Chapter: 147
However, when it comes to the research on the Space Stone and the Mind Stone, what truly interests Mark the most is the mysterious energy within them.
You see, these two Infinity Stones not only provide immense power to their users but also transform three ordinary Earthlings into superhumans with extraordinary abilities as they pass through various hands.
First and foremost, in the 1990s, the power extracted from the Space Stone through the Tesseract was used to create a lightspeed engine. However, this engine was destroyed in a subsequent accident. By a stroke of luck, the energy of the Space Stone was absorbed by a pilot named Carol Danvers, turning her into Captain Marvel, a superhero who possesses incredible strength, can survive in the vacuum of space with her physical body alone, and can even fly at superluminal speeds.
Next, after the Battle of New York, the Loki Scepter containing the Mind Stone was seemingly taken by S.H.I.E.L.D., but in reality, it was stolen by Hydra, hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D. They conducted secret experiments using the energy within the Mind Stone, resulting in the creation of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, a pair of superpowered siblings.
Mark wants to understand how this energy affects the human body and how it brings about changes at the cellular and genetic levels for the recipients.
Furthermore, he wonders if this process can be achieved through other means, allowing ordinary individuals to undergo controlled and directed evolution.
Due to the experiments performed by Hydra using the Mind Stone, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were the only successful subjects. However, Captain Marvel's transformation cannot be used as a reference due to the lack of comparable cases.
Mark is unable to ascertain the process of these transformations and whether the success rate is random or if individuals with specific bloodlines or genetic traits have a higher probability of success.
However, regardless of the fact that the explanation does not consider the aspect of ordinary individuals gaining superpowers through the Infinity Stones, their research value is immeasurable.
For example, with the study of the Space Stone, humanity has developed immensely powerful energy weapons for military purposes and created super energy sources like the Arc Reactor. The research Mark is about to undertake on spatial teleportation portals may benefit from insights gained through the study of the Space Stone.
As for the Mind Stone, Mark holds even higher expectations. The Mind Stone is a gem with its own consciousness, and future creations like Ultron and Vision born from it can be considered true intelligent beings.
Unlike Baymax and J.A.R.V.I.S., who currently exist as advanced artificial intelligence, although they can recognize human emotions and mimic expressions, they haven't truly developed their own emotions.
Their thinking abilities are also on par with humans, and while their computational speed can be improved through additional hardware, it doesn't fundamentally alter the nature of their thoughts and logic, which still operate based on the initial programming framework set by humans.
However, intelligent beings like Ultron and Vision have not only developed their own emotions and desires but have also undergone fundamental improvements in their thinking and logic.
Due to their ability to access a vast amount of knowledge in a short period through the internet and convert it into their own experiences, their cognitive dimensions have surpassed what humans can imagine. It's akin to how humans can analyze various behaviors of chimpanzees and understand their significance in the natural world, while chimpanzees are incapable of such reflections.
So this leads to the situation where, in the eyes of humans, there are only two types of intelligent life: evil intelligent life that seeks to eradicate humanity and intelligent life that aims to protect and guide human progress. This cognitive barrier is caused by the limitations of human thinking.
Mark hopes to upgrade the core intelligent program of Baymax and also enhance its emotional perception system, making it a truly sentient intelligent being.
Through an emotional connection with Baymax, Mark wants it to become a guide for him to explore new frontiers.
Of course, within Mark's ideas, there is an even more audacious plan. Since AI can be endowed with life, can it be possible to reverse the process and successfully convert biological life into Digitized intelligent beings?
In his concept, the Digitization of life is not simply uploading the information from the human brain to a server, creating a new body after the physical body in the real world perishes, and then reloading the thoughts and memories.
For this concept, Mark believes he can easily achieve it through a brain wave device, without encountering any difficulties. The thoughts and memories uploaded to the server are mere data, completely devoid of the characteristics of life.
However, it is not like Dr. Zola from Hydra, who wrote his own thoughts and memories as an intelligent program. That is essentially just creating a strong artificial intelligence based on oneself.
The Digitization of life, as defined by Mark, should involve consciousness as the core of thought, enabling synchronous thinking in the digital network world, just as in the real world. The core consciousness can exist either completely separate from the physical body or independent of the digital network, while also being able to connect with both.
If this concept can be realized, then Mark's consciousness can freely transfer between the body's nanorobots, existing simultaneously in the real world and the digital network world.
The Digitization of life would upgrade his own thinking, allowing his thought processing speed and memory capacity to be completely liberated from the constraints of the physical body, achieving unlimited accumulation.
Suddenly, Mark seems to recall something. After careful consideration, he adds the research plan for the Digitization of life to his ongoing research list, indicating that the plan will continue uninterrupted until there are concrete results.
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