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The boy smiled and continued, âFor human beings, the brain is the most frightening thing on the planet. From what we know now, the human brain is like the universe, in fact, thereâs more to the brainâs potential than just the universe. You know, sometimes you canât even control your own brain to think about something. People canât even control themselves. They canât do what they think, like other creatures. For example, when theyâre sad, they canât help thinking about it when they obviously donât want to. Donât you think thatâs a terrible thing?â
âStop imagining things.â Lisa knew what he was worrying about.
With an exasperated laugh, Youyou stood up and gently brushed the sand off his bottom. âGet up,â he told her. âItâs time to go back.â
âArenât you going to continue basking in the sun?â
âWeâll get sunburn if we stay in the sun too long.â
Lisa got onto her feet and followed the boy back to the medical center.
Seeing that the boy had returned, Professor Romanka immediately asked to see him in private. The boy followed him to the medical room. Alice wasnât there, so he asked in a low voice, âWhat are the chances that my personality and Gong Fanâs will merge?â
âVery high chance.ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âHow high exactly?â
âThereâs no precise figure for that. If nothing unexpected happens, the two of you are perfectly capable of fusing. After all, if youâre willing to accept him, heâs willing to accept you. Thereâs nothing wrong with fusing.â
Youyou was silent for a moment. âWhat do you mean by ânothing unexpectedâ?â
âDidnât I mention it before? If he dies in a dream, heâll be gone forever.â
âWhy will he disappear?â The boy was indignant. âHeâs a personality I created. Why should he disappear? Can he disappear without my permission?â
A personality is controlled by the brain. Of course Youyou was indignant at the thought that he couldnât even control his own brain.
Romanka glanced at him. âDo you know why people suffer from depression?â
âEh?â
âBecause people canât control their nerves at all. There are thousands of sensory systems in the human body and a critical link can go wrong. But when that happens, the person may not be able to fix it by himself. He canât be happy or sad naturally anymore. Even normal sleep becomes a huge problem. In fact, why wouldnât you think that the brain controls this shell of a body rather than the person controlling the brain?â
â⦠you mean, itâs nothing more than people just inhabiting this shell, being parasites under the control of the brain?â
âI didnât say that.â Romanka lifted the boy onto the monitoring chair and, as he put the brain-imaging helmet on him, said, âMan is neither a parasite nor the god that dominates the brain. Just as man can never rule the world.â
âWhy arenât human beings dominating the world now?â
âIf by âworldâ you mean Earth, then I can also disprove your fallacy. So far, man has not fully conquered nature. Why is it that, with all the considerable technology man has invented, he cannot prevent natural disasters?â
The boy had no answer to that. He didnât even know how to answer that question.
âDonât overthink things at such a young age. You donât have any sense of being a patient.â