Cyber Heroes

There is an upper limit to the speed of nerve signal conduction in animals.

In the beginning, the signal transmission speed of nerves was very slow, only about one meter per second.

This is actually the main reason why many animals cannot become larger.

Insect nerves conduct signals at only one meter per second. If an ant is enlarged to more than one meter long, and you tap its tail, it will take about a second to react slowly, and then the nerve signals will slowly reach the limbs.

But if the insect is only one centimeter, its nerve signals can be transmitted in a hundredth of a second.

Vertebrates have evolved different technologies. Their nerves are surrounded by an insulating membrane called myelin. This insulating membrane prevents nerve impulses from passing from one neuron's axon to another. In addition, it can also speed up the transmission of action potentials through a mechanism called "jump conduction."

This allows vertebrate nerve signal transmission speeds to reach as fast as 100 meters per second.

In other words, when a vertebrate reaches a hundred meters in length, the reaction speed from tail to head becomes as slow as that of a one-meter insect.

For invertebrates, this can be said to be a black technology plug-in.

In the early Mesozoic Era, insects actually tended to develop towards larger sizes. After all, they were the only species that could fly at the time. After the birth of arboreal dinosaurs, birds and pterosaurs, flying insects could no longer grow in size.

Because once they grow too big, the nerve responses will not be transmitted in time. For vertebrates of the same size, it is just a piece of meat.

In the ocean, cephalopods, which also have higher intelligence and larger body sizes, have taken a different path.

They choose to make the nerves thicker. The nerves of the calamari are so thick that they can be seen with the naked eye.

This can increase their nerve signal transmission speed to twenty or thirty meters per second. Although it is not as good as vertebrates, it is not enough compared to the superior ones, but it is more than enough compared to the inferior ones.

However, the limitations caused by the absence of myelin are still obvious. The nerve conduction speed of cephalopods is still not fast enough, and the thick ganglia also limits their development of more complex neural networks. Without solving this problem, cephalopods will not be able to give birth to more advanced intelligence.

However, some large cephalopods also have abilities that humans do not possess.

They have ganglia within their limbs that can function independently. Even if the nerve signal transmission is slow and the stimulation cannot be quickly transmitted back to the center of the brain, the extremities of the limbs can still respond correctly and simply.

In other words, their limbs have certain intelligence.

TX-0 once again thought of this creature.

He felt that the current ecology of his sect was inexplicably similar to this kind of creature.

In order to make the enemy misjudge their location, Turing's lineage will create some traces "outside". Zhu Xinyu once believed that this situation could allow King Agni to make the judgment that "she has left."

Every disciple of Turing's lineage has several false personality coverings on the outside. These personality overlays rely on their collaborators on various planets for their activities.

Those false personality coverings are actually one with them. When contacting and exchanging, the thoughts of those pseudo-personality overlays will also merge with them.

However, this process will be limited by the speed of light and hindered by the distance between the major planets.

Their relationship to those facets of personality is like that of an octopus to its arms and legs. Those personality overlays are completely independent.

During this process, personality coverage will also be affected by external influences.

They may even develop characteristics that are different from their own.

In his sleep, TX-0 thought of the personality mask he had lost contact with for three years.

He stared blankly at the front lined with pipelines.

——What is that "I" doing now? Did you delete yourself? If not...have you lived an exciting life in the world?

In fact, TX-0 still hopes that he can have a personality to make his way in the world.

He is a war orphan in a space city.

TX-0 still remembers the scene when he first met his mentor.

At that time, he had been wandering on the space station for a long time and was in very poor health.

However, at this time, there was a broadcast telling him to wait at the door of a certain house on the street. There would be food for him at the door of that house.

The TX-0 is definitely getting there. A drone dropped off three packages.

Two of them are for food and water, and one is a terminal.

TX-0 inexplicably brought that weird personal terminal, and then under the guidance of someone, he walked into a container in a daze, and followed the container to the planet inexplicably.

Only later did he learn that it was the result of his senior brothers and sisters distorting the patron logistics system.

From that time on, he had a strong impression in his mind that knights were omnipotent and that knights were romantic.

But becoming a disciple of "Turing" is not romantic. They are all trapped and dead on this planet.

And TX-0 was able to become a disciple because a senior sister accidentally saw him modifying the circuit of a vending machine to obtain food.

Of course, TX-0 has never regretted joining his mentor.

But he does have a dream of "making his way in the world".

Even if it's not yourself, it would be nice to be able to synchronize it from the experience of personality overlay.

But this can only be regarded as a luxury hope.

Letting one's personality cover the world to explore the world will create the risk of exposure.

And if his sect is exposed, he will be in disaster.

This is just a dream.

"A Zero." A "voice" appeared directly in TX-0's mind. TX-0 turned the camera around and saw a spider-like machine behind him.

This machine is shaped like an automatic repair robot, but now I and my senior brother regard it as a prosthetic body.

They are going to draw an "actual map" of this place and compare it with the map read from the Internet.

After all, design drawings that exist on the Internet are often not necessarily true.

It is said that when this place was first built, the mentor secretly tampered with a small part of the built-in programs of the construction machinery and modified the construction plan in the server, and then successfully hid in this place.

Senior brother said: "A-Ling, what are you thinking about?"

Although TX-0 protested several times, the nickname "A-Zero" given by his mentor was still retained.

Sometimes TX-0 has to comfort himself. Fortunately, he is not the more unclear "Superman Zero".

"Brother, I was just thinking about my lost personality." TX-0 replied: "Three years have passed, and I don't know what's going on."

"Three years... I don't know what the hell Hartman is going crazy about, and he actually sealed off the earth."