Chapter 1105: Switching Thinking Mode, Absorption, and Religious Business

It is said that Albert Einstein loved the violin very much and had a certain level of research. Once, a critic who did not know much about physics said to others after listening to his performance: "It is a very good performance, but I don't think his performance is worthy of his world-renowned reputation. There are many people who play as well as him." As a performer, although Einstein's achievements are far inferior to his achievements in physics, he can still be called "excellent".

And Einstein had another little habit. He occasionally held the violin while thinking and rubbed the strings with the bow unconsciously. In this case, he thought that what he played was not a tune and could not be heard. But this is a habit that has lasted for a long time.

Four hundred years later, another person who gained a similar perspective recalled a story he heard in his youth.

The Einstein in this story may be similar to Yawgmoth in the early 21st century. Because of their hobbies in their youth, they created the structure of "music" in their brains, and the relevant neural networks were already quite developed after being trained.

At the same time, their in-depth thinking in another field caused the structure of another neural network to expand rapidly. In the day-to-day training, the structure belonging to this neural network was strengthened, and the part that was not trained began to regress. The universal thinking tool with infinite possibilities and the ability to show power in all fields began to concentrate its power in one field.

However, the size of the brain was fixed from the beginning. In that era, humans still had to risk death to open the skull. Moreover, the proto-cancer cells of neurons had been dormant after a certain stage of life. The brain hardly proliferated.

So, the expanded neural network would try to merge with another neural network.

Something incredible to others happened just like that.

Music itself, which is very different from "rationality", has become an auxiliary tool for scientific thinking. In a sense, this is also a specific way to soothe your brain.

Xiangshan put down the guitar in his hand. This guitar was made by additive manufacturing in the laboratory. From the strings to the body of the guitar, it is made of synthetic materials. He would improvise while thinking.

This behavior itself is safe. The Ninth Warlord is just a relatively primitive AI, only knows how to act, but not the ability to research. Yawgmoth himself is limited by his own cognition and has never performed similar actions. No one knows that he is trying to guide Yawgmoth's ability.

Even the apprentices will only feel that it is amazing. In their cognition, only great scientific knights are qualified to have this "quirk".

Ah, no. In fact, the "weird" in this "quirk" refers to the "abnormality" in the cognition of others. They find it difficult to understand "why doing such strange things will help rational thinking".

Those who have quirks may also find it difficult to understand. In their view, this way of thinking is "natural". If no one points it out, they may never feel that they are different in their lives.

Because these quirks are often the "result" of the development of neural networks.

Only when the brain is exercised to a considerable extent and the neural network representing "scientific thinking" expands and "swallows" other cognitive neural networks in the brain, "quirks" will appear. Those scientists did not achieve great success because of their quirks, but because of their day-to-day thinking, which piled up the barren brain resources in one place, that gave rise to the "quirk".

The improvised melody in Xiangshan's hand was a byproduct of his use of Yawgmoth's ability.

And now, the strong white noise covered everything. Including those thoughts.

This is a kind of self-suggestion. Xiangshan was forcibly stopping Yawgmoth's way of thinking. He used this auditory preference that came from himself and was completely unacceptable to Yawgmoth to kill the background process in the brain.

The "never-ending music" in Yawgmoth's subjective feelings was completely covered by white noise.

This is a strong self-suggestion, similar to the switching of personality masks, but it is closer to "transformation of thinking".

Of course, there is a reason for this. Xiangshan is afraid that if he keeps this emotional thinking mode for a long time, something might happen.

After all, this place is an absolute "enemy camp". He doesn't want to explode directly after emotional thinking.

And the result of the thinking just now still exists in the brain. Sometimes Xiangshan himself was amazed, "Is this something I could come up with?"

But now, what he needs is another ability.

Understanding and insight.

It can be said that Xiangshan now has to "learn" and "understand" what he has come up with.

After switching his mindset, Xiangshan couldn't understand what he had just come up with for a while. He had to learn again.

And now, these scientific knights and senior apprentices who are only one step away from becoming formal knights are the best learning materials.

Physicist Richard Feynman once summed up a set of efficient learning methods. He would imagine himself as a teacher and try to explain the concepts he wants to learn to students. In this process, learners will think about how to explain the knowledge that they have not yet fully understood. In this process, he will realize to what extent he has mastered this concept and which parts he has not fully understood.

If you really can't understand, you have to go back to the books and materials again and rethink "how to explain it in your own language."

Understand, simplify, and narrate.

This is also partly why top scholars are willing to take a teaching position in a university. "Teaching" is helpful to their own improvement.

Of course, this set of methods is more suitable for learning "things known to mankind." For the vast "unknown" that most scholars really face, this set of methods may not be very effective.

It is difficult for humans to directly dismember the unknown with reason and language.

But what Xiangshan has to do is to understand "what has been thought about."

He has imitated Yawgmoth's thinking and completed the work of thinking. However, this thinking process is not purely rational and narrative. Xiangshan still remembers it, but cannot understand it intuitively.

And Yawgmoth, Xiangshan himself, these knights and apprentices are exactly three levels and three gradients.

Xiangshan feels that if he can make these scientific research knights understand, he will truly understand it.

His own ability of "understanding" and "communication" bridges the neural network representing Yawgmoth's biological thinking.

This process is the process of him completely mastering the way of thinking of a top scientist.

It is also...

The process of cognitive improvement.

The by-product of this process is "advanced scientific knight apprentice" or even "epic scientific knight apprentice".

These scientific knight apprentices with improved abilities are more helpful to Xiangshan's experimental plan.

As for the apprentices' favorability, it is a by-product of the by-product.

But it is still worth using.

This favorability is the foundation for building a "team".

"Sir Frey." A formal knight took the initiative to find Xiangshan after the meeting.

"Sir Vida?" Xiangshan originally wanted to pick up the instrument and continue to immerse himself in the spiritual enjoyment brought by the extraordinary thinking. But seeing someone taking the initiative to find him, he put down the instrument.

This "Sir" made the formal knight Harvey Vida Lei feel comfortable all over. He whispered, "Sir, you can't access the Internet, so some information may not be very well-informed. I learned a piece of information yesterday... that may be useful. Deputy leader Lord Palmien has added two more project teams... about 'Special Sample A-RG-13'."

"Special Sample A-RG-13" is the code name given by Xiangshan to the sample in the Life Furnace Knights.

Of course, it is Xiangshan's own nerve cells.

Xiangshan nodded: "What direction?"

"This... Sir, you are very selfless, but not every scientific research knight is like you." Knight Vida whispered, "Sir Palmien's research direction is certainly not open to us."

"Nothing." Xiangshan is very optimistic, "Everything is for the final ascension."

The Six Dragons Sect's scattered group is of this style. They have an attitude of "Believe it or not, get out, don't disturb the master's ascension" for many matters.

Xiangshan is very happy about this. After all, the more people study this cell, the closer he is to his goal.

At most, it will take more effort to grab the results in the end.

Knight Vida was a little anxious: "My Lord Frey! You openly disclosed your thoughts to those knights, don't you think about it..."

"Well, this matter is really inspiring to me." Xiangshan interrupted directly, "I will go to talk to Lord Palmien in the afternoon. Discuss the research direction of this special sample."

After all, this is the Life Furnace Knights, their base camp. Xiangshan knew very well that no matter what he said, Deputy Captain Palmien and Deputy Captain Devinia would know.

Some things are better to be said directly.

He didn't care about "the project was stolen" at all. Xiangshan even wanted to give Lord Palmien more help.

Xiangshan said: "Let's stop the discussion on this matter. Do you have any other questions for me to answer?"

Xiangshan evaluated Harvey Vida slightly. He felt that this young man was a very sentimental person. Just for these days of getting along, he risked offending the deputy captain.

Of course, this also exposed a problem.

He was not very devout to the ultimate goal of the Six Dragons Cult.

Xiangshan's words "everything is for ascension" should be the highest pursuit in the Six Dragons' values. But this is still not enough to convince him to put aside the small dispute with the deputy leader.

The Six Dragons, at least the scattered groups, are completely meritocratic when developing believers. As long as the scientific research level is relatively outstanding, they can be developed. They have neglected the spiritual civilization construction such as "belief" and "pursuit". Of course, this has a deep relationship with the Six Dragons' secretive behavior pattern.

But this also shows one thing. The peripheral members of the scattered groups have the potential to be developed into progressive elements.