Chapter 511: The Real Boundary
(I just finished the plane today. I am so tired. I will update one chapter first)
"All? Yaoyao, make it clearer, what is all?"
Chen Li looked at Yaoyao's face in shock. At this moment, the expression on her face made everyone feel a little strange--that was not the expression that a child over 8 years old and who was not yet nine years old should show under any circumstances.
It was obviously a very tender face, but it revealed a strong indifference like the old man who had seen all the thousands of sails.
Two extremely contradictory elements gathered together on her body, presenting a strange but shocking beauty.
Hearing Chen Li’s question, Yaoyao was silent for a moment, and then replied;
"It's all...Uncle Chen, I know what this experiment is."
"Just like my phone, its memory card is not enough, so you want to add another memory card to my phone -- or a hard drive on the computer."
She accurately stated the purpose of the experiment, and the expressions of the project team became more complicated after hearing her words.
“…what else do you know?”
Chen Li was really afraid that she would say another sentence similar to "I know everything", because he knew better than anyone else that if Yaoyao really obtained and processed all the information they pre-stored, it would not be a good thing for her.
Because information is just information, but the processing process of information is influenced by thinking logic, thinking mode, and even subjective cognition.
The information difference can be made up through BCI transmission technology, but thinking is the result of long-term training. Yaoyao is still too young, and the thinking training she has undergone is still extremely limited. If she combines the information in the wrong way, she may draw wrong conclusions.
For example, Chen Hao had come into contact with an extremely typical case before. At that time, he was still taking a neurology-related course. The teacher took them to a mental hospital and met a psychiatric patient who firmly believed that he was a mushroom.
This is not a joke of no loss. In fact, the patient argued the homologous relationship between humans and mushrooms through extremely rigorous logic, and quoted a large number of arguments to explain to everyone who asked him that he did not think he was a mushroom now, but that tens of thousands of years ago, his ancestors might have been a mushroom.
Therefore, he believed that he could not betray his ancestors. Even if he could not turn himself into mushrooms again, he should also demand himself by the standard of "mushroom" in his daily life.
For example, if you want to survive as a group as possible, use odor and pheromone as a communication method, you must not have any mushrooms or fungi related to them on the dining table.
This kind of cognition developed more and more extreme. Finally one day, his family couldn't bear it and sent him to a mental hospital.
In addition, the so-called horizon theory, quantum speed reading, and perpetual motion machines are also similar cognitive bias problems, and the main reason for this type of bias is the result of limited and correct information being combined by wrong logic.
Looking at Chen Li's nervous expression, Yaoyao was obviously stunned and then replied:
"There is nothing special...I can see a lot of information, but those information also seem to have boundaries. There are some things I want to continue to understand, and I can't find the results."
Chen Li breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his caution was indeed necessary.
In this test, he did not want Yaoyao to directly enter the Internet through the BCI transmission system as in the initial plan, but instead manually screened some information points of factual nature and pre-existed in the BCI system.
This means that the information that Yaoyao can call is actually just the ones in the BCI system hard disk.
The total amount of data will not exceed 400mb.
Thinking of this, Chen Li smiled a little self-deprecatingly---he subconsciously still had a certain fear of this technology, which also led to him overestimating the impact of the technology to some extent.
Yes, information is just information. The essence of this technology is just a kind of "storage and query", which is not much different from manually searching for information on the Internet. It just skips a series of indirect processes and raises the speed.
"That's good... Yaoyao, what you said is so scary. Okay, Sister Chu Ya will ask you some other questions. You can answer her questions and we will 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, and the aura on her face that was inconsistent with her age also faded a little.
This time, the 400mb knowledge covers a wide range, including history, literature, mathematics, physics, etc. Chu Ya asked typical questions one by one, and Yaoyao also gave the answer smoothly.
Everything was as they expected--or, it would be a little smoother, but it was not beyond the reach of understanding.
Yaoyao's words were like an insignificant little episode. Although they caused some trouble, they 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, and then she immediately checked some relatively vague information that had not been marked, and the answer was also satisfactory.
"Great, Yaoyao. Okay, that's all for today's experiment. Come on, I'll help you take off the equipment and you can go back and rest later."
While speaking, Chen Li signaled Zhu Xuan to disconnect the device, but just as the latter was typing on the keyboard and sitting on the last information gathered and organized, and was about to disconnect safely, Yaoyao suddenly asked:
"Uncle Chen, can I ask a few questions first?"
Chen Li was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a smile:
"Of course, Yaoyao, what do you want to ask?"
Yaoyao hesitated for a moment and said:
"I want to ask...... The reason why the over-exploitation of silver in the Western world led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty was fundamentally due to insufficient transportation capacity in the Ming Dynasty at that time?"
"Ming Dynasty... this problem is not that simple, and we have to analyze it from all aspects of society at that time. As you thought, insufficient transportation capacity did lead to excessive silver accumulation in coastal areas, aggravated uneven resource allocation and local price increases. Finally, after a series of transmissions, the consequences of land annexation were finally produced."
"If we link Western silver mining with the fact that the Ming Dynasty declines, it is probably such a logic."
Chen Li himself is a very curious person. He has a lot of knowledge in different disciplines. He can also explain a few sentences based on his own experience of the question raised by Yaoyao.
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 in the process, which is a good sign.
After all, it is useless to have a hard disk with huge capacity. To play a role, its central processor is also very important.
Chen Li was about to praise Yaoyao for a few words, but suddenly noticed Chu Ya's expression on the side.
The information revealed in the expression is not praise.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Li asked in confusion.
Chu Ya shook her head slightly and replied hesitantly:
"The database we randomly crawled does not have the information you discussed."
"No? What does it mean?"
Chu Ya gave Zhu Xuan a look, who opened the database file directly in the system, and then entered the keyword "Silver" to search. There were only a few results that appeared in front of them.
There was only one result that happened during the Ming Dynasty in China.
Moreover, that was not mentioned when explaining the history of the Ming Dynasty, but in the history of Western industrial development.
The focus of this article is the Podocian silver mine in Peru. After reading the whole thing, Chen Li took a breath.
In this article, the entire article does not mention the Ming Dynasty.
However, Yaoyao was extremely sure to connect the two together--even directly formed a "axiom" conclusion in her mind!
Chen Li took a breath of cold air, then looked at Yaoyao in surprise and asked:
"Yaoyao, do you have any other questions?"
"Yes, I still have many questions."
"For example, if dark matter cannot be detected, how do we know it exists; for example, why time has directionality, why entropy increases irreversible; for example, the literary schools of various countries are related to social development, so why does the symbolist literature in the 19th century have no clear source..."
Listening to Yaoyao's endless words, Chen Li's mouth widened and wider. Then, at a certain moment, he suddenly understood all this.
Yes, the sentence Yaoyao said, "She knows everything." is not wrong.
What she learned from the BCI system is not just the knowledge and information itself, but the connection between them.
The connection between things is the basis of all scientific research.
Now, the information contained in the database they use is still extremely limited and rough, but as an experimenter, Yaoyao has been able to further deduce new conclusions through these limited information. What if one day she truly intervenes her consciousness in the Internet?
With the influx of massive information, is there a possibility that she, or humans, will become an "omniscient" in a sense?
----No, this idea is too advanced, and the amount of information required should also exceed the limit of the human brain's processing capabilities.
But if she changes her thinking and only considers a very small field, she can definitely exhaust all possible connections in this limited field at an extremely fast speed!
To verify this, it is actually only a small problem.
A question that has not been mentioned in a database, but can be inferred through information fusion.
Chen Li slowly let out a breath and then asked:
"Yaoyao, you know that according to current physics theory, the movement of objects cannot exceed the speed of light."
"So, suppose there is a train running at 0.8 times the speed of light, and fires a bullet with a speed of 0.3 times the speed of light in the same direction on this train, then 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 speed of objects should be superimposed differently."
"That means, there should be a new way to calculate the speed...Uncle Chen, I don't know what this is."
"But I think if this is true, there must be some kind of energy being offset."
"Does that mean that in our world, there are still some 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 wanted only one answer, that is, when approaching the speed of light, the formula for speed calculation is different from that at low speed.
Yaoyao answered this point without thinking.
Then, she even further proposed a fact, but Chen Li never expected the concept she could propose.
Antimatter.
Antimatter is an important factor in explaining the Dirac equation used in the special theory of relativity.
Obviously, Yaoyao didn't know how this process was implemented--her mathematical foundation could not support her in completing this part of the operation, but she did "see" the hidden connection.
Chapter completed!