Southern Cross. Fifty ters underground.
This once-abandoned laboratory has been reactivated by the Academy, becoming a significant stronghold for the Academy chanical Faction after extensive renovations.
Currently, more than a dozen researchers in lab coats are busy in front of a set of precise instrunts within the laboratory. At the center of their workspace stands a sealed glass instrunt over five ters in diater, containing a bionic human entirely made of tal, filled with nurous precision bionic components, but its outer skeletal muscle fibers have yet to be coated with synthetic skin.
A Doctor, who had not appeared for a long ti, has arrived at this secret base.
His expression shows a mix of tension and excitent as he stares intently at the display screen, observing various scan data.
For a long ti.
A Doctor took a deep breath, moved to the center of the console, and said sternly, "Prepare for consciousness upload!"
Following his command, the entire laboratory quickly busied itself, with nurous technicians ready at their respective operation instrunts, as intricate chanical arms stretched out, first opening a completely sealed box imrsed in a strange liquid, and then carefully extracting an intact human brain from it.
Next, silver-white needle tubes were inserted into the brain, accompanied by bioelectrical stimulation, causing the brain to imdiately produce so slight thought waves.
"Prepare for consciousness upload."
"Open brain structure."
"Implant artificial brain."
Within the over five-ter diater sealed glass instrunt, three intricate chanical arms extended, gently opened the central bionic human's head, revealing the ultra-alloy skull opened, exposing an internal cavity filled with dense sensors, as a bionic brain made entirely of unknown crystalline material was extracted by the chanical arms and carefully placed inside the bionic human's head.
"Consciousness upload begins!"
As a progress bar appeared on the instrunt, everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, their eyes fixed on the instrunt in front of them.
The Academy chanical Faction started researching bionic humans very early on; their mastery of bionics technology is ahead of the Wasteland by hundreds of years. Early bionic humans controlled by artificial intelligence can already act like ordinary people, but what they pursue is not just creating a smart robot; it's about completely replacing the human body with bionics technology.
This leads to a very advanced field known as 'consciousness upload.'
The Academy chanical Faction devoted most of their manpower and resources to overcoming this hurdle. They achieved so results twenty years ago, but the ultimate outco was unsatisfactory. It wasn't until A Doctor cleared the Academy's internal issues and consolidated its resources that they made so key breakthroughs in this field.
They discovered a special silicon crystal synthetic material and created the first truly aningful bionic brain.
Directly uploading consciousness onto a chip is quite unrealistic, as the intricate complex structure of the human brain cannot be replaced by a small chip, and ordinary artificial brains also don't work, because human consciousness quickly disappears after upload, soon completely assimilated into part of an artificial intelligence.
From a mystical standpoint, this ans the soul disappears after consciousness upload, leaving only a basic 'human' intelligent program within the artificial brain, lacking the ability to think.
You could understand it as becoming an intelligent bionic human possessing pre-death behavioral habits.
They would perform tasks based on previous habits, maintaining pre-death actions, but without thinking, acting only according to the instinctively generated intelligent action instinct left in the brain's mories.
This is not what the chanical Faction wants.
They seek not a bionic human but further advancent to a synthetic human, using bionics to synthesize bodies while retaining human wisdom and thought.
The progress bar began to slowly increase.
A Doctor fixed his eyes on the thought waves in the display screen, realizing this consciousness upload experint opportunity was exceptionally valuable because Leon ranked among the few high-tier bionic humans in this world, and his brain was inherently more adaptable to bionics technology than others.
Leon had died less than 24 hours ago, making him the most likely successful experint material currently available.
Thoughts are the key to consciousness upload.
The human brain is essentially a carrier for consciousness, and the Academy chanical Faction could extract mories from the brain early on, even reading so stored mory images from the brain using instrunts. But mory is not the key to creating a synthetic human; thought is the fundantal basis of synthetic human existence.
Without preserving human thought, they are essentially using human brains as chips to create machines.
Of course.
This is also a developntal approach.
Because the oldest version of the STC Modular System that Su Ziyu acquired, also the most advanced and realistic version, had its STC Modular System matrix created using a human brain as the core computing unit. It was the top advanced technology of the Ancient Lost Empire, with the central core components of the STC matrix being complete human brain components, the most important construct of the whole matrix.
Of course, this technology eventually beca lost.
Using human brains as tools to build the STC matrix necessitates involving Spiritual Energy Domains, and only during the Ancient Lost Empire's most flourishing period did they possess the ability to use human brains for creating the STC Modular System.
Su Ziyu later acquired technology employing artificial intelligence as a substitute.
Progress bar inching to completion.
Just as Leon's brain uploads the last bit of consciousness, the thought wave signal on the display screen abruptly interrupts.
A Doctor stood up almost instantly.
He stared nervously at the instrunt in front of him, his face flushed red, expression extrely complex, his eyes locked onto the sealed glass instrunt ahead.
One minute, two minutes.
The entire laboratory was deathly silent, everyone holding their breath, as if even a pin drop would be heard clearly.
"Did it fail?..." soone murmured.
But at that mont, the eyelids of the cyborg inside the glass instrunt trembled, followed by the re-ergence of active thought waves, exceptionally intense as if struggling before death. The thoughts surged dozens of tis in an instant, and then the cyborg inside the instrunt opened his eyes. His chanical eyes, emitting a faint glow, showed no emotion, but the superfine bionic muscles of his face ford a puzzled expression.
Leon looked down at his alloy arm, flexed his tal fingers, and murmured, "Am I still alive?..."
It succeeded!
In an instant, the entire laboratory erupted in excitent, with many staff mbers shedding tears of joy, for it represented their entry into a new era, the era of a synthetic human.
"You are still alive." Dr. A stood up nervously, looking at Leon in front of him, speaking in a deep voice, "When we found you, your brain was still intact."
"So we brought you back."
"We uploaded your consciousness, and now you are truly a synthetic human."
"How do you feel now?"
Upon hearing this, Leon fell silent, closing his eyes as if recalling sothing, but his expression gradually showed a trace of pain, causing many to beco tense.
"I..." Leon moved his new body, as if feeling sothing, murmuring, "I don't know..."
"I seem to have forgotten many things."
"I only rember so scenes of previous battles..."
mory loss?
This revelation left many with expressions of astonishnt and disappointnt. A complete consciousness upload should replicate an entire life's experiences into the artificial brain, including those forgotten mories buried deep.
A complete cyborg is almost comparable to a supercomputer, capable of easily retrieving all mories stored deep within the brain.
However, Leon's current state was not good.
He seed to have lost a large portion of his mory, although he still retained pre-life cognitive awareness, the missing mories left his current behavior in a state of confusion.
"Calm down first." Dr. A said nervously, "At least you're alive now."
"Aren't you?"
Upon hearing his words, Leon paused, then smiled, a rather poor smile, as his facial superfine muscles squeezed out a bitter grin, then said, "I suppose so."
"But could you spray a layer of artificial skin on first?"
"In my current state."
"Honestly, it's very uncomfortable."
Leon's words brought a smile back to Dr. A's face, because Leon's current thinking and desires undoubtedly showed that their consciousness upload experint was successful, at least largely successful.
This was normal human thinking.
Having needs, desires, emotions, and preferences.
Although the physical desires of a synthetic human will eventually diminish with chanical evolution, synthetic humans are not emotionless robots; in fact, their spiritual needs will beco more intense.
"No problem." Dr. A said hastily, "We will now apply the bionic skin for you."
"What skin tone do you prefer?"
"Do you have any requirents regarding appearance? We can accommodate all!"
Upon hearing this, Leon displayed a thoughtful expression, looked at his lower body, hesitated for a mont, and then said, "I think you should attach that first."
The laboratory returned to silence.
Dr. A's expression was sowhat surprised, as a pure researcher, he hadn't expected Leon to care so much about "that." Even in Leon's expression, he saw a trace of unobvious anger, so he quickly said, "That was our oversight."
"The tiline was too tight."
"Originally, this body was gender-neutral; specific gender traits are custom-modified after consciousness upload."
"We can install it for you imdiately."
"The latest bionic attachnts can already transmit most limb sensations, with sensor efficiency reaching about 75% of human tactile perception."
"What model do you want?"
"We can arrange it here."
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