Great Power Technology

(I just finished a plane ride today, I’m too tired, so I’ll update one chapter first)

"Everything? Yaoyao, let's be clear, what does everything mean?"

Chen Li looked at Yaoyao's face in shock. The expression on her face at this moment made everyone feel a little strange - it was not what a child over 8 years old and not yet 9 years old should show under any circumstances. The look that comes out.

His face was obviously very young, but it revealed a strong indifference like that of an old man after reading A Thousand Sails.

Two extremely contradictory elements come together in her body, presenting a strange but breathtaking beauty.

Hearing Chen Li's question, Yaoyao was silent for a moment and then replied;

"That's all, Uncle Chen, I know what this experiment is."

"Just like my mobile phone, its memory card is not enough, so you want to add a new memory card to my mobile phone - or the hard drive on my computer."

She accurately stated the purpose of the experiment, and the expressions of everyone in the project team became more complicated after hearing her words.

".What else do you know?"

Chen Li was really afraid that she would say something like "everything is known" again, because he knew better than anyone else that if Yaoyao really obtained and processed all the information they had pre-stored, what would happen to her That wouldn't be a good thing.

Because information is just information, but the processing of information is affected by thinking logic, way of thinking, and even subjective cognition.

The information gap can be made up through BCI transmission technology, but thinking is the result of long-term training, and Yaoyao is still too young after all, and the thinking training she has experienced is still extremely limited. If she uses the wrong way to transfer those When information is combined, it is possible to draw erroneous conclusions.

For example, Chen Hao had been exposed to a very typical case before. At that time, he was still taking neurology-related courses. The teacher took them to a mental hospital and met a mentally ill patient who believed that he was a mushroom.

This is not a bad joke. In fact, the patient demonstrated the homologous relationship between humans and mushrooms through extremely rigorous logic, and cited a large number of arguments to explain to everyone who asked him that he did not think that he was now Mushroom, but tens of thousands of years ago, his ancestor might have been a mushroom.

Therefore, he believes that he cannot abandon his ancestors. Even if he cannot turn himself and his ancestors into mushrooms again, he should still hold himself to the standards of "mushrooms" in his daily life.

For example, try to survive in groups as much as possible, use smells and pheromones as communication methods, and mushrooms and fungi must not appear on the table.

This kind of cognition became more and more extreme, and finally one day, his family couldn't bear it and sent him to a mental hospital.

In addition, the so-called flat earth theory, quantum speed reading, and perpetual motion machines are also the same kind of cognitive bias problems, and the main cause of such biases is the result of limited and correct information being combined by wrong logic.

Seeing Chen Li's nervous expression, Yaoyao was obviously stunned for a moment, and then replied:

"There's nothing special. I can see a lot of information, but that information seems to have boundaries. There are some things I want to continue to understand, but I can't find the results."

Chen Li breathed a long sigh of relief. It seemed that his caution was indeed necessary.

In this test, he did not let Yaoyao directly access the Internet through the BCI transmission system as originally planned. Instead, he manually screened some factual information points and pre-stored them in the BCI system.

This means that the information that Yaoyao can call is actually only that in the BCI system hard drive.

The total data volume will not exceed 400MB.

Thinking of this, Chen Li smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly - he still had a certain fear of this technology subconsciously, which also led him to overestimate the impact of technology to some extent.

Yes, information is just information. The essence of this technology is just a kind of "storage and query". It is not much different from manually searching for information on the Internet. It just skips a series of indirect processes and increases the speed. Just go up.

"That's good Yaoyao, what you said is too scary. Okay, Sister Chuya wants to ask you some other questions. You answer her questions and we collect the results. Today's test will be over."

Yaoyao on the chair nodded calmly. At this time, probably because her attention was attracted by Chen Hao, the amount of data transmitted in the neural pathways in the BCI transmission system was reduced. The look on her face was consistent with her age. The aura of discord has also faded a bit.

The 400MB of knowledge this time covered a wide range of topics, including history, literature, mathematics, physics, etc. Chu Ya asked typical questions one by one, and Yaoyao also answered the questions smoothly.

Everything was just as they expected - or a little smoother, but not beyond the scope of understanding.

Yaoyao's words were like an insignificant episode. Although it caused some waves, it did not have much impact on the overall situation.

More than half an hour later, Chu Ya had asked all the questions on the list. Then she randomly checked some relatively vague information that had not been marked, and the answers were equally satisfactory.

"Great, Yaoyao. Okay, that's it for today's experiment. Come on, I'll help you take off the equipment. You can go back and rest later."

As he spoke, Chen Li motioned to Zhu Xuan to disconnect the device, but just as the latter was typing on the keyboard, sorting out the final information and preparing to safely disconnect, Yaoyao suddenly asked:

"Uncle Chen, can I ask a few questions first?"

Chen Li was stunned for a moment, then replied with a smile:

"Of course, Yaoyao, what do you want to ask?"

Yaoyao hesitated for a moment and said:

"I would like to ask the reason why the over-exploitation of silver in the Western world led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty. Fundamentally speaking, was it because the Ming Dynasty had insufficient transportation capacity at that time?"

"In the Ming Dynasty, this problem was not that simple. It had to be analyzed from all aspects of society at that time. As you might think, insufficient transportation capacity did lead to the accumulation of excess silver in coastal areas, exacerbating the uneven distribution of resources and local price increases. Finally, After a series of transmissions, the consequences of land annexation finally occurred.”

"If you connect Western silver mining with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, this is probably the logic."

Chen Li himself is a very curious person, and he is exposed to a lot of knowledge in different disciplines. Regarding the question raised by Yaoyao, he can also explain a few words based on his own experience.

However, being able to ask such a question proves that Yaoyao not only saw the knowledge through the BCI system, but also had some thoughts of her own in the process, which is a good sign.

After all, it is no use just having a hard drive with a huge capacity. For a computer system to function, its central processor is also very important.

Chen Li was about to praise Yaoyao a few words, but suddenly noticed Chu Ya's expression on the side.

The information revealed in that expression was not praise.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Li asked doubtfully.

Chu Ya shook her head slightly and replied hesitantly:

"The information you discussed does not exist in the database we randomly retrieved."

"No? What do you mean?"

Chu Ya gave Zhu Xuan a look, and the latter directly opened the database file in the system, and then entered the keyword "silver" to search, but only a few results appeared in front of them.

There was only one result that occurred during the Ming Dynasty of China.

Moreover, that was not mentioned when explaining the history of the Ming Dynasty, but was mentioned in the history of Western industrial development.

The focus of this article is the Podosi Silver Mine in Peru. After reading the entire article, Chen Li took a breath.

In this article, the Ming Dynasty is not mentioned at all.

However, Yaoyao connected the two with great certainty - even directly forming an "axiomatic" conclusion in her mind!

Chen Li took a breath, then looked at Yaoyao with some surprise and asked:

"Yao Yao, do you have any other questions?"

"Yes, I still have a lot of questions."

"For example, if dark matter cannot be detected, how do we know it exists? For example, why does time have directionality and why entropy increase is irreversible? For example, the literary genres in various countries are related to social development, so why did the 19th century Symbolist literature has no clear source"

Listening to Yaoyao's gushing words, Chen Li's mouth opened wider and wider, and then, at a certain moment, he suddenly understood it all.

Yes, what Yaoyao said "she knows everything" is not wrong.

What she learned from the BCI system was not just the knowledge and information itself, but the connections between them.

The connection between things is the basis of all scientific research.

At present, the information contained in the database they are using is still extremely limited and rough, but as an experimenter, Yaoyao has been able to further deduce new conclusions through this limited information. If one day, she truly intervenes with her consciousness What about the Internet?

With the massive influx of information, is it possible that she, or humans, will become an "omniscient" in some sense? ——

No, this idea is too advanced, and the amount of information required should exceed the limit of the human brain's processing capabilities.

But if she changes her mind and only considers a very small field, then she can definitely exhaust all possible connections in this limited field at an extremely fast speed!

To verify this, only a small question is needed.

A question that is not mentioned in the database, but the answer can be inferred through information fusion.

Chen Li slowly exhaled and then asked:

"Yao Yao, you know that according to the current physics theory, the movement of objects cannot exceed the speed of light."

"So, assuming there is a train traveling at 0.8 times the speed of light, and a bullet with a speed of 0.3 times the speed of light is fired in the same direction on this train, what should the speed of this bullet be?"

Yaoyao on the opposite side frowned and thought for a few seconds, then replied:

"If this is the case, according to the theory of relativity, when approaching the speed of light, the velocity superposition of objects should be different."

"That said, there should be a new way to calculate speed Uncle Chen, I don't know what it is."

"But I think if that's the case, there must be some energy being offset."

"Does that mean that in our world, there are still things that are opposite to what we see?"

Chen Li turned his head to Chu Ya and Zhu Xuan, his eyes were extremely solemn.

In fact, when asking this question, he only wanted one answer, that is, when approaching the speed of light, the formula for calculating speed is different from that at low speed.

Yaoyao answered this without thinking.

Then, she even went a step further and proposed a concept that fact existed, but Chen Li never expected that she could bring it up.

Antimatter.

Antimatter is an important factor in the Dirac equation used to explain the theorem "the speed of light cannot be exceeded" in the special theory of relativity.

Obviously, Yaoyao didn't know how this process was realized - her mathematical foundation could not support her to complete this part of the calculation, but she did "see" the hidden connection.

This possibility is probably the real boundary of BCI transmission technology.