Chapter 1562 About the Experiment a Hundred Years Ago

"You said, is it possible for a bionic person to have real feelings?"

Hearing Chairman Li Guangya's sudden question, Wu Shuhua, who was standing by the desk, froze for a moment, and said with a frown.

"Androids have feelings? What the hell are you talking about?"

"It's nothing, it's just a little interesting, and it's really a question worth thinking about," Li Guangya looked at the report in his hand, tapped his index finger on the desk twice, and said in a chatty tone, "Do you still remember the previous report?" Naturally awakened bionics?"

"You mean... the tail?"

Li Guangya: "It seems to be the name. If I remember correctly, she should be a naturally awakened bionic person, and at the same time, she disclosed her core code on the world's largest academic forum?"

"I have an impression of this matter," Wu Shuhua nodded, and continued, "But why did you mention this matter?"

"Because of those 1024 datamen...their bodies have been destroyed, but their consciousness has been uploaded to the hardware by those bionics. We now have two options, one is to treat them as legally dead and delete all information about them. data, and the other is to give them a bionic body, allowing them to continue living with another identity."

Regarding this sensitive issue, Wu Shuhua did not make any comments, but asked rhetorically.

"What do you think?"

Li Guangya: "Let me just say it, out of humanitarian considerations, they are the victims of the war. We should give them a body so that they can reunite with their families. But reason tells me that this choice is full of risks. ,"

Wu Shuhua: "Actually, I don't quite understand that pioneer...that is, David Lawrence. Why did he do this?"

"Maybe it's for an experiment, maybe it's just out of boredom. After all, no one knows except himself..." Leaning back on the office chair, Li Guangya said thoughtfully, "It's a pity that he is dead , it's really cheap for him."

This is no longer just a problem for him.

It can even be said that this is a test for the whole society of Pan-Asian Cooperation.

If those people are abandoned, they will get an extremely "pure" society, and if they choose to accept, they may usher in a diversified future.

"Speaking of which, is Academician Lu still in North America?"

"That's right."

Hearing Secretary-General Wu's answer, Li Guangya sighed with some nerve-wracking.

"It would be great if he could come back sooner. I still have a lot of things I want to talk to him about."

Wu Shuhua: "You seem to trust him very much."

Li Guangya: "He is indeed a trustworthy person, which is proved by his actions. Is there any problem?"

Wu Shuhua: "I don't deny this, but I didn't expect that you would depend on others."

"You are changing the concept secretly. Trust is not the same as dependence. I have my own judgment on how to do it, but wouldn't it be better to refer to the opinions of experts before that?" Li Guangya smiled lightly and said, "At least, it can be less Take some detours."

...

Church in Princeton Township.

White tombstones stand on the lawn behind the church.

Touching the small epitaph on the tombstone with his index finger, Lu Zhou read it gently.

"Great scholar, great professor."

【—Pierre Deligne】

He is a respected teacher not only because of his achievements in mathematics, but also because of his wisdom that inspired many potential souls.

"I didn't expect to meet again in such a way... I wanted to commemorate you in my own way, but the management staff here told me not to light a fire."

Gently placed the flower in his hand on the tombstone, Lu Zhou didn't stay here any longer, turned around and left.

In the next two days, Lu Zhou did not leave Princeton immediately, but studied the "autobiography" about David Lawrence borrowed from the Flint Library.

It is very interesting that this autobiography was not written for him by others, but by him, or at least by his dictation.

Until graduating from Princeton, his dream was to be a historian. However, due to sudden changes, he had to give up his academic career and go back to inherit the Lawrence family business.

As the wealthiest and most powerful family in the Boston consortium, he possessed a terrifying wealth at the age of only thirty.

Although in the layout of the technology industry, he always hit a wall because he stood opposite his old friend Lu Zhou, but compared to the huge family business left to him by his parents, this loss is nothing at all.

"...disease, aging, natural disasters and man-made disasters, weak flesh and blood will decay one day, only by engraving thoughts on the circuit board can we obtain eternity in the true sense."

"I started to fund those scholars and dreamers I was optimistic about, and invested in the industries of the future, hoping to upload my consciousness to the Internet in my lifetime. At that time, I will give everything I have to build a world for myself. An omnipotent body and the most intelligent brain in the world. In the form of numbers, I will obtain a superhuman body and the eternal life that the princes and nobles of the Middle Ages could only dream of.”

"However, the road to the pursuit of truth is always uneven. Just like not everyone is worth investing in, not every investment has finally brought me the return it deserves. Some studies have to be fundamentally overturned in the end, or Others are stuck in a bottleneck, and there is no way out anyway."

"On my 40th birthday, I gradually began to feel hopeless. Until a piece of amazing news came from Huaguo across the sea, a fire was ignited in my heart again."

"Fate is so wonderful. Although my old friend defeated the companies I supported more than once, but this time the neural access device he developed inspired my negative emotions."

"I chose to continue to bet on Mr. Musk, and there are many scientists who are engaged in the research of neural access devices. I built a research institute in Boston to study the derivative technology of neural access devices-namely , Upload the consciousness."

"In fact, this technology is not very difficult. After the bottleneck of the direct connection between the nervous system and the computer was solved, we, who have been researching in this field for many years, quickly grasped the key to solving this problem."

"However, I know that this alone is not enough. False programs cannot replace my consciousness, and the person on the screen can only be regarded as a high imitation of me. At this time, my researcher told me that if I want to use To achieve immortality in the form of numbers, at least the program written into the hardware must be alive. That is to say, it must have a high level of intelligence before it can become a real person."

"My plan fell into a trough again, until one night at the end of 2022, I got drunk and put on a virtual reality helmet to hide in the virtual world. However, at this time, a wave of An unknown force pulled me into a pitch-black space. In fact, I thought it was a bug in the program, until I saw another me inside."

"Do you want to live in the sea of ​​data forever like me? Then please pass my test. Another me said to me, and downloaded a program with a size of only 5MB to my terminal."

"When I woke up and found that program on the terminal, I couldn't describe the surprise in my heart. It was like coming from nothingness, saving me who was about to fall into darkness, and I opened it like a treasure. , and discovered the secret of evolution in it..."

"It is a comprehensive proposition that mixes sociology and informatics. Even though it is only 5MB in size, it is still not an easy task to solve it. As the calculation continues, I continue to provide it with experimental results. The material and objects available for observation, the scale of the program is almost exponential growth. Later, I had to buy a supercomputing center, or even open up an unowned planet to satisfy his appetite."

"Although his appetite is getting bigger and bigger, I am full of confidence in the future. The end of evolution is in sight, and soon I will be able to achieve eternity, and I will share the secrets of evolution with everyone as a selfless person. "

After reading David Lawrence's autobiography to the end, Lu Zhou took a deep breath, closed the book, and turned his gaze to the deep night outside the window.

The timeline was aligned, and his guess was indeed correct.

The night at the end of 2022 is the day when IMCRC conducts high-energy physics experiments on abnormal energy regions, and it is also on that day that human civilization looks up to the world in the n+1 dimension for the first time—that is, the observer What civilization calls the void.

And the program on Ceres came from there!

"When you gaze into the void, the void gazes into you."

Chewing this sentence over and over again, Lu Zhou sighed softly.

"I didn't expect such a terrible trouble to be released from there just by taking a quick look."

100 years time.

If he is not still alive, the truth about it will probably be buried in the dust of history forever.