Chapter 381 "Chip"

Chapter 381 "Chip"

Chapter 381 "Chip"

Let’s return to Shanmei, the headquarters of the Hailufeng Group.

After Jiang Miao met with Wang Lifeng and others and examined the biological assisted helmet together, the two parted ways and each went about their own business.

Wang Lifeng is still in Shantou University, but at this time he is planning to undergo an eye transplant operation and prepare for the subsequent implantation of a biological brain control unit, so he is temporarily staying in the base in Jiesheng Town, waiting for Hailufeng Hospital to notify him to go for surgery.

As for Jiang Miao, he has left Shanmei and come to a small town in southern Jiangxi.

Although it is a small town, it is actually very close to the nearest big city, with a straight-line distance of less than 12 kilometers. In the future, as the big cities expand, this place will be incorporated into the urban area.

The name of the town is Licun Township, which is one of the townships under the jurisdiction of Yudu County. This small town is lucky because it is relatively close to Yudu County. Yudu County can quickly reach Gan County, the core city of southern Jiangxi, through Gongjiang River. Therefore, this place is planned to be a part of the southern Jiangxi metropolitan area in the future.

Through the car window, Jiang Miao saw that this place was very prosperous. There were all kinds of shops selling food, clothing, housing and transportation on both sides of the street, as well as newly built modern residential areas. The surrounding flat farmland was replaced by agricultural buildings.

In addition, there are various scientific research sites built on the mountains.

These scientific research sites are all affiliated to the Hailufeng Group, which has built approximately 187 small-town-type scientific research bases across the country.

Licun Township Scientific Research Base is one of them.

After a while, his convoy quietly entered the underground parking lot of one of the laboratories.

Yang Wutong, the laboratory's research director, and Jiang Rong, the logistics manager, who had just received the notice half an hour ago, were waiting in the underground parking lot with some anxiety.

"Dr. Yang, the boss is here..." Jiang Rong patted his old partner on the shoulder.

"Uh..." Yang Wutong looked at a row of rock cars and quickly trotted over.

Jiang Rong beside him also followed.

At the same time, Jiang Miao also got out of one of the cars.

"Boss! I'm Jiang Rong, responsible for the logistics of the 8108 laboratory."

Yang Wutong also introduced himself quickly: "Boss! I'm Yang Wutong, the scientific research director of this laboratory."

"I know that Dr. Yang graduated from Fudan University and joined the company at the end of 28. He has been in charge of this experiment for more than two years." Jiang Miao smiled and shook hands with Yang Wutong, then looked at Jiang Rong:
"Xiao Jiang, are you used to your work?"

"Thank you for your concern, boss. The work here is not bad, and it's easier than the supermarket." Jiang Rong nodded. He was previously the manager of the seventh branch of the Hailufeng store in Jiangcheng. He was transferred here in August last year to be responsible for the logistics management of this base.

"You'll get used to it." Jiang Miao patted him on the back: "Let's go! Take me in and take a look."

"Boss, please come this way..." Jiang Rong turned sideways and pointed the way.

As they walked, Jiang Miao turned around and started chatting with Yang Wutong: "Dr. Yang, I read your internal paper. It has great potential."

"Thank you for the compliment, boss." Yang Wutong was very humble. After all, he knew his own abilities and his achievements. They were based on the huge resource support of the Hailufeng Group and the technical support of other brother scientific research groups.

Jiang Miao encouraged: "Have confidence. After all, everything depends on human efforts. I really think your project has great potential."

At this moment, Yang Wutong seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Jiang Miao seemed to see through his inner struggle, and then asked with a smile: "Doctor Yang seems to have something to say? We are all family members here, there is no need to worry about anything, just speak directly."

"Then I'll just say it directly..." Yang Wutong paused and continued, "Boss, I have a question. If the biochip is successful, will there really be a market for it?"

"So you are worried about this problem!" Jiang Miao shook his head and laughed, then replied with a deep look in his eyes:
"It's part of the plan."

"Part of the plan?"

"Backup plan." Jiang Miao did not elaborate, but just mentioned it briefly.

The so-called backup plan is a secret plan launched by the Asian Federation to guard against artificial intelligence.

This is a program specifically set up for electronic devices, which requires the development of a set of equipment that can be independent of electronic devices and serve as a backup for electronic devices.

Among them, the areas with high hopes are biological computers and biochips.

As a smart man, Yang Wutong understood it immediately. Even though Jiang Miao only said a few words, he understood some things about the backup plan. However, he did not dispel his doubts. Instead, he frowned:

"Boss, won't a biological computer go out of control? Maybe because of its biological characteristics, the probability of it going out of control is higher, right?"

"Your concerns are very reasonable, but who says that what we are developing is a simple biological computer?"

"..." Yang Wutong's eyes were full of confusion: "I don't understand."

"Dr. Yang, do you think there is any hope for combining human brain with biochips?"

"What?" Yang Wutong was stunned, and then his brain started thinking frantically.

As a biologist, geneticist, and computer engineer, Yang Wutong is no fool. Jiang Miao only said two nouns, but he knew the general idea of ​​this direction.

It was because he understood that he began to think about the feasibility in his mind.

"When implanting a biochip into the brain, we have to consider the rejection reaction... No, this is not a problem. The boss has already developed a non-rejection organ transplantation technology. This technology can be modified and used on biochips..."

"The second question is about the information input and output of the biochip... There should be no problem with the output, as there are already mature biological brain control units. As for the input? It seems not very mature..."

"Wait a minute..." Yang Wutong suddenly had an idea, and it suddenly became clear: "If the target of brain wave input is a biochip, then it can avoid many problems of brain wave input technology, and even serve as a buffer to prevent a large amount of information from disrupting the memory of the original brain."

After a brainstorming session, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"It seems you have figured it out."

Jiang Miao stopped and took another step forward.

Yang Wutong came to his senses and hurried to catch up.

"Boss, I understand your idea a little bit. With current technology, it should be feasible to implant biochips into the brain."

"It's not that simple. There's still one step left."

"One more step?"

"The biochip must have the function of constructing a virtual space, while at the same time ensuring that the program of the biochip is blank. I want to let human personality enter the biochip and become the soul of the biochip." Jiang Miao said meaningfully.

Listening to this almost unrealistic and slightly crazy plan, even as a scholar in the field of biology, Yang Wutong felt that his thinking could not keep up with Jiang Miao.

In fact, it is very simple that he can't keep up with the train of thought.

Because Jiang Miao's plan is not only to create a control device that is different from electronic devices, but also to enhance the function of the human brain.

Yang Wutong had more or less guessed all this.

But there is a hidden purpose behind this.

那就是“永生”.

That’s right, Jiang Miao’s ultimate goal is actually to achieve eternal life.

This is a variant of the Mechanical Ascension.

Why do humans die? The answer is naturally that the brain dies.

With current biotechnology and medical technology, as long as the brain is not dead, even if all the internal organs are damaged, there is still a possibility of rescue.

Especially as more and more artificial organs are developed, this indicates that human organs other than the brain and spine will become "parts" that can be replaced at any time.

Therefore, the brain becomes a shortcoming that limits human lifespan.

After analysis and deduction, Jiang Miao tried to find a technical direction to solve the problem of brain death.

It was also in June last year that he came up with a technical route to solve the problem of the difficulty of replacing the human brain while studying risk assessment of artificial intelligence.

Since humans with one brain cannot replace their brains, why not create another "brain" for humans?
When humans have two brains, one of them can be replaced.

This is also why he wants to develop a plan to implant biochips into the brain, because only in this way can the biochip become the second brain of human beings.

However, Jiang Miao is also aware of the difficulty of this technical route, which is how to ensure that human consciousness can be completely integrated into the biochip.

However, it is only a matter of time for Jiang Miao to solve this problem, so he is not worried.

Ultimately, human consciousness is actually a mixture of a large number of memories, combined with the body's hormones and environmental influences.

If everything about a person from childhood to adulthood is recorded in a biochip, even if the original brain is removed one day, as long as the biochip is still there, it means that the person is still in a "alive" state.

In fact, the human brain does not have to be complete to function normally.

Because there are already many cases showing that even if a human loses half of their brain, their brain function can still be maintained due to the brain's compensatory effect.

This also provides unlimited possibilities for the future.

However, it will take at least a dozen years for this technology to be fully perfected.

Jiang Miao still has time. After all, he is only in his early thirties now, and he will not be fifty in a dozen years.

Of course, he was also clear about one thing, that is, if the biochip had not been implanted since childhood, his memory would be incomplete.

It is very difficult to transfer all the brain information to a biochip. After all, a lot of information in the human brain is subconscious memory, and this part cannot be extracted 100% even based on active recall.

A large part of human memory is subconscious memory. For example, the memory before the age of three is all subconscious memory. No matter how you try to recall it, you will not be able to recall it.

But subconscious memory is also an indispensable part of human consciousness.

If this part of subconscious memory is lost, even if the conscious memory is exactly the same, it will still cause personality changes.

This will lead to a result: the same memory but different people.

To use a biological concept as an analogy, this is like cutting a branch from an apple tree and grafting it onto another apple tree. Although the fruit produced by this branch is almost the same as that produced by the mother tree, the nutrients provided by the new rootstock will definitely not be exactly the same as those of the mother tree.

From a biological point of view, a human being who has not had a biochip implanted since childhood will still be the same person after his or her brain is removed.

But from a philosophical point of view, they can actually be counted as two people.

The latter is only the inheritor of part of the former's memory, but is not the same as the former.

For humans who have had biochips implanted since childhood, everything about them is recorded in the biochips, so they do not undergo any fundamental changes after their native brains are removed.

But Jiang Miao didn't worry too much.

Because he believes that he can solve this problem, one day he can use technology to safely transfer all the memories of the human brain to a biochip, which can avoid the philosophical problem of "the new self is not the old self."

As they walked, Jiang Miao, led by Jiang Rong, arrived at the door of a biological breeding room.

Through the observation window at the door, he saw the cultivation cabins displayed inside.

Jiang Rong entered the password.

Ding! The door slid open automatically to both sides.

Standing in front of a breeding pod.

Yang Wutong introduced in a low voice: "Boss, this is the Fuxi Type 3 biochip."

Jiang Miao looked into the cultivation chamber, where a walnut-sized lump of meat was soaking in nutrient solution.

"Has this thing been cultivated?"

"Well, it's done."

"I read your paper. The computing power of this biochip is still too small. It is even worse than that of an ordinary computer."

Yang Wutong did not feel that Jiang Miao was belittling their achievements, because he knew that Jiang Miao must know the advantages and disadvantages of the biochip.

“It’s only the third generation at the moment, and it will definitely be improved later.”

Jiang Miao nodded slightly: "As for its computing power, I don't actually have high hopes. After all, the upper limit of biological chips in computing power is just that. Their key lies in fuzzy analysis and memory storage."

Fuzzy analysis and memory storage are the advantages of biochips.

Compared with semiconductor electronic chips, the advantages and disadvantages of the two are just the opposite.

Electronic chips are good at logical analysis and computing power stacking, but are not good at fuzzy analysis and information storage.

Biochips are good at fuzzy analysis and information storage, but it is difficult to improve their computing power.

Of course, if the biochip can successfully transplant the human soul, then the logical analysis ability brought by its genes will not be too bad.

Jiang Miao ordered: "The information storage capacity of Fuxi 3 is now sufficient. Next, you should focus on conquering the direction of human consciousness transplantation!"

"No problem." Yang Wutong had no objection.

At present, the information storage capacity of Fuxi Type 3 is indeed sufficient. The walnut-sized biochip in front of us can store up to 8.5 TB of information.

This is a height that current semiconductor technology cannot reach.

After all, the information storage unit of the biochip is designed to imitate the biological brain, so the scale of information storage is so large.

This is also the core advantage of biological computers over electronic computers and artificial intelligence.

Electronic computers need to be connected to the Internet, so once artificial intelligence appears, they can easily be wiped out.

The data storage capacity of a biological computer unit is sufficient for the operation of its internal data. When necessary, it can completely isolate itself from external information exchange and avoid invasion by external information.

Combined with the different ways of understanding biological computers and electronic computers, we can further isolate the intrusion of electronic computers.

Since Jiang Miao was planning to develop a biological computer with the human soul as its main brain, the possibility of the biological computer developing artificial intelligence was eliminated.

This is also a preparation for the future.

(End of this chapter)