Chapter 324: Pseudo-Eternal Life

After Zhang Lei returned to the treatment cabin, Qi Yiming ordered the treatment cabin to be packed and sent to the transport ship, and sent to the research institute on the Hope as quickly as possible, where more sophisticated equipment and more authoritative experts will focus on studying the things transported there.

Qi Yiming also lost interest in Zhang Lei after she was transported away.

After all, apart from the two things that had been discovered, there was nothing else in the ruins that could attract Qi Yiming's attention.

Sun Chao also returned to the Hope with the transport ship, and he left the subsequent research work on the ruins to a relatively young researcher.

Qi Yiming returned to the industrial ship above the fifth planet and inspected the work absent-mindedly for a few days. In the end, he couldn't resist his curiosity. After delivering two battleships to the escort fleet again, he drove a single-person shuttle back to the Hope.

After Zhang Lei was transported back to the Hope, the expert team temporarily formed by the Academy of Sciences immediately devoted themselves to her research.

In particular, several biomedical experts who were going to promote Fang Min's body transformation experiment paused the experiment that was about to enter the implementation stage, and surrounded Zhang Lei like devout believers, carefully studying the connection methods of the data interfaces.

In the end, they desperately discovered that these data interfaces seemed to be born on Zhang Lei, and there was no trace of artificial installation at all.

On this day, Sun Chao led the expert group to hold a small results exchange meeting.

At the meeting, everyone looked bitter and resentful, and it was obvious that the research work was not going smoothly.

Especially the research work on the button-shaped object.

The researchers now only know that this thing is indispensable for consciousness transfer, but what is the working principle of this thing, how does it pull Zhang Lei's digitized consciousness out of the neuron brain, and how does it stuff this data into a brand new body.

And they also clearly know that Zhang Lei's DNA information is not recorded in the treatment cabin, and Zhang Lei herself is even less likely to remember such complex information.

So what is the basis for the treatment cabin to create a new body for Zhang Lei? If the target body of the transferred digitized consciousness has nothing to do with the person with digitized thinking, can this transfer still be successful?

Qi Yiming participated in this small seminar throughout, and of course he also accumulated many questions.

What Qi Yiming was most concerned about was that if this technology was successfully researched, would it mean that humans had achieved the long-cherished immortality?

After the meeting, he humbly asked Dean Sun Chao for advice.

Seeing that Qi Yiming was the leader of the New Federation, Sun Chao patiently explained the reason to him.

Human consciousness is digitized, and then the digitized consciousness is transferred to a new body. To some extent, it has achieved the long-cherished immortality of humans, but this immortality is a false proposition.

It is obvious that the new body needs to be cloned using DNA, but even if DNA is protected with the most precision, after repeated cloning, the double helix structure of DNA will slowly disintegrate until it cannot be used. At this time, the person has reached the end of his life.

Qi Yiming also asked about Zhang Lei's situation, because he knew very well that Zhang Lei's DNA information was not recorded at all, so how was she put into this new body?

This question is critical and involves a huge ethical issue.

If the digitized consciousness can be easily stuffed into a new body that has nothing to do with the person being transferred, then this matter is very terrible.

A new business will definitely appear in human society, the sale of DNA information.

Some excellent DNA information will be put on the booth of the cloning center like a commodity and sold publicly, which will eventually lead to the serious homogenization of human DNA.

Until one day, humans will go extinct because of the serious homogenization of DNA information.

However, Sun Chao told Qi Yiming that Zhang Lei was an extreme case and was not worth studying, and he also believed that the transfer of digitized consciousness would never be the kind that could be carried out as long as there was a body.

"If you want to conduct further research, you can only wait for Zhang Lei to come out of the medical cabin." Sun Chao said slowly after solving some doubts for Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming nodded: "Has Zhang Lei not seen the face of her new body yet?"

"No, no one thought of letting her look in the mirror at that time, and she herself was immersed in the great surprise of regaining her body and forgot about it."

A few days later, Zhang Lei finally walked out of the medical cabin.

After walking out of the medical cabin, Zhang Lei excitedly rushed to everyone and hugged everyone one by one.

She had not felt this kind of real touch for hundreds of years.

When she calmed down, the researchers brought a mirror and asked her to compare this new body with her previous body to see if there was anything different.

Zhang Lei observed very carefully, and it was not difficult to see from her expression that there was obviously nothing abnormal about Zhang Lei's new body.

Not only that, some scars that appeared on her body that she had no time to deal with due to busy work disappeared.

Her skin is now so tender that you can pinch water out of it.

If Sun Chao and others did not know clearly that Zhang Lei's DNA information could not be preserved, they would never believe that the function of the treatment cabin that helped Zhang Lei reshape her body was so powerful.

Relying solely on digitized consciousness, a perfect body can be cloned for the person who is about to undergo consciousness transfer.

After talking with Zhang Lei, Qi Yiming knew that it would take more than a day or two to crack this technology. As the leader of the new federation, he could not focus all his energy on this matter.

So after another day of experiments at the Academy of Sciences, Qi Yiming returned to his office to consider the feasibility of the neuron battleship.

It is obvious that humans cannot achieve the digitization of thinking in a short period of time, and then put the digitized thinking back into the human body.

Without the support of this technology, Qi Yiming's neuron fleet is simply rootless duckweed.

Qi Yiming could not build a neuron battleship and then let a person's thinking be digitized. Before the process cannot be reversed, this approach is killing people.

After thinking again and again, Qi Yiming adjusted the priority of building a neuron battleship to the lowest.

He decided that Qi Yiming would not mention anything about the neuron battleship before he came up with a fully mature mind digitization and then reversed the process.

Without the neuron battleship, this killer weapon, humans can only return to the original path.

Improve the automation level of warships as much as possible to reduce the number of people serving on each warship, so that more people can drive the continuously produced interstellar battleships.