Memory inheritor

Chapter 153 Mental Illness

At 8:30 p.m., Wei Hongsi finished his work and called Xia Shiyu to go to the 11th floor.

After the CDD project officially started operating, the company allocated an area on the 11th floor for them to establish a "cognitive purification" laboratory.

This floor is the territory of the Sixth Department. Currently, Fang Wei is still the department director, and he helped arrange all the preliminary work for establishing the laboratory. Wei Hongsi only needs to make requests.

The specific implementers were six technical center engineers recommended by Fang Wei to the project department, five of whom came from the Sixth Department and were very adept at this kind of work.

Fang Weiyi recommended a total of eight candidates, and according to Wei Hongsi's original plan, four of them were to be selected. Later, with the SR project, the number of seconded personnel was increased to six.

In retrospect, Gu Shiming's suggestion to supplement the project team with some personnel from the Technology Development Center during the early stages of preparation was quite thoughtful. Gu Shiming also helped coordinate the procedures for seconding these individuals.

Wei Hongsi had some suspicions. That day, when he took Xia Shiyu to the Human Resources Department to complete the formalities, Ding Yafan had a poker face. It was possible that she had been mistreated by her senior brother during the process of transferring these six people across centers.

The equipment in the laboratory has been installed and debugged. Only minor adjustments are needed during the verification of the treatment plan. Wei Hongsi and Xia Shiyu can handle it, so no one else is asked to work overtime.

The two entered the lab and turned on the equipment they would be using that evening. Wei Hongsi explained the key points to Xia Shiyu while preparing. Xia Shiyu would then be responsible for operating the equipment.

After handing over the task to Xia Shiyu, Wei Hongsi entered the main control room, which was separated by a glass wall, checked the various parameter settings, and then conducted a connection test with Shen Qing.

After they finished their preparations, Jiaqi and Li Xuan arrived, and the four of them sat down in the lounge outside the laboratory to wait for others.

Zhang Shengyong and Wei Hongsi agreed to meet at 9 p.m., but Zhang Shengyong didn't call Wei Hongsi until 9:10 p.m., saying he would arrive in about ten minutes.

Wei Hongsi relayed this to Lu Jiaqi. Lu Jiaqi said, half complaining and half joking, "Isn't this considered acting like a diva?"

Wei Hongsi was somewhat helpless, but he could understand.

The research he and Shen Qing conducted over the past two days was equivalent to developing a surgical plan and carrying out a simulation experiment.

Ran Tong, on the other hand, is like a patient about to undergo surgery, and she has to undergo a series of preoperative examinations, so she hasn't been idle in the past two days.

However, her "pre-operative examination" was done at the General Team's Medical Monitoring Center, not at Zhiwei.

This part of the work mainly includes two aspects.

First, we created Ran Tong's "emotion-music" response map to build her personalized "therapeutic music resource library".

This content was provided remotely by Wei Hongsi, while all music-related content was provided by Shen Qing.

Secondly, through memory activation experiments, Ran Tong constructed a memory activation model of Zhou Huai.

This work was assisted remotely by Feng Weixu and Jiang Haiyang. They are the main researchers from Yuecheng University on the SR project side, and this work was done as a favor.

The reason for having them provide this support is that the construction principle of the memory activation model is basically the same as the "stimulus-feedback" model of "dream interpretation".

However, this model does not focus on Ran Tong's specific memory content; it only needs to determine the connection between the memory and Zhou Huai. It uses physiological signals as a proxy indicator of whether the memory is activated, thus eliminating the need for a high-performance AI system.

These two points need to be repeated many times to arrive at an accurate and reliable conclusion, so it takes a long time. From Ran Tong's subjective perspective, it is tantamount to being constantly tortured.

It's normal for anyone to become increasingly resistant and reluctant to undergo examinations and treatments when they are forced to do so, even if they consider themselves perfectly normal.

Around 9:30, Lu Jiaqi and Li Xuan finally brought the person up.

Ran Tong was accompanied by a female assistant in her thirties. This same person had accompanied Ran Tong when she last came to Zhiwei for a diagnosis.

The same policewoman who came with Zhang Shengyong was the same one from before. After coming up, Zhang Shengyong greeted Wei Hongsi and then fell silent, seemingly unperturbed by Ran Tong's lateness.

Wei Hongsi asked everyone else to sit in the lounge, and Li Xuan accompanied Ran Tong into the laboratory, where she explained the necessary precautions to Ran Tong.

Ran Tong appears to be in a relatively stable emotional state, indicating that Lu Jiaqi and Li Xuan's reassuring communication has been quite effective, which will be beneficial for the subsequent treatment.

Wei Hongsi then had Ran Tong sit on the treatment chair, and Li Xuan assisted her in putting on a 64-lead EEG cap, fNIRS headband, heart rate monitor, VR headset, and auxiliary headphones.

"Relax, just sit and rest as usual, try to make yourself as comfortable as possible," Li Xuan said with a smile. "If you feel any discomfort, you only need to raise your hand and I will see it, and we can stop at any time."

Ran Tong nodded slightly: "Okay."

Li Xuan took a few steps back. Xia Shiyu lowered the semi-enclosed isolation shield, activated the preset environment scene, and the inside of the isolation shield emitted a soft, warm light and played low-volume white noise.

Wei Hongsi sat down in the control room and sent a notification to Shen Qing that the treatment was about to begin. He quickly received a "ready" response.

He also rallied his spirits and began running the memory activation model.

At the same time, scenes related to Zhou Huai appeared before Ran Tong's eyes, and her ears heard his voice.

This scene was reconstructed using AI based on the video content that Zhou Huai sent to Ran Tong and other relevant information held by the police. Although it did not actually happen, it effectively activated Ran Tong's memories associated with Zhou Huai.

About six minutes later, monitoring of Ran Tong's physiological signals showed that she had reached the activation threshold of associated memory, which meant that she had entered the intervention window for memory consolidation.

Wei Hongsi took a deep breath and began the music intervention process, the core of the entire treatment. If this were a surgical procedure, it would be like brandishing a scalpel at the lesion tumor.

He kept a close eye on the monitoring data and graphics on the console, using a closed-loop algorithm to help adjust the music parameters.

Although the "therapeutic music library" established for Ran Tong is relatively complete and can cover various situations in the "pre-operative preparation" stage, it is still insufficient to support the entire intervention process.

Human emotions are not fixed; they are always subject to various changes. Even the same melody will evoke completely different feelings yesterday and today, and may even produce entirely opposite emotional fluctuations.

At this point, adjustments need to be made promptly based on Ran Tong's EEG feedback. When the content of the "Therapeutic Music Resource Library" is insufficient, Shen Qing will improvise to fill the gaps.