Brainoid

There was no progress in the animal experiments. Qi Min returned home and Beijing collapsed on the sofa, still wondering what went wrong.

She vaguely felt that she had fallen into the same predicament of not being able to graduate again, which made her feel panicked. Indeed, if she cannot publish articles or pass the assessment, she will not be able to get TENURE.

Mimi ran to the master bedroom to play with her, while Qi Min also absentmindedly repeated one or two actions. Fortunately, Mimi is still young and still enjoys repetitive actions.

She played with Mimi like this for a while, until Mimi got tired of turning the rope and climbed onto the bed in the master bedroom to watch TV.

The distance between the bed and the TV was closer than the sofa. Qi Min was afraid that her eyes would be damaged, so he quickly went over to pick the little girl up: "Mimi, don't get too close to the TV."

"Will the TV eat me?" Mimi asked.

"No, but..." Qi Min thought for a while and said, "TV will suck away your vision, and then you won't be able to see clearly."

"Then...will TV give me my eyesight again?" Mimi asked timidly.

"If it is sucked for a long time, the eyesight will not come back." Qi Min said.

At this time, she suddenly thought, maybe the brainoid body is like this too? The 256×256×256 tiny brainoid connected to the rat’s brain and sucked something away. Just like myopia, it is temporary at first, so the rats can still wake up after being comatose...

But if that were the case, what would it be? What can brainoids "suck" from rats?

Qi Min guessed it might be some kind of working memory. Although this cannot explain why rats that lose working memory fall into coma, it is at least a conjecture that sounds reasonable.

Thinking of this, she decided to go back and do another brain-computer connection experiment.

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Qi Min did not call Ke Yue this time, but returned to school alone and entered the animal room.

The animal room was empty in the middle of the night, but you could hear the sounds of countless rats and mice walking around in the cage and scraping wood chips. Qi Min found her five experimental rats and saw them all waking up.

Without enough time to observe the rats' condition carefully, Qi Min took them directly to the clean room.

First connect the computer in the clean room to the school computing center, open the 256×256×256 micro-brainoid body, and prepare the exclusive data line for the micro-callosal interface - each interface must ensure a data line for transmission to achieve the theoretical goal. speed on.

Then she carefully took the rat out of the cage, used the computer's main interface to gently plug in the electrode interface on the rat's head, and immediately pulled it out as soon as it was plugged in.

The rats did tremble when the 256×256×256 tiny brainoids were connected, but remained awake when disconnected.

Qi Min realized that she might have taken the first step to success.

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But she was so sleepy in the middle of the night that she didn't have the energy to take the second step of selling.

Qi Min put the rat back into the animal room. When he returned home, he saw nothing but darkness. Anton and Mimi had already fallen asleep. So she just washed up and went to bed directly.

Because he went to bed late, Qi Min didn't wake up until after nine o'clock the next morning. She opened her eyes and saw that Anton was not in the bedroom, so she turned over and wanted to sleep for another five minutes, but was suddenly awakened by the ringing of her cell phone on the bedside table.

Qi Min had no choice but to grab the phone and glanced at it, and it turned out to be Ke Yue.

"What's wrong?" Qi Min answered the phone and asked.

"There's something strange." Ke Li's voice sounded puzzled, "I found that the behavior of Rat No. 3 was a bit abnormal... Did you feed the rat any medicine yesterday?"

"No..." Qi Min thought that No. 3 was the rat she had connected with the 256×256×256 micro-brainoid body. "I tried to connect it with 256 again."

"Was it unconscious at that time?" Ke Li asked strangely.

"No." Qi Min said, "The connection time is very short, so it will not cause coma."

"That's really strange..." Ke Yue muttered, his tone obviously a little excited, "I'll try again - when will you come?"

"I..." Qi Min was embarrassed to say that she had just woken up, so she made an excuse, "I have something to do in the morning, and I may not arrive until noon."

"Okay, let me try it first." Ke Li said eagerly, "This is really strange..."

Qi Min hung up the phone and wanted to sleep for another three minutes, but heard the bedroom door being pushed open again. Anton walked in with a glass, and when he saw that she was awake, he said, "Drink soy milk?"

You must drink soy milk. Qi Min pushed himself up to sit up, took the cup and took a sip. Sure enough, the soy milk made by myself is the most delicious.

"Get up quickly." Anton said, "You won't go to the laboratory on time now either."

"Of course, I'm the PI." Qi Min muttered rather conceitedly.

"The PI also has to go to work." Anton sat down by the bed and smoothed her hair out of habit.

Qi Min is three years older than Anton, but sometimes it seems like she is the little girl who has not grown up. It is true that with a boyfriend like Anton who can "walk in the hall and in the kitchen", her ability to take care of herself has gradually deteriorated.

"Anton..." Qi Min yawned, but said, "You know, how should I put it... My experiment is now at a critical node. If there is a Positive Result, then I should be able to publish an article But if not... I might have to work for another half a year."

"So?" Anton sat next to her and smiled, "This is materialism. How do you say that...objective things...will not be changed by people's thoughts?"

"Objective things are not subject to human will." Qi Min corrected him, "Of course, no matter how much I think, I cannot have any impact on the confirmed experimental results."

"That's why it can be called 'objective truth'." Anton said comfortingly.

This is true. If anything can change because the PI has to pass the assessment, it can only be evidence of academic misconduct.

"I didn't expect something to happen at this point." Qi Min sighed. In fact, what she said was more like speaking to herself, "I thought this was just a verification experiment...but it seems that the results of this experiment may More important than all previous results..."

If a brain-like body located in a computer can actually affect the brain of an animal, thereby affecting the animal's behavior... the significance of this discovery is far greater than simply building a brain-like body.

But if she can't repeat the experiment and explain it, it may just prove that brainoids are yet another artifact harmful to animals.

How about she stop doing animal experiments and publish the results of machine learning first? This seems to lower the "grade" of the brainoid, but maybe it will be safer?

But Qi Min thought about it and felt that she should try her best to understand the brain-like body as much as possible. The emergence of experimental phenomena that were not in line with expectations at this time was likely to be a breakthrough - for all reasons and reasons, she should not have hastily publish an article at this time and give up the opportunity to study this phenomenon.

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