Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 621
The day before the next operation, Lu Xuanyu received a notice asking him to go to a meeting room in the medical center alone.

When Lu Xuanyu arrived, he saw Xiang Shan standing there.

"Mr. Xiang?" Lu Xuanyu was a little surprised, "Are you looking for me for something?"

While waiting for Lu Xuanyu, Xiang Shan swiped his hands in front of him, as if he was using AR smart glasses to handle some business.After Lu Xuanyu entered, he waved his right hand sharply to hide all the interfaces, and then looked at Lu Xuanyu.

After exchanging pleasantries, Xiang Shan asked, "Well, Lao Lu, I have a little problem recently."

As he said that, he took out a small stack of documents from his side: "These experimental reports show that when you are doing projects related to tactile feedback and motion signals recently, you have a record of long-term connection and operation of non-humanoid prostheses and sensory prostheses. ,Right?"

Lu Xuanyu took it and flipped through it twice: "That's right, there is such a thing."

"So...the record of 'volunteers showing discomfort' is not exaggerated, is it? Or is there any concealment?"

Lu Xuanyu looked at it, and found that the embarrassing incident of spewing out lunch because of manipulating the tactile prosthetic body was also recorded. He was a little embarrassed, and said: "This is recorded truthfully."

Xiang Shan sighed: "Actually... how should I put it, you can refuse. Really."

At this time, Lu Xuanyu heard the smell: "You mean, old Chen... Director Chen's behavior is not very good?"

"It can't be said that it is not good." Xiang Shan said: "I believe that Lao Chen is out of good intentions, and he really believes that, according to the records of animal experiments, theoretically these projects will not bring long-term, irreversible adverse effects. However, different scientists have different understandings of the world. The understanding of scientists can only be said to be closer to 'reality' than that of non-academics, and in the final analysis it is not reality..."

Lu Xuanyu said: "Wait a minute, can you make it simpler?"

"Let's just put it this way, when Yawgmoth performed the first genetic surgery to transform Homo sapiens into a benchmark human, he estimated that the surgery was 'not a big problem'." Xiang Shan said: "The result was to save his life. , I don’t know how many gray areas I have walked, and Nia Guti even bet her career on it. Scientists are not gods, and scientists also have deviations—even in their own professional fields.”

"Old Chen is also like this. Even if he believes that there is no risk of sustained damage based on animal experiments, the possibility of a problem cannot actually be ruled out."

Lu Xuanyu scratched his head: "Did you receive some small report or something..."

Xiang Shan shook his head: "During the internal meeting these days, Dr. Tao sorted out his report, and then pointed out some problems to me."

"This……"

Xiang Shan laughed angrily: "Lao Lu, I'm the one who worried about your safety. Why, you think I'm not loyal enough to Lao Chen?"

"This..." Lu Xuanyu was a little embarrassed: "Well, there is a little bit. These projects are all approved by me, and I think they are really meaningful... Or Lao Chen said that they are all meaningful."

"I don't deny it. But that's not the problem." Xiang Shan rubbed his forehead: "Human life is priceless, and all lives are equal. Scientists can't take the initiative to sacrifice a few to complete a 'meaningful and great cause'. "

Lu Xuanyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Wait a minute, is it just dizziness and nausea? What kind of sacrifice is this? People who practice martial arts can still bear this bit of hardship."

Xiang Shan took a deep look at Lu Xuanyu, and changed the topic: "You know what? Lao Chen started out as a visual processing player, so when we first developed the prosthetic eye, we asked him to come up with ideas first. But his idea It was also the first one to be killed. Why? He thought that he could directly collect the image data generated by the computer from the ccd, and pour it into the middle and high-level cortex together."

"If you do this, you can skip a series of problems such as simulation and positioning, and you can also bypass the bandwidth limitation of the artificial optic nerve, and directly achieve superhuman vision. And theoretically, this is also feasible. Human visual processing The mechanism has strong plasticity. Putting on a person "glasses that flip the field of view up and down", the person will not get used to it a few days ago, but after a few days, he will feel as if the glasses do not exist, and what he sees is the normal world .”

"However, we have been honestly making artificial retinas and artificial optic nerves so far."

Lu Xuanyu couldn't help asking: "Why?"

"If, if, your field of vision is filled with various indescribable lights and shadows for a long time...their shapes and colors are completely different from the objects you have seen before, and you can't connect them with the tactile and olfactory signals that you came into contact with at the same time Get up. What do you think you'll do if you stay in this state for a few days?"

Lu Xuanyu shook his head: "I don't know."

Xiang Shan spread his hands: "I don't know either. But Dr. Tao told him at the time, 'If epilepsy is triggered, then I have no position to defend you before the ethics committee'."

"Humans are the only creatures with all advanced thinking activities. From this point of view, humans are indeed special creatures. This kind of project involves human perception and spirit, and it is impossible to get a full picture from the results of animal experiments."

"And we didn't completely reject his idea. At least we can still continue to accumulate data in monkeys. The same is true for artificial polychromatic vision. We are only against adult human volunteers at this stage for testing such projects. "

"I want to emphasize again that Lao Chen really does not have any malice towards you. His inferences from the results of animal experiments are indeed logical. We can indeed believe that his experiments will not produce any harm in most cases. Long-term adverse effects. But he still has the possibility of miscalculation. On the basis of understanding this, you can selectively refuse some of his requests."

Lu Xuanyu seemed to know Xiang Shan again.He looked at Xiang Shan and said, "Mr. Xiang, that... I used to think that you were the radical of the radicals... the genetic modification of the whole people, the prosthetic human body..."

"I take that as a compliment."

"But it turns out that you also have a conservative side..."

Xiang Shan grinned down: "That's why my company is so big. We can't make a single mistake until we win a phased victory."

With that said, Xiang Shan patted Lu Xuanyu's shoulder: "Get ready for the surgery."

This is just a small episode.The next day Lu Xuanyu entered the operating room again.

(End of this chapter)