

The cloned body that has completed programming will retain the excellent instinctive reactions of the original owner, but will have no self-awareness and any memory. It will be a BOW that only knows how to execute commands.

Taken together, clones of D and other personnel are equivalent to low-end versions of reconstructed warriors, but there is a huge difference between the two.

The brains of the reconstructed warriors are intact. After programming, they have programmed social abilities and can also perform tasks such as infiltration and infiltration on their own.

As for strength, self-healing, and reaction, the Reinvented Warrior is at the crushing level.

On the other hand, clones such as D cannot even speak. They can only rigidly execute single instructions such as "aid", "defense" and "attack" according to established procedures.

And if clones such as D are equipped with UDF mass-produced mechanical skeletons, they will also be qualified "cannon fodder", enough to assist the ARS infantry company and AECS reinforcement battalion in large-scale offensive battles.

In terms of cost, the materials and medicines required for D-level clones are similar to those of two hellhounds.

After passing various tests, the biological department officially named it "Atlas Deployable and Disposable Clone Troops", or ADDCT for short.