252: Chapter 32: The Illusion of “Learning” 252: Chapter 32: The Illusion of “Learning” Xiang Shan looked at the object that resembled a USB drive but had “Magic Realism Carnival” engraved on its side.
He took it and inspected it closely.
He thought the thing was suspicious as hell.
“I, as a country bumpkin, have never smoked…
or should I say inhaled this high-end stuff,” he ridiculed himself.
“What is this?”
“It’s…
a collection of surreal snippets, very postmodern junk data.
It’s rather mild,” he explained.
—Damn, it sounds even more like tobacco…
Xiang Shan said, “Do Heroes nowadays like this stuff?”
He asked Solo Kill King in a private chat channel: [If you saw Cui Hai and the others getting high on junk data, what would you do?]
Jader was shocked, imdiately sat upright, and yanked the USB from his data port, stating righteously: [Those two little bastards, the Soth Divine Realm isn’t even fully constructed, and they dare surf junk data?
Cutting off their internet is the only way to go for so deep reflection!]
Xiang Shan’s expression grew even stranger.
Is this thing so kind of electronic tobacco?
And do you actually think this approach is persuasive?
Xiang Shan always felt there was sothing odd about this thing.
Holding the junk data in his hand, he said, “Is everyone using this thing?”
“Ah?
No, of course not.
Those lacking in Internal Strength and not within the Linguistic Realm can’t resist the influx of massive mories to their brain and easily get lost in it,” said Bai Man.
“If you have low Internal Strength, it’s not feasible to use it.
However, a short-term relaxation should be possible.”
“Ah, this, if it’s my first ti trying it, is there anything I should be cautious about?”
Xiang Shan had to ask.
The thing sounded unsafe.
He wasn’t too keen on trying it.
But since it existed, there would inevitably be people scheming within it.
He needed to know what it was exactly.
“Ah?”
“I generally don’t touch stuff that has an addiction risk…” Xiang Shan gestured in the air with his hands.
He stayed away from all tobacco products, and he only marginally tasted alcohol.
The posture of Great Hero Bai Man was almost embarrassed, “Ah, this…
sorry, I…
this should be sothing even the Dyson Principle wouldn’t prohibit.
How to say it, it’s like nobody would think ‘sugar addiction’ is a very serious matter.
Everyone consus a certain amount of sugar every day, and excessive intake is harmful, but there’s basically no prohibition…”
It was like “accidentally handing a cigar to a non-smoking boss and then explaining that it was a fashionable social etiquette.”
Xiang Shan looked at the USB-shaped object in his hand and inserted it into his data port.
He didn’t run it imdiately but decided to check its properties first.
Uh…
A…
how to say it?
Nurous short videos, texts, images aggregated into one file in a very complex format, created for the brain to read directly.
Converted into ancient formats like MP4, MP3, AVI, JPG, this thing would probably be hundreds of TB in size.
Xiang Shan asked, “Are there any tricks to browsing this?”
“Open your senses and buffer, suppress the activity of the hippocampus, and don’t use surface thinking to search for that content,” said Bai Man.
“Ah, I an, you don’t need to do this just out of politeness…”
Xiang Shan soon understood what this thing was.
This thing, like its superficial na “junk data,” contained an abundance of senseless information solely ant to stimulate senses, stored in this complex manner.
Human mory chanisms are layered.
External stimuli need to first pass through sensory organs—eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin—which form a “sensory buffer” much like “still hearing the sound just heard.” These “sensory buffers” mix together and enter into the brain’s “buffer.” This is an actual physiological structure.
Sensory buffers are processed into short-term mories inside the buffer.
These short-term mories gradually fade away.
Only after including deep brain regions like the hippocampus processing, do short-term mories beco long-term mories.
Long-term mories are often lifelong.
They indeed fade but can also be easily revived.
Ah, but long-term mories are also subject to modification by the brain.
When a person recalls an event from the past years later, their mory often deviates.
However, that is another level of problem.
Additionally, although short-term mory easily fades, the human brain can delay this fading without transforming it into long-term mory—this process is called “rehearsal.” If a piece of information in short-term mory will soon be useful, the brain will continuously rehearse the scenario until it is actually needed.
The classic example is “rembering a phone number.” If soone gives you a phone number and you need to dial it soon or write it down, your brain will continuously rehearse until the “related mory” of that phone number completes its task.
Afterward, the short-term mory of the phone number quickly fades.
The brain also tries its best to prevent an overload of information from flooding into mory, causing stress in information processing.
And “scrolling through junk information” is a special technique that blocks the brain’s retrieval of short-term mory, preventing massive amounts of junk information from transforming into long-term mory.
Often, a person doesn’t need to convert external intelligence into long-term mory to enjoy it.
For example, one does not need to rember a song’s lody and lyrics to appreciate the beauty of the music.
Nor does one need to morize a funny video first to understand the humor.
The “sense of pleasure” arises before the creation of long-term mory.
The “junk information” these heroes “use” all directly stimulates human senses.
This junk information can provide a direct experience.
Heroes with accomplished inner strength can almost completely block this flow of junk information into their long-term mory.
That’s why they can enjoy these things.
To achieve this, you must have succeeded in the Soth Divine Realm and restructured “sensory information” and “language processing”—and this step requires at least the compilation or assembly levels of internal strength cultivation.
“I sort of get the logic …,” Xiang Shan said sowhat strangely, “This thing could just be stored in our own prosthetic body, right?
It doesn’t seem that big, so why make it look like this … like a long USB stick?”
Is it just for cosplaying an electronic cigarette?
Great Hero Baiman was shocked, “This … normal people wouldn’t store this thing inside their body, would they?
It’s too easy to get addicted to.
Even for heroes, after scrolling through it thousands of tis, junk information would still enter their brain.
That would affect their inner strength.”
Information addiction is a very serious “addiction of the mind.”
Humans feel “uneasy” in unfamiliar environnts because they do not know whether there are threats to their life there.
Therefore, instinct drives them to explore their surroundings, gain more knowledge, eliminate the “unknown,” and gain a “sense of security.”
Not just humans; many higher animals have this instinct.
Many animals actively explore their environnt.
For humans, “the entire world” can be seen as a “strange external environnt.” From the ignorant ancient tis, humans have been using various thods to eliminate the “unknown” and gain a “sense of security.”
So people explore the outside world, while others create stories to comfort themselves.
The human mind is “craving information.” However, the human body’s instinct has not yet learned to “discern information.” Therefore, regardless of whether the information is aningful, it gives one the feeling of “I have learned” or “I know more”—and this feeling is the most severe mind addiction.
Resisting this temptation is not too difficult.
But, if this thing is stored in a mory directly connected to human consciousness, and every thought of a human could trigger it …
Few can resist it.
mories are stored in the brain.
This process causes subtle changes in the brain.
Inner strength itself also involves self-adjustnt of the brain.
A massive amount of junk information can physiologically hinder inner strength.
Great Hero Baiman rembered that early on, heroes who made this mistake and beca addicted to junk information had hindered their inner strength.
Even because their mind was full of aningless mories, these heroes found it harder to progress in their inner strength than ordinary people.
However, it must be admitted that this illusion of “eliminating the unknown” can greatly alleviate anxiety without damaging logical thinking ability.
Although chemicals like thylamphetamine are more effective in “boosting morale,” those substances are indeed too harmful to the brain.
So, many heroes choose “junk information” to alleviate pre-battle anxiety.
“Wow, interesting.” Xiang Shan casually glanced at it, then pulled it out and pocketed it in his tool belt—according to his understanding, this thing was like a cigarette handed to you by soone else.
According to etiquette, the best way to carry it was to tuck it in your ear or pocket.
He looked at Great Hero Baiman and said, “Great Hero Baiman, you didn’t ask here just to hand this cigarette …
I an this piece of junk information, right?
Do you have anything else to say?”
“Indeed … I an, you really saw through it.”
Great Hero Baiman gestured to Xiang Shan.
The two walked deeper into the cave.
In the depths of the cave, there was a prosthetic body half-buried in the ground.
The part of the prosthetic body above ground was two ters tall and lacked a head.
Several unmanned drones were conducting a final search.
Great Hero Baiman said, “Please accept this prosthetic body, Naless Hero.
Your martial arts skills should be higher than mine.
This prosthetic body, equipped with Great Hero Tao’s Pseudo Star Device, might play a bigger role in your hands.”
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