Deep Space Wandering Fleet
Chapter 387 - 385: The Journey... Continues!

Chapter 387: Chapter 385: The Journey... Continues!

However, compared to the Love Chip and the Concentration Chip, the brain-assisting Memory Chip that humans were currently researching was many times more difficult. It involved critical structures in the brain—Memory!

This idea itself was very good, storing memory within a chip, enhancing Memory... It was just that the difficulty was significant, and they had always been grasping at straws.

Professor Luo went on stage and displayed a holographic image of a human brain on the screen.

He explained, "The reason for developing this technology is because the speed at which people remember information and the duration it is retained are both of low quality. In comparison, it’s far inferior to that of the Badit people, who are also intelligent beings."

"Here, quality refers to the completeness and durability of the information. Although the Badit people also forget most trivial matters, they can easily recall major events that occurred two to three thousand years ago, right down to a specific day, a specific year... This kind of super memory is possessed by only a small portion of the human population."

"We must admit that a significant portion of a person’s life is taken up by learning, and in fact, most of these high learning costs are due to memory, with relatively less attributed to understanding."

"If the effect of never forgetting could be maintained long term, then we could quickly finish reading a book, leaving only understanding and analysis, as well as absorbing the book’s content. This would save a great deal of time for learning. Unseen, everyone would become smarter, learning more content within their limited lifetimes."

But the difficulty lay in the fact that memory was stored dispersedly in the brain, and there was no main bus to access all memories.

Directly inscribing memory into neurons involved chemical changes that were too complex, and as of now, it was impossible to achieve.

Thus, biologists simply wanted to mimic the brain structure of the Badit people by creating another memory area in the brain, which is the role the Memory Chip could play.

"Completely remodeling the human brain is too complicated, but adding just one more region seems to be a bit simpler. The Badit people have a special memory organ called the auxiliary brain, which holds certain reference values for us."

"The first technical difficulty is, how can we get our human brains to recognize the data in the chips? This question is certainly a research focus, and with the vigorous development of neurological biological chips, as well as some breakthroughs in deciphering memory codes, we have already achieved a laboratory prototype."

The professor took out a small chip, which as a biological chip, was of course made of biological materials, only about the size of a fingernail.

It looked like a piece of fabric one millimeter thick, possessing a certain flexibility, but in reality, it was filled with densely packed neural network structures, a type of biological storage device.

A crowd of reporters let out small exclamations at the chip, raising their cameras for a flurry of snapshots.

"Another issue is the limitations of Self-awareness..."

From experiments with mice, it can be seen that if you arbitrarily match one mouse’s Self-awareness with another mouse’s memory, it will lead to incompatibility issues causing the Self-awareness to collapse, and then the mouse goes into a vegetative state.

"...that is, Self-awareness can only load memories that belong to itself."

"So, according to this principle, if we arbitrarily inject memory into these chips, allowing people to acquire a vast amount of knowledge without needing to learn, that is not yet possible..."

The biologist on stage explained this way, "Unless we can achieve a major breakthrough at the Self-awareness algorithm level. Or rather, we have to risk death to arbitrarily gain a vast amount of memory... In the biological lab, there are also very few mice that can carry extra memories, what specific patterns there are, we are still unable to determine for now."

Zhang Yuan gently shook his head, "This kind of random addition of memories is definitely prohibited, and the safety factor is also hard to control. There is still much about the human brain that remains mysterious..."

But having said that, if the brain itself inputs memory into a blank chip and then reads the memory, that would not be a problem at all.

"With the installation of such a chip," he said, "it becomes isolated from the external environment, interacting only with the human brain. Once loaded, everyone’s Memory would substantially enhance, but to what extent, we have yet not tested."

Memory itself is a manifestation of intelligence.

Furthermore, on the other hand, if such Memory Chip technology truly emerged, the return of the Transcendents would no longer be an issue.

In the early stages of fetal brain development, generally 1-2 weeks after conception, before self-awareness forms, the Memory Chip would be connected to the nascent brain and then self-awareness would be imported. The Transcendents could then return to the real world.

Of course, everything was only in the preliminary stage... The subsequent work would still require the efforts of all scientific researchers.

After the biologist had finished introducing all the progress, a multitude of journalists began to noisily ask questions, such as the current research and development progress and safety issues—what if this thing suddenly malfunctioned in one’s head? Would a person die outright? Or perhaps lose a large part of their memory?

If such safety issues truly occurred, it would be completely unacceptable!

"Professor Luo, also, could this type of chip be hacked by hackers? Oh, right... It’s not a traditional silicon-based chip, but a type of neural network chip. Could you introduce the specific principles?"

Professor Luo was overwhelmed by the sheer number of journalists and didn’t know what to say. Specific principles? These journalists were utterly laymen; what was there to introduce? If he really had to explain in detail, it might take several months or even years!

As for the safety issues, what does ’preliminary stage’ mean? It’s precisely because these issues haven’t been thoroughly resolved that it’s called the preliminary stage.

In a certain area of Kunlun Mountain, there even lived a group of the Riley people. Their brain structure had certain similarities with humans. Having escaped their previous lives as slaves and living happily in the Virtual World, they had no choice but to offer their bodies for experiments as a trade-off.

But these messy dark aspects definitely shouldn’t be mentioned.

Professor Luo thought for a long while and could only explain in very simple language once again, yet the journalists were still not satisfied and insisted on setting a timeline, when it could be completed, etc. They were too concerned about this.

"Setting a timeline... That’s absolutely impossible. We don’t have a specific grasp, let’s strive for greater progress within fifty years... perhaps even a hundred years."

Finally, after the noisy question session had passed, Zhang Yuan took the stage and again summarized: "Due to the limited scientific progress we have achieved so far, and since it is unsafe to send electromagnetic waves near the Cosmic String, it would take more than a hundred years to send a spaceship back, which is very uneconomical. Hence, we shall cease communication with the headquarters for now."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Kunlun Mountain Fleet departed from Gliese 581 one hundred years ago. Over these hundred years, we have gradually gotten accustomed to life inside the spaceship, encountering two alien civilizations, one very powerful and the other quite weak.

"The unknown tomorrow is filled with trepidation, yet also full of anticipation."

"Who knows what we will encounter in the future? It is this unknown that whips us, constantly driving us further afield."

"We hope that we will keep our original aspirations and continue to be diligent, to forge a brilliance of our own in this starry sky!"

Snap, snap!

The applause thundered below.

After all the summaries were done, the crowd in the conference room gradually dispersed, and the Kunlun Mountain Fleet once again embarked on its own journey.