Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

When Comrade Li Gaoling was put back on his feet with titanium alloy through neural access technology, information technology experts at the Institute of Advanced Studies had been emotional with him on the subject.

It's not just about getting paraplegic patients with spinal nerve damage back on their feet.

It would no longer be a fantasy if complex visual and auditory signals could be compiled and simulated, like motion signals, so that the device could be connected directly to a neural prosthesis or brain, without the kind of imaginary neural access virtual reality technology that would allow consciousness to infiltrate the digital world.

At that time, the Ark said it was really an interesting topic to study, but there were a lot more important things waiting for him to do, and he threw them behind his head.

Now, coinciding with the innovative breakthrough in carbon-based chip technology and the lack of space to spend more points on the body, it was reminded by the man named Ye Nan, and this was reconsidered by the Ark.

Thinking about Vera, who is still lying in the dormant compartment, the Ark feels that if she hasn't been able to wake herself up yet, at least try to do something for her.

Although he also knows that the hope that this thing will work on her is rather slim...

After changing clothes, sit on the ark in front of the computer and comb what you wrote down.

Simply put, the core components of the technology can be divided into three main modules.

One is the acquisition of neural signals, the other is the processing of neural signals, and finally the simulation of neural signals, that is, the stage at which information is finally fed back to the brain.

The technical difficulty of these three core components is incremented sequentially.

The acquisition of neural signals was very simple, and something like EEG sensors already existed as early as the 1980s, the so-called EEG sensors. And to this day, the technology is so advanced that it has surpassed even the imagination of ordinary people who generally have no access to it.

Whether it's the VR system created by Silicon Valley's Eyemynd, which allows users to navigate the virtual world through their minds, or the sensation caused by the completion of the world's first brainwave drone race in 18 years by 16 students from the University of Florida.

As for the second item —— processing nerve signals -- the difficulty is more complicated than the acquisition of nerve signals.

Though ostensibly the test of this is the ability of computers to process information, it is in fact a rather complex procedural issue.

This complexity lies in the fact that humans know very little about their own brain, except in limited circumstances, where visual, auditory and olfactory signals are far less intense than action signals.

A series of tasks, such as trying to distinguish these signals and compile a set of instructions to structure the virtual reality world, as well as operating systems, can be categorized under item 2.

As for the third item, the most intuitive presentation of the neural signal modem-processed electrical signals to the brain, that is, the most intuitive effect on the user's sense of experience, is the most complex and difficult part of the entire neural access virtual reality technology.

The reason is simple.

Just like the difficulties people encounter in developing the second core component of the technology, how do you output signals to the brain that it can read if you can't even understand it?

Currently, the more cutting-edge approach is to implant a neural prosthesis at the location of the cerebral cortex.

For the time being, however, this technique is mainly used to repair functional disorders caused by neurological damage, and it is a long way from simulating a series of signals such as vision, hearing, smell, etc.

At present, in this area, comparison is preceded by the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute of Barcelona, Spain, where researchers are designing a "neural interface” where electrodes interact with the brain tissue interface through graphene based materials, and only they know exactly what steps have been studied.

In fact, for the third core component, the vessel does not possess much technical reserves.

The "answer” he redeemed through the points was mainly concentrated on the second part - the debugging modem of the nerve signal.

As for letting the brain read the signal from the modem, he could only do the visual simulation step.

As for the range of sensations such as hearing and smell, even touch and excitement, it can only be achieved with external stimuli.

Like a headset built into a helmet or something.

Thinking of it here, the Ark is still a bit of a shame.

If all-round simulation of all perceptions is achieved, the final form of virtual reality technology will probably be achieved.

That is, connecting the entire consciousness to the virtual Internet world and gaining a second life in virtual reality.

Whether you want to experience skydiving, climbing things that you want to do in real life but haven't done in your life, or spending a lifetime with a paper man, you can do it.

As for other uses, you can think slowly.

Unfortunately, his level of discipline is not enough for the system to answer the second half of his questions, and if he forcibly redeems points, he will be punished by at least two levels of scientific research efficiency.

The only thing that made him happy was that at least the system had marked the amount of points spent, which showed that the problem was still understandable in his lifetime.

It's just hard.

Thinking about it, the ark in front of the computer thought for a while.

In the spirit of a scholar whose solo amusement was less than that of many amusements, he eventually chose a less advanced theoretical part of the compiled material that did not involve a patent to produce a paper.

He didn't expect this paper to ignite virtual reality technology at once. The Fire of Life simply hopes that this paper will serve as a brick thrower and inspire other scholars working in this field to achieve more valuable results in this field.

As for the author of the thesis...

Considering that the core elements were mainly computers and biology, the Ark was again wearing Dr. Z's vest.

The last time he made a scene, he was almost recognized by his own people. This time, he learned not to touch Arxiv, but opened the biologist's preprinted website, BioRxiv.

Thought about the process of uploading the paper for a while, but just as the ark was about to hang the paper, a spiritual reaction suddenly appeared.

Wait, wouldn't it be enough to throw it on BioRxiv?

In a dark voice, the Ark shut down BioRxiv's website with its head full of black lines and hung the paper back on Arxiv with a hard scalp.

Although Arxiv's biologists are less concerned than BioRxiv, from another perspective, the chances that more and more researchers in the direction of science, computer, and physics have joined biology over the years and encountered scholars in Arxiv who are also working on machine neural networks and bioneural networks should be considerably higher than in BioRxiv.

Of course, bioneural networks and mechanical neural networks are one of the most difficult segments in biology and computer science. Scholars who can achieve proficiency in both fields at the same time are not exaggerating.

In fact, while the Ark is looking forward to meeting a good enough researcher with whom he shares the same aspirations to improve the technology… it would be better to solve all the problems for him.

But he didn't really expect much from it.

His biggest purpose in releasing this paper is to preheat the technology, and by the time he takes it out completely, it won't seem too abrupt.

After all, if you take this thing out directly, the jumping ability is still a bit big, and the average person may not see it, but people who really study this field will definitely feel a lot of disobedience.

This sense of disobedience is probably as if the equation of relativistic mass energy has not been deduced, and atomic bombs have been created.

I don't care what people think, but it's worth taking a little time to avoid it.

After uploading the thesis, the ark stretched a lazy waist against the chair and sat back up from the chair.

“Em, are you ready? ”

The drone floated over and a string of words popped up on the little TV.

[Ready! Master, where do we begin?✧

Looking at the robotic arm that had started dancing upside down restlessly by the wall, the ark pondered for a while and said.

“Get a recliner first. ”

[...? loungers? (• • • •)]

“Well, playing lying around... it should be more comfortable and not so-so. I went online and searched for pictures of ergonomic chairs. Anyway, you're also free. There are materials here. I have to find you something to do. And then the helmet... this part has to be well designed, the neural signal modem and the EEG sensor have to be integrated on it, let me think... well, that's it...”

Sitting at the computer desk, thinking while operating a professional three-dimensional design software canoe, has gradually entered the working state.

At this point, he doesn't know that the paper he hung on Arxiv under Dr. Z's name, either the author's name or the text itself, was completely on fire throughout the biology community.