A common situation in hospitals was brain death: the brain had been deprived of blood for too long and shut down, while the body could still be kept alive by medical machinery.
Brain death had caused major social controversy. Whether a patient whose body was alive but whose brain was dead counted as dead or alive, whether the family should remove the tubes, and whether precious medical resources should be spent sustaining a walking corpse—such disputes had never stopped, remaining perpetually on the edge of social and ethical issues.
Compared with a brain-dead person whose body was still alive, Little White Mouse Ben Bo Er Ba's current condition was even more horrifying: its brain was alive, but its body was dead.
If Ben Bo Er Ba's independent consciousness still existed in its brain, that meant a prototype of an alternative route toward Immortality Technology had already appeared!
Sure enough, Xiang Xiaotong meant exactly that.
"If consciousness still exists in Ben Bo Er Ba's brain, guess what will happen?" Xiang Xiaotong said. "An immensely wealthy billionaire is old and nearing death, so he spends a fortune hiring a young person with a healthy body and performs a brain connection with him."
"After the billionaire dies, his brain remains alive, and his consciousness enters the young man's brain. With the young man's youthful body, wouldn't he be able to live for several more decades?"
"Once this kind of body-snatching technology appears, social ethics and morality will immediately collapse. The shape of human civilization and even the global social order will change!" Xiang Xiaotong said in a low voice.
Song He nodded. He understood all of this.
The master and disciple fell silent, staring at the two mice—one dead and one alive—with solemn expressions as they pondered for a long time.
At first,