Brainoid

Qi Min carried her little girl and Ke Yue to the behavioral laboratory on the third floor. The company's technicians had already brought Cynomolgus No. 2 to the observation room isolated by explosion-proof glass.

Since the outside and the observation room are isolated, Ke Li, Qi Min and Mimi did not wear lab coats or gloves. Operations on cynomolgus monkeys need to pass animal ethics review, and were originally completed by company technicians. Neither Qi Min nor Ke Yue are qualified for relevant experiments. Yesterday's experiment was just a marginal operation of "the sky is high and the emperor is far away" - Ethics To some extent, sloppy review is a way to encourage "high-risk" innovation.

Fortunately, the cynomolgus monkey that spent nearly six hours in the brain organ didn't notice any behavioral differences. It even retains the memory of early training, indicating that the memory of the cynomolgus monkey has not been damaged by staying in the brain-like body. It also confirms the "consciousness" of the cynomolgus monkey 2 - if it is true ——After entering the brainoid body, what comes out is still the original one.

Qi Min watched it for a while. She subjectively believed that the conjecture of "entering consciousness" was correct, but objectively it also needed to be proven that long-term connection with electronic devices did not damage the brains of cynomolgus monkeys. In the end, she decided to do fMRI.

When Qi Min was studying for his Ph.D., many laboratories in similar fields used electrophysiology and fMRI as their main research methods, but Qi Min’s boss was a FRET researcher. She had almost never done fMRI. After discussing it with the company's technicians, she found that it was not difficult to do.

It's just that researcher Zhou Xiaoshan is not present, so it would be troublesome to borrow magnetic resonance machines from other laboratories in the "Nimbus" center. At least Qi Min himself needs to come forward.

Now that the technicians have arrived today, it is a certainty that they will be paid three times the salary, which is not good news. This experiment will not be done in vain. Qi Min first took Mimi to the cafeteria for a meal, and then called the administrators of other laboratories in the "Nimbus" center to borrow a magnetic resonance machine.

Mimi seemed a little bored when she called. The little girl probably couldn't understand why her mother kept talking to others on the phone instead of talking to her. Mimi hated this situation a little, so she took the initiative to "abandon" Qi Min and go talk to Ke Li.

Before performing fMRI, the callosal interface integrated chip on the top of the cynomolgus monkey's head needs to be removed to avoid metal interference in the MRI machine. When the technician removed the chip, Mimi asked Ke Yue what it was.

So Ke Yue gave a general introduction to the corpus callosum interface to the little girl. Logically speaking, a little girl under four years old would not be able to understand these things, but according to the saying "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, Hua Luogeng's students know how to dig holes", Qi Min's daughter might be able to if she trains her well. With talent in this area... Of course Ke Li didn't know that Mimi was not his biological child, but then again, wasn't the reason why Mimi was named "Meme" just to show that meme inheritance is more important than genes? ?

Qi Min didn't notice when Ke Yue finished telling Mimi. Because it was a bit difficult to quietly push the awake cynomolgus monkey into the MRI machine, the company's technician tried once but failed and asked Qi Min through the microphone in the glass cubicle how to deal with it.

Qi Min asked them if they could use some anesthetic. The technicians discussed it for a while and felt that anesthetic would affect the results. At this time, Ke Yue also intervened and suggested that if the ordinary cynomolgus monkeys that use anesthetics are compared with cynomolgus monkey No. 2, this effect can be completely eliminated. But technicians say based on experience that some important features may only appear in the awake state, and there may be almost no difference between the two in the unconscious state, leading to false negative results.

However, Qi Min still believed that in order to conduct the experiment smoothly, cynomolgus monkey No. 2 still needed to be anesthetized first. If the dosage of medication can be controlled, the dosage of sedatives can be reduced while using a sufficient amount of muscle relaxants, so that the cynomolgus monkey can be awakened after anesthesia and maintain its normal state while suppressing movement and reducing stress reactions. Brain activity.

It’s just that it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. Because technicians cannot enter and exit the sterile operating cubicle at will, Qi Min and Ke Yue outside had to help prepare anesthetic drugs. After preparing the anesthetic drugs, Qi Min simply put on a lab coat and a full set of protective equipment, and entered the glass cubicle to watch them operate up close.

However, when she was trying to wake up the anesthetized cynomolgus monkey, a technician eagerly patted the theoretically non-sterile lab coat on Qi Min's shoulder with his theoretically sterile gloves: "Dr. Qi, hurry up. Look at your daughter!”

Qi Min looked up and looked outside the glass door. Ke Yue, who had been paying attention to the experiment before, also turned back. To everyone's horror, Qi Min's daughter had a cute mixed-race face but was walking with a limp. The little girl Mimi was lying on the experimental table next to her, and the chip of the corpus callosum interface was inserted into her head.

Qi Min took a breath of air and rushed out of the operating room without thinking. The technicians from behind also swarmed out, not caring about any experimental operating regulations - this was an experimental accident!

However, Ke Li was still calm. He neither touched the little girl's body rashly nor pulled out the chip on her head that was connected to the optical cable. He first rushed to the display screen connected to the "Nimbus" supercomputer and checked whether the brain-like body was connected.

But unfortunately, the brainoid body does remain connected at this time, and Qi Min's monitoring code has shown non-random violent fluctuations, which means -

"Mimi...into the brain-like body..." Qi Min was stunned on the spot.

The tragedy of nine months ago seemed to be happening again at this moment. That day, Qi Min stood on the fourth-floor balcony with missing guardrails, looking down at Mimi who fell to the ground. It was so unreal to see from such a long distance that she had an illusion at the time, as if this was just a BAD ENDING that occurred due to choosing the wrong option in the game. As long as she reloaded the file, it would be overwritten by the correct option... And At this time, she was standing next to the fallen Mimi, and she knew deeply that this wrong option could no longer be modified.

"When did this happen?" Ke Li asked the technicians, "Did anyone see when she put the chip on?"

The technician who first discovered it said: "I just saw it...I told Dr. Qi immediately."

"Don't panic, everyone, don't panic." Ke Li managed to maintain his composure, "If it has been connected for a while, don't touch the interface. If it is disconnected now, it will probably..."

He didn't say it out loud, but everyone present knew that the cynomolgus monkey, which was directly connected for a long time, became a "plant monkey" after being disconnected. But no cynomolgus monkey with a direct long-term connection for the first time has ever been able to wake up from a coma even without disconnecting.

Note: Hua Luogeng’s students know how to drill holes, which was once mentioned by the teacher in the linear algebra class.

(Unfortunately, line generation couldn't save my GPA...)

(So ​​I’d better ask for recommendation votes every day...)