Chapter 1105: Chapter 114: Mode Switching, Assimilation, and Religious Affairs
Legend has it that Albert Einstein was very fond of the violin and possessed a certain level of expertise. There was once a critic, not particularly knowledgeable about physics, who, after listening to his performance, remarked to others, “A very excellent performance, but I don’t think it matches his world-renowned reputation; many people play as well as he does.” As a perforr, although Einstein’s achievents in music couldn’t compare to his accomplishnts in physics, he was still regarded as “excellent.”
Moreover, Einstein had another small habit. Occasionally, while in thought, he would hold the violin and unconsciously rub the strings with the bow. In such situations, he considered the sounds he produced to be tuneless and unlistenable. Yet, this remained a long-standing habit.
Four hundred years later, another person with a similar perspective reminisced about a story he heard in his youth.
In this story, Einstein might be similar to Yawgmoth of the early twenty-first century. Because of their youthful hobbies, they created the structure of “music” in their brains, and after training, the related neural networks beca quite developed.
Simultaneously, their deep thinking in another field caused another neural network’s structure to rapidly expand. Through day-to-day practice, the structures belonging to this neural network were reinforced, while parts neglected in practice began to regress. The all-purpose cognitive tool, capable of exhibiting power in countless fields, began to concentrate its strength in a single domain.
However, the size of the brain was fixed from the start. In that era, humans risked death when opening the skull, and neural stem cells beca silent after a certain stage of life. The brain hardly proliferates.
Therefore, the expanding neural network would attempt to rge with another neural network.
Sothing inexplicable to others thus occurred.
Music itself, vastly different from “rational,” beca an auxiliary tool for scientific thinking. In a sense, this was also a ans to soothe one’s brain with specific techniques.
Xiang Shan put down the guitar in his hand. This guitar was completed with additive manufacturing in the lab. From strings to body, all synthetic materials. He would perform improvisations while in deep thought.
The act itself was safe. The Ninth Martial God was only relatively primitive AI, understanding only performance without research capabilities. Yawgmoth himself was limited by his cognition, never attempting such behavior, so no one would know he was trying to harness Yawgmoth’s abilities.
Even the apprentices would be awed but not enlightened. In their cognition, only a great Scientific Knight would be entitled to possess such an “eccentricity.”
Ah, no. Actually, the “eccentricity” refers to the “abnormal” understanding of others. They couldn’t comprehend “how doing such strange things could aid rational thinking.”
Those with quirks might also struggle to understand. To them, this way of thinking was “natural.” Without others pointing it out, they might never feel they had any unique traits throughout their lives.
Because these quirks were often the “result” of neural network developnt.
Only when the brain is significantly exercised, and the neural network representing “scientific thinking” expands, “absorbing” other cognitive neural networks within the brain, do “eccentricities” arise. Those scientists didn’t achieve remarkable feats because they had odd habits; rather, their persistent thinking, concentrating the scant brain resources in one place, led to the ergence of “eccentricities.”
The improvised lody in Xiang Shan’s hands was precisely a byproduct of his utilization of Yawgmoth’s abilities.
And now, the intense white noise covered everything, including those thoughts.
This was a form of self-suggestion. Xiang Shan forcibly stopped Yawgmoth’s thought patterns. He used this auditory preference that was completely unacceptable to Yawgmoth to kill the background processes in his brain.
The “unceasing music” in Yawgmoth’s subjective experience was completely overshadowed by white noise.
This was a powerful self-suggestion, similar to a switch of Personality Mask, except closer to a “transformation of thought.”
Of course, there was a reason for this. Xiang Shan feared that maintaining this emotional thinking pattern for too long might lead to trouble.
No matter what, this place was undoubtedly an “enemy camp.” He didn’t want to spontaneously combust after emotionally driven thinking.
Nevertheless, the results of the previous thought process still existed in the brain. Sotis Xiang Shan himself would marvel, “Did I co up with this?”
But now, what he needed was another ability.
Understanding and insight.
In this way, Xiang Shan now had to “learn,” “comprehend” what he had thought up.
After switching thoughts, Xiang Shan suddenly couldn’t understand what he had just thought up. He had to re-learn.
And at present, these Scientific Knights, and the senior apprentices only one step away from full knighthood, were the best learning tools available.
The physicist Richard Feynman once developed an efficient learning thod for himself. He would imagine himself as a teacher, trying to explain the concept he wanted to learn to students. During this process, the learner would think about how to explain the knowledge he hadn’t fully grasped. He would realize how well he understood the concept and what parts weren’t fully comprehended.
If he truly couldn’t understand, he would have to return to books and materials, rethinking “how to explain in his own words.”
Understand, simplify, narrate.
Top scholars are willing to take a teaching position at universities, partly for this reason. “Teaching” offers them so degree of self-improvent.
Of course, this thod is more suitable for learning “what is known to humanity.” For the vast “unknowns” faced by most scholars, the effectiveness of this thod may not be as valuable.
Humans find it difficult to dissect the unknown through rationality and language directly.
But what Xiang Shan sought to do was understand the “already completed thoughts.”
He had already mimicked Yawgmoth’s thinking, completing the task of contemplation. However, this process of thinking was not presented purely through a rational, narratable form. Xiang Shan still rembered, yet could not understand it intuitively.
Yawgmoth, Xiang Shan, and these knights and apprentices happened to represent three levels, three gradients.
Xiang Shan felt that if he could make these scientific knights understand, he would have truly comprehended it himself.
The “understanding” and “communication” abilities he possessed naturally created a bridge with the neural network representing Yawgmoth’s biological thinking.
This process was his way of thoroughly mastering the thought process of a top scientist.
It was also…
A process of cognitive enhancent.
And a byproduct of this process was the ergence of “advanced scientific knight apprentices” or even “epic scientific knight apprentices.”
These apprentices, whose abilities had been enhanced, would be of even greater help to Xiang Shan’s experintal plans.
As for the goodwill from the apprentices, it was a byproduct of a byproduct.
But still, it had value to leverage.
This goodwill ford the foundation of “team” building.
“Mr. Frey.” A formal knight approached Xiang Shan proactively after the eting.
“Mr. Vida?” Xiang Shan initially intended to pick up his instrunt to continue imrsing himself in the ntal pleasure brought by transcendent thoughts. But seeing soone take the initiative to find him, he put down the instrunt.
The address “Your Excellency” made the formal knight Harvey Vida Ray feel comfortable all over. He whispered, “Your Excellency, you can’t go online, so so news might not reach you promptly. I found out sothing yesterday… possibly useful information. Vice Captain Mr. Parmion has added two project groups… regarding ‘Special Sample A-RG-13.'”
“Special Sample A-RG-13” was the code Xiang Shan gave his neural cells within the Life Furnace Knights Order.
Of course, it referred to Xiang Shan’s own neural cells.
Xiang Shan nodded: “What direction are they working in?”
“This… Your Excellency, you are very selfless, but not every scientific knight is like you.” Knight Vida whispered, “Mr. Parmion’s research directions are, of course, not open to us.”
“It’s nothing.” Xiang Shan was quite optimistic, “Everything is for the ultimate Ascension.”
The Hermit Group of the Six Dragons Sect had this style. Their attitude towards many matters was “Believe it or not, just don’t disturb the Lords’ Ascension.”
Xiang Shan was rather pleased with this. After all, the more people studying these cells, the closer he was to his goal.
At worst, he would just have to put in more effort at the end to claim the results.
Knight Vida seed anxious: “My dear Mr. Frey! You’re completely open with your ideas to those knights; don’t you think…”
“Hmm, this indeed encourages a lot.” Xiang Shan interrupted directly, “In the afternoon, I’ll talk to Mr. Parmion. Discuss the research direction of this special sample.”
After all, this was the Headquarters of the Life Furnace Knights Order. Xiang Shan was very clear that no matter what he said, both Vice Captain Parmion and Deputy Chief Devinia would know.
So things might as well be spoken directly.
He wasn’t concerned at all about “projects being stolen.” Xiang Shan even wished he could provide more assistance to Mr. Parmion.
Xiang Shan said, “Let’s leave the discussion of this matter here. Do you have any other questions you need to answer?”
Xiang Shan slightly assessed Harvey Vida. He felt this young man was quite a sentintal person. Just for these days of interaction, he dared to risk offending the Deputy Chief.
Of course, this also exposed a problem.
He wasn’t truly devout to the ultimate goal of the Six Dragons Sect.
Xiang Shan’s phrase “everything is for Ascension” should be the highest pursuit in the Six Dragons Sect’s value system. Yet it was still not enough to convince him to set aside minor disputes with the Deputy Chief.
The Six Dragons Sect, at least the Hermit Group, is entirely ability-focused when developing followers. As long as scientific levels are excellent, one can be developed. They overly neglected the construction of “faith” and “pursuit” in terms of cultural and spiritual developnt. Of course, this also had a lot to do with the Six Dragons Sect’s secretive behavioral patterns.
Nevertheless, this also indicated one thing. The peripheral mbers of the Hermit Group had the potential to be developed into progressive elents.
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