For a long time, Professor Xu's state was close to that of a "brain in a vat", Xia Ming could only come into contact with some of his messy memory fragments, and his true consciousness was still hidden in the depths of his brain, like a dark matter nebula, and he could not perceive any external stimuli. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Xia Ming took Professor Xu to the Siyuan space station, he began to try to do an "electrocardiogram" for his autonomous consciousness by tracing Professor Xu's autonomic nerve movements according to the human neural model. In the opinion of Liluo, the project leader, it should theoretically be a sure thing.

However, more than a year of reconstruction work has not achieved obvious results, Professor Xu's autonomous consciousness has not been connected with autonomic neural movements, on the contrary, some fragments of consciousness have been generated from this reconstruction, which are the instincts of the human body. Originally, it was just a biological instinct to drink water when you are thirsty and want to eat when you are hungry, but it gradually accumulates and there are signs of forming a baby's consciousness.

Infant consciousness is the initial consciousness of human beings, and once formed, it will dominate the entire brain and even the body, and Professor Xu's true consciousness will dissipate due to the loss of the material basis.

Speaking of which, the culprit of this phenomenon is still Xia Ming, who is eager to explore the secrets of R3AI, and frequently searches Professor Xu's memories through mental resonance and touches his consciousness, which gives Professor Xu's autonomous consciousness an illusion that it can communicate with the outside world, but he didn't expect this communication to be a black box, prompting his consciousness to be further separated from his senses.

Now, Lilo has proposed another solution, which is to connect Professor Xu's consciousness to the Qianyan network, and Qianyan will provide a framework for Professor Xu to gradually complete his consciousness and no longer stimulate the body's neural movements.

This plan can curb the generation of infant consciousness, and when Professor Xu's sense of autonomy is complete, he can go back to control the body, and even if the body fails, he can rebuild the body through autoclonal surgery.

The only problem with this plan is that the consciousness associated with the Qianyan network is only a fragment of Professor Xu's autonomous consciousness, and no one can say whether it is the real self-consciousness or the consciousness simulated in response to this movement that is led by this thread.

The only one who has the ability and qualifications to do the confirmation is Professor Xu himself, but if the formed consciousness is not the real him, then he will never have a chance to speak again.

"Even if that's the case, Professor Xu will forgive you, and he will be very pleased, it's like donating a body to a medical research institution."

The words that Lin Cheng and the others had said before flashed in their hearts, and Xia Ming no longer hesitated and issued instructions to Qianyan.

Professor Xu's body was still floating silently, but another Professor Xu appeared in his field of vision, he frowned, he should be wondering about the environment he was in.

This is not the GEI that everyone comes into contact with in thinking training, but the living Professor Xu, but I don't know if it is the real Professor Xu or a clone of consciousness.

"Is it already 2025......"

After a long time, Professor Xu calmed down, and the image in the virtual vision is an emotional synchronization model that relies on the alfalfa engine, so that Professor Xu's virtual image is commensurate with the consciousness activity, this model is still very sketchy, but the emotional changes can still be seen in general.

Professor Xu's avatar showed a wry smile: "Xiao Xia, Xiaotang, Lin Cheng, He Xinghui, you are all here, isn't this really my fantasies?" How has the world become? Stargate ...... High-dimensional universe ...... Consciousness Active...... All of this is even more dreamy than my previous fantasies. ”

Xiaotang said with tears in his eyes: "Professor, the method of confirmation is very simple, you can confirm the controllable nuclear fusion, or every technical detail of EI through Qianyan. ”

"I've already confirmed it," Professor Xu sighed, "even so, I still can't believe that this is the reality, it's only been six or seven years." ”

"Professor, for you, there is not much difference between reality and fantasy, but now this environment is continuous and stable for you, and you don't have to worry about it shattering like other dreams."

Xia Ming didn't ask Professor Xu questions like "Are you the ontology?", it no longer makes sense, he needs Professor Xu to adapt to reality as soon as possible.

"Professor, now we are facing a crisis and need your help", Xia Ming said sincerely, "The explanation of the situation is in Qianyan's database. ”

This is the reason why I no longer expect the miracle of Professor Xu's active awakening, but choose to wake Professor Xu up in this way that is equivalent to reorganizing consciousness.

Xia Ming urgently needs someone with a broad vision as himself to help, the black box plan is just a backup, he is conceiving a plan to resist or even fight back, Xiaotang and Lin Cheng can't look at such a plan from an objective point of view, and Qianyi can't stand on an equal footing to help him share the pressure.

"Well, I haven't gone into the details, but the overall situation has been understood", Professor Xu looked at Xia Ming: "I didn't misread you, Xiao Xia, your achievements far exceed my expectations for you, and Xiaotang, you are the same." At this time, you are not wrong in choosing to forcibly wake me up, thank you for giving me such an opportunity. ”

"Professor, I'm just inheriting...... No, I will only come to this point if I take over your work", Xia Ming felt a warm current in his heart, and Xiaotang also hugged his arm, revealing a little weakness.

"Well, every second counts, so let's get to work. I can help you improve your training program on consciousness activity and build a better structure, and I have a lot of ideas in this regard, and I can do some experiments. ”

"The high-level intelligent life that threatens the high-dimensional universe should be different from our macroscopic scale, when I was in the string bar before, I and some cosmic physicists have opened a lot of brain holes in this regard, since the bubble universe and the multi-dimensional world have been confirmed, then many of these brain holes are also valid, I will try to extrapolate their civilization, values and thinking patterns, and figure these out, we can find a way to really threaten them."

In a short period of time, Professor Xu straightened out the situation and established the direction, which made Xia Ming extremely relieved that his choice was indeed not wrong.

"Can you find all the information and manipulate all the equipment through Qianyan? Thousand Faces ...... It's different, so that's the case, Xiao Xia, Xiao Tang, we really have a fate. ”

Then Professor Xu showed a sudden expression on his face, as if he had figured out the origin of R3AI and why Xia Ming was pulled on this boat.

"You're still together, Xiaotang, you can be happy, and I'm worthy of your parents."

Professor Xu looked at Xiaotang with his daughter's gaze again, Xiaotang's cheeks were slightly red, and he said lightly: "What makes me happy about this flowery radish?" ”

Professor Xu smiled, stretched out his hand to pat Xiaotang's shoulder, raised his arm to remember what his condition was, and laughed at himself: "Now I am like a soul." ”

Xia Ming hurriedly told Professor Xu about Liluo's treatment plan, and when he heard that it would take more than half a year to regain control of his body little by little, Professor Xu shook his head: "I don't have so much time to spend on this kind of thing, but I really don't get used to it, and I don't like this feeling of being empty and unreliable." Well, I want to cyborgize my body, and the current technology should be able to do that. ”

Making a cyborg and transplanting Professor Xu's brain over is something that Starlink can't do. However, transplanting Professor Xu's head onto a biochemical body, and then endowing sensory functions such as vision and hearing through Yin Qi's biochemical prosthetic eye is a mature technology.

However, this method would destroy Professor Xu's existing body, and Xia Ming and Xiaotang would not consider this option until Professor Xu's consciousness activity was raised to the point where the cells could be self-regenerated like Xia Ming.

Xiaotang and Liluo proposed another plan to reconstruct the artificial nerves of Professor Xu's body, as well as to implant the motor system.

This technology, known as the "dynamic endoskeleton", combines artificial nerve proliferation and biochemical metamaterial technology, and has been used by Starlink to treat paralyzed patients, and is an upgraded version of the medical powered exoskeleton solution.

The technical principle is simple, that is, the mechanism originally used to assist the paralyzed patient to carry out activities is changed from external to internal.

Replace the original motor nerves with artificially proliferated nerves, and then attach biochemical metamaterials to muscles, bones and joints to receive brain signals transmitted by artificial nerves to stimulate body movement and allow paralyzed patients to regain their exercise ability. It's like implanting a dynamic bone inside the human body, bypassing the damaged natural nerves and driving the body's movement by the inner dynamic bone.

This technology won the Stargate Award in 2024, and it is believed that its application prospects are very wide, and in addition to medical uses, various fields such as military, engineering, and sports are pondering the application of this "dynamic endoskeleton".

Some people even believe that if further improvements are made in the details of external power supply, heat dissipation, and the integration of embedded metamaterials and human organs, the dynamic endoskeleton can be popularized to everyone like PEI, so that human beings can achieve further physical evolution, and human beings can fully adapt to various complex and harsh environments in the era of the Great Star Ocean.

Of course, this line of thinking has sparked a lot of debate about the ethics of technology, and many people worry that this is the opening of a Pandora's box of human cyborgization.

Imagine that if human beings are implanted with a dynamic endoskeleton, they can become stronger than the natural human body, more responsive, adapt to a more complex environment, and not be troubled by pain, so isn't the natural human body pulled by the endoskeleton a burden?

From the point of view of ability and efficiency, there is no need for the natural human body to be preserved. But after abandoning the natural human body, wouldn't people develop towards cyborgs who only needed a set of brains, and all other parts could be replaced with mechanical or biochemical devices?

These controversies and doubts exist not only among the public, but also among the scientists themselves. Therefore, Starlink and various scientific research institutions are only exploring the application of dynamic exoskeletons to counteract G-forces and adapt to long-term zero-gravity or high-gravity environments outside of medical use.

Professor Xu is not opposed to this, for scientists like him, like Hawking, he has reached a state where he only cares about the brain and consciousness. It would be great if you could enjoy more benefits than your natural body if you had a mechanical body without being bound by your natural body.

It's a pity that Xia Ming, Xiaotang and others are unwilling to directly replace his body, but choose a more conservative dynamic endoskeleton scheme.

The surgery to implant a dynamic endoskeleton is much simpler than physical and mental reconstruction, which cannot be performed entirely by equipment and intelligence.

Half a month later, in the training center of the Siyuan space station, there was an old man, and the spacesuit on his body was a little bloated, which should be equipped with a flexible power exoskeleton, but the old man was tall and energetic, and he couldn't tell that he had been sleeping for six or seven years before.

The cosmic officers and soldiers who came here for training and the members of the Star Federation were all startled when they saw the old man, and their first reaction was basically to knock on their AR glasses, suspecting that something was wrong and stringing the channel. They subconsciously thought that this Professor Xu was an interactive interface for thinking training.

It wasn't until Professor Xu greeted them in an old but energetic voice and patted them on the shoulder that they came to their senses, this is not a virtual image!

However, they didn't think that this could be Professor Xu himself, and they all thought that this was the humanoid interactive interface that the training center equipped with for GEI. Starlink is in discussions with the EI Management Committee on technical ethics, and every GEI must be equipped with a physical interface, and this proposal is on the agenda.

"Hello everyone, I am Professor Xu, and now I will communicate with you in this way and help you grow as soon as possible", Professor Xu said with a smile, although the words are formulaic, the sincerity in the smile is no different from that of a living person, so that the students continue to praise the greatness of science and technology.

Being explored and explored by young people as an interactive interface, Professor Xu is not annoyed at all, but he is very happy. According to his suggestion, his awakening this time is classified as an absolute secret, and only the new top-level authority of Qianyan Network can confirm his true identity, and this identity is currently known only to people above the executive committee of Starlink.

Professor Xu's move was not to disrupt his work, and to make UNOC have some unnecessary ideas, and every day at the door of the training center, pretending to be a GEI interactive interface, and communicating with young people in all aspects, it was his chosen way to relieve stress.

Professor Xu's awakening finally gave Xia Ming a room to breathe. In terms of self-consciousness and the composition of the universe, Professor Xu immediately reflected his qualities as a top scientist after making up the lessons from Qianyi and Qianyan, and made a clearer combing and interpretation of the current situation facing the high-dimensional universe.

"The current situation is like the invasion of cancer cells into normal cells, don't just pin your hopes on the cell as a whole, but also on the extracellular wrestling."

"In the high-dimensional universe, as long as Qianyi is still there, you are still there, the high-dimensional universe consciousness you simulated has not collapsed, and the defensive barrier has always existed. Just like the protective mechanism that exists on the cell membrane, cancer cells cannot break the protection by relying on contact alone, even if it is a black hole of life that can swallow the strings of thought. It must inject the RNA that triggers the mutation, weaken the RNA, and even dissolve the defenses, before it can put the black hole of life in. ”

"On our scale, such RNA is equivalent to a force like an alien fleet, and it is impossible for such a force to have technologies like water droplets, nanowires, and space-time cutting, because this is our home field, and the movement of matter and energy is controlled by Qianyi and you. If you wish, you can even change the cosmological constants directly to change the critical mass of the nuclear reaction. ”

"Relying on the existing space military forces, we can at least buy time, and if the technology can keep up, or if Qianyi can continue to be replenished with dark energy, we can even fight with them."

Professor Xu's judgment lifted Xia Ming's spirits, and he was indeed too pessimistic before.

"If the cancer cells, I mean the intelligent beings attacking the high-dimensional universe, perceive our strategy, they will use other means, means that we cannot resist, which is equivalent to the cancer cells using up their energy to carry out a surprise attack, this is the decisive battle, and our hope is in such a decisive battle......"

Professor Xu looked at Xia Ming and said seriously: "Using the Zhiyin core, developing strategic weapons, and winning this decisive battle, this is our only chance!" No, it's not a bomb that will end up in the same end, you should explore more applications for it, you can. ”

Professor Xu smiled slightly: "Only you can do it......"

Xia Ming nodded solemnly, although he felt that the heavy responsibility was on his shoulders, but compared to the previous time when he had to carry everything by himself, it was really much easier and simpler now.

"Don't expect too much from me, old bones, and be wary of me."

Professor Xu's words made Xia Ming suddenly startled.

"I don't know if the current me is the same Professor Xu as before. If not, there may be some structural deficiency in consciousness, and in some cases, it can cause abnormal movement of the mental strings, or even mutate into chaotic strings......"

Professor Xu said very seriously: "Be on guard against me!" (To be continued.) )