Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 554 167. More Like a Dog
"This thing is really useless."

Sitting in the house he hadn't returned to for a long time, Carl looked at the box in front of him and recalled what Arasakase Nobuyuki said.

'Relic can convert the data in the human nervous system into digital imprints and store them as consciousness on the biochip inside. If you want to try, Carl, I can help you convert a copy of your nervous system data and store it in. However, I remember that this thing is still in the testing stage during the experiment, so if you want to use it, you may have to adjust it. I have never obtained a successful experimental case.'

"Why would I want to store my own backups when there isn't even a single successful experiment."

Carl knew the purpose of Relic. To put it simply, it was to make a backup for himself, and then after finding a suitable body, he would insert this thing into it, thus achieving a certain degree of "rebirth". But to be honest, this thing was actually a technology under research.

Simply put, it is not perfect yet. It can only store your own neural data at that time. It is just a pseudo-rebirth and cannot achieve true rebirth. In other words, for many people, whether their former selves are still themselves can be a struggle for a long time, not to mention the successful cases of this. Arasakase Nobuo has not even got it.
This thing seems unreliable no matter how you look at it, but it is understandable when using a USB flash drive.

This thing is like a USB flash drive. You can copy files from this computer and then transfer them to another computer. The content remains the same. As for what happens to the computer after the files are transferred, well, it's hard to say.

Perhaps this thing is extremely important and related to eternal life, but it is not yet perfect, so it has been tested until now.

Carl could clearly understand after thinking about it that for the old man Saburo Arasaka, such a rebirth would certainly not satisfy him. When he could not count on Arasaka Nobuobu, the immortality that Saburo Arasaka hoped for must be the immortality that could continuously inherit his own thoughts and consciousness. This kind of false immortality, whether it was once his own, was definitely not something he could trust.

However, for the world, it would be better if this level of immortality did not occur.

Because no matter whether it is the past Saburo Arasaka or the now dead Saburo Arasaka, they are equally disgusting to Carl. If he keeps popping up like an immortal cockroach, he will not be in a good mood.

The principle of this technology comes from the work of the legendary hacker Otto Cunningham, and Arasaka has not yet figured it out.

I heard that Otto Cunningham, who invented this principle technology, created it by accident, and the function originally used by Arasaka was also to kill network hackers. It was only in recent years that the possibility of immortality was discovered, and it was developed in this direction. This reminded Carl of another case.

It was the ancient alchemists who invented gunpowder. At that time, the alchemists just wanted to make elixirs. Who could have thought that gunpowder would later become the most important part of war? This was something beyond the inventor's expectations. They created it by accident, but it has another great use. There is really as much gunpowder as you need.

So, this "gunpowder" should be treated by oneself.

Is it stored, or destroyed, or...
Carl looked at his phone.

His phone can be plugged into a chip, but there is no neural data on the phone that can be given to Relic, and he doesn't know if it will break down if plugged in.

Although Carl felt that it didn't matter if he broke the thing, it was still relatively rare after all. Every high-ranking person in the world would go crazy for it if they knew about it. It felt like a unique and rare item in the game, and he inexplicably felt a sense of cherishment for it.

Nervous system data
Carl was not very willing to use something like this that had no successful experimental cases, and he didn't plan to let V and the others use it. Catching a scavenger on the street as a test subject felt like a human experiment, and Carl hated that.

The lives of scavengers are not lives, but using human materials for experiments is almost the same as the group of people under Saburo Arasaka who used Relic to conduct human experiments.

Carl's eyes turned, and suddenly his peripheral vision noticed Qiuqiu, who was lying on the sofa and being repaired by V.

Qiuqiu is a bionic animal robot dog.

Bionics is a comprehensive discipline that emerged in the early 20s. It studies biological phenomena, conducts engineering analysis, and puts those results into practical use. After years of development, a branch of bionics has now developed into a type that imitates real animals. Using steel to shape bones, wires as blood vessels, and energy as blood, it completely imitates real animals to create a "creature" that is not made of flesh and blood, but made of steel and electricity.

If we regard the "left and right brains" of Qiuqiu, which are connected by horizontal nerve fibers imitated by the circuits like those of dogs, as the left and right brains of living things, then can the neural system data transmitted in the circuits also be copied?

No.

It should be said that this may be much easier to replicate than human nervous system data.

Carl suddenly realized something in his mind.

Compared with the people constructed by human nerves, the "people" constructed by circuits are more suitable for Relic. In other words, for robots, making a copy of themselves is more natural, because their backup is much more convenient than that of humans. By constantly uploading and downloading, they can achieve "immortality".

But what things need eternal life?
Carl thought about those blue eyes.

If artificial intelligence or digital consciousness that exists in virtual space wants to exist in the real world and experience the world as a "human", then they need a carrier.

However, carriers can age, get injured, and even die, but with a Relic, they can easily switch bodies.

Compared with humans, the storage and updating of data in the human nervous system is extremely complex and difficult.

Relic provides great convenience for these virtual beings.

They can back up and download data at any time without going through the troublesome brainwashing process of humans, nor do they have to rely on control prostheses to control the human brain.

For these virtual entities, a plug-and-play approach may be more convenient.

What's more, for the beings in these virtual spaces, there may be no difference between their past selves and their present selves.

For them, the continuity of identity and memory depends more on the integrity of data than on the continuity of physical carriers.

Would Relic be something more convenient for them to use?

Is this the reason why they got involved in this matter?
Carl hummed and thought, and finally made a decision.

No matter whether it is possible or not, try it first and then discuss other things.

"V."

Carl called out to V who was repairing the ball, and after V turned his head, he said, "I want you to help test the effect of Relic on bionic objects. Can you adjust the ball's system to make it more like a dog?"

(End of this chapter)