Surgery begins.

——Same month: June 2116, in a hospital in TJ City.

In the spacious and bright multi-functional conference hall, experts entered the venue one after another to observe the entire operation process.

This multi-functional conference room looks more like a satellite launch monitoring room, with less ceremonial costumes of flowers and plants, and more cool and angular scientific and technological equipment.

Everyone can see that on the podium, there is a huge glass screen, which makes the entire conference hall look like an IMAX theater from 100 years ago.

QCN quantum network nodes are synchronized normally......

The brain maps to the network normally......

Quantum Repeater No. 1, Repeater No. 2...... No. 3 ...... Works fine......

A giant glass screen shows.

The glass screen is transparent, and you can see the other side of the screen through the giant screen, which is the operating room. In the operating room, Zhang Weining and his assistants had put on surgical gowns and stood in front of the operating table.

Photoelectric curves, numbers and other data directly appear on the glass giant screen, the illusory curves, and the real operating room are added together, and everyone here feels like watching a newly released IMAX movie.

Everyone sat down, the operation began, and the surrounding lights dimmed. Everyone struck a chord and talked about it while watching.

"This is the first brain replacement surgery in the history of Tran Star. In Chen Guangbiao's skull, the old brain will be replaced with a new brain, and his consciousness will be transferred from the old brain to the new brain. In this sense, the word 'brain swap' does not represent the essence of surgery – it is ...... from an ethical point of view. ”

Dr. Li Shaowei, an ethicist, tilted his head and whispered to Lawyer Zhao beside him - he didn't say the last two words.

(It's "killing"...... Therefore, he also has the same view as Zhang Weining. Lawyer Zhao thought that he naturally knew that the ethicist Dr. Li was not telling the truth, that he was joking, and that the joke sounded very unpleasant. However, Mr. Zhao understands that surgery does carry extremely high legal risks:

It is expected that in 2117, that is, next year, the "comfort procedure" will be legalized. Before the "euthanasia procedure" was legalized, the operation that was being carried out today would count as at least two murders — Chen Guangbiao's original brain would be destroyed, the first murder; In the new brain, the donor's consciousness has not disappeared, so the donor of the new brain, Zhang Shanben, and lawyer Zhao recalled the donor's name - his consciousness will be covered by Chen Guangbiao's consciousness. This is the second murder.

(If you don't step into the gray area of the law, what else does a lawyer do with this surgery?) Lawyer Zhao smiled indifferently and said to Dr. Li Shaowei: "Perhaps, one day, we will also want to be 'murdered' like this?" ”

Li Shaowei was stunned for a moment, then smiled and fell into deep thought.

The people who are thinking deeply, not only Li Shaowei, but also one of the people sitting in deep thought, who is frowning and pondering, is sitting next to Li Shaowei, he is an expert in quantum networks, Dr. Tang Jingtao. Chen Guangbiao's consciousness will be amplified, maintained and transmitted through a quantum repeater, so from the time the operation just entered the planning stage, many experts have been privately calling Tang Jingtao the person who holds Chen Guangbiao's "soul".

Tang Jingtao also heard the conversation between Li Shaowei and lawyer Zhao. When the conversation between the two was interrupted, Tang Jingtao also leaned next to Lawyer Zhao's ear and asked about the "Human Security Regulations".

The Human Security Regulations (FSR) is an important piece of international law adopted by the United Nations in 2020, and the main purpose of the legislation is to prohibit the transfer of human consciousness to the Internet. Obviously, Chen Guangbiao's surgery has also stepped into the gray area of this law.

Lawyer Zhao turned around and complained to Dr. Tang: "I said Old Tang, you are not kind, didn't you say that the QCN network is not part of the Internet?" Don't fool me, according to what was said in advance, you are responsible for explaining the technical details, and don't drop the chain at that time. ”

Tang Jingtao knew what lawyer Zhao meant: as long as it is not operated through the Internet, it will not violate international law.

"Well, there's no problem," Tang Jingtao said, "Quantum_Conection_Network, it's a private network, of course it's not the Internet, you can rest assured." ”

Lawyer Zhao nodded.

"Hey, by the way, Dr. Jingtao," Lawyer Zhao suddenly said to Tang Jingtao, "This QCN quantum network is said to be able to completely simulate the working mode of the human brain?" Is it true? ”

"Of course it's true." Tang Jingtao whispered. "Otherwise, after the operation, what should I do if Chen Guangbiao who woke up is not Chen Guangbiao? It's a joke that can't be made. ”

"I've heard that quantum is uncertain," Mr. Zhao added, "but our job is to make sure that the awakened Chen Guangbiao must be Chen Guangbiao and not someone else, that is, we want to get a definite result." So, I've always wondered how you can get a definite result from uncertain things. ”

(To get a definite result through uncertain things?) Tang Jingtao smiled secretly, (You are still really eloquent, my Lord Zhao.) ）

In fact, at the beginning of the planning of this operation, in addition to Tang Jingtao, who was privately called the controller of the "soul", lawyer Zhao was also given a nickname, because of his eloquence, he was called the "quarrel king".

"Human consciousness is uncertain." "I know it's hard to understand. Because ordinary people can't distinguish the difference between 'memory' and 'consciousness', memory is definite and consciousness is indefinite, so my job is to use one uncertain thing to replicate another uncertain thing......"

"And then get something more uncertain, don't you?" Lawyer Zhao added.

"Nope." Tang Jingtao said with a smile, "On the contrary, an uncertain thing can only be simulated by another uncertain thing, and the specific method is quantum entanglement, first to get the 'anti-consciousness' of consciousness, and then to get a copy of the original consciousness from the 'anti-consciousness'...... When I say this, I'm sure you can understand. ”

Lawyer Zhao thought about Pian Ke, shrugged his shoulders, and smiled awkwardly, without explaining or saying that he didn't understand.

"Anyway," Tang Jingtao continued, "whether you understand it or not, whether the final thing is definite or uncertain, whether it is Chen Guangbiao or something else, it depends on you and Dr. Shaowei's incorruptible tongue - I am not responsible for the interpretation of law and ethics." ”

At this, both of them laughed.

While Zhao, Li and Tang and a group of other "idlers" were enjoying themselves in the multi-functional hall, on the other side of the IMAX giant screen, in the operating room, Zhang Weining was busy sweating. In the inaudible, ticking of time, the fate of the patient on the operating table was just a stroke of the doctor's fingers, so Zhang Weining had to concentrate his spirit, every stitch and thread, every knife and one knife, all of which must be accurate and not bad at all.

Otherwise, the result of hundreds of billions of investments in exchange for a certain certainty: a dead corpse.