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

She vaguely felt that she was in the predicament of not being able to finish her previous job, which made her panic. Indeed, if she can't post articles and pass the assessment, she won't be able to get TENURE.

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

She just played with Mimi for a while, until Mimi got tired of turning the rope and climbed into 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 she would lose her eyes, so he hurriedly went over and scooped up the little girl: "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, "the TV will suck up your eyesight, and then you won't be able to see clearly." ”

"That'...... Will the TV give me back my eyesight? Mimi asked timidly.

"If it sucks for a long time, its vision won't come back." Qi Min said.

At this time, she suddenly thought, maybe the brain-like body is the same? 256×256×256 miniature brain-like bodies connected to the rat's brain and sucked something up. Just like myopia, it is temporary at first, so the rat can wake up after a coma......

But if so, what could it be? What can the brain-like body "suck" from a rat?

Qi Min speculated that it might be some kind of working memory. While this doesn't explain why rats that have lost their working memory fall into a coma, it's at least a conjecture that sounds plausible.

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

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Qi Min didn't call Ke Li this time, but went back to school alone and entered the animal room.

In the middle of the night, the animal house is empty, but the sound of countless rats and mice walking around in their cages and shaving sawdust can be heard. Qi Min found her five experimental group of rats and saw that they had all woken up.

didn't have time to carefully observe the state of the rats, Qi Min took them directly to the ultra-clean room.

First, connect the computer in the ultra-clean room to the school computing center, open the 256×256×256 miniature brain-like body, and prepare the data cable dedicated to the miniature corpus callosum interface - each interface must ensure that there is a data line to transmit in order to achieve the theoretical speed.

Then she carefully grabbed the rat out of the cage, and gently inserted the electrode connector on the rat's head with the main interface of the computer, and immediately pulled it out as soon as it was plugged in.

The rat did tremble a little when connected to the 256×256×256 mini-brain-like body, but remained awake after disconnecting.

Qi Min realizes that she may have taken the first step towards success.

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However, she was already sleepy in the middle of the night, and she didn't have the energy to sell the second step.

Qi Min put the rat back into the animal room, and when he got home, he saw that it was pitch black, and Anton and Mimi were already asleep. So she also washed up casually and went straight to sleep.

Because he slept late, Qi Min didn't wake up until nine o'clock the next morning. She opened her eyes and saw that Anton was not in the bedroom, so she rolled over and tried to sleep for another five minutes, only to be suddenly woken up by the ringing of her cell phone on the bedside table.

Qi Min had no choice but to grab the phone and take a look at it, it turned out to be Ke Li.

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

"There's something weird." Ke Li's voice sounded puzzled, "I found that rat No. 3 was acting a little abnormally...... Did you feed the rats any medicine yesterday? ”

"No...... Qi Min thought that No. 3 was the rat she had connected to 256×256×256 miniature brain-like bodies, "I tried to connect it with 256 again." ”

"Was it unconscious too?" Ke Li asked curiously.

"Nope." Qi Min said, "The connection time is very short, so it will not cause a coma." ”

"That's weird...... Ke Li muttered, his tone obviously a little excited, "I'll try again—when are you coming?" ”

"I ......" Qi Min was embarrassed to say that she had just woken up, so she excused herself and said, "I have something to do in the morning, and I may not be able to arrive until noon." ”

"Okay, I'll 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. Anton walked in with a glass, and when he saw her awake, he said, "Drink soy milk?" ”

Soy milk must be drunk, Qi Min sat up with himself, took the cup and took a sip. Sure enough, it's still the soy milk you make yourself.

"Get up quickly." Anton said, "You don't go to the lab on time now. ”

"Of course, I'm PI." Qi Min muttered a little conceitedly.

"PI has to go to work, too." Anton sat down on the edge of the bed and habitually grossed her hair.

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

"Anton......" Qi Min yawned, but said, "You know, how to say it...... My experiment is now at a critical juncture. If there was a Positive Result, then I would be able to post an article. But if not...... I may have to do it for another half a year. ”

“So？” Anton sat next to her and smiled, "This is materialism...... Objective things...... Won't be changed by people's minds? ”

"Objective things are not subject to human will." Qi Min corrected him and said, "Of course, no matter how much I think about it, it is impossible for me to have any impact on the definite experimental results. ”

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

That's just as well. If anything can change because the PI has to pass the assessment, it can only be evidence of academic misconduct.

"I didn't expect anything to happen at this point." Qi Min sighed, in fact, what she said was more like saying it to herself, "I thought this was also a verification experiment before...... But it seems that the results of this experiment may be more important than all the previous results......"

If the brain-like body located in the computer can actually affect the brain of an animal, and thus affect the behavior of the animal...... The significance of this discovery is far greater than simply constructing a brain-like body.

But if she can't repeat the experiment and explain it, it may only prove that the brain-like body is another artifact that is harmful to animals.

Why don't she do animal experiments and send out the results of machine learning first? This seems to lower the "grade" of the brain-like body, but maybe it will be more secure?

But Qi Min thought about it and felt that she still had to try her best to study the brain-like body well enough. At this time, the occurrence of an experimental phenomenon that does not meet expectations is likely to be a breakthrough - it is reasonable for her to publish an article at this time and give up the opportunity to study this phenomenon.