Chapter 133 The Answer of 42
“Professor Guan, I still have one more question.”
Fang Ze raised his hand again:
“You just said that this kind of [consciousness upload] is fatal and one-time—no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it will lead to the death of the volunteer donor… what exactly is going on here?”
The defining feature of digitization was that it could be backed up and copied. So why, in this project, where it was supposedly just a transfer of consciousness and memory data, would it immediately cause the volunteer’s brain to die?
Yan Chonghan gave Fang Ze an approving look, then inexplicably glanced at Jiang Ran before continuing:
“Fang Ze, your focus is very meticulous. When most people hear the words [consciousness upload], what they imagine is something like what appears in science fiction films or animated series…”
“If it could really be like that, of course that would be ideal. But to be honest, that kind of design is still too science fiction—it’s simply unrealistic. A bulky helmet, separated by hair and the skull…”
“At present, even the most advanced brain–computer interfaces in the world still require drilling a hole into the skull and implanting more than 3,000 flexible electrodes into the neural regions of the brain. Only then can the brain’s consciousness control external machinery.”
“Our technology at Dartmouth is certainly more advanced than brain–computer interfaces… but at the same time… far more dangerous.”