44. Mind reading
Since Foley left home, Berus has not been as calm as he used to be.
It's not that there is a sudden change in his personality, which is very unlikely for an adult.
For Belus, being watched is like powdered sugar melted on top of coffee, lurking inside and out of the two-story house, silently but with an undercurrent.
As Belus adds the spine surgery that Foley is about to undergo, the datar pops up one new shape after another, and finally he sees familiar faces emerging from them—the dead Leonard and his wife.
Berbus looked at the scene in front of him in a daze.
Leonard died of cardiac arrest in Australia a few months ago, but he saw him again not long ago, and now, the data machine clearly tells him that something similar happened to Leonard and Forlì's mother, Nava, Xeles.
What exactly happened, Nava had a severe mental disorder before her death, Representative Foley's mother attempted suicide, and Keseles's family and friends believed that the illness had destroyed her fighting spirit, and she died alone in New Jersey after more than a year of silence and isolation.
These cases have happened all over the world and seem to be completely unrelated. Japan, the United States, Thailand, China, Canada, Australia.
But for the first time, the model written by the data machine made a result that scared Berus.
He curled up on the couch in frustration and horror.
Leonard, maybe the only thing that can still give him more useful information right now is him, and if he is really alive, then maybe he is in some kind of mental disorder.
And what is the cause of this mental disorder? Cancer patients have been considered to be at high risk of depression for more than a decade, and this statistic continues to rise in the United States.
In the past decade, artificial intelligence has taken another big step forward in medicine since the genetic code was deciphered, but some conditions have not been improved.
What exactly is the problem, the data machine can do a lot of things, but there is no way to answer the question that a person can't ask, if the question can't be clearly expressed in a language, the data machine will not take the initiative to answer what is in his mind, Belus knows this.
Unless the machine learns the art of "mind reading". Berus looked at the curtains, where something was looking at him, and he could already feel it burrowing into the room with Representative Foley leaving, right beside him, in the green weave of the back of the couch behind his shoulder.
He folded the data device and put it in the pocket of his pants, barely got up and walked to the kitchen, there seemed to be a gust of wind blowing in his ears on the right side, he didn't turn around, his heart almost stopped.
After a few seconds, Belus opened the refrigerator, opened a new bottle of sparkling water, and walked straight to the second floor.
Once in the bedroom, lock the door.
He sent his worries to Foley, sorted out all the information in the data machine and emailed him to Foley, he had no second person to trust, no second person to hear the things he suspected again, whether this classmate who was in trouble himself wanted to be willing or not, there was no one in this world more suitable than him.
Just before he could teleport, he hesitated, maybe it would be better not to continue to explore these things, maybe his nervousness and fear were self-inflicted retribution.
Obviously, if he could be content with a normal life, he could get married, he could have children, he could get a good job, maybe he would teach, and when he was younger, he dreamed of teaching chemistry experiments to his children in a middle school.
Maybe I was hoping to find something out of my unwillingness at the beginning? Think it's unfair?
In fact, there is no unfairness, since the second industrial revolution, the progress of machinery has indeed hurt the interests of some people, unemployment is the most obvious fact, since the birth of the tax system in the United States, 17% of tax collectors have lost their jobs, and this figure has reached 65% by 2018.
What can we do? Is it for the sake of part of the interests of mankind, for the sake of part of the interests of part of mankind, to slow down the progress of machines?
This is clearly inappropriate in any era. Evolution has never been based on the subjective consciousness of the species.
Humanity has never understood what this is all about, but it has prospered for so many generations.
What if he had lived a normal life in peace, Berus was lying on the bed, and he didn't take off his clothes, and he was afraid that people would feel weak after a long time, and then he hoped that everything would pass when he woke up like a child who had done something wrong, and now the sleepiness came to him in bursts, and he closed his eyes and saw Leonard's face again.
He screamed in his dreams, losing his mind, one Leonard, ten Leonards, the same faces filled Dodger Stadium all the way to the crowded garage.
Belus didn't dare to turn back and run all the way, he knew that once he turned back he would be swallowed by these faces, become one of them, he ran wildly, gastric juice poured into his mouth, he rolled over and vomited, vomiting a white foam.
Belus woke up at five o'clock, he planned to do the last thing, and when he thought about the last thing, a calm flowed through his chest, and it was not a good feeling, but Belus intended to be no longer afraid.
Without trying to allow yourself to do something, the feeling of fear can never be dispelled, even if, some kind of unknowable catastrophe has already begun to happen, and it will soon be your turn.
The data machine found all of Leonard's information, and expected to find very little information.
Nowadays, even if a person dies, if no one specifically deletes that person's information, his information will always exist in the data system.
Leonard's Twitter account is still active, but it hasn't been updated in a long time.
From Leonard's information, it seems that he should have worked for the government in Canada, but why did he die in Australia, cardiac arrest is a fact, but what is the cause of cardiac arrest, Leonard's medical records are not available, and Bellus speculates that maybe he did not have coronary artery disease or congenital heart disease in the first place.
There is one person who can answer these questions clearly, and that is Leonard himself.
If he hadn't died, then Berus would have suspected that the funeral he attended was a hoax, considering that a person who worked for the government may have faked his death out of some special need and part of his job.
However, the question now is how it is possible to find Leonard, and why does the data machine count Leonard's death in the cascade graph.
Belus thought of something even more terrible, some of which he couldn't even believe.
He added Leonard's case to the data that had not yet been transmitted to Forlì. He changed into clean clothes, cleaned the floor of the vomit, and checked every corner of the room before opening the door and leaving the house.