Cyber Heroes

Whales are mammals and need to breathe. Their bodies are highly adapted to the ocean and can breathe every tens of minutes. However, unlike all land mammals, they must actively decide when to breathe.

Land mammals can breathe unconsciously, but whales cannot. They have to decide when they want to come up for air.

Sleep also appears to be an issue for whales.

Different species of whales use many different methods to solve this problem. Each species of whale possesses one or several special skills in sleep.

For example, the rhythms of whales operating in the deep sea are almost completely disconnected from day and night. They are active at any time of the day and night.

Some whales have also mastered another skill. They can sleep in small amounts and many times, for more than ten minutes at a time, and many times a day.

Of course, the most magical and common one is to "let half the brain rest."

Many species of whales, including nearly all dolphins, can put one hemisphere of their brains to sleep while leaving the other functioning.

Of course, this naturally caused strong discomfort to the prosthetic central chip. Many early runtime bugs were related to this.

The human left brain and right brain have a clear distinction in emphasis, and the two can only wake up or sleep synchronously.

Humans with defects in the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right brains, may even experience a miraculous phenomenon.

After these people see something on the left side of their field of vision, they cannot describe the object correctly with their mouths. They may even feel that they have not seen the thing, but their hands can accurately point out where the thing is, as if their hands It belongs to two different wills from the brain.

When they were asked to copy simple three-dimensional figures with their left and right hands, these right-handed subjects could only use their left hand to complete the copying, and their right hand could only draw two-dimensional lines with no sense of space.

But later research showed that these differences appear as humans grow. Scientists once found special volunteers who were born with a missing corpus callosum, proving that the right brain can also have language functions, and the left brain can also have spatial imagination.

But in dolphins, this distinction is much smaller.

The structure of the corpus callosum and the connection pattern of the two hemispheres of the brain in dolphins are obviously different from humans.

Ola Freeman also thought about developing a research and development plan for dolphin chips based on this difference. However, he is a pure biologist and has never been able to implement those ideas.

He even considered installing neuroprosthetics in the corpus callosum to reconstruct a user-device interaction model to avoid the impact of dolphins' half-brain hibernation nature.

But from the perspective of Xiang Shan, who personally participated in the research and development of central chips for human use, many of Ola Freeman’s ideas are good ideas and can be used as directions for exploration.

Of course, for Aola, these are all projects that require a lot of resources to invest in research and development, and may not be able to produce results for a while.

On Xiangshan's side, he was naturally thinking about the possibility of applying the transformation ideas on the corpus callosum to martial arts.

Among the numerous data left by the Eighth Martial God, some also involve this area of ​​the brain. But the focus of the Eighth Martial God is not here. He also wants to study artificial neural network models that can inherit internal skills. But at least there are some records.

——Maybe you need to go to the database of the Scientific Research Knights to look for relevant information...

——Or, the Six Dragons Sect...

Xiangshan thought so.

In the process of research, Xiangshan also touched on another concept mentioned in Aura's research records - whale dreams.

The dreamy babble produced by whales when half of their brains are asleep.

I don’t know if this is a phenomenon that only occurs in baseline whales after their intelligence has been improved, or if it is a trait possessed by the ancestors of whales.

The rhythm of whales has nothing to do with the sun and moon. Whales sleep in small amounts and many times. Only half of their brains sleep at a time...

In other words, as long as the size of the group is large enough, a small part of a group of whales will always be sleeping at the same time.

The dream babble, the language of whales, emitted by these sleeping whales will spread far away along the seawater until it is received by another whale with half a dream-like brain.

According to Ola Freeman, when half a whale's brain falls asleep, its speech undergoes subtle changes.

The language of these whales is a creole mixed with the languages ​​of many different whales. And when half of the whale's brain falls asleep, the parts of this language that are not in line with the nature of its own species will be greatly reduced - but it will not disappear. The whale has accepted to think in this mixed language.

And this kind of dream talk will inexplicably affect other whales of the same species with the same half of their brains falling into dreams. Whales with half their brains even dreaming will communicate in this new changed language.

These half-asleep whales seem to be not only in the same reality, but also in the same dream.

But with the passage of two hundred years, the acquired role of language seems to be strengthening from generation to generation. Different species of whales also appear to be able to communicate with each other in their sleep.

There are even some differences in the changes in language when the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere are dormant.

Similar phenomena have been observed in killer whales and dolphins.

Ola has also thought about using virtual reality to study the dreams of killer whales. However, because this sleep mode is completely different from the way the human brain operates, when the killer whale starts dreaming, the prosthetic central chip is prone to reporting an error. It is basically impossible to maintain a stable connection.

It is said that adult killer whales who gave up their bodies to escape starvation were not used to it at first, but eventually accepted the reality of "sleeping amid a large number of error warnings."

And as Xiangshan learned the language of whales, and he used the opening and closing of the artificial neural network in his mind to simulate the thinking of whales, he began to experience a new mode of mental operation.

Gradually, he began to merge into the whale's "dream".

He heard the obscure infrasound that came with the ocean currents and was hidden in the roar of the earth and the surge of sea water...

He heard it...

"The cry of dolphins?" Xiang Shan suddenly opened his eyes. He deciphered the messages floating along the ocean currents.

Under his feet, the whale Haupderman sped up and let out a deep roar. Kledici and Hikasi shouted briefly, seeming to be in some kind of ecstasy, accelerating in a certain direction.

"What's going on?" Xiang Shan was very surprised: "You were attacked? Who? Why?"