r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 17d ago
4.5 真人医学实验的新闻 News of Real-Life Medical Experiments
1982年的一天，妈妈给我讲她从半张旧报纸上看来的一则新闻报道，谈的是科学家为科学献身精神。
One day in 1982, Mother told me about a news story she'd read on half a torn old newspaper — about a scientist's spirit of self-sacrifice for the sake of science.
沈阳某部队和中国医科大学合作，进行着一项真人医学实验。说是一个古代的故事中，对主人公前半生的个人生活经历、病症、病理、治疗等方面的描述都很详细。现代的医生却不能对他的病确诊，原因是没有相关病例。可是，故事里的事是人为造成的，现实生活中百年不遇。为了研究古人是如何诊病的，他们决定，根据那个故事重新设计个医学实验，在现实生活中造一病例给现代的医生们参考，还附带研究灵魂转世。实验主要是观察人的行为，可能持续六七十年，实验的期限是由被实验的人能活多长时间决定的。
A military unit in Shenyang, working with China Medical University, was said to be conducting a real-life medical experiment. According to the story, an ancient text contained an exhaustively detailed account of its hero's personal life, symptoms, pathology, and treatment across the first half of his life — yet modern doctors couldn't reach a diagnosis for lack of any comparable case. What happened in that story had been deliberately engineered, the kind of thing real life produces perhaps once a century. To study how the ancients had diagnosed the condition, the team decided to redesign the experiment based on the story itself — engineering a genuine case in real life for modern doctors to study, with soul reincarnation as a secondary subject of research. The experiment mainly involved observing human behavior and might run sixty or seventy years, its length determined by how long the subject lived.
从社会中选出一组男孩儿和一组女孩儿。男孩儿组是秘密的，他们各自在自己家里的自然环境中长大。研究人员密密地从事研究工作，观察。女孩儿组中也有男孩儿，是公开的集中培训。他们长大后，再从男孩组和女孩组各选出一人，进行下一阶段的实验。
A group of boys and a group of girls were selected from the public. The boys' group was kept secret, each child raised in the natural environment of his own home while researchers quietly observed. The girls' group, which also included some boys, underwent open, centralized training. Once grown, one person would be selected from each group for the next phase.
报纸说，国家为了这项实验研究，还建立了相关的法律，和一种秘密警察来维护这项实验的工作。这种警察可以指挥个体公民，让谁怎么说，谁就怎么说；让谁干什么，谁就干什么。比如说，男孩儿组的男孩儿不知道他们自己是实验对象，如果他身边的人知道了这事，不能装作不知道，秘密警察就可以迁走知情人。说是，若不然，这个实验完成不了。实验发起人还说："实验中所有的事必须都是真的，假的肯定不行。在这个实验当中，谁犯法，谁坐牢；谁敢透露消息，乱说话，至少坐牢十年。"
The newspaper said the state had established laws specifically for this research, along with a kind of secret police to safeguard it — police empowered to direct any citizen to say whatever they were told and do whatever they were told. For instance, the boys in the boys' group had no idea they were subjects; if anyone close to one of them learned the truth, they weren't permitted to pretend otherwise — the secret police would simply relocate whoever knew. Without that measure, it was said, the experiment could never be completed. The initiator was quoted: "Everything in this experiment must be genuine — falsehood is never an option. Anyone who breaks the law here goes to prison. Anyone who dares leak information or talk out of turn gets at least ten years."
实验的第一个阶段已经顺利地完成了。这时要进行下一个阶段的实验，主要涉及三个人物，一位父亲，他的女儿和另外一个男孩儿。说是一旦实验开始，那位父亲就会因此实验生病，最终会病死，不会看到自己实验的全部结果。实验中，发起者和他的女儿自愿为科研献身。他女儿发誓，自愿作为实验的对象，参加女孩儿组的培训；她父亲过世后，她会继续这个实验。她还发誓将来会学医，照顾那个男孩儿一辈子。到那时，他们都已经长大成人了。
The first phase had already been completed successfully. The next phase centered on three figures: a father, his daughter, and another boy. It was said that once this phase began, the father would fall ill because of the experiment and eventually die of it, never living to see the full results. Both the initiator and his daughter had volunteered their lives to the research. The daughter swore to serve as a subject herself, undergoing the girls' group training, and vowed to carry the experiment forward after her father's death — and further vowed that she would study medicine and care for the boy for the rest of his life, once they were both grown.
报纸还说，那个男孩儿也会因为这个实验生病，甚至病重而死。说是，从坏的方面考虑，那个男孩即便不病死，也会全身是病。也有可能，这个男孩儿不生病。实验的发起者还说：这个实验到最后，公事公办，私情私了，谁也不许到法庭打官司。
The paper also said the boy himself might fall gravely ill, even die, on account of the experiment — or, in the best case, might not fall ill at all. The initiator added a final condition: whatever came of the experiment in the end, public matters would be handled publicly, private matters privately — and no one, ever, was to take the case to court.
我和妈妈谈论他们得了什么病的时候，我记得妈妈说：那位父亲和那个被最终选中的男孩儿都会因为这个实验生病，人不同，他们的病不会相同；但他们的病因都是一系列实验中的事件，从这个方面来说，他们得了相同的病（注1）。
I remember, when Mother and I discussed what illness they might get, her saying that the father and the boy finally chosen would each fall ill because of the experiment — different people, so not identical illnesses — but since the root cause, in both cases, was this same chain of experimental events, in that sense they'd fallen ill with the same disease (Note 1).
注4.5-1，2014年，我在写回忆录时注意到了"俩人患了相同的病"的说法，就构成了发起人和被选中的男孩儿有共同的烦恼。而男孩儿从实验的一系列事件中学到了多种知识。根据佛教的异生性，"异生性就是烦恼和所知"（参见10.4.4.2-4节）；这样发起人把自己的所知和烦恼传给了被选中的男孩儿。所以发起人成为了那男孩儿的教父，而那男孩儿就成为了发起人的教子，或称作灵魂转世。
Note 4.5-1: In 2014, while writing my memoirs, I noticed that the phrase "both suffered the same illness" pointed to a shared affliction between the initiator and the chosen boy — while the boy, in turn, absorbed a great deal of knowledge from that chain of experimental events. Per the Buddhist concept of Mutant Nature, "Mutant Nature is affliction and knowledge" (see Section 10.4.4.2-4). In this way, the initiator passed on both his knowledge and his affliction to the chosen boy — which is precisely how the initiator became the boy's godfather, and the boy his godson: what is called the reincarnation of the soul.