Planetary Museum

Although the memory of the earth is almost all blurred, Wu Qing still remembers such a story.

It's about the Taj Mahal.

It is said that the Taj Mahal was originally built by a king for his concubine. In order to let the designer fully understand the pain of losing his wife and let him understand his own state of mind, he ordered the designer's wife to be killed.With such pain in mind, the designer finally designed a beautiful mausoleum that moved the world.

It is difficult for Wu Qing to tell now whether his role is the king or the designer in the current scene.

The communication channel has been established, although the efficiency is low, it can only be contacted once a day on average, limited by the technology of the earth, all the contact content is only text.

But just a simple contact, the impact on the spiritual world of the three people is like a short-circuit breakdown of electrical appliances.

Xu Yan has not recovered until now, and is still nagging in a godlike way: "I remember, I must remember...Let me think... 498812, or 598812... No, no... It's 884912... "

The string of numbers that Xu Yan tried to recall was obviously "his" bank card password.

That was the result of a few words between him and the real Xu Yan.

"You don't think you're real, do you?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen both understand, but you don't know?"

"Don't speak in a weird way... who are you?"

"I am you."

Wu Qing can still recall Xu Yan's expression at that time. Even though he looked completely like a federal person, the muscle movements on his face clearly looked like a real earth person.Xu Yan was stunned at the time, and wanted to subconsciously refute, but for some reason, he turned his head to look at Wu Qing first.

Wu Qing didn't know what he saw in his eyes, but at that time he turned his head to look at Shen Wen as if he had seen a ghost.

Shen Wen's eyes were the same as when he and Shen Wen first realized that they might be replicants and looked at each other.

But Xu Yan obviously couldn't accept this cruel fact. He asked the other party a stupid question without belief: "How to prove it?"

Wu Qing and Shen Wen had a vague understanding of the difference between these replicas and the original normal Earthlings at the beginning. After staying in the Federation for such a long time, they also learned more technical information through the Federation network.

To put it simply, it is limited to technical means, and the memory of all replicas is incomplete.

Copying all the information in a person's brain, and then completely reproducing a person in the virtual world, this technology is also a new technology for the federal people in the last century or two. Because it is restricted by law, it has not been Can be applied to reality, for a long time, only as a brain medical technology.

For example, some people suffer from chronic irreversible brain diseases, similar to Alzheimer’s on Earth. With the help of this technology, patients can copy all the information in their brains to the computer when their bodies are still normal—— However, operation is strictly prohibited, and these data can only be used as backup.Then, after the patient's condition worsens, the data is reversely input into the brain by means of physical stimulation.

In actual use, this kind of treatment process takes a long time and requires professional guidance from medical institutions. The most important principle of this kind of guidance is to ensure that all the information in a person's brain has been obtained. Record.

The principle of this technology itself is actually to analyze the specific information generated by detecting brain activity, or the brain waves generated by brain activity, and the entire mechanism of generating information-the latter is almost checking the logical structure of the entire brain.

If the human brain is compared to a maze, the maze has countless entrances and exits, and every conscious activity of a person is like a mouse entering the maze and then coming out.

This technique is equivalent to installing a locator on each mouse that is put in. According to statistics, no matter how complicated the maze is, as long as enough mice are put in, the entire maze can always be obtained in the end. full roadmap.

In the Commonwealth, the reliability of this technology has basically been proven, and it has also been recognized by the majority of scientific researchers.

When this technology first appeared, it took at least two years of accumulated data to completely replicate a person’s thinking mode—or personality mode—in terms of the senses without being distinguished by others.

However, with the deepening of research, researchers can gradually use fewer and fewer mice to obtain more and more detailed maps. Based on the data of the previous brain structure, they can even optimize the entrance of mice - try to place them in those places that need to go far Drop more mice at the entrance of the road and get more information at the same time.

Developed to the present, it often only takes a day or two or even a few hours to completely replicate a person's thinking mode.

However, there is always one biggest shortcoming of this replication technology, that is, this technology only pays attention to the human thinking mode to a large extent, that is to say, it pays attention to the shape of the maze of the human brain, but for the specific Chen She in the maze , the pattern on the walls of the maze, the roughness of the floor... that is, the specific memory, the amount of copying is very small.

This is mainly limited by two factors. First, whether you are a federal person or a person on Earth, the principle of brain operation is basically similar. In the normal working process of the brain, most people use their subconscious mind more. .

It's like Wu Qing and Shen Wen didn't feel anything strange at the beginning, because the "feeling" of the whole brain is normal, and what the replication technology reproduces is the usual "sense of normalcy" of the brain.

In the replicated maze, the mouse seemed to run in and out according to the original route, and there seemed to be no problem with the generation and interaction of the entire brain consciousness.

But when people really try to actively examine their own mazes and call real data from them—that is, the floors that make up the maze, they will find that things are not right.

Because the copied maze has no floor at all, and all the memories are just a "feeling", which is what the copy thinks he "remembers", but when he really wants to open it, he finds that the floor of the memory is wrong, or even empty. thing.

Of course, as the running time of the replica gradually shortens, these empty floors will gradually be covered by the memories that were produced later, and perhaps a brand new maze will be formed after a long time.

But even then, it cannot cover up the bottom layer of these labyrinths, that is, the hollowness of the entire labyrinth when the entire clone personality is just established.

According to the research of the Federation people, this kind of "amnesia" phenomenon does not only appear in the clone personality. To a large extent, the brain functions of the Federation people and the Earth people have similar mechanisms.

Many times it is impossible for us to really remember all the specific knowledge and information. More often than not, we just "feel" remembering. Those knowledge and information are like patterns buried under the floor. If we don't open them for a long time, Sometimes those patterns will be slowly worn away by themselves.

However, no matter how much memory loss a normal creature has, there will always be a large piece of profound content that can be verified by reality, including life memories in reality, and digital memories that are usually used more...

The real Xu Yan just asked the replica Xu Yan the simplest question.

"What is my bank card password?"

Bank card password?It was still necessary to ask, Xu Yan opened his mouth to answer, but he clenched his mouth together a few times in embarrassment, and then froze there, motionless.

Wu Qing knows who Xu Yan is, and Shen Wen knows better, not to mention Xu Yan himself. In a good word, he is a person who is very persistent in success. In a bad word, he is a person who does everything for money people.In his own words, if it wasn't for his bad genes and too little courage, he would have been able to rob the bank back then.

After undergoing surgery in the Ascension Realm, although his problems in this area have improved a bit, the underlying behavior pattern has not changed.Before coming to this mission, he was most concerned about the 10 yuan he earned before. Anyway, according to Wang Youquan, this guy would turn on his mobile phone to check the balance every day when he was free, and then looked at the balance. Can laugh out loud.

Although he told Wang Youquan about many investment channels, and also learned about the prices of many cars, he talked all day long about spending the money, but in the end, not only did he not spend the money, Wang Youquan also said that he was still picky. He even went to Wang Youquan's house for dinner.

Xu Yan, the duplicate body, was always nagging during this period of time in the Federation. When he returned to Earth, his money must be spent properly. It's a big loss.

Such a person who can almost be said to be addicted to money, let alone his bank card password, even if he recites his bank card account number backwards, in Xu Yan's opinion, there is no problem at all.

But when he really tried to recall that small string of six, the simplest number, Xu Yan was horrified to find that he couldn't remember it at all.

He "feels" that he remembers, really remembers, in memory, those six numbers seem to be written on a piece of white paper, and he can even vaguely see their shapes.

Xu Yan's eyes widened desperately, and he took the white paper in front of him, trying to see them clearly, but the strange thing was that no matter what actions he made on the white paper, there was no change in himself on it.

Xu Yan began to feel the fear that both Wu Qing and Shen Wen had felt.

Both Wu Qing and Shen Wen understood this feeling. They looked at Xu Yan, but they didn't say anything to comfort him, because they knew very well that this kind of fear could not be helped by others, and they had to endure and overcome it by themselves.

Xu Yan didn't know how to describe this feeling, as if at this moment, all his previous lives were shattered, and he discovered for the first time that the world he had always been familiar with, or in other words, he had always felt "natural" That world is false and does not exist at all.

Memory is nothing but an illusion created by the brain.

It's just that when this illusion can always correspond to reality, we all acquiesce in its authenticity.On this basis we construct the whole human life.

But here in the Federation, Xu Yan suddenly discovered that this illusion was actually groundless.

It's like he thought he remembered something, and before the other party actually asked this question, he had always firmly believed in it, and never had the slightest doubt.As if these memories are the money in my bank account, of course they should be my own, and I can withdraw them at any time when I need them.

But now he finds out that the "bank" of memory has deceived him, and his account has been a short account from beginning to end...

He thought that he was trapped in this foreign country because of some kind of accident.

But it's not.

The real him is still on the search and rescue ship, he has always been there, he is living the ordinary life in the past, watching the number in his bank account increase every month...

That kind of life belongs to Xu Yan, to the real Xu Yan.And myself...

Who am I?

What about Wu Xiaoqing?What about Shen Changwen?

Xu Yan turned his head and looked at the two of them. From their expressions, Xu Yan immediately understood.