Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 270 - Chapter 270 Chapter 270 The Mystery of Self-Awareness

Chapter 270: Chapter 270: The Mystery of Self-Awareness Chapter 270: Chapter 270: The Mystery of Self-Awareness It was the Spring Festival, and Zhang Yuan was in his office, reading a research report with rapt attention.

Over the past few years, he was busy almost every day, especially during the time of communication with the Gliese Civilization, with all sorts of messy affairs and incessant worries, it was incredibly stressful. Being able to sleep three or four hours a day was considered good.

However, after all these years, talents in various fields had gradually been cultivated and he could delegate authority to these professionals. Diplomatic issues, population issues, education issues each had their own experts in charge, so now he just needed to manage his own technological domain.

The importance of technology for humans goes without saying–it is the foundation for a civilization’s survival in the vast universe!

Thinking about that heavy pressure, Zhang Yuan would rather work in the office over the Spring Festival holiday. After all, reading such research reports brought him great pleasure, not much different from resting.

And then, as he was reading, Zhang Yuan leapt from his chair in shock!

According to the research report, elite scientists at the UNREAL Unreal Laboratory had initially decoded the mystery of the “Bozeman Quantum Consciousness Converter”!

Just the preliminary stage was enough to stir excitement.

This device was actually a powerful “Biological Quantum Computer”!

Its wonder… it could not only upload human “Self-awareness” but also the consciousness of other animals, such as mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, and even insects and reptiles!

The entire process of capturing “Self-awareness” was very peculiar, starting with right-handed neutrino scanning to crack the brain structure of life, reading its core memories, followed by sending a series of complex electromagnetic waves.

These electromagnetic waves would gradually approximate brainwaves, and then in an instant, self-awareness was mysteriously uploaded. Due to the different brain structures of various biological beings, the electromagnetic waves sent would also vary, and people have not figured out the pattern to date.

This phenomenon was simply unfathomable, beyond human imagination!

“Right-handed neutrino scanning?” Zhang Yuan frowned. Just this technology alone, it was unknown when humans would be able to completely master it…

Neutrinos are one of the fundamental particles constituting nature, not involved in electromagnetic interaction, possessing incredibly strong penetrating power.

This penetrating power is many times stronger than traditional X-rays; X-rays can’t even penetrate a few centimeters of lead, but neutrinos can easily pass through a planet!

Under normal circumstances, natural neutrinos are left-handed, and right-handed neutrinos are actually the antiparticles of left-handed neutrinos, theoretically usable for material detection, and this detection won’t destroy the material’s properties.

Zhang Yuan shook his head, temporarily putting these technical challenges aside, and continued reading.

“…Only more advanced life forms possess ‘Self’.”

Professor Yamamoto Ichiro, the chief biologist in the Unreal Laboratory, wrote in the report: “…Life forms with undeveloped brains, such as insects, reptiles, are driven by instinct in everything they do. It’s less self-awareness and more like a biological robot!

“The data stream captured from uploading these insect consciousnesses, most of it is visible, with only a small part being invisible. The more complex the life, the higher the invisibility of the data stream…”

“If we forcefully read this invisible data and then transfer the consciousness back, the creature would be instantly paralyzed, unable to be revived…”

Paralysis did not mean death, but rather a vegetative state. The brainstem could still function normally, each organ also worked properly, but they just couldn’t wake up.

Scientists temporarily could not use living humans for experiments; the test subjects were mostly cats, dogs, or monkeys cloned from artificial wombs, but this already explained a lot!

What did it explain?

The hypothesis that “Bozeman Self-awareness” theory might be partly correct about this part!

“The true self-awareness of humans could possibly be a series of quantum entangled states, which can only be collectively transferred to a computer but cannot be violently read or duplicated.”

“Once duplicated, when trying to read the specific information inside, the quantum entangled state would be destroyed, the wave function would collapse, and the random numbers would turn into a fixed value!”

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan excitedly slammed his fist on the table with a “bang”.

Even if humans still couldn’t understand the specific principles of this technology, a very important question had been resolved.

That is, the question of whether the “I” before and after is consistent.

If it’s just the overall quantum leap, rather than copying a memory entity out of nothing, or “killing the old me to form a new me” kind of horror doctrine, then… many people would still be able to accept this new technology.

This is merely the first breakthrough.

The second breakthrough is that ordinary computers are incapable of carrying the uploaded consciousness, so it requires the use of a biological computer built with neural network architecture, coupled with some sort of special quantum chaos algorithm.

After using the biological computer and the chaos algorithm, humans simply had no way to know what exactly was being computed inside, thus ensuring the “unreadable nature” of consciousness.

“Biological computer…” Zhang Yuan frowned, another problem had arisen.

“If we must use a biological computer… the difficulty of trying to replicate it is very high.”

Biological computers and photon computers are in two different directions. The main material of a biological computer is protein molecules produced by biotechnology and serves as the biochip.

A biological computer can carry, no matter the array data or the folding data, hence able to carry an enormous amount of data.

The most crucial part is, it does not behave like electronic computers that cannot self-repair after the chip is damaged; it has the ability to self-repair. Just like the human body, it can self-repair if the damaged part is not too severe.

The reason humans have not greatly developed it is… because the difficulty in its realization is too high, achieving complex biological logic pathways with individual gate components is far too challenging, much less straightforward than photon chips.

He sighed softly, “However, with an alien biological computer as a reference, there should be some breakthroughs.”

“Alas, there are still many challenges…”

After reading the report, he quickly got up and headed to the Unreal Laboratory. This information was simply too explosive, he couldn’t help but take it seriously!

Hurrying to the entrance of the laboratory, Professor Yamamoto was already waiting outside as if anticipating Zhang Yuan’s arrival.

“Self-awareness is likely a kind of algorithm that relies on memory! A quantum algorithm!” Yamamoto was straightforward without mincing words, he revealed the biggest research finding to date and then led Zhang Yuan to see the latest research progress.

“Algorithm?” Zhang Yuan asked in confusion.

“Yes, very likely!” Yamamoto’s old face was flushed with excitement.

The philosophical problems that puzzled countless predecessors had inexplicably transformed into a scientific question that could be solved. The thought that this once unimaginable big mountain might be conquered was thrilling to the point of shaking with excitement.