Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 43 Excuse me, are you human?

in the hall.

Eddie frowned and looked at the boss on the projection screen in silence.

"What's wrong?" A teammate nearby saw this and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"I can't really say what's wrong, but..."

Eddie said in a deep voice: "I always feel that the boss is weird, but he can answer all our questions."

Seeing that Eddie had a hard time telling whether the boss was real or fake, the brain soaked in the glass petri dish suddenly said something inexplicably.

"Hey man, your name is Collins, right?"

"how?"

On the projection screen.

Collins, the eldest, heard the brain voice and responded, "Who are you?"

"Don't worry about who I am."

The brain emphasized: "Anyway, I have a way to determine whether you are a real person. Then, can you cooperate with me?"

Collins hesitated for a few seconds and then said, "Okay, what do you want me to do?"

"Don't be impatient." The brain commanded: "First, find a way to get a piece of paper and a pen."

"That's easy." Collins spread his palms upward.

The next second, a pen and a piece of white paper appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Holding a pen and paper, he asked, "What next?"

The brain replied, "Listen carefully: I will tell you a series of numbers, and then I will ask you to write them down on a piece of paper. Isn't that easy?"

Collins seemed a little impatient.

But in the end he nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead and report it. I'm ready."

"Then listen." The brain said casually: "21345, 79823, 11612, 33987, did you write it down?"

"I've got it." Collins stopped what he was doing and responded.

——The brain doesn’t speak very fast, so Collins only listened once and wrote down all 20 digits on paper.

"Well."

Seeing that Collins had finished writing, his brain instructed again: "Please memorize this series of numbers!"

"Ah?" Collins showed a puzzled expression and asked his brain for confirmation: "Memorize all of them?"

"Memorize them all!"

The brain responded: "Can you do it? As long as you can memorize it, I can tell whether you are a person or data."

Ah this
Seeing this, the members of the five-member team all looked at each other at the same time.

——They can’t figure out what’s going on in their brains.

But I still don't understand.

Since the Brain repeatedly emphasized that he could tell whether Collins was a real person or not, the five-member team resisted the urge to interrupt the Brain.

On the projection screen.

Collins, who was in the virtual world, nodded and said reluctantly, "Okay, I'll try my best, but I can't guarantee that I can remember all the numbers!"

"It's okay," the brain comforted, "You just need to try your best to remember."

After saying this, the entire hall fell into silence.

Only the eldest brother, Collins, was left, muttering to himself on the projection screen - it seemed that he was really trying to memorize the numbers.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Finally, the eldest Collins stopped remembering.

He stood up and said, "I have written down the 20 digits. Let me read them out again: 21345, 79823, 11621, 33987. How about that? Are they all correct?"

After saying that, he did not forget to look at the note on the table to verify whether it was correct or not. But the brain said with a hint of cunning in his tone: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you can remember all the numbers or not."

“It’s the process by which you remember the numbers that’s important.”

As he said that, his mind suddenly turned to Eddie from the 5-man team and said, "Um, I remember your name is Eddie, right?"

Eddie didn't say anything, but just looked at the brain and responded with his eyes.

The brain continued, "I'm just asking: Do you usually have a good relationship with your boss Collins? Do you spend a lot of time together?"

"We spend quite a lot of time together, I guess." Eddie answered truthfully, "Mainly when we're on missions, we're all together. But when we're back at the space station, we don't get together very often."

"Well, let me ask you." The brain asked, "When your boss is thinking, does he have any subconscious movements, such as resting his chin, spinning a pen, touching his nose, or stroking his hair?"

"It really does."

Eddie had guessed what the brain was doing.

He showed an expression of sudden enlightenment and said, "When our boss is thinking, he likes to subconsciously cover his mouth with his hands, and he is not even aware of what he is doing. Even if he is about to get a rash, he will still keep his hands near his mouth."

"Then the answer is obvious." The brain asked knowingly, "Did you see Collins covering his mouth just now?"

"Your method is really amazing!" Eddie exclaimed: "A person's actions performed subconsciously do not exist in his memory."

"And if something doesn't exist in memory, the computer naturally can't simulate it."

"So." Eddie looked at the boss Collins on the projection screen and said, "Boss, you have a problem!"

"Hey, brother."

Boss Collins was anxious: "Isn't your judgment a bit too arbitrary? I do like to cover my mouth when I think, but I don't do this every time. I just happened not to cover my mouth just now, and then you concluded that I am not myself. Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

"Indeed." The brain took over the conversation and said, "It would be too arbitrary to conclude that you are not a real person just based on this point."

"So I also prepared other testing methods."

At this point, my brain suddenly stopped talking.

His habit of keeping people in suspense started to show up again.

Seeing that the brain was silent, Eddie hurriedly asked, "Is there any other way?"

Seeing someone asking questions, the brain just spoke: "It's very simple. Just ask your boss some very subjective questions."

"If he is not a real person, he will not be able to answer this question."

"As for what is meant by 'very subjective question'," the brain explained, "I will demonstrate it to you next."

After saying that, the brain suddenly asked Collins for no reason: "Collins, are you human?"

"Nonsense, of course." Collins said without hesitation.

The brain repeated again: "Excuse me, are you human?"

"I said, I am, you are sick, right?" Collins repeated.

The brain asked again: "Excuse me, are you human?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Collins was obviously a little impatient.

But the brain still tirelessly asks: "Excuse me, are you human?"

"Fuck!" Finally, Collins couldn't hold it anymore.

He yelled angrily, "Are you annoying? This isn't even a test, stop being crazy!"

After that, the brain asked the question "Are you human?" several times in a row.

Collins remained silent throughout.

This is the end of the test.

The brain turned to Eddie in the five-man team and said, "Can you see any problem?"

"There is a problem." Eddie said without thinking: "It's a big problem!"

(End of this chapter)