Chapter 38: Alice's Growth
The significance of neural uploading, or consciousness uploading, for human beings cannot be exaggerated. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Many people will go crazy about it, and there will inevitably be many who will oppose it.
But as Yang Hai said, once it appears, no one can stop its spread, because it represents that people will bid farewell to death and gain immortality in the virtual world.
Therefore, when thinking about the meaning of neural transmission, everything must be taken into account as much as possible, and if this problem is not dealt with, even human civilization may fall apart because of it.
Although Lu Ze did not show unacceptability when he learned that he was unknowingly used by Alice to conduct neural upload experiments, it was because Lu Ze was originally a science fiction writer, and he had a deep understanding of neural upload technology before hibernation, and had all kinds of fantasies about it.
In Lu Ze's eyes, it is normal for humans to upload their consciousness to computers in the future, and the only question is when this technology will be realized. That's why he was so excited when he learned that he was the first experimenter.
But it was precisely because Lu Ze had fantasized about it that he knew better what kind of controversy this technology would bring, especially in this Star Spirit Network Conference that gathered most of the world's human beings.
At the moment when Yang Hai's voice fell, all the virtual personalities spoke almost at the same time.
"Can we really upload consciousness to a computer?"
"Can a computer really simulate a brain that is so complex?"
"Do humans have souls?"
"Does the advent of neural uploads mean that we can all have eternal life from now on?"
"If we upload our consciousness to a computer, will we be able to think as fast as a computer?"
"Will we lose our human feelings and become as cold as machines because of this?"
"What happens to the brains in our flesh after consciousness is uploaded?"
"If I upload my consciousness to the computer, will I still be myself in the computer?"
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All sorts of questions pop up in people's heads, and then the avatar representatives ask them questions.
There were also virtual avatars who answered these questions on behalf of people with a little knowledge of neural upload technology, but it immediately led to more controversy.
"Whether I am still myself in the computer depends on what method is used to achieve neural upload, if it is a replacement method, then it is still ourselves, if it is a scanning method, then it is just our copy that is uploaded to the computer."
"Judging from the words of the Night Emperor, it should be the scanning method used, otherwise how could he say that he was playing with himself?"
"If that's the case, even after neural uploading, it's just one more copy of me in the computer, and my life in reality still hasn't changed, what's the point of such an upload?"
"yes, what is the use of such a technique except for playing!"
"You have such thoughts, just because you subconsciously still believe that people have souls, as long as you believe that human consciousness is material in nature, then you will no longer have this kind of thought, you in the computer are yourself, and you in the body are also yourself."
"Even so, how much trouble will the appearance of another 'me' cause me?"
"That's right, whose wife will my wife be when the time comes?"
"You can get your wife to do a nervous upload, so you don't have two wives, right?"
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Yang Hai just said the words "nerve upload", and the virtual personalities started a heated discussion on themselves, and they couldn't stop for a long time, and there was a tendency to get more and more intense, and finally Yang Hai had to raise his hands and signal everyone to be quiet.
Yang Hai said: "I know that you are all very concerned about neural upload technology, but there is no point in everyone fighting like this about these basic issues. Next, Alice Damon, the inventor of neural upload technology and the implementer of the third generation of brain-computer interface technology, will introduce you to neural upload technology, and she will also answer these questions of yours, so that you can have a basic understanding of neural upload, and no longer get entangled in these meaningless questions except for making people more annoying. Then we will discuss the impact of neural uploads on our human civilization and the real problems. ”
After Yang Hai finished speaking, Alice appeared beside him.
At this time, the virtual personality No. 1 said: "I didn't expect it to be her, Alice can be said to be the one who has studied the brain in the most depth among all the scientists in mankind, and it was because of her ten years ago that she had the third-generation brain-computer interface technology." If it were her, it would not be surprising that neural uploads could now be realized. ”
This is the idea of those who already know something about Alice because of the third generation of brain-computer interface technology.
Virtual Personality No. 2: "Oh my God, this Alice is Sarah's sister, it's unbelievable, I didn't expect Sarah to have such a powerful sister." ”
This is obviously the emotion of those who have just checked Alice's information through the Star Spirit Network.
After hearing the virtual personality's discussion of Alice, Lu Ze and Lu Li couldn't help but smile, although in the Alice information displayed on the Star Spirit Network, the first line still reads "Alice Damon, Sarah Damon's sister", but the tone of this virtual personality clearly shows that they are not shocked because Alice is Sarah's sister, on the contrary, they are shocked that Sarah actually has such a powerful sister as Alice.
Alice can stand on the stage of this Star Spirit Conference, not because of innate talent, whether it is because of dreams or obsessions, a full twenty years, for an almost impossible goal and painstaking research, who knows the hardships and loneliness involved? But she finally proved that she was not a dispensable stone on the side of the road, and when the rough stone shell was removed, it was a radiant and harmonious stone inside!
At this moment, Alice became the undisputed protagonist of this conference, and from this moment on, she was no longer the girl living in the shadow of her sister, she was being the speaker of the Star Spirit Network Conference, introducing her theories to billions of people.
Although in front of billions of people, Alice did not show any stage fright, but said with unprecedented confidence: "Hello everyone, I'm Alice, and now I will introduce you to the neural upload technology and answer your questions." ”
Alice then said, "As we all know, there are two ways to implement neural upload technology, which are the scanning method and the replacement method. The scanning method is to simulate the brain in the computer through high-precision scanning, and then realize the purpose of uploading human consciousness to the brain. The replacement method is to use nanorobots to replace the cell neurons in the human brain with artificial neurons one by one, because this replacement is very slow, and will not replace the neurons that are in an active state, so this process can even make people not notice, when the replacement rate reaches 100%, all your cell neurons are replaced by artificial neurons, which is equivalent to completing the upload of consciousness. ”
At this point, Avatar Three asked, "Why did you choose to use the scanning method instead of the substitution method to achieve neural upload?" ”