"It's sci-fi, brother. Chu Zhixi smiled, "I estimate that with the speed of progress of existing science and technology, there should be no breakthrough in 20 years." ”

"Musk's company is already working on human-machine interfaces, that's known. Normally, I don't know how many are hidden below the surface of the water. Wu Mian said very blandly, "For the sake of eternal life, they are willing to pay any price." ”

"Is this a sale of souls to the devil?"

"Not really. "But I think it will take at least 30 years for this technology to mature, and it is not mature yet." Maybe we'll catch up, but I'm only interested in brain functional partitions right now. ”

"Isn't there already a study?"

"The results of previous studies are not used in surgery, and it is likely to be just guessing. There's a GE machine, so I'll try to write a piece of software. Wu Mian said, "Go home and sleep first, I'll think about it and find some information." ”

"Oh, good. "Although Chu Zhixi is an expert in neurosurgery, he doesn't know much about mechanical principles, and he doesn't want to understand it.

"You've seen the images of the software app made by Dr. Odd in France, and it's beautiful. Wu Mian said, "What I make will definitely be more beautiful than his." ”

"As long as it can be used, I don't care if it's beautiful or not. Chu Zhixi said.

"If you want to buy some experimental mice, its practical orangutan is the best, but unfortunately there is no laboratory. If the orangutan showed up in the hospital, I was worried that something would be wrong. Wu Mian said.

"In the Texas lab, the time the orangutan ran out scared the hell out of me. Chu Zhixi touched his heart with his hand and said.

"So at most, you can only use rats or rabbits. Wu Mian said, "I prefer the guinea pig, but you will be afraid." I'll figure it out and buy some rabbits for experimentation. A rat costs more than 1,000 yuan, and a rabbit is cheap. ”

"Huh, are domestic rabbits cheap?"

"Yes, the mother rabbit head of the Sichuan people, it is said that they eat 300 million rabbits every year. How fertile the rabbits are, if I want to say that the ecological disaster in Australia is not a problem at all. That little rabbit is enough for the people of Sichuan? Wu Mian said casually.

"Rabbit's brain ......," Chu Zhixi said, and began to ponder.

"What I want to experiment with is my software, just do NMR, keep doing it, I just modify the software data. Wu Mian smiled, "See the nerve bundles of rabbits or rats clearly, and don't do destructive experiments, basically you won't need a few." ”

"How long will it take?"

"I don't know, just do it. When I got back, I got in touch with the Neuralink team to see if I could get some useful data. Wu Mian said.

"Their technology is more often commercially applied. ”

"Well, it's because it's a commercial application, it's not the most cutting-edge, so there's a glimmer of possibility. Wu Mian said in a deep voice.

The research conducted by Elon Musk's team at Neuralink is not strictly state-of-the-art.

For nearly 15 years, scientists in Europe and the United States have been testing brain implants in patients, through which implanted chips allow patients to move cursors or robotic arms.

The way in which the chip is implanted in the brain is no longer fresh enough [new fo], and there are many related experimental tests, and Neuralink's brain-computer interface is not representative of the times.

However, the other trial parties have big consortia behind them, and the progress of the research is never announced. Wu Mian is a native of Huaxia, and it is almost impossible to obtain this top-secret data.

The research itself touches on themes such as eternity and immortality, and any breakthrough will be kept secret.

And Musk's business company has the potential to be an alternative.

Back at the rental house, after washing, Wu Mian first put Chu Zhixi to sleep, and then opened the laptop to contact Neuralink.

But the answer disappointed Wu Mian.

Even for commercial companies like Neuralink, data on brain-computer interfaces is tightly sealed. Moreover, Neuralink did not hesitate because of Wu Mian's status in the medical community, they refused very simply, and there was no possibility of joint development.

Wu Mian shrugged his shoulders, which was all in his expectation.

Open the academic website and find the article by Dr. Denis Ducreux, professor and head of the Department of Diagnostic Neuroradiology at the Université Paris-Sud at the Bicêtre Hospital in France.

When General Medical's MRI machine was first produced, Dr. Denis Ducreux used a 48-channel head coil and a DTI sequence he created himself to capture crisp MRI images.

In this video, he uses green spheres to represent the gray matter of the brain, and red lines to represent the white matter pathways in the brain. The larger the spheres, the more connections they have between them and between the white matter channels, indicating stronger neural connections.

The images are beautiful and make people feel the wonder of biological structures. But Wu Mian didn't take a second look, because he had already read this article half a year ago when it first came out.

Looking for the latest information, Wu Mian found that there were no more scientific reports, so he sat up straight and stretched his waist.

Standing up gently, seeing that Chu Zhixi was already asleep, Wu Mian tiptoed out the cigarette and walked to the balcony.

Lighting a cigarette and looking at Bajingzi under the cover of night, Wu Mian fell into deep thought.

He reverse-engineered the DTI sequence established by Dr. Denis Ducreux, which was not difficult for Wu Mian, but how to realize his idea.

In any case, Wu Mian's purpose has always been to cure diseases. That little guy is still "sleeping" in the Sword Association Hospital, and he always has to find a way to wake him up.

However, it is not easy for a "vegetative person" of unknown origin to do this without any past information.

Although Wu Mian felt that it was difficult, he did not have any fear of difficulties.

Scientific research is like this, there is a fog ahead, there is no light, and every step out of the way does not know whether it is right or wrong. Some researchers have studied all their lives and finally found themselves on the wrong path.

Just like the ancient idiom of "going in the opposite direction", it is basically impossible to go in the opposite direction, and it is basically impossible to go around in a circle and come back.

Wu Mian knew that the situation he was facing was even better.

At the very least, there are decades of accumulation ahead, and countless scientific researchers are exploring directions. Moreover, Wu Mian highly suspects that the SIGNA Architect 3.0T device produced by General Medical and the subsequent DTI sequence established by Dr. Denis Ducreux restore the distribution of brain nerve fiber bundles by calculating the different speeds of water molecules spreading in different directions, which is a follow-up study of the cloned sheep study.

In other words, in order to study "thinking", foreign researchers have prepared weapons and explored a completely new set of methods.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, it's always easier to do things.

After smoking, Wu Mian didn't go back immediately, and didn't waste a minute or a second to go to work. Instead, he quietly watched Yaiko's night and fell into deep thought.

At the same night, Wang Qingshan was also pondering, lying on the hospital bed looking at the snow-white ceiling and unable to sleep.