Beneath Deep Space

Ever since the "brain chip technology" was obtained from alien black hands, people have begun difficult research on the brain. Especially in the next four hundred years, it took almost all the effort to complete it reluctantly because of a series of coincidences.

Assistive brain technology integrates the crystallization of countless wisdom! There are many theories that go against common sense, or even blind guesses without any basis, but they have been miraculously verified.

If there hadn’t been all kinds of accidental epiphanies, if there hadn’t been one flash of inspiration after another; or if there hadn’t been brain chip technology and the “National Superhuman Project” that greatly improved people’s intelligence…

Anyway, as long as any one of these conditions is missing, this technology will be impossible to complete.

Recalling the dark past and being unable to see the random groping ahead, everyone lamented.

Fortunately, this period of time has finally passed.

"I believe that these silicon-based transformers certainly belong to the new human citizens." Soon, a male professor took the lead in putting forward his own ideas. He gave the first evidence in a video broadcast on the big screen.

"According to social experiments on Ge Yingsa people, this kind of auxiliary brain will not change a person's personality for the time being, nor will it destroy social stability. We don't need to worry about these problems."

"Look..."

What was played on the video was the seventeen-year follow-up investigation of a Ge Yingsa man by the New Humanity.

This guy named Li Ran is essentially a lazy guy who doesn't like to study. He likes to show off and pick up girls...

Since he had a car accident and was very lucky to be transformed by a new human being, he began to rely on his super high IQ to rise to the top.

The knowledge of any low-level civilization has become very simple to him.

But essentially, he still doesn't like studying.

Since becoming a university professor, he has only allocated a very small part of his energy to scientific research. The rest of the time he spent all his time pretending to be cool and picking up girls, especially his own female students, for which a series of scandals were reported!

Of course, with Li Ran's status on this planet, no one will do anything to him... Some criticisms from the media are not important to him at all. This guy with bad morals lives very well on his own planet.

"...According to this series of observations, the acceleration of thinking speed will not affect the personality and essence. This Li Ran is not even willing to think about why he suddenly became smart and where the system in his head came from. Wait for the question.”

"He just wants to live happily..."

This video is very convincing.

Everyone was thinking quietly in their seats: Even if the auxiliary brain is installed, the person is still the same person.

The professor came to the final conclusion: "So, installing an auxiliary brain will not significantly change the personality and character. There is no doubt that there are not many ethical issues. I think this technology is beneficial to us. It’s harmless. And after so many years of research, the success rate of the surgery is almost over 99%.”

"We have rescued examples like Zhang Ruien...so it has reached a level where it can be popularized."

"As for the identity and status of the silicon-based transformers... there is nothing to worry about. After the silicon-based transformation, they will become a more advanced species than the new humans. They are smarter and more creative. Of course, they still belong to the new humans. citizen."

The professor finished his point and sat down quietly. Soon, someone pressed the talk button again.

Yu Yifeng called by name: "No. 114, please speak."

She is a middle-aged lady. She stood up and asked in a slightly questioning tone: "I have a question: using such technology, almost every cell in the brain has been transformed. The depth of such transformation cannot be achieved by a simple technology like a brain chip." Comparable."

"I wonder if the original personality has died? For example, this Li Ran, when he accepted the transformation, his personal will was erased and replaced by a personality with the same memory?"

"We don't know these questions, and we can't get real conclusions. If it's as I guess... this technology is simply murder for us!

"'I' was already dead at that time. The next me with the same memory, no matter how smart or powerful I am, what does it have to do with the current me?"

"Everyone, are you afraid of 'me' disappearing?"

This paragraph sounds like a tongue twister, but actually everyone understands it. This also brought an inexplicable feeling of discomfort.

The conference room buzzed with excitement.

"This is indeed something that cannot be confirmed by experiments." Yu Yifeng thought to himself.

Because all surgeries are done while unconscious... no one knows whether the original personality has truly died. Is it because the auxiliary brain and the original brain symbiotically formed a new personality afterwards?

This new personality seems to have all the same memories as the original personality, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Because for now, the reason for the formation of human self-awareness is still a black box. People can already read the brain's thoughts, but there is no way to figure out how this thought was generated at the first moment, and there is no way to create self-awareness out of nothing. Therefore, the auxiliary brain must still be based on the biological brain and cannot operate alone.

After a while, someone else stood up and said, "Everyone, why do we care about this? This kind of question is too unfounded and unreasonable, isn't it?"

The speaker was Professor Nakatamura. As one of the main persons in charge of the auxiliary brain, he was a little angry at these inexplicable questions: "Human life is like running water, always changing. Every minute, every day It’s updating every second.”

"If you explore the nature of self-awareness, you can't see clearly or touch it. I think that since there is no way to explore it clearly, you don't need to care too much."

"Let me give you an example... Can you be sure that you will be the same person after you wake up as you were before going to bed?"

"Perhaps, every time you sleep, the previous you will die, and when you wake up, you will be a new you. It's just that when you wake up, you have no memory of when you died, so you think you are still the same you."

"But who knows? Maybe you were already dead while you were sleeping... Madam, can you confirm that my guess is wrong? Yes, it cannot..."

"If my conjecture is true, you have died tens of thousands of times, do you still care about this time?"

Professor Nakatamura's words suddenly aroused more discussions. Many people thought his words were strange. It was a bit sensational that every time he slept, an original "I" would die.

But no one can refute it.

Does this possibility exist? Of course it exists, and the probability is not small.

"Does every 'I' only have a lifespan of more than ten hours? Every sleep is the birth of a new life?"

"In fact, usually, we think that as long as the brain is alive, I will still be me..."

This has actually evolved into a complex philosophical question: Who am I? What is the real me?

Yu Yifeng touched his chin and thought carefully. He immediately felt that as long as the existence of self-awareness is continuous and there is no interruption in the middle, he can think that he is still himself.

However, how to prove its continuity is still a cosmic problem, and there is not even a specific definition.

As Professor Nakatamura said, when sleeping, is there any interruption in human consciousness? No one can know. Regarding the fact that brain waves are naturally continuous, it is unknown what self-awareness is.

"Even time has a minimum Planck time, and human self-awareness is most likely discrete... In other words, self-awareness will be interrupted for a while."

Hearing everyone's discussion, Professor Nakatamura paused for a while and then said: "So, there is nothing to argue about the issue of self-awareness. We have already discussed it when we invented the brain chip and when everyone used perfect hormones. pass."

"...Assisted brain technology, although the brain cells are completely transformed, when the transformation is carried out, the entire human brain remains active and has not died. Therefore, for the time being, it can be considered that...I am still me."

After saying this, he sat down quietly.