Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 253 The Illusion of "Learning"

Xiang Shan looked at this USB flash drive, but it had "Magic Realism Carnival" engraved on the side, reached out to take it, and looked it over and over again.

He thought it was extremely suspicious.

"I don't seem to have smoked old hats like me...or have I smoked such high-end stuff." He laughed at himself: "What is this?"

"It's just... a collection of surreal jokes, very post-modern spam. The taste is lighter."

—Gah, that sounds more like tobacco...

Xiang Shan said: "Now knights like this stuff?"

He asked the single kill king in the private chat channel: [If you see Cui Mu and the others talking about spam, what will you do? 】

Startled, Jadel sat up straight immediately, pulled the USB drive from his data interface, and said righteously: [Two little bastards, Saussure God's Domain is not fully constructed, so you have the nerve to spam?Of course it is to think about it after disconnecting from the Internet! 】

Xiang Shan's expression became even weirder.

Is this thing an electronic cigarette?

And is your style really convincing?

Xiang Shan always thought this thing was weird.He held the junk message in his hand and said, "Everyone uses this thing?"

"Ah? No, of course not. People with insufficient internal energy can't resist the massive memory flooding into the brain, and are very easy to get lost in it." Bai Man said: "If the internal energy is low, there is no way to use it. However, short-term relaxation should be OK."

"Ah, this, the first time you brush, is there anything you need to pay attention to?"

Xiang Shan had no choice but to ask.

This thing doesn't sound very safe.He doesn't really want to brush this.However, since this thing exists, some people must want to use their brains here.He needs to know what it might be.

"what?"

"I used to... I basically didn't touch anything with a risk of addiction..." Xiang Shanshou swiped twice in the air.

He refuses all tobacco products, and drinks alcohol only briefly.

The hero of Baiman's posture was almost embarrassed: "Ah, this... I'm sorry, I... this should be regarded as something that Dyson's principle will not prohibit. How should I put it, it seems that no one would think that 'sugar addiction ' is a very serious matter. Everyone consumes a certain amount of sugar every day, and excess sugar is also harmful. But there is basically no prohibition... that..."

It's like explaining that it's a popular social etiquette after "accidentally handing a cigar to your non-smoking superior."

Xiang Shan looked at the U disk-shaped object in his hand, and inserted it into his data interface.Instead of running it right away, he checks the properties.

Uh……

One... How should I put it?Many short videos, texts, and pictures are aggregated in a very complex format to form a file.This is a new format born for the convenience of the brain to read directly.

If it is converted to an ancient format such as MP4, MP3, AVI, JPG, etc., this thing should be hundreds of terabytes in size.

Xiang Shan said: "Is there any trick to brush this?"

"Open up the senses and registers, suppress the activity of the hippocampus, and don't use the surface thinking to retrieve the content of those senses." Bai Man said: "Ah, I mean, you don't have to do this for the sake of etiquette..."

Xiang Shan quickly understood what it was.

This thing is just like his name on the surface, "junk information".Countless pieces of information that have no meaning and are just for stimulating human senses are preserved in this complex form.

The human memory mechanism is divided into several layers.For external stimuli to enter the human mind, they must first pass through the sensory organs—that is, the eyes, ears, nose, nose, and skin.These sensory organs form a kind of "sensory cache".It's like "the sound I just heard is still echoing in my ears" or something.These "sensory caches" are mixed up and entered into the "buffers" of the brain.This is a physical structure that actually exists.

The sense cache is processed into short-term memory within the cache.These short-term memories gradually fade.

After deep processing in the brain, including the hippocampus, short-term memory becomes long-term memory.Long-term memories tend to last a lifetime.It does get forgotten, but it's also easy to recall.

Ah, but long-term memory is also modified by the brain.When a person recalls an event in the past many years later, his memory is often biased.

But that's another level of problem.

In addition, although short-term memory is easy to fade, the human brain can also delay this decline without converting it into long-term memory-this process is called "rehearsal".If there is a piece of information in short-term memory that will be useful in the near future, the brain rehearses situations in which that information will be useful until it does.

The most classic example is "remember the phone number".If someone reports a phone number to you, you have to call it quickly, or write it down, and your brain will continue to rehearse until the "relevant memory" of this phone number completes the task.Afterwards, short-term memory of the phone number fades quickly.

The brain is also doing everything possible to prevent excessive information from flooding into memory, causing pressure on information processing.

And "scanning junk information" is to use a special technique to block the brain's retrieval of short-term memory and prevent massive junk information from being converted into long-term memory.

In many cases, after a person is exposed to external information, he can feel pleasure from it without converting it into long-term memory.For example, people don't need to memorize the melody and lyrics of a song to appreciate the beauty of music from the song.After he sees a funny video, he doesn't need to memorize the video to realize the joke.

The generation of "pleasure" precedes the generation of long-term memory.

All the junk information "used" by these knights can directly stimulate human senses.

These spam messages can bring people a direct experience.A knight with internal skills can almost completely block the process of these junk information flowing into long-term memory.So they can enjoy this kind of thing.

To do this kind of thing, it is necessary to succeed in Saussure's domain and complete the reconstruction of "sensory information" and "language processing"-and this step requires at least the internal strength of the compilation environment or the assembly environment.

"I probably understand the truth..." Xiang Shan was a little weird: "This thing can be stored in my prosthetic body, right? The volume is not too big, why do you have to make it like... a long USB drive?" ?”

Is it just for Cos electronic cigarettes?

Bai Man was shocked: "This... Normal people wouldn't store this thing in their bodies, would they? It's too easy to get addicted. Even a knight, after swiping thousands of times, spam messages will enter the brain. In that case, Internal strength will be affected."

Information addiction is a very serious "heart addiction".

Human beings feel "uneasy" in an unfamiliar environment.Because he doesn't know whether there is something threatening his life in the strange environment.It is precisely because of this that his instinct will push him to explore the surroundings, acquire more knowledge, eliminate the "unknown", and gain a "sense of peace of mind".

Not only humans, but many higher animals have this instinct.Many animals actively explore their surroundings.

For humans, the "whole world" can be regarded as a "strange external environment".Since the ancient times of ignorance, human beings have used various methods to eliminate the "unknown" and gain a "sense of peace of mind".

Some will explore the outside world, others will make up stories to comfort themselves.

The human spirit is "hungry for information".However, the instinct of the human body has not yet learned to "discriminate information".So, regardless of whether the information is meaningful or not, it creates a feeling of "I learned" and "I know more"-this feeling is the worst kind of addiction.

Resisting this temptation is certainly not too difficult.However, if this thing is placed in a memory directly connected to human consciousness, every consciousness of human beings may trigger it...

Few are able to resist.

Memories are stored in the brain.This process produces subtle changes in the brain.And internal strength itself also involves the self-adjustment of the brain.Massive spam information will hinder internal strength at the physiological level.

Bai Man remembers that in the early days, there were knights who made this kind of mistake and suffered setbacks in their internal strength because they were addicted to spam.Even because the mind is full of meaningless memories, it is more difficult for those knights to improve their internal skills than ordinary people.

However, it must also be admitted that this illusion of "eliminating the unknown" can greatly relieve anxiety without damaging logical thinking ability.

Although chemicals like methamphetamine are more effective in "morale boosting", that stuff is too nerve-wracking.

Therefore, many knights will choose "junk information" to relieve pre-war anxiety.

"Hey, it's interesting." Xiang Shan swept it casually, then pulled it out, and conveniently put it in the tool holder on his waist - according to his understanding, this thing is equivalent to a cigarette someone handed you.According to etiquette, it is best to clip it to the ear or carry it in the pocket.He glanced at Bai Man, and said, "Brother Bai Man, you didn't come here just to hand me this cigarette... I mean this spam message, right? Do you have anything else to say?"

"As expected... I mean, you really saw it."

Bai Man waved to Xiang Shan.The two walked out into the depths of the cave.In the depths of the cave, there is a prosthetic body half buried in the ground.The part of the prosthetic body protruding from the ground is two meters long, without a head.Several drones are doing the final retrieval.

Bai Man said: "Please accept this prosthetic body. Your martial arts should be higher than mine. This prosthetic body equipped with Tao Daxia's imitation star may be able to play a greater role in your hands." effect."

(End of this chapter)