According to Xiang Shan’s "old friend’s" hypothesis, once human "thought" is fully and completely digitized, it will result in a trendously large amount of data. This massive file has its own operational rules, matching only specific biological hardware—one could even say that this "software" itself records the information of the "hardware."
But if one were to really break through the black box and organize this data, people might find that the majority of this huge data is "commonality," which is "replaceable."
And what truly determines a person’s individual characteristics is only the "last dozens of gabytes of information."
Moreover, this "last dozens of gabytes" representing "a person’s characteristics" is also a dynamic piece of information, capable of being modified, written into, and erased by other modules at any ti.
Yet at the sa ti, this tiny module possesses quite high privileges.
If this hypothesis holds, Xiang Shan could barely find an explanation for what happened to him.
The Ninth Martial God may not have much of Yog’s direct mory, but when Yawgmoth created the Ninth Martial God, he inadvertently mixed in so extra information that does not belong to the "last dozens of gabytes" in what he considered to be "personality."
In other words, the current technology cannot remove "information that does not belong to the last dozens of gabytes" from the mory files.
For a computer, it might be a aningless piece of code, or information beyond the reading range.
But for the human brain, this piece of information is actually quite prominent.
In Xiang Shan’s mory Labyrinth, there are both the "last dozens of gabytes of information" belonging to Xiang Shan himself, as well as "impurities" outside of other people’s "last dozens of gabytes of information."
Xiang Shan’s brain found key information for unlocking biological scientific research ability from these extra pieces of information.
That is, "ability" ford by the long-term application of knowledge by individuals, independent of knowledge itself.
Indeed, "ability" is independent of "self," and at the sa ti independent of "knowledge."
Just as the "Fierce Ghost" inferred, "knowledge" is the womb and eggshell that form "ability." The forming of "ability" requires knowledge, but not only that. Once "ability" is ford, it no longer belongs to knowledge but rather stretches the boundaries of knowledge.
The truth-seekers of ancient tis may have "knowledge" far less than those standing on the shoulders of giants today. However, their "abilities" might not necessarily be inferior to their successors.
The absolute data volu of "ability" is lower than "knowledge" but higher than "personality." Each level of data might experience a precipitous drop in volu.
The data needed for "biological scientific research ability" is already within this part of the mory, but before the mory of the Ninth Martial God returned to Xiang Shan, this data was never effectively organized. Of course, the mory that constitutes the Ninth Martial God may not possess all of Yawgmoth’s talents—because that is not even all of Yawgmoth’s mory.
However, Xiang Shan only needs "analogical extension."
It could be said that "scientific research abilities in different disciplines" are like "different factions of martial arts." Xiang Shan himself possesses a certain degree of "ability."
The replication cost of knowledge itself is not high. And in this era, even the cost of "learning" is very low.
"In the situation where knowledge is already in place, what truly needs to be obtained is the part of the data that is ’ability’—its absolute data volu is smaller, but its dinsions of variation might be more," Xiang Shan lanted. "At that ti, how talented a scientist is, how far they can go, is entirely a black-box process, all depending on how much creation there is at this step."
"My old friend there would often lant about being stuck at this step. After he obtained the resources to freely conduct research, he thought to study ’ability’ and ’talent’—and in that era, a significant direction in cognitive sciences was to reflect human intellectual research through computer and artificial intelligence research."
"So, he would seek out the most top-notch computer engineers to ponder over this. ’Consciousness,’ ’perception,’ ’mory,’ every part encoded separately, then uploaded as a whole and fused together."
"However, alongside the research of the Six Dragons Sect... the Six Dragons Sect probably discovered that there is still an ’ability’ between ’mory’ and ’self’... Upon further consideration, there might be a ’personal style’ zone between ’ability’ and ’self.’ Scientists have a ’personal research style’ forming based on personal experience above personal ability, and apex martial artists also have a ’personal martial arts style’ forming based on personal ability."
"We discussed this topic for a long ti, chatting day and night."
Xiang Shan sighed: "When I was young, I mingled in the sa gar community with that friend. Our tastes were also sowhat similar. He and my love were both hardcore fans of the sa JRPG series. So when naming so new discoveries, we used gaming terminology."
Yang ngying stared at him.
"Although this is just my personal conjecture, I think... maybe that matter was not a re flight of fancy—from the perspective of laboratory ethics, of course, I must criticize that bastard Chen Feng. This matter was indeed impulsive, but I think, at least, it wasn’t wanton and reckless."
Yang ngying finally spoke: "You, coming to tell all this now..."
"Just chatting. After all, I am your master. I taught you assassination techniques hand by hand," Xiang Shan said, "There are so things I want to share with you. I just feel these words might make you feel a bit better."
"... They won’t."
"I didn’t expect my words to change your path dependency of more than a hundred years," Xiang Shan stood up and said,
"But after all, I’m your elder. Since you’re in prison, I have to visit you, have a chat."
Yang ngying looked at him: "You brought in with your own hands."
Xiang Shan nodded, thought for a mont, and patted her on the head: "Just stay here, read more when you have ti, reform well, and strive to be a new person. I’m going to leave after this, won’t be able to see you for a long ti. If things don’t go smoothly, perhaps when I return next, I won’t be the sa . But I certainly will co to see you again."
Xiang Shan waved one last ti, leaving that Virtual Space.
Then, Yang ngying’s world suddenly began to lag.
The modeling that Xiang Shan did was too resource-consuming and the optimization was only average. It was so smooth just now because it was processed by Xiang Shan’s personal equipnt from the outside.
Yang ngying remained motionless.
Several hours later, a submarine left the dolphins’ habitat.
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