Before Foley enters the office, a girl in her early twenties walks out of the white door, the girl is large, as if she is doing strength training regularly, Foley looks at her back and can't help but wonder what kind of illness it could be. So young.

What he thought of was definitely not a minor illness, people's consciousness was very strange, after he had a terminal illness, and when he saw people in his doctor's office, he would guess that they were suffering from different but equally difficult diseases.

Doing so seems to reduce your worries.

Before opening the door, he remembered his mother's voice, "I heard that old Robert is dead." ”

"When's it?"

"Just a few days ago, ahem."

Mother coughed as she spoke.

"So early, is this the case?"

Foley really couldn't understand how his mother would call him at half past six in the morning for such a thing, and his mother would never think about how scared he was to see his mother's messages in some time when people rarely talked to him after the phone call she had made to suicide.

"I heard that it was cancer, and the old Robert was so pitiful, his daughter had just gotten married and was said to have gone to Israel."

"Oh, how are you doing?"

Representative Foley wants to change the subject.

"That's it, what else can I do, just think of old Robert so miserable, you know, I called him last week and asked him how he was, and he didn't think it was good. I didn't even have time to tell you about it, but when you were a kid he used to accompany you in the garden to dig the grass. ”

"Mom, I haven't spoken to him in more than a decade."

"That's because you come back too rarely."

"Oh, you're fine."

"Foley, do you think old Robert is too miserable?"

"Okay, don't worry about that."

At the time, Foley couldn't understand why his mother took such a thing so seriously, and he couldn't wait to tell himself.

Now he seemed to understand a little, in fact, if he thought about it rationally, the girl might be a friend of José's, a newly recruited nurse, or an employee of a pharmaceutical company or insurance company; Maybe she's picking up an inspection report for a good friend; Maybe she's José's, anyone.

Even if it is a patient, it may not be a big deal.

Thinking of this, Forlì didn't bother to continue thinking, he didn't knock on the door and pushed it in. When he saw Jose looking up at him in surprise, he was embarrassed and incoherent, "I'm sorry, I... Just saw... So, well, I forgot to knock on the door. ”

"It's okay, sit down."

José motioned for the patient to sit in the chair across from him.

"Would you like a glass of water?"

"No, no."

"Why are you so pale?"

José stared at Forlì's face for a moment.

"Maybe it's getting worse."

Representative shrugged his shoulders and replied.

"Maybe, we'll have to re-examine it later, of course, mainly to see the size of the tumor, if it doesn't grow further, maybe..."

"How does the body feel?"

"Nope."

"No?"

"Sometimes I often feel that this incident has not happened, that you and this illness are fake."

José leaned back in his chair. "That's a good idea."

"Do you think too?"

"No, I suppose, it's the result of some kind of rational action. Of course, this is rarely the case with patients, and most people will show urgency and are eager to have surgery to remove the extra stuff from their body right away. ”

"I can't think of anything as extra." Representative Foley bends his right hand behind him and feels the part of his spine where the tumor is located. "Maybe it's because you can't touch it on the outside."

"Isn't the pain getting worse? Numbness or something else. ”

"There will be a cold feeling."

"Well, aside, you look like you've come to visit our hospital, by the way, you're in and out of the hospital a lot."

"If you're talking about testing those robotic arms, I have to go to dozens of hospitals every year."

"Can't those arms automatically send back status messages?"

"Of course they can, and the manufacturers are asking hospitals to do the same."

"And you're still running around?"

"I've thought about this before, haha, how to put it, if you don't have to do manual testing, maybe there will be other problems, for example, some people are going to reduce some of their salaries."

Jose smiled, and Forlì wasn't sure if he understood his words, but he knew it was pure.

In terms of efficiency and real-time monitoring, manual detection is far inferior to the status information automatically sent back by the surgical robot, and more often than not, the inspectors only check whether the information transmission channel is virus-free or whether the network is safe in the operating room.

It's as if they don't check if there is a problem with the vehicle, just that the road is paved.

The reason why this work exists because of "trust", or rather the lack of "trust", is also a topic that philosophers have always debated.

Any advanced AI device has an automatic stop system, or an automatic stop hidden program, or a huge button that is invisible to the naked eye, why should they exist? Philosophers believe this has something to do with the "unfriendliness" at the root of human consciousness.

Tracing back to this kind of discussion, whether it's attitudes towards artificial intelligence or exploring unknown life in the universe, humans need to make judgments between "friendly" and "unfriendly".

Sometimes judgment does not exist at all, and unknown life has never been able to meet human beings in any way other than literature or film, but human beings have been discussing the existence of such hypotheses for hundreds of years.

José may not understand that this kind of work is also one of many "mistrusts" that contain one of the most primitive human emotions, "fear".

However, the profession of a doctor makes them unusually calm in extreme situations, and this gradual change of cognition by physical training is especially evident in some professional groups such as doctors and police officers.

This is not to say that they don't have the same "fear" as long as human history, but that they feel less at work, and Representative Foley believes that this reduction is not a decrease in brain feeling, but perhaps the result of higher emotional control.

"About the surgery..."

Representative Foley sat up straight and took a deep breath, intending to face the topic while he still had the courage to talk about it.

"Well, I gave you a piece of advice, but you'll have to think for yourself."

"Can I ask you what you think, your attitude towards this surgery."

José didn't immediately answer Representative Foley's question, but it seemed to be in the patient's prediction, and it seemed to be human nature.

"If you want to know what to do in the face of illness, ask your doctor what he would do if he or his mother had the same disease."

"Damn the media. Ha ha. José threw his head back and laughed. It's a joke that Foley heard as a kid, and it seems that José has heard about it as well.

"Pardon my offense, doctor."

"No, not at all, don't care, Foley."

"So..."

"My answer is that I don't know."

Representative Foley bows his head, which is undoubtedly the most appropriate answer.

He tried to present two different situations in his mind:

First, José said that the surgery proposal was very good and that he would accept it if it were himself.

If this is the answer, Foley finds that his brain immediately appears with all sorts of doubts and distrust about the operation.

Second, José said, there are still risks associated with such surgery, and I don't recommend my patients to try that new type of surgery, but as a doctor I have an obligation to tell you about the possibilities of surgery that can be done now.

In fact, I would choose traditional tumor resection, and the robot is very good at this, maybe the nerve will be damaged, maybe it won't, maybe it can tell it to choose the relatively satisfactory result, and retain a part of the nerve structure.

An invasive or non-invasive assistive device is then fitted to the paralyzed leg or arm, which does not actually interfere with use.

In the second case, Foley thinks that the lengthy treatment would take him at least a few years, and that he would most likely have to undergo multiple surgeries, some of which might be outside of the company's health insurance, which would be a huge expense.

This choice also faces great risks, in fact, he must be paralyzed in bed after the tumor is removed, and it is unknown whether he can have the ability to choose a brain control assistive device.

Anyway, not knowing is a good answer.

Representative Foley does not ask further.