Paranormal incident investigation notes

The sky survey and observation system and the asteroid early warning system are composed of more than a dozen telescopes built on the earth and in space. These telescopes scan the entire sky all the time. Once a new asteroid is discovered that has not been discovered before, its orbit, speed, mass and other data will be measured and then recorded in the asteroid library.

And if there is a possibility that the orbit of this asteroid intersects with the earth, even if it is only one in a thousand or one in ten thousand, it will immediately attract the great attention of many scientific researchers. Follow-up observation resources will be invested immediately on a large scale until the possibility is completely confirmed or completely ruled out.

Of course, there are situations that cannot always be ruled out or confirmed. In this case, observations will continue forever.

But in either case, the asteroid will cause great concern. Moreover, all its information is public. Lu Ming did not discover the existence of such an asteroid.

Judging from this logic, this prediction seems to be false.

But, it’s still the same sentence.

When it comes to the life and death of human civilization, no one dares to take it lightly.

Especially when it involves obvious supernatural events and secret organizations with supernatural powers that can predict the future, this matter cannot be taken lightly.

He Wei said while thinking: "I also think this prophecy is false. The reason is very simple. You see, what the doomsday organization originally claimed was that because the doomsday is coming, only by entering the ark can we escape the doomsday. Those who are selected It was because they believed this that they were willing to cooperate with them in completing the 'fake death escape' plan and then put on that helmet.

As a result, now, the fake death is fake, it is actually real death. The so-called teleportation and the ark are all things that have no shadow. Since the results are false, how could the causes be true? "

From a logical point of view, this inference has a certain degree of credibility. After all, facts have proven that the so-called promises of the doomsday organization are simply nonsense, and the reasons supporting all of this are of course highly likely to be false.

After Lu Ming thought for a long time, he shook his head.

"There is no correlation between the two. The doomsday organization may have deceived those chosen, but the doomsday prophecies may be true."

Lu Qingliang said: "The doomsday organization killed those people and did not absorb them into the organization at all. This can also prove from the side that the doomsday organization does not need their professional knowledge and abilities at all. If there is really a doomsday, They should need it.”

There is a contradiction between the two.

Lu Ming said: "I'm wondering, could that helmet be some kind of... um, consciousness uploading device? Could it be that what the doomsday organization needs is just their consciousness, not themselves?"

Um?

Zhang Dingshan, Lu Qingliang, and He Wei all focused their attention on Lu Ming.

Lu Ming thought hard, but for a moment he shook his head: "No, that's not right, the so-called soul, the so-called consciousness, do not exist at all. There is no such thing as 'consciousness uploading'."

Human beings have no soul at all, no so-called self, and no consciousness. This is basically certain as the research on the human brain becomes more and more in-depth.

The so-called self and the so-called consciousness are actually just an illusion formed by the interaction of many brain neurons. There is no so-called soul or self that exists alone beyond the material world.

Slice a person's head and isolate every cell structure for a thorough examination. Can you find a certain cell or part that is the so-called carrier of the soul?

It's obviously impossible.

The so-called uploading a person's soul, self, consciousness and other things into a certain container so that it can exist alone is simply nonsense and impossible to achieve.

In this case, how to talk about consciousness uploading?

Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "It is impossible to upload consciousness, but it may not be impossible to upload data."

Lu Ming was shocked and suddenly thought of something.

"Yes, that's right, it's possible to upload data!"

"data?"

He Wei was a little confused.

"Yes, data." Lu Ming took a deep breath: "I suspect this is possible. Perhaps, that helmet is a device that can record all the neurons and all the grooves in the cerebral cortex inside the human brain. The status of all brain structures such as gyrus, hippocampus, amygdala, brainstem, cerebrum, and cerebellum.

Then, it was sent back to the so-called Ark Base, where people from the Doomsday Organization used the data as a blueprint on a clone to reconstruct it in the clone's brain.

In this way, the so-called "soul transfer" and "consciousness transfer" effects are achieved in a certain sense.

However, because the brain of this clone is completely modeled after the brains of those selected, theoretically speaking, this clone should also possess the knowledge and abilities of those selected. Including learning ability, spatial perception, logical reasoning ability, etc.

Therefore, when the Doomsday Organization kills those chosen ones, it is possible that they do not need their abilities. Rather, the doomsday organization only needs their abilities, not their people.

All the chosen ones were deceived by the doomsday organization. Their death is also a real death, not a fake death. "

He Wei gasped.

This explanation, at the current stage, is the most consistent with the current logical system.

After all, doomsday organizations need the abilities of those high-level intellectuals, which are the basis for all subsequent reasoning. The subsequent development of things, in turn, proved its correctness. As a result, now, those high-level intellectuals are being killed. There are too many contradictions in this.

However, after incorporating the explanation proposed by Lu Ming at this moment, the entire logic becomes self-consistent and consistent with reality. There is a reasonable explanation for why there is a helmet and why Wen Yuhe died.

"Then, the person after cloning...is still the original person?"

For example, is the clone constructed based on Wen Yuhe's brain data still considered Wen Yuhe?

"There is no 'person' in the absolute sense, including you and me. A person cannot be accurately defined. Just like, you point at a certain polymer composed of billions of molecules, atoms, ions, etc. He said, "You are Lu Qingliang, you can't be like this."

Because the human body is constantly renewing. Studies have shown that, with the exception of a few cells, most of the cells that make up the human body are completely renewed every once in a while. That is to say, the substances that make up the human body are fundamentally different in different time periods.

So, which you is you? "

He Wei was a little confused, as if she had never thought about this issue before. Lu Qingliang shook unnaturally and felt quite uncomfortable.

"My opinion is that human beings are a description of a certain continuous state, and do not refer to some specific substances. From this point of view, Wen Yuhe is dead, a clone constructed based on Wen Yuhe's head Man lives. The latter is not the same as the former."

He Wei nodded slowly: "I probably understand. It's like copying a program?"

"right."

Lu Ming nodded: "It's like copying a program from one computer to another. People's so-called consciousness, or more accurately, brain data, is this program. This program can be run The computer is the human body.”

"Technically, can it be done?"

"At this stage, we humans definitely don't have this technology. But in theory, it is possible. And..."

Lu Ming paused and looked at his teammates: "Among all the scientific categories developed in the human world, do you know which one has been suppressed the most?"

"Oh? Why suppress it? Which one is it?"

"Anthropology among Biological Categories."

He Wei was startled, then reacted, and couldn't help but nodded silently.

This is indeed the case.

For all other research projects, researchers in related categories can study them without any scruples. But only in anthropology, its research is subject to many limitations.

For example, cloning technology. Many years ago, humans have been able to clone cattle and sheep, but until now, there has been no progress in cloning human technology.

Is it because the technological strength cannot be achieved?

no.

The real reason is that this challenges human ethics and moral systems. Therefore, this kind of research was prohibited and artificially suppressed.

The years when human body science made the most rapid progress happened to be those years when the world was at war. Because in those years, there were no moral and ethical constraints. Those beings that can no longer be called humans, but can only be called demons, can directly conduct human experiments without restraint.

"Scholars in our human world are bound by moral ethics and cannot conduct human experiments. However, I don't think people from the doomsday organization have such scruples."

Lu Ming slowly shook his head: "Maybe this so-called 'consciousness data transfer' technology is actually not difficult at all? Maybe as long as there are enough samples and enough experimental subjects for them to carry out human experiments, even if the overall Technology is not more prominent than in the human world, how can they also master this technology?”

Lu Qingliang looked serious.

This possibility does exist. And the possibility is not low.

However, he still had some doubts.

"Why do those people die?" He thought and said: "Since the doomsday organization only needs the knowledge and abilities of these people, then upload the consciousness data as soon as it is uploaded. Why do you want to kill them after uploading? Also, why do the doomsday organizations let them What gods and sons of gods do those people believe in?”

"I have no idea."

Lu Ming said: "Is it possible to keep it secret? Or some kind of side effect? ​​However, don't worry about these things for the time being. Taken together, at the current stage, there is still a certain possibility that the doomsday prophecy is true. Based on these current clues, we There’s no denying it.”

Zhang Dingshan pondered and said slowly: "We may be able to find some clues from Wen Yuhe's body."

After Wen Yuhe's body was brought back, it was immediately frozen. His head was still as it was when he died.

Although it has been broken and the brain matter has flowed out, most of it still maintains its general structure. Maybe you can find something from this.

If it can be confirmed that Wen Yuhe has indeed gone through a process similar to "brain data uploading", then "the doomsday organization needs the knowledge and abilities of these high-level intellectuals" can be completely proven. And this can undoubtedly confirm the authenticity of the "doomsday prophecy".

Lu Qingliang thought for a moment and said, "I know several teams that are researching brain-computer interfaces. I'll ask them to help."

The so-called brain-computer interface is to imagine opening a data interface on the head and then connecting it directly to the computer. The brain-computer interface completes the data interaction between the human brain and the computer. In this way, some envisioned technologies such as virtual reality and consciousness manipulation can be truly realized.

Of course, this technology has not yet appeared at this stage, but it is obvious that the so-called "consciousness data upload" is most consistent with the research field of brain-computer interface.

"Okay, Qingliang, please contact us. Lu Ming, you and Qingliang are responsible for this matter. He Wei, you and I will investigate and see how many people have been used by the doomsday organization through this kind of method in the past few years. way to kill.”

Lu Ming nodded slowly and agreed with Zhang Dingshan's arrangement.

During this period, Operation Team 2 only screened people suspected of being killed by the doomsday organization within the past year.

Now, Zhang Dingshan wants to screen out all the people suspected of being killed by the doomsday organization in all time periods in the past, and then analyze their knowledge and professional background, and use this to analyze the true intentions of the doomsday organization.

After all, the doomsday organization's choice of the goal of "consciousness data uploading" is definitely not blind, and there must be some tendency. And their true purpose can be glimpsed through this tendency.

Through these data, it may be possible to confirm or falsify the authenticity of doomsday predictions to some extent.

After the discussion was unanimous, the four people immediately dispersed and started taking action.

Lu Qingliang first contacted the teams researching brain-computer interfaces and mobilized them to the laboratory under the Planetary Security Bureau.

Lu Ming escorted Wen Yuhe's body to the laboratory.

"Professor Dong, Professor Wang, hello, hello. I am Lu Ming from the Ministry of Public Security."

"Chief Lu, hello."

After chatting for a moment, Lu Ming went directly to work.

"You are all experts in brain science. I invite you here this time mainly because there are some things that require your help. Well, first of all, I have a question for you. If you want to thoroughly scan the brain structure and record every nerve Yuan, the data of each cerebral cortical sulcus, in order to achieve a complete digitization of the brain structure and achieve the goal of completely reproducing its brain structure on another replica, what kind of technology is needed?"

Lu Ming's question surprised more than a dozen experts present.

This question seems to them to be a bit of a child's play and a bit whimsical. But when they thought about the identity of the person in front of them, the experts corrected their attitude and thought about this issue seriously.