Cyber Heroes

Xiangshan looked at what looked like a USB flash drive, but had "Magic Realism Carnival" engraved on the side. He reached out to take it and looked at it over and over again.

He found this thing extremely suspicious.

"I don't think I've ever smoked... or should I say I've smoked something high-end like this?" He laughed at himself: "What is this?"

"It's just...a collection of some kind of surreal jokes, very post-modern spam. The taste is relatively bland."

——Gan, it sounds more like tobacco...

Xiang Shan said: "Now all the knights like this thing?"

He asked the solo kill king in the private chat channel: [What would you do if you saw Cui Su and the others eating spam? 】

Jardel was startled, and immediately sat up straight, pulled the USB flash drive out of his data interface, and said righteously: [Two little bastards, Saussure's Domain has not been fully constructed, how dare they send spam messages? Of course, I have to disconnect from the Internet and think about it! 】

Xiangshan's expression became even weirder.

Is this an electronic cigarette?

And is your approach really convincing?

Xiang Shan always thinks this thing is weird. He held the spam message in his hand and said, "Everyone is using this thing?"

"Ah? No, of course not. People with insufficient internal strength cannot resist the massive amount of memories pouring into their brains, and can easily get lost in it." Bai Man said: "If you have low internal strength, you can't use it. However, short-term relaxation should be OK."

"Ah, this, if it's your first time swiping, is there anything you need to pay attention to?"

Xiang Shan had no choice but to ask.

This thing doesn't sound very safe. He didn't really want to do this. However, since this thing exists, there will definitely be people who want to use their brains in it. He had to know what this was.

"ah?"

"I used to... basically never touch anything with the risk of addiction..." Xiang Yamate made two strokes in the air.

He refused all tobacco products and drank only a little alcohol.

The white man hero's posture was almost embarrassing: "Ah, this...I'm sorry, I...this should be considered something that is not prohibited by the Dyson Principle. How to put it, no one seems to think that 'sugar addiction' 'It's like a very serious matter. Everyone consumes a certain amount of sugar every day, and excessive sugar is also harmful. But there is basically no prohibition...that..."

It's like explaining that it's a popular social etiquette after accidentally passing a cigar to your non-smoking boss.

Xiang Shan looked at the USB disk-shaped object in his hand and inserted it into his data interface. Instead of running it immediately, he checked the properties.

Well……

One...how to say? Many short videos, texts, and pictures are aggregated together in a very complex format to form a file. This is a new format born to facilitate direct reading by the brain.

If you convert it to ancient formats such as MP4, MP3, AVI, JPG, etc., this thing should be hundreds of TB in size.

Xiang Shan asked: "Is there any tips for brushing this?"

"Open the senses and cache, suppress the activity of the hippocampus, and do not use superficial thinking to retrieve the contents of the senses." Bai Man said: "Ah, I mean, you don't have to do this just for etiquette..."

Xiangshan quickly understood what this was.

This thing is just like its apparent name, "junk information". Countless pieces of information that have no meaning and are simply meant to stimulate people's senses are preserved in this complex form.

The human memory mechanism is divided into several layers. In order for external stimulation to enter the human mind, it must first pass through the sensory organs-that is, the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin. These sense organs form a kind of "sensory cache." It's like "the sound I just heard is still echoing in my ears" or something like that. These "sensory caches" are mixed and entered into the brain's "cache". This is an actual physiological structure.

The sensory cache is processed into short-term memory within the cache. These short-term memories will gradually fade.

Short-term memory will become long-term memory only after deep processing in the brain, including the hippocampus. Long-term memories tend to last a lifetime. It does get forgotten, but it can also be easily recalled.

Ah, but long-term memory can also be modified by the brain. When a person recalls an event from the past many years later, his or her memory is often biased.

But that's a different level of problem.

In addition, although short-term memory fades easily, the human brain can also delay this fading without converting it into long-term memory - this process is called "rehearsal." If there is a piece of information in short-term memory that will come in handy soon, the brain will continue to rehearse situations in which the information will come in handy until it actually comes in handy.

The most classic example is "remembering phone numbers". If someone gives you a phone number, and you have to dial it quickly or write it down, your brain will continue to rehearse it until the "related memory" of this phone number completes the task. After that, the short-term memory of the phone number quickly fades.

The brain is also doing everything possible to prevent excessive information from flooding into the memory, causing pressure on information processing.

"Brushing junk information" uses a special technique to block the brain's retrieval of short-term memory and prevent massive amounts of junk information from being converted into long-term memory.

Many times, after a person is exposed to external information, he can feel pleasure from it without converting it into long-term memory. For example, people do not need to memorize the melody and lyrics of a song before they can appreciate the beauty of music from the song. After he sees a funny video, he doesn't need to memorize the video before he can appreciate the humor.

The generation of "pleasure" precedes the generation of long-term memory.

All the junk information "used" by these knights can directly stimulate human senses.

These spam messages can bring direct experience to people. A knight with successful internal skills can almost completely block the flow of this junk information into long-term memory. So they can enjoy this kind of thing.

To do this, you must be successful in the Saussure realm and complete the reconstruction of "sensory information" and "language processing" - and this step requires at least the internal skills of the compiler or assembly realm.

"I probably understand the truth..." Xiangshan was a little weird: "This thing can be stored in your own prosthetic body, right? It's not too big, so why does it have to be made like this... like a USB flash drive? ?”

Is it just for Cos e-cigarettes?

Bai Man was shocked: "This... normal people wouldn't store this thing in their bodies, right? It's too easy to get addicted. Even a vigilante will have junk information enter their brain after swiping it thousands of times. In that case, Internal strength will be affected.”

Information addiction is a very serious "heart addiction".

Human beings will feel "uneasy" in unfamiliar environments. Because he doesn't know if there is anything threatening his life in the unfamiliar environment. It is precisely because of this that his instinct will push him to explore his surroundings, acquire more knowledge, eliminate the "unknown", and gain a "sense of peace of mind."

Not just humans, many higher animals have this instinct. Many animals actively explore their surroundings.

For people, "the whole world" can be regarded as a "strange external environment". Since ancient times, human beings have been using various methods to eliminate the "unknown" and gain a "sense of peace of mind".

Some people explore the outside world, while others make up stories to comfort themselves.

The human spirit is "information hungry." However, the human body's instinct has not yet learned to "discriminate information." Therefore, regardless of whether the information is meaningful or not, it will give people a feeling of "I learned" or "I know more" - this feeling is the most serious psychological addiction.

It's certainly not too difficult to resist this temptation. However, if this thing is placed in a memory directly connected to human consciousness, every human consciousness may trigger it...

Few can resist.

Memories are stored in the brain. This process produces subtle changes in the brain. Internal strength itself also involves self-adjustment of the brain. A large amount of junk information will hinder internal strength at the physiological level.

Bai Man remembered that in the early days, there were knights who made this mistake and suffered a setback in their internal strength because they were addicted to spam messages. Even because their minds are full of meaningless memories, it is more difficult for those knights to improve their internal skills than ordinary people.

However, it must also be admitted that this illusion of "eliminating the unknown" can greatly relieve anxiety without damaging logical thinking ability.

Although chemicals such as methamphetamine are more effective in "boosting morale", they are really nerve-wracking.

Therefore, many knights will choose "junk information" to relieve their pre-war anxiety.

"Oh, that's interesting." Xiangshan glanced at it casually, then pulled it out and put it into the tool compartment on his waist - according to his understanding, this thing is equivalent to the cigarettes that others give you. According to etiquette, it is best to clip it to your ears or carry it in your pocket. He glanced at Bai Man and said, "Brother Bai Man, you came to me not just to hand over this cigarette... I mean this piece of junk information, right? Do you have anything else to say?"

"As expected... I mean, you really saw it."

Bai Man waved to Xiang Shan. The two of them walked deeper into the cave. Deep in the cave, there is a prosthetic body half buried underground. The part of this prosthetic body that sticks out of the ground is only two meters, and it has no head. Several drones are making final searches.

Bai Man said: "Please the unknown hero accept this prosthetic body. Your martial arts should be higher than mine. This prosthetic body equipped with Tao Daxia's star-simulating device may be able to exert greater power in your hands." effect."