Space-time Traveler Chapter 18: The beginning of mechanical ascent

Southern Cross. Fifty meters underground.

This once-abandoned laboratory has been reactivated by the academy and has become an important stronghold of the academy’s mechanical faction after a large-scale transformation.

At this moment, there are more than a dozen scientific researchers in white coats in the laboratory busy in front of a pile of sophisticated instruments, and on their central laboratory platform, a sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters is erected , The inside is a bionic person whose whole body is made of metal, there are a large number of precision bionic parts in the body, and the outer skeletal fibers and muscles have not been sprayed with synthetic skin.

Dr. A, who has not been seen for a long time, also came to this secret base at this moment.

His expression is a bit nervous and excited, and his eyes are fixed on the display in front of him, observing the various scan data.

Long time.

Dr. A took a deep breath. He came to the center of the console and said solemnly: "Ready to upload consciousness!"

As his orders were issued, the entire laboratory quickly became busy. A large number of staff members came to their respective operating instruments to stand by, and then a very sophisticated mechanical arm stretched out, they first opened a completely The sealed box immersed in a strange liquid, carefully taken out of a complete human brain.

Next, silver-white needles were pierced into the brain. Accompanied by the stimulation of bioelectrical currents, the brain immediately produced some slight thought fluctuations.

"Ready to upload awareness."

"Open the brain structure."

"Implant an artificial brain."

In the sealed glass instrument with a diameter of more than five meters, three exquisite mechanical arms stretched out and gently opened the head of the central bionic human. The superalloy skull was opened, revealing the internal cavity, and In the densely packed sensor structure, a bionic human brain made entirely of unknown crystals was taken out by the robotic arm, and then carefully put into the bionic human head.

"Awareness upload begins!"

As the progress bar on the instrument surfaced, everyone could not help holding their breath, staring at the instrument in front of them.

The mechanical faction of the college began to study bionics a long time ago. The bionic technology they mastered is hundreds of years ahead of the wasteland. The bionics controlled by artificial intelligence in the early days can already be no different from ordinary people. However, what they want to pursue is not to create a smart robot, but to completely replace the human body with bionic technology.

Therefore, there must be a very dark technology field involved, that is, ‘consciousness upload’.

Most of the manpower and material resources of the mechanical faction of the academy are used to overcome this difficulty. They have achieved some results as early as 20 years ago, but the final result is not satisfied. It was not until Dr. A cleared the interior of the college and integrated the resources of the entire college that they really achieved some key breakthroughs in this field.

They discovered a special silicon crystal synthetic material and produced the first real bionic human brain.

It is quite unrealistic to upload consciousness directly into a chip. The sophisticated and complex structure of the human brain cannot be replaced by a small chip at all, and conventional artificial brains cannot be used either, because human consciousness will It disappears quickly after uploading, and will soon be completely assimilated into a part of artificial intelligence by the program.

From the perspective of occult, that is, the soul disappears after the consciousness is uploaded, and only a basic ‘human’ intelligent program is left in the artificial brain, without the ability to think.

You can understand that he has become an intelligent bionic person with the habits of his life.

He will do some things according to his previous habits, and will retain the way of action during his lifetime, but he has no thinking, no thinking, and will only generate intelligent action instinct based on the memory instinct left in his brain.

All this is not what the mechanical faction wants.

What they want is not a bionic person, but a further synthetic person, a body synthesized by bionic technology, but retains human wisdom and thoughts.

The progress bar starts to increase slowly.

Dr. A stared at the thought waves in the display screen in front of him. This time, the opportunity to upload his consciousness is quite precious, because Leon is one of the few high-level bionics in the world, and his brain itself is very important for bionic technology. The adaptability is far better than others.

Leon died in less than 24 hours. He should be the most likely successful experiment material that can be found so far.

Thinking is the key to consciousness upload.

The human brain is actually a carrier of consciousness. The mechanical factions of the academy can extract memories from the brain very early, and they can even read out some of the memory images stored in the brain with instruments. But memory is not the key to making synthetic humans, thinking is the foundation of all synthetic humans.

Unable to retain the human mind, at best, they just used the human brain as a chip to build a machine.

Of course.

This is also a development idea.

Because of the oldest version of the STC modular system obtained by Suziyu, it is also the most advanced and the most authentic version. The matrix of the STC modular system is made using the human brain as the core computing. That is the top black technology of the ancient lost empire. The central core component in the STC mother body is a complete and powerful brain component, which is the most important component of the entire body.

Of course, this technology was eventually lost.

Because the use of the human brain as a tool to make the STC base machine must involve the field of psychic energy, the ancient lost empire only had the ability to use the human brain to make the STC modular system in the most prosperous period.

The technology that Su Ziyu later acquired was to use artificial intelligence as a substitute.

The progress bar goes through little by little.

Just when the brain of Leon finished uploading the last point of consciousness, suddenly the thought wave signal on the display screen in front of him was interrupted.

Dr. A stood up almost instantly.

He stared nervously at the instrument in front of him, his face was flushed, his expression was quite complicated, his eyes fixed on the sealed glass instrument in front of him.

One minute, two minutes.

There was dead silence in the entire laboratory, and everyone held their breath, as if a needle fell on the ground and it was clearly audible.

"Did you fail?..." someone murmured.

But at this moment, the eyelids of the bionic human inside the glass instrument trembled suddenly, and then an active wave of thinking emerged again, which can even be said to be quite violent, just like a person’s dying struggle, thinking In an instant, he became more active dozens of times, and then the bionic man in the instrument opened his eyes. His faintly shining mechanical eyes could not see any emotions, but the ultra-fiber bionic muscles on his face made a puzzle. Expressions.

Leon looked down at his alloy arm, moved his metal finger, and murmured: "Am I still alive?..."

Success!

In an instant the whole laboratory boiled up, and many staff members wept with joy, because it means that they have entered a new era, an era of synthetic humans.

"You are still alive." Dr. A stood up nervously, looked at Leon in front of him, and said solemnly: "When we found you, your brain was still well preserved."

"So we brought you back."

"We uploaded your consciousness, and now you are a real synthetic person."

"How are you feeling now?"

Leon couldn't help but fell into silence when he heard the words. He closed his eyes as if he was reminiscing, but his expression gradually became painful. This change in expression made many people nervous.

"I..." Leon moved his new body, seeming to be feeling something, muttering: "I don't know..."

"I seem to have forgotten a lot of things."

"I only remember some scenes from previous battles..."

Lack of memory?

This discovery made many people have expressions of consternation and disappointment. The complete consciousness upload should copy all life experiences into the artificial brain, including some of their forgotten images in the deepest part of their memory.

A complete synthetic man can almost be comparable to a supercomputer, and can easily retrieve all the memories stored deep in the brain.

But Leon is not in good shape now.

He seems to be missing a large part of his memory. Although he still retains his mind and consciousness during his lifetime, that part of the missing memory makes his behavior at this moment into a state of confusion.

"You calm down first." Dr. A nervously said: "At least you are still alive now."

"Isn't it?"

Leon paused after hearing what he said, then smiled, with an ugly smile, the ultra-fiber muscles on his face squeezed a bitter smile, and then said: "That's it."

"But can you spray me a layer of artificial skin first?"

"My current state."

"To be honest, I'm not used to it."

Leon’s words brought a smile to Dr. A’s face, because Leon’s current thinking and his current needs undoubtedly showed that their consciousness upload experiment was successful, at least for the most part.

This is normal human thinking.

There are needs, desires, emotions, and preferences.

Although synthetic humans ultimately represent physical desires and will gradually disappear with the mechanical evolution of the body, synthetic humans are not robots without emotions. On the contrary, synthetic humans’ spiritual needs will be stronger than before. .

"No problem." Dr. A hurriedly said: "We will give you bionic skin now."

"What skin tone do you like?"

"What are the needs for looks? We can all meet them!"

Leon showed a serious thinking expression when he heard the words, then he looked at his lower limbs, hesitated for a moment, and said: "I think you should put it on me first."

There is dead silence in the laboratory.

Dr. A’s expression was a little surprised. As a pure scientific researcher, he didn’t expect Leon to care about it so much. Even in Leon’s expression, he saw an unobvious anger, so he hurried Said: "It was our mistake."

"Time is too tight."

"This body was originally genderless, and the specific gender characteristics were remodeled after uploading consciousness."

"We can install it for you now."

"The latest bionic accessories can transmit most of the body's touch, and the efficiency of the sensor can reach about 75% of the human body's senses."

"What model do you want?"

"We can all arrange here."

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